Category: Issue 55

Sprout Film Mini-Festival…Making the Invisible Visible

What is “normal”? Society tends to turn a blind eye to people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD) so that they become invisible. The Sprout Film Festival is an event that is hosted annually in New York City that features films that provide insightful looks into the histories, struggles...

25th Blessing Anniversary of St Mary of the Angels

On Sunday, June 8th St Mary of the Angels celebrated the 25th anniversary of the building that was erected after the flood of 1987 inundated their former church on West Riverside Drive.   Bishop Emeritus Gerard Dionne, who is now 95 years old, told us “Before that historic flood,...

The Modern Knowledge Tour

Have you ever heard that old joke that goes “They must think I’m a mushroom…. They keep me in the dark and feed me cow manure?” Everyone can relate to this on some level, but most people don’t realize that this little joke accurately describes how our world is...