Part of my research for the Vinton History Museum was to go through old scrapbooks in the museum basement. They were collections of newspaper clippings that were cut out and placed into the scrapbooks that were found in the museum’s basement. There were clippings of people who served during the time of the newspaper’s publication from Southwest Virginia along with other national news that the local newspapers published. My job was to remove any newspaper clippings that were related to the town of Vinton. Most of the newspaper clippings were from the Second World War. Other clippings included in the scrapbooks were marriages, obituaries, economical achievements, and public events in downtown Roanoke, Vinton, and Salem. After hours of reading and removing clippings, I was able to recover a good portion of information regarding Vinton and the Vintonites who served during World War II. I created a small display of some of the Vintonites who served and died.
