Anthea Conlon:  

Life At Ketcham Elem. in Anacostia K-4, we lived on 17th st. near Kramer Jr. K-Miss Scalara; 1-?; 2-Miss Bogardus; 3-Miss Judy(best teacher ever); 4-Mrs. Jones. We moved to Oxon Hill on Oak Lane, where I attended Fort Foote Elem. 5-Mrs. Swain; 6-Miss Hylton. On to Oxon Hill Jr. 7-8-9. The school was run by a bunch of nazi control freaks, severly restrictive about everything. Oxon Hill High was much more relaxed..10-11-12. Hated school and so Sept. '70 I went to work at the Dept. of Justice where I met Michael (future spouse)on my first day. We were married July '72 (a week after Hurricane Agnes hit). I worked at the Dept of Justice for 5 years. In 1974 Michael graduated from Georgetown Law School and we bought our first house. In '77 we started a family & I became a stay at home mom & community volunteer. We had 2 boys & a girl now 35, 30, and 27. My 30 year old was married 2011 and no grandchildren yet. In June of 2012 I celebrated 15 years as a breast cancer survivor. self. Currently, I am working part time at Antique Row in Kensington and have selling space doing business as "The Vintage Vagabond" which could mean me or the items I am selling! We were lucky enough to have bought a condo several years ago in SW Florida, so far so good with the hurricanes missing our immediate area. We try to get away as often as we can and usually spend February there enjoying the sunshine and a slower pace of life. No plans to live there, ever! May 2010 we went on a wonderful 2 week European river cruise with Viking, which was fantastic. Met a number of very interesting people and made a few new friends. The day after we arrived home there was a fire in our garage which spread into the family room and was into the entry hal and kitchenl. It was all so very surreal watching our house burn...between the fire, the smoke and the firemen there was tons of damage and our home was declared uninhabitable. Lived in a rental house provided by insurance company right next...Expand for more