Jean McGavin Stories

In early November of 2014, I visited Prague with a friend of mine whose parents were born in Prague, . . .

Olfactory memories, are perhaps the most evocative. As a child growing up in the 1950’s in the sub . . .

Kelly McEvers has been bearing witness as a reporter in Syria and other ravaged parts of the Middle . . .

It is Spring 2013. I live in the country. There are country smells here. My own house sits between a . . .

I was a big fan of Winter Study at Kirkland. I transferred to Kirkland after my freshman year so I w . . .

I went to a wonderful college in upstate New York. It was the sister school to a very prestigious me . . .

It was 1965, I was 11 or 12. I had 2 older brothers who had saved a lot of money delivering papers a . . .

Debutante circa 1970 Girls bake cookies, boys build furniture. That was the way of things in my home . . .

I have four brothers. In 1968 that was a desperate situation. The Viet Nam War was raging and the dr . . .

A love letter to my father, Thomas A. McGavin, 1919-2008, on the day of the McGavin Family Reunion i . . .

Royals Versus Mets 2015 …. watching the world series. First game. I know, it’s crazy. I never wa . . .

I am already getting hungry just thinking about writing this. My parents both grew up in Pennsylvani . . .