Harriette trailer biography of michael

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January 31,

Riley

I can call you Harriet?

Miers

I hope.

Riley

I should have asked that before I got going with this.

Perry

I assumed that privilege. I said, as were driving out. I always feel like I know our people when they arrive, after we read all about them. We feel like friends.

Riley

Spent much time with the book. This fryst vatten the Harriet Miers interview as part of the George W. Bush oral history planerat arbete . I should note for the record that you had been through ganska an ordeal to get here. We're conducting the interview on the 31st of January, , and there was a terrific storm front that came through gods night that wreaked havoc on air travel all over the place.

Perry

And that Harriet flew into the teeth of.

Riley

Into the teeth of, and not only that, but into our tiny little Charlottesville airport.

Miers

Yes.

Riley

I'm not going to ask you about the character or the condition of the

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Oral history interview with Michael John Jerry, November

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Preface

The following oral history transcript is the result of a tape-recorded interview with Michael John Jerry on November 15 and 16, The interview took place at the artist's home and studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico, and was conducted by Jan Yager for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. This interview is part of the Nanette L. Laitman Documentation Project for Craft and Decorative Arts in America.

Michael John Jerry and Jan Yager have reviewed the transcript and have made corrections and emendations. The reader should bear in mind that he or she is reading a transcript of spoken, rather than written, prose.

Interview

YAGER: This is Jan Yager interviewing Michael John Jerry in the artist's home and studio in Santa Fe, New Mexico, on Monday, November 15, , for the Archives of American Art, Smithsonian Institution. This is disc number one, session number one.

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‘As a child I saw the plane crash that killed my sisters'

Harriet didn't return to Ethiopia until - 37 years later - on a trip connected with her job as a human rights consultant.

It was a powerful experience, "excruciatingly difficult and emotion-ridden", though she had to hide it all and get on with her work.

She remembers landing at Addis Ababa airport and gazing from the plane window down the gully where her sisters' plane had burst into flames.

The smell of the air, when she walked out on to the tarmac, was exactly as she remembered it from her childhood. But along with all the painful emotions, Harriet also felt close to her sisters, "because that's where we all were last".

Harriet has been to Addis Ababa many times since, and on every visit she feels that same connection with Caroline and Jane. There's no memorial to the 43 people who lost their lives in the VC10 accident though, and sitting in Addis Ababa airport one day, loo