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Introduction
1916
Odds and Ends From November/December 1916
1917
January/February 1917 - The Lull Before the Storm
Odds and Ends From January/February 1917
March/April 1917 - War!
Odds and Ends From March/April 1917
May/June 1917 - Mobilization!
Odds and Ends from May/June 1917
July/August 1917 - "Nous Voila, Lafayette!"
Odds and Ends from July/August 1917
September/October 1917 - "You're In the Army Now!"
Odds and Ends From September/October 1917
November/December 1917 - Conscription, Suffrage, and Spies
Odds and Ends From November/December 1917
Yates County’s Home Guard
1918
Odds and Ends From January/February 1918
March/April 1918 - Meatless Days, Wheatless Days
Odds and Ends From March/April 1918
May/June 1918 - Doing Our Bit
Odds and Ends From May/June 1918
July/August 1918 - The Cauldron of War
Odds and Ends From July/August 1918
September/October 1918 - Almost Over Over There
Odds and Ends From September/October 1918
November/December 1918 - The 11th Hour, the 11th Day, the 11th Month
Odds and Ends From November/December 1918
The Influenza Epidemic of 1918
1919
Odds and Ends From January/February 1919
March/April 1919 - Johnny Came Marching Home
Odds and Ends From March/April 1919
May/June 1919 - Tank Day
Odds and Ends From May/June 1919
Yates County’s Biggest Fourth of July (1919)
About the Author
The people of Yates County, New York were no different from most of the rest of America when it came to their reaction to events in Europe from the time the world war broke out in the late summer of 1914 all the way through to the Armistice in November of 1918. People were mostly unconcerned over the war at first as President Woodrow Wilson immediately declared the United States to be a neutral nation and encouraged the American people to be "impartial in thought as well as in action.”
The flaw in American neutrality was trade. Falling back on our concept of “freedom of the seas,” we felt that as a neutral nation we had the right to trade with countries at war. The British navy stymied our attempts to trade with Germany by mining the North Sea entrances to their Baltic seaports, blockading other ports that Germany might use, and generally interfering with our shipping. The loss in our trade with the Central powers was more than offset by increased trade with Britain and France.
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In support of that exhibit, I wrote a series of Centennial articles for each issue of our bimonthly publication, Yates Past. Those articles make up the bulk of this book. The history center has bound editions of the local newspapers for that entire time period. Starting in May of 2016, I started coming into the museum on Friday mornings and pouring over the appropriate issues of both The Yates County Chronicle and the Penn Yan Democrat. I finally wrapped that up in September of 2017. Each article gave a short summary of what was happening “Over There” for the two-month time period and then a look at how our local community responded to the war and eventually became intensely involved. I also included other matters that received attention in the newspapers, advertisements from the time, and other factors of social history.
To supplement my work with the printed copies, I have digitized copies of all those newspapers on my computer. Thanks to a generous donation that allowed the history center to purchase and set up the equipment for a digitizing center, along with the countless volunteer hours of a group that became known as the Imaging Team, I am now able to run searches on those newspapers from 1916-1919 in the comfort of my home and capture images of photos, ads, etc. to use in this project.
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