Anarchist, journalist, drama critic, advocate of birth control and free love, Emma Goldman was one of the most famous - and notorious - women in the early twentieth century. Against a dramatic backdrop of political argument, show trials, imprisonment, and tempestuous romances, Goldman chronicles the epoch that she helped shape: the reform movements of the Progressive Era, the early years of and later disillusionment with Lenin's Bolshevik experiment, and more.
Services live-streamed April 7 for Judith Kennan
Judith (Allen) Kennan, 82, of East Hartford, Conn., passed away on March 31, 2021, from complications of a stroke and congestive heart failure. Judy was a resident of Riverside Health & Rehabilitation Center in East Hartford over the past several years.
Judy was born on May 9, 1938, in Oak Bluffs, the daughter of Albert Allen Jr. and Eileen (Allen) King. Judy was a very good basketball and softball player in high school; she went on to meet Bob, the preacher’s son, the love of her life.
After a few years, Judy and Bob were married by Arthur Kennan, his father the preacher. Together they went on to start their family of six kids, and loved them unconditionally. Judy taught her kids how to quahog and crab for blue claws; she would often teach her kids to dive to her feet and point with her toe where the quahog(s) were below her foot; this was not low tide. Eventually, they had to move off-Island due to housing, and their family cont