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Connecting Through Kids’ Books: A Prison Writing Project

by Mary E. Cronin | Jan 21, 2016 | Cape Cod, Community connections, Prison writing project, Teaching, We Need Diverse Books

Like a plane coming in for a landing, I am settling back in to work and writing after the excitement of the holidays and a January trip to Ireland. Thanks to local arts funding, I will be teaching a new version of my creative writing class in the women’s unit of...

What a children’s writer learned from a fierce diva’s cabaret act

by Mary E. Cronin | Aug 21, 2015 | Cape Cod, Community connections, LGBTQ+

Billy Porter was just in Provincetown for a three-night nightclub engagement. You know, the Billy Porter who won a Tony for the role of Lola in Broadway’s hit “Kinky Boots.” He sang with supreme confidence in a skirt, a killer hat and some kick-ass...
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