2 I February 2020 PRIME
A note from the editor Do you know a senior who should be featured in a future edition of Prime? Email your suggestions to Hannah Stiff at hstiff@dailychronicle.com. The marvelous life of Jo Anne Troxel ................................................2 Old Guy Noises .........................................................................................4 Yoga for Healthy Aging .........................................................................5 That Gadget on my Wrist ......................................................................6 Favorite Houseplants ..........................................................................7 Look for Changes in Retirement Plans ..............................................8 Senior Citizen Center Calendars .........................................................9
EVERYTHING YOU WANT, MORE THAN YOU EXPECT
THE MARVELOUS LIFE OF JO ANNE TROXEL A HOMETOWN STORY WITH A COMMUNIST BACKGROUND By Hannah Stiff
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luck a day, any day, from the calendar, and Jo Anne Salisbury Troxel is having a marvelous time. On a recent winter morning, Troxel has a friend stop by her Bozeman home to talk about the book she’s just written, Waiting for the Revolution: A Montana Memoir.
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The book chronicles the lives of Troxel’s parents, and a little-knownpiece of Montana history, in which Montanans experienced their own rise and fall of communism. This specific bit of history unfolds in the remote Eastern Montana town of Plentywood in the 1920s and 30s, when Troxel’s father, the town’s communist sheriff, and her idealist
mother, navigate a tumultuous affair and hard scrabble existence. The book weaves family history, politics, love and loss together in an enrapturing tale. “It’s a little piece of history we don’t know much about,” Troxel says. For those interested in Troxel’s latest work, she will be reading it at the Country Bookshelf on Febru-
