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Article: THE GANG'S ALL HERE ALEXANDER PARK CHILDREN REUNITE AFTER DECADES APART.(PORTSMOUTH CURRENTS)
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- The Virginian-Pilot (Norfolk, VA)
- Article date:
- April 3, 1998
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Byline: MELANIE L. STOKES, CORRESPONDENT
WHEN DOROTHY ``Dot'' Sheppard Strang was diagnosed with cancer, she longed to see her childhood friends one last time.
Her father was one of hundreds who flooded into Portsmouth to find the work that World War II created at the Naval Shipyard.
The endless stream of orders for battleships to the yard made work plentiful.
Housing for the newcomers, on the other hand, was not.
Families moved to Portsmouth from the mountains of western Virginia, New Jersey, South Carolina and may other places to build the American war machine. So many families moved to Portsmouth, in fact, that the Navy ...