Jean McGavin Stories
Experience of a Lifetime: Kirkland College
I went to a wonderful college in upstate New York. It was the sister school to a very prestigious me . . .
Winter Study At Kirkland
I was a big fan of Winter Study at Kirkland. I transferred to Kirkland after my freshman year so I w . . .
Battle of the Oranges
Carnival, Karneval, Mardi Gras, or Martedi Grasso. Whether you are in Rio, Quebec, Marseille, Binche . . .
Belleview Forest
In the late fifties, before there were cell phones or computers or color TVs, I lived on a lovely cu . . .
Berlin Wall
Check Point Charlie, mine fields, machine guns, Berlin Wall On the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of . . .
Diabetes Mellitus, Type 1, Juvenile
When I was a child I remember seeing saccharine in the grocery stores and being told that there were . . .
Earthquake in Japan 2011
An unprecedented 8.9 earthquake has slammed the sea off the coast of Japan and a tsunami has torn in . . .
Halloween
When we were small, in the fifties in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., Halloween was a magi . . .
Kindergarten
I don’t remember my first day of school in Virginia. I attended a kindergarten in a church, Mt. Ol . . .
2013 inauguration
We had tickets to Barack Obama’s 2013 inauguration. We travelled from Connecticut for the event. W . . .
Kirkland College
I went to a wonderful college in upstate New York. It was the sister school to a very prestigious me . . .
A Visit to Dachau
A Visit to Dachau', 'Jean McGavin', 'It was spring, 1973. I was 19. My sister and I were visiting Mu . . .
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