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Nesconset Teen With Broadway Dreams Dies Of Brain Cancer Just Months After HS Graduation
An 18-year-old Long Island woman who just graduated from high school in the summer has died from brain cancer. Hannah Waller, of Nesconset, was known locally for her love and talent for theater prior to her death Sunday, Nov. 1. “Hannah earned numerous awards and accolades while chasing her dream to …
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New centre for contemporary Indigenous art launches in upstate New York
Branchline, a new 10,000-sq.-ft arts centre focused on championing contemporary Native American art, opened its main gallery to the public on Saturday (7 November). Located in the town of Katonah in New York’s Westchester County, Branchline is an initiative of the Gochman Family Collection (GFC), a private lending collection established in 2021 by the philanthropist Becky Gochman, who has a longstanding interest in Native art, and the former gallerist Zach Feuer.
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Stratford Library Launches Strategic Planning Work
The Stratford Library will hold two community conversations to better understand the needs of the Stratford residents. The conversations are part of a larger strategic planning process that includes input from Library staff, the Library’s Board of trustees, and a community survey to develop goals and objectives to help plan future improvements to Library facilities and services.
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Abstract Identity Brings Fashion, Art and Community Together At Bridgeport’s NEST Arts Factory
Six designers, joined models, artists and photographers for a collaborative runway show during the Bridgeport Art Trail. Fashion became a meeting point for the local creative community on Saturday, November 7, when Abstract Identity brought six designers to the runway for its first fashion show at NEST Arts Factory as part of the Bridgeport Art Trail.
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Veterans Day and the Veterans Museum
On June 28, 1919, the Treaty of Versailles was signed in France, officially ending World War I, known as “The Great War”. Seven months earlier, on November 11, 1918, an armistice (“a temporary cessation of hostilities”) had gone into effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month. The magnitude of the conflict between the Allied nations and Germany caused the war to be considered “the war to end all wars.” If only that were so.