Stories from Jean McGavin

Paper Route It was 1965, I was 11 or 12. I had 2 older brothers who had saved a lot of money delivering papers and I wanted a piece of the a...

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...

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...

Kelly McEvers has been bearing witness as a reporter in Syria and other ravaged parts of the Middle East for some time. She took over the sp...

Olfactory memories, are perhaps the most evocative. As a child growing up in the 1950’s in the suburbs of Northern Virginia, one of those ...

In early November of 2014, I visited Prague with a friend of mine whose parents were born in Prague, Czechoslovakia, and lived through Wo...

This is my Polio Vaccine Card given to me upon my first dose of the vaccine in 1964 when I was a child. I received ...

It is Memorial Day, 2021, a day to honor Americans who died in service to their country. This Memorial Day we are emerging from the ravag...

A friend of History Chip recounted this story. We look forward to more from our new friend.My father grew up on a s...