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Lisa had studied for the concert stage and has been a concert singer appearing throughout the world, Jeanne was a professional actress and now they're making films and showing them to such wonderful audiences as World Cavalcade. Ladies and gentlemen, Jeanne Porterfield and Lisa Chickering.

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{SPEAKER name="Lisa Chickering "}
Good evening everyone, it certainly is nice to be here in Seattle with you tonight.

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{SPEAKER name="Jeanne Porterfield"}
I can't tell you how much it means to us. First of all, Seattle is our very favorite city in this country and now with this beautiful theater, this is our favorite theater in the country. So we're very happy,(applause) and you know since being here in Seattle, so many people have been asking us just how the two of us ever did get started making travel films.

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{SPEAKER name="Lisa Chickering "}
Well now you might say that interest in the world in travel started at a rather early age.

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{SPEAKER name="Jeanne Porterfield"}
It certainly did. As children, Lisa and I lived near each other in Chicago and I remember one time somebody said that China was right under Chicago.

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{SPEAKER name="Lisa Chickering "}
I remember that too, in fact I also remember that we immediately proceeded to dig up the backyard, in search of it.

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{SPEAKER name="Jeanne Porterfield"}
Well now needless to say, China wasn't reached that time. Although some years later it was, only not via the backyard. Lisa was a singer and had a singing engagement in Paris and asked me if I'd liked to go along. Well the answer was yes because I'd always wanted to go to Europe.

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{SPEAKER name="Lisa Chickering "}
So had I.

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{SPEAKER name="Jeanne Porterfield"}
And this tour which was to last, oh approximately four weeks turned into a three year trip around the world.

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{SPEAKER name="Lisa Chickering"}
And all this time we photographed everything we saw, from the Eiffel Tower, to wild monkeys in India, to chop suey in China. Then arriving back in the United States,

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{SPEAKER name="Jeanne Porterfield"}
which as I said turned out to be 3 long years later. We found we had more interesting pictures than anything else.

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{SPEAKER name="Lisa Chickering "}
So that's when we decided to go back to some of our favorite places in the world.