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raymond maxwell: I was born and raised in Greensboro, NC, where I attended F.D. Bluford Elementary School. My favorite teacher there was Mrs Lillian J. Kennedy. Mrs. Kennedy loved poetry and dance, and she passed that love on to us. From Bluford we went to Lincoln Street Junior High School, also in the neighborhood. At Lincoln the Anne C Stouffer Foundation found me and sent me to Woodberry Forest School. Later, I attended the Governor’s School of North Carolina. Post-retirement, I completed a graduate degree in library and information science at Catholic University and landed a great first job as a reference and instruction librarian at Western Carolina University. Circumstances forced my return to the DC area. Since 2018, each Spring I have led study group immersions into the ten plays of August Wilson’s American Century Cycle. I am a docent at the Library of Congress and hope to complete docent training at the National Museum of African American History and Culture.