History Chip
provides a platform for storytellers and readers that expands our understanding of everyday experiences and revolutionizes how we view history.
Yorktown
In these stories you will read about friendships, love, despair, disappointments, successes, crushes, sports, fashion, schoolwork, and teachers.
These stories are recollections of Yorktown Public High School as told by alumni (students and teachers) of Yorktown.
High school is a microcosm of life experienced at a time of intense emotions and these stories present it all.
So, read these and experience along with the writers all those joys and tears so exquisitely experienced by teenagers. Those years filled with angst prepare and shape us for adulthood.
We are honored to be providing this platform for stories of high school, playing a part in reconnecting us with our adolescence as well as providing a window into the world of high school . These stories also reflect the world as it played out around the insular world of high school.
Recent Story Chips
Rifle Club
The following discussion is from a Facebook page, "Yorktown High School Friends", and the photograph was originally p......
Our last soccer match
Our senior year in high school, at the end of a miserable losing season. Back then, soccer season was in the fall, so......
High School Hammock Tale
High School Hammock MemoryIn 1970, I was knee-deep in getting the Yorktown High School Sentry to cover cult......
The First Earth Day, 1970
Earth Day, 1970 April 22, 1970 was the first Earth Day. Festivities and protests were planned across the count......
Women's Rights and a Paper Rou
It was 1965, I was 11 or 12. I had 2 older brothers who had saved a lot of money delivering papers and I wanted a piece ......
Andy Morrison in Arlington, VA
I lived in Arlington, VA in the Summer of 1967, having just graduated from High School. I was dating a "Navy Brat" gi......
