The New York State Writers Institute mourns the passing of Mario Cuomo, former New York Governor and a very dear friend of the Institute, who signed into law the legislation that created our organization in 1984.
Cuomo came to the Institute to celebrate its 25th anniversary in 2009, his first public appearance in Albany since leaving the Governor's mansion in 1994. On that occasion, he shared the stage at Page Hall with historian Doris Kearns Goodwin (pictured here).
More about his visit here: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/cuomo_goodwin09.html
The New York Times obituary: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/02/nyregion/mario-cuomo-new-york-governor-and-liberal-beacon-dies-at-82.html?_r=0http://www.nytimes.com/2015/01/02/nyregion/mario-cuomo-new-york-governor-and-liberal-beacon-dies-at-82.html?_r=0
More photos from the 25th Anniversary here: http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/webpages4/archives/celebrate25.pdf
Friday, January 2, 2015
Mario Cuomo (1932-2015)
Wednesday, November 18, 2009
25th Anniversary Celebration Updates
The work of the Institute has been all-consuming of late, and to note that we haven't posted since early October is, well, an embarrassment, both of silences, and of riches. Sometimes it's wonderful to have so many things going on that you can't stop to whistle at them.
On November 16 we celebrated our 25th anniversary with a highlight film and remarks 
by Mario Cuomo, the former governor of New York who signed the establishing legislation for the
formation of the NYSWI into law, and Doris Kearns Goodwin, biographer/historian who has appeared at the Writers Institute six times since its inception.
Visits prior to that, by Richard
Russo, Lorrie Moore, Don DeLillo, Russell Banks, Henry Louis Gates, and others (celebrations of Rumi, and Jazz history included), will be chronicled in due course. Sometimes it's better to be living than to be blogging!
