Jean McGavin Stories

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

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

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

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

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 . . .

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 . . .