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Maître du Pitié
In the sixth installment of Red Aunt, Margery, home after a spell as a prisoner of the Germans in Serbia, is invited to a join a mission to investigate options for assisting survivors of the Armenian genocide, which takes her to Russia on the eve of the revolution.
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Birth on the Nile
Stephen Barber, the only child of Clement and Margaret Barber was born at 4.30 am on Saturday, December 24, 1921, at the American Mission Hospital in Tanta, an industrial town in the Nile delta where they ginned cotton and baked bricks.
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The Turkish Girl
What became of the girl we ran over on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 8, 1967, somewhere between Troy and our tent by the Hellespont. She would be about 70 now. Does she have grandchildren? Has she told them how she got that dent on her forehead?
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Funeral of a friend
My parents are buried on a wooded ridge above the headwaters of the James River in Virginia, he in a traditional casket and his favorite kimono, she, or more precisely her ashes, in a bottle of Roederer, her favorite champagne.
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Doña Quixota
The fifth installment of Red Aunt covers Margery’s nursing adventures in Serbia, the impression she created and how she and her colleagues celebrated Christmas in after the Germans captured her unit.
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Chicago Rashomon 1968
Mayor Daley’s police broke my father’s arm when they rioted during the 1968 Democratic convention in Chicago. It was a memorable evening, but not all the memories match.
