Nancy Haragan

This segment originally aired on December 6, 2011.

About a year ago, Baltimore lost one of its leading arts advocates when Nancy Haragan, the founding Director of the Greater Baltimore Cultural Alliance, died of cancer.  Our own Tom Hall worked closely with Nancy and other arts leaders as a member of the GBCA board. On December 6th of last year, Tom offered this remembrance.

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