Lebanon County Edition
April 2015
Vol. 10 No. 4
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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A World-Class Event in a World-Class City page 8
Glimpses of History via Letters page 14
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The Beauty in Nature
Skunk Cabbage and May Apples Clyde McMillan-Gamber
kunk cabbage and May apple May apple leaves sprout, small and plants have large, lush leaves in big, folded, in April. But as their foliage lovely patches that can be seen grows, it unfolds like clusters of small, from a small distance on woodland green umbrellas on the woodland floors. floors toward the end of April through One can imagine an elf standing under May. each one. Skunk cabbage grows in constantly Every older May apple plant has two moist soil on wooded bottomlands while umbrella-like leaves, compared to a May apples flourish younger plant’s one nearby on slightly leaf. And only the higher, drier two-leafed plants ground, though the each has a single species overlap a white flower under little here and its leaves. Each there. These two bloom grows from forest floor plants the junction of the together dominate leaf stems. much of their After pollination, respective habitats a green, apple-like Skunk cabbage in spring. fruit grows where One of the first the blossom was. plants in Lancaster Those fruits become County to emerge golf-ball sized and from the ground, pale yellow by fall. skunk cabbage Interestingly, flower hoods are though both plants visible in damp or are woodland wet forest soil by species, they adapt early February. to sunny niches if Those fleshy, greenthe trees are and-maroon hoods removed. I’ve seen Emerging may apple leaves produce a bit of skunk cabbage heat to melt flourishing in moist, through snow, and each one of them grassy meadows with cattails. And I’ve protects the several tiny blossoms on a seen May apples in abundance in fleshy ball inside it. meadows and along roadsides that once Small insects active in warm weather were forests. They are remnants and in early spring pollinate those blooms, as reminders of those past habitats. they get nectar and pollen from them. When out in spring this year or Skunk cabbage leaves grow from the succeeding ones, look for lush patches of moist ground in woods early in April. skunk cabbage and May apples in their They are curled at first to poke through woodland niches or in open habitats the muck but unfold as they develop. they adapted to. These plants are Crushed skunk cabbage leaves smell like interesting, and pretty, in natural and skunk spray, hence their name. human-made habitats.
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Resource Directory This Resource Directory recognizes advertisers who have made an extended commitment to your health and well-being. Emergency Numbers Poison Control Center (800) 222-1222 Food Resources Food Stamps (800) 692-7462 Lebanon County Area Agency on Aging Meals on Wheels (717) 273-9262 Lebanon County Christian Ministries (717) 272-4400 Salvation Army (717) 273-2655
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Independent Living Communities Country Acres Manufactured Home Park, LP 1600 Kercher Ave., Myerstown (717) 866-5496
Northern Lebanon County Senior Community Center (717) 865-0944
Hearing Services Pennsylvania Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (800) 233-3008 V/TTY Hospitals Good Samaritan Hospital 252 S. Fourth St., Lebanon (717) 270-7500 Medical Society of Lebanon County (717) 270-7500
Gifts Edible Arrangements 103 Rohrerstown Road, Lancaster (717) 390-3063 245 Bloomfield Drive, Lititz (717) 560-1056 Health & Medical Services Alzheimer’s Association (717) 651-5020 American Cancer Society (717) 231-4582 American Diabetes Association (717) 657-4310 American Heart Association/ American Stroke Association (717) 207-4265 American Lung Association (717) 541-5864 Arthritis Foundation (717) 274-0754 Bureau of Blindness and Visual Services (717) 787-7500 CONTACT Helpline (717) 652-4400 Interventional Vein & Vascular Institute (844) 438-4884 Kidney Foundation (717) 652-8123
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Hotlines Energy Assistance (800) 692-7462 Environmental Protection Agency Emergency Hotline (800) 541-2050 IRS Income Tax Assistance (800) 829-1040 Medicaid (800) 692-7462 Medicare (800) 382-1274 PA Crime Stoppers (800) 472-8477 PennDOT (800) 932-4600 Recycling (800) 346-4242 Social Security Information (800) 772-1213 U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (800) 827-1000 Housing Assistance Housing Assistance & Resources Program (HARP) (717) 273-9328 Lebanon County Housing & Redevelopment Authorities (717) 274-1401
Palmyra Senior Community Center (717) 838-8237
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Senior Center of Lebanon Valley (717) 274-3451
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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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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. p
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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Salute to a Veteran
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 Navy as a second class petty officer in September 1963. routinely flying practice missions against our own submarines. please see ATOMIC page 6
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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. museum located Petersburg since in the Shuvalov the Russian Palace. Revolution. This is a Approxprivate museum imately 200 of and admission is the famous by appointment. Faberge eggs www.faberge were acquired museum.ru by Russian billionaire Washington, Viktor D.C.: The Ringling Museum of Art & Sculpture Garden, Vekselberg from National Gallery Sarasota, Fla. the estate of of Art is hosting Malcolm Forbes for $100 million and a large exhibition dedicated to the great brought back to Russia for this specialty masters and their interest in drawing and
printmaking. This show, dedicated to the history of metalpoint—the art of drawing with a metal stylus—features nearly 100 original drawings by Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Rogier van der Weyden, Raphael, Albrecht Dürer, and Rembrandt van Rijn, among others. If you miss this show in Washington, you can visit these fine works of art as they travel to The British Museum in London, England, from September through December 2015. www.nga.gov New York, N.Y.: The new Whitney Museum of American Art will open in
Calendar of Events
Lebanon County
Programs and Support Groups April 17, 7 p.m. Lebanon Community Concert Band Performance Maple Street Senior Center Seventh and Maple streets, Lebanon (717) 273-1048
Free and open to the public
April 22, 6 to 7 p.m. Alzheimer’s and Dementia Family Support Group Linden Village 100 Tuck Court, Lebanon (717) 274-7400
If you have an event you would like to include, please email information to mjoyce@onlinepub.com for consideration.
Lebanon County Department of Parks and Recreation All events held at the Park at Governor Dick unless noted.
Senior Center Activities
Annville Senior Community Center – (717) 867-1796 200 S. White Oak St., Annville April 1, 10:30 a.m. – Easter Hat Parade and “Now You Have It, Now You Don’t” April 6, 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. – Bus Trip and Special Event Fair April 25, 2 to 7 p.m. – 30th Anniversary Party Maple Street Community Center – (717) 273-1048 710 Maple St., Lebanon April 1, 10 a.m. – Victorian Black-and-White Tea Party April 10, 9:30 a.m. – Upscale Breakfast Timeless Café April 24, 9 a.m. – Food, Fun, and Games by CompassMark
April 4 and 18, 9 a.m. – Bird-watching Basics April 11, noon to 3 p.m. – Second Saturday Volunteer Day April 12, 2 p.m. – Discovering Honeybees
Myerstown Senior Community Center – (717) 866-6786 Myerstown Baptist Church, 59 Ramona Road, Myerstown April 14, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Bus Trip: Celebrate Spring Luncheon at Red Lion Café
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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 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
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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 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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May in the trendy and accessible meatpacking district at Washington 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.kunsthausdahlem.de); the long-awaited 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 Ă„lmhult, Sweden (www.ikea.com). The Ringling Museum is a site with 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,
Volunteer Spotlight Moyer Named RSVP Volunteer of the Month RSVP of the Capital “I make my Thursday Region has named John afternoons with Roland as Moyer, a volunteer with important as any other Compeer of Lebanon appointment in my life,� County, as its Lebanon Moyer said. “I enjoy being County Volunteer of the with Roland so much, I’d Month for April. never schedule a doctor’s Moyer has been appointment or anything matched with his else during that time. Compeer friend Roland Getting to spend time with John Moyer (not his real name) for someone, helping them get more than four years. Compeer comfortable in new settings, it’s a matches volunteers with an individual great feeling.� in recovery from a mental illness, Moyer also drives a van for the VA such as depression or anxiety, in what Hospital, picking up veterans to are called “friendship matches.� transport them for appointments at When they first met, Moyer noted the Lebanon VA Medical Center. that Roland was a very quiet man Moyer has a love of singing, especially who preferred staying in his home. religious music, and serves as cantor So, John goes over to Roland’s home at services held at Ft. Indiantown Gap each week, where they watch movies. Military Reservation. When the weather is nice, Moyer and Compeer of Lebanon County Roland go for a walk before returning needs volunteers to be a friendship home to watch whichever film is match generally and in their new chosen for the day. CompeerCorps Vet2Vet program, While Roland prefers the where veterans are paired with other familiarity of his home, occasionally veterans. the two friends do go on trips. Moyer To learn more about volunteer remarked that four years ago, Roland opportunities, please contact Scott would never have gone out to a movie Brubaker, Lebanon RSVP theater; his Compeer friendship has development coordinator, at given Roland the confidence to lebanonrsvp@rsvpcapreg.org or (717) branch out into more social settings. 454-8956. Do you know a 50+ volunteer who gives selflessly to others? Tell us what makes him or her so special and we will consider them for 50plus Senior News’ Volunteer Spotlight! Submissions should be 200 words or fewer and photos are encouraged. Email preferred to mjoyce@onlinepub.com or mail nominations to 50plus Senior News, Volunteer Spotlight, 3912 Abel Drive, Columbia, PA 17512.
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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 Celebrity, Regent, Oceania, and Holland America, among others. Enjoy your break!
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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.
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.
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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Year Est.: 1908 Counties Served: Berks, Chester, Cumberland, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Perry, Schuylkill, York RNs: Yes LPNs: Yes CNAs: Yes Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: Yes
Other Certifications and Services: Home care specialists in physical, occupational, and speech therapy; nursing; cardiac care; and telehealth. Disease management, innovative technologies, and education help you monitor your condition to prevent hospitalization. Licensed non-profit agency; Medicare certified; Joint Commission accredited.
Year Est.: 1979 Counties Served: Berks, Dauphin, Lancaster, Lebanon, Schuylkill RNs: Yes LPNs: Yes CNAs: Yes Home Aides: Yes Medicare Certified?: Yes
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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
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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. please see FEUDS page 14 p
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Fragments of History
Glimpses of History via Letters Victor Parachin Letter to Harriet Beecher Stowe In 1850, a Mrs. Edward Beecher wrote her sister “Hattie,” who had already written and published several books, making this request: “Hattie, if I could use a pen as you can, I would write something to make this whole nation feel what an accursed thing slavery is!” Her sister promptly wrote back, saying that with a new baby, “I can’t do much of anything, but I will do it at last. I will write that thing if I live!” Less than a year later, Harriet Beecher Stowe wrote Uncle Tom’ s Cabin, a book that became a bestseller, galvanized the North against the institution of slavery, and contributed to the outbreak of the American Civil War. In 1862 Beecher Stowe visited the White House, where she was met by an impressed President Abraham Lincoln,
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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 sought-after, 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
Ladies,” he wrote: I am deeply touched by your remembrance. It is the first time anyone ever treated me so kindly, so you may well believe that the impression on the heart of the lonely sufferer will be even more durable than the impression on your minds of all the teachings of philosophy 2A. I now perceive one immense omission in my Psychology (a reference to his recently published book)—the deepest principle of human nature is the craving to be appreciated, and I left it out altogether from the book, because I never had it gratified till now. I fear you have let loose a demon in me, and that all my actions will now be for the sake of such rewards. However, I will try to be faithful to this one unique and beautiful azalea tree, the pride of my life and delight of my existence. Winter and
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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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William James’ Letter of Appreciation Harriet Beecher Stowe In 1869 circa 1852 William James graduated from Harvard University as a medical doctor. All his life he struggled with depression, a factor that may have created his interest in psychology. He is regarded as America’s first psychologist, famously declaring: “The first lecture on psychology I ever heard
being the first I ever gave.” Offered a teaching position at Harvard University, James accepted and remained there for 35 years. William James A group of in the 1890s female students from Radcliff College took a class with him and, at the end, presented James with the gift of an azalea plant. Clearly, James was overwhelmed by this gift, indicating it was the first time he’d received such appreciation. Addressing the group as “Dear Young
who greeted her saying: “So this is the little lady who wrote the book that made the big war.”
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age. When the battles of our youth and 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.
Brainteasers Answers 1. I LOVE THE JOYFUL BRIGHTNESS OF CHRISTMAS 2. SHE LIKES EATING OLD WATERMELONS 3. I PLUCKED A PEACH OFF A TREE 4. THIS IS NOT THE GAME I REQUESTED 5. I USED TO PLAY CANDYLAND 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
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summer will I tend and water it—even with my tears. Mrs. James shall never go near it or touch it. If it dies, I will die too; and if I die, it shall be planted on my grave. Harry Truman’s Letter Defending His Daughter’s Recital In December 1950, U.S. President Harry Truman’s daughter, Margaret, gave a public singing recital. Present was Paul Hume, the Washington Post’s music critic, who reviewed her performance negatively, writing that her voice had “little size and fair quality.” He also noted that Margaret sang flat much of the time, adding sarcastically that there were “few moments … when
one can relax and feel confident that she will make her goal, which is the end of the song.” Truman was furious and wrote Hume the following letter: “I have just read your lousy review buried in the back pages. You sound like a frustrated old man who never made a success, an eight-ulcer man on a fourulcer job, and all four ulcers working. “I have never met you, but if I do you’ll need a new nose and plenty of beefsteak and perhaps a supporter below.” When the letter was made public, it caused considerable controversy, but most Americans seemed to approve of a father defending his daughter.
Taxes throughout History “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 the year 1913 the tax rates ranged from 1 to 7 percent on incomes above $3,000. The average annual income that year was $200.
• In Colonial America, bachelors were taxed in many communities because the people believed that unmarried men were too easily lured into mischief. • 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).
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A stroke occurs when blood flow to an area of the brain is interrupted. Receiving the right care quickly during a stroke can minimize brain damage and improve patient outcomes. The Good Samaritan Hospital has achieved certification as a Primary Stroke Center by The Joint Commission. This advanced certification reflects the hospital’s adherence to the highest standards for quality stroke care. If you or a loved one experiences the symptoms of stroke, including a facial droop, arm weakness, or slurred speech, call 9-1-1 immediately. Quick diagnosis and treatment is critical during a stroke. Now Lebanon County has a Primary Stroke Center to provide the highest quality care right here. That’s powerful medicine and comforting care. Only at Good Samaritan.
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