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Work Out from Home Senior Services hosts exercise classes and more online BY ERIKA RILEY NEWS-POST STAFF WRITER
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ary Anne Williams is used to basing her schedule around her exercise classes at the Frederick 50+ Community Center (formerly known as the Frederick Senior Center.) When the pandemic began and in-person classes were no longer available, every day began to feel the same. But now that she’s taking several of her usual classes online, as well as teaching a line dance class, she has some of that structure back. “You wake up every morning and it’s exactly the same schedule as the day before, and nothing is different—there’s no new places to go to, there’s no set routine. And what this did was give a routine and balance to my life,”William said. The Frederick County 55+ Community Centers closed in March, taking extra caution to protect a population more vulnerable to COVID-19. Kitty Devilbiss, Senior Service’s director of home and community connections, said the centers immediately began working to get a virtual program up and running, beginning with live classes on Facebook. “Our center supervisors immediately started thinking about how they could stay connected with center participants,” Devilbiss said. Eventually, the classes moved from Facebook to Zoom, which they felt was a more robust application for these programs. Instructors could teach out of their own homes, and attendees could tune in without having to leave theirs. 4
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Through the application Zoom, people take a virtual line dance class hosted by Frederick County Senior Services.
Classes include Zumba, yoga, line dancing, tai chi and strength training
Classes include Zumba, yoga, line dancing, tai chi and strength training, where participants use items such as cans and milk jugs for weights. Two classes are offered daily Monday through Thursday. Find the full calendar of classes and events at frederickcountymd.gov/8075/ Virtual-50-Community-Center.
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Mary Anne Williams, who teaches a virtual line dance class for the Frederick County Senior Services Division, at her home in between classes in August
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The Joy of the Vegetable Garden Growing your own is priceless during the pandemic BY ADRIAN HIGGINS
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he other day, I had this rather tasty meal: a baked zucchini sliced lengthwise, with each half filled with a saucy mixture of sausage, tomatoes, onion and garlic. The plate included steaming boiled potatoes. I don’t know if this was a meal fit for a king, but it was certainly one befitting a gardener. All the ingredients, save the pork, had come directly from the garden. It is that time of year, when months of disparate planting and cultivating converge for the summer feast. To the list of current grow-your-own fare, I might easily have added peppers, various beans, beets, chard, carrots, melons, corn and cucumber. Growing edibles is both pleasurable and laborious.When you sit down to eat your work, there is a sense of satisfaction—not only the lofty feeling of empowerment, but also the more practical reward of consuming food that is fresh and nutritious. The potato was a variety named Kennebec, a white, midseason spud that is firm, buttery and waxy.You just don’t seem to find potatoes of this quality in the grocery store.When was the last time you saw fingerlings for sale or authentic young, new potatoes? In a normal growing season, the August harvest would be simply the icing on life’s cake. In a time of pandemic, it is a practical way to both help fill the larder and ease, a little, the underlying anxiety of these times. The veggie garden, last year a quaint 6
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Zucchini, the summer gift that keeps on giving, in the author’s community garden Aug. 10
domestic appendage, became a survival bunker overnight. It was a little scary to see back in early spring how the whole world was banging on the doors of seed companies. In my large community garden, approximately 20 of the 150 plots become free each year. This year, there were just four. For now, eating also means a weekly expedition to the grocery store. This used to be an hour’s enterprise after work. Now it is akin to a spacewalk, with all the attendant preparation and aftermath. I discovered a family-owned grocery store that provided curbside pickup.This worked, but the logistics were challenging and some of the items were inevitably not quite what I wanted. I moved on to small supermarkets, and I try to go at quiet times. Even with all the precautions, there is nothing relaxed, cheap or fast about the expeditions. I am grateful that I have a place to shop and that food is available, but the supermarket
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GARDENING TIP: Hardy, quick-growing cover crops can be sown in late summer to keep weeds at bay in unplanted garden beds. Crimson clover, winter rye and will grow through the winter in milder regions to provide a green manure for tilling under next spring. ordeal merely reinforces for me the value of growing your own. And although you cannot provide for all of your needs in a small urban community garden, you can produce a long and steady supply of supplemental veggies for most of the year.This is achieved by planting intensively and successively and having the resolve to take out things in decline and make room for something else. Why keep sprawling, diseased cucumber or tomato vines going now when you can crank up something fresh?
In Zone 7 [which includes much of Maryland], where I garden, we are at what I consider to be the most important juncture of the year in the vegetable garden. This would be the start of the third growing season, which, with some luck and frost protection, should provide cool-season gems into January. Last winter was presaged by a frigid November but then was mild—too mild—but it offered a conveyor belt of greens and root vegetables, especially those grown under row covers. I have dug all the potatoes, leaving the bed free for a medley of hardy greens, which this year will include kale, radicchio, mustard greens, arugula and fast-maturing Chinese cabbages. I have a bag of half-rotted leaves and another of composted cow manure to prime the soil. The tomato plants are on their way out, their beds prepped to receive beets—specifically golden beets, which seem to do better for me than red varieties and are more flavorful.The area where the kohlrabi and an earlier crop of beets grew is now a seedbed for chard and turnips. Autumn is my main season for lettuce, particularly the romaine, butterhead and other heading varieties, both full-size and mini types. The seed is slow to sprout in areas where the summer soil gets inordinately warm; some folks start them indoors and plant them out as small transplants. I’m hoping the corn will be ready any day, freeing a lot of space for the lettuce seed. In the weeks ahead, the seedling thinning, watering, weeding and insect patrol will be a significant commitment, obviously, but if someone were to give me the choice of one hour behind a shopping cart or three hours in the vegetable garden, my response would be simple: “Only three?” –TheWashington Post
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They Still Got The Beat Now in their 60s, the Go-Go’s recall their heyday from new perspective in documentary
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n the pop-music world, no group of women could be more deserving of a fresh and fair shake than the Go-Go’s, whose success/implosion story in the MTV era still resonates with anyone who loved them in the 1980s, as well as the fans who’ve come along since. Emerging from a Los Angeles punk scene that was more giddy than gritty, these five musicians—Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle, Gina Schock, Kathy Valentine and Jane Wiedlin— remain the only all-female rock act to write and play their own songs on a debut album (1981’s “Beauty and the Beat”) that reached No. 1 on the sales charts. There was no man standing behind the curtain calling the shots. “People automatically assume that we were probably put together by some guy, but we did it ourselves,” Carlisle observed at the beginning of filmmaker Alison Ellwood’s fast and fantastic documentary, “The Go-Go’s,” which premiered earlier this year at the Sundance Film Festival and debuted on Showtime in July. THE FILM STRIKES a buoyant balance
of shared memories and lingering hurts among close friends. The Go-Go’s have rehashed their wild tales countless times (an episode of VH1’s rockumentary series “Behind the Music” from 20 years ago stands out for its spillage; Carlisle and Valentine have each written a memoir), but what’s new this time is all about the vantage point. The Go-Go’s spent their heyday rolling their eyes at any suggestion of feminist strides; clip after clip of media interviews at the time show 8
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The Go-Go’s, from left, Kathy Valentine, Jane Wiedlin, Gina Schock, Charlotte Caffey and Belinda Carlisle, backstage at a gig in Rockford, Illinois, in 1981 RIGHT: A flier for a 1981 Go-Go’s show at the Rusty Nail in Sunderland, Massachusetts
them emphasizing their frivolous, party-girl image, claiming they just wanted to play their music and make lots of money. Today, as women in their 60s, there has been a reckoning with the manmade barriers they stared down 40 years ago. They’re still a little mad about it, and rightly so. This is where Ellwood’s approach works splendidly as a smart antidote to the rockumentary genre. There are two stories to tell here: One is the usual rise and fall (and
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rebirth) of a rock band, replete with substance abuse, bruised egos and money squabbles. The other story, existing just beneath the surface, is about five women who were under extreme pressure to make more hits and pretend that the discriminatory obstacles in front of them were all just fun and games. Although “The Go-Go’s” works marvelously as a scrapbook that will surely delight the viewer who wants to remember the catchy songs and saucy attitudes, it’s also the first
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Olavarria decided to start an all-female band. They invited Carlisle—the oldest of seven kids in a strict San Fernando Valley household who also found her See Go-Go’s, 21
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Remarriage and Money Ready to get married again? Consider how to protect yourself financially. BY ALLEN ETZLER NEWS-POST STAFF WRITER
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emarriage has been on the rise since the 1960s, even as marriage rates overall have dropped. It makes sense because, as divorce rates have climbed in that same time period, the pool of people who could remarry grew. A 2013 study by Pew Research Center showed 23% of adults currently married were married before. And, about 40% of new marriages over the prior 12 months were a remarriage for at least one spouse. But often people getting remarried can overlook key steps they should take to protect themselves financially before saying, “I do” again. Because financial issues tend to be a leading cause of divorce, it’s critical for a couple to address finances and develop a budget ahead of time. “Once the love butterflies dissipate, have a serious heart-to-heart about your finances and budget issues. Are you on equal footing, or will one spouse be carrying more water in the relationship? This is important to address prior to the ceremony,” said Chris Murray, founder of Murray Financial Group in Frederick. But it’s more than just your partner’s current finances that need to be examined, Murray said. Things such as any credit, financial or bankruptcy problems in their past also need to be disclosed. “[It’s] definitely tough to bring up,” Murray said. “However, if people are really in love and meant to be together, tough discussions aren’t off the table 10
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by any means.” Murray added that sometimes, if problems occurred earlier in life because of honest mistakes, lack of experience or due to the previous spouse, it might lead to opening up about the issue and laughing about it. Perhaps the most important step for a couple reconsidering remarriage to take is updating beneficiaries for things like life insurance and their 401(k). “That’s the number No. 1 we come across is people don’t update their beneficiaries,” said Jason Jennings, managing partner of Key Financial Group in Frederick. When someone marries for the first time, they typically put their spouse down as the beneficiary for their assets like life insurance and a 401(k). But when they get divorced, and then perhaps even years afterward, they don’t often update those documents. If the documents are not updated and the person dies, the assets go to the original spouse rather than the new one. “They’re going through an emotional struggle, a financial struggle, and that’s not at the top of their list,” Jennings said of remembering to change beneficiaries. That’s why Jennings recommended people considering remarriage sit with a financial adviser to make sure all the boxes are checked. “I think it’s paramount. It’s those things they’re not going to think about,” Jennings said. “It’s income replacement they’re not going to think about.” The situation can get even more tan-
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Out and About During COVID
Amid pandemic, older people alarm their adult kids by playing bridge, getting haircuts BY TARA BAHRAMPOUR
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“It’s that sense of invincibility that I think people who make it into their 80s get—‘I’ve made it this far when people around me have dropped like flies.’ ”
hen the pandemic began, Darcy Scott worried most about her parents, who are in their 80s and among the most vulnerable to the coronavirus.To keep them safe, her brother drove them 27 hours from Kerrville,Texas, to Churchton, Maryland, where Scott and her husband were hunkered down. But after a couple of months, Texas started to open up and her parents wanted to go home. Scott’s brother drove them back, and since then, she has watched with growing dread as her parents have resumed many of their regular activities even as the infection rates there have climbed. “Mom went back to the gym, to aqua aerobics. Dad went out to pick up the recycling around town,” Scott said. “So there you go:We expended 11 weeks of our lives, and now our parents are wading around in a cesspool of germs.”
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tating for older people, with a 30% death rate among people over 85 in the United States who contract it. Many in that age group are sheltering in place and skipping social events in an effort to avoid the virus that causes the disease, and younger family members have often stayed away or gotten coronavirus tests before seeing them. But others have taken a more relaxed attitude, engaging in behavior that fills their middle-aged children with terror, for both their parents’ health and their own. Various factors contribute to this generational divide. Older people in the United States are statistically more likely than younger generations to listen to conservative media and to politicians who have played down the dangers of the virus, 12
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W.J. and Betty Scott watch television during their stay with their daughter Darcy Scott at her Churchton, Maryland, home during the pandemic. Now back home in Kerrville, Texas, they are getting haircuts and going to aqua aerobics.
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may already be worried about their adult children going to protests or beach gatherings, feeling that they must also parent their parents. “They were thinking about coming up north for the summer, and they told me they were going to fly, and I told them I
thought that was a bad idea,” said New York City resident Karyn Grossman Gershon, 58, whose 88- and 85-year-old parents were in Florida when the country shut down.They ended up driving to the NewYork area. “I then heard that my mother has been getting her hair done, and that made me crazy. She said, ‘The [hairstylist] is healthy, and I’m healthy, and all the people he’s seeing are healthy.’ “ That didn’t reassure Gershon, who, along with her partner, has strictly limited social contacts and trips to the grocery store. Scott, in Maryland, worries her parents don’t see themselves as vulnerable. “They don’t believe the virus doesn’t exist, they just don’t believe it will happen to them,” she said. “It’s that sense of invincibility that I think people who make it into their 80s get—‘I’ve made it this far when people around me have dropped like flies.’” Her father,W.J. Scott, 80, said he appreciates his daughter’s concern, but thinks she’s being “a little bit of a mother hen. “Let’s face it, I’m 80 years old and I don’t have a whole lot to lose in the end anyway. It’s just at what level you’re willing
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to take your edge. I’m a Marine. I was in Vietnam, people shot at me, so this isn’t that much more dangerous than that, I don’t think.” EVEN WHEN OLDER people do under-
stand the risks, it may not terrify them as much, said Laura Carstensen, director of the Stanford Center on Longevity in California. “Older people in general experience less stress in everyday life,” she said, adding that surveys show that older people are doing just as well now as in pre-coronavirus times. “They absolutely see themselves at risk, [but] there is lots of evidence that as people come to the end of their life, they come to live in the present and they stop worrying about the what-ifs,” she said. Bill Thomas, a geriatrician and founder of ChangingAging.org, agreed, saying he has seen many examples of this kind of intergenerational conflict over COVID-19 precautions and thinks it’s not so much because older people feel invincible, but rather the opposite. “As we get older, we are more likely to lose the illusion of immortality compared to younger people,” he said. “Older people are more likely to be living
with the awareness that they are in fact mortal and they have a limited amount of time left. Many older people are more conscious of weighing the risk-benefit based on the knowledge that they’re not going to be around much longer. So you make some different calculations than younger people.” People in their 50s and 60s tend to still be invested in maximizing their life span, Thomas said. “The 80-plus, they’re the real lions of the human race. They’ve seen more, done more, and a lot of times may be more realistic about their endof-life prospects.” Thomas cautioned against young people trying to change older parents’ activities: “It’s a really ageist presumption on the part of these 60-year-old children that they get to tell their parents what to do. They get to do whatever they want. My message to the 60-year-olds is: Get over it. Let them live their life. Part of being an adult or a grown-up is you have the right to do stupid things . . . but that person has to accept the consequences—young people aren’t going to want to be around you.” See COVID, 23
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SEPT. 5 Goat Yoga Sample some libations and have fun with Goat for the Soul yoga. Food available for purchase. Preregister. $40. Time: 9:30 a.m. Location: Catoctin Breeze Vineyard, 15010 Roddy Road, Thurmont Contact: www.goatforthesoul.com Sunflower Festival Eight-acre sunflower field with thousands of sunflowers in bloom, 35 varieties. Wagon ride to the sunflowers, 45+ activities, farmer golf, music, food. $15 person ages 10 and older, $10 person ages 2-9. Also Sept. 6 and 7. Time: 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Location: Summers Farm, 5620 Butterfly Lane, Frederick
Contact: 301-620-9316 or www.summersfarm.com COVID-19 Testing Clinic Open to the public. Free. Also Sept. 12, 19 and 26. Time: 1 to 3 p.m. Location: Asbury United Methodist Church, 101 W. All Saints St., Frederick Contact: www.frederickcountymd.gov First Saturday Support local businesses by shopping with an independent retailer, eating at a local restaurant, supporting local artists and exploring Downtown Frederick. Time: 3 to 9 p.m. Location: Downtown Frederick Contact: 301-698-8118 or downtownfrederick.org/upcoming-events/firstsaturday
SEPT. 6 Goat Yoga Goats, yoga and ice cream. All ages welcome. With Goats for the Soul. Preregister. $30. Time: 10 a.m. Location: Rocky Point Creamery, 4323 Tuscarora Road, Tuscarora Contact: www.goatforthesoul.com
SEPTEMBER EVENTS Elder Expo moves to online caregiver speaker series The annual October Elder EXPO and Caregiver Conference that usually hosts more than 800 older adults and senior service vendors is canceled for 2020. Understanding the need to protect seniors and take further precautions to protect the public from even permitted small group gatherings, the expo planning committee decided to focus on caregiver education and assistance. “Everyone is very concerned with the coronavirus, but the health and welfare stakes are the highest for our older adults and caregivers. Moving to a virtual format to provide information and education to caregivers will continue the mission of ESPC,” said Christina Forbes, president of the Elder Services Provider Council. In place of the expo, the council’s expo committee developed “A Compass for Caregivers: Finding Your Way.” The virtual event will be held via ZOOM, featuring a different topic and speaker the second Thursday of each month at 6 p.m. Anyone can register at the ESPC website (www.ESPCfrederick.com) or at https://bit.ly/CompassforCaregivers. The next virtual event in the series, to be held Sept. 10, is Navigating Telehealth: Making the Most of your Virtual Visits. ESPC recognizes that not everyone is familiar or comfortable with the Zoom format, so it has partnered with the Frederick County Senior Services Division to offer free training on how to use the software. Additionally, those who do not have a computer or smart phone to access the webinar may dial in by phone to listen to a presentation. Future topics will include Navigating Loss and Life Changes, Navigating the Holidays and Navigating Detours. For more information, go to www.ESPCfrederick.com or call 240-490-4181. Barbecue Chicken Dinner Fundraiser Drive through the fire station parking lot and purchase a dinner: Half chicken, roll and choice of two sides. No need to get out of your car. $12. Time: Noon to 5 p.m. Location: Mount Airy Volunteer Fire Co., 702 N. Main St., Mount Airy Contact: 301-829-0100 or www.mavfc.org Carillon Recitals First Sunday of the month. Time: 12:30 to 1 p.m. Location: Baker Park, Frederick Contact: 301-788-2806
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SEPT. 9 Sky Stage Literature Series A Frederick Writers’ Workshop reading featuring work by novelist Amy Gottfried and playwright/ poet Aaron Angello. Streamed live on Facebook. RSVP to https://www. eventbrite.com/e/sky-stage-literature-night-with-frederick-writers-tickets-112457535516. Time: 7 to 8:30 p.m.
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SEPT. 12 Living History Weekend at Best Farm Talk to living history volunteers about life during the Civil War. Both Union and Confederate troops passed through Monocacy Junction throughout the war. Free. Time: 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Location: Monocacy National Battlefield, 5106 Urbana Pike, Frederick Contact: 301-662-3515 or www.nps.mono Sippin’ in the Sunflowers Five-acre sunflower field. Hayride through the farm to see 150,000-plus sunflowers in bloom. Live music and food available. $20 with Catoctin Breeze Vineyard wine, $15 without wine. Time: 6 to 8 p.m. Location: Winterbrook Farm, 13001 Creagerstown Road, Thurmont Contact: 301-465-3801
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Virtual World War II Weekend Join park rangers and volunteers virtually to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Allied victory over the Axis powers. Eisenhower National Historic Site will be offering a variety of virtual programs on WWII, including author interviews, profiles of World War II soldiers buried in Gettysburg National Cemetery and living history content. For schedule and virtual tours, visit www.facebook.com/EisenhowerNPS. Free. Continues Sept. 20. Time: All day Location: Online and hosted by Gettysburg National Military Park Contact: 717-334-1124 or www.nps.gov/eise Autumn Excursions Leisurely ride through the countryside. Approximately 70 minutes. Also Sept. 26 and 27. $14 adults, $12 ages 55 and older, $10 ages 3 through 12. RSVP recommended. Time: 11 a.m. and at 2 p.m. Location: Walkersville Southern Railroad, 34 W. Pennsylvania Ave., Walkersville Contact: 301-898-0899
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gan was because we weren’t doing the things we had normally done … that we were going to lose some of our balance and strength because of this situation,” she said. “And it would result in a greater decline in healthy population among the seniors. What these classes are doing is changing that picture.” In addition to the exercise classes, Senior Services is also hosting conversational classes, including one where members simply tell each other happy stories.There are also music classes that teach how to play instruments such as the ukulele. Art classes have adapted to allow participants to use materials they would be able to find around their house.
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Senior Services staff had actually been considering doing virtual classes for quite some time, and had begun applying for grants for the technology to do so earlier in the year. They were hoping to roll out the classes by October, but ended up having to adapt more quickly than anticipated when the pandemic struck. “But we turned around and everything is online now,” Devilbiss said. “All of our classes are live and they’re very, very popular.” About 20 to 25% of the people who attended in-person classes have been attending the virtual classes. “Folks really appreciated the opportunity to continue their fitness,” Devilbiss said. “Particularly people who … attend fitness classes regularly [and] are very concerned about maintaining their strength and their flexibility and their endurance.” Williams feels similarly. She taught a class at the Frederick center called “Stepping Up,” to show people how to avoid
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The classes are currently being offered free with an optional, voluntary donation to help pay the instructors. Beginning Oct. 1, Senior Services will introduce a fee structure. For more information, call 301-600-1234.
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gled if kids are involved. If someone considering remarriage has children, they should consider setting up a trust for their kids. That way, the assets flow through the trust when the parent dies, and there’s no chance for the partner to leave the kids out of the assets that were supposed to go to them. “In any estate planning or trust planning, you really need to think of the worst,” Jennings said. “What happens if you pass away 10 minutes from now? Where are the assets going, how are your kids going to be taken care of?” Murray Financial Group: Murrayfinancialgroup.com, 301-682-9876 Key Financial Group, 25 N. Court St. Frederick, info@keyfinancialgrp.com, Keyfinancialgrp.com
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escape in the punk scene—to join as singer. Joined by Elissa Bello on drums, the Go-Go’s debuted at a club called the Masque with a complete repertoire of two songs, which they played badly. “If you were terrible, you were cooler,” Carlisle said. “And anybody could do whatever they wanted. It was total freedom.” Random luck and determination followed. A classically trained pianist and songwriter, Charlotte Caffey, left her own punk band to join the Go-Go’s. By 1979, the band found a devoted manager, Ginger Canzoneri. “I love communities of women,” Canzoneri said in the film. “This band caught my interest for that reason.” The Go-Go’s dumped Bello in favor of Gina Schock, a fierce drummer from Baltimore who drove to L.A. and supplied the beat that tightened the band’s sound. “I was determined to whip them into shape,” Schock said. A BRITISH SKA BAND called The Specials
caught the Go-Go’s act and invited the band to open for them on a 1980 tour in England. Such was Canzoneri’s devotion
to her clients that she hocked her jewelry and sold her car to fund the trip. Previous iterations of the Go-Go’s story have cast this as an adventurous launching point. At the shows, however, the band faced crowds of white-nationalist skinheads who spit at them, threw bottles and demanded to see their breasts. “They hated us,” Wiedlin said. “First of all, we were not ska, so what the hell were we doing opening for these ska bands? Second of all, we were Americans, and third of all—maybe worst of all—we were chicks.” Still, they returned to L.A. with all kinds of buzz, but no record labels would sign them. Miles Copeland, who managed his brother’s hit band, the Police, signed the Go-Go’s to his boutique label, I.R.S. Records. Olavarria, punk to the bone, started to chafe at the perkier, janglier sound that emerged with songs like “Our Lips Are Sealed” and “We Got the Beat,” both of which became Top 40 hits. “The Go-Go’s” benefits enormously from its determination to interview Olavarria and others who were left eating the band’s dust.The heady success of “Beauty and the Beat” put the band on fame’s bru-
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tal treadmill. I.R.S. agitated for a follow-up album, whileWiedlin and Caffey struggled to write more songs.They were rescued by Valentine’s offering of “Vacation,” a song she’d recorded with her old band. They were making their fans happy by doing what they loved, yet the Go-Go’s were secretly miserable. All these decades later, it’s heartbreaking to see that some spots are still sore. The band officially dissolved in 1985. They’ve reunited frequently since the 1990s for tours, released a fourth album in 2001 and saw their songs interpreted for
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COVID, continued from 13 IN SOME CASES, adult children have come to a kind of
peace with their parents’ relative lack of concern. Dana Faulkner of Chevy Chase, Maryland, realizes that, thanks to the pandemic, she may not see her mother again. Her mother, whom Faulkner describes as “an outdoors person,” is 92 and in an assisted-living facility in Connecticut. Faulkner recently returned from a trip there during which she was able to visit her mother, Jane Daych, by waving up to her third-floor window. The facility was barring visitors and prohibiting outings off-site aside from essential medical appointments, but her mother “instantly takes the mask off whenever she can, though the aide tries to get her to wear it.” She also walks through common areas of her building to go out for daily walks on the grounds, a level of risk some in the facility aren’t taking. Faulkner has a background in public health and knows that if her mother developed COVID-19, there would be a good chance she would not survive: “At her age and as
a diabetic, her risk factors are off the charts in a facility where there have been confirmed cases of the virus.” But the last time they saw each other before Faulkner returned to Maryland, her mother insisted on a hug. Faulkner hesitated, then hugged her mother. “Afterward, I was like, ‘Oh, my God, this was really a transgression,’ “ she said. Then she thought about it some more. If this was going to be her mother’s last summer on earth, maybe the most important thing to her was to get out and breathe the fresh air. “I would say her impulse to be outside and to enjoy the world while she has it is instinctive rather than analytical,” she said. “There isn’t a big fear factor going on - she seems to be pretty calm about the whole thing. . . . She said she had a dream in which the Lord was holding the door open for her, saying, ‘Jane, I’m here, the door’s open whenever you’re ready.’ “ Is Faulkner glad they hugged? “I am,” she said. “I am.” –The Washington Post
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