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Meals on Wheels

Sally Haver

March 02, 2023

At the beginning of the pandemic in March of 2020, Susan R. told me that front-line workers, which could include deliverers of Meals On Wheels, would get moved to the head of the queue for getting vaccinated against Covid. I thought this was an excellent quid pro quo because, as an older person, I was in greater danger from the effects of Covid than other sub-sets of the population, and the sooner I could get vaccinated, the better.

Arts & Culture

Time Marches On

Patricia Vaccarino

March 01, 2023

As time marches on, there is only one hard truth: the more things change, the more things stay the same.

Health

Lindsey Fitzharris on Visionary Surgeon Harold Gillies

Robin Lindley

February 28, 2023

Robin Lindley interviews Lindsey Fitzharris who wrote The Facemaker about pioneering surgeon Dr. Harold Gillies. Today Dr. Gillies restored the mutilated faces of wounded British soldiers during World War I. Today he is widely considered to be father of modern plastic surgery.

Books

Everyone Loves a Yonkers Girl

Patricia Vaccarino

February 14, 2023

Few works of literary fiction are set in Yonkers or depict life in Yonkers. Neil Simon wrote Lost in Yonkers, but he wasn't even from Yonkers. Lawrence Ferlinghetti was born in Yonkers, but that fact is frequently missing from his biography. Don DeLillo lived in Yonkers for many years but never wrote about it. It's about time that Yonkers should finally get its own place in the sun.

World Views

Digging Out

Annie Searle

February 13, 2023

It is hard to know where to begin, after such a seemingly endless stream of weather-related disasters and, most recently, the earthquakes in Turkey and Syria. Only yesterday did the earthquake recovery efforts there begin to move to the next stage of restoration.

World Views

February 2023 Magazine

Patricia Vaccarino

February 11, 2023

In February we pay tribute to a fine new documentary film made by John de Graaf. Stewart Udall and the Politics of Beauty is a story about a man who quietly worked with people from all walks of life and many political factions to create a better world.

Arts & Culture

The Politics of Beauty

Barbara McMichael

February 11, 2023

It isn’t every day that a federal bureaucrat gets featured in a film half a century after his service in the nation’s capital and more than a decade after his death. But filmmaker John de Graaf felt that Stewart Udall’s story needed to be heard by a new generation.

Arts & Culture