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Dan Hennessy

New York
As seen in: Finger Lakes Times, Lincolnshire Live
Covers:  History as it relates to today... a view of the present through the lens of the past and studies of the Holocaust from a critical perspective.
Retired English teacher/Holocaust Educator, husband, father, author/writer; born in the beautiful Finger Lakes region of NYS, lover of books.

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Dan Hennessy’s Biography

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I write a column for The Finger Lakes Times called "Timely Matters," an ongoing reflection of life in today's world as seen through the multi-angled prism of yesterday. My perspective of modern history is very much shaped by intensive study of the Holocaust with some of the great institutions of the subject in the world: staff of the Int’l School of Holocaust Studies in Jerusalem, Israel; the Anti-Defamation League, the international educational group "Facing History & Ourselves," and the U.S. …

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TIMELY MATTERS: Happiness included — Books, they're good for the soul

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By Dan Hennessy
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Those who know me, know that I love books. Fiction. Lots of fiction. Tons of fiction. But I’m reading a work of non-fiction at the moment, which is a real switch. It’s of the autobiographical type, by Eve Plumb, better known as Jan Brady of The Brady Bunch.
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TIMELY MATTERS: Joe Iaconis/Baseball (one in the same, really ...)

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By Dan Hennessy
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“I’m just a guy who wants to see his name every day in the lineup. “Baseball was a love and obsession of mine.” — Legendary Baltimore Orioles third baseman Brooks Robinson There are voices in life that will always be remembered. In my life, one of those voices was a local one: That of Joe Iaconis. When I think of Yankee baseball my thoughts take on the voice of Phil Rizzuto. When I think of Mets baseball my thoughts take on the voice of Ralph Kiner.
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TIMELY MATTERS: A magical time of year

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By Dan Hennessy
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“Star of wonder, star of light Star with royal beauty bright Westward leading, still proceeding Guide us to thy perfect light” — “We Three Kings,” John Henry Hopkins Jr. American clergyman and hymnodist, 1857 It seems hard to believe that for the first two centuries of settlement on this side of the Atlantic, Christmas went largely uncelebrated. Only in the middle of the 19th century did it gain legal recognition as an official public “holiday” here.
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Awards

Meyer A. Nathan Scholarship for Holocaust Education awarded by the Anti-Defamation League

2010 - Holocaust Education

Dedication and performance in the field of Holocaust Education.