DACOR: Daughter of the Cold War

Start Date/Time: 
Wednesday, June 27, 2018 - 09:00
End Date/Time: 
Wednesday, June 27, 2018 - 11:00
Description: 

Grace Kennan Warnecke's memoir is about a life lived on the edge of history. As the daughter of George F. Kennan, one of the most influential diplomats of the 20th century, Ms. Warnecke was born in Latvia and lived in 7 countries and spoke 5 languages before the age of 11. As a child, she witnessed Hitler's march into Prague, attended a Soviet school during WWII, and sailed the seas with her father. In a multifaceted career, she worked as a professional photographer, television producer, and book editor and critic. Eventually, like her father, Ms. Warnecke became a Russian specialist, but of a very different kind. She accompanied Ted Kennedy and his family to Russia, escorted Joan Baez to Moscow to meet with dissident Andrei Sakharov, and hosted Josef Stalin's daughter on the family farm after Svetlana defected to the U.S. While running her own consulting company in Russia, she witnessed the breakup of the Soviet Union, and later became director of a women's economic empowerment project in the newly independent Ukraine. This event costs $25 and includes lunch.