JANUARY/FEBRUARY 2021

Editor’s Letter

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With a new year and our 10th anniversary upon us and the virus still raging, we at WAG thought, “Why not go all in and revamp the magazine?” It made perfect sense, for if there ever was a year for a refresh, it’s 2021.

Yes she did

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Laid off from IBM at age 57, Marjorie Madfis couldn’t find the job she wanted. So she created it instead as founding executive director of Yes She Can, a nonprofit that seeks to empower young autistic women while rehabilitating secondhand American Girl dolls for purchase.

Restoration plays

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Kathleen Gilje recreates masterpieces by recasting their female subjects in a heroic, activist light; drawing attention to their circumstances; and reclaiming the female body for themselves, herself and her female viewers.

New year, new home

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Bucking the trend, Wares columnist Cami Weinstein and hubby Marc have moved from the ’burbs to the big city. But a new home in the new year may simply mean a refresh of an old space.

Roger Sherman’s inn-spired reimagining

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What’s next for the Roger Sherman Inn? If we learned anything from 2020, it is that the future is impossible to forecast. But smart money will say that the celebrated establishment will change with the times and still be in the spotlight for years to come.