The 2018 edition focuses on the World War I era, which was also the time of the pandemic “Spanish flu.” Stephen H. Smith tells how 1917-1918 Army flight training changed the life of a York pioneer aviator in “Karl Ort: Early Aviator, Barnstormer, Businessman.” Victoria Miller Allen writes of the different lives of “Two Glen Rock Heroes of World War I” who made the supreme sacrifice in the First World War. Using family documents and reminiscences, Kate Oermann Worland writes “’It’s Only the Flu’: A York Family Suffers Tragedy in 1918.” Daniel Roe stresses at the importance of the Articles of Confederation, adopted here in November 1777, in “Revolutionary Articles: York’s Role in the Nation’s Founding Is Often Overlooked.” 34 pgs.
This publication is a compilation of articles from various authors who research, write and submit articles for the Journal of York County Heritage.