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RotaCare to Hold Annual Caregivers’ Ball on April 20 NYU Langone’s student RotaCare volunteers participate in the recent ribbon cutting ceremony at RotaCare’s new home at 175 Fulton Avenue, Hempstead, NY.Photo by Joe Carrotta Invitations are out, and everyone is invited to attend RotaCare’s Caregivers’ Ball to be held on Thursday, April 20, at the Inn
Tom Deignan writes about Alice McDermott's new release, What About the Baby? Some Thoughts on the Art of Fiction.
The demolition of two historic institutions in Preston – Mount Street Hospital and St Joseph’s Orphanage – is close to starting.
As the bleak winter of 1862 dragged on into 1863, the isolated, ramshackle town of Los Angeles was visited by a terrifying scourge — smallpox. With its telltale fever and disfiguring skin rash, the highly infectious disease jumped from adobe to adobe, killing more than 100 people and sickening hundreds of others. If those numbers don't sound like much, remember L.A. had only 4,000 or so souls at the time and the outbreak wiped out half of its indigenous residents. "The city's smallpox wagon, dubbed the 'black Maria,' was a frequent and disheartening sight as it rolled through the streets ca...