Stories from Jean McGavin

Check Point Charlie, mine fields, machine guns, Berlin Wall On ...

When I was a child I remember seeing saccharine in the grocery stores and being told that there were people who could no...

An unprecedented 8.9 earthquake has slammed the sea off the coast of Japan and a tsunami has torn into Japan and spread ...

When we were small, in the fifties in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., Halloween was a magical affair. My mothe...

I don’t remember my first day of school in Virginia. I attended a kindergarten in a church, Mt. Olivet. I don’t thin...

We had tickets to Barack Obama’s 2013 inauguration. We travelled from Connecticut for the event. We would have driven ...

I went to a wonderful college in upstate New York. It was the sister school to a very prestigious men’s liberal arts c...

I was a big fan of Winter Study at Kirkland. I transferred to Kirkland after my freshman year so I was not able to enjoy...

The following story is told with not a small amount of shame. I ask the forgiveness of the reader for the ignorance o...