Encounters | France Revisited

Love Park, Philadelphia. Photo Andrea Golod.

Cross-Atlantic Lives: Portraits of Franco-Philly Connections

By Gary Lee Kraut

There’s no single must-do approach to traveling overseas, even less so to an extended stay abroad. The 11 portraits, some joint, that follow reveal the various ways in which individuals have found and made their personal connection between the City of Light (la Ville lumière) and the City of Brotherly Love (la Ville de l’amour fraternel).


An Interview with Heather Stimmler-Hall She could be poster child for American junior year abroad programs, or perhaps a cautionary tale. In either case, Heather Stimmler-Hall has done what many American students in Europe on their junior year abroad dream of doing: extending their stay overseas and parlaying their growing fluency and deepening cross-cultural insights into actual work. Born near Philadelphia, PA, and gone to high shool in Scottsdale, AZ, she came to Paris for her junior year from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, in 1995. Read More	October 2008

An Interview with Heather Stimmler-Hall

She could be poster child for American junior year abroad programs, or perhaps a cautionary tale. In either case, Heather Stimmler-Hall has done what many American students in Europe on their junior year abroad dream of doing: extending their stay overseas and parlaying their growing fluency and deepening cross-cultural insights into actual work.

Born near Philadelphia, PA, and gone to high shool in Scottsdale, AZ, she came to Paris for her junior year from Carleton College in Northfield, Minnesota, in 1995.

October 2008