Jean McGavin Stories

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

September 11, 2011It has been impossible this last week to avoid the crush of constant discussions a . . .

A friend of History Chip recounted this story. We look forward to more from our new friend.My father . . .

It is Memorial Day, 2021, a day to honor Americans who died in service to their country. This Memori . . .

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

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 . . .

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

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

I spent most of my Virginia summer days at the Country Club. I went to swim team practice in the mor . . .

September 12, 2013 Today, at a ceremony, in Waterbury, CT. a former slave by the name of Fortune wil . . .