It was at the very end of summer, in the early days of September 1979. At the time, I was working for the Federal government in Washington DC at the Office of Personnel Management’s Personnel Management Training Center.
My immediate supervisor and her husband owned property in the historic Black town of Highland Beach on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay. They kindly invited our small office staff and whomever we wanted to bring along for an end-of-summer picnic at their home a stone’s throw away from the beach. … Read the full story HERE.