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 |
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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2 weeks ago |
ydr.com | Jim McClure
York County’s Jacob Barnitz joined the Continental Army in its fight for independence as a teen, a decision that would mean suffering every day for the rest of his long life. It was 1776, and he was fighting under George Washington, whose struggling forces were pushed from Manhattan by the British. Barnitz stayed behind with a garrison at Fort Washington on the island’s northern tip. In fighting that followed, he was shot in one leg but not yet disabled.
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3 weeks ago |
ydr.com | Jim McClure
Mess Attendant 1st Class Charles Walter David Jr. rescued 93 Dorchester survivors from the icy North Atlantic. A new monument in York’s Veterans Memorial Park will honor David and the four chaplains of the Dorchester. The memorial project has raised $570,000 of its $1 million goal. Mess Attendant 1st Class Charles Walter David Jr. cleaned officer quarters as part of his daily duties aboard the Coast Guard cutter Comanche.
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1 month ago |
eveningsun.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. Fletcher Webster, colonel of the 12th Massachusetts Infantry, was traveling with his unit by rail through York County in July 1861.
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1 month 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. Fletcher Webster, colonel of the 12th Massachusetts Infantry, was traveling with his unit by rail through York County in July 1861.
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