Recent content by Dianne Berg

What an interesting story, Chris; thank you for sharing it! I'm off to work but will reply at more length later. - Dianne

Thanks for the warm welcome! I credit my mother in large part for my choice of career (I'm a professor of medieval & early modern English literature), because I was the only one of my 4 siblings to take an interest in the UK historical and cultural sites she'd bring us to visit. To be fair, I...

My mum was a GI bride. She grew up in Acocks Green and met my dad (a Chicago native stationed nearby) at the Dolphin pub, at the bottom of her road, when she was 15 and he was 19. She liked to dance with the American soldiers; as my dad was quiet and always sat with a pint and a book she...