Politics & Government
Playwright to Lead Aging Discussion in We Are Takoma Lecture Series Event
The event will be held on Sept. 22 at 7:30 p.m. and will be free.

The We Are Takoma Lecture Series will be presenting a film and discussion on aging in America with playwright Ellen Cassedy.
The free program, "Beautiful Hills of Brooklyn," will be held in the Takoma Park Auditorium Sept. 22 at 7:30 p.m.
The film is based on a true story, drawn from the diary of Jessie Singer Sylvester, an elderly woman living on a pension, confronting the changes in her life and her Brooklyn neighborhood.
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The film is told entirely through the diary and is intervowen with Walt Whitman's poem Crossing Brooklyn Ferry.
Cassedy, who will be leading the discussion, won a Moondance Festival Award in 2002 for the play, Beautiful Hills of Brooklyn, upon which the film is based. Cassedy was a founder of 9 to 5, the national association of working women that inspired the film Nine to Five, starring Jane Fonda, Lily Tomlin and Dolly Parton.
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