Articles written by Karly Lusby

Karly Lusby|Updated Feb 23, 2016

The highest price ever paid for a piece of Olympic memorabilia occurred in December 2013, a medal belonging to Jesse Owens that sold at an online auction for $1.47 million. News of the sale brought to mind a story I was told by my dad - and it comes to mind again as the movie "Race" premiers. My grandfather was a fire marshal in Munich, Germany before and during World War II. His work took him to Berlin in 1936 and he took his 8-year-old son with him; this man, Karl Eichner, was my father. It was a time when kids could r... Full story