Category: WWII

• The Story of Arthur L. Delaney: A 10th Mountain Tribute

  Melrose Ski Slope honors fallen 10th Mountain Division Soldier.

  A. E. Macdonald

  December 8, 2025

  10th Mountain Division, Melrose, MA, New England, WWII

  10th Mountain Divison, Mountaineering, Skiing, The Macdonalds of Cedar Park

• The Map

  The Manhattan Project Map that shows Boston and where I found it

  A. E. Macdonald

  November 11, 2025

  atomic bomb, book, Manhattan Project, WWII

  atomic bomb, book, Boston, map

• When Melrose was a Ski Town

  When skiing was a big winter sport in Melrose, Massachusetts

  A. E. Macdonald

  October 28, 2025

  book, New England, WWII

• Inside the Manhattan Project: Boston as an Innovative Manhattan Project Site

  Boston was one of those cities with a Manhattan Project Office from 1942 – 1946 when the Stone and Webster Engineering Corporation, based in Boston with offices across the country,  became the first master contractor for the project.

  A. E. Macdonald

  April 8, 2024

  book, Manhattan Project, New England, WWII

  atomic bomb, Boston, groves, Manhattan Project, nuclear, Oak Ridge, oppenheimer

• Researching Family Secrets: The Manhattan Project Connection

  Finding my grandfather in the records of the Manhattan Project at the National Archives in Atlanta, Georgia, sent me down the road to finding what my grandfather did in the cration of the atomic bomb.

  A. E. Macdonald

  July 7, 2022

  atomic bomb, book, Manhattan Project, WWII

  book, The Macdonalds of Cedar Park

• The Green Box

  Our grandmother would pull out the green box where she kept the letters and photos she treasured.

  A. E. Macdonald

  March 2, 2022

  childhood memories, writing, WWII

  letters, memories, work in progress, writing life, WWII

• The A Pin

  

  My plans to research the Manhattan Project at Oak Ridge and to possibly learn more about what my grandfather did there were upended by the pandemic . . .

  A. E. Macdonald

  March 25, 2021

  Manhattan Project, WWII