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2,000 Miles of Happy Trails Central PA Woman the Oldest to Hike Appalachian Trail By Rebecca Hanlon
The grisly 2,185-mile stretch of the Appalachian Trail could not take down Nan Reisinger. The Central Pennsylvania resident is not the first woman to tackle the rocky slopes, but she is the oldest. At 74, she has the strength and determination of someone decades younger. Reisinger isn’t going to spend her retirement years cooped up at home. Instead, she canoes in Florida, skies in Connecticut, and climbs the steepest trails in Maine. And she laughs at the idea that she might be getting too old. The record was held previously by a 71-year-old woman. That was all Reisinger needed to hear. “I decided to give it a try,” she said. “Listen, I can beat that. That was the reason for it. Strictly for the glory.” With her friend Carolyn Banjak, Reisinger would leave her home to complete the trek from Springer Mountain in Georgia to Mount Katahdin in Maine. Their goal was to finish before winter set in. She would make every last step from March to October with a 25-pound pack on her back, completely self-sufficient on what she considers one of the greatest accomplishments of her life. please see HAPPY TRAILS page 10
Avid hiker Nan Reisinger completed a thru-hike of the Appalachian Trail last fall. Here, she pauses along Blue Ridge Parkway in southwestern Virginia.
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Art and Antiques by Dr. Lori
Spring Break for Museum Lovers Lori Verderame f you are planning a trip this spring, consider spending some of your welldeserved break time at one of the world’s most interesting museums and special exhibitions.
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St. Petersburg, Russia: The new Faberge Museum features a 1,500-piece collection of the famous ornamental eggs. Originally presented by the czars as Easter gifts to their loved ones, the Faberge Museum reunites these ultraspecial art objects with the Imperial city. Dating from 1885 to 1917, many of these works of art have only just returned to St. Petersburg since the Russian Revolution. Approximately 200 of the famous Faberge eggs were acquired by Russian billionaire Viktor Vekselberg from the estate of Malcolm Forbes for $100 million and brought back to Russia for
this specialty museum located in the Shuvalov Palace. This is a private museum and admission is by appointment. www.faberge museum.ru
Rogier van der Weyden, Raphael, Albrecht Dürer, and Rembrandt van Rijn, among others. If you miss this show in Washington, you can visit Ringling Museum of Art & Sculpture Garden, these fine Sarasota, Fla. works of art as Washington, D.C.: The National they travel to The British Museum in Gallery of Art is hosting a large London, England, from September exhibition dedicated to the great masters through December 2015. www.nga.gov and their interest in drawing and printmaking. New York, N.Y.: The new Whitney This show, dedicated to the history of Museum of American Art will open in metalpoint—the art of drawing with a May in the trendy and accessible metal stylus—features nearly 100 original meatpacking district at Washington drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Street and Gansevoort Street.
The 200,000-square-foot building was designed by award-winning architect Renzo Piano and will provide the institution with greater exhibition and event space. The new building will take advantage of its close proximity to the High Line, a new outdoor park space in the area. www.whitney.org Other interesting museums that are slated to debut in the second half of 2015 include: Kunsthaus Dahlem in Berlin, Germany, dedicated to postwar European art and culture (www.kunsthaus-dahlem.de); the longawaited National Museum of African American History and Culture on the National Mall in Washington, D.C. (www.nmaahc.si.edu); and the IKEA museum at the site of its first retail store in Älmhult, Sweden (www.ikea.com). The Ringling Museum is a site with
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multiple museum displays on the vast estate in Sarasota, Fla. It unites fine art and circus history in one of the best museums in America. If you are going to a hotel or resort, you will find fine art in the lobby,
rooms, and conference areas, too. And, if you want to set sail over spring break, you may be surprised to learn that a number of cruise ships also feature art onboard—ranging from antique to contemporary—including
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Believe It or Not? History is full of practical jokers, some more successful than others. Check out these three tales of hoaxes that seemed plausible—before they fell apart: I’ll take Manhattan. A carpenter by the name of Lozier claimed in 1825 that Manhattan was in danger of sinking because of overbuilding on the lower end. Lozier proposed that the lower end be sawed off, dragged into New York Harbor, and then reattached. He came up with a plan and commissioned
numerous laborers. When the day came for the big move, the laborers gathered with supplies and provisions. Lozier never showed up. Not so elementary. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle created the famous detective Sherlock Holmes, but his own deductive powers weren’t always superior to anyone else’s. Two young girls, 16 and 10, once sent
him a picture of fairies supposedly photographed in the English village of Cottingley. Doyle brought them national attention. Photography experts declared there had been no touching up or manipulating of the picture. In the early 1980s, the two girls (now grown women) had admitted that they had posed with paper cutouts of fairies, which had been supported by hatpins.
Out of the Stone Age. In 1971, the world was told that a tribe of Stone Age people, never exposed to modern civilization, was found deep in the jungles of the Philippines. There was great hubbub about the discovery. Then in 1986, a Swiss journalist revisited the tribe, only to find them living in huts and dressed in t-shirts and shorts. The group of people then revealed that they had been instructed by a government official to pretend they were cave dwellers.
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Dread, Drama, and the Drill Saralee Perel anic kicked in like a lightning bolt. The team in white coats swarmed through the offices as medicinal odor encircled me. Yes. I was at the dentist’s office. “It’s so hot in here.” My face was red from a hot flash. I was given water. I closed my eyes so I wouldn’t see the needle. Then came the spinechilling sound of the drill. Terrified, I asked, “Are we almost done?” “Well, we just started,” Dr. Robert Lynch said. Here’s the thing: It was my husband, Bob’s, appointment. I was in the room while he was having a cavity filled. I was there to comfort Bob, who happened to be asleep. I’ll tell you: If he could give birth, he’d sleep right through it. I also had the notion that I could desensitize myself from my fear of the dentist by watching the procedure. Hah! Bernadette was assisting that day. As always, she treated me like I was her best friend. “Do you like your work?” I asked her. “I do. I love the people.” And I love her. Which leads to what I believe is one core of anxiety: isolation. The antidote? Connection. When I’m at my dentist’s office, I am frail and frightened. I tell the staff that. Therefore, what brings down my panic is that they care
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equally as much about me as they do about my teeth. I’m not just a patient; I’m a human being who is afraid. Once I saw a dentist for a root canal. I told him I was very anxious. He said, “You’re old enough to stop being a baby.” My terror then soared. So I did something that I’m still surprised I did. As he was about to proceed, I removed his equipment from my
mouth, stood up from the chair— and abruptly left. I sent him a letter to which he never responded. Who could relax when being dealt with the way this fellow dealt with me? As I’ve said before, “If someone doesn’t treat me well because I’m afraid, whose problem is that?” Recently, without knowing that I had asked Bernadette the same question, I asked Lisa, a hygienist at Robert’s office, “Do you like your work?” She said, “Oh, yes. I love the people.” Lisa and I don’t socialize, but
when we’re together at the office, it’s as genuine a bond as any other. How I am feeling is priority to her. Just as it is with Robert and Bernadette. In all parts of my life, it is the connection I give and receive that helps settle my angst. Ruminating to myself makes nothing better. Instead it fuels my isolation and anxiety. “We’re done now, right?” I asked Robert. “Just about,” he said. It was hard to hear him over Bob’s snoring. I put my head between my knees so I wouldn’t pass out. Bernadette offered me a cool towel and more water. Then Robert said, “All done.” I didn’t realize he was talking to Bob when he said, “You did great.” “Oh, thanks,” I said. “It was pure hell but I made it through.” As we left the office, I said to my husband, “You’re my inspiration.” He tenderly kissed my forehead and said, “And you’re a doofus.” “Well, I’m perfectly calm now.” We got into our car. I gave him a big hug, told him how relieved I was it was over, put on my seatbelt, and passed out. Saralee Perel is an award-winning, nationally syndicated columnist. Her new book is Cracked Nuts & Sentimental Journeys: Stories From a Life Out of Balance. To find out more, visit www.saraleeperel.com or email sperel@saraleeperel.com.
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When the weather gets warmer and your boss, teacher, or spouse asks why your mind is wandering, you might try blaming your spring fever on physiology. Spring fever’s symptoms usually appear during the onset of the vernal equinox. In the northern hemisphere, people begin to feel more energetic, enthusiastic, and amorous because of chemical changes in the body in part produced by increased exposure to daylight.
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Scientist cite a number of factors that contribute to spring fever: • Increased light sends signals to the brain’s pineal gland, which then reduces its production of melatonin, a hormone that regulates our body clock and controls our mood and energy levels. As the days grow longer, the chemical disappears and leaves people feeling more energized and confident.
• Increased light also affects the hypothalamus, the section of the brain that regulates eating, sleeping, and sex drive. • Our other senses—sight, smell, and hearing—also wake up as blossoms and spring breezes assault them. Such stimuli can trigger strong emotions, from euphoria to sadness.
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Pianist Bob Barry Coming to 50plus EXPO AwardStarship, Little winning senior River Band, Carl pianist Bob Barry Palmer, and The will be Zombies among performing in the other national lobby of the artists. Hershey Lodge Barry is also a during the 41-year expert in Dauphin County piano care as a tuner/technician, 50plus EXPO on mover, and sales April 2 beginning Pianist Bob Barry of pre-owned at 9 a.m. pianos. His studio A gifted is based in Susquehanna Township, pianist and creator of five melodic Harrisburg. soundscape CDs on the Piano One His music is intended to be a Records label, Barry has performed at companion as you relax, think, drive, Carnegie Hall and most of the major love, and dream. For more information, music cities of the country as well as a complete discography, and a list of numerous international performances. upcoming performances, visit He was recently on a cruise tour as a www.bobbarrypiano.com. guest pianist with The Moody Blues,
Taxes throughout History: Some Surprising Facts “Nothing in this world can be said to be certain, except death and taxes,” wrote Benjamin Franklin in a 1789 letter. But although death is inevitable, taxes have changed and varied widely over time. Consider these ups and downs:
• In 2000 the IRS collected more than $2 trillion in revenue and processed 226 million tax returns. That was its lowest collection rate since 1954, at 39 cents for every $100 (meaning the IRS had to spend 39 cents to collect $100).
• Peter the Great, czar • In the year 1913 the of Russia, imposed a tax tax rates ranged from 1 on beards in the 17th to 7 percent on incomes century designed to above $3,000. The make Russian society average annual income look more European. Peter the Great by Paul Delaroche that year was $200. Citizens who paid the tax and retained their • In Colonial America, bachelors were beards were required to carry a token taxed in many communities because the with them inscribed with the phrases people believed that unmarried men were “the beard tax has been taken” and “the too easily lured into mischief. beard is a superfluous burden.”
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Savvy Senior
Jim Miller Dear Savvy Senior, Is life insurance needed in retirement? I’m about to retire and have been thinking about dropping my policy to escape the premiums. Is this a good idea? – Over Insured Dear Over, While many retirees choose to stop paying their life insurance premiums when they no longer have young families to take care of, there are a few reasons you may still want to keep your policy. Here are some different points to consider that can help you determine if you still need life insurance in retirement. Dependants: Life insurance is designed to help protect your spouse and children from poverty in the case of your untimely death. But if your children are grown and are on their own, and you have sufficient financial resources to cover you and your spouse’s retirement costs, then there is little need to continue to have life insurance. But, if you had a child late in life or have a relative with special needs who is dependent on you for income, it makes sense to keep paying the premiums on your policy. You also need to make sure your
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Work: Will you need to take another job in retirement to earn income? Since life insurance helps replace lost income to your family when you die, you may want to keep your policy if your spouse or other family members are relying on that income. If, however, you have very little income from your retirement job, then there’s probably no need to
continue with the policy. Estate taxes: Life insurance can also be a handy estateplanning tool. If, for example, you own a business that you want to keep in the family and you don’t have enough liquid assets to take care of the estate taxes, you can sometimes use a life insurance policy to help your heirs pay off Uncle Sam when you die. It’s a good idea to talk to a disinterested third party (not your insurance agent), like an estate planning expert or a fee-only financial planner, to help you determine if your life insurance policy can help you with this. Life Settlement Option If you find that you don’t need your life insurance policy any longer, you may want to consider selling it in a “life settlement”
transaction to a third-party company for more than the cashsurrender value would be, but less than its net death benefit. The best candidates are people over age 65 who own a policy with a face value of $250,000 or more. Once you sell your policy, however, the life settlement company becomes the new owner, pays the future premiums, and collects the death benefit when you die. How much money you can expect to get with a life settlement will depend on your age, health, and life expectancy; the type of insurance policy; the premium costs; and the value of your policy. Most sellers generally get 12 to 25 percent of the death benefit. If you’re interested in this option, get quotes from several brokers or life settlement providers. Also, find out what fees you’ll be required to pay. To locate credible providers or brokers, the Life Insurance Settlement Association provides a referral service at www.lisa.org. Jim Miller is a regular contributor to the NBC Today show and author of The Savvy Senior Book. www.savvysenior.org
Read the Fine Print in Your Retirement Plan Few of us know all the mechanics of our 401(k) or other retirement plans. That can cause unpleasant surprises when people retire or switch jobs. Here are some important things to learn: Trading limits. Many plans allow you to move money, but with strings attached. Don’t move long-term retirement savings around for short periods of
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spouse’s retirement income will not take a significant hit when you die. Check out the conditions of your pension or annuity (if you have them) to see if they stop paying when you die, and factor in your lost Social Security income too. If you find that your spouse will lose a significant portion of income upon your death, you may want to keep the policy to help make up the difference.
time. If you do want to switch from time to time, keep in mind that your plan may allow only a set number of trades each week, month, quarter, or year.
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Travel Appetizers: Stories that Whet the Appetite for Travel
A World-Class Event in a World-Class City By Andrea Gross he elevator rises; my stomach drops. Zooming upward at 15 miles an hour, it takes only 58 seconds to reach the observation deck of the CN Tower in Toronto, one of the world’s tallest buildings. Now, from 1,465 feet above street level, I get a wide-angle view of Canada’s most populous city—a labyrinth of buildings interspersed with green parks, traffic-filled freeways, and, not much more than a mile away, the northwestern shore of Lake Ontario. This summer Toronto will gain international attention when it hosts the Pan Am Games, the third-largest international multi-sport competition in the world. (It is surpassed only by the Olympic Summer Games and the Asian Games.) Held every four years since 1951, the games bring together amateur athletes from more than 40 countries throughout the Americas who compete in 36 sports.
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Toronto’s waterfront location will be highlighted during the Pan Am Games.
The CN Tower is Toronto’s most famous landmark and one of the world’s tallest buildings.
A double-decker bus provides an easy way to tour Toronto’s many neighborhoods.
They are followed 12 days later by the Parapan American Games, during which athletes with physical disabilities compete
in 15 sports. This means that during 16 days in July and another nine in August, Toronto
and its surrounding burgs will host upward of a quarter million tourists as well as thousands of athletes, coaches, and team officials. We figure we’d better learn how to navigate the city now, in preparation for then. Although the powers-that-be are spending megabucks readying the area for the games, and while much of this is earmarked for transportation, we suspect that in many cases walking will still be the easiest way to get around. Thus we choose to stay at the newly renovated and centrally located Radisson Admiral Hotel. The location is especially perfect for sports enthusiasts. Athletes’ Village, the mini-city that’s being built for participants, is less than a half-hour stroll along the waterfront, and we only have to walk across the street to get to Rogers Centre, the large multipurpose stadium that will be the site of the most anticipated event of the games, the opening ceremony, which will be
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produced by Cirque du Soleil. Meanwhile, we pay an early visit to the centre, which is home to both the Blue Jays (Toronto’s major league baseball team) and the Argonauts (the city’s professional football team). It’s the next-to-last game of the season, and the crowd goes wild as the Blue Jays beat the top-ranked Baltimore Orioles. A slightly longer walk gets us to the Distillery Historic District, an area that was once home to the largest distillery in the British Empire. We admire the Victorian architecture that has caused the neighborhood to be designated a National Historic Site and explore the trendy galleries, boutiques, and eateries that line the pedestrian-only streets. I could happily spend the rest of my vacation right here, but we’ve more, much more, to see. In addition to the Distillery District, there’s a Financial District, Fashion District, and Garden District, as well as a Greektown, Chinatown, Little India, and Little Italy. In fact, according to the Toronto Star, there are 239 separate enclaves in this city, which bills itself as “a city of neighborhoods.” We don’t know whether to be dazed or amazed, but we do know that we need help in order to visit even a small proportion of them. Thus we climb aboard a bright-red bus where, from our seats on the upper
Toronto is often called a “city of neighborhoods.”
Toronto has several major Chinese communities.
Plants sprout from a car in what is billed as the “the world’s smallest park.”
The alleys of Kensington, one of Toronto’s most interesting and diverse areas, are filled with murals.
deck, we can get an unobstructed view of street-level Toronto. A nonstop tour would take about two hours, but our ticket gives us hop-on, hop-off privileges for three consecutive days.
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Therefore, we hop off in the Theatre District (the third-largest live theatre venue in the English-speaking world, after London’s West End and New York City’s Broadway); visit Casa Loma
Castle, once the largest private residence in Canada and today a location site for movies such as Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Part 2; and attend a neighborhood festival. Finally, we hook up with The Tour Guys to get a more in-depth look at two of Toronto’s most fabled areas, Chinatown and Kensington. Our guide entertains us with stories and peppers us with facts as he leads us down alleyways, past walls filled with murals and artgraffiti, and into small shops we’d never have discovered on our own. But before we leave, there’s one more neighborhood we have to explore, the one by our hotel that houses some of the city’s top breweries. Steam Whistle Brewing is known for what many consider to be some of the best Pilsner in the world, while Amsterdam Brewhouse offers a variety of seasonal and experimental beers. I confess to not being an expert on beer, but the pretzels can’t be beat! www.seetorontonow.com www.radisson.com www.toronto2015.org Photos © Irv Green unless otherwise noted; story by Andrea Gross (www.andreagross.com).
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An active person—participating in Kick ’n Gliders, a cross-country skiing group, and the Harrisburg Bicycle Club— Reisinger enjoys a challenge. But this wasn’t her first time on the trail. She completed a section hike in 2011. It took six years for her to pick up pieces of the trail whenever she had the time. “I always wanted to do a thru-hike, but it was always tough,” she said. “I was working and never had time to give up six months of my life to just walk in the woods. When I finished the section hike, I thought I was done with it. Then I found out I might be able to do something pretty neat.” It was Banjak who told Reisinger she should try to break the record. It didn’t take much convincing. The two took a trip to Florida to canoe before making their way to Georgia to start the hike. They would set off together on March 30. Even though it was just the two of them on the journey, they had a slew of fans. Reisinger kept a journal and would mail pieces of it when they would reach a rest stop. Bill Stine, a member of Kick ’n Gliders, would post her stories online. Her entries describe the many people they met along their way, including Tonya and Tina from Germany, whom they
fondly called “I enjoy it. I feel “T&T.” They also like a kid getting met Osprey, a 74ready to build a year-old man who fort any time I wished the need to set up “biddies” good camp and make luck on their my dinner.” journey. Tired and They hiked hungry, the two through rain and planned a break hot sun. They for the end of Reisinger beneath a misty tree in devoured eggs, They would June. George Washington National Forest in Virginia. bacon, and home catch up on bills, fries when they sneak in a dentist had the rare stop appointment, and at a restaurant attend reunions along the way. before heading They dreamed of back out. warm beds and In the rush to hot showers. get home, with Despite her just a few miles age, Reisinger between the embraced the women and the Reisinger atop Mount Katahdin, lifestyle that a comfort that Maine’s highest peak (5,270 feet). hike on the waited, the trip Appalachian Trail nearly ended for requires. She doesn’t know how much Reisinger. longer she’ll be able to sleep under the Climbing over rocky terrain, her foot stars or carry on her back everything she got caught and sent her flying to the needs to survive. ground. With a throbbing knee, she made “Some people like the trail, but they it home. But she wondered if she’d return hate that part of the experience,” she said. to the trail.
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X-rays showed the injury looked worse on the outside. With rest, the swelling subsided. Not wanting to let an injury set her back, Reisinger headed back to the forest. When they finally got back on the trail, the pair would have to make up about 5 miles that were missed in Pennsylvania. So, they decided to save it for last. They each asked their families to meet them in the end and help them cross the finish line. The women would power through the remainder of the hike, making it through the toughest climbing in New Hampshire and Maine. They reached their end point on Oct. 4, but it wouldn’t be until Oct. 19 that they’d hike those last 5 miles into Pine Grove Furnace State Park. About 50 people showed up to join them for the hike and a cookout that followed. It wasn’t just Reisinger and Banjak who celebrated that day—but all the people who had kept tabs on their journey through Reisinger’s blog. “I never thought of giving up, but I can understand why sometimes people do give up,” she said. “I think I’m in good shape, but I know I don’t have the stamina of someone who is 25. So, for me, I think I’ve done my last hike of the Appalachian Trail. I think I can say I beat it.”
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He was at Guantanamo When an Atomic War was a Hairbreadth Away Robert D. Wilcox His next assignment was to the USS obert McRobbie grew up in suburban Albany, N.Y., and was Essex aircraft carrier that was going deferred from military duty as he through a major overhaul at the Brooklyn studied engineering at Cornell University Navy Yard. There he worked in the in the late 1950s. However, he left college avionics shop until the vessel was able to proceed to its during his home port at senior year to Quonset take a job Naval Air with United Station, R.I., Engineers, a The P2V whose avionics design and where he McRobbie worked on at construction helped to Willow Grove. maintain the firm in Philadelphia. ship’s wideranging store Hoping to Robert E. of electronic become a McRobbie after naval pilot, he discharge from the and radar The USS Essex, the storied ship then took the systems. Navy in 1963. on which McRobbie served. They Navy test and cruised the found that it North Atlantic, patrolling between Nova brought good news and bad news. The Scotia and Guantanamo. What was it like good news was that he was virtually off aboard the carrier? the chart on the many skills the Navy McRobbie just shakes his head as he required. The bad news was that his says, “It was a floating city … except that eyesight was not keen enough to qualify it moved at 33 knots. It was nearly as him for flight training. So he joined the Navy Reserve and was long as three football fields, with 2,600 assigned to a squadron based at the naval officers and men aboard and 90 to 100 air station in Willow Grove, Pa. There he aircraft. It was stable in the sea, and the food was great.” studied for several months to become an Then he chuckles about a reminiscence avionics technician, learning how to of reaching “Gitmo.” install, inspect, test, adjust, or repair “A few of us went ashore to unload the avionics equipment, such as radio and ship’s vehicles. We stayed at the base radar systems in aircraft. overnight. But when we woke the next The P2V was the plane his squadron morning, we found that the Essex had left flew—and whose avionics he helped to without us. It had a big role to play in keep in top shape—as it served as our the naval ‘quarantine’ on Cuba in Navy’s primary land-based antiOctober 1962 when it was discovered submarine patrol aircraft. He got to fly that the Soviets were shipping missiles to often in that plane. Cuba. He explains that the P2V carried “Having no official duties, we went to sonobuoys that could be dropped in a the base commander and asked if he circle around a submerged intruder sub and would be able to pick up the slightest would give us something to do. He was glad to have us as drivers to haul supplies noise made by the sub. to the Marines who were there in the In its elongated tail, the P2V carried a magnetic anomaly detector that produced nearby mountains to deter any Cuban a paper chart of the sub’s trail. And it also attempt to attack our base. And we’d bring Marines down every now and then carried a belly-mounted surface-search radar that detected surface and snorkeling for a hot meal and a shower. We were there a month before we were flown back subs at fairly long distances. to Quonset.” When McRobbie flew in the airplane By that time, McRobbie’s hitch was as a crewman, he would monitor the about up, and he was discharged from the radar and interpret the signals from the sonobuoys. Crews like his stayed sharp by please see ATOMIC page 14 routinely flying practice missions against our own submarines.
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UCP of South Central PA (800) 333-3873 (Toll Free) www.ucpsouthcentral.org Year Est.: 1962 Counties Served: Adams, Franklin, Lancaster, York RNs: No LPNs: No CNAs: No Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: No
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My 22 Cents’ Worth
Family Feuds Walt Sonneville
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to 45 percent of families today have some siblings have occurred only after experienced feuds among relatives that the siblings became aged. Brothers Curtis persist over an and Prestley Blake coextensive duration. founded Friendly’s Ice This is lamentable, Cream Corporation in Too often we especially when the 1935. They remained are locked in aged despair of ever friends until they were seeing close to 90 years of unresolved reconciliation. age. Then they had an estrangements The problem is acrimonious dispute most apparent over the future of the within families. during holidays company. when an assembled The Andrews Sisters family senses or witnesses the presence of were enormously successful as a vocal conflict and the absence of unwelcomed trio, but their family harmony began to drift the year they lost both of their kin. Well-publicized estrangements among parents.
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amily feuds are as old as mankind, beginning with Cain killing his brother Abel. Disputes that age into decades can fracture family solidarity through succeeding generations. By the time we reach our senior years, it may be too late to control further damage. During the past few centuries there have been celebrated cases of regicide (killing a monarch) and parricide (killing a close relative) to gain control of the royal throne. Fortunately, commoners need not worry about aristocratic plots in which we escape personal involvement. Yet, too often, we are locked in unresolved estrangements within families. Studies have concluded that 30
Bandleaders Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey were estranged brothers for several years, reconciling toward the end of their lives. Feuds between parents and children or their stepchildren can be difficult to repair if the parents are in their advanced years. Billionaire T. Boone Pickens at the age of 85 sued his 58-year-old son, Michael, for defaming him on Michael’s website. Anthony Marshall, the son of Brooke Astor (Mrs. Vincent Astor), was charged with unauthorized use of his wealthy mother’s estate. Mrs. Astor at the time was 104 years of age.
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Patti Davis, daughter of Ronald and Nancy Reagan, had highly publicized personal criticisms of her parents, eventually reconciling. In 2011 film star Mickey Rooney, at the age of 90, testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Aging that a family member had abused him recently. When families fight over the assets of their parents or grandparents, lawyers are likely to reap all the rewards. The legal expenses of some feuds can drain virtually the entire estate.
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Actor Peter Ustinov left a fortune said to be in the “tens of millions of pounds” (The Daily Telegraph, Jan. 24, 2013). Almost all of his estate went for legal fees as his children and their stepmother battled for years in various courts. One of the Ten Commandments instructs us to honor one’s father and mother. It seems odd that we must be commanded to do so. This command should include a clause requiring parents to earn that honor. With the divorce rate at about 50 percent of marriages,
blended families with stepchildren and stepparents raise issues of the boundaries of filial obligations imposed by Scripture. Family disputes should reach a compromise that is preferred to a soughtafter, but unworkable, dominance. Brothers Abraham and Lot followed this path, as reported in the Book of Genesis. They avoided a fight by negotiating a division of land. The benefit of settlement becomes more apparent to family rivals as they age. When the battles of our youth and
for Honeywell, first as a project manager and then as a manager in research and development. After 23 years, he retired from Honeywell in 2001. Friends told him of a retirement community in Central Pennsylvania, to
which he moved in 2007. Since he had been using computers for some 30 years by then, he has been a leading member of the retirement community’s computer club and a regular source of counsel when other residents need help of any
mid-years become distant memories, harmony should be within grasp in our closing decades. Walt Sonneville, a retired market-research analyst, is the author of My 22 Cents’ Worth: The Higher-Valued Opinion of a Senior Citizen and A Musing Moment: Meditative Essays on Life and Learning, books of personal-opinion essays, free of partisan and sectarian viewpoints. Contact him at waltsonneville@verizon.net.
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Navy as a second class petty officer in September 1963. He worked for Rohm and Haas in purchasing while he pursued his degree at Drexel at night and earned a B.S. in mechanical engineering. He then worked
kind with their computers. “Which,” he says with a smile, “is surprisingly often.” Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in Europe in World War II.
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April 15, 1:30 p.m. Parkinson’s Support Group on East Shore Jewish Home of Harrisburg 4004 Linglestown Road, Harrisburg (717) 441-8627
April 8, 6 to 7 p.m. Alzheimer’s Support Group Emeritus at Harrisburg 3560 N. Progress Ave., Harrisburg (717) 671-4700
April 16, 1:30 p.m. Hershey Area AARP Chapter No. 3466 Meeting Spring Creek Church of the Brethren 335 E. Areba Ave., Hershey (717) 832-3282
April 14, 6 to 7 p.m. Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group Graysonview Personal Care Community 150 Kempton Ave., Harrisburg (717) 561-8010
April 16, 5 to 6:30 p.m. Panel Discussion: Navigating Your Way through Caregiving Options Arden Courts Memory Care Community 2625 Ailanthus Lane, Harrisburg (717) 540-7018 susquehanna@arden-courts.com
April 16, 6 to 8 p.m. Harrisburg Area Parkinson’s Disease Caregiver Support Group Giant Food Stores – Second Floor 2300 Linglestown Road Harrisburg (717) 580-7772 April 22, 7 p.m. Piecemakers Quilt Guild of Middletown St. Peter’s Lutheran Church Spring and Union streets Middletown (717) 915-5555 gsk1308@gmail.com April 28, 6 p.m. Susquehanna Rovers Volksmarch Walking Club Gander Mountain 5005 Jonestown Road, Harrisburg (717) 991-5232
Dauphin County Department of Parks and Recreation April 1, 8 to 10 a.m. – Bird Walk: Early Migration, Wildwood Park April 12, 1:30 to 3 p.m. – Flower Walk: Dutchman’s Breeches and Trout Lilies, Wildwood Park April 25, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Wetlands Festival, Wildwood Park If you have an event you would like to include, please email information to mjoyce@onlinepub.com for consideration.
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