July | 2025 | Geneva Overholser
I am haunted by the deaths of the little girls at Camp Mystic. Absolutely haunted. Surely all of us are, so huge is this tragedy.| Geneva Overholser
I am haunted by the deaths of the little girls at Camp Mystic. Absolutely haunted. Surely all of us are, so huge is this tragedy.| Geneva Overholser
I am haunted by the deaths of the little girls at Camp Mystic. Absolutely haunted. Surely all of us are, so huge is this tragedy. But I’m thinking in particular of my fellow former camp counsellors. For two summers, I was a counselor at the Presbyterian Camp Montreat in the Smokies in NC. (Echoes — … Continue reading Camp Mystic: A Counsellor’s Lament→| Geneva Overholser
Behind The New York Times’ recent mishmash of a non-endorsement editorial – the one urging readers not to choose Zohran Mamdani for mayor – lies a backstory (or two or three) worth parsin…| Geneva Overholser
This is a compilation of serialized posts, published online from February to May 2025, about my years living and traveling in Africa half a century earlier. In the summer of 1974, three years into my newspaper career, I got married. Mike had just landed a job he’d been longing for — in Africa. He would be teaching … Continue reading AFRICA DAYS, compiled→| Geneva Overholser
Note: Africa Days is a series of posts based on journals and letters from my years living in Kinshasa and traveling across Africa, beginning in 1974. Previous posts are below. We first set foot in …| Geneva Overholser
Note: Africa Days is a series of posts based on journals and letters from my years living in Kinshasa and traveling throughout Africa, beginning in 1974. You can read previous and following posts below. We arrived in Algiers in late October 1976, a few days after the government had painted over its French-language street signs. … Continue reading AFRICA DAYS 20: The Splendid Sahara, After All→| Geneva Overholser
Note: Africa Days is a series of posts based on journals and letters from my years living in Kinshasa and traveling across Africa, beginning in 1974. You can read previous and following posts (for free) below. Getting Miles (and us) onto a train from Mali to Dakar and a boat to Casablanca was a trial. … Continue reading AFRICA DAYS 19: Glorious Morocco — and Autumn, at Last→| Geneva Overholser
Dogon village scene Note: Africa Days is a series of posts based on journals and letters from my years living in Kinshasa and traveling across Africa, beginning in 1974. You can read previous and f…| Geneva Overholser
Note: Africa Days is a series of posts based on journals and letters from my years living in Kinshasa and traveling across Africa, beginning in 1974. You can read previous and following posts (for free) below We had expected a lot of Ghana. It delivered even more, beginning with Accra, which I described in my … Continue reading AFRICA DAYS 17: Ghana’s tragic and wondrous offerings, Luxury in Abidjan→| Geneva Overholser
Miles on the beach in Benin Note: Africa Days is a series of posts based on journals and letters from my years living in Kinshasa and traveling across Africa, beginning in 1974. You can read p…| Geneva Overholser
Note: Africa Days is a series of posts based on journals and letters from my years living in Kinshasa and traveling across Africa, beginning in 1974. You can read previous and following posts below. We had understood that West Africa couldn’t hold a candle to what the eastern and southern parts of the continent offered … Continue reading AFRICA DAYS 15: Nigeria’s Cultural Treasures→| Geneva Overholser
