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Decorating with Family Heirlooms Lori Verderame
There is an overwhelming abundance of home-makeover TV shows and online blogs about redecorating, redesigning, and reconsidering the objects with which we live. Antiques and family heirlooms are front and center when it comes to innovative design. Here are some decorating tips that might prove fun and interesting. Arrange Collections Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was onto something when he said, “Less is more.” Even large collections can look organized if they are arranged well. Put antique collections together by size, material, color, or texture. This method shows both a collection’s similarities and differences.
Organization of a collection shows that you have given some thought to your collection and its arrangement.
Family Friendly If you have an object that has been handed The Front is down in the family Foremost over the years, consider When you enter designing a room any room in your home, there is one around it. Ironstone mixing bowl in foyer atop a repurposed chest. If you have your wall that is right in front of you or one grandmother’s Regina music box dating back to the early wall that you focus on the most. 1900s, feature it proudly where This wall is the starting point for everyone can admire it. any design concept, and in museums Is that antique parlor chair from the it is called the confrontation wall— aptly named as it is the first wall you Victorian period or cut-glass punch bowl looking for a new space to show confront. This wall shouts out for something important, big, colorful, or its stuff? Take it out of the living room where it may get lost in the array of bright.
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backyard. Each side of By Sam Peeples the house is surrounded by greenery, whether it is Driving up to Melanie a row of bushes and trees Markowski’s house, the or carefully constructed butterfly garden sits flowerbeds. prominently in the front “I love doing theme yard. It is filled with flowers gardens. I have a butterfly of cool lavender, pink, and garden, a hummingbird white and surrounded by garden, and colorplants specially chosen to coordinated gardens,” provide for every stage of a Markowski’s kitchen herb garden contains Markowski said. “I love butterfly’s lifecycle. 20 favorite herbs. matching the gardens with Following the short the color of the house.” walkway to her front door While the front yard is is another bed of reds centered on the butterfly and yellows supported by garden and flowers from shrubs and berry bushes. friends, the back and sides Right away, it is evident of the yard provide their that nature is important in own beauty. her life and has been for a A small herb garden sits long time. in pots growing thyme, Markowski’s first parsley, and oregano. memory is of planting lima Her shed is surrounded beans in June. by wildflowers and self“When they pop up out seeding plants that provide of the ground, they have A wooden tub The Green Thumb these little dirt caps. I went pollinator garden of Garden Club’s memorial cover for a small pond beloved by frogs. out and picked up all the annual flowers. garden of native plants Another pond sits dirt caps because I thought in a local park. by the fence’s gate with I was helping them be fish enjoying shade from born. I don’t think Dad nearby trees. And just active within the community. appreciated that.” off of her patio sits a bed of silver She and the other members are Markowski is a longtime plants promising to glow the next member and current vice president responsible for planting and time there’s moonlight. of the Green Thumb Garden Club. maintaining the flowerbeds Markowski’s love of gardening She joined when one of the group’s surrounding the town square and extends beyond the confines of founding members, Lucretia Fake, its borough’s four welcome signs. They also manage a native plant her own backyard or the Green invited her to a meeting one day. Thumb Gardening Club. memorial garden at a park and “Lucretia invited me to a For 15 years she ran the playground to honor club members meeting in 1997 and I promptly afterschool Junior Garden Program who have passed on. joined,” she said. “It’s amazing for a local elementary school. More Members donate plants to an how you can grow up right next to than 250 students passed through annual yard sale, and last year’s something and never hear of it.” the program and 2,000 more proceeds were enough to create Since joining the Green toured the gardens and learned two $500 scholarships for local Thumbs, Markowski has been about local wildlife. both correspondence secretary and students pursuing gardening“I very much enjoyed running related fields. membership chair. Her secretarial an afterschool Junior Garden Club members engage the duties consisted of writing letters, Program with a focus on gardening residents of Victorian Villa in keeping members informed of for wildlife,” she said. “Since horticultural therapy, teaching events, and sharing incoming that program has ended, Green them to create floral designs and correspondence. Thumb and I have been looking gardens. And during the holidays, As chair, she reached out to into another way to reach out to they decorate a Christmas tree for potential members and invited children.” them to meetings, welcoming new Olivia’s House, a grief and loss She and Green Thumb also host members and maintaining a list of center for children. a series of library lectures every Of course, she makes sure to all their attendees. fourth Thursday of the month. spare plenty of time for her own The club has been consistently www.50plusLifePA.com
These lessons include herb growing, how to cut down on labor, making special gardens and orchards, and even a topiary demo for the holidays. She is also happy to see local schools continuing their commitment to gardening and the outdoors. “Since the war gardens of World War I and the victory gardens of World War II, school curriculums have included gardening,” Markowski said. “I am very happy to see a lot of schools receive grants and set up gardening programs.” Whether it is in her home or throughout her county, Markowski is truly passionate about horticulture. She believes in its benefits enough to recommend gardening to anyone who has even a passing interest in working with plants.
“I hope that everyone plants a garden with their families; whether it’s flowers or vegetables, digging in the dirt helps to keep you healthy,” she said. “It doesn’t matter if you live in an apartment, the suburbs, or on a high-rise with a balcony. If you have land, plant what you enjoy, can afford, and can take care of. “And if you really don’t like to dig in the dirt, then go outside and enjoy the efforts of others as you tour the many beautiful parks and gardens throughout Pennsylvania and beyond.” For more information on the Green Thumb Garden Club, go to their website (http://gardenclubof york.com), email info@gardenclub york.com, or contact Markowski at (717) 244-8476 or mmarkowski@ juno.com.
Take Care of Your Inheritance A rich, distant uncle dying and leaving you all his money may sound like good luck, but any financial windfall should be managed carefully if you want to conserve it for the future. Remember these tips if you come into some money: Stash it away. Put the money away for at least six months. Trying to decide what to do with the money too soon after a relative’s death may lead to questionable decisions.
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The Beauty in Nature
Fall Webworms Clyde McMillan-Gamber
of local of them per landscapes. year in the north and two They are pale generations yellow to in the south. dark gray and have long, Adults of this moth short bristles appear in that protect midsummer, them from and each most kinds of fertilized birds. They Photo by Alison Hunter female lays always stay hundreds Web of fall webworm. of eggs in a in their cluster. protective, The larvae hatch one week later and webbed homes and writhe at once if become noticeable in their obvious it is disturbed. That massed wiggling scares away or repels most would-be webs for about five weeks. Then, each larva leaves its webbed nursery and predators. It’s unnerving to me. The adult moths of fall webworms pantry and pupates in a thin, brown are furry and mostly white with a few cocoon of its silk, plus debris that camouflages it, beneath tree bark or in dark spots. There is one generation
During late July and all of August in Central Pennsylvania, as across much of eastern North America, we see large sheets of webbing wrapped over whole branches of the abundant black walnut and hickory trees. Those webs, made by hundreds of fall webworm caterpillar siblings—the offspring of a small, mostly white moth—engulf the leaves of entire limbs. There, those webworm larvae eat the enclosed foliage in relative safety from predators and the weather. The webs get larger as the caterpillars grow. Sometimes those limbs are almost completely defoliated, but fall webworms don’t cause permanent damage to the trees. Fall webworms aren’t beautiful creatures that lend to the esthetics
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leaf litter on the ground. Each fall, the webworm overwinters in its pupal stage and emerges the next summer as a moth, ready to mate, lay fertilized eggs on host trees, and die. The next generation of larvae soon hatches and together the larvae spin silk to form protective, webbed homes. Two kinds of cuckoos in America, the yellow-billed and the black-billed, specialize in and adapted to eating caterpillars, including fall webworms. Those birds reach their long, curved beaks into the large webs and pull out webworms until their hunger is satisfied. Fall webworms are not lovely, but they are not harmful either. They are another interesting part of the Central Pennsylvania landscape late in summer every year.
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Singers of the Top Songs of the ’50s Find the last names of the singers of these top songs of the ’50s: 1. “The Tennessee Waltz,” 1950 – Patti __________e 2. “Be My Love,” – 1950 – Mario __________a 3. “Cry,” 1951 – Johnnie __________y 4. “Any Time,” 1952 – Eddie __________r 5. “I Believe,” 1953 – Frankie __________e 6. “That’s Amore,” 1954 – Dean __________n 7. “Sixteen Tons,” 1955 – Tennessee Ernie _________d 8. “Hot Diggity,” 1956 – Perry __________o 9. “Love Letters in the Sand,” 1957 – Pat __________e 10. “Tammy,” 1957 – Debbie __________s
Justices of the ’50s and ’60s Find the last names of the justices who were appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court during the ’50s and ’60s: 1. 1953 – Wa _ _ _ n 2. 1955 – Ha _ _ _ n 3. 1956 – Br _ _ _ _ n 4. 1957 – Wh _ _ _ _ _ _ r 5. 1958 – St _ _ _ _ t 6. 1962 – Wh _ _ e 7. 1962 – Go _ _ _ _ _ g 8. 1965 – Fo _ _ _ s 9. 1967 – Ma _ _ _ _ _ l 10. 1969 – Bu _ _ _ r
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Dear Savvy Senior, Can you recommend any products that can help older golfers? I love to play golf, but I have hip and back problems that make bending over to tee up or pick up the ball difficult. And I have arthritis in my thumbs that makes gripping the club a problem. – Ailing Eddy Dear Eddy, There are actually a wide variety of nifty golf accessories and adaptive equipment that can help older golfers who struggle with injuries, arthritis, or loss of mobility. Here are several products for different needs. Bending Substitutes The game of golf requires a lot of repetitive bending and stooping that comes with teeing up the ball, repairing divots, marking the ball on the green, and retrieving a ball or tee on the ground, along with picking up a club, sand rake, or flag stick off the ground. For teeing up the ball without bending over, consider one of the Northcroft Golf Tee-Up devices. These are long-handled tools (1.5–3 feet long) that have trigger-style handgrips and a jaw that holds the ball and tee
for easy placement. They cost between $69 and $72 and are available at www. northcroftgolf.com. For other tee-up solutions, see the Tee Pal ($55, www.teepalpro.com) and Joe’s Original Backtee ($15, www. uprightgolf.com). Northcroft Golf and Upright Golf also offer a variety of stoopproof ball-pickup accessories and divotrepair and magnetic ball-marker products ranging between $5 and $12. Or, if you just want a great all-around golf picker-upper, consider the GraBall GrabALL JAW, sold through Amazon.com for $10 for a package of two. It attaches to the handle end of your putter and chipper and is designed to pick up golf balls, flagsticks, putters, and greenside chippers. Gripping Aids To help alleviate your golf-clubgripping problem, there are specially designed golf gloves and grips that can make a big difference. The best gloves are the Bionic Golf Gloves (www.bionicgloves.com) that have extra padding in the palm and finger joints to improve grip. please see GOLF GADGETS page 16
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Rocking on the High Seas with the Inaugural Flower Power Cruise By Stephanie Kalina-Metzger About a year or so ago, I was intrigued by a commercial announcing a “Flower Power Cruise,” featuring a star lineup of bands from the ’60s. The ship was scheduled to set sail in late February, so I hinted to my husband that it might be a great birthday present. Being a child of the era, the trip struck his fancy and soon afterward we were booked. On Feb. 29, 2016, we joined about 2,000 other funloving music fans on a six-day, musicfilled voyage, with stops in Cozumel and Key West. Headliners included Herman’s Hermits, starring Peter Noone; Peter Asher; Blood, Sweat & Tears featuring Bo Bice; Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals; Micky Dolenz of the Monkees; the Grass Roots; the Guess Who; Jefferson Starship; Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and the Raiders; Gary Puckett and the Union Gap; the
Revelers listening to tribute bands on board ship.
Herman’s Hermits performing for cruisegoers.
Buckinghams; and the Family Stone. The schedule of events for the Flower Power Cruise (www. flowerpowercruise.com) was literally “jam” packed, with numerous concerts slated for every day of the cruise. To kick things off the first night, Peter Noone packed the auditorium. The ’60s icon still looks great and drew many laughs when he responded to an enamored female who shouted, “We want to see you in
the hot tub later.” “In England, we call that ‘Fat Boy Soup,’” he replied, without missing a beat. Music from the ’60s resonated down the passageways of the ship as we strolled from our rooms each day to join in events such as slideshow presentations on old television series, trivia contests about artists of the era, informational sessions, and “meet and greets” with musical luminaries like Felix Cavaliere.
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Wade Lawrence, a senior curator of the Museum at Bethel Woods, presented an educational Woodstock session accompanied by slides of the historic concert. Other bands that played on the Celebrity Constellation during that fun-filled week pumped up the crowd with popular numbers. One of my favorites, the Guess Who, started out with a bang with hits like “No Sugar Tonight” and “American Woman,” which, as we learned from bass player Jim Kale, was written about the Statue of Liberty. Many of the passengers contributed to the fun by parading around the ship in tie-dyed shirts, beads, fringe, headbands, and other fashions of the era. Musicians mingled with the crowd and were often spotted in elevators, deck areas, and later on stage. Micky Dolenz was oft-seen sitting and chatting with people at several bars aboard the ship.
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A Whirlwind Tour of Cozumel We hit the ground running upon arriving in Cozumel, a Caribbean island off the eastern coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula. Our first stop was Discover Mexico, where a tour guide led us into a building to watch a short film describing Mexican culture, crafts, and countryside. When the movie ended, we viewed Mexican-made arts and crafts at the small museum located in the same building. Afterward, we walked the park grounds, where we inspected “toscale” replicas and learned more about Mexican landmarks like the Great Pyramid of Cholula and Palenque’s Temple of the Inscriptions. Before we exited the park, a group of men elicited “oohs” and “ahhs” from the crowd by performing a dance, climbing an 80-foot pole and finally spiraling down the structure tethered by one ankle. Another stop on our tour included the old town of El Cidral, home to the oldest Mayan Ruins on the island. A “Mayan warrior” stood guard in front of the ruins and posed with tourists for pictures.
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A “Mayan warrior” guards the ruins in El Cidral, Cozumel.
During our visit, we participated in a tequila tasting at the Hacienda Tequila Museum, where we learned about the history of the beverage and sampled several tequilas crafted in the area. Before departing the small town, we climbed a small hill to snap a few pictures of the first Catholic church erected in Cozumel dating back to 1848. Next was a brief stop to behold the rugged beauty of El Mirador beach, where tourists enjoyed climbing the natural bridge to look out toward Cuba and across the horizon of the Caribbean Sea. Our final stop included a visit to San Miguel, most of which I saw
through the windows of the van, wishing they would have allotted more time to allow us to walk the streets, peer inside the shops and galleries, or stroll along the wide sidewalks next to the seawall. Time was tight, however, so we headed back to the ship to sail to Key West. Visiting Key West and the Hemingway House Temperatures in Key West hovered at a comfortable 70 degrees during our visit, and we spent several hours on the walkable island, enjoying the shops along Duval Street and the neighborhoods ensconced in the small 3-by-5-mile town.
Our most memorable stop in Key West was the Hemingway Home built in 1851, where we learned the importance of being Ernest and the life of the prolific writer. Guests were permitted a glimpse into his studio where he penned works like For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Snows of Kilimanjaro. Hemingway was once a boxer and that, paired with his clumsiness, resulted in nine concussions, which may have contributed to his sometimes erratic behavior. Approximately 54 descendent cats lounged about as if they owned the place, about half of which were polydactyl. We made a brief stop in Mallory Square to peruse the shops and watch a steel drum player before boarding the ship. The plaza comes alive with entertainers during the nightly sunset watching. Listening to music, eating good food, and enjoying new places—I can’t think of a better way to celebrate a birthday. The good news is that an even bigger star-studded lineup is being offered next year.
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He Flew the Dreaded Hump, Delivering Supplies that Kept China in the War
When Newton Dana graduated have supplied the Japanese their from Trenton High School in 1941 all-essential access to the Chinese at age 17, he enrolled at Ohio State heartland. University. But by the end of his When the list of consequential sophomore year there, the draft was targets ran thin in early 1945, Dana about to pay and his crew him a visit. were assigned So he to fly the decided to Hump back enlist in the to Chabua, Army Air India, to Corps, and join the he headed planes that for Atlantic were flying City, New the Hump Jersey, around for basic the clock, training. carrying fuel, He was ammo, and then selected supplies of all for the other kinds to aviation China. cadet Flying the program, Hump had and after begun in early completing 1942, when primary, the Japanese Newton Dana with the PT-17 Stearman he flew in primary flight training. basic, and advance had advanced taken Burma flight training, he won his wings and and had sealed off the Burma Road, became a flight officer. which had permitted trucks to carry He then joined the crew of a fourdrastically needed supplies to the engine B-24 Liberator bomber as coChinese. pilot in late 1944 and was on his way That 1,000-mile roundtrip airlift east across the Atlantic, Africa, and the turned out to be an extremely Near East to India. From there, the hazardous undertaking for our flight crew flew the Hump to their base in crews. Planes flew around the clock China, where they flew as members of over high mountains and deep gorges the Flying Tigers. between Burma and China. Their crew’s bombing missions were Fully loaded C-47s couldn’t climb against the Japanese-occupied facilities over the tallest peaks, so they had along the eastern part of China, to fly dangerous paths between the tearing up bridges, marshalling yards, peaks, some of which reached 20,000 and airfields. feet into the skies. There was violent One mission Dana especially turbulence—with winds of 200 remembers is attacking and helping mph—huge downdrafts, and icing, to destroy the Yellow River Bridge and wild weather as a daily threat. that spanned the river that is China’s Also, there was a severe lack of second longest and the cradle of suitable charts and an absence of Chinese civilization. The bridge would navigational equipment, like radio www.50plusLifePA.com
beacons. Airlift crews were said to have faced a 1-in-3 chance of being killed. On the ground, there were not enough mechanics or spare parts to go around, so maintenance and engine overhauls were often deferred. Many overloaded planes crashed on takeoff when they lost an engine. Author and ATC pilot Ernest Gann remembers flying into Chabua and seeing four air crashes in one day: two C-47s and two C-87s. But, each year the tonnage carried to China increased significantly, with more planes flying, more flight crews, and more mechanics to keep them in the air. The weather, however, remained lethal. “Those downdrafts were a special horror,” Dana says. “Once, one grabbed us and dropped us 4,000 feet like we were on an elevator. Nothing we could do about it. Luckily, we were still above the tops of the mountains … although barely. “There were plenty of crashed airplanes below us, so many that it used to be called ‘an aluminum
undercast.’” How about An the food? Air Force “Typically, report in China it said, “A was C-rations byproduct we were of the delivering. numerous In India you air crashes felt like you was a local hadn’t lived boom in until you had native some Buffalo wares cacciatore.” made from Gen. A B-24 like the one Dana flew makes a high-altitude turn in the clouds. aluminum William crash Tunner, who debris.” had commanded the last phases of What happened when a Hump the Hump, later wrote, “Once the flight got to China? airlift got underway, every drop of “Usually, when we got there, they fuel, every weapon, and every round unloaded everything but the meager of ammunition, and 100 percent of load of fuel aboard that would get such diverse supplies as carbon paper us back to India, and then sent us and C-rations, every such item used by back over the Hump to fly another American forces in China was flown mission,” Dana says. in by air. When he had a chance to grab “Never in the history of some rest between missions, what transportation had any community were the quarters like? been supplied such a large proportion “They’d have made a good tree of its needs by air, even in the heart house back home,” Dana remembers. of civilization over friendly terrain.
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After the Hump, those of us who had developed an expertise in air transportation knew that we could fly anything, anywhere, anytime.” The dropping of the atomic bombs brought about the surrender of Japan on Aug. 15, 1945, but the Hump flying went on until China could be supplied reliably from the ground. And on Sept. 17, Dana and his crew headed their B-24 back to the U.S., where they were discharged at Fort Dix, New Jersey. Dana returned to Ohio State to earn his degree in animal husbandry before forging a career as general manager of the family’s Dana Packing Company, in Wrightstown, New Jersey. He came to Central Pennsylvania to be close to his daughter. Asked if he now thinks often of those days of bombing China and flying the Hump, he says quietly, “When you have memories like those, you’ll have them with you the rest of your life.”
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Support Groups Free and open to the public Aug. 1, 4 to 5 p.m. Caregivers Support Group Messiah Lifeways Meetinghouse 1155 Walnut Bottom Road, Carlisle (717) 243-0447 Aug. 2, 6 p.m. CanSurmount Cancer Support Group HealthSouth Acute Rehab Hospital 175 Lancaster Blvd., Mechanicsburg (717) 691-6786 Aug. 2, 6 to 7 p.m. Alzheimer’s Support Group Senior Helpers 3806 Market St., Suite 3, Camp Hill (717) 920-0707 Aug. 3, 1:30 p.m. The Bridges Support Group for the Alzheimer’s Association The Bridges at Bent Creek 2100 Bent Creek Blvd., Mechanicsburg (717) 795-1100 Aug. 4, 6:30 p.m. Too Sweet: Diabetes Support Group Chapel Hill United Church of Christ 701 Poplar Church Road, Camp Hill (717) 557-9041
Aug. 9, 6:30 to 8 p.m. Carlisle Area Men’s Cancer Support Group The Live Well Center 3 Alexandria Court, Carlisle (717) 877-7561 sirbrady12@gmail.com Aug. 10, 1:30 p.m. Parkinson’s Support Group Bethany Village West – Springfield Room 325 Asbury Drive, Mechanicsburg (717) 877-0624 Aug. 16, 1 p.m. Caregiver Support Group Mechanicsburg Church of the Brethren 501 Gale St., Mechanicsburg (717) 766-8880 Aug. 18, 6 to 8 p.m. Prostate Cancer Support Meeting Urology of Central Pennsylvania 100 Corporate Center Drive, Camp Hill (717) 724-0380 Aug. 23, 6 p.m. Multiple Sclerosis Support Group HealthSouth Rehabilitation Hospital 175 Lancaster Blvd., Mechanicsburg (717) 486-3596 apcoulson@comcast.net
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It Was 50 Years Ago Today
‘Summer in the City’ Randal Hill
The old radio brother might be able soundman scratched to do something with his head. Those the words as song lyrics scraggly, hippieabout a young city guy looking musicians had being out on a summer requested his entire night. sound effects collection The elder Sebastian of traffic noises. They said he’d take a look had even asked him to but then saw only two include the sound of lines he liked: a jackhammer. They But at night it’s a said all the noise would different world/Go out show up on their next and find a girl record. Working with Steve “Summer in the City” The elderly Boone, Sebastian The Lovin’ Spoonful gentleman rolled fashioned the poem August 1966 his eyes. Whatever into a winning musical happened to “normal” music? And just composition that included the novelty what kind of oddball name was the of urban sound effects. Lovin’ Spoonful, anyway? “We listened for hours to various Harmonica player/autoharpist John traffic-jam noises and car horns Sebastian and guitarist Zal Yanovsky and selected the ones we wanted,” had played in a bohemian Greenwich Sebastian explained to Fred Bronson Village jug band/folk group called the in The Billboard Book of Number 1 Mugwumps, which included future Hits. “We found [the sound of] a Mamas and Papas members Cass pneumatic hammer to provide for that Elliot and Denny Doherty. section and put it all together.” Seeking a new direction, Sebastian “Summer in the City” proved to and Yanovsky eventually left the band, be another winner for the Big Apple recruited drummer/vocalist Joe Butler boys. Musicologist Toby Cresswell, and bassist Steve Boone, and formed in his book 1001 Songs, enthuses, the Lovin’ Spoonful. For the name, “The pounding bass and drums with Sebastian had lifted a lyric phrase from staccato organ jabs build an intense “Coffee Blues,” an obscure song by an mood that’s shattered by the sound old bluesman named Mississippi John effects of jackhammers and car horns. Hurt. This really is the sound of the city After gigging in New York City and the promise of excitement and clubs for a while, the bluesy folkies adventure to be had in the streets and signed with the fledgling Kama Sutra nightclubs.” Records label and quickly found “Summer in the City” gave the success when the group racked up five Lovin’ Spoonful its sixth winning Top Ten singles in as many releases. single and their only No. 1 release. Now pressure was on to keep the There’s no way to calculate just winning streak alive. No problem. To how much the added sound effects the Lovin’ Spoonful, “Summer in the contributed to the million-seller’s City” had hit written all over it. popularity. Maybe not much, really. The future ’60s classic had begun as For all the time and effort spent on the a freshman English class poem written project, the entire gimmick lasts all of by the younger brother of Spoonful eight seconds. leader John Sebastian. Randal C. Hill is a rock ’n’ roll historian Mark Sebastian had been discouraged by the “F” grade the poem who lives at the Oregon coast. He may be reached at wryterhill@msn.com. had earned him, but he thought his www.50plusLifePA.com
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Such is Life
Buying Caskets with Coupons Saralee Perel
When my husband, Bob, typed “caskets” into the online retailer’s search box, he found 93 results. “Why on earth are you looking at these?” I said. “We need a coffee table,” he said
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store has any BOGOs.” “What?” “Buy one. Get one free.” Before he got off the computer, I tenderly took his hands in mine. “Sweets,” I said. “I promise I’ll be serious.” Hearing that, he hugged me. “If I go first,” he said, “I want you to go on with your life. Nothing would make me happier than to know that you’ll live fully. I’d want you to laugh again, even love again.”
“Oh, Bob. You’re so wonderful.” I placed my lips on his forehead and gently gave him a whisper of a kiss. “If you go first,” I said softly, “and you take a good woman out to dinner, my ghost will dump a gigantic plate of spaghetti in your lap.” “I’m glad you’re taking this so seriously,” Bob said. “Is there some reason I should? Frankly, I don’t think it’s such a hot
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Dating When a Spouse Has Alzheimer’s Tom Blake
One of the most difficult and controversial senior-relationship topics that readers bring up is dating when a spouse has Alzheimer’s. A woman, age 71, said, “I am dating a man, age 76, whose wife has Alzheimer’s and is very well cared for in an expensive facility. He visits her daily, sometimes as much as three times a day. They had a 35-year marriage in which he raised her children, and he considers them equally his own. “Here is my dilemma. I don’t doubt that he loved his wife, and still does as much as he can. But in his online dating profile (how I met him), he said he has more love to give than his wife can accept. That is kind of awkward wording, but I knew what he was trying to say. “I do not think he is morally bad for seeking companionship, since his wife has been going downhill for five years and has been in this facility for the past three years. But his children do not like the idea of their father going out with other women. They know that he is, but they have told him, ‘We don’t want to hear about it.’ “That puts me in the ‘other woman’ category. I feel ‘back door’ and it doesn’t feel good. I have never asked to go with him to visit his wife. I find myself feeling resentful about the position this puts me in. I know he is happy with me as he has told me he loves me and often speaks of our future together. “But I also know that he will always be in touch with his children, who will probably ask at some point if I was ‘dating’ their father while their mother was still alive. I don’t want to www.50plusLifePA.com
be a pariah when the day comes that his wife passes away. “Would it be reasonable or fair of me to tell him that unless I can be part of his life now, e.g., visit his wife in the facility and not be hidden from his children, I cannot go on this way? “If I cannot go to the facility, then perhaps his wife is not really ‘that far along’ after all. Maybe she has another three or four years to go. I don’t want to be ‘backdoor Dora’ for the next four years. Please help me understand my situation better.” Tom Blake’s opinion: The man is lonely; he went on a dating site. He did not try to hide that he is married and his wife has Alzheimer’s. What he did may not be right in some people’s eyes. One of my male readers was a caregiver to his wife for 12 years. He said, “You need to walk in someone’s shoes to know what it’s like to be an isolated caregiver in a hostile environment before you can criticize them. With Alzheimer’s, you watch your loved one slowly vanish before your eyes and become a total stranger.” The woman entered this relationship knowing the situation. She should have known she was walking into a minefield. Now, she wants to go visit the wife to see how sick she really is. That is totally wrong and disrespectful. She has no business going there. Next, she worries about how his stepchildren view her. She’s not going to be able to change that either. Probably ever. After all, the ill woman is the children’s mother.
So, either she accepts the situation the way it is, stays in the background, and stops worrying so much about herself, or she needs to exit the relationship. I find her motives and dilemma to be her problem.
For dating information, previous articles, or to sign up for Tom’s complimentary, weekly e-newsletter, go to www. findingloveafter60.com. See also www. findingloveafter50.com and www. travelafter55.com.
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the book, it is said to be a small village several miles from the coast that had only heard rumors of white men. In truth, it was a port city very close to James’s Island, an important trading outpost owned by the British. The new series remedied these errors, showing both Juffure and Kinte’s tribe, the Mandinka, as we now know they were back in 18th century—specifically, that they were actually mounted warriors who rode horses well enough that Europeans visited them for training. The new miniseries also corrected how Kinte was caught and sold: by African slave traders who sold men and women, sometimes those of their own tribe, to visiting Europeans—as opposed to white slave catchers, who were far less prevalent than many assume. Accusations of plagiarism also followed the novel. Harold Courlander accused Haley of stealing from his 1967 novel The African, while Margret Walker Alexander claimed her own book, Jubilee (1966),
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On May 30, History channel began airing a reimagining of one of the most critically acclaimed series to ever appear on television: an update of the TV miniseries Roots, based on both the novel by Alex Haley and the 1977 television adaptation of the same name. The four-episode, eight-hour series ran May 30–June 2 starring Malachi Kirby as Kunta Kinte. History announced production in 2013 after it obtained the rights to the franchise from Mark Wolper, the son of the original series’ producer, and the Haley estate. History commissioned Wolper to produce a contemporary adaptation that drew on both examples of the work. Roots follows the story of an African adolescent named Kunta Kinte as he is taken from his home and sent to America through the slave trade and renamed Toby by the man who buys him. It then details his experiences as a slave and his descendants’
physical evidence experiences, ending with Alex either provides no Haley himself. ALEX HALEY proof supporting The novel was first Haley’s story or published in 1976. Haley contradicts it outright. claims that the novel is TOM In addition, people partially autobiographical. from Kinte’s apparent While some plot MATILDA home village of Juffure elements were his own were inconsistent in invention and the corroborating Haley’s book is classified as a CHICKEN GEORGE story, changing novel rather than a TOM LEA details with each historical account, rendition. Haley purports his KIZZY Even the ancestry to be the village’s griot, same as the one BELLE a professional laid out in the KUNTA KINTE storyteller book. However, who acts as a repository of many of the BINTA oral history, documents and gave conflicted oral histories OMORO accounts each time Haley used to create he was asked to relate his timeline have the story. proven unreliable. Juffure itself was An examination of his represented in both the novel and sources by historian Gary B. Mills and genealogist Elizabeth the original series as what it was in Haley’s time rather than Kinte’s. In Shown Mills found that most of the
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had been plagiarized. Walker’s case was dismissed in court, the judge claiming that “no actionable similarities” could be found between the works. Courlander’s suit was settled out of court for $650,000 after Haley admitted to copying several passages from The African. The original television series premiered just one year after the release of the novel and popularized it with the American public. The series was a great success with both audiences and critics, created a new interest in genealogy among the public, and established the miniseries as a workable format on broadcast television. In the original series, Levar Burton, of Star Trek: The Next Generation fame, starred as Kunta Kinte. David
L. Wolper, Mark Wolper’s father, was the executive producer. The series drew in the largest audience for any type of television up to that point in U.S. history at 130 million to 140 million viewers. It is regarded as one of the greatest shows to ever play on television. The new series had a lot to live up to but was able to declare itself a success. Critics gave it near universal acclaim and the majority of audiences followed suit. The series currently holds a 97 percent “fresh” rating on the review-aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, 83 percent on the similar site Metacritic, and glowing reviews in papers such as the New York Times and the Boston Globe. All four episodes of the miniseries can be found on History’s website at http://roots.history.com.
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idea to focus on morbidity. Also, if you go first, who’s going to clean the house? I can’t vacuum with my disability.” “What was your excuse before you were disabled?” He started to leave the room but quickly stopped himself. “All right,” he said. “But before I stop thinking about caskets, I need us to be serious. I just want some closure.” That’s when my heart started to break because I could tell this was gut wrenching for him—as well as for me. “Saralee, I want to decide on our coffins.” We sat on the couch, holding each other tightly. “OK, sweets,” I said. “There are two beautiful ones.”
I took a deep breath, preparing myself for this sad decision about finality. He said, “If we buy them within the next 18 minutes, we get a free tomato slicer.” We both started laughing so hard we were doubled over in hysterics. Bob said, “I think I saw a coupon; if we both drop dead today, we’ll each get a free Apple iPhone 6!” And so, we finally approached this delicate subject with the dignity it deserved. I solemnly decided that when I’m buried, I’ll be wearing my pink silk dress. And Bob? He’ll rent a tuxedo. Nationally syndicated, award-winning columnist Saralee Perel can be reached at sperel@saraleeperel.com or via her website: www.saraleeperel.com.
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