252 More Stories from the Secret City
History | This program is completed
This class will be a discussion of Oak Ridge history in a question-and-answer format with visual images of historic photographs and with documentary films. Emphasis will be placed on the early history of Oak Ridge but will include more history and discussion of the Manhattan Project National Historical Park and of possible future science exhibits and heritage tourism efforts.
Ray Smith
Ray Smith has been the Oak Ridge City Historian since 2015; Tennessee historical commissioner for east Tennessee since 2017; cohost for Hidden History: Stories of the Secret City; newspaper columnist for The Oak Ridger and Morgan County Today’s Historically Speaking weekly column. He has been a documentary film producer; photographer; authored “Critical Connections,” and has been an ORICL instructor for several years.