Everyone my age remembers where they were and what they were doing when they first heard about the contest.
On the first day no one really noticed. Perhaps there was a chuckle among the midwives at the sight of all those babies wrapped in blue blankets, not a pink one in sight.
Greer Kadetsky met Faith Frank in October of 2006 at Ryland College, where Faith had come to deliver the Edmund and Wilhelmina Ryland Memorial Lecture
I don't mean to be dramatic, but God save me from Morgan picking our set list.
It was a Monday morning, it was bright, it was warm, too warm for late autumn, and Charlotte Beck was about to experience the one really dramatic thing that would happen to her in her entire life.
The Súd steered a careful course around the frigates and minesweepers in the approaches to Reykjavík harbour before finally coming alongside the docks.
Sylvia Blackwell was just twenty- four when in 1958 she took up the post of Children’s Librarian in East Mole.
Ambulance sirens sucked big time when you lived in a dive near Paddington station.
For one who spent so much time surrounded by sharp-eyed artists and writers, Mollie Dean would prove a challenge to describe.
A well-known scientist (some say it was Bertrand Russell) once gave a public lecture on astronomy.
The police decided to enter the flat, but rather than break down the door they called a locksmith
