{"@context":"http://iiif.io/api/presentation/3/context.json","id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/iiif/wp9t14wz3f/manifest","type":"Manifest","label":{"en":["Greene, Melissa Fay"]},"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":["2025-12-08 (captured)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Agent"]},"value":{"en":["Greene, Melissa Fay (Interviewee)","Evans, Gail (Interviewer)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Source"]},"value":{"en":["William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum","Esther and Herbert Taylor Oral History Collection","Jewish Oral History Project of Atlanta"]}},{"label":{"en":["Description"]},"value":{"en":["\u003cp\u003eMelissa Fay Greene was interviewed by Gail Evans on December 8, 2025, in Atlanta, Georgia. \u003c/p\u003e (general)","\u003cp\u003eMelissa Fay Greene, the daughter of Rosalyn Pollock and Gerald A. Greene, was born on December 30, 1952, in Macon. In 1959, the family moved to Dayton, Ohio, where she grew up and attended school. In 1975, she received her B.A. degree with high honors from Oberlin College and subsequently returned to Georgia to work for the Savannah office of the Georgia Legal Services Program. In the course of that job, she began research for what would become her first book. Melissa’s husband, Donald Franklin Samuel, is an Atlanta criminal defense attorney; they are the parents of nine children and grandparents of five.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa has published six nonfiction books: Praying for Sheetrock (1991), The Temple Bombing (1996), Last Man Out (2003), There Is No Me Without You: One Woman’s Odyssey to Save Her Country’s Children (2006), No Biking in the House Without a Helmet (2011), and The Underdogs (2016). Melissa’s work has been translated into 12 languages and has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015-2016), two National Book Award nominations, a National Book Critics Circle Award nomination, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, the Southern Book Critics Circle Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa has also been honored with the ACLU National Civil Liberties Award, the Hadassah Myrtle Wreath Award, a Lyndhurst Foundation Fellowship, the Georgia Author Award, an honorary doctorate of letters from Emory University, induction into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, and the Georgia Governor’s Award in the Arts \u0026amp; Humanities. She has contributed to The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Newsweek, LIFE, Mother Jones, and other periodicals. Sheetrock was named one of the Top 100 Works of American Journalism of the 20th Century. Melissa is the Kirk Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Agnes Scott College and a Distinguished Professor of Practice at the Grady College of Journalism of the University of Georgia, where she teaches in the MFA in Narrative Nonfiction program.\u003c/p\u003e (bioghist)","\u003cp\u003eThe interview discusses Melissa's life, family, and career as an author. She discusses being born in Macon, Georgia, and spending time in her grandparents’ ladies’ ready-to-wear store, and her memories of her time there. She mentions that both sides of her family immigrated from Lithuania in the late 1800’s. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa recounts her family’s move to Dayton, Ohio, and her father eventually becoming a successful financial planner. She recalls how she and her brother were embarrassed by her father getting a new Cadillac every time a new model was released. She shares that though raised in the Jewish faith, her family lost Orthodoxy quickly, as the goal was to be assimilated into American culture as much as possible. She expresses her disappointment in never being taught to speak Yiddish despite her parents’ fluency. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa talks about having a bat mitzvah and being influenced by Prophetic Judaism, which was an influence for Rabbi Rothschild and the many student rabbis that were part of her temple experience growing up in Dayton, Ohio. She recalls Rabbi Ruslander and his stories of the people of Chelm. She recalls that her family celebrated the high holidays.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa talks about the anti-war movement. She mentions her differences with her parents, her father in particular, who, as former military, supported the president’s decisions. She expresses her surprise when her father allowed her to go to the liberal college that she wanted to attend. She recalls one of the reasons she chose that school was reading an article in an influential magazine that said that Oberlin College had co-ed dorms. She mentions that, coincidentally, her future husband had read the same article and also felt drawn to Oberlin for that reason. She recalls that years after they were married, her husband found an old copy of that magazine with the article and bought it for her.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa reflects on her love of reading as a child and how it was influential in her becoming an author. She remembers that she even wrote as a child, and when asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, she always said she wanted to be a writer. She recalls the book The Once and Former King by T.H. White being formative for her. She details that the book, which was about the stories of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, helped to shape her ideas of standing up for something. She further comments that her ideals of social justice came from the prophetic writings and Rabbi Rothschild.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa discusses the morning after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and how it affected her deeply. She shares that she started a journal that day that she wrote in for decades. She expressed that she thought this horrible event was the dawning of adult consciousness for her. She recalls that after writing her first book, in which RFK appears, she met RFK’s son, Joe, on an airplane and was able to tell him how his father was one of her heroes. She recounts the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award ceremony reception, where she was able to share with the Kennedy family how much RFK had meant to her, including showing them her original journal that she started the day he died.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa recalls finding her way to become an author. She details how colleges at that time did not have large writing departments, and instead, you had to write poetry. She spoke of her love of poetry, but reiterated that she is not a poet. She remembers that she applied to many newspapers around the country, but couldn’t find a job. She spoke of becoming a paralegal through the Georgia Legal Services program. She recounts going by chance to a community meeting in Darien, Georgia. She expressed that this meeting had a profound impact on her and her ideas of writing. She recalls that she started going back to Darien to interview people, while not having a fully formed idea of what she was going to write. She spoke of going back to McIntosh County over and over again, recording people and trying to get everything correct. She reflects that she is grateful that she was so young and willing to dedicate the time to decipher the thick Gullah accent so many of the people had.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa talks about the process of finding a literary agent and publisher for her book Praying for Sheetrock and mentions that her father-in-law, Howard Samuel, helped her make the decisions. She shares that it was nominated for many awards, and notably the National Book Award. Melissa describes the letdown when she didn’t win the award. She mentions that a few years later, she was nominated again for her book The Temple Bombing, but that time she was able to go and enjoy the experience and recognition, whether she won or not.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa recounts how the loss of the National Book Award inadvertently led to a new book idea for The Temple Bombing. She mentions that she and her husband had been living in Rome, Georgia, and had been a part of the Jewish community there. She recalls that her husband got a job at the law firm that had represented the accused bomber of The Temple years ago. She talks about how the people of the Jewish community were still holding a grudge against that law firm, but Donald took the job anyway. Melissa recognized the access it would give her in her research on the bombing of The Temple.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa details the interview she had with George Bright, the accused bomber. She talks about the state of his home as well as his state of mind. She recalls that after George Bright died, the people who bought his house allowed her to come see it before they tore it down. She describes in great detail the things in his house and the strange collections that he had. Melissa recalls finding inspiration for her next book when a friend mentioned a miner being rescued. She discusses the 1958 Spring Hill Coal mining disaster in Nova Scotia, Canada, and the Georgia connection. Melissa describes the situation in detail of the rescued coal miners, the state of Georgia offering a free vacation for the miners and their families as a way to promote tourism, only to have the final miner rescued, the hero of the group, be a black man. She details how the promotion turned into a PR disaster as Georgia was still segregated at that time, and all the news media focused on the poor treatment of the black miner.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa talks about her children, four of whom are biological, and the others are adopted. She talks about their spouses and their careers. She talks about one of her sons who recently lost his job in the massive purge of the CDC by the Trump Administration, but has since found a job with the ADL. She mentions taking care of her grandchildren, who live in Atlanta. She recounts the adoption of her children, one from Bulgaria and the rest from Ethiopia. She discusses the inspiration for another book coming from the adoptions in Ethiopia and the HIV/AIDS there, which was leaving a generation of orphans. She describes how one of her sons went to Ethiopia with her and stayed to work and run a soccer league for orphaned children. She recalls how he called home one night to ask them about adopting brothers that he had become close with. Melissa reflects on the loss of one of her adopted sons when he took his own life while at college. \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa discusses researching peace and conflict through the lens of neuroscience. She talks about how her daughter participated in Ultimate Peace, an ultimate frisbee tournament for Arab, Palestinian, and Jewish kids in Israel. She discusses being very interested in this topic and whether these types of interventions are successful. Melissa expresses the importance of the CDC Injury Center and how important studies are no longer going to be conducted or available to the public because of DOGE.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe interview concludes with Melissa discussing the book The Brain That Changes Itself and reflecting on how it helped her in aspects of her life, especially grieving her son. She details how people can change their thought processes and patterns and how it can help them cope in different situations. She also mentions meditation as a part of her healing. She discusses how the book taught her to consciously change her thinking and to not dwell on things and make them a bigger deal than they are.\u003c/p\u003e (scope content)"]}},{"label":{"en":["Subject"]},"value":{"en":["Alston, Rebecca Pinkney (1947-2022) (personal name)","Black, David (personal name)","Bolling, Richard (personal name)","Bolling, Robert (personal name)","Bright, George (personal name)","Bruneau, Emile (1972-2020) (personal name)","Alston, Thurnell (1937-1997) (personal name)","Carter, Jimmy (1924-2024) (personal name)","Curry, Deacon James Henry (1888-1989) (personal name)","Friebert, Stuart (1931-2020) (personal name)","Garland, Edward (b. 1941) (personal name)","Garland Sr., Reuben Augustus (1902-1982) (personal name)","Greene, Gary (personal name)","Greene, Isaac (personal name)","Greene, Jerry (personal name)","Greene, Libby (personal name)","Harkin, Michael (b. 1986) (personal name)","Houry, Debra (personal name)","Kennedy, Ethel (1928-2024) (personal name)","Kennedy, John F. 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Melissa\u0026rsquo;s husband, Donald Franklin Samuel, is an Atlanta criminal defense attorney; they are the parents of nine children and grandparents of five.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa has published six nonfiction books: Praying for Sheetrock (1991), The Temple Bombing (1996), Last Man Out (2003), There Is No Me Without You: One Woman\u0026rsquo;s Odyssey to Save Her Country\u0026rsquo;s Children (2006), No Biking in the House Without a Helmet (2011), and The Underdogs (2016). Melissa\u0026rsquo;s work has been translated into 12 languages and has been honored with a Guggenheim Fellowship (2015-2016), two National Book Award nominations, a National Book Critics Circle Award nomination, the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award, the Chicago Tribune Heartland Prize, the Southern Book Critics Circle Award, and the Anisfield-Wolf Book Award.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa has also been honored with the ACLU National Civil Liberties Award, the Hadassah Myrtle Wreath Award, a Lyndhurst Foundation Fellowship, the Georgia Author Award, an honorary doctorate of letters from Emory University, induction into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame, and the Georgia Governor\u0026rsquo;s Award in the Arts \u0026amp; Humanities. She has contributed to The New York Times, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, New York Magazine, Newsweek, LIFE, Mother Jones, and other periodicals. Sheetrock was named one of the Top 100 Works of American Journalism of the 20th Century. Melissa is the Kirk Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at Agnes Scott College and a Distinguished Professor of Practice at the Grady College of Journalism of the University of Georgia, where she teaches in the MFA in Narrative Nonfiction program.\u003c/p\u003e","\u003cp\u003eThe interview discusses Melissa's life, family, and career as an author. She discusses being born in Macon, Georgia, and spending time in her grandparents\u0026rsquo; ladies\u0026rsquo; ready-to-wear store, and her memories of her time there. She mentions that both sides of her family immigrated from Lithuania in the late 1800\u0026rsquo;s.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa recounts her family\u0026rsquo;s move to Dayton, Ohio, and her father eventually becoming a successful financial planner. She recalls how she and her brother were embarrassed by her father getting a new Cadillac every time a new model was released. She shares that though raised in the Jewish faith, her family lost Orthodoxy quickly, as the goal was to be assimilated into American culture as much as possible. She expresses her disappointment in never being taught to speak Yiddish despite her parents\u0026rsquo; fluency.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa talks about having a bat mitzvah and being influenced by Prophetic Judaism, which was an influence for Rabbi Rothschild and the many student rabbis that were part of her temple experience growing up in Dayton, Ohio. She recalls Rabbi Ruslander and his stories of the people of Chelm. She recalls that her family celebrated the high holidays.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa talks about the anti-war movement. She mentions her differences with her parents, her father in particular, who, as former military, supported the president\u0026rsquo;s decisions. She expresses her surprise when her father allowed her to go to the liberal college that she wanted to attend. She recalls one of the reasons she chose that school was reading an article in an influential magazine that said that Oberlin College had co-ed dorms. She mentions that, coincidentally, her future husband had read the same article and also felt drawn to Oberlin for that reason. She recalls that years after they were married, her husband found an old copy of that magazine with the article and bought it for her.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa reflects on her love of reading as a child and how it was influential in her becoming an author. She remembers that she even wrote as a child, and when asked what she wanted to be when she grew up, she always said she wanted to be a writer. She recalls the book The Once and Former King by T.H. White being formative for her. She details that the book, which was about the stories of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, helped to shape her ideas of standing up for something. She further comments that her ideals of social justice came from the prophetic writings and Rabbi Rothschild.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa discusses the morning after the assassination of Robert F. Kennedy and how it affected her deeply. She shares that she started a journal that day that she wrote in for decades. She expressed that she thought this horrible event was the dawning of adult consciousness for her. She recalls that after writing her first book, in which RFK appears, she met RFK\u0026rsquo;s son, Joe, on an airplane and was able to tell him how his father was one of her heroes. She recounts the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award ceremony reception, where she was able to share with the Kennedy family how much RFK had meant to her, including showing them her original journal that she started the day he died.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa recalls finding her way to become an author. She details how colleges at that time did not have large writing departments, and instead, you had to write poetry. She spoke of her love of poetry, but reiterated that she is not a poet. She remembers that she applied to many newspapers around the country, but couldn\u0026rsquo;t find a job. She spoke of becoming a paralegal through the Georgia Legal Services program. She recounts going by chance to a community meeting in Darien, Georgia. She expressed that this meeting had a profound impact on her and her ideas of writing. She recalls that she started going back to Darien to interview people, while not having a fully formed idea of what she was going to write. She spoke of going back to McIntosh County over and over again, recording people and trying to get everything correct. She reflects that she is grateful that she was so young and willing to dedicate the time to decipher the thick Gullah accent so many of the people had.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa talks about the process of finding a literary agent and publisher for her book Praying for Sheetrock and mentions that her father-in-law, Howard Samuel, helped her make the decisions. She shares that it was nominated for many awards, and notably the National Book Award. Melissa describes the letdown when she didn\u0026rsquo;t win the award. She mentions that a few years later, she was nominated again for her book The Temple Bombing, but that time she was able to go and enjoy the experience and recognition, whether she won or not.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa recounts how the loss of the National Book Award inadvertently led to a new book idea for The Temple Bombing. She mentions that she and her husband had been living in Rome, Georgia, and had been a part of the Jewish community there. She recalls that her husband got a job at the law firm that had represented the accused bomber of The Temple years ago. She talks about how the people of the Jewish community were still holding a grudge against that law firm, but Donald took the job anyway. Melissa recognized the access it would give her in her research on the bombing of The Temple.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa details the interview she had with George Bright, the accused bomber. She talks about the state of his home as well as his state of mind. She recalls that after George Bright died, the people who bought his house allowed her to come see it before they tore it down. She describes in great detail the things in his house and the strange collections that he had. Melissa recalls finding inspiration for her next book when a friend mentioned a miner being rescued. She discusses the 1958 Spring Hill Coal mining disaster in Nova Scotia, Canada, and the Georgia connection. Melissa describes the situation in detail of the rescued coal miners, the state of Georgia offering a free vacation for the miners and their families as a way to promote tourism, only to have the final miner rescued, the hero of the group, be a black man. She details how the promotion turned into a PR disaster as Georgia was still segregated at that time, and all the news media focused on the poor treatment of the black miner.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa talks about her children, four of whom are biological, and the others are adopted. She talks about their spouses and their careers. She talks about one of her sons who recently lost his job in the massive purge of the CDC by the Trump Administration, but has since found a job with the ADL. She mentions taking care of her grandchildren, who live in Atlanta. She recounts the adoption of her children, one from Bulgaria and the rest from Ethiopia. She discusses the inspiration for another book coming from the adoptions in Ethiopia and the HIV/AIDS there, which was leaving a generation of orphans. She describes how one of her sons went to Ethiopia with her and stayed to work and run a soccer league for orphaned children. She recalls how he called home one night to ask them about adopting brothers that he had become close with. Melissa reflects on the loss of one of her adopted sons when he took his own life while at college.\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eMelissa discusses researching peace and conflict through the lens of neuroscience. She talks about how her daughter participated in Ultimate Peace, an ultimate frisbee tournament for Arab, Palestinian, and Jewish kids in Israel. She discusses being very interested in this topic and whether these types of interventions are successful. Melissa expresses the importance of the CDC Injury Center and how important studies are no longer going to be conducted or available to the public because of DOGE.\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u0026nbsp;\u003c/p\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003eThe interview concludes with Melissa discussing the book The Brain That Changes Itself and reflecting on how it helped her in aspects of her life, especially grieving her son. She details how people can change their thought processes and patterns and how it can help them cope in different situations. She also mentions meditation as a part of her healing. 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There weren't as many names then.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=27.0,31.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/7","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e That's right. Where were you born?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=31.0,35.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/8","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e Macon, Georgia.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=35.0,36.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/9","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e How long did you live in Macon?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=36.0,38.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/10","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e I lived there until I was six. My grandparents had a ladies ready-to-wear store on Cherry Street, Pollock's of Macon. It was the finest ladies ready-to-wear in central Georgia, if I may brag.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=38.0,57.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/11","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell us; go ahead.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=57.0,58.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/12","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e In 1996, when I was touring, doing book tours with The Temple Bombing and invited to speak in a bunch of little synagogues all over the state, people said “I knew your grandmother's store. I shopped at your grandmother store.” Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=58.0,71.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/13","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e That's wonderful, I love those old stories. Did you have siblings?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=71.0,76.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/14","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e I have a brother, Gary Greene, who's three years younger.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=76.0,82.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/15","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e What were your parents' and grandparents' names?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=82.0,89.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/16","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e My father was Jerry Greene, and his parents were Isaac and Libby Greene. [They] came from the area around Vilna, Lithuania. I think all my grandparents were born in Lithuania, although my maternal grandmother used to claim that she was born here, but she was not. On my mother's side, they were Pollocks, Mary and Max Pollock.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=89.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/17","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e When did they come to the country?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=120.0,123.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/18","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e It was the Great Migration. 1890's.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=123.0,130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/19","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Was Greene and Pollock always their names or did they change their names?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=130.0,135.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/20","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e I don't know. I think they were, I think it was the sort of thing they were given that at Ellis Island kind of thing, Polak. I think it was Polachek or something, I don’t know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=135.0,147.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/21","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm curious, your parents owned a store. Did you spend time around the store when you were little?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=147.0,153.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/22","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e My parents didn't own a store. It was my grandparents' store in Macon. Yes, I was totally a shop kid. I loved it. They used to have little stuffed dogs hidden here and there, just a cute thing. I knew where all of them were, and I would gather them. I remember being sort of horrified; I remember the first stoles of the 1950s, and sometimes they used shrunken little fox faces as the clip. I didn't know if it was a puppet or a toy, but that was sort of awful. I still have things. It was for adult women, but I still have things, gifts that I was given from the store. The scary place was in the back room where, when I was very small, it seemed like monsters lived there, but it was the alteration room. The ladies all sat around, and they had pin cushions on their wrists, but they also had pins in their lips, they would hold onto the pin. When you walked in, I just remember that being scary, an odd kind of human lived there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=153.0,218.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/23","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e I love that, this is such typical kind of story. You lived there until you were six, and then where did you live?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=218.0,224.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/24","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e Right, my father was a New Yorker and never got the hang of Macon. I think it was pretty random that we moved to Dayton, Ohio. It was the era of The Great Migration of African Americans out of the South, but I think it took all sorts of people, and Dayton was definitely on; rural Georgia to Midwest to get out of the Deep South and we moved to Dayton, Ohio.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=224.0,252.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/25","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Interesting. What did your father do in Dayton?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=252.0,254.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/26","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e It took him a long time to find his niche. He did a lot of different things, but ultimately, he became a financial planner, and ultimately, he was very successful. He savored every minute of his success. My brother and I are growing up in the 1960’s and 1970’s, and we were embarrassed by this. Whenever the new Cadillacs came out, my father needed to have one. I think there was a yellow one. I remember a mortifying moment in my life, we could have been coming home from temple, I don't know, backseat of this Cadillac, which you just don't want to be seen in. Some kind of rock concert was letting out at the same time, and all these people were coming out and kind of flowing around the car. I was mortified. Nobody cared, nobody looked into the backseat at the young teenager, in the back seat of this Cadillac. But he did enjoy his success every minute because it wasn't a given. They were poor, he was poor in Brooklyn.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=254.0,321.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/27","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Tell me a little about the community you grew up in Dayton.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=321.0,328.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/28","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e We lost Orthodoxy really pretty fast, I think. I never knew my paternal grandparents, but I'm sure they were religious. The photos are like the photos here in the museum, black hats and black suits. My grandmother remembers being so proud because out of her seven or eight siblings, hers was the only house kosher enough for her parents to eat in. But then, I don't know, got rid of a lot of that stuff. My father spoke Yiddish to his mother-in-law, to my mother's mother, but they didn't teach us. They used Yiddish when they didn't want us to understand. That's a regret I have in life. That would have been nice to learn Yiddish, they knew Yiddish, but the rush was to be as American as possible, still. It amazes me how soon after the Holocaust I was born. I was born at the end of 1952. It hadn't been that many years, so the drive to act and be and appear as American as possible while not abandoning Judaism. That was the choice they made. We grew up at Temple Israel in Dayton. I regretted for a long time how little ritual and knowledge I got. I had a bat mitzvah, but it was the era of Classical Reform, which I learned about when I was reporting The Temple bombing. The temple in Dayton didn't go as far as The Temple here. They never had Sunday morning services. What I did get, and which has shaped me all my life, was the Prophetic Judaism, which inspired Rabbi [Jacob] Rothschild here at The Temple. It inspired the rabbis we had in Dayton at Temple Israel. Hebrew Union College [HUC] is in Cincinnati [Ohio] and so we got all the student rabbis over the years. We always had a young, an HUC student rabbi, but also there was always a senior rabbi. They were my first glimpses of decency and standing up for what's right. Even though I've had to play catch-up with traditions over the years because I didn't want to raise my children Reform, there was very beautiful ethics and examples of bravery and decency that I got from Temple Israel, from Rabbi [Selwyn] Ruslander. He told us the stories of Chelm, and I remember being in a huge auditorium, and he was old. We thought he was as old as the hills. There was Moses and there was Rabbi Ruslander. Who knew how old these people were? I remember sitting in the hard, wooden seats at the Sunday school, and he would say “The people of Chelm thought they were,\" and we would all yell, \"the smartest people in the world!\" It was a very rich Jewish upbringing, even though a lot of the Orthodoxy had been set aside.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=328.0,534.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/29","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e That's interesting, in Dayton, Ohio. Was your world primarily Jewish?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=534.0,542.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/30","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e No, because I was in public elementary school and public high school. There was a tiny Jewish day school in Dayton. Really?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=542.0,551.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/31","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Really?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=551.0,551.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/32","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e Really? I wasn't even . . . I hardly was even aware of it. It was probably just a couple of dozen children then. I was in public school. I used to think my parents were observant Reform; it was Reform but went weekly. My parents really liked the Friday night services and we celebrated holidays, Passover. Most of them were boring. We were using that 1922 Haggadah, it was decades old by then, covered with tissue paper, mostly English. It wasn't until I started being invited to seders where people really knew something and could chant the way all the way through the Haggadah. Now that's how we, our seders, are like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=551.0,608.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/33","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e That's wonderful. Ours are very southern. We sing all these old southern songs. There are quite a few people who reasonably learned. But it's a very Southern United. It's interesting to see how family seders and traditions go on. It's interesting. You went on to Oberlin College.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=608.0,631.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/34","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e Right . . . I just fell in love with the anti-war movement. It was just . . . “That's me. This is what I want!” I was on the younger side. I'm a baby boomer, but I wasn't at the cutting-edge leadership of it. At the temple, our youth group was all in. My parents, my father was proud of being, and at some point, he became Republican, and he felt his job was to support the Vietnam War. He fought in World War II. He was a pilot; he was a reconnaissance pilot. He was holding the line, and he was supporting whichever president it was, supporting our actions in Vietnam. I wasn't having it, and especially my Jewish friends, also got very engaged with the anti-war movement. A lot of their parents did, mine didn't, but their parents. It gave me another view of how you could be an adult Jew in this era. For a while there, I think some of my friend's parents were role models for me, rather than the role models I had at home, just in that way, politically. I could not wait to get out of Dodge, to go to college. I couldn't even believe they'd let me go. They wanted me to go college, but at one point my father wanted to have a chat about did I want to go to college. He said, \"would you be going for your BA [Bachelor of Arts] or for your MRS?\" Do people still know that expression? You want to go to get married. I was horrified. I applied to interesting schools; I got into interesting schools. I got into Radcliffe, before it combined with Harvard. We visited that, I didn't love it. I loved Wesleyan in Connecticut. I loved Oberlin, which was in Ohio. Especially Wesleyan and Oberlin and Bard were deep in the counterculture. That's what I really wanted. My father liked Oberlin because it wasn't too far away. I couldn't believe he was going to let me go there. This was everything he'd been holding me back from, is what it felt like. He said, \"Would you consider Oberlin instead of Wesleyan?\" They were very similar. I said \"Yes.” Really, you're going to let me do this? I did and I loved it. I met my husband, Don Samuel. We met freshman year. We weren't a couple then, but we met then. He had come from White Plains [New York]. I'll tell you an Oberlin story. The November of my senior year in high school, and Donnie's, there was a cover story in Life magazine about \"Oberlin College has co-ed dorms.\" There was picture of a dorm room in Barrows dorm, which had guys and girls sitting around the room. I'm sitting in Dayton, Ohio, and Life magazine and Look magazine, those were big portals on the outside world. That was where the award-winning photography was, that's how you can see what was happening in the world. I read that article and I said, \"I want to go there.\" Meanwhile, basically the same moment in White Plains, Donnie Samuel opens the same magazine that says, \"I want go there,\" so we both ended up there the following fall, both assigned to Barrows. We met in Barrows and we'd seen that in Life magazine. Years later, decades later, we've been married. 46 years. Years ago, we were wandering through a consignment store, and they had stacks of old Life magazines and Look magazines. Donnie started digging through it and he found our issue and bought it for me. It was the most romantic thing anyone had ever given us. We have it. He keeps it in his top drawer, in his underwear drawer. We sent five of our children to Oberlin and we pretended we'd only gone there for the highest academic and scholarly reasons.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=631.0,918.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/35","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Right. Do you have any there now?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=918.0,920.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/36","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e No, but our daughter Lily met her husband there and they're expecting their first child.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=920.0,927.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/37","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e I have a very good friend whose grandson is at Oberlin, he's head of Jews for Palestine at Oberlin.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=927.0,935.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/38","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e It'd be hard to be there now.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=935.0,937.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/39","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e It’s interesting. I went to Bennington.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=937.0,940.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/40","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e Similar, yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=940.0,941.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/41","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Right, so a Republican family in suburban New York, but it was the Civil Rights days rather than Vietnam. You're a great author. Were you a reader as a child?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=941.0,954.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/42","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e I was a huge reader. I thank my mother, and I had a chance to thank my mother before losing her. She was a very young mother. I think she married at 18 and had me at 24, still living in her mother's house. I was born in the house in Macon. My grandmother was widowed then. I guess someone had told her at some point \"read to the baby.\" That seemed to be the main thing she knew to do. She read to me all the time and, of course, every night. If I was sick, she read to me all day. In the bathtub, I remember sitting in the bath and she read to me. The funny, the musical stuff; she read all the Winnie-the-Pooh books and the A.A. Milne poems. From such a young age, I had a sense of incredible, incredible merriment and music and words. From a really young age, not that I was acquainted with many other occupations, but I thought “That's what I'll be, I'll a writer.” When we moved to Macon, moved from Macon to Dayton, my tragedy was that my book manuscript was lost in the move. I think I only knew about eight words. I remember writing the book. I knew spot and I knew stop and I know go, but nevertheless, it was an early attempt at literature. I always knew that it's what I always wanted. I remember in grade school when people would say, “What do you want to be?” Kids wanted to be either ballerinas or firemen, but I wanted to a writer, I knew already. I always wanted it. I didn't know how I would get there, but it just was burning in me always.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=954.0,1069.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/43","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e What were your favorite books?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=1069.0,1071.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/44","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e As a kid or growing up?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=1071.0,1074.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/45","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, I'm curious.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=1074.0,1078.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/46","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e One book I loved as a teenager, and I felt it to be formative, in a way that the Prophetic writings were, in a way, was The Once and Future King by T. H. White about King Arthur. I was reading above my total ability to grasp. Next week I'm actually teaching a class at Hebrew Academy, a class of fourth or fifth graders. I'm going to tell them this. Read above your level, you'll climb up. You will climb up. Don't be afraid of words you don't know and sentences you don't understand. What I got from The Once and Future King . . . I guess King Arthur . . . might does not make right, was kind of this central thing of this fictional, of this mythical King Arthur. It was the idea of founding the round table with knights who were pledged to good. These were not the knights of the crusaders who were slaughtering Jews across Europe. These were, not that it wasn't in the book, but it was about standing for something. That book was maybe my favorite of my youth.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=1078.0,1163.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/47","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Interesting. Where did you achieve your sense of social justice, which certainly feels to me is the theme through your books.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=1163.0,1173.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/48","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e Again, I think I got it from Temple Israel, from the Prophetic writings, and \"I don't want your feasts,\" I can't quote it all. I never got to meet Rabbi Rothschild, but I read his sermons, his letters, and he would be asked; in the 1950’s and 1960’s, he'd go on radio shows, or he'd be interviewed at local churches. He was kind of the accessible rabbi that would talk to people, and people like to say, \"What's your favorite Bible verse, Rabbi?\" He said, \"God is asking, whom shall I send, who will go for me? And I said, here am I, send me.\" Rabbi Rothschild felt that. I think we all in life have a chance to feel that. One wishes these days people with power they're not using, who could stop this travesty in Washington [D.C.], would say to themselves, here am I, send me. I'll do the brave thing rather than the safe cowardly thing, moved by that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=1173.0,1259.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/49","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Were there historical events that shaped who you are and what you write about?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=1259.0,1265.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/50","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, it was like I woke up crying the morning that Robert F. Kennedy [RFK] was assassinated. I was Team RFK. He was my hero. Waking up to the radio, and that was the news. I was bawling before I was even awake, and I was just so grief-stricken. I started a journal that day that I kept for decades. I stopped a few years ago, but it would come to feel to me like the dawn of consciousness for me. It was the dawn of adult consciousness. This terrible thing could happen, and this was a brave man. I was 16. He had been brave, and he was standing up. I know a lot of my generation wanted Gene McCarthy. But Robert Kennedy, I loved so much. To tie it into a later event, years later, it's 1991, I'm flying back and forth through New York because Praying for Sheetrock is about to come out and we're doing the last editing. The publisher had an office in Boston [Massachusetts], and I was flying, I guess, from Washington to Boston, Joe Kennedy got on the plane. This was RFK's oldest son, and so recognizable, just the Kennedy charisma just glowing with it. He was very recognizable, and he came down the aisle and sat in the seat catty corner to me. I was like, I have to talk to this guy. After we took off, I leaned forward, and I said, \"I'm sorry to bother you, I just wanted to tell you that your father was a great hero of mine, and I'm about to publish a book about the Civil Rights movement, and your father appears in it.\" He said, \"Nice, send it to me when it comes out.\" I said, \"I will.\" I did. I don't think it's because of that, of me sending it to him, but in the year after Sheetrock came out, it won many, many awards and nominations. One of the awards it won was the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award. That took place in Washington D.C. at, I think, American University. This is a silly thing, so this is the next time I see Joe Kennedy again. I was pregnant with our daughter, Lily, who later would go on to Oberlin. I was very pregnant. We were sitting at this podium on stage, very pregnant, with people who had been finalists, and I had won the award. The Kennedys were sitting in the front row, and Donnie brought our kids in, and they were sitting right behind them. Our son, Lee, was then three and a half, and he was sitting right behind Joseph Kennedy. I'm up on the stage in front of this audience, and Lee waves to me. I waved to Lee, and Joe Kennedy waves. He thinks I'm waving to him. Then Lee waves again. Lee really wants to get my attention. He's three, and Mommy's up there, so I had to wave again. Joe Kennedy was like, yes. It was like . . . does he think I'm trying to pick him up? I'm enormously . . . that was terrible. I didn't get to see him later to say my child was behind [him]. Then we went to lunch at Hickory Hill and were entertained by the Kennedy family. [I] met Ethel and they asked me to say a few words. My mother had flown in from Dayton to be there. I wanted her to be with me, and I said, \"listen, I need you to do something. I need to you to not open it. I just need you bring me something.\" I told her where my high school journals were, and go to the very bottom, bring me the bottom one. I had it there at Hickory Hill, and I said, \"I don't know how to relay how much this means to me other than to say my life was profoundly shaped by the loss of Robert F. Kennedy. This journal that I've kept now for decades, it begins that day. It begins June 6, 1968.” Anyway, it was an interesting coming together.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=1265.0,1568.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/51","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Right. That's amazing. But I think we all have this kind of thing. I got into politics and the news business when Adlai Stevenson lost the nomination to JFK [John F. Kennedy]. I remember sitting in my bedroom with tears pouring down my face. It's very interesting. You were talking about Praying for Sheetrock. What led you to McIntosh County and the story.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=1568.0,1600.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/52","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e As I said, I always wanted to write. I didn't know how do you get there? How could I do that? There wasn't really; now colleges have big writing departments. At Oberlin then there were just two poets and you kind of had to write poetry. I would turn in these long pages of prose, densely worded, single spaced. One of the poetry professors, Stuart Friebert, one day he drew a square on the middle of my page and said, I want you to put this in here.\" I took that home and I thought he wanted me to write smaller. I couldn't, how can I get . . . but no, he wanted me to make a poem of it, but that, it wasn't me. I love poetry, I read poetry almost every day. I always read poetry before I write, but I'm not a poet. I applied to newspapers. I applied 23 newspapers around the country, and I couldn’t get a job. I applied to VISTA and through VISTA applied for a statewide legal aid program back in Georgia. I wanted to come back to Georgia. I was interested in Georgia. My grandmother wasn't in Macon then, but I still had family in Macon. I was assigned to Savannah [Georgia] as a paralegal in the statewide legal aid program, Georgia Legal Services program. Donnie, truly coincidentally, because he wanted to be a lawyer, he also ended up in the Statewide Legal Aid program in Georgia and he was sent to Brunswick [Georgia]. Those were the years that the black community in McIntosh County had begun to push back against a system of wrongs that went back to the slavery era. The leaders there reached out to the Legal Aid office in Brunswick and started assembling a number of civil suits against the county. The county was so incredibly biased. It was just a Jim Crow era county in the mid-1970’s. A lot of the change that had happened elsewhere had not reached McIntosh County. For a while, it was kind of like older folks thought that Dr. [Martin Luther] King would come, that Dr. King will bring change. Then they sort of went through a time of Dr. King ain't coming. Then, of course, Dr. King was murdered, so it was a slightly younger generation, older than me, maybe 10, 15 years older than me [that] reached out to the lawyers. Public funds were funding the segregationists, the white academy. Public school funds went to the private white-only school, and the public, all-black school got the handoffs. There were just lots of things going on. My office in Savannah was kind of playing backup, kind of helping out. It was Brunswick's case, but one of the lawyers in my office said, \"I'm going to go to some kind of community meeting in Darien, in Georgia, wherever that is. You want to come?\" I said, \"Sure.\" I was new, I had just graduated Oberlin. I was 22. I rode down with this lawyer, Phil Merkel. It's about a little over an hour out of Savannah and a hot steaming night. Driving south and then driving into the coastal pine forest, which was so dark and dense and deep then. It hadn’t all been felled. It was like driving into a tunnel and driving into just kind of no man's land. It was dark, and then there was a clearing on our left and lights hanging out of the trees. We pulled into a sand parking lot. It was an AME, an African Methodist Episcopalian Church. We went in and we were the only white people in the room. We were very welcomed. We were put in the front row. The pews were packed, it was hot. The windows were open, it was buggy, and people were singing. People were . . . just incredible voices. People singing hymns, and the preacher was preaching, and we're in the front row, and Phil has a briefcase. He's got some remarks he's prepared about the history of discrimination in McIntosh County. When is the meeting going to start? Because it's a prayer service. In Praying for Sheetrock, I said that the hymns were going into ten, eleven, and twelve stanzas until the frogs beyond the sand parking lot began croaking and the moon rose outside. At some point we realized this was the meeting, that people had resolved to what was happening that night, they were going to sign the documents to say, \"Go ahead. Yes, you bring this lawsuit on behalf of these named litigants.\" People were going have to go up and sign their names in public, and their names; in this county where a small, white, a group of good old boys, as they called them, held all the power and were violent. The sheriff was violent. The FBI [Federal Bureau of Investigation] and the GBI [Georgia Bureau of Investigation], who was watching Sheriff Poppell in those years, all the documents were stamped, armed and dangerous. This was the sheriff of a county in Georgia. People were going to have to come up and sign their names. They did not need a lecture on the history of discrimination in McIntosh County, so Phil didn't give that, but they had questions. Could they be evicted? Could they be fired? You know what was going to happen to them if they signed their names? Phil's answer to everything was legally no, but who's to say that the law was going to inhibit the actions of powerful white people in this rural, extremely pre-social media county. They didn't even have electricity in the black community. People prayed for the courage and got the courage, and went up and signed. I was thunderstruck, just in every way. What? I'd been an English and history major in college, which I had just finished. Civil Rights was in the history books already. I had taken exams on it, it was in the textbooks. I thought it was over. What was this? The beautiful voices of the people, the Gullah Geechee accent of a lot of the people. That was life changing. It was kind of like the years before I had spent writing. I had beautiful language. I could be eloquent, I could be lyrical, still not poetry. I'm not a poet. I respect it hugely. But in the service of what was all of this eloquence, in a way? What was I? What? At Oberlin, I had written these extremely self-conscious, painful short stories. If you would ask me what sort of short stories were these, I would tell you these [were the] sort that when your college roommate comes in, you throw the top of your body over your typewriter so she doesn't read what you're writing. Who needed that? In the service of what had I been my whole life until that point? Honing my skills and my reading ability? So that was like . . . it blew all the paper off my desk. It just changed everything. What is this? What did I just see? Right before graduating . . . I can't stand to forget his name. I'll come back to it. Right before I graduated, an author who had just published an oral history called All God's Dangers: The Life and Times of Nate Shaw, who was a sharecropper in Alabama. Ted Rosengarten was the author. Only later would I realize he was on a book tour, but I didn't know what that was. He spoke to us and played tapes and read to us the voice of this man. The whole book is just the voice of the sharecropper. I loved it. I loved that it was right before I graduated. At the time I thought, I want to do that. Now here I am, it's a few months later, and I thought, these people! I got permission and I started driving down to McIntosh County after work and on weekends just to meet people and just to talk to people. They got that I was part of the Legal Aid, I was an ally, that was okay, but also what I was doing was not legal work, it wasn't that. I just wanted to hear people's stories, and they let me in. Becca Alston was my first friend there. She was the wife of Thurnell Alston, who was one of the three musketeers who had engaged with the Brunswick Legal Aid Office. We were friends. If they had friends over and I was there, she'd say . . . she gave me the only nickname I've ever liked, she called me ‘Lissa.’ I'd never really liked my name. Melissa is fussy to me, and Missy, heaven forbid, just no. But she called me Lissa, which I liked.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=1600.0,2216.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/53","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes. Lissa, I like that.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=2216.0,2217.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/54","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e When she had folks in, which was always, she'd say, \"Lissa ain't white. That's white.\" She'd point to a plate or something, and she'd go, \"but Lissa ain’t white.\" With this endorsement, doors in the black community opened to me. She would tell me who to interview. She'd say, \"Talk to Deacon Curry. You need to talk to Deacon Curry.\" I visited Deacon and Mrs. Curry. . . twice in my life, I had visited people who I'd met, people through my work, whose goodness was . . . it was what I'd learned about as a kid. That kind of prophetic goodness of just a person living humanely and decently, come what may. For me, the first one, as an adult, was Deacon Curry, whom they'd sent me to. She sent me talk to Miss Fannie, and Miss Fannie would tell me the story that became Praying for Sheetrock. She told me the story of Praying for Sheetrock. All I thought I was doing then, was gathering stories like Ted Rosengarten had gathered for his book. What I thought was the . . . I'd never heard anything like these stories. They were insanely wonderful. Some of them were hard. I recorded everyone on a cassette player and especially, especially Miss Fannie Palmer. I couldn't understand her. She had a strong Gullah accent, hoarse voice. She was missing most of her teeth. She spent her whole life working in ice, standing in ice, working in ice, because she peeled the shrimp and made eight cents a day or so. I met her when she was old. She could never, she couldn't get warm. The cold had just gone on through her. She was wrapped in blankets. [I] couldn't understand her, but Becca had said talk to Ms. Fannie. I kept going. I kept going back and back and I would record. Back in my apartment in Savannah, I hit play and I'd hear my little voice, \"What was this like?\" Then you'd hear, “Rah, rah, rah,\" this rough hoarse voice. But I'd hit play, rewind, play, rewind, and I started trying to transcribe it syllable by syllable. Who has the time for that anymore? I'm so happy I met them at that point in my life. For today, I wouldn't. I'd be like, “I got to run.” Then as I started to read things, I would go back to her with my transcript and ask her again and then get it, get it right. Just incredible stories. What I imagined was someday I'd get them into an oral history archive somewhere, that's what I thought.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=2217.0,2391.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/55","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e What was the reception for Praying for Sheetrock? How did the county react?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=2391.0,2398.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/56","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e It was everything I ever dreamed of. I sent it to two literary agents I'd heard about and they both wanted it. One made me very nervous and the other was a little younger than me, just getting started and was really nice and funny. It's the only time I'd ever asked my father-in-law; Howard Samuel was very prominent in the labor movement, and he was Deputy Secretary of Labor under President [Jimmy] Carter.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=2398.0,2437.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/57","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=2437.0,2439.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/58","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e Does the name ring a bell? There was also someone named Howard Samuel who ran for governor of New York, and it was a different Howard Samuel. It was the only time I asked him for professional advice, and I said, “I'm going to choose between these two agents. The woman is very well established.” But the first thing I ever asked her, she kind of scolded me because when I called her, I said, “I've had some interest in my magazine articles, and I think I may be in a position to hire an agent.” “Well,” she said, “you do not hire an agent. You submit your material to an agent, and if the agent chooses to work with you, the agent will invite you.” I'm like, “I'm sorry.” She says, “As it happens, I do choose to work with you.” By then, I was like, “Okay.” The other one, David Black, was so sweet. I presented this to Howard Samuel, and he said, \"The young man sounds like a lot more fun.\" I said, \"Can you make a decision based on that?\" He said, \"I would.\" I called David Black and we've been together ever since. He loved the book. Then the book went to auction. There was huge interest in the book, and 18 publishers bidding on it. All these editors calling me to talk about it. It came down to two publishers. The two top hitters were Simon \u0026 Schuster and Addison-Wesley. Addison-Wesley had been mainly a textbook publisher, but they were sitting on a lot of money, and they wanted to launch into narrative non-fiction. They had published, I think I'm right . . . that they had published Friday Night Lights just before me.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=2439.0,2548.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/59","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e Anyway, sort of made the same choice again. I liked the folks at Addison-Wesley more than I liked to the folks I talked with, Simon \u0026 Schuster, even though that was the big, big established. I remembered it scared David because this was the biggest; he was a young agent and I just remember him saying, “I've got to think, I got to think.” He couldn't believe he would say no to Simon \u0026 Schuster. But I liked the other folks so made that decision and it was great. The week the book was published, it was nominated for the National Book Award. There was a period of months where the phone calls that came in . . . I remember saying to Donnie, if I get a phone call mid-morning, it's either one of the children is throwing up at school or I've been nominated for another award. So cocky, so cocky. But it really was fun. It kind of came to a sudden halt at the National Book Awards in November 1992 . . . Gala of the incredible, just an incredible event, like the Academy Awards. I thought I was going to win because this fantasy, this Cinderella story had taken me, let's just go ahead and win the thing. That morning we'd woken up in the Waldorf Astoria where the publishers had given us a room and there was a New York Times outside our door, delivered. The book review that day was . . . Mitgang was the book reviewer then. I'm forgetting his first, Walter? Anyway, Mitgang. He had saved his review of Praying for Sheetrock for that day, because he later said he wanted the judges to wake up and read a glowing review of Praying for Sheetrock. Then Donnie and I were just walking around Manhattan, just basking. Before there were cell phones, people used to stand at the crosswalks on the street corners with their newspapers folded down just reading. People would walk around with their New York Times. We were at a crosswalk in Manhattan and Donnie said, \"Look!\" The guy on the other side of Donnie was reading Mitgang's review of Praying for Sheetrock and it had my picture of it there.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=2548.0,2682.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/60","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e I love it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=2682.0,2683.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/61","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e Donnie reached over and said, “Excuse me, we really recommend that book.” The man looked over and went, \"Oh my god!\"","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=2683.0,2688.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/62","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e I love it. That's great.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=2688.0,2689.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/63","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e I just thought, I'm going to win, I'm going to win the National Book Award. But then they said the winner of the prize for nonfiction was Orlando Patterson, author of Freedom. Instead of my table exploding, the table right behind us all exploded. I burst into tears, this was mortifying. You know in the Academy Awards how they always, they focus on the people who didn't win and if you're an actress and you didn't win you're like, \"Excellent choice well done you.\" But I'm crying and trying to get a grip and everyone at the table is looking at me . . . and it just made it worse. I couldn't look up. My mother was there; I made the publisher invite my mother and father-in-law. I can't believe I did this, actually. But Howard was here, my father-in-law was next to me. Every time I looked up people . . . I was trying to get a grip . . . I was . . . yes, it was the same pregnancy, I was pregnant with Lily. My father-in-law leaned in and he said, \"What are you thinking of naming the baby?\" I said, “Okay.” What a lifeline. That was so great, so then I could get a grip.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=2689.0,2761.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/64","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e I like your father-in-law.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=2761.0,2762.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/65","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e A doll. Then a few years later; of course, I thought I'd never be there again, Temple Bombing was nominated for a National Book Award. But by then I realized, just being there is tremendous. If I could just go again, I'd be happy. Can I just go? I went the second time and did not expect to win but expected to just enjoy every minute. I did not win, but I enjoyed it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=2762.0,2787.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/66","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e You enjoyed everything. What took you to The Temple bombing? I'd love you to read some of it but were short on time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=2787.0,2798.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/67","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e Flying home from having not won the National Book Award for Praying for Sheetrock on the plane. No, I guess this was 1991. I'm sorry, it was November of 1991, and I was pregnant with Willie. I was emotional, I'm crying that I didn't win. Sitting next to Donnie, and I'm like, \"I'll probably never write another book . . . but I could do The Temple bombing.” It was like that, bang! It made total sense because, first of all, even though I don't sound like it, I'm a Southern Jew by birth, lived in Macon at the time of the bombing. I was five. I had no memory of it. But I had grown up in a Reform temple in Dayton, so I knew the world. [phone rings] It's ok. It’s a very nice ring.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=2798.0,2872.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/68","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e It's one of my granddaughters who's playing soccer in Spain.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=2872.0,2875.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/69","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e Do you want to take it? Right afterwards.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=2875.0,2876.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/70","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e It's okay.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=2876.0,2879.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/71","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e My husband, by then, was a criminal defense attorney, and he had joined the Garland Firm. The founder of the Garland Firm was Reuben Garland. He had defended George Bright, who had been accused of bombing The Temple. In fact, we lived in Rome [Georgia] in the tiny, we're active in the tiny Jewish community in Rome, Georgia, because Donnie was clerking for federal district judge Harold Murphy. We lived in Rome when he got this great job offer by Garland in Atlanta. We went rushing in to tell all of our friends in the congregation; the first time we ever stepped foot in that congregation, the entire congregation turned around and said, \"Young people,\" like this. By the end of the month, Donnie was on the board, and I was president of sisterhood. It was a family, it was just our extended family. We went running in, great news, joining the Garlands. People were like, “Hm.” We thought, they're just so sad that we're leaving Rome. Is that what it is? They were like \"Mm, are you?\" We didn't know what it was, and then finally someone said, “Tell me, Garland's hiring Jews now?\" We said, \"What?\" There was still just a major grudge. Donnie was part of this law firm. Rubin was deceased by now. Ed Garland was the senior partner to this day. They've been together forever, Donnie and Ed. I suddenly realized that, of course, I'd have access to the law-abiding Jewish community, the law-abiding black community and the law-abiding white community. But with this contact, would I have access to the criminal anti-integration, violent white supremacists? The answer was yes. Anyway, that's what gave me the idea. It was just this combination of things, but it worked out.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=2879.0,3015.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/72","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e I know you interviewed George Bright.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=3015.0,3317.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/73","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e I did.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=3317.0,3318.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/74","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Did you gain any insight into the roots of antisemitism within their world?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=3318.0,3325.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/75","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e I gained insight into his, which I think is relevant. This was the man tried and acquitted of bombing The Temple. It's not clear that he laid the bomb there, but he certainly was part of the group that did it. It might have been the Bolling brothers. When I called him, I said, “Mr. Bright” . . .  he was just, he was in the phone book, lived on Page Avenue, really pretty street, not far from us, but his house wasn't pretty. I said, \"Mr. Bright, this is Melissa Greene. I'm the wife of the law partner of Reuben Garland's son Eddie.\" He said, \"What can I do for you?\" That was it. When I tried to reach other of the kind of famous, still living violent white supremacists, the first thing every one of them asked was, “Are you a Jew?” I said \"Yes,\" and they said, \"Yes, no.\" But George Bright, because that was my in, didn't ask it first. We made an appointment and I drove over there one day. Here's a street of really cute, pretty cottages, flowers, and just lovely. If someone had said an accused bomber lives on this street, which house do you think it is? You'd be like, “It's that one.” It's like something out of a Hitchcock movie, planks nailed over all the windows. “Keep out, keep out. No trespassing.” Weeds everywhere. I was like, that tracks. Knocked at the door, you hear ten locks unlocking. He looks through the keyhole, then lets me in. He lives in this kind of bombed out house. It was cold. There was very little furniture. We sat in the front room, just a coffee table, ashtrays overflowing with cigarettes. He had a hot plate there; he cooked in a hotplate in his living room. It was very empty, but he talked to me. It was like time travel. He was very open. When I was getting ready to go, Donnie said, “Are you going to tell him you're Jewish if he asks?” I said, “Of course, why not?” But then five minutes in, I'm thinking, I hope he doesn't ask me, because the virulent antisemitism still, and this was by then, 1993, 1994. At one point, he said, \"The Jews had that book, that book. What do you call it? It doesn't have pages. What's that book of the Jews?\" I said, \"The Torah?\" He said \"Yes, the Torah.\" I'm like, what are you doing? Why did I offer? But he said, \"Yes, that tells them, from birth they're taught, you gather every nugget of gold on earth. That's what it says in their Torah. That's what they're taught.\" What he believed was that the U.S.; his thinking came out of the era of Joe McCarthy and the Red Peril and the communist scare, and that's what he had absorbed. He had absorbed that America was in danger and it was being eaten out from inside by the Reds, by the communists. Who are the communists? It's the Jews. The Jews are trying to hurt America. He updated his thoughts to the point that the Jews were behind the Civil Rights movement, of course, because how could those people have come up with these ideas? The Jews are behind it. Then he talked about Rothschild. He said, \"Yes, and then you got the number one Jew in Atlanta. He's the one that tells everyone what to do.\" He said Rothschild was pulling all the strings at the AJC [The Atlanta Journal-Constitution] and the mayor and so on. It was really amazing. I interviewed him a few times. After the book came out, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, a reporter said to him, \"Why did you talk to her?\" He said, \"I figured she was after the truth, same as me.\" Which, yes, fair enough. I told him the same thing I had told the white people in McIntosh County who didn't want to talk to me, because when you're on the criminal side, you're less welcoming to journalists. I just said, “Listen, I can't promise you'll love the book, but I'm not going to twist your words. I'm going to review your quotes with you before I publish anything. I want to have it right.” I did that with him. About ten years ago he had died and the house was sold and the people who bought it reached out to me and said basically we are going to firebomb it, but would you like to see it before we gut it? “Do you want to see it again?” Because they knew the book. I said, “I would love to see again.” I was able to go back in and see it untouched because I hadn't gotten beyond just the living room. There was a room of light bulbs. There was room in which he had saved used light bulbs, there were boxes and boxes and boxes of used lightbulbs. In his carport, there were boxes of license plates. He had saved every license plate. A bedroom upstairs, the whole house was just cold and bare. In his closet there were like three button-down shirts.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=3325.0,3354.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/76","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Was there any family?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=3354.0,3357.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/77","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e Distant. I heard from family. I still hear from family thanking me for the book and saying he was an outlier, that that's not who they were. Upstairs on his record player; the LP of Deutschland, Uber Alles, the Nazi anthem was on the record player. The guy who had bought the house said, \"Wait, come with me.\" We went down into the basement, and we had to use flashlights. In the basement George had built extensive shelves. It was like going into a library in a way, but a library with really narrow aisles. In the very middle of the basement surrounded by all of these shelves, there was a jigsaw. He had evidently spent decades cutting pieces of wood. There were like book carrels, shelves, and he'd labeled each shelf. It would be “two feet by 13 and a half inches.” He'd written it in flare magic marker. Here are the planks that were exactly that size, then in the next box, they were slightly smaller. In the next boxes, slightly smaller. He'd cut up all these pieces of wood, and they circled the whole basement. They got smaller and smaller and smaller, and then you get down to the smallest, the last one, and there was a little tiny drawer. I opened this little drawer, and it was toothpicks. He had toothpicks in it. The only other collection in the basement was rope, and he had identified all the rope too, and there were shelves of the rope. It was big, knotty, ropes from sailing vessels, big, thick rope. He labeled the width, or however you measure it, rope, rope, rope. The same thing at the bottom of that aisle, there was a little tiny drawer. I opened up the little drawer, and it was thread. What I think was, I think that he had this sort of mind that fastens on just a few things. What had penetrated him, what had penetrated his brain at a key moment, aside from license plates, light bulbs, all this, was: Commie Jews are destroying America. He dedicated the rest of his life to that subject. That's what I think. What rings true to me about it today is the way social media allows you to brainwash yourself. He chose; he spent a lifetime studying this one subject, happened not to be the right thing. Too bad he didn't study ornithology. He could have been brilliant, but he fastened on this thing. People who dwell within these algorithms now that are sending them every evil thing about Jews, every horrible thing. They're absorbing it. A few years ago, I had thought about researching a story. The title was going to be something like a January 6th, someone who stormed the Capitol on January 6, is that similar to or not similar to the person in an asylum who thinks he's King Louis XVI? Is there delusion involved in this? I couldn't, there are lots of answers, there's not one clear answer, there's all different kinds of people, but I did think that kind of mania was an affliction of the ultra-Right. But since October 8th, seeing the volcano of hate and disinformation that's come out about the Jews, I think, it's not just the extreme Right, it's the extreme Left too. We all have the power to completely brainwash ourselves. That was true of George Bright and it's true of people today. I don't know.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=3357.0,3623.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/78","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e What’s the answer? We don't know, but absolutely, it's the extreme Right, but it's equally, sometimes even worse, the extreme Left. Very, very interesting. I don't want to miss getting, because one of the things that happened to me when I did the oral history, when we were; two or three days later I realized I never really talked about my children or my grandchildren. But I do want to do two or three other book things. What persuaded you to leave Georgia and head to Nova Scotia for a book?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=3623.0,3665.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/79","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e I'd had this great inspiration, the flash of inspiration, maybe I'll do The Temple bombing. Great!","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=3665.0,3671.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/80","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, right.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=3671.0,3673.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/81","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e I hate to finish a big project because: now what? I couldn't, I just could not think what was next. I kept remembering that moment where I'd been weeping over, \"I'll probably never write another book\" and I got The Temple Bombing, so then I thought, \"I'll I'd probably never write another book,” waiting for lightning to strike, but it didn't. I knew I was getting really desperate because anything; whatever the kids brought home in their backpacks, the PTA [parent-teacher association] meeting on Thursday, I'm like, has the has the full story of the PTA movement ever really been told?\" You're like \"Yes, no.\" Doug Teper, who was a city councilman, visited one day. I think he was having me sign a book for someone. He mentioned, I don't know why, he mentioned that a miner had been rescued, and he was black, and they put him in a segregated hotel. I didn't quite get what he meant, but I remember thinking he meant a gold miner from Dahlonega. I didn't know what he meant. Pre-internet, [I] started researching and realized it was the Spring Hill coal mine disaster, which also took place in October 1958, which is when The Temple bombing happened. My fantasy was someday I would be an SAT question. What nonfiction writer devoted many years of her life to the month of October 1958? What it was is there was a Georgia connection because the whole world was watching this disaster. 18 men, 19 men trapped a mile underground, a vertical mile underground in utter darkness in a coal mine. They didn't expect there to be any survivors, but the whole world was watching. They found one group of survivors and thought that has to be all, no one else is going to live. Then they found another group, and one of them had died, but they were able to get this group up. The whole world was watching. At that moment, in the governor's mansion; Governor. Who's our segregationist, our white . . . ?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=3673.0,3811.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/82","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Lester Maddox.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=3811.0,3813.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/83","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e Governor Maddox, sorry, thank you. His PR team had a great idea. Their whole mission was trying to get the Yankees to stop all crossing Georgia on their way to Florida. What's so great about Florida? Everyone's going to Florida. I'd written about that in Praying for Sheetrock, too, because the Yankees were coming down US 17 right through McIntosh County, where they were getting ensnared by all kinds of little criminal enterprises. No one's paying attention to Georgia, they're all just going to Disneyland. The PR team comes up with this great idea. What if we, Georgia, invite the survivors of the Spring Hill Mine disaster and their families to come vacation on sunny, the golden isles of Georgia. The whole world will see us and then people will know they should vacation in Georgia. Great, done, Brilliant, send it. They send the invitation . . . I'm sorry, I got the chronology wrong. They sent the invitation after the first group was rescued. A couple of days go by; they find another group. First of all, they're worried this is going to get more expensive, the Georgians, and then what happens? The last man out is an Afro-Canadian, he's black. I always imagined what Lester Maddox must have said at that moment watching TV. I write non-fiction, and you can't make stuff up. If I were making it up, I know what he would have said. \"Holy shit.\" The invitation was accepted. They're like, \"Maybe he won't come.\" He was the hero of that group. He'd led that group, he'd saved that group and he had, I can't even remember how many children, 10 children, and they were like, \"yes, we'll come.\" It became a PR disaster for the state of Georgia. The only hotel on Jekyll [Island] was the Wanderer, coincidentally named after the last slave ship to dock on our coast, and it was segregated. Yes, the whole world was watching. This guy's the hero, Maurice Ruddick, and Georgia put him in a trailer and had the local black community entertain him. That's what LIFE magazine wrote about. That's all anyone wrote about, how they were disrespecting. What a story, and with the Georgia hook on it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=3813.0,3959.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/84","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Let's get to today and your personal life, even though this is all deeply personal. Tell me about your family. You have biological children; you have adopted children.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=3959.0,3973.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/85","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e We do. We had four children by birth, Molly Samuel. Molly is a deputy managing editor at WABE. You hear her on the air. She's married to Michael Harkin. The next is Seth Samuel, he is a sound engineer and composer. He's won 12 Emmy Awards for his music. He scores, he's won for scoring short documentaries about science and nature. He's married to Alyssa Kapnik Samuel, and they have two children. They live in Denver [Colorado]. Number three is Lee Samuel. He has been at CDC [Center for Disease Control] for 10 years, until now, and was one of the marvelous, generous, selfless people purged by the White House. Because it's a Democrat agency, and only Democrats, I guess, will now be at higher risk of drowning, apartment fires, domestic abuse, gun violence. They didn't need the Injury Center anymore. He was let go recently but has been hired now by ADL [Anti-Defamation League]. He's going to be working at the national level of ADL. Interestingly, he says, it appears it's going to be pretty similar to what he was doing in that they were surveying the country for outbreaks of, for example, child abuse. Where there were outbreaks, they could then notify locals, here are the interventions. Now they're going to be scanning for outbreaks of hate.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=3973.0,4084.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/86","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Wow, interesting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=4084.0,4087.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/87","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e His wife, Maya . . . I left out Alyssa, my daughter-in-law in Denver. Anyway, Alyssa is a professional photographer. Mike, my oldest son-in law, is an IT guy working in Truist [Bank]. Maya is kind of the co-chief of JKG, Jewish Kids Group. Her name's Maya Selber. They have two darling children, and they live in Atlanta and I pick up the children.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=4087.0,4115.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/88","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e They're down the street from me. I live in Morningside.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=4115.0,4119.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/89","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=4119.0,4121.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/90","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Susan Levitis had already gotten to me about it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=4121.0,4124.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/91","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e The kids have gone to an in-town Jewish preschool, and I do the afternoon pick-up. I'm in the GroupMe’s with parents. I'm the only grandmother in that group, but we have play dates and so on. That's really fun. Sometimes, I have grandmother play dates because I've got some friends who also are lucky enough to have grandchildren there. They live in Atlanta. Lily Samuel, her husband, Aidan Mullaney, is with the Blank Foundation, and Lily is with The CDC Foundation, which helps fund and preserve programs highlighted by CDC. They're married and expecting their first child. Wegene, I'll come back to him. He's Ethiopian. The kids were adopted out of age order, the adopted kids. When Molly went away to college, to Oberlin, we felt such a sense of empty nest that we were only down to three children. We're like, wait, what, it's over? It's wrapping up? Because it's just been the thrill of our lives raising the children, just the most fun, so much laughter and play. We're like wait, wait what? You're leaving? Donnie said, \"We could always adopt somebody.\" I was like, \"Let's look into that.” The internet was new. My impression was the internet was for adoption, because you could adopt, you could arrange all of this. In those years, adoption was actually more accessible and more transparent than adopting from foster care. If we were doing it now, I think we would do domestic. I'll tell them in an adoption order. Our first adoption was from Bulgaria, a little boy named Jesse. He is now 30 and works in construction. He lives in Atlanta. The next adoption was Helen, she's our youngest daughter. Just beautiful. She came as an almost six-year-old girl. We didn't even know she knew any English and that she knew everything. She was just really gifted.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=4124.0,4262.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/92","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Where was she from?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=4262.0,4263.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/93","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e I'm sorry, Jesse was from Bulgaria. Helen from Ethiopia. The children from Ethiopia lost their families in the HIV/AIDS pandemic. Unlike Jesse's start in life, the Ethiopian children started life in loved families. Helen had been a cherished little girl and knew how to read and write. Jesse had come with no language. He didn't even have spoken language. I thought, that's Bulgaria, what's Ethiopia going to say? She's reading and writing; books in her suitcase. She completed nursing school at Emory. She went to Oberlin, graduated from Oberlin and has a master’s in nursing. She is in her first year. She works as an ER nurse in Brooklyn and really loves it. She thinks eventually maybe go on to midwifery, which would be a Master of Science in nursing. But she's very happy. We adopted brothers, Yosef and Daniel, from Ethiopia. When they were 10 and 13. By then I was writing a book about Ethiopia. I'd reported on Ethiopia for the New York Times about the orphan pandemic. I decided to focus on one of the grandmothers in the front lines because, for a few years there, grandparents were raising the children. The whole generation of parents were being wiped out by a disease for which there were drugs, but the drugs didn't get there. I zoomed in on one of these women, Haregewoin Teferra, and she's the protagonist of my book There Is No Me Without You. She ended up being just an ad hoc foster mother, because she didn't say no. She didn't turn away children who were dropped off and abandoned. By then our son Lee, who was in high school and restless, could graduate early. I said, \"Do you want to come with me to Ethiopia? Come with me.\" He came with me. He ended up being hired by an American NGO [non-governmental organization] to stay there and run; he started a soccer league for orphanage children. He started his soccer league, and he had girls' teams too, which people hadn't seen. They had a whole roster of competitions, because there were orphanages, all over the city . . . just the city was a million orphans. He had just an incredible experience there. [Lee] called us one night from Addis Ababa. I had put him in the foster home I was writing about. I didn't stay, I was coming back and forth, but he stayed. He didn't sleep there, but he stayed nearby and he was there all day every day with the kids. I knew these kids, because I'd been going back and forth. He called one night. It's one of those calls; I remember where I was when I answered the phone. He said, \"Did you ever think we might adopt again?\" I was not surprised. I wasn't surprised because when you're with the kids, you want to bring the kids home. I thought he was going to call about this, and I thought that he was going to call about the oldest boy there, Haile Gabriel, who had waited the longest for a family and was about to age out. Once you're 15, you couldn't be adopted. But, he said, Haile Gabriel had a family. I said, \"Who are you thinking about?\" I'm on the phone with him [but] Donnie immediately has keyed into this is a major life phone call we're getting here. Donnie's waiting to hear the gender and age of our new child. Lee says, \"There are two, really. They're brothers. They're so amazing. They're like my brothers already. They'd be perfect for our family.\" I go like this [Greene holds up two fingers and smiles broadly], Donnie just bursts out laughing. I said, \"Let Dad and me talk about it. We'll talk about.\" Lee said, \"Really? You will? You'll talk about it? Oh my God, thank you. Love you, Mom.\" Click. Then I thought damn, I could have said no, he thought I was going to say no. But the funny thing is Lee, ever since he was a really little kid, he's got natural EQ, I guess they call it, emotional. Ever since he was really little, if we're planning a big seder, a big Thanksgiving, he likes to make the name cards. He thinks about who should sit together, who will have fun. That's just, that's how he is. He's like the family camp counselor, and we do have fun. He plans the baby showers. For him to say they're perfect for our family, this is coming from an expert. We said yes to those boys. Daniel and Yosef joined us at 10 and 13. Daniel is now 31. He's married. He's in the Navy. He's stationed in Jacksonville [Florida]. He owns a beautiful house, and he's the father of three. He was the oldest of the two. We have Ethiopian grandchildren. Yosef is now . . . let's see, he was born in 1997. He's 28. He's a beautiful, beautiful young man, fantastic athlete, and he was a professional soccer player for a few years. He played in Atlanta, he played in Philadelphia [Pennsylvania], and then he played at Denmark for two years. Now he's a soccer coach and trainer, and has a beautiful Ethiopian girlfriend, and I think they'll get married in the coming year. Then it turned out that there was an older brother, Yosef and Daniel had an older brother. In rural South Ethiopia in a village. They'd been born in . . . it's called a tukul, it's a round hut made of mud with straw roof. When their parents died, the two younger ones were taken by an uncle. The grandmother thought the uncle was going to raise them, but he didn't. He took them to this foster home. There was some bitterness there. It was an older brother, and he stayed behind with grandmother, and he took care of grandmother. He gathered the water every day. It was an hour long walk to bring water. He was there. Lee and Maya lived a lot in Israel and went to college in Israel. Israel is not that far from Ethiopia. On one of their visits to Ethiopia, I said to Lee, “Would you want to try to find Yosef and Daniel's brother? I have phone numbers.” He said, \"Sure.\" Ended up meeting Wegene. Wegene made his first ever trip to the capital. [He] had never seen buildings, paved streets, hadn’t seen any of it, and just said it was just the happiest day of his life meeting Lee and Maya. The family, Wegene and the grandmother, hadn't known what happened to Yosef and Daniel. They never knew what happened. The grandmother feared they'd been sold to Saudi Arabia as servants. They didn't know what happened to them But I had sent a photo album with Lee, and he said, “They're my brothers. We adopted them.” They didn't know what that was. When he said I'm their brother, that made zero sense. Wegene's their brother. How is this? [He] showed them the pictures. The grandmother just threw her shawl over her and just was crying from joy. It was just phenomenal. Wegene said it was the happiest day of his life, just meeting them. Then they went back to the village. Over the years, we reached out more and more. We ended up supporting Wegene to live in the capital, but he wanted to come here. In early 2015, we brought him on an F-1 student visa. I'm leaving out a giant foundational piece of history, which is that we lost a son. We lost a son when; our son, Fisseha, from Ethiopia, came at age 10. Fabulous, beautiful, wonderful, loving boy. We just adored him. He went to college and he was playing college soccer. He was essentially bullied by the varsity soccer coach. He killed himself at college on an ordinary Wednesday night when he just couldn't take it anymore. It's a different interview.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=4263.0,4807.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/94","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, I knew that you had lost a son","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=4807.0,4811.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/95","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, but we treasure him and always remember him and now there are two grandchildren named after him. We currently have six grandchildren, and we have two more on the way. Come February, we'll have eight. People always said with this many children you'll probably have a lot of grandchildren, but I actually didn't believe it because who knows they might not all have children. It's looking good and it's really fun.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=4811.0,4836.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/96","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e I have seven, and they're grown. I have two that got engaged in the past month.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=4836.0,4846.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/97","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e Mazel tov.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=4846.0,4847.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/98","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, I'll get to be a great-grandmother in not too long. Just a couple other questions. Are there any stories that you passed on that you wish you'd written about?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=4847.0,4859.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/99","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e The last one that I was really looking at, I would still like to do. There was a scholar, a neuroscientist at, I think he was at the University of Pennsylvania named Emile Bruneau. His work was peace and conflict studies through the lens of neuroscience. What interested him was, what does the brain look like when the individual is seeing a group of people as less than, as other, as undesirables, what does it look like? What does the brain look like if you try various interventions? Are there interventions that work? Let's find out what works. The story he told about his life was at a young age having taken part in a camp in Ireland that was supposed to help Irish Catholic and Irish Protestant kids make friends and not be at war with each other. Everything went well, and it looked like it worked. Everything was great. What a great breakthrough. Then on the last night, they had a violent riot, and the kids were just trying to kill each other. That got him thinking, we thought that was a good intervention. Was that a good intervention? Kind of discovering a lot of things we think would obviously work. Of course, so many things are being tried in Israel. In fact, my daughter Helen was a national Ultimate Frisbee star, won the national championship. She took part in Ultimate Peace, which was an organization in Israel that created teams with a mix of Israeli Arab kids, Palestinian kids, and Jewish kids in Israel. Did that work? I don't know. It sounds like a wonderful intervention. It sounds very positive. Did it work? Who knows? I'm very interested in that. By the time I reached out to Emile Bruneau, he had died at a young age. He died at 47 of brain cancer, the neuroscientist. I read his work and I read his parting words to his colleagues, but they didn't go on with the work. It was him, I've been looking at, are there labs doing similar work? At this moment, under the [Donald] Trump White House, everything's being defunded. There's no . . . I wouldn't say I would never return to it, and is it relevant for our son's new job. I haven't given up on it.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=4859.0,5031.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/100","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e It's interesting, I'm on the Emory Brain Health Center board.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=5031.0,5035.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/101","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e You are? Wow.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=5035.0,5036.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/102","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, it would be a fascinating thing to talk to, Allan Levey and some of the brain folks, yes. That's a wonderful topic.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=5036.0,5047.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/103","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e Yes, and it goes with what I had been thinking about before. It's an extension of what I was thinking, is a January 6th rioter similar to or not similar to someone who thinks they're Louis XVI. I think, some probably are, but some are not. They've taken in this info and how do you; how do de-program someone is what it’s about.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=5047.0,5067.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/104","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e That's very, very interesting. Are you working on anything specific now?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=5067.0,5072.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/105","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e The last piece I wrote was actually about the Injury Center; it was before this last purge. I wrote a piece that appeared in STAT, which is a science and medical journal that goes out to millions. It was about what we're losing if we lose the Injury Center, and then, yes, we lost it. It's gone. Including lots of things, lots of everyday things people don't know. I quoted Lee and colleagues of his still working and fired, but with anonymity. I didn't name anyone. He said, just for example . . . now, it doesn't matter. It doesn't because they fired him. But for example, whenever we book a house for Thanksgiving . . . he said before they were both fired; he worked down the hall from the world's leading expert on drowning, the world leading expert on drowning and Elon Musk fired her. But what Lee had gleaned before then was, for example, just one tiny, a tiny data point, there was a spike in child drownings at vacation houses, at Airbnb’s and Vrbo’s because even if you have a pool at home and it's locked up, you're not sure what you get there. Just a tiny data point, which no one will ever learn now. Lee said, whenever he books a rental house, he makes sure, does the gate lock? It's the number one thing; he has young children; we have young grandchildren. Lots of interesting things. I interviewed a woman who had been fired from the Injury Center. She worked in traumatic brain injuries. She had learned with her research and her team had learned that women showing up at night, at a domestic, intimate partner violence shelter, domestic shelter . . . like Shearith Israel has. I think The Temple has a shelter . . . Often, they may appear intoxicated or aggressive, and it's quite possible that they're suffering from traumatic brain injuries and that they need help. They're not a threat. They need help. She was just finishing up a webinar of materials that we're going to go out to domestic violence shelters all over the country, a quick checklist to know what you're dealing with. Are they intoxicated? They might not be intoxicated. Done, she was fired. It's gone. Anyway that’s what the article was about.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=5072.0,5229.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/106","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e Interesting. Deb Houry, who was a chief medical officer at the CDC and actually head of the injury and accident area for years, has a lead editorial in TIME. You have to read this weekend. It's a hundred days after I quit . . . She was one of the three.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=5229.0,5249.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/107","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e Good. I’ll look, yes . . . who walked out.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=5249.0,5250.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/108","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e I just want to leave . . . I know we're running out of time. What's the life lesson or advice that you'd love to leave to next generations, to your great-grandchildren?","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=5250.0,5265.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/109","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e I thought about this question. What I want to say is that I hope you'll invite me back in 10 or 20 years. I don't really feel ready to sum it up. I have learned that it's possible to survive really terrible things, and it's possible to survive even less terrible things. I've learned from books like The Brain That Changes Itself, which is a work of neuroscience for lay readers. I'm going to forget the author's name. It's a very powerful book, and it’s about brain plasticity, which is why it is still possible to learn a language late in life. The book is full of many wonderful things. But what I learned from it was that we're not at the mercy of our thoughts. Sometimes I'll think of . . . maybe you think of consciousness as a silver ball in a pinball machine. The ball is coming and it's, and bang, bing, bang, it is out of your control how it hits the things that are painful to you, that hurt you. That's how I felt after losing our son. People said, go see a grief therapist. I drove an hour to see this person. At one point I said, maybe my third visit, I said . . . here's the thing, years ago, there was this unethical experiment people did. People discovered that you could train rats and mice. You can teach them to play the piano by dropping the little treats. Some evil genius had the idea of what if we shock the mouse and there's nothing the mouse can do to stop it. What will happen? The mouse will go insane. You'll kill the mouse. What I said to the therapist was, \"That's me, I'm the mouse and I'm in an electrified cage and I have nowhere to land that doesn't hurt. There's nowhere that doesn't hurt. Can you help me?\" She said, \"I actually can't.\" I said, \"Thank you for your honesty, bye.\" Then I had to figure out how to find a landing place and that book helped me, The Brain That Changes Itself. I took a meditation course at Emory from one of the visiting Tibetan monks. Which it turned out the goal is to not think, at least at the very low level of meditation that I was in, that it was okay; I felt like I was preserving the landing place. It's okay, I can be somewhere where I'm not in pain for a moment. I don't have to think about it. That was a help. The Brain That Changes Itself helped me understand is that I can control the neural paths that I draw. It's less like a pinball machine that's fixed, it's more like if you're at the beach and the sand and you have a stick, draw the path where you want your little thought to roll. I just learned to do that, and I do it even with little stuff. Something hurts my feelings or I think I really screwed up about something. I'll be like, how long am I really going to dwell there? Another thing I learned from this book is the more you think about it, the bigger it grows because you've taken all these paths to it. Every time you think about this embarrassing moment again you've drawn another path. I'll say to myself, are we done with that? Am I done with it? I'm done with it. Just consciously, the next time you think you're about to think about that, think about the surprise you have for the grandkids this afternoon and draw the path and steer your thoughts . . . that's my survival guide.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=5265.0,5511.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/110","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e That's wonderful. I love that and a perfect way to end. Thank you very much.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=5511.0,5517.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/111","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eGREENE:\u003c/strong\u003e Thank you for having me. Thanks for spending your time.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=5517.0,5520.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/transcript/89154/annotation/112","type":"Annotation","motivation":"transcribing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cstrong\u003eEVANS:\u003c/strong\u003e It's interesting.","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=5520.0,5521.0"}]},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/annotation_set/2307","type":"AnnotationPage","label":{"en":["Annotations [Transcript]"]},"items":[{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/annotation_set/2307/annotation/113","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eMacon, Georgia is located in central Georgia. It is officially known as Macon-Bibb County, a consolidated city-county. The city was settled on what was originally the site of the Ocmulgee Old Fields, where the Creek Indian lived in the 18th century. In 1809, Fort Benjamin Hawkins was built on what would officially become Macon in 1823. During the Civil War, the city was spared by Union General William Tecumseh Sherman on his march to sea.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=35.0,36.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/annotation_set/2307/annotation/114","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Temple Bombing\u003c/em\u003e, written by Mellisa Fay Greene, is a nonfiction book about the bombing of The Temple on Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia, in the early morning hours of October 12, 1958. About 50 sticks of dynamite were planted near the building, and tore a huge hole in the wall. No one was injured in the bombing as it was during the night. Rabbi Jacob Rothschild was an outspoken advocate of civil rights and integration, and a friend of Martin Luther King Jr. Five men associated with the National States’ Rights Party, a white separatist group, were tried and acquitted in the bombing.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=58.0,71.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/annotation_set/2307/annotation/115","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eVilnius [Polish: Wilno; Russian: Vilna] is the largest city in and capital of Lithuania. It is located on the Neris and Vilnia rivers, near the Belarus border. Although heavily damaged in World War I and II, it is known for its medieval Old Town and baroque architecture. The city has changed hands many times throughout its long history. Once part of the Russian Empire, the Germans occupied the city during World War I. When they withdrew at the end of 1918, Poland and Lithuania both claimed the city. Eventually, it was occupied by Polish forces and considered a part of northeastern Poland from 1920 until the beginning of World War II. On September 19, 1939, under the terms of the German-Soviet Pact, which effectively dissolved and divided Poland, Soviet forces occupied the city of Vilna, along with the rest of eastern Poland. The city of Vilna was incorporated into the Byelorussian Soviet Socialist Republic until the Soviet Union ceded the city to Lithuania on October 28, 1939. Then, in June 1940, the Soviets annexed Lithuania, including Vilna, which it would occupy until the Germans invaded a year later. Soviet forces liberated Vilna in July 1944. After World War II, the Soviets outlined new borders for the Baltic republics of Lithuania, Latvia and Estonia. As in 1940, Vilna remained in Lithuania and became its capital. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=89.0,120.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/annotation_set/2307/annotation/116","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe influx of Jews from Eastern Europe to the United States in the late 19th century and early 20th century was driven by economic hardship, persecution, and the social and political upheavals of the time. Antisemitism and official measures of persecution over the past century, combined with the desire for economic freedom and opportunity, have motivated a continuing flow of Jewish immigrants from Russia and Central Europe over the past century. The Russian pogroms, beginning in 1900, forced large numbers of Jews to seek refuge in the U.S. Though most of these immigrants arrived on the Eastern seaboard, many came as part of the Galveston Movement, through which Jewish immigrants settled in Texas as well as the western states and territories.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=123.0,130.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/annotation_set/2307/annotation/117","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eEllis Island is an island located in New York Harbor, that is situated between New York and New Jersey. It is owned by the United States government and was the busiest immigrant inspection and processing station in the United States from 1892-1954. Today it is part of the Statue of Liberty National Monument and is now a national museum on immigration.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=135.0,147.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/annotation_set/2307/annotation/118","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eNew York City is located in New York state. It is also known by the nicknames the Big Apple or NYC. It is the largest city by population and metropolitan area in the United States. It is made up of five boroughs sitting where the Hudson River meets the Atlantic Ocean. The city was settled in 1624 and in 1664 it was named for the Duke of York, later King James II of England. 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It grew in the 19th century as a canal town and was home to many patents and inventors, most notably the Wright brothers, who developed the first successful motor-operated airplane.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=224.0,252.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/annotation_set/2307/annotation/120","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Great Migration, also known as the Great Northward Migration or the Black Migration, was the movement of approximately five million African Americans from the rural Southern United States to the urban Northeast, Midwest, and West between 1910 and 1970. It was substantially caused by poor economic and social conditions due to prevalent racial segregation and discrimination in the Southern states, where Jim Crow laws were upheld. In particular, continued lynchings motivated a portion of the migrants, as African Americans searched for social reprieve. Some historians analyze the Great Migration in two parts, a first Great Migration (1910 to 1940), during which about 1.6 million people moved from mostly rural areas in the South to northern industrial cities, and a Second Great Migration (1940 to 1970), which began after the Great Depression and during it, at least five million people, including townspeople with urban skills, moved to the North and West.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=224.0,252.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/annotation_set/2307/annotation/121","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBrooklyn is a borough of New York City. It is named after the Dutch town of Breukelen. 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Moses was the leader of the Israelites and he is the prophet who received the Ten Commandments from God. In Judaism, it is believed that all of the teachings found in the Torah were given by God to Moses. 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A native of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he forged close relationships with the city’s Christian clergy and distinguished himself as a charismatic spokesperson for civil rights.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=328.0,534.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/annotation_set/2307/annotation/130","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eProphetic Judaism follows the belief that Jews should lead an ethical life, but also to be change agents: that they need to make the world a better place because they are commanded in the Torah and by the prophets to do so.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=328.0,534.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/annotation_set/2307/annotation/131","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eOrthodox Judaism is a traditional branch of Judaism that strictly follows the written Torah and the oral law concerning prayer, dress, food, sex, family relations, social behavior, the Sabbath day, holidays, and more.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=328.0,534.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/annotation_set/2307/annotation/132","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eYiddish is the common historical language of Ashkenazi Jews from Central and Eastern Europe. It is heavily Germanic based but uses the Hebrew alphabet. The language was spoken or understood as a common tongue for many European Jews up until the middle of the twentieth century. 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Formed in 1850, it incorporated as \"Kehillah Kodesh B'nai Yeshurun\" in 1854. After meeting in rented quarters, the congregation purchased its first synagogue building, a former Baptist church at 4th and Jefferson, in 1863. Strongly influenced by Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, it rapidly modernized its services and, in 1873, was a founding member of the Union for Reform Judaism.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=328.0,534.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/annotation_set/2307/annotation/135","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eA bat mitzvah [Hebrew: daughter of commandments] is a rite of passage for Jewish girls aged 12 years and one day according to her Hebrew birthday. Many girls have their bat mitzvah around age 13, the same as boys who have their bar mitzvah at that age. The bat mitzvah girl is now duty bound to keep the commandments. Synagogue ceremonies are held for bat mitzvah girls in Reform and Conservative communities, but it has not won the approval of Orthodox rabbis.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=328.0,534.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/annotation_set/2307/annotation/136","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Temple, or “Hebrew Benevolent Congregation,” is Atlanta’s oldest Jewish congregation. The cornerstone was laid on the Temple on Garnett Street in 1875. The dedication was held in 1877, and the Temple was located there until 1902. The Temple’s next location on Pryor Street was dedicated in 1902. The Temple’s current location in Midtown on Peachtree Street was dedicated in 1931. The main sanctuary is on the National Register of Historic Places. The Reform congregation now totals approximately 1500 families. As of 2022, its Senior Rabbi is Peter S. Berg.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=328.0,534.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/annotation_set/2307/annotation/137","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eThe Temple on Peachtree Street in Atlanta, Georgia was bombed in the early morning hours of October 12, 1958. About 50 sticks of dynamite were planted near the building and tore a huge hole in the wall. No one was injured in the bombing as it was during the night. 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American Jews, most of whom were of central European background, saw the tremendous influence that liberal religion had on their Protestant neighbors and wanted to develop a form of Judaism equivalent to Episcopalianism, Presbyterianism, and especially Unitarianism. As presented in the 1885 Declaration of Principles, known as the \"Pittsburgh Platform,\" Classical Reform Judaism minimized Judaic ritual and emphasized ethics in a universalist context, stressing universalism while reaffirming the Reform movement's commitment to Jewish particularism through the expression of the religious idea of the mission of Israel. The document defined Reform Judaism as a rational and modern form of religion in contrast with traditional Judaism on one hand and universalist ethics on the other. Much of Reform Judaism has moved away from Classical Reform and toward a more traditional style of worship since World War II and the Holocaust, and only a handful of congregations follow the Classical Reform any longer. 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Kennedy and Ethel Kennedy, and he is a nephew of former U.S. President John F. Kennedy and former U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy. Kennedy served as a member of the United States House of Representatives from the 8th congressional district of Massachusetts from 1987 to 1999. In 1979, he founded and, until he was elected to the U.S. House, led Citizens Energy Corporation, a non-profit energy company which provides heating oil to low-income and elderly families in Massachusetts.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=1265.0,1568.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/annotation_set/2307/annotation/176","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eBoston, Massachusetts is the capital and largest city in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. 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McCarthy and Kennedy each won several primary contests. The race was upended in June 1968 when Kennedy was assassinated. McCarthy won a plurality of the popular vote and delegate count in the primaries, but the rules did not bind delegates to their primary results. After Kennedy's assassination, his delegates became uncommitted, with most ultimately backing Vice President Hubert Humphrey, who had not actively campaigned in the primaries. He had entered the primaries in April 1968 and was the preferred candidate of President Johnson. This gave Humphrey the majority needed to secure the Democratic nomination at the 1968 Democratic National Convention. McCarthy did not seek reelection in the 1970 Senate election. He sought the Democratic presidential nomination in 1972 but fared poorly. 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Subsequently, he developed his interviews with Cobb as a kind of \"autobiography\", All God's Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw (1974), which won the U.S. National Book Award.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=1600.0,2216.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/annotation_set/2307/annotation/185","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eAll God’s Dangers: The Life of Nate Shaw\u003c/em\u003e by Theodore Rosengarten is a first-hand account about what life was like for a black man in Alabama from 1855 to 1973. 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Historically, the Gullah region extended from the Cape Fear area on North Carolina's coast south to the vicinity of Jacksonville on Florida's coast. Gullahs are also known as Geechees, which may be derived from the name of the Ogeechee River near Savannah, Georgia. The Georgia communities are distinguished by identifying as either \"Freshwater Geechee\" or \"Saltwater Geechee\", depending on whether they live on the mainland or the Sea Islands.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=1600.0,2216.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/annotation_set/2307/annotation/187","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eSheriff Tom Poppell (1921-1979) was the sheriff of McIntosh County, Georgia, for over 30 years. He was elected after his father retired. 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Jim Crow laws mandated racial segregation in all public facilities in the southern states of the former Confederacy, with a supposedly “separate but equal” status for Black Americans, although in reality this was not so. Some examples of Jim Crow laws are the segregation of public schools, places, and public transportation and the segregation of restrooms, restaurants and drinking fountains for whites and Blacks. Private businesses, political parties, and unions created their own Jim Crow arrangements, barring Blacks from buying homes in certain neighborhoods, from shopping or working in certain stores, from working at certain trades, etc. In the middle twentieth century, the Supreme Court began to overturn Jim Crow laws on constitutional grounds. Rosa Parks defied the Jim Crow laws when she refused to give up her seat on a bus to a white man, which became a catalyst to the Civil Rights movement. 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He led the 1955 Montgomery Bus Boycott and helped found the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) in 1957, serving as its first president. With the SCLC, King led an unsuccessful struggle against segregation in Albany, Georgia, in 1962, and organized nonviolent protests in Birmingham, Alabama, that attracted national attention following television news coverage of the brutal police response. King also helped to organize the 1963 March on Washington, where he delivered his famous \"I Have a Dream\" speech. On October 14, 1964, King received the Nobel Peace Prize for combating racial inequality through nonviolence. In 1965, he and the SCLC helped to organize the Selma to Montgomery marches and the following year, he took the movement north to Chicago to work on segregated housing. King was assassinated on April 4, 1968 in Memphis, Tennessee. His death was followed by riots in many United States’ cities. 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Georgia solicitor general Paul Webb announced during George Bright's trial that his prosecution of the remaining defendants would be guided by its result. After Bright's acquittal, Webb was unsure whether his office would proceed with the prosecution of Allen, Griffin, and Richard Bolling, the three defendants remaining under indictment. 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They sought to keep him in power by preventing a joint session of Congress from counting the Electoral College votes to formalize the victory of President-elect Joe Biden. The attack was unsuccessful in preventing the certification of the election results. According to the bipartisan House select committee that investigated the incident, the attack was the culmination of a plan by Trump to overturn the election. Within 36 hours, five people died: one was shot by the Capitol Police, another died of a drug overdose, and three died of natural causes, including a police officer who died of a stroke a day after being assaulted by rioters and collapsing at the Capitol. Many people were injured, including 174 police officers. Four officers who responded to the attack died by suicide within seven months. 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The Governor of the State of Georgia, Marvin Griffin, invited nineteen of the survivors to vacation at one of his state's luxurious resorts, Jekyll Island, usually reserved for millionaires. 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In 1994, Dr. Bruneau earned his bachelor’s degree in human biology from Stanford University. For seven years, he taught high school and elementary school in the Bay Area. He earned his Ph.D. in cellular and molecular neuroscience from the University of Michigan in 2008 and then studied as a postdoctoral fellow for seven years at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.\u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=4859.0,5031.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/annotation_set/2307/annotation/268","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eUltimate Peace is a non-profit organization established in 2009 by David Barkan, Dori Yaniv, and Linda Sidorsky that uses Ultimate Frisbee to foster understanding among diverse youth, primarily in the Middle East. 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While president, Trump implemented a travel ban on citizens from several Muslim-majority countries, diverted military funding toward building a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, appointed Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett to the U.S. Supreme Court, and withdrew the U.S. from the proposed Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement, the Paris Agreement on climate change, and the Iran nuclear deal. In 2019, he became the first sitting U.S. president to enter North Korea, meeting with Kim Jong Un three times. 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Musk joined the automaker Tesla as an early investor in 2004 and became its CEO and product architect in 2008; it has since become a leader in electric vehicles. In 2015, he co-founded OpenAI to advance artificial intelligence (AI) research, but later left. In 2022, he acquired the social network Twitter, implementing significant changes and rebranding it as X in 2023. Musk was the largest donor in the 2024 U.S. presidential election, where he supported Donald Trump. After Trump was inaugurated as president in early 2025, Musk served as Senior Advisor to the President and as the de facto head of the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). 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In March 2020, the magazine was published every other week. \u003cem\u003eTime\u003c/em\u003e aims to tell the news through people, known for its selection of its “Person of the Year” which highlights an influential individual annually. \u003c/p\u003e","format":"text/plain"},"target":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900#t=5229.0,5249.0"},{"id":"https://thebreman.aviaryplatform.com/collections/994/collection_resources/165315/file/300900/annotation_set/2307/annotation/277","type":"Annotation","motivation":"supplementing","body":{"type":"TextualBody","value":"\u003cp\u003eDebra Elaine Houry is an American physician. She served as the Chief Medical Officer and Deputy Director for Program and Science of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention until she resigned in protest at the firing of Susan Monarez. 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