National Museum of Nuclear Science & History
Madonna Elaine Thennes was in born 1925. When she had just graduated from high school in Pocahontas, Arkansas, in 1943, her father told her the military had good-paying jobs for civilians in a new place in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.
Collene Dunbar first arrived the Tri-Cities in 1950. She spent her childhood there, while her father worked in construction at the Hanford Site.
