Stories from Jean McGavin
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Berlin Wall
Check Point Charlie, mine fields, machine guns, Berlin Wall, On the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Berlin Wall - November 9, 1989 I cro...
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1, Juv
When I was a child I remember seeing saccharine in the grocery stores and being told that there were people who could not eat sugar. I was t...
Earthquake in Japan 2011
An unprecedented 8.9 earthquake has slammed the sea off the coast of Japan and a tsunami has torn into Japan and spread out across the Pacif...
Kindergarten
I don’t remember my first day of school in Virginia. I attended a kindergarten in a church, Mt. Olivet. I don’t think there were kinderg...
2013 inauguration
We had tickets to Barack Obama’s 2013 inauguration. We travelled from Connecticut for the event. We would have driven from Alaska. This wa...
Kirkland College
I went to a wonderful college in upstate New York. It was the sister school to a very prestigious men’s liberal arts college. It only surv...
Winter Study
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 all 4 years of Wint...
Martin Luther King, Jr
The following story is told with not a small amount of shame. I ask the forgiveness of the reader for the ignorance of my long past youth.â€...