Barbara Krasner

Award-winning author Barbara Krasner is a historian, writer, lecturer, and native of Kearny. She follows the success of Kearny, published by Arcadia in 2000, with Kearny's Immigrant Heritage, drawing upon numerous interviews. This long-awaited history contains cultural and family photographs-many uncovered in private collections and closeted archives-ranging from addressing the haggis on Scottish poet Robert Burns' birthday to celebrating Portugal Day to commemorating independence on Lithuania Day.