Small Town America During World War II 

Text by Carney Rhinevault 

Illustrations by Tatiana Rhinevault

FDR himself wanted to write this book. 

In a letter to Archibald MacLeish in 1943, FDR said that he would like to write a history that would “capture or recapture the public pulse as it throbs from day to day – the effect on the lives of different types of citizens. . . It should not be dry history or the cataloging of books and papers and reports. It should try to capture a great dream before it dies.” 

Tatiana Rhinevault is a graduate of the Art Department of Moscow State University. She and Carney met while working together in 1990 on a joint mapping project for the USA, British, Canadian, and Australian Embassies in Moscow.

Nine-year-old Peter Rhinevault has exhibited fine art with his mother and has studied piano and violin. 

Carney Rhinevault is Hyde Park Town Historian and is the author of True Stories of the Albany Post Road. He has researched thousands of deeds, wills, maps, and other documents during a long career in surveying and cartography.