Jean McGavin Stories

One summer when my son was about 14, he had a couple of friends staying with us from overseas - Jaso . . .

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

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

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

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

When we were small, in the fifties in the Virginia suburbs of Washington, D.C., Halloween was a magi . . .

Carnival, Karneval, Mardi Gras, or Martedi Grasso. Whether you are in Rio, Quebec, Marseille, Binche . . .

In the late fifties, before there were cell phones or computers or color TVs, I lived on a lovely cu . . .

Check Point Charlie, mine fields, machine guns, Berlin Wall On the 20th Anniversary of the Fall of . . .

When I was a child I remember seeing saccharine in the grocery stores and being told that there were . . .

An unprecedented 8.9 earthquake has slammed the sea off the coast of Japan and a tsunami has torn in . . .

I don’t remember my first day of school in Virginia. I attended a kindergarten in a church, Mt. Ol . . .