In the Depth of Winter, Color Blooms: Toby Sue Gordon at the Bendheim Gallery
By Emma Barhydt There are moments when color feels less like something you see and more like something you enter. That is the quiet…
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Day: January 21, 2026
Junior League of Greenwich to Host Open House
The Junior League of Greenwich (JLG) announces its upcoming Open House and one-day New Member Class. The Open House on Saturday, January 24 is…
Margaret Esmé Simon’s art works on exhibit in Cos Cob Library’s New Community Space
With artist Margaret Esmé Simon’s art on display in the Cos Cob Library, she shares her educative art experience and describes her art.
The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America
John Fabian Witt’s talk traced how Charles Garland’s rejected 1922 inheritance was transformed into the Garland Fund, a vehicle for radical philanthropy that fueled civil rights and labor movements. The fund backed pivotal legal battles and institutions, from Clarence Darrow’s famous trials to early NAACP litigation that laid groundwork for Brown v. Board of Education, as well as workers’ education at Brookwood Labor College. Witt argued that the fund’s willingness to support outsider ideas during a turbulent 1920s offers lessons for today’s democratic crises, while highlighting enduring tensions over using “tainted” wealth to pursue social justice.
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