The year 2017 is the 100th year anniversary of America’s formal entrance into World War I. Follow one man, Richard Dillard Dixon, through the Great War via his letters home. Each piece of correspondence posted 100 years to the day written. A joint project of Special Collections at Joyner Library, East Carolina University and the Museum of the Albemarle. Selected letters from the collection are shown.
Click each link to read each letter:
- July 25th, 1917
- September 19th, 1917
- September 25th, 1917
- October 9th, 1917
- October 31st, 1917
- November 6th, 1917
- November 26th, 1917
- December 26th, 1917
- January 13th, 1918
- January 27th, 1918
- February 10th, 1918
- February 24th, 1918
- March 11th, 1918
- April 1st, 1918
- April 15th, 1918
- April 23, 1918
- April 29th, 1918
- April 30th, 1918
- May 4th, 1918
- May 5th 1918
- "Saturday Night April 5/ 17" (May 5th)
- May 6th 1918
- May 28th 1918
- June 7th 1918
- June 26th 1918
- July 15th, 1918