Our staff's Christmas picks

Features in the December 7, 2016 issue

Harriet and the Promised Land: Birth 1822, by Jacob Lawrence © 2016 The Jacob and Gwendolyn Knight Lawrence Foundation, Seattle / Artist Rights Society, NY

Eleven CC staff members make their selections:

Jill Peláez Baumgaertner, Celeste Kennel-Shank, Elizabeth Palmer, Daniel Richardson, Debra Bendis, David Heim, Amy Frykholm, Peter W. Marty, Steve Thorngate, Rachel Pyle, Janet Milkovich

This article appears in the December 7, 2016 issue.

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