April 25, 1918
Identification Certificate, National War Work Council of the International Committee of the Young Men's Christian Association, April 25, 1918
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April 17, 1918
Will's passport is dated April 17. 1918, lists him as a 35-year-old merchant from Manton, Michigan, and includes, among several, visas for his arrival in Southampton on May 21, 1918, his departure from France on May 2, 1919, and his arrival back in New York City on May 13th, 1919.
An Attic Archive, a Century in the Making
In 2015, a brown paper grocery bag full of letters, postcards, booklets, and ephemera surfaced during the sale of an estate in Traverse City, Michigan. Most of the letters were written a hundred years ago by a man named William Foote to his wife Grace while William was serving in France with the YMCA during World War One. This blog tells the story of that collection, day by day, a century after it was created.