Cumberland County has been the home of thousands of individuals and organizations. Each has contributed to its history in ways both small and large. The Gardner Digital Library collects these stories in the Memory Bank. From Oral Histories of locals experiences in World War II to serving local civic organizations to growing up in Carlisle, Silver Springs Township, the West Shore, or Shippensburg, the Memory Bank is a place where the collected stories of Cumberland County can be shared and engaged with to present a fuller history of the County.
Interview with Marian Soutner at her home in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, on July 9, 2002, with Heather Egan as a part of the Cumberland County Women During World War Two Oral History Project. Soutner discusses her involvement with United Service Organization (USO) as well as her families daily efforts during the war including canning, rationing, and growing food.
Interview with Helen Sowers at her home in Mt. Holly Springs Pennsylvania on July 15th 2002 as a part of the Cumberland County Women During World War II Oral History Project. Sowers discusses growing up during the Great Depression in Mount Holly Springs, Pennsylvania, working in the C. H. Maslands and Sons factory, and as a volunteer airplane spotter in Mount Holly Springs. Sowers also talks about the difficulty of rationing for a large family.
Interview of Paul Spahr for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Spahr discusses growing up in Newville during the 1920s and 1930s as well as the changes in the borough since his youth.
Interview with Al Speers for the Second Presbyterian Church and the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Speers discusses his involvement with the Second Presbyterian Church.
Interview of John Steigleman by Susan Meehan on November 20, 2014. Steigleman discusses his family and growing up in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. Additionally, he talks about his later life working at the Dickinson College Physics Department.
Interview of Charles H. Stone by Susan Meehan for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library Memory Bank. Stone discusses growing up in the West Shore area of Cumberland County, his father's box manufacturing company, and his career as a lawyer.
Interview with Charlie Stringfellow, Rick Hrip, Bob Marek, and Mark Fishkin focusing on the golf career of Stringfellow and the Carlisle Country Club.
Interview of Jill Sunday Bartoli and Thomas Sunday for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Bartoli and Sunday discuss the Sunday Family of New Kingston, Pennsylvania and their parents restaurant the Country House.
Russ Sutton discusses growing up in Carlisle, Pennsylvania for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Sutton focuses on his days attending local schools in Carlisle as well as his undergraduate days at Dickinson College. Sutton then moves on to discuss his time in the Army as a member of the 2nd Armored Division and his work with the Pennsylvania Department of Education and many charity efforts.
Interview of Marilyn Stoner Swartz for the Elizabeth V. and George F. Gardner Digital Library. Swartz discusses what it was like growing up helping her family run the Willow Mill Amusement Park in Silver Springs, PA.