Historic Chevy Chase DC
A Child During the Blitz, MacLeish Experiences America From A Greyhound Bus, and Remakes Herself as a Renowned Landscape Designer
Topics include: London during WWII. Her father, a surgeon and Renaissance man. Sailing to the U.S. during the Cuban Missile Crisis. Traveling to Canada then New York on a Greyhound bus. Life in NYC. Moving to DC. Becoming a garden and landscape designer. High profile jobs, including White House and National Observatory grounds.
Want to know what it was like hanging out at Woodstock, or being a therapist in an abortion clinic in the 1980s? This new podcast called "Senior Stories" is recorded by two high-school students who want to capture the memories of today's retirees.
Retired Lawyer-Turned-Playwright, Bob Norris recalls childhood days in Kalorama; a summer spent on a fuel tanker, and an abortion trial pre-Roe
Topics include: The NW DC neighborhood of Kalorama in the 30s and 40s, WW II. Former battleship Pennsylvania Sun as a fuel tanker,. Catholic upbringing. Abe Lincoln's moral dillemma over executing Native Americans.. Arlington Cemetery.
Career Foreign Service Officer Spends So-Called Retirement as Historian, Author, and Chairman of Habitat for Humanity
Topics include: Born in Rome. Upbringing in Georgetown, DC. Stanford University. Military and Foreign Service in Arabic-Speaking Countries. Marriage to Olivia, Raising children abroad. Book author. Habitat for Humanity.
Midwesterner Who Became CIA Spymaster, Burton Gerber Asks Young People What They Expect Their Country To Be
Topics include: Upbringing in Illinois and Ohio. Michigan State University. Foreign Service Exams. Looking at the U.S. from the outside. Marriage to Rosalie Prokarym Gerber. Teaching graduate students at Georgetown University.
From Typist Acting Chairwoman: Ana Steele Clark's 33-Year Career at the National Endowment for the Arts
Topics include: Life in Wilmington, DE. Same-sex Catholic education and Marywood University in Scranton. Life as an actress in NYC in the 1950s. First three decades of the NEA. Marriage to John Clark.
A Mathematician by Education but a DC Tour Guide by Happenstance, Elaine O'Malley Also Raised Six Children and was Long Married to a Vaccine Researcher
Topics include: Upbringing in Roxbury, MA. Absence of father due to tuberculosis. Childhood years during WW II. Catholic education in mathematics, including at Emmanuel College in Boston. Meeting Joe O'Malley and moving to Washington for his NIH job. Travel to Ireland. Life as a DC tour guide. Deaths of three adult children.
A Georgia Transplant to DC, Louise Sullivan Defied Norms of the 1970s to Become a Successful Realtor, Mother, and Wife
Topics include: Upbringing in Griffin and Fort Valley, GA, in well-known family. Abandoned college for city life in DC. Marriage to CIA officer and a move to London. Raised four children. Son's accident turned into life-changing incident that led to her becoming a Realtor prominent in Chevy Chase DC.
