Jim McClure
Editor at York Daily Record
Retired editor, York Daily Record & Atlantic Region editor, USA Today Network. Interested in public history on digital platforms
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1 week ago |
ydr.com | Jim McClure
Show Caption Hide Caption York race riots: What happened in the 1968-69 riots? Fifty years ago, racial tension, poverty and police hostility caused unrest in the city of York. Seventy years ago, York County ruffled the feathers of a noxious crow named Jim. The Fabulous ’50s, sometimes criticized as a time of American cultural ferment, actually meant a moment of long-overdue community ripening, at least in York County.
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2 weeks ago |
eveningsun.com | Jim McClure
Editor’s note: Another in a series of occasional stories about York County in the American Revolution, part of the buildup in research and storytelling to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation in 2026 and 2027, respectively. In the early 1870s, medical student John M. Hyson, soon to become Red Lion’s doctor, treated an aged man with a story to tell. The old military veteran had served as a young drummer boy in the American Revolution.
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2 weeks ago |
ydr.com | Jim McClure
Jim McClureYork Daily RecordEditor’s note: Another in a series of occasional stories about York County in the American Revolution, part of the buildup in research and storytelling to the 250th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation in 2026 and 2027, respectively. In the early 1870s, medical student John M. Hyson, soon to become Red Lion’s doctor, treated an aged man with a story to tell.
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3 weeks ago |
ydr.com | Jim McClure
Jim McClureYork Daily RecordRoy Robbins peered at his computer screen amid an array of sports memorabilia in his Dallastown home. An awning from ticket box No. 10 at the old St. Louis Cardinals stadium provided a basement wall canopy above his computer. But his mind was not on that Cardinals-oriented cache nor other items that he collects or has collected: records, copper and brass items and antique wristwatches.
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1 month ago |
eveningsun.com | Jim McClure
Jim McClureYork Daily Record(Editor’s note: James McClure serves as a member of the Mifflin House/Susquehanna Discovery Center advisory group and chairs the York County History Center Publications Committee that published “The Ground Swallowed Them Up.”)This is a story about the power of a well-timed book.
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