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Title: Chris Squier
Description: Chris Squier discusses Jacobsen and Heurich family history and legacies, Chris’s experiences growing up in New Jersey and visiting his family in Washington, D.C., his college years, his career in the beer industry, his interpretation of the American Dream means and how it is changing. Chris shares memories of his grandfather Charles J. Jacobsen, a career Air Force officer, and stories of his great-grandfather Christian F. Jacobsen, who had a long and successful career as a banker at Metropolitan Bank in Washington, D.C. Also discussion about his role as the “keeper” of family history and legacies and his interest in learning more about that history., Christian (Chris) Squier was born in 1965 to Donald Squier and Karla Jacobsen Squier. On his mother Karla’s side, he is descended from Elizabeth Heurich Jacobsen, Christian Heurich’s sister. He grew up in Maplewood, New Jersey and visited his extended family in Washington, D.C. often for holidays. He attended Pfeiffer College in North Carolina, where he played lacrosse. He eventually settled in the Charlotte area where he raised two daughters and built a career as a beer marketer and salesperson at Anheuser-Busch before working as a regional sales manager at Craft Brew Alliance, where he was employed at the time of the oral history interview. Chris is interested in learning more about his family history on the Jacobsen-Heurich side and collects bottles, labels, and other items from the Christian Heurich Brewing Company and the Arlington Bottling Company. During the early – mid twentieth century, the Jacobsen family were important entrepreneurs, bankers, and members of Washington society. At the turn of the twentieth century, they owned the Arlington Bottling Company, which bottled the beer that the Christian Heurich Brewing Company produced. Other Jacobsen family businesses included a laundry business, Ford dealership, hotel, and florist shop in the Willard Hotel.

Title: Jan Evans
Description: Discusses Jan’s childhood and schooling in Washington, D.C., her recollections of the brewery as a male-dominated sphere, her memories of visiting and staying with her grandparents Christian and Amelia Heurich, and her relationship with Amelia in particular. Also discusses memories and stories from her mother, Karla. Includes discussion about German heritage, Christian’s immigration and American Dream story, and the long history of military service in her family., Jan Allison Evans was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, on December 22, 1932 to Karla Heurich and Charles King, who was killed at Normandy during World War II. Her grandparents on her mother’s side were Christian and Amelia Heurich. Jan was an “army brat” who spent time in different places growing up but had strong connections to Washington, D.C., and to her grandparents, especially Amelia. She graduated high school from the Cathedral School while living with her aunt Anita in Washington, as her mother and stepfather were stationed in Japan, where Jan had also lived for a year. While in Japan, she met her future husband, Lt. Benjamin Crabbs Evans Junior, with whom she had two daughters - Karla and Louise. Her engagement to Evans was announced at the annual Christmas Party at the Chr. Heurich Brewing Co. by her uncle, Chris Heurich, Jr. Jan was active in local Republican politics and has served on numerous boards and committees, including the American Red Cross. Jan, along with her cousin Gary Heurich, was largely responsible for establishing the Heurich House Museum. Today she lives at the Fox Hill Residences in Bethesda, Maryland.

Title: Mark Keyser
Description: Mark Keyser discusses his childhood visits to Washington, D.C. and his recollections of his grandfather, Adolph Kaiser, his Aunt Amelia Heurich and visiting her at the Heurich House, and her sisters. He discusses his father Karl Anton Keyser's U.S. Navy service during World War II, along with ancestors on the Dilger side of his family and their service in the Civil War. One Dilger relative was a German operative working in D.C. during World War I. Although Mark does not have strong memories of the brewery itself, he does recall that the brewery's stables that later became a wax museum. Mark also reflects on stories he had heard about Christian Heurich, his generosity, and on his legacy in the family, recognizing that Christian likely provided financial assistance to the Keysers at times., Mark Keyser was born in 1950 in Northampton, Massachusetts to Karl Anton Keyser (1918-1995) and Dorothy M. Borger (1923-2003). He grew up near Amherst in a veterans’ housing project and visited his extended family in Washington, D.C. as a boy. Today Mark lives in Seabrook, New Hampshire, where he was enjoying a career as a substitute teacher until the COVID-19 pandemic hit in February/March 2020. His father Karl was Amelia Louisa Keyser Heurich’s nephew and grew up in Washington, D.C., at 1777 Lanier Place, NW. Karl served as Executive Officer (second in command) in the U.S. Navy in World War II on the U.S.S. Eberle in the North Atlantic and Mediterranean theatres of combat. He stayed in the U.S. Navy Reserve until about 1973. He earned several graduate degrees from Carnegie Mellon University (then the Carnegie Institute of Technology) in Pittsburg and had a long career as a professor of mechanical engineering and material sciences at the University of Massachusetts (Amherst?). Mark’s mother Dorothy had a career as a model in New York City where she crossed paths with actress Tippi Hedren before the war. During the war she worked at Sperry on Long Island as part of the war effort. After she married and the war ended, she concentrated on raising her three children. This interview also includes material about Mark’s grandfather, Adolph G. (“Dolph”) Keyser Sr. (1874-1955). Dolph was an attorney in Washington who Mark remembers had an office on K Street, NW, and who he believes worked for Christian Heurich, primarily handling Heurich’s real estate holdings. Dolph attended law school at Georgetown. Amelia Heurich’s diary records a moment in 1914 when her brother was not promoted to a secretarial/bookkeeping position at the brewery.

Title: Karla Jacobsen Squier
Description: Karla Jacobsen Squier discusses her childhood in Washington, D.C. during World War II, her early life and career in fashion, her later career in Republican politics in New Jersey, her current life and COVID, her Christian faith, and memories of the Jacobsen family., Karla Jacobsen Squier was born in Washington, D.C. in 1931 to Charles J. Jacobsen and Norvelle H. Newton. Her parents divorced when she was a child and her father served in the Army Air Corps during World War II and was frequently stationed out of the city. Her grandfather on her father’s side, Christian F. Jacobsen, was the president of the Metropolitan National Bank in Dupont Circle, and she remembered visiting him there as a child. Her great, great grandmother was Elizabeth Heurich Jacobsen, Christian Heurich’s sister who immigrated to Baltimore and encouraged Christian to join her there. Karla grew up in the Petworth neighborhood during the Depression and World War II, but left the city in 1945 with her mother to move to San Francisco, then back to the Washington area, and finally to New Jersey to finish high school. Karla then attended college and worked in New York City in the fashion industry for a few years before moving back to New Jersey. She married Donald O. Squier and the two had two children, Christian and Dawn, but they divorced and Karla became a single mother. She took her children back to see family in Washington, D.C., often and eventually became involved in New Jersey State politics for the Republican Party – working on campaigns for Governor Thomas Kean, Sr., and eventually leading the New Jersey State Board of Elections. Karla retired from politics in 2002 and moved to North Carolina, where she remains active in local politics and serves the community by working at a foodbank.

Title: The Washington Blade, January 14, 2000
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This issue includes articles on U.S. Supreme Court justice deliberations effects on gays; Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) study reveals AIDS infections in gay men of color surpass white men; Vice President Albert Gore fields questions from gays over the internet; U.S. Army directive orders fair treatment of soldiers; CDC funds study on lesbians and HIV; Gertrude Stein Club endorses Vice President Albert Gore; case dismissed against man charged in murder of Dennis Dollinger; D.C. resident Vincent M. Cullen files civil suit against Fresh Fields Whole Food Market; Paul Smedberg runs for seat on Alexandria, Virginia city council; gay community centers request federal money; gay Bauer urges Republicans to block gay civil rights goals; Hillary Clinton opposes same-sex marriage; obituaries for Bob Hasek, Jay Seth Miller, and Pat Townsend; straight spouses married to gays or lesbians; Alexandra Rangel's Artconnect in the Adams-Morgan neighborhoods of D.C.; 'Sports Lineup'; 'Gay Resources'; 'Classifieds'; 'Blade Personals'; 'Encounters'; and advertisements for businesses; churches; services; events; medication; and real estate., Volume 31 Number 2

Title: The Washington Blade, January 21, 2000
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. Vermont legislature debates gay marriage; U.S. Supreme Court will hear New Jersey Boy Scouts of America's case; gays poised for record turnout in Iowa caucuses; AIDS groups linked to counterparts in developing countries; DC police charge Raymond Anthony Jenkins with murder of Dennis Dolinger; Maryland bill to protect gays on hold; judgement rendered in Nebraska killing of Brandon Teena; presidential candidate profiles; American Foreign Service Association pushes for gay benefits; gays must not back down on right to marry; historian Martin Duberman; 'Sports Lineup'; 'Gay Resources'; 'Classifieds'; 'Blade Personals'; 'Encounters'; and advertisements for businesses; churches; services; events; medication; and real estate., Volume 31 Number 3

Title: The Washington Blade, December 10, 1999
Description: An independent weekly newspaper serving the gay community. This issue features articles on Whitman-Walker Clinic director Elliott Johnson; director Kerry Lobel of National Gay and Lesbian Task Force resigns; Millennium March on Washington; transgender community lives in fear of violence; D.C. Council changes Megan's Law; Private Calvin Glover found guilty of murder; Out magazine president Henry E. Scott resigns; gay Latino group LLEGO; John Rosenberg; Howard Holladay; gay resources guide; 'Sports Lineup'; 'Gay Resources'; 'Classifieds'; 'Blade Personals'; 'Encounters'; and advertisements for businesses; churches; services; events; medication; and real estate., Volume 30, Number 50

Title: The Washington Blade, March 15, 2002
Description: An independent newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This edition features articles about Rosie O'Donnell; 9/11 benefits for domestic partners; Montgomery County's School Board considering classroom discussions of sexual orientation; the Gay and Lesbian Activists Alliance calling for accountability for HIV/AIDS administration; a trial for the fatal stabbing of John O. Roach; Phil Pannell's candidacy for the D.C. Democratic State Committee; U.S. military discharges for homosexuality and reports of anti-gay harassment; the New York mayor participating in a St. Patrick's Day parade that banned gay groups; the partner of a slain Florida police officer suing for pension benefits; a San Francisco rugby team playing without their captain, who was killed on 9/11; the rejection of a Nebraska adoption; activists claiming that Harvard cut off financial aid to students after coming out; Donna Brazile's appointment to the Democratic National Committee's Voting Rights Institute; a fundraising reception for the National Stonewall Democrats; an Alabama bill stating that no citizens are \u2018inherently evil;' the first openly gay man elected to the California State Legislature; a Texas official condemning anti-gay political fliers; a Washington state requiring school policies against bullying and harassment; Tacoma City, Washington's plan to ban sexual discrimination in employment, housing, and access to public facilities and events; Aaron Diamond AIDS Research Center not accepting fundraising from Pallotta Teamwork after the financial reports of the AIDS Vaccine Ride; the trial over a Californian dog mauling death; Egyptians being sentenced to hard labor on sex charges; an investigation into death of Jamie Stickle; a teen's \u2018gay panic' defense in the death of Marcell Eads; an investigation into arson of a lesbian couple's house; the work of Aguda, the national gay Israeli organization; Sydney Gay and Lesbian Mardi Gras and a protest against church controversies; a Scottish sperm donor who was awarded parental rights; a homophobic Australian Pepsi commercial; a cash settlement for a lesbian teacher in Australia; the Nigerian president receiving praise for fighting the HIV-AIDS epidemic; and marketing to the gay community; as well as opinions on the coming out of public figures like Rosie O'Donnell and Donna Brazile, the Vatican's statement on gay priests, and mixed messages over pedophilia; profiles celebrating civil unions and anniversaries; letters on the Pallotta AIDS Ride, proposed changes to the Capital Pride parade, and the Dupont Circle neighborhood; segments on health, religion, and sports; advertisements for local business, services, events, HIV drugs, trials, and support services; entertainment reviews; employment opportunities; real estate listings; and classifieds.

Title: The Washington Blade, May 23, 2003
Description: An independent weekly newspaper serving the LGBTQIA+ community. This issue features news articles on topics including American troops serving alongside openly gay British troops, surprisingly uneventful; Democratic Presidential candidates debating over whether to pursue federally recognized civil unions or same-sex marriage; the upcoming Black Pride Weekend celebration and their fundraising efforts for LGBTQIA+ organizations; Two new nightclubs opening in Rehoboth Beach, DE following the demolition of Renegade, an established gay bar; Census Data reporting same-sex couples' annual earnings are similar to those of heterosexual couples, rather than wealthier; The US Senate passing a $15 billion bill to combat AIDS in Africa, and voted on state funding for Medicaid; A suspect coming forward in the death of lesbian teen, Sakia Gunn in Newark, New Jersey; IBM seeking LGBTQIA+ owned businesses for subcontracting work; National Assembly of the Presbyterian Church split on two LGBTQIA+ inclusive measures; National Virtual Translation Center trying to meet the intelligence agency linguist gap, often recruiting expelled gay linguists; Rev. David North’s journey through an HIV-positive diagnosis, coming to terms with his sexuality, and finding his way back to preaching; and other news affecting the LGBTQIA+ community from Bakersfield (CA); Los Angeles (CA); San Francisco (CA); Denver (CO); Danbury (CT); Washington (DC); Indianapolis (IN); Cleveland (OH); Melbourne (Australia); Sydney (Australia); Toronto (Canada); Paris (France); St. Julian's (Malta); Wellington (New Zealand); London (UK). Also included are 'Bitch Session'; 'Need Wood'; 'Bar Guide'; 'nightlife Calendar'; two 'Troy' cartoons by Michael Derry; a 'Kyle's Bed and Breakfast' cartoon by Greg Fox; 'Encounters'; 'Escorts'; 'Community Calendar'; 'Medical Report' highlighting health-related news affecting the LGBTQIA+ community from Raleigh (NC); Ashland (OR); Seattle (WA); Geneva (Switzerland) and Zurich (Switzerland); HIV/AIDS Resources; 'Self-Help Calendar'; obituaries; ‘Celebrations’; 'Sports' on media silence regarding athletes using anti-gay slurs; 'Sports Calendar'; 'Religion News' from Chicago (IL); Boston (MA); Minneapolis (MN); Concord (NH); and London (UK); 'Spiritual Calendar'; 'Forum' opinion columns covering Mary Cheney’s silence towards her father, Vice President Dick Cheney’s treatment of the LGBTQIA+ community, Annika Sorenstam’s invitation to compete in the PGA tour, men actively seeking HIV infection, and leather bars; 'Letters' featuring letters to the editor; 'Action! Alert'; 'On the Record' featuring recent public statements by various notable people; 'The Point' featuring the Showtime original movie “Soldier’s Girl,” based on the true story of Pfc. Barry Winchell, and other articles on LGBTQIA+ themes in the arts; literature; and entertainment; 'Out in D.C.' articles featuring local artists; 'Film' on satirical abortion rights movie, ‘Citizen Ruth’; 'On the Air'; 'Television' on the lack of gay representation in that season’s shows; 'Music' featuring the Joe Jackson Band’s ‘Volume 4’; 'Dish'; ‘Books' on Mark Merlis' ‘Man About Town’; 'Stage' featuring 'The Mad Dancers' at Theatre J; 'Dining' reviewing Citronelle; 'Travel'; 'Home'; classifieds; 'Personals'; and advertisements for businesses; churches; services; events; cars; and medication., Pages are out of order.

Title: City Paper, August 24, 1984
Description: The Washington City Paper is an alternative weekly newspaper serving the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. This edition features articles on fraternization in the military and "City Sides" local news related to Washington, D.C.; as well as letters to the editor; a "Back Room" section with highlights related to newspaper staff; a column focusing on local and national political gossip called "Loose Lips;" a "City Folks" highlight about Steve O’Neil of the Community for Creative Non-Violence; a "City Lights" calendar of upcoming cultural events; "Life In Hell," "USA Toady," Lynda Barry, and Bill Plympton comic strips; a photograph by Randy Mintz; a "Straight Dope" Q and A section, featuring questions from readers; an "Eats and Drinks" section on food; music, art, theatre, and film reviews; a brainteaser puzzle contest; advertisements for various services; and classified ads., Volume 04, Number 34

Title: Walter K. Robinson
Description: Robert K. Robinson, Sr., talks about his life going up in Baltimore, Maryland; time in the Tuskegee Airman; marrying his high school sweetheart; and his career in the post office in Washington, D.C. During the dialogue he reflects on segregation and desegregation. For decades, the Brookland Literary and Hunting Club has been a place that he goes for relaxation and companionship., Walter K. Robinson, Sr. was born in Baltimore, Maryland in 1920, the second son of Dr. John C. Robinson and Mrs. Clara Denning Robinson. In 1941, while attending Howard University in Washington, D.C., he volunteered for the Army Air Corps. He became one of the Tuskegee Airmen. After an injury, recuperation, and completion of training, WWII ended and his service and experiences have been well documented recently. His experiences as a Tuskegee Airman have shaped his life and he carries the work ethic and perseverance he learned there into his entire life. He married his high school sweetheart, Edmonia Bailey. In 1945 he received an honorable discharge and returned to Civilian life. He and his wife moved to D.C. in 1959. He worked for the U.S. Postal Service for 35 years. He rose through the ranks as Clerk, Station Manager, and the second Black Manager of Delivery and Collection for D.C. He and his wife had one son, Walter K. Robinson Jr. Mrs. Robinson died in 2000, after 59 years of marriage. Mr. Robinson still lives in D.C. and is a very active member of the East Coast Chapter of the Tuskegee Airmen. They won a Congressional Gold Medal as a group in March 2007. In the 1970s, he and his peers came to realize how important their legacy was and they formed the East Coast Chapter.

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