{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/c824b2z64g/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Levine, Esther Gerson"]},"logo":"https://d9jk7wjtjpu5g.cloudfront.net/organizations/logo_images/000/000/082/original/TheBreman_SecondaryMark_Horizontal_Blue_Black.png?1713640889","metadata":[{"label":{"en":["Date"]},"value":{"en":["2021-08-03 (created)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Levine, Esther (Interviewee)","Michalove, Shirley (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Language"]},"value":{"en":["English (primary)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum","Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection"]}},{"label":{"en":["Publisher"]},"value":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eEsther Levine was interviewed by Shirley Michalove on August 3, 2021 in Atlanta, Georgia. \u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eEsther Gerson Levine was born in July 1940 in Columbus, Georgia. Her parents were David Gerson and Frances Pazol Gerson. She has two siblings, Cheryl and Edwin Levine. The family attended Shearith Israel Synagogue in Columbus, where Esther was bat mitzvahed in 1953. She was involved in United Synagogue Youth and B’nai B’rith Girls. She attended Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, where she met her husband, Michael Levine. They married in 1965. They lived in Boston, Massachusetts for a year before moving to Sumter, South Carolina. They later moved to Sandy Springs, Georgia. They have three children: Alisa, Joshua, and Shira.  \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eEsther has been involved with the Brandeis University National Women’s Committee Atlanta chapter, where she became involved in the Committee’s annual book sale. She also worked as a tour guide for Guidelines-Atlanta, a tour guide business for the spouses of convention attendees, before beginning work as a media escort in 1987. She is also a founding contributor of the yearly Book Festival of the MJCCA, which has dedicated a night in her honor: the Esther G. Levine Community Read.  \u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eEsther Levine discusses growing up in Columbus, Georgia. She talks about attending high school in a majority non-Jewish community, growing up Conservative in a time before the Conservative and Reform communities of Columbus intermingled, and about participating in United Synagogue Youth (USY) and B’nai B’rith Girls (BBG) in order to meet other Jewish teens. She discusses attending Brandeis University and meeting her husband at a cousin’s wedding. She recalls that her mother was very involved in the Columbus Jewish community. She also describes the family wedding dress she donated to the Breman Museum, its history and the many women who have worn it. She mentions teaching in Quincy, Massachusetts for a year while her husband finished his medical residency before moving to Sumter, South Carolina because of her husband’s two-year commitment to the United States Air Force. She details her and her husband’s choice to move to Sandy Springs, Georgia, where her husband went into practice with an established pediatrician. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eEsther talks about her involvement with the Brandeis University Nationals Women’s Committee and its annual book sale, which eventually became her project to spearhead. She discusses her later work as a tour guide for Guidelines-Atlanta and her decision to pursue a job as a media escort. She discusses what the job of media escort entails and what a typical escort might be like. She talks about going to the American Booksellers Association exposition and trade fair and her ensuing work to help establish an annual book fair in Atlanta, which culminated in the creation of the annual Book Festival of the MJCCA. She shares stories of the authors and celebrities she has escorted over her 30-year career as a media escort, including Lauren Bacall, Garrison Keillor, and Ginger Rogers. \u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source Metadata URI"]},"value":{"en":["https://archivesspace.thebreman.org/repositories/2/archival_objects/28789"]}},{"label":{"en":["Rights Statement"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, recorded by any information storage and retrieval system, without the express written consent of the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum.\u003c/p\u003e"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Levine, Esther Gerson (1940- ) (personal name)","Gerson, David (1907-1985) (personal name)","Gerson, Frances Pazol (1918-1996) (personal name)","Kohn, Herbert (1926-2020) (personal name)","Berman, Jerome (1925-2018) (personal name)","Milner, Vera A. (1897-1982) (personal name)","Lynch, Belle Turner (personal name)","Keillor, Garrison (1942- ) (personal name)","Bacall, Lauren (1924-2014) (personal name)","Sedaris, David (1956- ) (personal name)","Rogers, Ginger (1911-1995) (personal name)","Schieffer, Bob (1937- ) (personal name)","Brandeis University (corporate name)","Brandeis University National Women's Committee (corporate name)","Shearith Israel Synagogue (Columbus, Ga.) (corporate name)","United Synagogue Youth (USY) (corporate name)","B'nai B'rith Girls (BBG) (corporate name)","Henry W. 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Her parents were David Gerson and Frances Pazol Gerson. She has two siblings, Cheryl and Edwin Levine. The family attended Shearith Israel Synagogue in Columbus, where Esther was bat mitzvahed in 1953. She was involved in United Synagogue Youth and B\u0026rsquo;nai B\u0026rsquo;rith Girls. She attended Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, where she met her husband, Michael Levine. They married in 1965. They lived in Boston, Massachusetts for a year before moving to Sumter, South Carolina. They later moved to Sandy Springs, Georgia. They have three children: Alisa, Joshua, and Shira. \u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eEsther has been involved with the Brandeis University National Women\u0026rsquo;s Committee Atlanta chapter, where she became involved in the Committee\u0026rsquo;s annual book sale. She also worked as a tour guide for Guidelines-Atlanta, a tour guide business for the spouses of convention attendees, before beginning work as a media escort in 1987. She is also a founding contributor of the yearly Book Festival of the MJCCA, which has dedicated a night in her honor: the Esther G. Levine Community Read. \u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eEsther Levine discusses growing up in Columbus, Georgia. She talks about attending high school in a majority non-Jewish community, growing up Conservative in a time before the Conservative and Reform communities of Columbus intermingled, and about participating in United Synagogue Youth (USY) and B\u0026rsquo;nai B\u0026rsquo;rith Girls (BBG) in order to meet other Jewish teens. She discusses attending Brandeis University and meeting her husband at a cousin\u0026rsquo;s wedding. She recalls that her mother was very involved in the Columbus Jewish community. She also describes the family wedding dress she donated to the Breman Museum, its history and the many women who have worn it. She mentions teaching in Quincy, Massachusetts for a year while her husband finished his medical residency before moving to Sumter, South Carolina because of her husband\u0026rsquo;s two-year commitment to the United States Air Force. She details her and her husband\u0026rsquo;s choice to move to Sandy Springs, Georgia, where her husband went into practice with an established pediatrician.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eEsther talks about her involvement with the Brandeis University Nationals Women\u0026rsquo;s Committee and its annual book sale, which eventually became her project to spearhead. She discusses her later work as a tour guide for Guidelines-Atlanta and her decision to pursue a job as a media escort. She discusses what the job of media escort entails and what a typical escort might be like. She talks about going to the American Booksellers Association exposition and trade fair and her ensuing work to help establish an annual book fair in Atlanta, which culminated in the creation of the annual Book Festival of the MJCCA. She shares stories of the authors and celebrities she has escorted over her 30-year career as a media escort, including Lauren Bacall, Garrison Keillor, and Ginger Rogers.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e"]},"requiredStatement":{"label":{"en":["Attribution"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eAll rights reserved. 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I want to thank you for agreeing to\nparticipate in the Taylor Oral History Project at the Breman Museum. Let's start\nwith your family history. Tell me your full name, where and when you were born.\n\nLEVINE: My name is Esther Gerson Levine, and I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/2","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"born in Columbus, Georgia, in\nJuly 1940.\n\nMICHALOVE: And who were your parents and your siblings?\n\nLEVINE: My parents were Frances Pazol Gerson, who was born in Atlanta in 1918.\nMy father was David Gerson, who was born in Columbus in 1907. I have two\nsiblings; my sister Cheryl was born in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=30.0,60.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/3","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1943, and my brother Ed, or Edwin, was\nborn in 1947.\n\nMICHALOVE: Where do they live now?\n\nLEVINE: Well, my sister died this year.\n\nMICHALOVE: Oh, I'm sorry.\n\nLEVINE: She was living in New York and Boston [Massachusetts], and my brother\nlives in Atlanta.\n\nMICHALOVE: And tell me about your children and grandchildren.\n\nLEVINE: I had three children. My daughter Lisa was born in 1964, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=60.0,90.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/4","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and she died in\n1982 of a brain tumor. I have a son, Joshua Louis Levine, who was born in 1965.\nHe is married, has three children. He lives in Manhattan. He's a micro plastic\nsurgeon, he does breast reconstruction after mastectomy. And I have a daughter\nnamed Shira Ruth Levine, and she is married and has ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=90.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/5","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"two children. Her husband .\n. . my daughter-in-law is Rita Copeland. She kept her maiden name. My daughter\nkept her maiden name. My daughter's husband is Dan Halpern, and they have two\nboys, and they live in Melbourne, Australia.\n\nMICHALOVE: Oh, my goodness.\n\nLEVINE: Because my son in law got a job in Australia. My daughter is a marketing\nconsultant in Australia right now. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=120.0,150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/6","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"We hope it's not permanent.\n\nMICHALOVE: I can understand that.\n\nLEVINE: Right.\n\nMICHALOVE: Let's talk about how you and Michael met.\n\nLEVINE: I went to Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, which is\noutside of Boston. My mother heard about this school that was 85 percent Jewish.\nComing from a small town, Columbus, where the Jews were a minute minority in\nColumbus, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it sounded very exciting to my mother. I applied and was accepted and\nwent. It was an amazing experience there, culturally and academically, and I met\nmy husband. We met at a wedding in Worcester [Massachusetts], which is an hour\nfrom Boston. A cousin of mine married. There's a whole long story. I don't know\nhow long a story you want. A ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=180.0,210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"cousin of mine met Mike at a medical fraternity\nconvention in Washington, D.C., Tom Harvey Levy from Augusta [Georgia], and\nHarvey told Mike that he was going to come to Boston that July for his\ninternship, and he didn't know anyone. Harvey came to Boston, called Mike. Mike\nintroduced him to a friend who Harvey married a year later. Mike was invited to\nthe wedding because he had introduced them, and I was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"invited to the wedding\nbecause I was a cousin, and we met at the wedding.\n\nMICHALOVE: Wow. And the rest is history.\n\nLEVINE: And the rest is history.\n\nMICHALOVE: What was it like growing up in Columbus?\n\nLEVINE: It was wonderful and not wonderful. The wonderful thing was that I grew\nup in a large, extended, supportive, caring family. My father had three\nsiblings, and at one time my aunts and uncles, my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=240.0,270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"grandparents and we--my\nnuclear family--lived across the street from each other. Within a block, we\ncould see each other's houses if we walked out the front door. And it was\nwonderful. We were very . . . my family was very involved in the Jewish\ncommunity in Columbus. My father was president of the synagogue twice, not\nconsecutively, which was unusual at the time. My mother was very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=270.0,300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"involved in\nHadassah, and . . . I'm trying to think what organizations there were.\n\nMICHALOVE: I know there was Ladies Aid there but that was . . .\n\nLEVINE: . . . That was the Reform community. That was the . . . Right.\n\nMICHALOVE: . . . and that Shearith Israel had the Sisterhood . . .\n\nLEVINE: . . . The Sisterhood. Thank you, yes, the Shearith Israel Sisterhood.\nShe was probably every officer and president of every organization she ever\nparticipated in. She was also active civically. She was active in PTA\n[parent-teacher association], on the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=300.0,330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"state level as well, and also in the March\nof Dimes. She was very active in March of Dimes and held positions in those. I\nhad very good role models because of their involvement. We actually moved . . .\nMy father built a house two blocks from the synagogue, and it was supposed to be\nso my grandparents could come stay with us on the holidays and walk to\nsynagogue, and they did. Unfortunately, my grandfather died shortly after, but\nmy grandmother ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=330.0,360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"did for many years. I was at the synagogue six days a week. I\ntaught Sunday school, did Hebrew school. I was in the choir and then went to\nservices. Friday night were family services and Saturday morning was junior\ncongregation. I was the second bat mitzvah in my synagogue, and that was 1953,\nso that was fairly early. I went to summer camps. I went to Blue Star, which\nevery Jewish ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=360.0,390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"kid, almost every Jewish kid in the South did. I also went to Camp\nRamah for a year.\n\nMICHALOVE: Where?\n\nLEVINE: In the Poconos. That's a long story because a rabbi who came to Columbus\nwas active and he convinced five parents to send five of us to Camp Ramah one\nsummer, which was not even in our radar until he . . .\n\nMICHALOVE: There was no Ramah in the South.\n\nLEVINE: No. Oh, no, definitely not in the South . . . 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I'm not sure if it went to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=420.0,450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"state, but I\nknow it was definitely citywide. I never went to state, so maybe that's why I\ndon't know if it was statewide. In high school, there were 11 Jewish kids in my\nclass and that was the most that had ever been in one class in Columbus up to\nthat point. After me, my sister's class was much bigger, and my probably my\nbrother's class was much . . . had more Jews in the class. 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But at that time, there were two separate\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=480.0,510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"country clubs. It was great. I was very active in USY [United Synagogue Youth]\nand BBG [B'nai B'rith Girls] and officers in both of those.\n\nMICHALOVE: Who was the advisor of USY at the time you were in it?\n\nLEVINE: Oh. I don't know that.\n\nMICHALOVE: The reason I'm asking is . . .\n\nLEVINE: . . . Of USY . . .\n\nMICHALOVE: . . . is because when we lived in Columbus, Herbert Kohn was . . .\n\nLEVINE: He probably was.\n\nMICHALOVE: He was for many, many years.\n\nLEVINE: Herbert was my ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=510.0,540.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sunday school teacher. You're probably right, he probably\nwas the advisor. He was definitely my Sunday school teacher, I remember that,\nand he was probably the advisor of USY. I hadn't talked about that in a long\ntime. And now you're asking . . . Miriam Goldstein, I think, may have been the\nadvisor of BBG. Now that you've asked me, it's sparking a memory. Part of the\nlure of belonging to Jewish . . . to USY and BBG was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=540.0,570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"the conventions, because we\ngot to travel all over the South and meet all the other Jewish kids our age. I\nwas fortunate, my mother was from Atlanta, was born here, and my mother's family\nlived in Atlanta. So, we . . . I came to Atlanta a lot and I knew people. I had\na cousin close to my age and I was very close to, and I knew all of her friends.\nAnd it was just . . . Atlanta was Mecca. Or Jerusalem, I should say.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=570.0,600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"MICHALOVE: They had more than 12 Jews your age.\n\nLEVINE: Exactly. Exactly.\n\nMICHALOVE: Maybe 15.\n\nLEVINE: Right. No, no, no. Atlanta, did you grow up here? I remember my cousin\ntelling me that [Henry W.] Grady High School should have closed on Rosh\nHa-Shanah because it was . . .\n\nMICHALOVE: . . . Half empty . . .\n\nLEVINE: Or more. Anyway, coming to Atlanta was a treat. Coming for conventions\nwas great because I got to meet other kids my age from around the state. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=600.0,630.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I can\ntell you more about . . . I'm trying to think what else I can tell you.\n\nMICHALOVE: Were you most of your friends in Columbus in high school Jewish or\nnon-Jewish, since there were so few Jews?\n\nLEVINE: That's an interesting question. I had a lot of friends in high school,\nnot Jewish, and at three o'clock p.m., I disappeared, so to speak. We could be\nvery friendly from nine o'clock a.m. to three o'clock p.m. or whatever the\nschool day hours ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=630.0,660.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"were. But after three o'clock p.m., I think it was three\no'clock p.m. . . . after school, I would say 90 to 95 percent of my social\ninteractions were in the Jewish community. And it was limiting, as you can tell.\nMy parents didn't want me to . . . wouldn't let me date anyone not Jewish. It\nwas limiting.\n\nMICHALOVE: I'm going to go off on a tangent right now, and we'll come back.\n\nLEVINE: Sure.\n\nMICHALOVE: I understand that you brought a wedding dress to the Breman.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=660.0,690.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LEVINE: I did.\n\nMICHALOVE: Tell me about it.\n\nLEVINE: My father's younger sister, she was the baby in the family, married\nbefore her two older brothers, one of whom was my father. She married in either\n1934 or 1935. She came to Atlanta because you always had to come to Atlanta to\nshop. She came to Atlanta, and she went to Rich's and she bought a wedding dress\nand I think she paid 35 dollars for it. 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Then in 1948, a cousin, my first cousin's\nwife, the oldest grandchild in the family, his wife wore the dress in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=720.0,750.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"1948. My\nAunt Sadie, who originally bought the dress, had this really thick Southern\naccent. And she would say . . . and these four women could not have been more\ndifferent, physically. Aunt Sadie used to say that the reason the dress fit all\nfour of them because \"it was cut on the bias,\" but they all wore it. My cousin\nMarvin, who's the son of Aunt Sadie, I convinced him to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=750.0,780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"donate the dress to the\nBreman and I was able to get wedding pictures of the four brides who wore the dress.\n\nMICHALOVE: And we thank you for that.\n\nLEVINE: I'm excited that it's here.\n\nMICHALOVE: So that many, many people can share it.\n\nLEVINE: Right.\n\nMICHALOVE: Tell me a little bit about how you began escorting authors.\n\nLEVINE: Can I go back a minute? My father was in business in Columbus. He had a\nmen's store, and he was in real estate. And, of course, my mother moved there.\nWhen you when you married, you ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=780.0,810.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"moved where your husband was. She loved Columbus,\nand she really embraced it. As I said before, she was very active in all of the\nJewish organizations, and they were really . . . the Gerson family was really a\nmainstay, I think, in the synagogue and in the Jewish community. The social hall\nat the synagogue was Gerson Hall and my parents would, my mother especially, but\nmy parents were very outgoing, hospitable ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=810.0,840.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"people. My mother used to joke that\nher house was a No-tell because it was no telling who was going to be spending\nthe night there. She entertained all the time and loved to cook and entertained\nbeautifully. We always had soldiers at the house, and this is something I want\nto just talk about.\n\nMICHALOVE: Talk about Fort Benning and the relation of the Jewish community to\nthe Fort Benning Jewish community.\n\nLEVINE: Fort Benning is the largest infantry base in the country. Many ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=840.0,870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"soldiers\ncome in and out of Fort Benning, even if it's just for basic training. There\nwere always Jewish soldiers there. My father, through his men's store, at one\ntime, actually sold uniforms on the base and met a lot. Whenever he met a Jewish\nsoldier, they would be at my house for dinner that night and he would just call\nmy mother and say, \"Frances, I met a Jewish soldier and I'm bringing him home\nfor dinner.\" And they had many lifelong friends, some that ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=870.0,900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"they met during the\nSecond World War, actually. They rented out a room in their house during the\nSecond World War because there was such a shortage of housing in Columbus in the\n1940s. I don't remember this; I've been told stories about it. They did have\nlifelong friends that they met in the 1940s and then up through the 1950s they\nwere still entertaining soldiers at the house. My sister used to say that she\nfelt that she and I could talk to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=900.0,930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"anybody, and she credited it to the fact that\nmy mother, she said, my mother would always say, \"Esther, you and Cheryl, go\ninto the living room and entertain the soldiers while I finish dinner.\" And she\nfelt . . . and I think she's right that we just could carry on a conversation\nwith almost anybody. Again, I think that was just an important role model for us\ngrowing up of hospitality and giving back to the community in whatever way. Now\nwe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=930.0,960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"can go on if you want.\n\nMICHALOVE: After you married, did you move to Atlanta immediately or...?\n\nLEVINE: No. Mike and I got married in . . . I graduated Brandeis in 1962 and we\ngot married in 1962. He had one more year to finish his residency in pediatrics,\nso we lived in Boston for a year. I taught in Quincy, Massachusetts for a year.\nThen he had a commitment to the military, he had to go into the military for ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=960.0,990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"two\nyears. He was in the Air Force, and he was stationed, and we lived in Sumter,\nSouth Carolina, at Shaw Air Force Base. Mike had planned to go back to Boston to\npractice. He had made arrangements with a pediatrician who was a couple of years\nahead of him in training to go into practice with him. After a year of living in\nthe South, the friend, the pediatrician, called him and said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=990.0,1020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"I need to renew\nmy lease. Should I get more space? Are you coming?\" Mike said no. He fell in\nlove with the weather and the people. He said nobody had ever said to him,\n\"Y'all come back, ya hear,\" and he loved it. He played golf 12 months a year on\nthe base. He had never lived anywhere but Boston and had barely traveled\nanywhere. This was a whole new world for him, and he loved it. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1020.0,1050.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So, he was . . .\nWe were looking around for a place to live and we wanted a big city, and Atlanta\nwas the really obvious choice. He found several people to interview with in\nAtlanta. One man was Jerry Berman, and he was in practice in Sandy Springs\n[Georgia]. I said to Mike, \"I'm so sorry, honey, I'm not going to live in Sandy\nSprings. I've never heard of it. 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I mean, I went and looked at ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1080.0,1110.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"it, but he was buying this lot and I\nsaid, \"No, no, no, no, I'm never going to live in Sandy Springs. I will not have\na carpool to Sunday school.\" That was my worry. So, he said, \"Okay, if we don't\nlive on it, we'll sell it.\" Well, of course, we built our house, we moved in in\n1968, and we still live in that house. Our children grew up in Sandy Springs.\nWhen our children went to Riverwood High School, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1110.0,1140.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"which wasn't even built in\n1968, it had the largest percentage of Jews of any high school in the city other\nthan any of the day schools, of course. Mike was just very farsighted. Coming\nfrom Boston, he could see that there would be suburbs. Coming from Columbus,\nGeorgia, I could not see that there would be suburbs.\n\nMICHALOVE: There were no suburbs in Columbus, and I don't think there still are,\nsuburbs in Columbus, Georgia.\n\nLEVINE: Little bit, there is. Green Island Hills is a suburb. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1140.0,1170.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta was a\ndowntown medical community at that time. When Jerry Berman was very brave to go\npractice in Sandy Springs and when Mike moved to town, when we moved to town and\nMike went and practice with Jerry, everybody said, \"Oh, there must be something\nwrong with him. He doesn't think he can make it downtown.\" Then, five years\nlater, Northside Hospital was built and the whole community moved to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1170.0,1200.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Sandy\nSprings, so to speak, or moved north. Did that cover what you wanted me to?\n\nMICHALOVE: Yes. Tell me about how you got into escorting.\n\nLEVINE: I'll come to that. So, when Mike went into practice, I was doing the\nusual stay-at-home mom things. I was carpooling and making dinner every night\nand lunches every day. I was very active in the Jewish organizations, Hadassah,\nand ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1200.0,1230.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Brandeis Women's Committee. The Brandeis Women's Committee was so happy when\nI moved to town because I was a living, breathing, recent graduate of Brandeis.\nThey had a book sale every year, used book sale. That became my project to take\nover the used book sale, which was very successful. The moneys were sent to\nBrandeis for the libraries, and that was happening nationally. But we had one of\nthe bigger book ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1230.0,1260.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sales in Atlanta.\n\nMICHALOVE: Whose idea was to put the drop boxes around in the shopping centers?\n\nLEVINE: I don't know exactly whose idea . . .\n\nMICHALOVE: But I remember those drop boxes that people could come and drop their books.\n\nLEVINE: Right.\n\nMICHALOVE: And that's how you got a lot of them.\n\nLEVINE: Absolutely. This was a national project, so we may have learned that\nfrom other from other cities or we may have come up with it. I really don't know\nspecifically. But it was just a very . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1260.0,1290.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"very successful for Brandeis and a\nsuccessful venture in Atlanta. Then in 1976, I went to work for Betty Ann\nShusterman in her company Guidelines-Atlanta. She contracted with conventions\nand large groups to do their spouse programs, it was called at the time. She\nwould do parties and shuttles and any of the nonmedical amenities that were\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1290.0,1320.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"offered at conventions. I worked for Betty Ann for ten years. I was actually on\nthe bus tour guiding, \"on your right and on your left,\" you know. Then I went to\nwork in the office helping route, sell, and plan the tours that we were offering.\n\n[interview pauses, then resumes]\n\nLEVINE: I worked for Betty Ann for ten years. I was, as I mentioned, in the\noffice and on the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1320.0,1350.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bus. In 1986, I read an article in Atlanta magazine about a\nwoman who was escorting authors when they came to Atlanta on book tour. I was\nbowled over. This was the most exciting thing I had ever heard of and I\nimmediately called her.\n\nMICHALOVE: What was her name?\n\nLEVINE: Her name was Susan Shore. I called her and I said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1350.0,1380.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"I just read this\narticle and you've got to hire me, and we've got to meet.\" I said, \"This would\nhave been my fantasy job if I knew it existed and you've got to hire me.\" So, we\nmet, and she hired me. I worked with her for a year. At the end of the year, her\nhusband accepted a job in another city, and they left Atlanta. I bought the\nbusiness from her in 1987, and I hit the road running. This was me. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1380.0,1410.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I said I was\ntraining for this job all my life, but I didn't know it. It was just the most\nexciting thing I had ever done. Basically, I would contract with publishers or\nPR firms, and when they would send authors to Atlanta on book tours, they needed\na point person in Atlanta. That was me. It was just . . .\n\nMICHALOVE: Describe what you did.\n\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1410.0,1440.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"LEVINE: Every day was different. I mean, it was . . . every day was really\ndifferent. It can run the gamut of picking the author up at the airport, either\nthe day of or the night before, taking the author to all of the radio,\ntelevision, newspaper interviews that the publicist had set up, usually with my\nhelp and my input, because I knew the city and I knew the media. Then we would\ndo ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1440.0,1470.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"what I call bookstore drop-ins, which is I would call the bookstores, and if\na bookstore . . . if the author was doing an event at one place and not going to\nseveral other bookstores, I would call the other bookstores, and if they had\nstock, we would stop by, and the author would sign their stock because the\nbookstores really liked having autographed copies. They would put an autographed\nsticker on the book. They always said that autographed books sold much faster\nthan the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1470.0,1500.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"non-autographed books. That would be part of the day. We may go to\ndinner, we may go to lunch, may go to dinner. Then I would take them to the\nevent, wherever the event was that night. It could have it could be at a\nbookstore or at a venue. We had wonderful venues in Atlanta, the Carter Center,\nthe [Atlanta] History Center, Georgia Center for the Book. There were many, many\nvenues, and the bookstores. I hope I didn't leave anything out, I don't want\nto hurt anybody's feelings. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1500.0,1530.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"In 1989, I decided to go to the National Book\nConvention. At that time, it was called the American Booksellers Association,\nand they had a convention every year. That was where the publishers--it was a\nmarketing convention--the publishers would set up booths, showcase their fall .\n. . It was always in the spring, May or June. 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They\nchanged the name, but in the beginning, it was ABA, American Booksellers\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1560.0,1590.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Association. That year . . . In the meantime, I had been in contact with a woman\nwho had a network. The woman lived in Baltimore, and she had been a media\nescort. She had actually started the media escort business, or the concept of\nmedia escorts. And she had set up a network where she contacted ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1590.0,1620.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"publishers and\nsaid to them, \"I have escorts in ten cities. If you are sending your authors to\nfive or ten cities, or whatever it may be, with one phone call, you can call me,\nand I will set you up in all the cities.\" I became part of her network. Every\nyear at the book convention, she would have a party. So in 1989, which was two\nyears after I had bought the business, I decided to go to the convention, which\nwas in ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1620.0,1650.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Washington, D.C. Now, I have to tell you, I had never traveled by myself,\nI had never stayed in a hotel by myself. This was a big thing I was doing.\n\nMICHALOVE: For a small-town girl.\n\nLEVINE: For a small-town girl. I actually called an escort in Boston because she\nhad a Jewish last name, and I felt that I could relate to her. Turns out she was\nmarried to a Jewish man, but she wasn't Jewish. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1650.0,1680.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I said, \"I'm coming to my first\nconvention. I have no idea what I'm doing. Can I hook up with you?\" She was\nlovely and said yes. So, I met her. We had lunch. I flew in, we had lunch, and\nshe took me to the floor, the convention floor. And we started just . . . she\nshowed me. You walk around, you go up to the booth, you introduce yourself and\nyou talk and promote yourself. So, she took me to about two or three booths and\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1680.0,1710.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"then she said to me, she said, \"Esther, I'm tired. I got up really early. I'm\ngoing to go back to the hotel. Do you want to go?\" I said \"Bye.\" That was all I\nneeded. She set me on the path and that was one of the things I did best was\nschmooze and maybe promote myself, or promote Atlanta. I was really promoting\nAtlanta . . . That's how my business started to grow because ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1710.0,1740.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"once the publishers\nhave met me personally . . . well, one of the jokes I used to tell was I would\nwalk up and I would say, \"I'm Esther Levine from Atlanta.\" And they would say,\n\"Atlanta, I've heard of Atlanta.\" And I'm thinking \"What?! How can I do this if\nyou don't even know where Atlanta is?\" But it came around. The other story I'll\ntell you, I once received a message on my answering machine. I came home, picked\nup the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1740.0,1770.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"message, and it was this young man in New York, a publicist calling me,\nsaying, \"This is so-and-so from such, whatever publishing company. I have an\nauthor coming. I'd like to book you.\" I called back and I'm talking to him and\nI'm writing down all the information. This was before computers or pretty much\nbefore computers as we know them today. He said, \"And the author will be in\nJackson on ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1770.0,1800.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"September 4th.\" And I'm waiting for the next sentence, because \"and\nin Atlanta on...\" There was no next sentence. And I said, \"Wait a minute, you\nsaid the author was going to be in Jackson,\" I said, \"Did you mean Jackson,\nMississippi?\" And he said, \"Yes.\" And I said, \"Well, is he coming to Atlanta?\"\nHe said, \"No.\" I said, \"Well, wait a minute.\" He said, \"Well, isn't Atlanta,\nnear Jackson?\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1800.0,1830.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"And I thought, well, it's eight hours at the time, eight hours by\ncar. To me, that was just another example of how Atlanta was not known,\nespecially in the publishing world. That all changed.\n\nMICHALOVE: My goodness.\n\nLEVINE: Right. Right. And of course, I feel like I had a lot to do with that. At\none of the conventions, I don't know if it was that convention or the next year,\nI saw all of these women running ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1830.0,1860.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"around on the floor, dashing from booth to\nbooth. I was glancing at name tags, and I did see some Jewish names and Jewish\ncommunity centers on their badges. I finally went up to somebody and I said,\n\"I'm Esther Levine from Atlanta. Please tell me what you're doing. Why you're\nhere for your . . . Why does your badge say Jewish Community Center?\" She said,\n\"Oh, well, we have a Jewish book festival every year.\" I said, \"What?\" ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1860.0,1890.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"She told\nme all about it. I got so excited. I came home, I came here, came back and I\nstarted knocking on doors, and we had nothing. I had to try to convince somebody\nto do this. And I went to the JCC [Jewish Community Center] because that was the\nobvious one and that seemed to be the entity that was sponsoring it in most of\nthe other cities. Finally, I got the JCC to become ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1890.0,1920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"interested, involved. And\nthat was how the Book Festival started, with my instigation. Then, when I let\nthem know about sending delegates and going to meet the things, Atlanta followed\nsuit and the Atlanta Book Festival will celebrate its 30th year this November.\nIt's one of the largest in the country now and one of the most well-respected in\nthe country.\n\nMICHALOVE: Tell me how many how many ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1920.0,1950.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"authors were at the first one, if you remember?\n\nLEVINE: I would say five.\n\nMICHALOVE: Were you the chairman or was somebody else . . . ?\n\nLEVINE: I don't think I had the title of chair. I was always the person in the\nbackground or the advisor, let's say advisor. I don't even know if we had a\nchair the first year. I think they were maybe five authors, and it was at the\nJCC on Peachtree [Road]. I remember an instance when John Updike ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1950.0,1980.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"was in the\nmiddle of talking and the train came by. Do you remember the train?\n\nMICHALOVE: I remember you could hear the train and you couldn't hear what going\non in the building.\n\nLEVINE: Right, right. So, we had to stop. The bookstore grew and grew. As I say\nto now, now is one of the largest in the country. Fifteen years ago, the book\nfestival honored me with an evening in my honor called the Esther G. Levine\nCommunity Read. We ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=1980.0,2010.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"bring in authors and it's specific . . . when I'm involved in\nthe evening, I'm involved in picking . . .\n\nMICHALOVE: Did you pick the book and the author?\n\nLEVINE: The way it happens is the book festival . . . The director of the Book\nFestival will set up the 20 to 30 authors that are coming to town. Of that pool,\nI get to pick from the pool. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2010.0,2040.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"There's a few other picks before me, but I get\nto pick who I would like to be the author for my evening. It's been very\nexciting. My husband and I, ten years ago, started having the reception before\nthe event with the intention of, number one, getting our friends to come, but\nalso . . . Getting them to come, and entertaining our ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2040.0,2070.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"friends, but also getting\nthem to come to the to the talk. Swelling the numbers, so to speak.\n\nMICHALOVE: I've been to a couple of them. They're pretty big.\n\nLEVINE: Yes, they have. We've been very [indistinct: 00:34:41]\n\nMICHALOVE: You fill the gyms.\n\nLEVINE: We filled the gyms. Right. Really, it's the work of the committee now.\nWe have a wonderful director of the Book Festival named Pam Morton at the JCC.\nShe's a dynamo. And she has really raised the level, I think, of the book\nfestival and is very ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2070.0,2100.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"well-respected. And the publishers now call her, which is\nwonderful because that wasn't happening early on. We had to prove ourselves.\n\nMICHALOVE: Are you still escorting authors?\n\nLEVINE: I was. I don't know if you want this, but COVID has sort of put me out\nof business because I can't escort an author if nobody's traveling. And we don't\nknow what's going to happen in the fall or even January.\n\nMICHALOVE: Well, the book festival this year, most of it is virtual.\n\nLEVINE: It's going to be a hybrid. There are going to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2100.0,2130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"be some in-person, but a\nlot of it will be virtual. Of course, last year the whole thing was virtual. It\nreally depends on what happens in the next six months or nine months, whether\nauthors and publishers decide that authors will travel again.\n\nMICHALOVE: Whether it's safe or not.\n\nLEVINE: Safe. Right, exactly.\n\nMICHALOVE: Tell me about the Milner Award.\n\n[interview pauses, then resumes]\n\nMICHALOVE: The Milner Award.\n\nLEVINE: I'm ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2130.0,2160.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"going to get back to that because I'm going to lead up to it if\nthat's okay. Because of my connections with publishers in New York, I have been\non most of the committees of any book event in Atlanta, and I was on the\ncommittee for the Decatur Book Festival, and I've just . . . People call me all\nthe time to consult with me and ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2160.0,2190.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"to ask for my help. The Milner Award\nspecifically is an award that has been going on for about 35 years. A woman\nnamed Belle Turner Lynch established the award in memory of her aunt Vera\nMilner, who was a teacher in the Atlanta public schools. When her aunt died,\nVera Milner was not married, had no children, and she left money to the Atlanta\nPublic Schools. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2190.0,2220.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Belle Lynch, her niece, decided to use that money and other\nfamily money and honor her memory by bringing in a children's author every year\nto speak to the Atlanta schoolchildren. And I . . . Belle heard about me. What\nhappened was the schoolchildren of Atlanta would vote on their favorite author\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2220.0,2250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"and whoever received the most votes, Belle and the committee would try to bring\nthat author in to speak to the schoolchildren. They didn't duplicate, but they\nwanted to bring in the author that received the most votes. She was having\ntrouble. It was taking her forever to make contact to find out how to reach the\nauthor. Someone on her committee said, \"Wait a minute, we need to call Esther\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2250.0,2280.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Levine.\" So, they called me and I, of course, went on the committee, and I've\nbeen working with them about, I forget, now eight or ten years. With a phone\ncall, I could just say . . . I could look up who published the book. With a\nphone call, I could call a publicist and say, they would know me, and I would\nexplain the story. I was really . . . I was a tremendous help to them, and it\nwas a tremendous honor to me to be part of this endeavor. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2280.0,2310.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Belle, when she died a\nfew months ago, which was very sad . . . The committee is still going to carry\non in her memory and in her aunt's memory, now, this award.\n\nMICHALOVE: Great. Tell me, do you get the books . . . when you're escorting an\nauthor, do you get the book ahead of time? Do you get a bio? What's the process?\nDo you get to read the book ahead of time or just discuss it with them in the car?\n\nLEVINE: So, several parts of that question. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2310.0,2340.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"When I'm booked, the publisher will\nsend me a book and there's usually press materials that they send out for\ninterviews, but they send it to me also. I do not have time to read every single\nbook. Because I, in the height of my business, I could have ten authors a week\nin town. I had people who worked for me, so obviously I wasn't doing it all\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2340.0,2370.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"myself. The rule of thumb was to read the front flap and the back flap of the\nbook, all of the publicity material that we were sent, and any research that we\nhad time to do. Of course, it became much easier with the internet to look up an\nauthor. It was especially nice if I had read previous works of the author, I\nfelt more able to discuss. But honestly, the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2370.0,2400.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"author really didn't want to\ndiscuss the book in the car because they were on the way to an interview where\nthey were going to be discussing the book. Sometimes they would say, \"I don't\nremember what I've said to you in the car or whether I've said it to the\ninterviewer,\" and they didn't want . . . they really didn't want to discuss the\nbook in the car. Now, not that we didn't discuss things generally, but not in\ndepth just because they didn't want to, it was not because . . . ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2400.0,2430.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"so, they really\nwanted me to know where I was going, to get them there on time, to know which\ndoor to walk in to at a studio, to know where the receptionist was, to go up and\nsay, \"I'm here with Joyce Carol Oates,\" or whoever. They wanted me to do the\nlogistics. The fact that I was an English major in college, was an avid reader,\nand I've been in a book club for 45 years, was a plus when it came ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2430.0,2460.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"up.\n\nMICHALOVE: In the car, could you discuss their family or chit-chat or just . . .\nthey wanted quiet?\n\nLEVINE: It depended on the author. Most of them . . . some of them wanted quiet.\nMost of them were fine with chit-chatting. I took it as an opportunity to show\nthem Atlanta, because if we were driving by something, I would say \"This is the\nMargaret Mitchell house\" or \"This is the High Museum [of Art],\" depending on\nwhere we were, which leads me to a story. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2460.0,2490.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I have several stories if you want them.\n\nMICHALOVE: Please.\n\nLEVINE: Garrison Keillor, who had the show A Prairie Home Companion on MPR [Minnesota Public Radio] for\nmany, many years, came to Atlanta to do his show. It was in 2014. He always\nevidently flew into a city on Thursday or Friday and the show was Saturday night\nwhen he went to other cities to do his show. The Atlanta History Center called\nthe ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2490.0,2520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"publisher and asked if he could do an event at the History Center on\nThursday night. He flew in Thursday. The publisher hired me. I picked him up at\nthe airport and took him to the hotel and then picked him back up. On the way\nI'm chit-chatting and I'm talking a little about Atlanta, and I don't even\nremember specifically, but just my usual welcome to Atlanta speech, because I\nalways felt that I wanted them to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2520.0,2550.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"know they had been in Atlanta. I didn't want\nit to just be another city to them. I'm proud of Atlanta, I love Atlanta, and I\nwanted them to know about Atlanta. I picked him back up, took him to the History\nCenter, and then brought him back around eleven o'clock p.m. or twelve o'clock\na.m. --it was very late--back to the hotel and dropped him off. I said to him .\n. . he was asking me, he started asking me questions about Atlanta. And I said,\n\"Garrison, why don't I give you a tour of ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2550.0,2580.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta tomorrow, on Friday?\" And he\nsaid to me, \"I've got to write my show.\" And I said, \"Oh, okay. You know, I was\njust offering.\" Dropped him off, goodbye. The next afternoon, my phone rang, and\nI had put his phone number in my cell phone, and it popped up Garrison Keillor.\nI'm thinking, why is he calling me? I picked up the phone. I thought he wanted\nme to come give him a tour because I had offered to do that. I picked up the\nphone, \"Hi, Garrison Keillor?\" and he said, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2580.0,2610.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\"I'm calling you because I want to\ninvite you to be on my show tomorrow night.\" I said, \"what?!\" I mean, it was the\nlast thing that I could ever have imagined. I said, \"wait a minute, wait a\nminute.\" I said, \"What do you want me to talk about?\" If you know his show, he\nhas musicians, he has historians, he has whatever. I didn't feel like I fit\ninto any of the categories. He said, \"I want you to talk about Atlanta and why\nyou love ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2610.0,2640.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Atlanta and think Atlanta is the best place in the world to live.\" And\nI said, \"Oh, my God.\" I said, \"Can I think about it?\" I was just floored. And he\nsaid, \"Sure.\" He said, \"Just call.\" And he gave me his assistant . . . the\nbooking person's name, \"call back in an hour or so. Let us know your decision\nbecause I'm putting together the show.\" I said, okay. My husband was home, and I\nwent in, and I said, \"Mike, you'll never guess!\" I told him the story and he\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2640.0,2670.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"said, \"Well, you should do it.\" And I said, \"Well, wait a minute, I can't just\ndo it.\" I said, \"I've got to think about it.\" So, I sat down, and Mike and I\ntalked, and I wrote down all of the things that I would talk about. Of course,\nit was easy because I had been a tour guide, I had all the facts, and I do love\nAtlanta. That was what I kind of did in the car, with the office. Once I had\norganized everything, I said to myself, okay, I can do this. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2670.0,2700.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I called back and\nset it up. We went down at four o'clock p.m. on Saturday. The show started at\nsix o'clock p.m.. It was at the Fox [Theatre]. We went in the back door to the\nbackstage. I'd never been in all of that. Everybody was really nice. Said hello\nto Garrison, Mike met Garrison. I said, \"Can I have notes on the stage?\" And\nthey said, \"No, you cannot have notes on the stage.\" At whatever time Mike left\nand went and sat in the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2700.0,2730.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"audience and I went on and I had forgotten that I was\ngoing to be on stage in front of 4,000 people, you know, the Fox. Not only was I\non national radio, but I was at the Fox in front of 4,000 people. But I was\nreally prepared, and everything went really well. People in the audience were\ncheering because I was saying nice things about Atlanta, and they were ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2730.0,2760.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"agreeing\nand loving the things I was saying. It was just a lot of fun. I got phone calls\nfrom people from all over the country. Oh, and another thing, I of course phoned\nmy children so they could listen. They were listening. Garrison wanted me to say\n. . . He kept asking me about Atlanta and then Atlanta in the summertime. I\nthink what he wanted me to say, that it was terrible and unbearable and so forth\nand very hot. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2760.0,2790.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"So, I said to him, I said, first of all, I said, \"Oh, Garrison,\nI'm so glad you asked me that question. I forgot to tell you about the Peachtree\nRoad Race that happens here on July Fourth every year, 50,000 people come to the\ncity and race and run.\" I said, \"but I think really what you're asking me is\nabout how hot and humid it is here.\" And I said, \"it is hot and humid here.\" I\nsaid, \"but my friends tell me it's hot and humid in Chicago [Illinois], in\nWashington [D.C.], in New York, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2790.0,2820.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all over the country.\" And I said, \"and we have\nall these other wonderful things and a beautiful spring and fall to make up for\nit. It's not a problem.\" My son, who lives in New York, was listening. I said,\n\"I have friends and family in New York and Chicago and Washington. And they tell\nme.\" My son felt that was a shout out to them, which it was. They were very\npleased that I had included that. If I could do this plug and I don't know if\nthis will ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2820.0,2850.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"still be available in years to come, but you can Google that\ninterview, \"Esther Levine, Garrison Keillor\" and it will come up. It's on\nYouTube or Google. And you can see that interview. I think it's about a five- or\nsix-minute interview and I've had a lot of fun with it. It's been great to do that.\n\nMICHALOVE: What other perks have you had from your job?\n\nLEVINE: I have escorted so many people. I've escorted ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2850.0,2880.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"every category of person\nthat you can imagine because books are about everything. Fiction and nonfiction\nand cookbooks, I've escorted hundreds of cookbook authors and movie stars and\npoliticians and well-known nonfiction and fiction authors. I got to escort\nLauren Bacall, which was one of the highlights of my career. A story I tell\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2880.0,2910.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"about her is that the publicist was traveling with her because when there's\ncelebrities, very often a publicist will travel with the person. The publicist\ntold me that we needed to find a place for lunch, for Lauren to go for lunch,\nand that she had not been happy in the past two cities where they had gone for\nlunch so would I please find a place for lunch that she would approve of. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2910.0,2940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I\nstarted throwing out names and giving a description of the different\nrestaurants. \"No, don't like that, don't like that.\" And I said, \"I have the\nperfect place, Horseradish Grill,\" which, as you probably know, was owned by\nSteven Alterman. It was in a horse barn . . . is anyway wonderful . . . near\nChastain [Park]. I described it to the publicist, and she said, \"That's it.\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2940.0,2970.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Perfect.\" So, we went to Horseradish Grill, and I called ahead, I let Steve know\nthat we were coming. And celebrities don't like to be ooh'd and awed over...\nsome do, and some don't, let me put it that way. Steve was very discreet, but he\nsent over desserts, complimentary desserts, sampling of desserts at the end of\nthe lunch. She loved it. She loved the place, she loved the lunch. She loved\neverything. He sends over the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=2970.0,3000.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"desserts. She fell in love with his chocolate\ncake, so she said to him, \"I've got to have a chocolate cake to take back with\nme to New York, because it was fabulous.\" So, he went back into the kitchen, and\nhe came back, and he said, \"I only have two pieces left. I'm sorry,\" or three\npieces, I think, \"I only have three pieces left. I don't have a whole cake,\" he\nsaid. \"But I'm going to be in New York next week. I will bring one to you.\" She\nsaid, \"No, no, no,\" she said, \"My family's coming to ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=3000.0,3030.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"visit me this weekend. I\nhave to have the cake this weekend. I will take those three pieces of cake.\" So,\nhe puts them in a box, you can imagine a big cake box, and the publicist is\nrolling her eyes because celebrities can be demanding at times. Evidently,\nLauren Bacall had been somewhat demanding on this trip. The publicist looked at\nme and said, \"Guess who's going to sit with a cake box on my lap ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=3030.0,3060.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"all the way\nback to New York.\" So, she took a cake box home of Horseradish Grill's chocolate\ncake. That was very exciting for Steve, and for me that I had put the whole\nthing together. Gosh, there's so many other stories. I escorted Annie Leibovitz,\nthe famous photographer, and she . . . I was taking her to . . . 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Turns out that a famous ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=3120.0,3150.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"thing she was\ndoing at the time was inking the bottom of her feet, and she had asked the\nbookstore people for an ink pad. She went in and inked the bottom of her feet\nand stood on my book so that I have her footprints and her signature and\nevidently that's very special. It had been something special she was doing. It's\none of my treasured books, of course, because of that.\n\nMICHALOVE: I've got a question. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=3150.0,3180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"How many books do you have at your house? How\nmany rooms of books?\n\nLEVINE: I have probably more than 4,000 books at my house. Many of them are\nboxed. I built . . . we had a playroom downstairs for the children that I have\nshelved floor to ceiling. Now, I have the task of going through these books and\ndeciding what to do with them. Many of them, I'm just donating to libraries and\nbook ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=3180.0,3210.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"sales. I mean, anything. I have a project, a major project, that I really\nwant to go through the books and separate the ones . . . I've escorted most of\nthe Civil Rights leaders and movie stars, as I said, politicians, famous\nhistorians, famous chefs. I'd like, and I hope I can do this, I want to separate\nthem into those particular categories and maybe donate them specifically, the\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=3210.0,3240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"ones that I feel are . . . they're all special to me, but the ones that I think\nhave lasting historical value. That is a project that I have to . . .\n\nMICHALOVE: Will take a while.\n\nLEVINE: Will take a while. I'm trying . . . I'm on the first phase of it. I'm\ngoing through the books that are probably not extra special and donating to my\nlibrary and to other places. I'm just trying to read through. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=3240.0,3270.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"I do want to get\nto those books where I can specify certain places that I think they would be\nappreciated and wanted. Those categories, whatever that category is.\n\nMICHALOVE: Who was your favorite escort?\n\nLEVINE: Oh, you're not going to ask me that.\n\nMICHALOVE: Who was your least favorite?\n\nLEVINE: Oh, I can't tell you that. [memoirist and interviewer laugh]\n\nMICHALOVE: Who was the most difficult?\n\nLEVINE: In over 30 years of escorting, I had two ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=3270.0,3300.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"authors who treated me\nshabbily. And of course, I will not ever tell their names. One of them is\nsomebody you never would have heard of, and one of them is someone you may have\nheard of. Not a celebrity, actually. I escorted Betty Friedan, for example, and\nthe publicist warned me she could be very difficult. She and I got along really\nwell. I really feel like that's one of the ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=3300.0,3330.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"skills that I brought to the to the\njob, to the business, is that I feel like, as my sister said, we could talk to\nanybody and get along with everybody. I did have a motto; I said I could put up\nwith anything that was moral and legal for a day because I knew at the end of\nthe day, I was putting that person on an airplane or back to the hotel and they\nwere leaving. It was never a problem for me. Now, ask ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=3330.0,3360.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"me, were there people I\ndidn't like, or I liked less than other people? Of course, they were people that\nI got along with much, much better. We had more in common. I mean, Lauren Bacall\nand I discussed art. She collected art, I collected art. We talked about art and\nartists, which was wonderful. I have another story I can tell you, if we have\ntime. We have time. Well, have I answered the questions?\n\nMICHALOVE: Most of them. Keep going.\n\nLEVINE: Most of them. All right. We'll keep ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=3360.0,3390.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"going.\n\nMICHALOVE: We're on a roll.\n\nLEVINE: We're on a roll. I'm not familiar if you . . . I don't know if you're\nfamiliar with an author named David Sedaris.\n\nMICHALOVE: I know who . . . I've heard the name.\n\nLEVINE: David Sedaris is a gay man who is a comedian and a speaker and an\nauthor. He has the driest humor. He is hugely popular, especially in the gay\ncommunity, but more than the gay community. I escorted David several times and\nhe and I ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=3390.0,3420.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"just hit it off. We just had a great time together. One year, I\nescorted David and he got in the car and he looked at me and he had this very,\nvery sad face. And I said, \"David, what's wrong? Is something the matter?\" He\nsaid, \"Oh, Esther,\" he said, \"I am three houses away from being homeless.\" And\nthen you realize that he's pulling, and I thought, \"Oh, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=3420.0,3450.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David.\" The next time he\n. . . a couple of years later, he came back, and he gets in the car. I'll\npreface this by saying he had a book signing in Athens at a bookstore in Athens,\nGeorgia, which is a little over an hour north of Atlanta. I pick him up at three\no'clock p.m. and we're going to drive to . . . Oh, well, guess I should go back.\nThe publicist told me . . . the bookstore told me that the publicist ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=3450.0,3480.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"had said\nthat it would probably be a late evening. That David, number one, is hugely\npopular, has huge lines of people and that he spends two to three minutes with\nevery person and that they would only . . . In other words, he doesn't just sign\nyour book, \"here's your book,\" he would sign a book, he would look up and ask\nthe person their name, find out about the person, and talk to them. ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=3480.0,3510.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"They had to\nset up a system where they would let 60 people--everybody was outdoors--they let\n60 people in an hour because he would spend 30 minutes. Does that work out? I\ndon't know, not right, whatever it is, maybe it was 20 minutes or whatever. They\nworked it out that . . . maybe it was two minutes, and they would send 30 people\nor whatever it was. They had a system worked out ... 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I said, \"Now, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=3540.0,3570.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"David, the\nlast time I escorted [you], you told me you were three houses away from being\nhomeless,\" and I said, \"Is that still true?\" He said, \"Well, wait a minute, one,\ntwo, three. Actually, I'm seven houses away from being homeless.\" Then he\nproceeded to tell me all the houses he's bought since the last time I saw him.\nAnyway, we get to Athens. Huge crowd. They have it well organized. They have a\ncertain number of people who could sit in the store. 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I said, \"Oh, sure,\" assuming that at the last minute they were going to\nsay to me, \"Oh, it's okay, we've rented a limo and you're going to ride in the\nlimo.\" Which happened, not often, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=3750.0,3780.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/127","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but several times. It would be a celebrity and\nthey would want a limo, but I was the point person, I needed to be with them to\ngo into the interview and so forth. I was sure any day they were going to call\nme and say, \"Okay, well, by the way, we've rented a limo.\" It didn't happen. We\nget to the week before the interview, and they still think I have a car with\nleather seats. 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I escorted her,\nI'm driving a Mercedes with leather seats, the day is going beautifully and\nwe're driving on Roswell Road back to the hotel and they said, \"Oh my God,\nthere's a McDonald's.\" And I said, \"Yeah, McDonald's.\" And they said they lived\nin remote Northern California and there was no McDonald's and they loved\n","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=3840.0,3870.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"McDonald's and they wanted to go to McDonald's. I said, \"No, no, no, there is\nsomething wrong with this picture. I cannot take you, Ginger Rogers, to\nMcDonald's.\" And they said, \"No.\" I'm thinking all these other places I'm going\nto take her. \"No, no, that is where we want to go.\" So, I did a drive thru in a\nMercedes with leather seats with Ginger Rogers in the front seat of my car,\ndrive thru at McDonald's. We took the food, ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=3870.0,3900.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"took it out, takeout and went and\nate in her hotel room.\n\nMICHALOVE: I have a question. Did the people at the drive thru recognize her?\n\nLEVINE: I don't think so. First of all, they were probably too young to know who\nshe was, but I don't think so. If she had gone in, if we'd gone in somewhere,\nshe probably . . . but she was . . . you have to be a certain age to know who\nGinger Rogers was. A famous dancer.\n\nMICHALOVE: She did everything Fred Astaire did ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=3900.0,3930.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"but backwards in high heels.\n\nLEVINE: Backwards in high heels, exactly. The other quick story is I escorted\nBob Schieffer, the CBS newscaster, and we had such a fabulous day. We just hit\nit off. We were talking nonstop about anything and everything. At the end of the\nday, he wrote in my book, \"To Esther, you know how to\" . . . and I was pointing\nout the sights of Atlanta . . . He writes in my book, \"To ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=3930.0,3960.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/133","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"Esther, you really\nknow how to show a guy a good time in Atlanta.\" After he wrote it, he looked at\nit and he said, \"Oh, my God,\" he said, \"Is your husband going to be upset when\nhe reads this?\" And I looked at him and said, \"I hope so.\" So then, the next\ntime he came, he came with his wife, and I escorted them again. And I said,\n\"I've got to tell you this story,\" because that was one of my favorite stories.\nBut he . . .\n\nMICHALOVE: How did she react?\n\nLEVINE: She was ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=3960.0,3990.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/134","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"used to it. She knew him and she laughed. She was a good sport.\nI don't think she would have thought that I would have told her the story if it\nwas something else she needed to know.\n\nMICHALOVE: True.\n\nLEVINE: Okay, was . . . what else . . .\n\nMICHALOVE: Then I was going to ask you, do you have hobbies other than reading?\n\nLEVINE: I do. I do have hobbies other than reading. I used to say that part of\nthe problem with my job is that I didn't have as much time to read as I wanted\nto, as I usually ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=3990.0,4020.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"did. I mentioned, I think, that I've been in a book club over\n45 years, a couple's book club with my husband, and it's been fabulous. We've\njust had a wonderful experience in this book club. I needlepoint. I have\nneedlepointed seven tallis bags and I'm on my second challah cover. I'm trying\nto think what else. That's mainly . . .\n\nMICHALOVE: I know you and Mike travel.\n\nLEVINE: And we travel. 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I haven't completed it, but I'm doing the genealogy and\nwe've found ","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=4050.0,4080.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/transcript/39272/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"wonderful, wonderful information. And of course, now is the time to\ndo genealogy, because with all the DNA testing, you can find family . . .\n\nMICHALOVE: All kinds of things.\n\nLEVINE: All kinds of things. So, I would say probably those are the things that\nI've done the most.\n\nMICHALOVE: Well, thank you for sharing.\n\nLEVINE: Thank you for inviting me.\n\nMICHALOVE: We really appreciate it. And now you're part of history.\n\nLEVINE: I love it. Thank you.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=4080.0,4110.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/annotation_set/803","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/annotation_set/803/annotation/138","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection, housed in the Ida Pearle and joseph Cuba Archives for Southern Jewish History at the William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, consists of more than 1,000 interviews that document Jewish life in Georgia and Alabama. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/annotation_set/803/annotation/139","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum in Atlanta celebrates and commemorates Jewish history, culture, and art through events and museum spaces. The Breman also contains the Cuba Family Archives for Southern Jewish History, which houses thousands of manuscripts, oral histories, and photograph collections, related to southern Jewish history and the Holocaust. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=0.0,30.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/annotation_set/803/annotation/140","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eColumbus, Georgia is a consolidated city-county located on the west-central border of Georgia. Columbus lies on the Chattahoochee River directly across from Phenix City, Alabama. 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Founded in 1948 as a non-sectarian, coeducational institution sponsored by the Jewish community, Brandeis was established on the site of the former Middlesex University. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=150.0,180.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/annotation_set/803/annotation/142","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eDr. Harvey Levy graduated from the Medical College of Georgia in 1960 and trained in pediatrics at Boston City Hospital, Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center, and Johns Hopkins Hospital. He is Senior Physician in Medicine and Genetics, Division of Genetics and Genomics at Boston Children’s Hospital and Professor of Pediatrics at Harvard Medical School. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524#t=210.0,240.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/77588/file/164524/annotation_set/803/annotation/143","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eHadassah\u003c/em\u003e, the Women’s Zionist Organization of America, is a volunteer service organization founded in 1912 by Henrietta Szold. 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