Wayland High School History Project

Learning through history.
Learning about ourselves, our heritage, our country;
Learning about our neighbors, world cultures, other countries.

We started Volume III, “An Age of Disillusion: Wayland in the Vietnam Era” in the spring of 2006 and will finish the project in June 2007. The site currently includes full-text interview transcripts of 18 men and women who lived through the 1960's as young adults and whose lives were profoundly shaped by what they experienced. We also have dozens of pictures and audio clips that can teach each visitor about trying times for both individuals and for the nation.

After a two-year effort, we completed Volume II,“Post-War Life in a Small Northern Town: Wayland, Massachusetts 1946-1960” in the spring of 2005. The site is a graphic archive of select chapters from everyday life during the Cold War and traces national trends and developments in one locale.

Volume I, “War on Their Minds: Memories of the World War II Years” was completed over the course of two academic years, from 2000-2001 through 2001-2002. It includes fully transcribed interviews of 51 men and women on the homefront and overseas, and is complete with audio clips, scanned images, and photographs.