Greensboro Historical Society Annual Meeting

Past event
Aug 7, 2017, 7:30 PM

“Old China Hands in Greensboro - Part 2: Life Stories. Descendant of the Hales, Allmans and Corbetts will share stories of their families uncommon lives growing up in China. June Bascom will talk about the experiences of her mother, Margaret (Hale) Bascom, and grandparents, William and Elizabeth (Winston) Hale and their imprisonment in a Japanese internment camp in Shanghai. Eliza Burnham will talk about the experience of her grandfather, Norwood Allman, as a Consular Officer, Assessor on the International Mixed Court and a lawyer in Shanghai. Tony Irwin will talk about the multigenerational experiences of his family; great grandfather Hunter Corbett, a Presbyterian missionary in northern China, and grandfather Ross Corbett and mother Harriett (Irwin) Corbett, both born and brought up in China. This panel presentation will provide further insight into the families featured in the Greensboro Historical Society Old China Hands in Greensboro summer exhibit.

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