Kim sits down for her latest episode of her “What’s The Story” podcast with Margot Clark-Junkins, who has worked as an independent curator, art reviewer and art educator for the last 20 years. She attended Mount Holyoke College and received a MA in Design & Curatorial Studies from the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum. She writes a column called “Following the Front” for Substack and is currently at work on a book of short stories.
“Following the Front” is a compilation of WWII dispatches written by Sidney A. Olson for TIME and LIFE magazines, while attached to the European Theater of Operations. In 1945, Olson followed the Allied Forces as they pushed the Nazis back into Germany. He typed up his reports and cabled them to his editors in New York. Following the front meant being on the move constantly. He would race ahead and circle back, hopping from one military division to the next, gradually making his way across Germany and into Austria. His dispatches illustrate–line by line, battle by battle–the extraordinary Allied effort to defeat Hitler.
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