November /December 2020 · Volume 16 · Number 6
Home sweet home
Hidden histories Safe travels Sustainable shopping Feeding the community
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CONTENTS
NOVEMBER/DECEMBER 2020 in every issue
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Prime living
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Community meals By Michael J. DeCicco
At the United Way, volunteers of all ages are working together to fill bellies and hearts.
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A revival revived By Deborah Allard Dion The crown jewel of the Historical Highlands in Fall River is on the market. See how it’s been renovated and updated over the years.
Beating the pandemic blues By Elizabeth Morse Read Humans aren’t designed to be socially distant – here’s how to manage the psychological struggle.
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From the publisher
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Knocking on history’s door By Deborah Allard Dion The oldest homes around the region are far more than the sums of their parts. Take a look behind the walls of some fascinating historical houses.
Travelling tips for today By Paul Kandarian
Got someplace to be? Wear your mask, wash you hands, and follow this advice.
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Virtual autumn arts By Steven Froias Neither rain, nor sleet, nor global pandemic can stop you from enjoying arts from the South Coast.
Good times
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Stylishly sustainable shopping By Kennedy Ryan
Make a stand against “fast fashion” by shopping at local consignment boutiques.
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The better to hear you with By Paul Kandarian
I went for a walk in the woods alone. I’ve been taking that for granted.
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appreciate a cozy home. This issue, we’re highlighting one of the region’s coziest homes: 503 Highland Avenue in Fall River. Learn more about the city’s historic residential real estate listing on page 12. For listing information, search for the house on Zillow.com.
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Improbably, we have already entered leaf peeping season. And even if you haven’t yet relegated your shorts to the bottom drawers, you’ve probably already gone through your wardrobe and wondered why you ever thought you looked good in that one sweater in the first place. If so, then keep sustainability in mind as you go shopping to supplement your wardrobe. In her debut article on page 6, Kennedy Ryan reminds us that consignment stores are excellent options for the fashionable and ethical consumer. If you spent the summer driving around with no real destination in mind, you undoubtedly noticed beautiful old houses that had skipped your attention before but which have since sparked your imagination. What stories do they hold? Surely more than could be contained within the pages of this magazine, but nonetheless, on page 10, Deborah Allard Dion unveils some of these homes’ hidden histories. No one said that the road to our “new normal” would be a pleasant one, but it needn’t be an unbearable one. Quarantining, social distancing, even remembering to always wear a mask – it’s a lot to bear. The pandemic has placed an emphasis on our physical health, but it is more important than ever to tend to our mental and psychological health. On page 16, Liz Read offers some sage advice on how to maintain serenity and wellness. If you think about it, the sudden onset of fall might be one of the few things that makes this year feel like the ones that preceded it. And hey, these masks do a pretty good job keeping your face warm when the temperature drops. Maybe we’ve been more ready for fall than we realized!
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GOOD TIMES
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Seconds Count Consignment in Fairhaven features a variety of high-end brands
A few of the South Coast’s companies are leading the change in sustainable second-hand shopping. Shopping second-hand, or purchasing products that have had prior use, allows Kennedy consumers to give products another lifetime of Ryan use. Two of Fairhaven’s popular stores, What A Find Consignment and Seconds Count Consignment, are giving consumer goods another chance to find the perfect owner. When people contribute items to consignment stores they not only are able to make a profit from their items, but are also able to reduce the amount of waste in landfills. According to the Environmental Protection Agency, Americans generate 16 million tons of textile waste a year. With “fast fashion” on the rise, there is growth in the amount of waste produced each year. However, there is hope. Consumers can donate or sell their lightly used clothing and furniture to consignment shops. There, a more carefully selected arrangement of second-hand consumer
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goods gives consumers the opportunity to shop quality used goods at reduced prices. Those who bring in their lightly used goods also have the opportunity to profit off their items.
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Seconds Count, a consignment shop in Fairhaven, only takes in the highestquality items. The store features a variety of high-end brands, including Patagonia, North Face, Free People, and more. Sue Kanter spoke about how selective she is when picking items for her store, proudly showcasing products for the whole family. “I like to give people a chance to find good quality items in an enjoyable environment,” said Kanter. Among the shelves lined with toys, books, decor, accessories, and every clothing item imaginable, there truly is something for everyone. “I want everyone who comes in to feel welcome and treated with respect,” said Kanter. Consignment shopping isn’t only for clothing. Many furniture items end up in the landfill after one use, despite still being in great condition. Many consumers throw their furniture away, not knowing what else to do with the items they no longer want. Shoppers looking to explore unique consignment furniture can drive across town to visit What A Find Consignment, owned by Linda and Leif Johannessen.
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This building has been a furniture store shop for trends and unique items. These since 1951, but it wasn’t until 2008 that shops give people in the community Linda and Leif took ownership and the opportunity to find beautifully turned it into a consignment shop. unique items at an affordable price. This The store appears to be no different sustainable industry, thriving within the than a high-end furniture store, lined South Coast area, gives new life to used with unique couches, bedding, decor, items and helps everyone find something and more. Each item perfect for their style. is carefully selected, Those looking to assuring shoppers contribute items to Sechave the opportunity onds Count and What to purchase quality a Find should reach So many people goods at an affordable out to each business price. Linda loves the through phone. With throw furniture opportunity to give restrictions of Covid-19 that’s in good beautiful pieces of these businesses are furniture a second life. taking precautions, condition into a “So many people allowing people to throw furniture that’s schedule appointments landfill in good condition into to donate. Seconds a landfill,” she said. Count is available at Consignment (508) 991-2229 and shopping is also a great way to try out open Monday through Saturday from 9 a new style without the risk of creating a.m. to 4:30 p.m. What A Find is available waste. People looking to change the at (508) 997-0166 and open Wednesday theme of their home can browse the through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. unique selection What A Find has to offer, and Sundays from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Both including a variety of home decor styles stores are available for in-store shopping ranging from modern to vintage. Each without calling ahead as well. room is decorated by Linda herself. “I really enjoy getting to arrange K ennedy R yan is a Massachusetts everything. It’s like playing house,” Linda resident and lifelong storyteller, contributing to said. local universities, small businesses, and online Consignment shopping is a great way to publications.
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PRIME LIVING
Community meals
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The United Way of both Greater New Bedford and Fall River is providing a necessary service at a time when not everyone can afford the best meal for their dinner table, especially at Thanksgiving time.
All year long they have been partners in the Farm-to-Family program that delivers boxes of food and locally grown produce to local food pantries and soup kitchens across the South Coast. In November, they’ll be continuing their own individual food drive programs at this important time of year. The Fall River United Way’s executive director Kimberly J. Smith said her agency’s participation with New Bedford in the “Farm to Family” program has distributed approximately 30,000 boxes of donated food in total throughout the South Coast. The agency also works every year to assemble Thanksgiving baskets with the help of the Frank M. Silvia Elementary School in Fall River, in a partnership with Bristol County Savings Bank and Stop and Shop, she added. Last year the agency
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assembled more than 30 baskets for families in need. This year the Fall River United Way will continue its partnership with the Silvia School and Bristol County Savings to distribute close to $40,000 of food grants, Smith said, “to support local pantries in our effort to alleviate hunger across the South Coast, as we have provided every year. We are also continuing our partnerships with local food vendors who are donating to us.”
Team effort This year the United Way of Greater New Bedford distributed an average of 800 to 1,000 20-pound boxes of food per week since the Farm to Family Program started in May, said Victoria Grasala, the New Bedford United Way’s Vice President of Marketing and Community Engagement. With USDA grant funding, Sid Wainer
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bought the food and other supplies for the boxes and put them together for delivery, she said. Just as this program has ended, it will naturally dovetail into the agency’s other, related effort, its yearly Hunger Heroes program in November. On this Family Volunteer Day, the agency’s big volunteer drive, 300 to 600 heroes pack Thanksgiving meals on the Saturday before Thanksgiving Day every year, Grasala said. The turkeys and side dishes, vegetables, etc., are packed into separate roasting tins and then into sturdy banana boxes before being trucked to the various food pantries in the area on Thanksgiving Day. Meals and turkeys are boxed separately because some recipients don’t eat turkey, or their turkeys are being donated from another source, Grasala explained. On Family Volunteer Day, Grasala said, the program delivers an average of 1,000 Thanksgiving turkeys and meals purchased through a Community Development Block Grant every year. It’s a program where all ages of volunteers lend a hand, she said. “We can get the energy from the young volunteers,” she
reflected. “Kids as young as three have been involved.” There are so many ways for even the youngest person to get involved in the effort, she said. Parents will take their child to the grocery store to help shop
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for the food items needed. On the day that food boxes are to be organized, the kids work on the packing line or coloring the greeting cards that accompany them. Parents hold the tins while their children place the foods in. Because of COVID-era restrictions, there will be more, shorter shifts this year. But Grasala is not expecting any less enthusiasm from volunteers. “I’d be talking to my three-year-old nephew while he’s working, and he’d say, ‘Auntie, I have a job to do!’ Our volunteers really get into it. They feel a part of something important.” Grasala calculates the agency has spent $37,000 on the food that it has donated. “The need has grown immensely,” she said. She proves this latter point with her other calculation. The Greater New Bedford United Way donated 35,000 pounds of food last year. “This year,” she said, “we’ve distributed 1.2 million pounds of food.” Those interested in volunteering for any of the New Bedford United Way’s programs should go to unitedwayofnb. org then to the volunteersouthcoast.org tab. Sign-up for Family Volunteer Day starts in October, but slots fill up fast, Grasala said.
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Knocking on history’s door 498 Old County Road, Westport, dated 1960
When shopping for a house, some look for brand new construction with polished untouched surfaces and Deborah contemporary design. Others A llard Dion search for history – pretty or tarnished – and prefer to live within the walls of a home formerly occupied by a Revolutionary War captain, an at-home funeral business, or a retired president. Luckily, the South Coast boasts a treasure trove of historical homesteads. A look at Westport, known for its stone walls, beaches, and farmland, revealed several houses for sale that offer a colorful history at very modern price points. Captain John Gifford might be surprised to know that his house, built circa 1775, at 498 Old County Road, is now for sale for $475,000. Gifford is known for smuggling goods to the patriots during the Revolutionary War and evading the British Navy. He was described as a “coastal
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trader under duress” according to historical records. Gifford’s sprawling 10-room Georgian with six fireplaces (and an outhouse that seats three) once operated as an inn. For buyers searching for a little of the macabre, a coffin shop and funeral business ran out of the barn for many years, according to the Westport Historical Society. Next to Gifford’s house are other historical homes and buildings, including the old Bell School, making this a great neighborhood for walking and taking a tour with materials found online
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from the Society, located at the old school house at 25 Drift Road. Around Gifford’s property on Old County was once a tavern, ammunition storehouse, country store, physician office, shipbuilding facility, attorney’s office, ice cream shop, and post office – which washed into the middle of the street during the Hurricane of 1938. First inhabited by Native Americans, the Head of Westport, once known as Westport Village, has a rich
history that exists in historical documents and within homes like Gifford’s. European settler Richard Sisson came to the Head in 1671. His Drift Road home, located at roughly 42 Drift Road today, burned during King Philip’s War in 1675-76. A “new” house was erected at the site by Captain Howland in 1793.
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A man murdered his wife and left her body at Lyons Brook. He then shot himself in front of police officers at the New Bedford Police Department after making his confession. Westport Point has its own storied history. While industrialization was going on at the Head, the Point was known for its seafaring pursuits in whaling. The Point, now a historic district, is also known for its beautiful old residences and stone walls dotting Main Road all the way to the wharf. Codfish and saltworks were two prominent industries at the wharf. The Point was laid out as farmland, some of it by the renowned Macomber family, who gave the world its sweet white Macomber turnip. Houses popped up at the Point, along with early business like a custom house, post office, and shops. The historic George Tripp House at 1834 Main Road, built circa 1870, is for sale at the Point for $585,000. A portion of the house operated as the former Gull’s Nest Restaurant, where President Franklin Delano Roosevelt once dined, according to listing information. The house, besides its history, offers salt air, a new kitchen, and nine rooms on the two-acre lot.
Just a bit further, at 1940 Main Road, the Captain Manchester home is listed at $890,000. The Greek Revival, built in 1840, was owned by the same family for three generations. It offers many preserved architectural assets including its crown mouldings and staircase. For one more historic Westport beauty, the home at 1 Old Horseneck Road, built in 1765, was sold earlier this year for $675,000. But, it’s worth a mention because it’s where the first light bulb was installed when electricity came to Westport in 1922 according to EverythingWestport.com. The GE bulb was installed at the front entrance, where it remained until it was donated to the Westport Historical Society in 1989. The 2,800 square feet colonial, with deeded water access, offered vaulted ceilings, custom bookcases, and original pine flooring, with pastoral views on more than two acres.
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PRIME LIVING
A revival revived Deborah A llard Dion
The city of Fall River boasts many antique homes and architectural gems, from the simple American federal facades of the 1800s to the Victorian-era mansions built by the city’s wealthiest residents, and on to the post-war craftsman and mid-century ranch homes of the last century.
With so much history nestled just beyond the curb of the city’s streets, a drive along Highland Avenue reveals the largest concentration of both historical and luxurious real estate in Fall River. The Tudor revival at 503 Highland Avenue is one of those homes. The grand 17-room residence with six bedrooms, six-and-a-half bathrooms and four fireplaces, is on the market for $1,099,000 – making it the most expensive listing in the city. With nearly two acres of property, the Highlands home is a stunning oasis that awaits its future family. Named for Nathan Durfee, it is on the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Highlands Historic District. Current owner Cindy Audette has
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enjoyed her elegant family home for the past 25 years. She and her husband Gary purchased the home in 1995. With a respect for the past and an eye toward their future, the couple took on a renovation project to modernize areas of the home to suit their family of five.
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“But we wanted to keep with the original character of the home,” Cindy said. That meant preserving the home’s many period details and its refined style. The couple created an open layout from smaller cramped rooms that connected to the backyard through French doors. They enlarged bedrooms and renovated bathrooms. The eat-in kitchen, truly the heart of this magnificent home, maintained its character with grand columns and newly installed custom paneled cabinets and center island, hand-painted in the style of English country manor homes. Large crown decorative moldings frame the cabinets and create a modern cook’s kitchen with a historical flair.
Another project for the Audettes was restoring the intricate stained glass work throughout the house that includes characters from Aesop’s Fables to maintain the home’s tradition
“We wanted it to look as if the kitchen was an original part of the home,” Audette said. It’s also her favorite part of the house. “It’s very functional, and I have many memories of a group of us cooking and socializing,” she said. Her next-favorite room in the house is the fireplaced living room that she described as large enough for family gatherings, yet “warm and inviting.” It offers oak panel wainscoting and English manor style moldings. For more than two decades, Audette has hosted Christmas Eve celebrations, and backyard cookouts and gatherings in her Highlands retreat. Another project for the Audettes was restoring the intricate stained glass work throughout the house that includes characters from Aesop’s Fables to maintain the home’s tradition. “The house is full of historical tidbits,” Audette said. The house boasts oak plank floors, a grand staircase, built-in bookshelves, and intimate seating areas. A formal dining room and large bedrooms add to its traditional, yet functional, charm. The third level of the house features a billiards room and two bedrooms, perfect for entertaining. The home – described as a two-anda-half story stone house in historical records – was built for Nathan Durfee and his wife Helen. A building permit was filed in the city on November 23, 1922 for the house that was a rare build during the post-World War I era because of its size. Nathan Durfee hired architect Angell & Swift (considered a major Providence architectural firm) and contractor Roy H. Beattie, known for his masonry work. Nathan Durfee was vice president and plant executive of the American Printing Company on Anawan Street that employed thousands of workers during World War I. He was also director of the Manufacturers Mutual Insurance Co. and B.M.C. Durfee Trust Company, chairman of the Board of Finance of the Five Cents Savings Bank, and a member of the esteemed Quequechan Club. The home at 503 Highland Avenue is listed with Oliveira Insurance. For more information, contact Curt Oliveira at 508-675-7475 or search for the house on Zillow.com.
A long with the stone and warm wood finishes, the house if full of historical tidbits, like the intricate glass and tile work
With nearly 2 acres of property, the outdoor space is a stunning oasis
The modern kitchen was renovated to look as it if was original to the home
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Travell ravelling ing tips
for today No one loves traveling more than I do. For years I was a travel writer, getting on a plane eight, ten, 15 times a year, jetting off to paradise usually in the Caribbean, occasionally farther away. Paul
Before I renewed my K andarian passport last year, its pages were packed with faraway destinations, from Bermuda to Central America to the Far East to Europe. I lived to travel, loved to travel, I couldn’t wait to go to an airport, hang out and watch people, and then get on a plane bound for the next adventure I don’t do travel writing anymore, but if I did, Covid would have put an end to that. But I still love to travel and love the adventure of not knowing what’s around the next corner. So travel these days is closer, smarter, but no less adventurous. And as I find myself in an aging demographic I’d much rather not be in (but considering the alternative, I’ll take it), I find myself also looking into ways to be safe in these pandemic times fraught with seeming
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peril. According to the Centers for Disease Control, upwards of 80 percent of all Covid-related deaths happen to folks 65 and above. Sobering thought, especially for people like me who count themselves in good shape, people who exercise, don’t smoke, eat healthy and have active, productive lives. That helps keep Covid away, but the fact is, we oldies are more susceptible to disease, just as we’re more susceptible to falls, scams, and wearing bright white
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Velcro sneakers and hiking our pants too high. But we oldies also still love to travel. So poking about, I found a bunch of good tips, some very obvious, some not, and they are:
Mask up, people That’s so basic it’s hardly worth mentioning but I mention it because wearing a mask, and washing your hands often, are by far the best ways to keep Covid away. It’s annoying remembering a mask but the more we do it the less bothersome it is. I look at it this way: our parents sacrificed far worse during World War II for the common good of all, so Covid is our war and we’re just doing what we can to help. It’s patriotic to protect not just our own
The CDC advises we oldies book flights with actual Covid protocols in place, and try traveling mid-week when planes are less crowded
lives, but others as well. And you can wear a flag mask if you want!
provided those hotels are practicing Covid protocols.
To fly or not to fly?
The great outdoors That is the question, because flying is They are really just that: hike for the fastest way to go places. And it’s safe: exercise and to stay in shape, physical and the way planes circulate and filter air, it’s emotional. Check your local land trusts probably safer than the or conservation areas air you breathe in an like the Sippican Lands office (especially if you Trust and Dartmouth work in a place where Natural Resources people eat reheated Trust, and the Buzzards Indian food at their if you re in one Bay Coalition, Trustees desks), but the hard of Reservations, of those states the Massachusetts part is maintaining social distances, going Audubon Society and that laugh at through crowded others for truly great security lines, etc. places to get going silly regulations and stay healthy in The CDC advises we oldies book flights that fresh air. One designed to save all with actual Covid of my faves and a protocols in place, and their rebel lives complete surprise how try traveling mid-week beautiful it is was the when planes are less like not wearing mile-long CoveWalk of crowded. Oh, and New Bedford, a truly a mask laugh mask up for the whole stunning jaunt atop the ride, not just walking hurricane barrier with right back around. And feel free, spectacular views of nay, feel obligated land and sea. through your to first sanitize any When in Rome… surface you may touch, mask or Boston, or e.g., lav door handles Cleveland, or and lav faucets because Houston or… honestly, nothing’s grosser than an Check the regulations of any place you airplane lav. Unless it’s the guy in the visit regarding Covid protocols and follow next cubicle in your office eating reheated them. And if you’re in one of those states Indian food. that laugh at silly regulations designed Ship ahoy? to save their rebel lives like not wearing Not so fast, sailor: Though cruise lines a mask, laugh right back – through your had suspended most cruises around the mask. Better be safe than stupid, mom world when the pandemic hit, greed has always said. overcome common sense and many are Virtually speaking ramping up again. But with the threat There is no surefire way to avoid of a fall surge of Covid (and evidence is exposure to disease unless you go full-on that it is indeed happening) maybe put hermit and never leave the house. But your boat shoes in dry dock until 2021. take heart: there are a ton of places out But book now because cruises tend to there you can visit because armchair fill up rapidly. You just can’t discount the travel is the new sandals-and-white-socks drawing power of a 24-hour chocolate for senior citizens. You can sit at home fountain I guess. and tour national parks, museums, Go local countries, just about anything your Another no-brainer, really, but think peripatetic heart desires. And there are about it: we live in New England, one many colleges and universities, including of America’s most beautiful places and some of the Ivies, offering free courses in usually safe from earthquakes, wildfires, many topics. hurricanes, tornadoes, and catastrophic Paul K andarian is a lifelong area weather in general. Granted, global resident and, since 1982, has been a profession warming keeps moving those goalposts, writer, columnist, and contributor in national but for now, stick close to home and take magazines, websites, and other publications. advantage of much lower hotel rates,
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Beating the pandemic
blues According to a recent Washington Post report, about a third of Americans feel they are suffering from anxiety and/or depression as a direct result of the stay-at-home and social distancing measures put into place around the country. People in hospitals and nursing homes can’t have visitors; people Eliz abeth are working remotely from home (sometimes with children who can’t go to Morse Read school); social support systems like churches, theatres, senior centers, gyms and get-togethers with family and friends are on hold. The scaffolding of your pre-Covid life has been dismantled, your daily rituals, schedules, and routines are all out of whack. Autonomy, competency, and connectedness are crucial elements of good mental health, and social distancing and stay-at-home orders severely impact all of them. Days drag along because you’ve got nothing to do and nowhere to go, and you can feel incredibly lonely, even when surrounded by family members who are also dealing with their own reactions to the “new normal.”
Quarantine depression While not the same thing as clinical depression, “quarantine depression” shares many of the same characteristics. For instance, a lingering fatigue, even when you haven’t done anything strenuous; feeling edgy or irritable for
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no obvious reason; and lack of interest in previously enjoyable activities or in maintaining social relationships. At least 20% of people over 55 years old are already struggling with a mental health issue, and forced isolation can amplify existing mental distress. But it can also trigger situational mental distress in people who do not have a pre-existing condition. And when other stressors, such as financial, health, or relationship problems, are added to social isolation, mental health issues for seniors can rapidly spiral out of control.
Home alone: loneliness and
social isolation Twenty-eight percent of American
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seniors – almost 14 million people – live alone. While living alone doesn’t cause loneliness, it can often contribute to a sense of social isolation. Loneliness is the feeling of being all alone, no matter the amount of social interaction. Forty percent of people over 65 feel lonely sometimes, especially widowed women who live alone. And women are twice as likely to become depressed than men, and so bear closer watching during times like these. Your mental health ultimately impacts your physical health. Social interaction, even if only online or on the phone, is crucial during times of social distancing. Don’t be afraid to let someone know
when you’re depressed, anxious, lonely, or concerned about any facet of your life circumstances, whether it be your finances, home maintenance, transportation issues, or anything else.
The impact on health Social isolation greatly increases the risks of premature death by all causes, rivalling the risk created by smoking, obesity, and lack of physical activity. In addition, isolation can lead to an increase in oxidative stress, decreased immunity, and poorer inflammatory control, all of which makes it much harder for the body to fight infections or other life-threatening conditions or chronic diseases. Feeling isolated can lead to poor sleep, poor cardiovascular health, depressive symptoms, and impaired executive function – difficulty remembering, focusing, following directions, and controlling emotions.
Nourishing Your Body and Mind What you eat while home alone is crucial. Avoid foods that contribute to depression: processed meats, refined grains, sugary foods, high-fat dairy products like butter, and starchy foods like potatoes. Avoid bingeing on comfort foods full of fats, sugars, salt, and chemical additives, especially if you’re overweight or have chronic illnesses like diabetes or heart disease. Limit caffeine and alcohol intake, recreational drugs, and snacks high in salt and saturated fats. Choose healthy foods such as fish, olive oil, high-fiber fruits and vegetables, unrefined whole-grains, low-fat dairy, nuts and seeds. Stick as close to the “Mediterranean diet” as possible to stay healthy.
Coping with Quarantine Depression Everyone copes with stress differently, depending upon their personality, natural resilience, current mental health, and the length of time you’re forced to be socially distanced. For instance, extroverts enjoy constant social interaction, and thereby can feel more stressed out because of social distancing and imposed isolation. Conversely, introverts, who enjoy solitude, may feel stressed when forced to be in constant contact with others, such as when an entire household is crammed together day after day. It’s important to set up daily routines that take into account everyone’s idiosyncrasies and coping skills, even children.
Maintain a regular daily routine and set goals (both short- and long-term) so that you don’t feel so out-of-control. Set up a daily schedule – don’t wander around in your sweatpants or bathrobe. Get dressed for your day’s “work,” preparing healthy meals, getting some exercise, staying in touch with others, keeping your mind and spirit engaged in meaningful activities. Start an exercise routine online if outside activities aren’t possible.
Getting things done gives you a sense of accomplishment and purpose, something to look forward to and work towards Listen to music – or dance to it! – meditate, take breaks from watching too much TV (especially the news). Avoid monotony – make a minor change to your new routine every few days – light candles, sit outside for lunch for a few days, walk around your backyard and fill the bird feeders. Find new activities or projects to plan, execute, and complete.
Doing something for other people without expecting anything in return raises your self-esteem, makes you feel happier, and lessens your own psychological distress Focus on what you can do, instead of what you can no longer do. Getting things done gives you a sense of accomplishment and purpose, something to look forward to and work towards.
Reach out and help someone (including yourself) Instead of fretting about your own situation, focus on supporting others who are in the same boat – reassure a friend who’s stressed out or worried. Research shows that doing something for other people without expecting anything in
return raises your self-esteem, makes you feel happier, and lessens your own psychological distress. Stay in touch with your doctor, pastor, or a therapist, even a tele-therapist (check out talkspace.com). Since March of this year, the federal government has instituted more telemedicine options for medical professionals, much of which is now covered by Medicare, in an effort to minimize travel during the pandemic. Use whatever level of technology you have access to in order to maintain your social contacts – Facetime, Zoom, Skype. Book clubs, discussion groups, and political organizations have also become more popular on these platforms. If you’re technologically-challenged, use less hightech means of staying in-touch – phone calls, text messages, emails, Facebook chats – even snail-mail – to elevate your mood while on your own.
Give yourself a pep talk Keep reminding yourself that this isn’t the first time you’ve been confronted with tough times – and you got through them before, right? Look for the bright side, and find a way to chuckle every day – try watching Pink Panther movies, Monty Python episodes, or YouTube clips of your favorite comedian. Practice smiling behind your mask while looking in a mirror – make sure that hidden smile reaches your eyes. Remember that laughter is the best medicine – like exercise, it causes your body to release endorphins, the happy hormones which lower the stress hormones like cortisol and adrenaline. Being resilient and developing good coping skills during stressful times requires a shift in your thinking. Be more mindful of your words and thoughts – choose positive perspectives, like “I’m keeping myself safe by staying indoors,” or “I feel more in control now that I’ve cleaned all of that junk out of the garage.” Times are tough for everyone these days, but we can all help each other get through it. When life hands you lemons, go make your famous homemade ravioli or chicken soup and drop some off at your elderly neighbor’s house. Remember: you don’t have to be happy to be cheerful.
Elizabeth Morse Read is an awardwinning writer, editor and artist who grew up on the South Coast. After 20 years of working in New York City and traveling the world, she came back home with her children and lives in Fairhaven.
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Virtual autumn arts
Steven Froias
Fall is traditionally seen as a time when arts and culture offerings take center stage in our collective social life. That’s been upended by the pandemic, but there is no reason you can’t enjoy South Coast culture thanks to the hard work of local arts organizations and some Internet sleuthing.
Here are some ways to enjoy your evenings as part of a wider community. Order some take-out and log on to the following on cool autumn nights:
The Lost Fall River Movie Angus Bailey was a legend at UMass Dartmouth. Until his death at the age of 80 in 1999, he had run the university’s theatre company for an astounding 33 years. But before that extraordinary run, he did something else. In the early 1960s, he wrote and directed the movie Below The Hill, set in Fall River. It was shown at the Venice Film Festival in 1964, but rarely seen after that. But now you can watch the film on YouTube, described as “a gritty drama about the life of an unemployed Fall River
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mill worker, shot circa 1964.” Simply enter “Below The Hill movie” into the YouTube search field to bring up this “lost” Fall River film. The popcorn is up to you.
New Bedford’s maritime heritage The New Bedford Fishing Heritage Center has taken their monthly Dock-UMentary series online for the time being via Zoom. That means on the third Friday of each month, you can simply go to their website, fishingheritage.org, and under
“programs” find the Zoom link for that month’s offering. The next is Friday, October 16, and it’s a film called Saudade – which translates from the Portuguese as “nostalgia.” They write that the film “provides a sensitive and perceptive portrait of the human dimension of immigration. Placed against a background of local history, this video highlights how Portuguese immigrants have recreated their homeland’s past in their everyday life in New Bedford. “The story-line of Saudade is based on the personal reminiscences of seven Portuguese women and men in New Bedford: six immigrants from the Azores, Madeira, and the mainland and one second generation Portuguese-American.” All films in the series screen at 7 p.m.
Graveyard Smash Since it is October, which ends with Halloween, a visit to the graveyard might
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The Graveyard Girls give lectures on cemetery art, history, and symbolism as well as teach gravestone rubbing. be in order. But it’s not for ghoulish reasons, but truly interesting history as presented by The Gravestone Girls for the Mattapoisett Museum. The Gravestone Girls create decorative artwork using the beautiful and primitive images carved on New England gravestones, they explain on their Facebook page. They also give lectures on cemetery art, history. and symbolism as well as teach gravestone rubbing classes. On Thursday, October 8, they will be holding “Welcome to the Graveyard: A Virtual Tour of Mattapoisett” in partnership with the Mattapoisett Museum. (The nice part of virtual events is that they are almost always archived online – so if you miss a date, be sure to check the host’s website for later viewing!) They write that the virtual tour “takes us from colonial burial grounds, through the rural cemetery movement of the 19th century and into 21st century locations. It examines why we have cemeteries and gravestones, why they look like they do and how styles and art have evolved over almost 400 years.” You can register for the free event at mattapoisettmuseum.org/events. Also, be sure to check out the Girls’ website at gravestonegirls.com.
Verde left their homeland in search of a more sustainable life elsewhere, especially in New England, they never forgot where they came from and in turn, did not allow their children and grandchildren to forget either. “Cape Verdeans kept ties to the homeland in many ways, including through folkloric and popular music, which developed into a transnational cultural field that came to unify Cape Verdeans on both sides of the Atlantic” In the online course, for which you can choose to pay $5, $10, $15, or $20 according to your means, you’ll examine (and sing) your way through the processes that allowed Cape Verdeans to establish and maintain their cultural – and especially musical – heritage in North America. Leading the course is the beloved vocalist “Candida Rose,” as she is commonly known, a second-generation Cape Verdean-American born and raised in New Bedford. Not only is she a vocalist, but she is also a songwriter, educator, mother, and grandmother. She is a graduate of UMass Dartmouth, where she received a BA in Music, as well as UMass Boston, where she received an MS from the Transnational, Cultural, and Community Studies Masters Program (TCCS).
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The Zeiterion Performing Arts Center has one lonely “ghost light” on its stage these days. In the theater, a ghost light provides the illumination for spirits to see and perform on the stage when the audience has left them to their own devices and fancy. However, the Z has been busy on another stage: online. In fact, their Creative “Virtual” Classrooms have plenty to keep you occupied in the physical realm. One offering is Virtual Musical Legacy: Capo Verde and the U.S. The Z explains that “although immigrants from Cabo
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The better to hear you with To the young woman walking alone on a trail in the woods recently on a beautiful early fall day: I meant no harm. I am 67, and despite, or in spite of that, I’m more Paul K andarian fit than frail. But I don’t think I project a harmful image capable of chasing a woman in the woods. The thought alone is abhorrent. But I do not know your journey. Thus, I do not blame you for your caution. I am male. I cannot know what you have seen with your eyes. I cannot know what you see now looking at me. I’d been walking a while and saw a half dozen people over the course of a couple hours, alone, all women. Some just walked by the other way casting no looks, saying no words. Others smiled, exchanging “Good day for a walk” sorts of pleasantries and hiking on. At one point I realized I was going the opposite direction I’d intended to, so I stopped in a wide open swath of land under power lines and sat on a stump some 15 or so feet from the trail to get my bearings, checking a trail map. That’s when I saw you, maybe 20, 30 yards back on the trail, hidden in part by vegetation. But we could see each other. You stopped and looked and slowly turned the other way. At first I thought that odd, but then realized you were probably just being cautious and who can blame you in this day and age, or any day and age, really. Women walking alone, be it in the woods or a parking lot, have always been prey of predators. I wanted to call out, assure you I meant no harm but that would have appeared worse. I had no clear idea what to do to put you at ease. Or if I should even try. I had to walk back in that direction, but did so very slowly, to give you ample room to put distance between us, but I saw you up ahead, so I dallied a bit more, torn between going slowly and risking making
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it look like stalking or quickly making it look like a chase. I kept a casual pace, lost sight of you but heard crunching in the woods to my right. Without looking, I walked by, assuming you’d ducked into the forest to let me pass, which I did. I didn’t see you again. But your image, seemingly a fearful young woman alone in the woods getting exercise while exercising an abundance of caution, stayed with me. And that’s probably because a day or two before that, I’d been walking on other trails in another town, and came across a man and his dog on a perpendicular trail to my right, the man standing on a narrow bridge over a dried canal, swaying and smoking, clearly drunk. We chatted a bit,
To the young woman walking alone on a trail in the woods recently on a beautiful early fall day: I meant no harm. the dog darting to my side for a quick pat, and the man slurred, pointing behind him, “Wanna get by?” I laughed and said no, I’ll just keep going this way and did so, as was my intention in the first place. A few hundred yards up the trail, it hit me: what if a woman walking alone had encountered him? What if she did want to go that way, and he asked her the same question? My reaction was a shrug and unawareness of any danger, real or imagined. A woman’s reaction may have been far different. Understandably so. I thought hard about that moment, and after the encounter with the young woman a day or so later, a lot harder still. I am male. I have male privilege. I have
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never felt fear or unease walking alone in the woods or to my car late at night in an empty parking lot or down the street in a questionable part of the city. I have never felt like prey in an office, where my gender is outnumbered by the other one, and having to put up with discrimination, innuendo, crass “humor,” sexual harassment, and much worse. In my younger, far dumber days, I was an idiot, passing off as that “humor” the crude things I’d say to women in the workplace, them brushing it off, having had to brush guys like me off a thousand times before, tiring of it but enduring it. It took me a long time, well into being a parent of a girl, to realize how despicable, dangerous, and ugly that behavior was. About a year ago, I was getting on an elevator at a garage on the campus of a college. A young woman was waiting with me, just the two of us, in the broad daylight. The door opened revealing an empty car. We both moved. I got on. She hesitated and stepped back. I went up alone. Part of me wanted to politely seek her out, ask her way she felt inclined to not get on the elevator, but dismissed that as inappropriate. I wanted to know. But I wasn’t sure how to ask. Or if I should. Men do not truly know the journey women have taken. We do not know what abuses you have endured. We do not and cannot realize what it’s like to be a woman in an inexcusably, unnecessarily predominantly male-dominated world. To that young woman in the woods that day: I make no apologies for being there. But I do apologize for the gender that undoubtedly made you do what you felt you had to. Men have so much to learn. Please, teach us. So many of us ache to not just hear, but listen.
Paul K andarian is a lifelong area resident and, since 1982, has been a profession writer, columnist, and contributor in national magazines, websites, and other publications.
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