Barbara Kelly:  

Life I grew up an insurance brat. Much like an army brat, we moved every two and a half years as my father moved up the corporate ladder. I was born in Houston, lived in Dallas, Norfolk, VA, Louisville, KY, Atlanta, GA, and North Andover, MA. I often kiddingly say that I have lived a Forrest Gump life. I remember in Kentucky when prayer was taken out of schools. In Atlanta, I was there when Lester Maddox became governor (after chasing blacks from his chicken restaurant with a hatchet) and our high school marching band (I played flute) played for all the home games of the Atlanta Falcons. I loved going to the Varsity (world's largest drive-in restaurant) for mint chocolate chip ice cream before the games. I lived in North Andover from 1967 to 1969. During that time, a classmate of mine, Ricky Bergman, played in a group called the Mad Monks Organ Factory. They played back up for a much larger group in which his older brother, Mark, played at small venues-the Doors. Sometimes they would practice at Ricky's house in the garage and in the summer, when all the windows were open, you could occasionally hear them practice. Their road manager, Vince Trainor, would once in a while, come by our dances at the Barn Theater in our town center. (I cannot imagine why he would, though!) In 1969, I moved to Timonium, MD 2 weeks before school started. The first day, I ran into a girl that I knew from school in Atlanta, Meredith Green. The world gets smaller every day. After college, I worked in the jewelry business as an appraiser and then eventually for T. Rowe Price as assistant to one of the Directors. During that time, I met my husband, Howard, and I left the work force to become a stay-at-home mother. Howard and I have two sons, Evan (24) and J...Expand for more