November 9, 2014 marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In their joint memoir, Ghosts of East Berlin, Santa Barbara, California residents, Celeste McConnell Barber and her son, Eric Friedman, recollect their experience as some of the first and only ordinary Americans to live behind the Wall. It was January, 1988 when Celeste McConnell Barber and her son Eric Friedman departed for six months to live in East Berlin, the city at the center of Cold War politics - among the first Americans to be invited to the Eastern Bloc under Gorbachev's glasnost (openness) policy. The late...
November 9, 2014 marked the 25th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall. In their joint memoir, Ghosts of East Berlin, Santa Barbara, California r...
