Jean McGavin Stories

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 . . .

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

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

We had tickets to Barack Obama’s 2013 inauguration. We travelled from Connecticut for the event. W . . .

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

Earth Day, 1970 April 22, 1970 was the first Earth Day. Festivities and protests were plan . . .

The bus was late. It was my daughter Glynnis’s first day of 6th grade. She had missed the first fe . . .

February 26, 1993 My 2 year old daughter and 3 month old son had gone out with a babysitter, Nicole, . . .

Blood Orange I had boarded the plane at Dulles with a dreadful cold. My ears had become clogged and . . .

Adams Hometown Supermarket, Watertown, CT Add a story; read a story; either way, you gather chips in . . .