So, what exactly was going on in Sherwood during World War II?
That’s exactly what June Reynolds, Sherwood’s unofficial historian, wanted to know as part of her continuing history series, with initial plans on focusing on the decade of the 1940s.
However, as Reynolds tried to limit her quest on chronicling what life was like in the bucolic south Washington County city during that time, she collected so many interesting facts, photos and tidbits that she decided to describe in detail what Sherwoodians were doing during the most destructive and deadliest war in human history.
Late last month, Reynolds published “Sherwood History: A Sense of World War II and the Home Front: Volume III 1940-1949,” a 244-page tome.
Reynolds, a former history teacher, Sherwood High School reference librarian and 1970 graduate of Sherwood High School, begins her book recounting Sherwood life leading up to World War II before jumping into what the city — that then boasted a population of not more than 400 residents — did to help the war effort.