Amy Stanley!

We had a visit from the fabulous University of Chicago historian Amy Dru Stanley, her husband Craig Becker and their adorable boys, Tom and Isaac, who stopped overnight with us on their way to Washington D.C. I've known her since she was in 9th grade and I was in 11th grade and she was hanging out with my sister Camilla and at the Williamses' house et cetera... I have an elegant side table that I call the "Amy Stanley memorial table" because my little sister Sophie carved Amy's name in it -- probably because she was mad at Camilla for some reason and wanted to get her in trouble.

Flash forward many years later: When I was covering election day in Chicago, Amy took me all around Hyde Park, to Obama's polling place, past Bill Ayers house, past Obama's house, etc etc and in short was just tremendously helpful. I wrote a breaking news story later that morning in her kitchen and quoted her, which was fun. I should probably send it to the PDS alumni weekly: one PDS grad interviews another!