tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5754985415992186852.post5991705968714159983..comments2023-04-20T07:23:46.570-04:00Comments on NYPL Librarians: ALICE KEATS O’CONNOR (1886-1928)Bob Sinkhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11419599568529373282noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5754985415992186852.post-56340088184613115552018-02-20T18:34:09.959-05:002018-02-20T18:34:09.959-05:00Alice served as a volunteer with the YMCA in Franc...Alice served as a volunteer with the YMCA in France during WWI. She arrived in France in 1918, worked at the Y canteen in Aix-Les-Bains and oversaw the large library for the men on leave there. When she was reassigned to Baccarat, she set up a Y canteen near the front. She later moved as the troops did carrying supplies and establishing canteens along the way, despite danger and rough conditions. After the Armistice, she was sent to Verdun and assisted with volunteer organizations aiding freed allied soldiers who had been Germany's prisoners. Then she went to Coblenz, Germany, with the Army of Occupation and became head of the several hundred YMCA women working there. She returned home in July 1919 but went back to Europe to help with the libraries in war-torn France. <br />Information from <br />Lettie Gavin, American Women in World War I: They Also Served. University Press of Colorado, 1997. 136-137<br />First-hand accounts of Alice's work are in <br />Marian Baldwin Steiner, Canteening Overseas. Macmillan, 1920.Lindahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09685268498189605528noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5754985415992186852.post-9578607810218947012012-11-27T18:12:59.435-05:002012-11-27T18:12:59.435-05:00My name is Michael Miller. I am doing research fo...My name is Michael Miller. I am doing research for a book on one of my ancestors Dr. Thomas Walker of Castle Hill in Albemarle County, Virginia. Dr. Walker was the founder of Charlottesville, Virginia and one of the first people to explore and map Kentucky. Through my research I discovered today Alice Keats O'Connor was a Great Great Great Granddaughter of Dr. Thomas Walker. Thank you for this blog. mikemiller@urgentmail.comMichaelMiller2009https://www.blogger.com/profile/04186385549409373729noreply@blogger.com