Lebanon County Edition
July 2013
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Life’s Second Draft Widowed Journalist Encourages Healing with Writing Circle By Chelsea Peifer Sometimes you create a life you’ve dreamed of and worked for, and something comes along that changes everything. In the aftermath, a person can choose to give up and stay put or to keep going forward, to find new meaning in a life with different circumstances. As a writer and journalist, Susan Weidener had not only heard the stories of people from all walks of life, but she had also articulated and retold their stories so others could hear and understand. Writing had always been a way for Weidener to connect with others and to nurture her own soul. So when Weidener was 44 and lost her husband—and love of her life—to a seven-year battle with cancer, she turned to writing as she chose to move forward. Weidener and her husband, John Cavalieri, had two sons, who were ages 7 and 11 at the time John passed away. “There were all of these messages then—and still are—that a single woman can’t raise boys alone,” said Weidener. “It’s not true. All a child needs is one charismatic adult in his or her life.” Weidener’s perspective on single parenting might sound like effortless perseverance, but she applies her hard work ethic to whatever she approaches, embracing the reality that one person can make a difference in a person’s life. please see DRAFT page 14 Susan Weidener, creator of the Women’s Writing Circle, inside the bookshop where the group meets monthly.
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Tales of Glenn Ford Nick Thomas f you’re a fan of old movies, “I have every letter he ever received you’ll recognize what the classics and copies of letters he wrote. I have Gilda, Blackboard Jungle, The his baby teeth, the lock of hair from Courtship of Eddie’s Father, and his first haircut, the dish he used as a Fastest Gun Alive all have in baby, and every report card from common: Glenn Ford. Oddly school. There [were] also thousands enough, though he appeared in of photographs and thousands of around 100 feature films, the first books. biography on Ford was only published in 2011. Ford’s son, Peter, authored Glenn Ford: A Life and talked about his dad and the book, which is an insightful Hollywood bio filled with stories of one of film’s most underappreciated actors. In addition to acting, Ford had a number of other interests, including Photo credit: Peter Ford a great fondness for women, which Peter Ford, center, with his parents, Eleanor Powell and Glenn Ford. Peter approaches with objective candor without ever turning the book into a trashy memoir. “He’s perceived by the public as a Jimmy Stewart—a wholesome, allAmerican guy,” Peter told me. “He was that, but he also had a lot of Errol Flynn in him. In reviewing all my sources, I counted 146 women he had a dalliance with, including Marilyn Monroe.” Those sources included Ford’s Ford with Rita Hayworth in Gilda (1946). own writings. “My father kept a diary every day of his life since 1933, and I have every one of them. So there was an enormous amount of material there,” explained Peter. “If you picked any day since then, I could tell you what he had for breakfast, where he went, what he did, what he thought, who he talked to, etc.” Glenn Ford was also a packrat of monumental proportions. When Ford Photo credit: Peter Ford died in 2006, Peter says he donated Ford, right, with Peter Ford on many of his father’s personal items to the set of Heaven with a Gun charities. Other items he sold, (1969). including a piano given to Ford by Judy Garland, a slot machine from “Wherever he went, he would Frank Sinatra, and a couch on which take scraps of paper and write his he “entertained” Monroe. thoughts. Often, he would stick In fact, an auction house hauled these randomly in books, along with off two 26-foot-long trucks filled with letters, Christmas cards, and even “stuff ”—and that still barely touched money.” the surface of the contents of Ford’s Peter donated hundreds of those 9,000-square-foot home in Beverly books to libraries but had to check Hills. each one in case his father had left “He saved everything,” said Peter. some long-forgotten treasure within
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its pages. In one, he found many letters from singer Sophie Tucker. Another Ford “hobby” was to secretly record telephone conversations. In the late 1950s, Ford, unbeknownst to his family and friends, installed a phone tap on the family’s phone. After his father died, Peter discovered hundreds of old reel-to-reel and cassette recordings of celebrities and politicians. “He has some of President Richard Nixon,” said Peter with a chuckle. “Isn’t that ironic? The most infamous taper himself getting taped!” Maybe we now know where Tricky Dick got the idea! Peter also recalls childhood Sunday-morning walks with his dad along Santa Monica Boulevard. The two would often stop under a leafy fichus tree, and Ford would ask his son if he wanted some chewing gum. Adept at sleight-of-hand tricks, Ford would appear to pull some chewing gum from the tree, leading young Peter to believe there really was such a thing as a “gum tree.” In another story, Peter remembers flying in a private plane with his dad to Cody, Wyo., for the dedication of the Buffalo Bill Museum. The ceremony culminated with a live buffalo dangling in a harness from a helicopter, flying over the crowd. But as the pilot hovered above the assembled dignitaries, the terrified animal’s bladder and bowels proved somewhat unstable. When combined with the downward force of the chopper’s rotor blades, Peter says it was a most memorable event! Glenn Ford was a complex man, which led to difficulties and intricacies in his professional and personal lives. Peter’s revelations about his dad—as well as his mom, the great dancer Eleanor Powell— provide a fascinating glimpse of the golden age of Hollywood. Thomas’ features and columns have appeared in more than 300 magazines and newspapers, and he is the author of Raised by the Stars, published by McFarland. He can be reached at his blog: http://getnickt.blogspot.com
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Crafting the Roads and History of New Hampshire honda Besaw carefully places three small pouches on her dining room table. They are meticulously adorned with very tiny beads. One has three flowers, another has a geometric design, and the third—my favorite—has sparkles of light that swirl across a black background. Besaw explains that the sparkles represent her people as they cross over the Milky Way to a place where they will be reborn. Besaw’s people are the Abenaki, a tribe that has lived in southern Quebec and northern New England since before the beginning of oral history. Yet many people are unfamiliar with their culture and contributions. Besaw, an award-winning Native artist whose work is regularly shown in galleries throughout the Northeast, is on a mission to change this. “The Abenaki are still here,” she says. “Through these beads, I hope to share the story of our survival.”
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Award-winning artist Rhonda Besaw uses beads to tell stories of her people.
Dartmouth history professor Jere Daniell calls Hillsborough “a quintessential New Hampshire town.”
My husband and I are visiting Besaw in her home, which is in a small village in the north woods of New Hampshire. The drive took us through the Notch, an area where you can’t communicate by cell phone but where you can—if you’re good at this sort of thing—talk with moose and bear. We were, in all respects, on a “road less traveled,” and this, for us, is part of the joy of “crafting,” a word that we coined more than 20 years ago. Crafting is the art of getting to know a place—its history, its traditions, its people—through its handmade objects. New Hampshire is the perfect place for this type of travel. In 1932 it became the first state to officially support its artists by establishing The League of New Hampshire Arts and Crafts, and the state’s craft tradition—which includes Native, Colonial, Shaker, and contemporary work—is among the nation’s finest. please see NEW HAMPSHIRE page 9
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Salute to a Veteran
From His Cruiser, He Saw Hundreds of Bodies Floating on the Sea Robert D. Wilcox hen Vernon Barker was still a junior in high school in 1943, he enlisted in the Navy. His brother had joined the Navy earlier and had told him about the high adventure of life aboard ship. And we were at war, and everybody else seemed to be going, so he couldn’t wait to become a sailor himself and see some of that action. He sure got his wish, since he later served in most of the major invasions of the war in the Pacific. His boot camp was at Naval Station Great Lakes in northern Illinois. Then he was sent to Newport News, where he was assigned to a brand-new light cruiser, the USS Mobile. In those days, the Navy was scrambling to build and man the hundreds of ships it would take to stand up to the powerful Japanese navy. So crews were being sent into combat as quickly as combat ships could
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come on line. After a shakedown cruise in the Chesapeake Bay to check out the ship’s guns, radio, and many other systems, the Mobile sailed through the Panama Canal to Hawaii, arriving there in June 1943. After a month of training, they were deemed ready for combat and joined Task Force 58 for a July 4 raid on Marcus Island, an
isolated Japanese coral atoll some 1,150 miles southeast of Tokyo. It was the easternmost territory belonging to Japan. And, although it was small, it was of extreme importance to Japan. Admiral William F. “Bull” Halsey had spurred his men on by saying, “We’re Vernon Barker in boot camp at going to show Naval Station Great Lakes. the Japanese what the Fourth of July is all about.” And they did, pelting the island with everything they had. The Mobile then joined the fifth fleet for the Gilberts campaign. There, she screened the ships of Task Force 15 as they struck at Tarawa Atoll in the first offensive in the critical central Pacific region. It was also the first time in the war that the United States faced serious Japanese opposition to an amphibious landing. The 4,500 Japanese defenders were well supplied and well prepared, and they fought almost to the last man. 17th Annual Barker remembers it best for the shock that came to him one morning when he went to go on deck for a little fresh air. “All I could see was bodies floating all over the place,” he said. “Tarawa was so small that they had no place to bury the NEW Japanese, so they took the bodies out to LOCATION! 9 a.m. – 2 p.m. sea 5 or 6 miles and dumped them into Spooky Nook Sports the sea.” 2913 Spooky Nook Road Barker manned a 40-mm gun position Manheim that helped defend his ship from air (Just off Rt. 283 at the Salunga exit) attack, and in all the campaigns they were involved in, air attack was continuous. His ship’s major responsibility was to Limited Sponsorship soften up the Japanese defenses against Opportunities Available amphibious assault. 717.285.1350 After Tawara came Wake, 717.770.0140
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Bougainville, and Kwajalein, where the Mobile performed fire support and carrier-screening duties. Joining Task Force 58, she pounded major enemy bases at Eniwetok and Rabaul, and then helped devastate Truk, the base of the Japanese combined fleet. Then they sailed for the Marianna Islands, where they struck Saipan, Tinian, and Guam. By March 24, Mobile’s first anniversary, she had steamed more than 70,000 miles and participated in 11 major operations against the enemy. But after having supported Allied landings in New Guinea and shelled Wake Island, they were to face something new and deadly. While raiding in the Philippines and Peleliu, they, for the first time, were attacked by kamikazes, day and night. They were the aircraft that unskilled Japanese pilots tried to fly into American ships and installations. Later, the Mobile faced the Kaiten one-man submarines, which, like the kamikazes, were guided by their pilots to certain death. They were launched from larger submarines, and once in the Kaiten, the pilot could not unlock the hatches. He was to exchange his life for whatever damage he could do. Japan produced several hundred of those death traps during the war. The last action for the Mobile was the invasions of Iwo Jima and Okinawa. Barker remembers seeing the famous flag raised on Iwo Jima and the particularly savage battle for Okinawa, where some 100,000 Japanese troops were dug-in in caves, cement tombs, and fortifications, well protected from the pre-invasion bombardment. The invasion would see the assembling of the greatest naval armada ever. In total, the American fleet of more than 1,300 ships gathered for the naval bombardment of the island. During the invasion, nearly 1,500 kamikaze flights were flown by the Japanese to sink 34 American ships and damage 164 others. But naval gunfire was used longer and in greater quantities than in any other battle in history. After 82 days, the Okinawan campaign was officially declared over on July 2, 1945, but to achieve that, more
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ships were used, more Lakes on Feb. 23, troops put ashore, more 1946. He later came to supplies transported, Central Pennsylvania to more bombs dropped, visit his sister, Eileen, more Naval guns fired and there he met his against shore targets than future wife, Gloria. He in any other operation in liked Central the Pacific. The light cruiser USS Mobile, Pennsylvania, too, so On both sides, nearly he decided to stay. on which Vernon Barker 170,000 died. The Thinking back over served in World War II. Japanese lost 7,800 his days in the Navy, aircraft and 16 combat ships. And we he says he saw more combat than he now had a base for the planned could ever have imagined. That had invasion of the Japanese mainland. earned him the Asiatic-Pacific Ribbon Then the U.S. dropped the two Awith 12 Battle Stars and the Philippines bombs, and the war was over. Liberation Medal with two Stars. He’s Barker says, “Truman was right to proud of that … and truly thankful drop the A-bomb, because the that he came through it all in one projected loss of life in attacking the piece. Japanese mainland was monumental.” Colonel Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in The Mobile returned to San Diego, Europe in World War II. and Barker was discharged at Great
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Good Players, Good Sports at Senior Games By Megan Joyce Co-sponsored by the Lebanon Valley YMCA and the Lebanon County Area Agency on Aging, the 28th annual Lebanon County Senior Games were held May 29 through June 5. “The Senior Games gives individuals the opportunity to compete in competitive and noncompetitive events in a friendly atmosphere,” said Brian Wolfe, director of Lebanon YMCA at the VA. “The games went great and everyone had a good time. It was a fun-filled, exciting time.” Events offered for the 2013 Senior Games included 1- and 1.5-mile walks; miniature golf; bowling; golf; pinochle; table tennis; freestyle, 25meter, and 50-meter swimming events; bingo; singles and doubles badminton; basketball foul shooting; softball throw; bocce ball; billiards; shuffleboard; and horseshoes. For every event, players were divided into age groups. Awards went to the top three place winners of each age group, both male and female, in each event. “The new event this year was horseshoes, held at the picnic grove at The Lebanon VA Medical Center,” Wolfe said. “Our most popular events are mini-golf, held at the Homestead at Coleman’s Park, and bowling, held at Cedar Lanes.” The Senior Games also highlight the many available opportunities for recreation in the county,
resources even longtime residents might not be aware of. “[The games] give the seniors of the community a chance to socialize in different settings throughout the county,” Wolfe said. “It is a chance to showcase the different activities Lebanon County has to offer and shows seniors different ways to live a healthy lifestyle.” Held at various locations in Lebanon County, the Senior Games took participants to Lion’s Lake Park, Homestead Golf Course at Coleman Memorial Park, Cedar Lanes, Blue Mountain View Golf Course, the Senior Center of Lebanon Valley, the Lebanon VA (YMCA), and the Lebanon VA Hospital’s picnic grove. Wolfe, who is in his fifth year helping to organize the Senior Games, said the attendance numbered about 130 over the games’ six-day span. “It was down from last year, but we had more people participate in events this year,” he noted. There are already tentative plans in the works for 2014, expanding the games both in scope and in levity. “Next year we are planning to have more events and have a little party at the end of the games,” Wolfe said. “Everyone said they had a great time and wished they would have signed up for more events.” For more information on the 2013 Lebanon County Senior games, visit www.lebanonymca.org or call (717) 273-2691.
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Besaw’s work includes beaded bags, moccasins, leggings, and drool-worthy necklaces and earrings. Her images are not reproductions of traditional designs but rather interpretations of ancient themes. In this way she passes on not only stories of her ancestors, but also their spirits. Our quest to glimpse New Hampshire’s colonial heritage takes us to Hillsborough Center, a town that is New England to its core, right down to the white-steepled church and stackedstone fences. Jon Gibson, a second-generation pewterer, greets us with a smile. “I’ll show you the old schoolhouse, and then we’ll go into my studio,” he says. This is how we come to spend the morning in a 200-year-old schoolhouse as well as in an equally old post-andbeam barn, all the while learning about a craft that was essential to the daily life of the early settlers. I pick up a porringer and admire its decorative handle. “Paul Revere worked in silver rather than pewter, but he made some of the most famous colonial porringers,” says Gibson. The Museum of Fine Arts in Boston has in its collection several pieces made by Paul Revere as well as a few items made by Jon Gibson, a fact of which Gibson is rightfully proud. Some of Gibson’s pieces—which include bowls, plates, mugs, tankards, and candleholders—are cast, some are hammered, and some are spun on an antique lathe. From Hillsborough Center we travel to Amherst, where we meet Sumner Bennett, who painstakingly crafts individually fabricated Shaker boxes. The Shakers, who arrived in the
colonies in the late 1700s, believed in devoting their “hands to work and their hearts to God,” and thus became known for items that were made with utmost love and precision. I look at a set of oval nested boxes, perhaps the most well known of the Shaker crafts, and quickly realize the necessity for such precision. The top of each box must not only fit snuggly onto the bottom of its handcrafted mate, but each box must also be sized to fit into the next larger one. Bennett makes sets that consist of up to 10 nested boxes. He is relaxed as he demonstrates the various steps required to make the boxes, from preparing the wood to cutting the ovals and distinctive fingershaped joints that keep the boxes from buckling. As with Besaw and Gibson, Bennett’s willingness to share his knowledge, both technical and historical, gives me insight into the past, teaching me not only how people lived, but also how they thought. Like all our crafting journeys, we run out of time much too soon. There are more crafts to explore, more history to learn. We haven’t even begun to delve into the state’s thriving contemporary art scene. For that, we’ll have to return. The Annual League of NH Craftsmen’s Fair, which showcases the work of more than 350 craftspeople, takes place this year Aug. 3–11. Rhonda Besaw: www.rhondabesaw.com Jon Gibson: www.gibsonpewter.com Sumner Bennett: www.sbshakerbox.com Other NH craftspeople: www.nhcrafts.org Photos © Irv Green unless otherwise noted; story by Andrea Gross (www.andreagross.com).
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Calendar of Events
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Lebanon County Department of Parks and Recreation All events held at the Park at Governor Dick unless noted.
July 7, 1 to 4 p.m. – Music on the Porch: Bluegrass and Country Music Jam
Lebanon County Library Programs Annville Free Library, 216 E. Main St., Annville, (717) 867-1802 Lebanon Community Library, 125 N. Seventh St., (717) 273-7624 Matthews Public Library, 102 W. Main St., Fredericksburg, (717) 865-5523
Senior Center Activities
Annville Senior Community Center – (717) 867-1796 200 S. White Oak St., Annville July 15, 10:30 a.m. – Planning Committee Meeting and Monthly Special Meal July 19, 9 a.m. – Calendar and Newsletter Distribution/Mailing List Maple Street Community Center – (717) 273-1048 710 Maple St., Lebanon July 8 to 12, 8 a.m. – Day Camp Week: Different Programs Each Day July 25, 7:30 a.m. to 7 p.m. – Bus Trip: Christmas in July Event July 31, 10:30 a.m. – Carpool to the Mt. Gretna Timbers for Show
Richland Community Library, 111 E. Main St., Richland, (717) 866-4939
Myerstown Senior Community Center – (717) 866-6786 51 W. Stoever Ave., Myerstown July 10, 10:45 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. – Bus Trip: Footloose at Pine’s Dinner Theatre July 18, 8:45 a.m. to 5 p.m. – Bus Trip: Noah at Sight & Sound Theatre July 26, 4:30 to 11:30 p.m. – Bus Trip: Barnstormers Baseball Game and Buffet
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Palmyra Senior Community Center – (717) 838-8237 101 S. Railroad St., Palmyra July 17, noon – Ice Cream Social July 30, 5 to 11 p.m. – Bus Trip: Reading Phillies Baseball Game and Picnic July 31, 10:45 a.m. – “Sink Hole Capital PA” Consumer Education and Discussion Southern Lebanon Senior Community Center – (717) 274-7541 Midway Church of the Brethren, 13 Evergreen Road, Lebanon Privately Owned Centers Senior Center of Lebanon Valley, Inc. – (717) 274-3451 710 Maple St., Lebanon Washington Arms – (717) 274-4104 303 Chestnut St., Lebanon Please call or visit the centers’ websites for additional activities.
Swim Your Way to Heart Health A refreshing swim can help lower blood pressure and cholesterol. These are vascular health bonuses for people who are at risk for stroke, the leading cause of disability and the fourth leading cause of death in the United States. In 2010, 137,000 Americans died of stroke, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). “Swimming is a vascular health bonanza,” said David H. Stone, MD, a member of the Society for Vascular Surgery. “Low-impact swimming provides a total cardiovascular workout. Regular exercise strengthens the heart muscle, resulting in less effort [exerted]
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and a decrease in blood pressure.” One in every three Americans over 20 years old—74 million Americans—has high blood pressure, according to 2010 statistics from the CDC. One in every six American adults has high cholesterol (more than 250 mg/d L). More American women than men have high cholesterol.
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In a 2010 University of Western Australia study, 100 women swimmers, ages 50 to 70, lowered their bad cholesterol and lost more inches in the waist and hips than walkers. Likewise, swimming is easy on the joints and doesn’t result in overheating. The American Council on Exercise suggests that adults burn 2,000 calories a week from
exercise. A lack of regular physical activity results in 250,000 deaths annually, according to a 2003 report in the journal Circulation. As long as the exercise regimen continues, the health benefits remain. After 12 to 14 weeks of a three- to five-days-a-week exercise regimen of 20 to 60 minutes at an intensity of 60 to 90 percent heart rate, bad (LDL) cholesterol can decrease by up to 20 percent, according to Livestrong.com. Another bonus: Aerobic exercise can increase good (HDL) cholesterol. (NewsUSA)
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how folks who were the age that I am now would say, “Enjoy being young. Each new year flies by faster and faster.” And I would say, “Blah, blah, blah and blabbity, blabbity, blabbity.” Just like my teenagers, I knew everything. How frivolous and carefree and invincible I was. It’s the universal story of youth, isn’t it? I told my brother the other day that my new favorite song is “Yesterday, When I Was Young” by Roy Clark. Listen to it; you’ll see what I mean. A faded celebrity singer said one time on a talk show that there wasn’t one darned thing that was good about getting old. I suppose that’s true for once-famous people who have lost their luster and have been forgotten by the public. But I have never been famous or widely known by the public. Getting older for a regular guy like me is just routine; I have no delusions or flashbacks of glory. Look, I’m not saying that getting older is a dream. The inevitable loss of youth can be difficult. Many of you already know it; many more soon will. In sad resignation, I have often said good riddance to much of the foolishness and turmoil of that earlier time, while in my heart I yearn for one more stab at it. I don’t ever remember saying that I wish I could be in my 60s, but I sure hope I can be in my 70s. The alternative is difficult to ponder.
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A Garden Worth 10 Scents Dr. Leonard Perry ow do you describe scents or fragrance in flowers? There are probably as many ways as there are people, scent being very subjective. It was in the Victorian times at the end of the 19th century that fragrance in the garden became really popular for just that, not for any functional use. Prior to that time, fragrance was used medicinally and to mask unpleasant odors. It was also at this time (1893) that scents were first categorized by Count von Marilaun into six groups. Since then, these have been expanded to 10 scent groups, all of which are used for flowers. These groups are based on common essential oils for each group of plants. It is the volatile compounds from these oils that our noses register as “scents.”
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1. The indole group has flowers smelling
like and resembling decayed meat or carrion, such as the skunk cabbage (Lysichiton) and a wake-robin (Trillium erectum), and attracts dung flies for pollination.
the oldest known fragrant flowers, such as some lilies and narcissus. 4. The aromatic group has some of the most pleasantly scented flowers with scents of vanilla, balsam, almond, and cloves, such as in some primroses, peonies, stocks, and pinks.
2. The aminoid group also smells unpleasant to attract flies, smelling of decayed fish or ammonia, and includes many umbel flowers, such as giant fennel.
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7. The lemon group is more often found in leaves but also in some water lilies and evening primroses.
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10. The honey-scented group is similar to the last, only sweeter and often more
6. The rose group is pleasant and found in roses in addition to some peonies and scented geraniums.
8. The fruit-scented group includes many roses and some minor bulbs.
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9. The animal-scented group usually is unpleasant and may smell of musk, as in some roses; human perspiration, as in valerian and ox-eye daisy; and animal fur, as in crown imperial.
As seen in most of these flower-scent groups, insects or pollinators are the main reason for scent. It basically attracts pollinators specifically needed to pollinate a flower, and at the right time. Usually if a flower is not ready or is past the time for pollination, or has been pollinated, it won’t have much fragrance. If a flower is fragrant at night, odds are that it is pollinated by moths or even bats. Sweet scents generally attract bees and flies for pollination, while those with fruity or musty-smelling flowers may attract flies or beetles for pollination. While a species of plant may have fragrance, some of its highly bred offspring may not. These cultivars (cultivated varieties) may have been bred for other traits instead, such as flower size, shape, or disease resistance. Roses are a good example of such a plant. Often, where there are many cultivars to choose from—as with roses, peonies, daffodils, or crabapples—only some will have fragrant flowers. Fragrant summer perennials include bearded iris early in the season, tall garden phlox later on as well as some of the oriental lilies, and lavender (where hardy).
5. The violet group and smell is, of course, present in violets. Smelling of damp woodland moss, it attracts no insects, as the flowers are selfpollinating.
3. The heavy group smells similar to the last, only sweeter, and includes some of
pleasant. Some examples are the butterfly bush (Buddleia), showy stonecrop (Sedum spectabile), and meadowsweet (Filipendula).
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Her positive mind has forged the way for a positive life. And her natural charisma may be what prompted so many women to join the Women’s Writing Circle that Weidener began in November 2009. The Women’s Writing Circle began out of Weidener’s hope and dream of finding kindred spirits who could connect as a community of writers. “It is very important when you are a writer to ease the loneliness and isolation of the work and find a community of likeminded souls,” Weidener said. “All of these women have given me a new lease on life.” The group of women meets on the second Saturday of each month at a local bookshop. They share their writing with each other and offer support and validation—things essential to any writer’s success, both in their careers and as individuals. “The emphasis is on how writing can lead to healing, self-discovery, and empowerment,” she said. To merely say that Weidener loves writing would be an injustice to her true feelings, as she loves every aspect of it— “even the blood, sweat, and tears” that go into it. “I found that writing was a journey into the soul—a path to self-discovery, as well as a way to develop understanding and empathy for others,” she said. “When you put on paper what has tormented you, you take away the power
of painful memories and put them Philadelphia Inquirer before leaving the behind you.” paper in 2007. Weidener is quick to point out that While she is committed to freely the group meets to connect not only as cheering others on in their journeys—no writers, but also as matter what age wives, mothers, they may be— daughters, sisters, Weidener has also and friends sharing been so bold as to their journeys. share her own life The group has journey in its rawest since evolved into a form in two monthly critique memoirs. session with a Her first book, concentration on Again in a developing pieces of Heartbeat, was writing for potential published in publication, 2010—the same explains Weidener. Books authored by Weidener as well as year that she turned Workshops have 60. It is a memoir the entire Women’s Writing Circle have also been formed of love, loss, and been featured at the bookshop where from the Women’s dating again. they meet monthly. Writing Circle, Weidener has not where the focus is on the craft and remarried since losing her husband but alchemy of writing. still dates occasionally. The group recently published an “I never met a man as strong or as anthology of stories and poems, called confident, as kind and as honorable as Slants of Light: Stories and Poems From the John,” said Weidener. “What has kept Women’s Writing Circle. The anthology me going since John’s death is the can be purchased in some local memory of how he believed in me, my bookstores or at Amazon.com, and it will strength as a woman, and he never be available as an e-book on Aug. 1. doubted for an instant that I could raise Weidener brought in outside his sons on my own.” workshop instructors to teach on topics She learned a lot about herself as she like fiction and memoir writing and wrote Again in a Heartbeat and hopes the journaling. She shares her own skills and book can help anyone who is going experiences as well. Weidener worked as through the loss of a loved one. a news and feature writer for The “When a person we love has cancer, or
any chronic illness, we may not always live up to our own set of personal standards,” she explained. “My anger and grief should not have been directed at my husband for dying but at the cancer and how the disease impacted our family, our two little boys, and my own naïve dream of a happily-ever-after.” She points out in the book that when a person you love is dying, they will often distance themselves from you. “It would have helped me at the time if I had had someone to talk about it and why I felt so abandoned by him.” Weidener’s second memoir, Morning at Wellington Square, published in 2012, is the story of a woman’s search to find herself beyond traditional roles. She discusses the beginning of the Women’s Writing Circle and the end of her career as a journalist. Leaving the newspaper was painful in its own way; her time in the newsroom was so rewarding and felt like more of a calling than it did a job. “I am always amazed when I think of how an idea to start a writing circle has turned into a place where, over the last three and a half years, more than 200 women have read their work,” Weidener said. “Some come once or twice and don’t return to the circle, while others have been coming steadily for a year, two years, even three.” To follow the happenings of the Women’s Writing Circle, you may visit their blog at www.susanweidener.com.
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estimates by researchers at RAND Corp. and the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. The researchers found these costs of care comparable to, if not greater than, those for heart disease and cancer.
The study, supported by the National Institutes of Health and published recently in The New England Journal of Medicine, totaled direct medical expenditures and costs attributable to the vast network of informal, unpaid care
that supports people with dementia. Depending on how informal care is calculated, national expenditures in 2010 for dementia among people older than 70 were found to be $159 to $215 billion.
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Hospital Gowns Get a Redesign Gloria May, M.S., R.N., CHES K, maybe it isn’t in the same league as the invention of the microscope, the discovery of penicillin, or the formulation of vaccines, but the creation of the hospital gown that closes in the back will certainly be applauded by every patient who has ever had to wear one and who has had to reach, pull, or twist it just so he can get to the bathroom without exposing his rear end to the world. When I was caring for patients in the hospital, we often used two of those flimsy, thin cotton gowns on our patients, one tying in the back and the second one over it, tying in the front. The patients were not as exposed as Photos courtesy of Henry Ford Innovation Institute they were when they were forced to wear the single gown, and in addition, wearing two gowns made them feel a bit warmer. Sometimes we would let the patients bring pajama bottoms or boxer shorts from home and wear them under the gowns. The tie-in-the-back version of the gown is handy for nurses and doctors, as it provides easy access to the patient’s back and makes it quick and simple to, for instance, listen to a patient’s lungs or heart or to give an injection. And it makes it easier for the patient to use the bedpan if necessary. However, patients hate those darn gowns. And with good reason. And although they have provided fodder for cartoons for years, it’s time for them to go. I saw pictures of one kind of newly designed gown, and it looks more like a wrap-around spa bathrobe. It has a crisscross V-neck closure in the front and elbow-length sleeves. There are snaps
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instead of ties and, while it does close in the back, it also has an “access flap” from the neck down to the lower back. The particular gown I saw and read about was created at the Henry Ford Innovation Institute and is currently being used at a hospital in Detroit. So far, patient reviews have been positive. The goal now is getting the design licensed and sold to a manufacturer who can get this going on a grand scale. (I did a little research on the Internet and found that other designers and companies are working on this issue as well.) The current tie-in-the-back design goes back to the early 20th century, and while they were a great idea in a time when patients stayed flat in the bed much more than they do today, they haven’t changed much since then, and they certainly don’t offer any measure of privacy. And here’s another benefit of the spalike gown, beyond preserving patient dignity: The new gown is made of a thicker fabric, so using two gowns on patients who are cold (in addition to being embarrassed) would no longer be necessary, thus saving on the number of gowns the hospital needs to purchase. The manufacturing cost of the new gowns is comparable to those of the old ones, and yes, the new gowns launder up well. So, while it may not win the Nobel Prize, a gown that closes in the back will be dearly loved. Way to go, designers!
“The Upper Hand” This phrase originated with the advent of sandlot baseball. In order to determine which team would bat first, one player would grasp the baseball bat at the lower end. A player from the opposing team would then place his hand directly above the first player’s hand. They would alternate hands up the bat until the end was reached and one of the players had the “upper hand.”
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