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    MacDowell’s Young Set to Retire

    Feb 13, 2019 2 minutes
     –DANA ISOKAWA

    his spring, after twenty-two years as the executive director of the MacDowell Colony, one of the nation’s most prestigious residency programs for writers and artists, Cheryl A. Young will retire. Having joined the nonprofit arts colony in 1988 as its director of development, Young was named its leader in 1997 and oversaw MacDowell through a time of notable growth. During

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