PNB Blog
American Stories: Cecilia Iliesiu, Company dancer
Recently, I had a discussion with my parents about where we each felt most at home. My mother, a British-American, and my father, a native [...]
American Stories: Jessika Anspach, Company dancer
I am an American. To some this phrase inspires hope and pride, and for others it arouses awkward silence and rolling eyes. But what does [...]
American Stories: Joshua Grant, Company dancer
I remember going to London with PNB back in 2002. I couldn’t wait to get back to America and everything that made me feel [...]
American Stories: Stephanie Wallach, Commercial Pilot
Both the inherent significance of being an American and my perception of what it means to be an American have changed dramatically for me as [...]
American Stories: Anne A. Lawrence, An Improbable Trans Ballerina
America's founders declared the pursuit of happiness to be an unalienable human right, on a par with the right to life itself. Despite an underlying [...]
American Stories: Joyce Ramée, PNB Orchestra
My family was a hodgepodge of national backgrounds, but my generation (late baby boomer) and our previous two generations were all American-born. My parents grew [...]
American Stories: Marsha Bennion, Publications Manager
My great-grandmother, Amelia, was born in 1854 and emigrated from Crewkerne, England, a grimy factory town. It took Amelia’s father three years to earn passage [...]
American Stories: Josh TerAvest, Associate Director of Marketing
My mother grew up on a dairy farm in central California as part of a very close knit Dutch community. My mom’s side of the [...]
American Stories: Karen Portzer, PNB Accounting Analyst
My American Story begins with Swiss emigrants in the mid-1700’s who left their homeland to settle in the fertile farmlands of Lancaster, Pennsylvania. When I [...]