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Annual Public Meeting

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Digital Literacy

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Contest will put poetry in motion

“Tell us about your community, your neighbor’s, your dreams for the city you call home.” Learn how your poem could be displayed in Port Authority buses.

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Lady from the Black Lagoon: Hollywood Monsters and the Lost Legacy of Millicent Patrick
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Queenie
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A Woman Is No Man
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Women's History Month

Children’s biographies are an especially great way to gain appreciation for the lives of individuals through a short, engaging narrative.
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Tessa East Liberty

The Girls Who Went Away

A remarkable work of social history, The Girls Who Went Away follows artist Ann Fessler as she comes to terms with her history as an adoptee and, in doing so, opens up a space for the teenage mothers who had to give up their children to find her and finally tell their stories. Alternating between factual research and oral history, Fessler dives into the untold…