February – in – Brief
Libraries We Love
My first love—the Yonkers Carnegie Library
By Patricia Vaccarino
Alana Belle:
A Woman After Our Own Hearts
By Patricia Vaccarino
The Covid pandemic has inspired Alana Belle to examine the true meaning of life.
Building Back Better:
The National Endowment for the Arts
by Barbara Lloyd McMichael
The pandemic has hit the cultural sector hard. Barbara McMichael’s new monthly column examines the history of The National Endowment of the Arts and the possibility that the arts would once again be elevated in the Biden administration.
Milan Heger
Art. Freedom. Love.
by Patricia Vaccarino
Artist Milan Heger cannot suppress his love of art or freedom, both of which have come to mean the same thing.
Tales From
The Golden Age of Radio
by Linda Jay
Linda Jay writes about her parents, Verne and Helen Jay, who were iconic writers for radio shows “The Shadow,” “Mr. and Mrs. North,” “Famous Jury Trials,” and “Grand Central Station” during the Golden Age of Radio.