Author Archives

• Italy’s artistic development forms layers of history

  By Savannah Leavitt on July 28, 2022

  

  Another day’s work finds Victor Santinoli handing out earpieces one afternoon in mid-July in the Duomo di Milano. Santinoli, a Milanese working as a tour guide at the Duomo, points out different periods of architecture within the cathedral.  Italy boasts… Read More ›

• Savannah Leavitt: Here is New York

  By Savannah Leavitt on July 15, 2022

  

  Editor’s note: Students were asked to read E.B. White’s famous essay “Here is New York” and then write an updated version in their own voice, paying homage to White. Between all who scuff deeper grooves into its streets; who add… Read More ›

• Chabad sees role in bringing heaven to Earth

  By Savannah Leavitt on July 12, 2022

  By Savannah Leavitt The Hassidic Jewish community in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, seeks to bring “heaven to earth” in the words of Yonitan Katz and Mayer Friedman –– two Hassidic rabbis in the community.  Crown Heights is considered to be the… Read More ›

• Lennon memorial in NYC’s Central Park draws musicians

  By Savannah Leavitt on July 10, 2022

  

  By Savannah Leavitt Paulina Butterfly sings and strums along to the tune of “The Night Before” in front of a crowd of several listeners and passersby in Central Park.  Musicians frequent this memorial at Central Park, which is known as… Read More ›