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Greetings, Phil, from California. Always delightful to read your take on things. I've been back to Brooklyn a lot lately. For my 8th grade 50th reunion at P.S. 99 last year in the Midwood section. (Woody went there and named the character portrayed by Mia in "Zelig" after our common principal, Dr. Eudora Fletcher.) And this past April, to a Nolan Family Reunion in Park Slope where I met many Irish cousins for the first time. My daughter Rosy now lives in Williamsburg and loves it. I'll be back in August. Would love to visit with you and your family. - Michael
Great column, Andrew, with an irresistible headline. A group of us in San Francisco are campaigning for the public employment of artists under Obama's Jobs & Growth stimulus package to work in the schools and couple an employment program with the President-elect's commitment to school reform and educational advancement.
The arts have shown their ability to foster a love of learning in a variety of subjects and serve as a collaborative meeting place for students from diverse economic and racial backgrounds. Artists also represent a 50-state strategy that can put talented artists to work who are young, old, middle-aged, male and female, gay and straight, disabled and not-so-disabled, and of many ethnic stripes. A broader demographic base than that served by traditional infrastructure projects.
In the spirit and noble examples of the WPA and the CETA Arts Program of the Ford-Carter years, we press Uncle Sam to invest in putting artists to work in the schools and community centers of our nation.
Michael D. Nolan
San Francisco
