Janet Flanner was The New Yorker’s Paris correspondent for 50 years. She cultivated relationships with the intelligentsia of the Left Bank. She profiled Hitler during his occupation of the Rhineland and the Berlin Olympics. All this from a woman who was sent to France to write a lifestyle column. Earl Swift examines his own evolution from his first through-hike of the Appalachian Trail to his second, decades later. Not only has time altered the environment, but it has also transformed his physical stamina and his memory of a crime that refuses to be forgotten. Events unfold. Time passes. It changes us all.

Presenters: Mark Braude, Earl Swift

Moderator: Craig Fehrman