Thursday November 13th, 2008
Miriam Makeba, RIP
A woman of the south, my mother moved “up north” to Glen Ellyn, a small village on the Aurora & Elgin railway line (the “Roarin’ Elgin”) 30 miles west of Chicago, with my father in 1945. In her mid-20s, she’d lived as a pilot’s wife for a couple of years at bases in Edmonton, Canada, […]