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(Photo above: Author and reporter Dawn MacKeen at Tuck. I hope more people will be interested in reading her book, The Hundred-Year Walk, as it can offer revealing insights into a history that we are all part of. Her story of going through 100 years and breaking religion and ethnicity barriers is very admirable.ĭawn’s visit to Dartmouth speaks to the openness and level of education we have here at our school. The courage she had to tell her story and retrace history by going to Turkey and Syria is staggering. Experience the ancient Swedish phenomena of year walking through a different kind of first person adventure that blurs the line between two and three dimensions, as well as reality and the supernatural. What her grandfather went through is a story for the ages. MacKeen connected the history of what happened in Armenia at the beginning of the nineteenth century to the Holocaust and to what is happening today in Syria. pentru a îmbunti navigarea pe site, pentru a analiza utilizarea site-ului i pentru a ajuta eforturile. Apsând butonul 'Accept' suntei de acord cu stocarea cookie-urilor pe dispozitivul dvs. Some of my classmates who haven’t heard about Armenia before coming to Tuck were surprised to learn of this history-the impact and extent of which is difficult to describe in words. The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey de la magazine cu 100 calificative pozitive si livrare din stoc. MacKeen’s meeting with students and the Dartmouth community was educational and revealing in nature, as students learned about a part of history that was previously unknown to them. Awareness of the genocide and education on its impact is crucial, which is why MacKeen’s talk was especially important. It was a tragic period of time for my nation-one that should never happen again to any nation. The book that resulted from her journey, The Hundred-Year Walk, is a well-documented and written account of the Genocide and her grandfathers quest to live.

Her book tells the story of 'one man’s courage in the face of the Armenian genocide and his granddaughter’s quest to tell his story.' Her talk was very impressive and should touch every person who is part of humanity.Īs an Armenian, I cannot overemphasize the significance of the Genocide in our history. On October 12, investigative reporter Dawn Anahid MacKeen, author of The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey, visited Tuck and Dartmouth. Nearly a decade in the making, MacKeen's compelling multigenerational saga is alternately voiced by Neil Shah and Emily Woo Zeller, bestowing the dual narratives with distinctive personalities.Retracing the Steps of a Survivor of the Armenian Genocide For both Miskjian and MacKeen, the kindness of strangers plays a vital role in restoring a much-needed belief in humanity. Using her forebear's detailed journals, MacKeen reconstructs not only Stepan Miskjian's treacherous journey of roundup, death march, escape, betrayal, and miraculous survival but is able to embark on her own illuminating pilgrimage retracing almost a century later her grandfather's precarious route through Syria and Turkey.

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In 2006, MacKeen left New York and returned to her Los Angeles childhood home to discover her grandfather's odyssey during the Armenian Genocide. The Hundred-Year Walk: An Armenian Odyssey 3 Formats: Digital Download 3 Formats: CD 3 Formats: MP3 CD Regular Price: 16.99. Her 78-year-old Armenian mother was aging, and MacKeen could no longer ignore her calls to come home. 's a reporter, I was spending my life telling other people's stories and ignoring my own family's incredible one,' MacKeen realized at 35.

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