This interview is part of a collection of interviews conducted between 1976-1981.
Mrs. Shong talks about her childhood and her famous grandparents. One was the first congresswoman in the united states and her paternal grandfather was a famous Egyptologist, James Henry Breasted who founded the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago in 1919 and helped open King Tutankhamun’s tomb. She tells of her family connection to the Dinsmore Homestead and relates some stories about her mother Martha Breasted