Not long ago we posted the index to the book “Glances of the Past” put together by Pearl Roberts in 1977. The book covered the history of Johnston City starting in the small village of Shakerag and covered the years from 1894 through the end of WWII. The book was based upon a series of 168 articles that Pearl had originally written for the Williamson Observer newspaper between July 1972 and continued writing through November 1979 after publication.

Because a lot of information had to be culled and was missed for the book and since there was a fair amount of county history contained within the articles that wasn’t included in the book we decided to index the original newspaper articles that covered Johnston City through its history up to 1952.

Whereas the index of the book is titled as “Glimpses of the Past, Johnston City, 1894-1945” in the Master Local History index, the index for the articles will be titled “Glimpses of the Past, Articles, Johnston City.”

Both are now incorporated into the Master Local History Index that can be found under the Records tab of our site.