Jean McGavin Stories

Sturgis Pretzels and Ice Cream

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

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9/11 Ten Years Later

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

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Lesson on a Tennessee Farm

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

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Memorial Day Homage

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

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Polio Vaccine

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

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A Ghost Story

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

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Autumn Leaf Burning

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

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Independence Day - Bearing Witness

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

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Viet Nam War Era

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

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Winter Study At Kirkland

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

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Experience of a Lifetime: Kirkland College

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

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Women's Rights and a Paper Route

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

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