50plus LIFE Lebanon County August 2016

Complimentary | Lebanon County Edition | August 2016 • Vol. 11 No. 8

Dirty Hands Unearth Health and Happiness page 4

‘Roots’ Series Reimagined page 2

Dating When a Spouse Has Alzheimer’s page 15

‘Roots’ Series Reimagined for Novel’s 40th Anniversary

By Sam Peeples On May 30, History channel began airing a reimagining of one of the most critically acclaimed series to ever appear on television: an update of the TV miniseries Roots, based on both the novel by Alex Haley and the 1977 television adaptation of the same name.

The four-episode, eight-hour series ran May 30–June 2 starring Malachi Kirby as Kunta Kinte.

History announced production in 2013 after it obtained the rights to the franchise from Mark Wolper, the son of the original series’ producer, and the Haley estate. History commissioned Wolper to produce a contemporary adaptation that drew on both examples of the work.

Roots follows the story of an African adolescent named Kunta Kinte as he is taken from his home and sent to America through the slave trade and renamed Toby by the man who buys him. It then details

oral histories Haley his experiences as a slave and used to create his descendants’ experiences, ALEX HALEY his timeline have ending with Alex Haley proven unreliable. himself.

An examination The novel was first of his sources by published in 1976.

TOM historian Gary Haley claims that the B. Mills and novel is partially MATILDA genealogist Elizabeth autobiographical.

Shown Mills found While some plot that most of the elements were his CHICKEN GEORGE physical evidence own invention TOM LEA either provides and the book no proof is classified supporting as a novel KIZZY Haley’s rather than story or a historical BELLE account, contradicts KUNTA KINTE it outright.

Haley In purports his addition, ancestry to be BINTA people the same as the from Kinte’s one laid out in apparent home the book.

OMORO village of Juffure However, were inconsistent in many of the documents and corroborating Haley’s

story, changing details with each rendition. Even the village’s griot, a professional storyteller who acts as a repository of oral history, gave conflicted accounts each time he was asked to relate the story.

Juffure itself was represented in both the novel and the original series as what it was in Haley’s time rather than Kinte’s. In the book, it is said to be a small village several miles from the coast that had only heard rumors of white men.

In truth, it was a port city very close to James’s Island, an important trading outpost owned by the British.

The new series remedied these errors, showing both Juffure and Kinte’s tribe, the Mandinka, as we now know they were back in 18th century—specifically, that they were actually mounted warriors who rode horses well enough that Europeans visited them for training.

The new miniseries also corrected how Kinte was caught and sold: by African slave traders who sold men

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and women, sometimes those of their own tribe, to visiting Europeans—as opposed to white slave catchers, who were far less prevalent than many assume.

Accusations of plagiarism also followed the novel. Harold Courlander accused Haley of stealing from his 1967 novel The African, while Margret Walker Alexander claimed her own book, Jubilee (1966), had been plagiarized.

Walker’s case was dismissed in court, the judge claiming that

“no actionable similarities” could be found between the works.

Courlander’s suit was settled out of court for $650,000 after Haley admitted to copying several passages from The African.

The original television series premiered just one year after the release of the novel and popularized it with the American public. The series was a great success with both audiences and critics, created a new interest in genealogy among the public, and established the miniseries

as a workable format on broadcast television.

In the original series, Levar Burton, of Star Trek: The Next Generation fame, starred as Kunta Kinte. David L. Wolper, Mark Wolper’s father, was the executive producer.

The series drew in the largest audience for any type of television up to that point in U.S. history at 130 million to 140 million viewers. It is regarded as one of the greatest shows to ever play on television.

The new series had a lot to live up to but was able to declare itself a success. Critics gave it near universal acclaim and the majority of audiences followed suit. The series currently holds a 97 percent “fresh” rating on the review-aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, 83 percent on the similar site Metacritic, and glowing reviews in papers such as the New York Times and the Boston Globe.

All four episodes of the miniseries can be found on History’s website at http://roots.history.com.

At Your Fingertips Helpful numbers, hotlines, and local businesses and organizations eager to serve you—all just a phone call away.

Emergency Numbers Poison Control Center (800) 222-1222 Food Resources Food Stamps (800) 692-7462

CONTACT Helpline (717) 652-4400

PA Crime Stoppers (800) 472-8477

Kidney Foundation (717) 652-8123

PennDOT (800) 932-4600

The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society (717) 652-6520

Recycling (800) 346-4242

Pharmacies CVS/pharmacy www.cvs.com Senior Centers Annville Senior Community Center (717) 867-1796

Lebanon County Area Agency on Aging Meals on Wheels (717) 273-9262

Lupus Foundation (888) 215-8787 Hearing Services Melnick, Moffitt & Mesaros ENT Associates 927 Russell Drive, Lebanon (717) 274-9775

Social Security Information (800) 772-1213

Maple Street Senior Community Center (717) 273-1048

U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (800) 827-1000 Housing — Apartments Community Homes of Lebanon Valley, Inc. (717) 273-3333 Housing Assistance Housing Assistance & Resources Program (HARP) (717) 273-9328

Myerstown Senior Community Center (717) 866-6786

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Pennsylvania Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (800) 233-3008 V/TTY Home Care Services Senior Helpers (717) 920-0707 Hospitals Medical Society of Lebanon County (717) 270-7500 WellSpan Good Samaritan Hospital 252 S. Fourth St., Lebanon (717) 270-7500 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

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backyard. Each side of

By Sam Peeples the house is surrounded

by greenery, whether it is Driving up to Melanie a row of bushes and trees Markowski’s house, the or carefully constructed butterfly garden sits flowerbeds. prominently in the front “I love doing theme yard. It is filled with flowers gardens. I have a butterfly of cool lavender, pink, and garden, a hummingbird white and surrounded by garden, and colorplants specially chosen to coordinated gardens,” provide for every stage of a Markowski’s kitchen herb garden contains Markowski said. “I love butterfly’s lifecycle.

20 favorite herbs. matching the gardens with Following the short the color of the house.” walkway to her front door While the front yard is is another bed of reds centered on the butterfly and yellows supported by garden and flowers from shrubs and berry bushes. friends, the back and sides Right away, it is evident of the yard provide their that nature is important in own beauty. her life and has been for a A small herb garden sits long time. in pots growing thyme, Markowski’s first parsley, and oregano. memory is of planting lima Her shed is surrounded beans in June. by wildflowers and self“When they pop up out seeding plants that provide of the ground, they have A wooden tub The Green Thumb these little dirt caps. I went pollinator garden of Garden Club’s memorial cover for a small pond beloved by frogs. out and picked up all the annual flowers. garden of native plants Another pond sits dirt caps because I thought in a local park. by the fence’s gate with I was helping them be fish enjoying shade from born. I don’t think Dad nearby trees. And just active within the community. appreciated that.” off of her patio sits a bed of silver She and the other members are Markowski is a longtime plants promising to glow the next member and current vice president responsible for planting and time there’s moonlight. of the Green Thumb Garden Club. maintaining the flowerbeds Markowski’s love of gardening She joined when one of the group’s surrounding the town square and extends beyond the confines of founding members, Lucretia Fake, its borough’s four welcome signs.

They also manage a native plant her own backyard or the Green invited her to a meeting one day.

Thumb Gardening Club. memorial garden at a park and “Lucretia invited me to a For 15 years she ran the playground to honor club members meeting in 1997 and I promptly afterschool Junior Garden Program who have passed on. joined,” she said. “It’s amazing for a local elementary school. More Members donate plants to an how you can grow up right next to than 250 students passed through annual yard sale, and last year’s something and never hear of it.” the program and 2,000 more proceeds were enough to create Since joining the Green toured the gardens and learned two $500 scholarships for local Thumbs, Markowski has been about local wildlife. both correspondence secretary and students pursuing gardening“I very much enjoyed running related fields. membership chair. Her secretarial an afterschool Junior Garden Club members engage the duties consisted of writing letters, Program with a focus on gardening residents of Victorian Villa in keeping members informed of for wildlife,” she said. “Since horticultural therapy, teaching events, and sharing incoming that program has ended, Green them to create floral designs and correspondence.

Thumb and I have been looking gardens. And during the holidays, As chair, she reached out to into another way to reach out to they decorate a Christmas tree for potential members and invited children.” them to meetings, welcoming new Olivia’s House, a grief and loss She and Green Thumb also host members and maintaining a list of center for children. a series of library lectures every Of course, she makes sure to all their attendees. fourth Thursday of the month. spare plenty of time for her own The club has been consistently www.50plusLifePA.com

These lessons include herb growing, how to cut down on labor, making special gardens and orchards, and even a topiary demo for the holidays.

She is also happy to see local schools continuing their commitment to gardening and the outdoors.

“Since the war gardens of World War I and the victory gardens of World War II, school curriculums have included gardening,” Markowski said. “I am very happy to see a lot of schools receive grants and set up gardening programs.”

Whether it is in her home or throughout her county, Markowski is truly passionate about horticulture.

She believes in its benefits enough to recommend gardening to anyone who has even a passing interest in working with plants.

“I hope that everyone plants a garden with their families; whether it’s flowers or vegetables, digging in the dirt helps to keep you healthy,” she said. “It doesn’t matter if you live in an apartment, the suburbs, or on a high-rise with a balcony. If you have land, plant what you enjoy, can afford, and can take care of.

“And if you really don’t like to dig in the dirt, then go outside and enjoy the efforts of others as you tour the many beautiful parks and gardens throughout Pennsylvania and beyond.”

For more information on the Green Thumb Garden Club, go to their website (http://gardenclubof york.com), email info@gardenclub york.com, or contact Markowski at (717) 244-8476 or mmarkowski@ juno.com.

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Saralee Perel

Buying Caskets with Coupons

When my husband, Bob, typed “caskets” into the online retailer’s search box, he found 93 results.

“Why on earth are you looking at these?” I said.

“We need a coffee table,” he said sarcastically. “Why do you think?

We’re not going to be here forever.”

He clicked on the description of one casket, and then excitedly read out loud: “Our pleated ‘soft to the touch’ velvet interior bedding in light blue and a tufted velvet head panel—” “Bob, I’ve never been given as much column material as you just gave me.”

“You’re making fun of buying a coffin?” he said.

“Of course not. I wonder if the store has any BOGOs.” “What?”

“Buy one. Get one free.”

Before he got off the computer, I tenderly took his hands in mine.

“Sweets,” I said. “I promise I’ll be serious.”

Hearing that, he hugged me.

“If I go first,” he said, “I want you to go on with your life. Nothing would make me happier than to know that you’ll live fully. I’d want you to laugh again, even love again.”

“Oh, Bob. You’re so wonderful.”

I placed my lips on his forehead and gently gave him a whisper of a kiss.

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Frankly, I don’t think it’s such a hot idea to focus on morbidity. Also, if you go first, who’s going to clean the house? I can’t vacuum with my disability.”

“What was your excuse before you were disabled?”

He started to leave the room but quickly stopped himself.

“All right,” he said. “But before I stop thinking about caskets, I need us to be serious. I just want some closure.”

That’s when my heart started to break because I could tell this was gut wrenching for him—as well as for me.

“Saralee, I want to decide on our coffins.”

We sat on the couch, holding each other tightly.

“OK, sweets,” I said.

“There are two beautiful ones.”

I took a deep breath, preparing myself for this sad decision about finality.

He said, “If we buy them within the next 18 minutes, we get a free tomato slicer.”

We both started laughing so hard we were doubled over in hysterics.

Bob said, “I think I saw a coupon; if we both drop dead today, we’ll each get a free Apple iPhone 6!”

And so, we finally approached this delicate subject with the dignity it deserved. I solemnly decided that when I’m buried, I’ll be wearing my pink silk dress.

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He Flew the Dreaded Hump, Delivering Supplies that Kept China in the War

When Newton Dana graduated tearing up bridges, marshalling yards, from Trenton High School in 1941 and airfields. at age 17, he enrolled at Ohio State One mission Dana especially University. But by the end of his remembers is attacking and helping sophomore year there, the draft was to destroy the Yellow River Bridge about to pay him a that spanned the river visit. that is China’s second So he decided to longest and the cradle enlist in the Army Air of Chinese civilization.

Corps, and he headed The bridge would have for Atlantic City, supplied the Japanese New Jersey, for basic their all-essential training. access to the Chinese He was then heartland. selected for the When the list of aviation cadet consequential targets program, and after ran thin in early 1945, completing primary, Dana and his crew basic, and advanced were assigned to fly Newton Dana with the flight training, he the Hump back to PT-17 Stearman he flew in won his wings and Chabua, India, to primary flight training. became a flight join the planes that officer. were flying the Hump He then joined the crew of a fouraround the clock, carrying fuel, engine B-24 Liberator bomber as coammo, and supplies of all other kinds pilot in late 1944 and was on his way to China. east across the Atlantic, Africa, and the Flying the Hump had begun in Near East to India. From there, the early 1942, when the Japanese advance crew flew the Hump to their base in had taken Burma and had sealed off China, where they flew as members of the Burma Road, which had permitted the Flying Tigers. trucks to carry drastically needed Their crew’s bombing missions were supplies to the Chinese. against the Japanese-occupied facilities That 1,000-mile roundtrip airlift along the eastern part of China, turned out to be an extremely

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hazardous undertaking for our flight crews. Planes flew around the clock over high mountains and deep gorges between Burma and China.

Fully loaded C-47s couldn’t climb over the tallest peaks, so they had to fly dangerous paths between the peaks, some of which reached 20,000 feet into the skies. There was violent turbulence—with winds of 200 mph—huge downdrafts, and icing, and wild weather as a daily threat.

Also, there was a severe lack of suitable charts and an absence of navigational equipment, like radio beacons. Airlift crews were said to have faced a 1-in-3 chance of being killed.

On the ground, there were not enough mechanics or spare parts to go around, so maintenance and engine overhauls were often deferred. Many overloaded planes crashed on takeoff when they lost an engine.

Author and ATC pilot Ernest Gann remembers flying into Chabua and seeing four air crashes in one day: two C-47s and two C-87s.

But, each year the tonnage carried to China increased significantly, with more planes flying, more flight crews, and more mechanics to keep them in

mission,” Dana says. the air.

When he had The weather, a chance to grab however, remained some rest between lethal. missions, what were “Those downdrafts were the quarters like?

“They’d have a special horror,” made a good tree Dana says. “Once, house back home,” one grabbed us Dana remembers. and dropped us A B-24 like the one Dana flew How about the 4,000 feet like we makes a high-altitude turn food? were on an elevator. in the clouds.

“Typically, Nothing we could in China it was do about it. Luckily, C-rations we were delivering. In India we were still above the tops of the you felt like you hadn’t lived until you mountains … although barely. had some Buffalo cacciatore.”

“There were plenty of crashed Gen. William Tunner, who had airplanes below us, so many that commanded the last phases of the it used to be called ‘an aluminum Hump, later wrote, “Once the airlift undercast.’” got underway, every drop of fuel, An Air Force report said, “A byproduct of the numerous air crashes every weapon, and every round of was a local boom in native wares made ammunition, and 100 percent of such diverse supplies as carbon paper and from aluminum crash debris.”

C-rations, every such item used by What happened when a Hump American forces in China was flown flight got to China? in by air.

“Usually, when we got there, they unloaded everything but the meager “Never in the history of transportation had any community load of fuel aboard that would get been supplied such a large proportion us back to India, and then sent us of its needs by air, even in the heart back over the Hump to fly another

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After the Hump, those of us who had developed an expertise in air transportation knew that we could fly anything, anywhere, anytime.”

The dropping of the atomic bombs brought about the surrender of Japan on Aug. 15, 1945, but the Hump flying went on until China could be supplied reliably from the ground.

And on Sept. 17, Dana and his crew headed their B-24 back to the U.S., where they were discharged at Fort Dix, New Jersey.

Dana returned to Ohio State to earn his degree in animal husbandry before forging a career as general manager of the family’s Dana Packing Company, in Wrightstown, New Jersey. He came to Central Pennsylvania to be close to his daughter.

Asked if he now thinks often of those days of bombing China and flying the Hump, he says quietly, “When you have memories like those, you’ll have them with you the rest of your life.”

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Rocking on the High Seas with the Inaugural Flower Power Cruise

By Stephanie Kalina-Metzger About a year or so ago, I was intrigued by a commercial announcing a “Flower Power Cruise,” featuring a star lineup of bands from the ’60s. The ship was scheduled to set sail in late February, so I hinted to my husband that it might be a great birthday present.

Being a child of the era, the trip struck his fancy and soon afterward we were booked. On Feb. 29, 2016, we joined about 2,000 other funloving music fans on a six-day, musicfilled voyage, with stops in Cozumel and Key West.

Headliners included Herman’s Hermits, starring Peter Noone; Peter Asher; Blood, Sweat & Tears featuring Bo Bice; Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals; Micky Dolenz of the Monkees; the Grass Roots; the Guess Who; Jefferson Starship; Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and the Raiders; Gary Puckett and the Union Gap; the

Revelers listening to tribute bands on board ship.

Herman’s Hermits performing for cruisegoers.

Buckinghams; and the Family Stone.

The schedule of events for the Flower Power Cruise (www. flowerpowercruise.com) was literally “jam” packed, with numerous concerts slated for every day of the cruise.

To kick things off the first night, Peter Noone packed the auditorium.

The ’60s icon still looks great and drew many laughs when he responded to an enamored female who shouted, “We want to see you in

the hot tub later.”

“In England, we call that ‘Fat Boy Soup,’” he replied, without missing a beat.

Music from the ’60s resonated down the passageways of the ship as we strolled from our rooms each day to join in events such as slideshow presentations on old television series, trivia contests about artists of the era, informational sessions, and “meet and greets” with musical luminaries like Felix Cavaliere.

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One of my favorites, the Guess Who, started out with a bang with hits like “No Sugar Tonight” and “American Woman,” which, as we learned from bass player Jim Kale, was written about the Statue of Liberty.

Many of the passengers contributed to the fun by parading around the ship in tie-dyed shirts, beads, fringe, headbands, and other fashions of the era.

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A Whirlwind Tour of Cozumel We hit the ground running upon arriving in Cozumel, a Caribbean island off the eastern coast of Mexico’s Yucatan Peninsula.

Our first stop was Discover Mexico, where a tour guide led us into a building to watch a short film describing Mexican culture, crafts, and countryside. When the movie ended, we viewed Mexican-made arts and crafts at the small museum located in the same building.

Afterward, we walked the park grounds, where we inspected “toscale” replicas and learned more about Mexican landmarks like the Great Pyramid of Cholula and Palenque’s Temple of the Inscriptions.

Before we exited the park, a group of men elicited “oohs” and “ahhs” from the crowd by performing a dance, climbing an 80-foot pole and finally spiraling down the structure tethered by one ankle.

Another stop on our tour included the old town of El Cidral, home to the oldest Mayan Ruins on the island.

A “Mayan warrior” stood guard in front of the ruins and posed with tourists for pictures.

Ernest Hemingway’s home.

A “Mayan warrior” guards the ruins in El Cidral, Cozumel.

During our visit, we participated in a tequila tasting at the Hacienda Tequila Museum, where we learned about the history of the beverage and sampled several tequilas crafted in the area.

Before departing the small town, we climbed a small hill to snap a few pictures of the first Catholic church erected in Cozumel dating back to 1848.

Next was a brief stop to behold the rugged beauty of El Mirador beach, where tourists enjoyed climbing the natural bridge to look out toward Cuba and across the horizon of the Caribbean Sea. Our final stop included a visit to San Miguel, most of which I saw

through the windows of the van, wishing they would have allotted more time to allow us to walk the streets, peer inside the shops and galleries, or stroll along the wide sidewalks next to the seawall.

Time was tight, however, so we headed back to the ship to sail to Key West.

Visiting Key West and the Hemingway House Temperatures in Key West hovered at a comfortable 70 degrees during our visit, and we spent several hours on the walkable island, enjoying the shops along Duval Street and the neighborhoods ensconced in the small 3-by-5-mile town.

Our most memorable stop in Key West was the Hemingway Home built in 1851, where we learned the importance of being Ernest and the life of the prolific writer. Guests were permitted a glimpse into his studio where he penned works like For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

Hemingway was once a boxer and that, paired with his clumsiness, resulted in nine concussions, which may have contributed to his sometimes erratic behavior.

Approximately 54 descendent cats lounged about as if they owned the place, about half of which were polydactyl.

We made a brief stop in Mallory Square to peruse the shops and watch a steel drum player before boarding the ship. The plaza comes alive with entertainers during the nightly sunset watching.

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Art & Antiques by Dr. Lori

Decorating with Family Heirlooms Lori Verderame

There is an overwhelming abundance of home-makeover TV shows and online blogs about redecorating, redesigning, and reconsidering the objects with which we live.

Antiques and family heirlooms are front and center when it comes to innovative design. Here are some decorating tips that might prove fun and interesting.

Arrange Collections Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was onto something when he said, “Less is more.” Even large collections can look organized if they are arranged well.

Put antique collections together by size, material, color, or texture. This method shows both a collection’s similarities and differences.

Organization of a collection shows

best object right there tured antique object in a guest room, powder room, or foyer entryway. with pride.

Feature a single antique object with family significance, like Grandma’s Family Friendly 19th-century ironstone mixing bowl, in If you have an object that has been The Front is Forea prominent area of your home. most handed down in the Use objects to let your family history family over the years, shine. For instance, I have my father’s When you enter consider designing a any room in your war medals proudly displayed in my room around it. home, there is one home library along with World War II If you have your wall that is right in literature and military scrapbooks. front of you or one Talk about the origin of these special Ironstone mixing bowl in foyer atop grandmother’s Regina a repurposed chest. music box dating wall that you focus on old pieces and let your history speak the most. back to the early through heirloom objects throughout 1900s, feature it proudly where everyThis wall is the starting point for your home. one can admire it. any design concept, and in museums Is that antique parlor chair from the Ph.D. antique appraiser and awardit is called the confrontation wall— winning TV expert Dr. Lori Verderame is Victorian period or cut-glass punch aptly named as it is the first wall you the star appraiser on Discovery channel’s confront. This wall shouts out for bowl looking for a new space to show international hit TV show Auction Kings its stuff? Take it out of the living room and appears on FOX Business Network’s something important, big, colorful, or bright. where it may get lost in the array of Strange Inheritance. Visit www.DrLori V.com or call (888) 431-1010. other furnishings and make it the feaThis is a statement wall. Put your

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Calendar of Events

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Alzheimer’s and Dementia Family Support Group Linden Village 100 Tuck Court, Lebanon (717) 274-7400

Annville Senior Community Center (717) 867-1796 200 S. White Oak St., Annville Aug. 2, 8:30 a.m. – Breakfast Club Meeting at All That & A Bag of Chips Aug. 19, 10:30 a.m. – Chili Cook-off at the Hill Church Pavilion Aug. 31, noon – “Goodbye, Summer” Tea Party

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Library Programs Annville Free Library, 216 E. Main St., Annville, (717) 867-1802 Aug. 2, 6:30 p.m. – Adult Coloring Club

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Aug. 5, 8 p.m. – Moths of Governor Dick Park Aug. 7, 1-4 p.m. – Music on the Porch Aug. 13, 9 a.m. to noon – Volunteer Work Day

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The Beauty in Nature

Fall Webworms Clyde McMillan-Gamber

During late July and all of August in Central Pennsylvania, as across much of eastern North America, we see large sheets of webbing wrapped over whole branches of the abundant black walnut and hickory trees.

Those webs, made by hundreds of fall webworm caterpillar siblings—the offspring of a small, mostly white moth— engulf the leaves of entire limbs.

There, those webworm larvae eat the enclosed foliage in relative safety from predators and the weather. The webs get larger as the caterpillars grow.

Sometimes those limbs are almost completely defoliated, but fall webworms don’t cause permanent damage to the trees.

Fall webworms aren’t beautiful creatures that lend to the esthetics of local landscapes.

They are pale yellow to dark gray and have long, short bristles that protect them from most kinds of birds.

They always stay in their protective, webbed homes and

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writhe at once if it is disturbed.

That massed wiggling scares away or repels most would-be predators. It’s unnerving to me.

The adult moths of fall webworms are furry and mostly white with a few dark spots.

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weeks. Then, each larva leaves its webbed nursery and pantry and pupates in a thin, brown cocoon of its silk, plus debris that camouflages it, beneath tree bark or in leaf litter on the ground.

Each fall, the webworm overwinters in its pupal stage and emerges the next summer as a moth, ready to mate, lay fertilized eggs on host trees, and die. The next generation of larvae soon hatches and together the larvae spin silk to form protective, webbed homes.

Two kinds of cuckoos in America, the yellow-billed and the black-billed, specialize in and adapted to eating caterpillars, including fall webworms. Those birds reach their long, curved beaks into the large webs and pull out webworms until their hunger is satisfied.

Fall webworms are not lovely, but they are not harmful either.

They are another interesting part of the Central Pennsylvania landscape late in summer every year.

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On Life and Love after 50

Dating When a Spouse Has Alzheimer’s Tom Blake

One of the most difficult and controversial senior-relationship topics that readers bring up is dating when a spouse has Alzheimer’s.

A woman, age 71, said, “I am dating a man, age 76, whose wife has Alzheimer’s and is very well cared for in an expensive facility. He visits her daily, sometimes as much as three times a day. They had a 35-year marriage in which he raised her children, and he considers them equally his own.

“Here is my dilemma. I don’t doubt that he loved his wife, and still does as much as he can. But in his online dating profile (how I met him), he said he has more love to give than his wife can accept. That is kind of awkward wording, but I knew what he was trying to say.

“I do not think he is morally bad for seeking companionship, since his wife has been going downhill for five years and has been in this facility for the past three years. But his children do not like the idea of their father going out with other women. They know that he is, but they have told him, ‘We don’t want to hear about it.’

“That puts me in the ‘other woman’ category. I feel ‘back door’ and it doesn’t feel good. I have never asked to go with him to visit his wife. I find myself feeling resentful about the position this puts me in. I know he is happy with me as he has told me he loves me and often speaks of our future together.

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be a pariah when the day comes that his wife passes away.

“Would it be reasonable or fair of me to tell him that unless I can be part of his life now, e.g., visit his wife in the facility and not be hidden from his children, I cannot go on this way?

“If I cannot go to the facility, then perhaps his wife is not really ‘that far along’ after all. Maybe she has another three or four years to go. I don’t want to be ‘backdoor Dora’ for the next four years. Please help me understand my situation better.”

Tom Blake’s opinion: The man is lonely; he went on a dating site. He did not try to hide that he is married and his wife has Alzheimer’s. What he did may not be right in some people’s eyes.

One of my male readers was a caregiver to his wife for 12 years.

He said, “You need to walk in someone’s shoes to know what it’s like to be an isolated caregiver in a hostile environment before you can criticize them. With Alzheimer’s, you watch your loved one slowly vanish before your eyes and become a total stranger.”

The woman entered this relationship knowing the situation.

She should have known she was walking into a minefield. Now, she wants to go visit the wife to see how sick she really is. That is totally wrong and disrespectful. She has no business going there.

Next, she worries about how his stepchildren view her. She’s not going to be able to change that either.

Probably ever. After all, the ill woman is the children’s mother.

So, either she accepts the situation the way it is, stays in the background, and stops worrying so much about herself, or she needs to exit the relationship. I find her motives and dilemma to be her problem.

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It Was 50 Years Ago Today

‘Summer in the City’ Randal Hill

The old radio brother might be able soundman scratched to do something with his head. Those the words as song lyrics scraggly, hippieabout a young city guy looking musicians had being out on a summer requested his entire night. sound effects collection The elder Sebastian of traffic noises. They said he’d take a look had even asked him to but then saw only two include the sound of lines he liked: a jackhammer. They But at night it’s a said all the noise would different world/Go out show up on their next and find a girl record.

Working with Steve “Summer in the City” The elderly Boone, Sebastian The Lovin’ Spoonful gentleman rolled fashioned the poem August 1966 his eyes. Whatever into a winning musical happened to “normal” music? And just composition that included the novelty what kind of oddball name was the of urban sound effects.

Lovin’ Spoonful, anyway?

“We listened for hours to various Harmonica player/autoharpist John traffic-jam noises and car horns Sebastian and guitarist Zal Yanovsky and selected the ones we wanted,” had played in a bohemian Greenwich Sebastian explained to Fred Bronson Village jug band/folk group called the in The Billboard Book of Number 1 Mugwumps, which included future Hits. “We found [the sound of] a Mamas and Papas members Cass pneumatic hammer to provide for that Elliot and Denny Doherty. section and put it all together.”

Seeking a new direction, Sebastian “Summer in the City” proved to and Yanovsky eventually left the band, be another winner for the Big Apple recruited drummer/vocalist Joe Butler boys. Musicologist Toby Cresswell, and bassist Steve Boone, and formed in his book 1001 Songs, enthuses, the Lovin’ Spoonful. For the name, “The pounding bass and drums with Sebastian had lifted a lyric phrase from staccato organ jabs build an intense “Coffee Blues,” an obscure song by an mood that’s shattered by the sound old bluesman named Mississippi John effects of jackhammers and car horns.

Hurt.

This really is the sound of the city After gigging in New York City and the promise of excitement and clubs for a while, the bluesy folkies adventure to be had in the streets and signed with the fledgling Kama Sutra nightclubs.”

Records label and quickly found “Summer in the City” gave the success when the group racked up five Lovin’ Spoonful its sixth winning Top Ten singles in as many releases. single and their only No. 1 release.

Now pressure was on to keep the There’s no way to calculate just winning streak alive. No problem. To how much the added sound effects the Lovin’ Spoonful, “Summer in the contributed to the million-seller’s City” had hit written all over it. popularity. Maybe not much, really.

The future ’60s classic had begun as For all the time and effort spent on the a freshman English class poem written project, the entire gimmick lasts all of by the younger brother of Spoonful eight seconds. leader John Sebastian.

Randal C. Hill is a rock ’n’ roll historian Mark Sebastian had been discouraged by the “F” grade the poem who lives at the Oregon coast. He may be reached at wryterhill@msn.com. had earned him, but he thought his www.50plusLifePA.com

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Singers of the Top Songs of the ’50s Find the last names of the singers of these top songs of the ’50s: 1. “The Tennessee Waltz,” 1950 – Patti __________e 2. “Be My Love,” – 1950 – Mario __________a 3. “Cry,” 1951 – Johnnie __________y 4. “Any Time,” 1952 – Eddie __________r 5. “I Believe,” 1953 – Frankie __________e 6. “That’s Amore,” 1954 – Dean __________n 7. “Sixteen Tons,” 1955 – Tennessee Ernie _________d 8. “Hot Diggity,” 1956 – Perry __________o 9. “Love Letters in the Sand,” 1957 – Pat __________e 10. “Tammy,” 1957 – Debbie __________s

Justices of the ’50s and ’60s Find the last names of the justices who were appointed to the U.S. Supreme Court during the ’50s and ’60s: 1. 1953 – Wa _ _ _ n 2. 1955 – Ha _ _ _ n 3. 1956 – Br _ _ _ _ n 4. 1957 – Wh _ _ _ _ _ _ r 5. 1958 – St _ _ _ _ t 6. 1962 – Wh _ _ e 7. 1962 – Go _ _ _ _ _ g 8. 1965 – Fo _ _ _ s 9. 1967 – Ma _ _ _ _ _ l 10. 1969 – Bu _ _ _ r

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1. OK town 5. Mexican moolah 9. Tint 14. Portend 15. A stringent substance 16. Box seats 17. Tutu wearer 19. Adolescent hooter 20. Crab cover 21. Realized 23. Japanese capital 24. Charity 27. Rascal 28. Cooking measure (abbr.)

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29. Heifer 32. Replete 34. Charged particle 36. Domain 38. Extraordinary 43. Horse controls 45. Assistance 46. Swords 47. Castle gate 50. Sea eagles 51. Energy unit 52. Some votes 54. Singer Bandy 55. Unit of electrical current

58. Highest (abbr.)

60. Elbow bone 62. Dinner vegetable 63. Novice 65. Spry 69. Excuse 71. Crocodilian reptile 74. Old movie 75. Clothed 76. Large (pref.)

77. Petulant 78. Mexican dish 79. Biblical prophet

1. Wanes 2. Original zookeeper 3. Unfounded, like some gossip 4. Mason’s Street 5. Equality 6. Samuel’s teacher 7. Doomed (slang) 8. Muscat resident 9. Plodder 10. In what way 11. Shoelace end 12. Exploits 13. Bar, legally 18. Wings

22. Afr. ruler 25. Disfigure 26. Pilfer 29. Freshwater fish 30. Biscuit 31. Low dam 33. A Bronte 35. Scruff 37. Wager 39. Farewell 40. Snow bank 41. Late-night host 42. To be (Lat.) 44. Close inspection 48. Grotesque

49. Paycheck (abbr.)

53. Hitch 55. Separated 56. Disturbance 57. Duets 59. Parcel of land 61. Terrestrial lizard 64. Talipot palm leaf 66. Component 67. Trademark 68. Time periods 70. Conjunction 72. Varnish 73. Wedding words

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Dreamland: Where the Action Is Walt Sonneville

allegedly told friends, days before he was assassinated, that he had a prophetic dream.

In his dream he heard crying in the White House. In his dream state, he arose from his bed, entered the east wing of the White House, and saw there a casket guarded by a soldier.

Lincoln asked the soldier: “Who is dead in the White House?”

He was told it was the president, “killed by an assassin.” Lincoln reportedly said he slept no more that night.

King Henry III of France had a dream, three days before his assassination (1589), that he had been bloodied by monks. He actually was stabbed to death by one monk.

Mark Twain related that he had seen his brother in a casket. A few days later his brother died in an accident.

Albert Einstein was asked by Edwin Newman, the radio journalist, when it was that Einstein had the initial concept of his theory of relativity. Einstein replied the idea

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Do you like adventurous experiences, maybe with a dose of shock that startles your tranquility?

If so, there is no need to visit an amusement park.

Instead, rely on your dreams. You will find plenty of action without leaving your home: thrills, anxiety, terror, romance, and the pleasure of superhuman endowments that you don’t experience during waking hours.

Sleep researcher William C. Dement describes the phenomenon this way: “Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.”

It is less terrifying to dream in our advanced years than dreaming in early childhood. Some dream analysts have a theory that evolution has given children nightmares to prepare their subconscious for the shocks that will occur in later life.

The word mare in nightmare comes from Old English (450-1100 AD). A mare in Old English was a mythological demon that violates the peace of sleep. Nightmares are uncommon among children under 5 years of age. They are most common among young children older than 5. Among adults, nightmares significantly diminish in occurrence from age 25-55.

Not all dreams are nonsensical.

Famous people have reported prophetic dreams. Abraham Lincoln

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professional life trying to determine the significance of dreams and nightmares. He concluded that “after all my years of trying, I do not completely understand dreaming.”

If scientists have no answers, the meaning of dreams has been left to the musing of poets and songwriters.

English poet Thomas Hood, who died in 1845, expressed his view when he wrote: Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams Unnatural and full of contradictions Yet others of our most romantic schemes Are nothing more than fictions Hood is telling us that our most romantic schemes during wakeful hours can be no more real than dreams during our sleeping hours.

But, as children, we knew that, for a song reminds us to “row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.”

Walt Sonneville, a retired marketresearch 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 personalopinion essays, free of partisan and sectarian viewpoints. Contact him at waltsonneville@verizon.net.

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came to him years ago when he was an adolescent in Germany.

The dream was particularly memorable, Einstein said.

“I knew that I had to understand that dream. You could say, and I would say, that my entire scientific career has been a meditation on that dream.”

Einstein did not disclose to Newman the nature of that special dream. In an edition of Scientific American (September 2015), an article states that Einstein “traced his realization of light’s finite speed—the core idea of special relativity—to his teenage daydreams about riding beams of light.”

Recalling our dreams becomes less frequent as we age. Recall is most frequent among those aged 1029. For males, the decrease in recall begins in their mid-30s; for females, the decrease begins in their mid-40s.

Dream recall drops significantly for both sexes in their mid-50s, and even more for those over 60.

Dr. Ernest Hartmann, who died in 2013, spent much of his

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6. Dean Martin 7. Tennessee Ernie Ford 8. Perry Como 9. Pat Boone 10. Debbie Reynolds

Justices of the ’50s and ’60s 1. 1953 – Warren 6. 1962 – White 2. 1955 – Harlan 7. 1962 – Goldberg 3. 1956 – Brennan 8. 1965 – Fortas 4. 1957 – Whittaker 9. 1967 – Marshall 5. 1958 – Stewart 10. 1969 – Burger

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