50plus LIFE York County June 2016

Complimentary | York County Edition | June 2016 • Vol. 17 No. 6

Golf Pro Brings Local Course Up to Par page 4

12 Days on the North Carolina Coast page 10

protect yourself from melanoma page 14

My 22 Cents’ Worth

Reach Active, Affluent Boomers & Seniors!

Be All You Can Be Walt Sonneville

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York Expo Center Memorial Hall East • 334 Carlisle Ave., York Exhibitors • Health Screenings • Seminars Entertainment • Door Prizes

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It’s the premier event for baby boomers, caregivers, and seniors in York County • Face-to-face interaction with 3,000+ attendees • Strengthen brand recognition/launch new products

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“Be All You Can Be” was the Army’s recruitment slogan from 1980 to 2001.

Now that they have retired the slogan, it is fitting for the “army” of those 50 years of age and older to adopt that orphan.

The poster model for this army could be a digitally edited, idealized image of Albert Einstein, which has circulated on the internet. It depicts the shirtless Einstein with the body of an Atlas and the recognizable facial features of this renowned genius. What a man! Einstein portrays all he could be.

Like all of us, Einstein in real life is denied the possibility of all he could be. He—and we—have the time and opportunity to become only what we can be.

As a child, Einstein was slow in learning how to speak. He said he tended to think in pictures rather than words. The family maid called him “the dopey one.” One of his schoolmasters said he would never amount to much. Fortunately for us, Einstein accomplished much by being all he can be.

Be all you can be. Look at your advancing years as a gateway to refresh your unrealized aspirations, a time when you choose to pursue what you want.

Life takes from us and denies us many things. One thing it cannot take from us is all of our choices. Some choices belong to us. Our choices determine what we can be. We don’t have the time to become everything we could be.

Washington Irving (1783-1859) was a fine writer, but his fictional character, Rip Van Winkle, was misguided when he rejoiced that he had reached “that happy age when a man can be idle with impunity.”

Nonsense, Rip! That is only slightly true. Most of us need some solitude— not idleness—to reflect, to listen to music, to relax in other productive leisure. Productive activity of one’s choice gives us a sense of purpose.

We are “over the hill” chronologically, but we are not under the hill. There is a life of activity ahead of us. Einstein had a guiding perspective. He said, “Life is like a bicycle. To keep your balance, you must keep moving.”

Keeping your bicycle of life balanced begins with a mindset. Our average lifespan is about 80 years of age, twice what it was about 150 years ago. Adopt the mindset that you have been blessed with two 40-year lives, the last 40 of which are the “bonus decades.”

Aging can be a time for growth.

Maybe that is why we use the term growing older. Consider the mindset of Pablo Casals, the famed cellist. He was asked by one of his pupils why, at the age of 91, he continued to practice.

Casals replied: “Because I am making progress.”

The American poet May Sarton (1912-1995), when she turned 70, welcomed her advancing years “because I am more myself than I have ever been. When I was younger I was a daughter, then a wife, and then a mother. I have discovered myself in the last 25 years—what are my strengths, what I like to do.”

A most impressive rationale for following a chosen hobby was expressed by Winston Churchill in his short book entitled Painting as a Pastime.

Sir Winston had this to say about his enjoyment with that art: “It came to my rescue in a most trying time. Painting is a friend who makes no undue demands, excites to no exhausting pursuits, keeps faithful pace even with feeble steps.”

He encouraged his readers to “buy a paint box and have a try. There is close at hand a wonderful new world of thought and craft, a sunlit garden gleaming with light and color of which you have the key.

“If you try and fail, there is not much harm done. We must not be too ambitious. We cannot aspire to masterpieces. We may content www.50plusLifePA.com

ourselves with a joyride in a paint box.”

What a splendid testimony to one’s chosen hobby. For those not likely to engage painting as a hobby,

Sir Winston’s cheery endorsement is almost sufficient to move one to reconsider this as an activity of growth.

“If you try and fail, there is not

much harm done.”

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.

Nostalgia Road

Grade-School Band Dick Dedrick

I hear they might have to drop grade-school band back home. A lot of people say that makes them sad.

Not me. I don’t have a lot of fond memories of grade-school band, in which I played clarinet.

Ever invited someone to a party and told them to be sure and bring their clarinet? No, that’s something you say to guitar players.

My instrument of choice was

cymbals or bass drum.

“We need woodwinds,” Mr. Freedling said.

And he handed me a dull, dented silver clarinet. Other kids had black clarinets, like Benny Goodman.

And their cases were only a foot long. My case was at least 4 feet long and looked stupid hanging from the handlebars of my bike from the secondhand store. I wanted a

Schwinn, but I digress.

I don’t know that anybody got much out of grade-school band, or those concerts, which complete families were required to attend—to hear songs nobody ever heard of, except for a super-slow rendition of the “Marines’ Hymn.”

Girls in the band might have enjoyed wearing a fancy dress for the evening, but I don’t know of any boys

who enjoyed wearing a tie and white shirt that had to be tucked in.

And band practice, day after day: “Once again from the coda,” Mr. Freedling would say with a sigh. There was a lot of eye-rolling on his part, too. I don’t know of anyone who liked grade-school band.

Especially Mr. Freedling.

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

Active Adult Communities Roth’s Farm Village Roth’s Church Road, Spring Grove (717) 633-7300

Funeral & Cremation Services Cremation Society of Pennsylvania Serving Lancaster County (800) 720-8221

Animal Hospitals Community Animal Hospital Donald A. Sloat, D.V.M. 400 S. Pine St., York (717) 845-5669

Health & Medical Services Alzheimer’s Association (717) 651-5020

Automobile Sales/Service Gordon’s Body Shop, Inc. 10 Mill St., Stewartstown (717) 993-2263 Coins & Currency Steinmetz Coins & Currency 2861 E. Prospect Road, York (717) 757-6980 Energy Assistance Low-Income Energy Assistance (717) 787-8750 Entertainment Dutch Apple Dinner Theatre 510 Centerville Road, Lancaster (717) 898-1900

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Alzheimer’s Information Clearinghouse (800) 367-5115 American Diabetes Association (800) 342-2383 CONTACT Helpline (717) 652-4400 The National Kidney Foundation (800) 697-7007 or (717) 757-0604 Social Security Information (800) 772-1213 Healthcare Information PA HealthCare Cost Containment (717) 232-6787 Hearing Services Pennsylvania Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (800) 233-3008 V/TTY

Home Care Services Senior Helpers (717) 920-0707

Pharmacies CVS/pharmacy www.cvs.com

Visiting Angels Living Assistance Services Hanover: (717) 630-0067 Lancaster: (717) 393-3450 York: (717) 751-2488

Services York County Area Agency on Aging (800) 632-9073

Housing Assistance Housing Authority of York (717) 845-2601 Property Tax/Rent Rebate (888) 728-2937 Independent Living Pine Run Retirement Community 1880 Pine Run Road, Abbottstown (800) 683-0706 Insurance – Long-Term Care Apprise Insurance Counseling (717) 771-9610 or (800) 632-9073 nursing/rehab Pleasant Acres Nursing & Rehabilitation Center 118 Pleasant Acres Road, York (717) 840-7412

Transportation Rabbittransit (800) 632-9063 Travel AAA Southern Pennsylvania (717) 600-8700 Veterans Services Lebanon VA Medical Center 1700 S. Lincoln Ave., Lebanon (717) 228-6000 or (800) 409-8771 Volunteer opportunities RSVP of Capital Region, Inc. (717) 847-1539 SpiriTrust Lutheran Senior Companion Program (717) 843-2677

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visit, we liked it more and more.

The people are nicer, the cost of “When I teach, watching the joy living is way less, no traffic, and of kids, women, and beginners hit the schools are way better out here that good golf shot that brings a so we made the move after I got a big smile, it’s very rewarding,” says job as golf pro at Carlisle Country Dan Baker, owner and golf pro at Club,” he says.

Waynesboro Municipal Golf Club.

While working at there, Baker A lifelong career in golf brought learned that the Waynesboro Baker, 58, far and wide across the Golf Club was up for lease by the country before settling in Central borough. After years of neglect, the Pennsylvania in 2001 and later nine-hole course, built in 1958, taking ownership of the public was in bad shape and on the verge course in Waynesboro. of closing, overgrown with brush As a native of Southern and weeds, with grass growing California, he developed a passion in the sand traps and greens that for the sport at a young age when hadn’t been aerated in years. not surfing the waves at Newport Baker, however, saw a diamond Beach, where he would meet his in the rough. wife of 36 years, Vicki.

“The property was really nice.

Born into a family of golf I liked the layout of the course enthusiasts, Baker seemed destined and I thought, ‘Hey, I can do to make the sport his own. something with this.’ So I turned “My grandparents played golf. in a proposal. The city liked it and My uncle was a pro at Huntington called me, and I negotiated with Beach Golf Club, and my dad was them to lease the course for $1 a a really good amateur player—he year,” he says. played on the Navy golf team Baker took ownership of and played in the U.S. Amateur Waynesboro Golf Club in 2014 [Championship] in 1956,” he says. and has been working hard to Baker played on his high school revitalize the course, renovating the golf team, and after graduating clubhouse and parking lot while began the process of becoming reinvigorating the local golfing pro, traveling and playing on community as well. mini-tours before passing the The course has quadrupled its PGA’s Playing Ability Test and number of players since he took completing coursework at the over, and when not managing Florida School of Business, both the course, Baker gives lessons to of which are required to become a golfers of all skill levels.

Class A PGA pro.

“The most rewarding thing for In the early ’80s, he played me is watching people improve,” on the PGA tour, including the says Baker. “It’s a passion. I’ve Bob Hope Desert Classic, Andy been involved in golf, one way Williams San Diego Open, and the or another, my whole life. It Glen Campbell Los Angeles Open. has to be a passion to own your After his stint on the PGA tour, own course. I love people and Baker decided to make a change kids, running golf events and in his career trajectory, becoming tournaments, teaching, building a golf pro and working at courses [upon their] play, and mentoring and country clubs in Arizona, young people who want to become Hawaii, and California before professionals.” moving to Central Pennsylvania in Baker manages to stay active 2001. with golf even when he’s not on Baker and his wife were first the golf course itself. In 2014 he introduced to the area when began hosting a morning talk friends of theirs relocated here. radio show on WIOO 97.9 called “Every time we came out to The Morning Tee Box, where he

and co-host Jeff Goyette discuss all things links-related, from local high school golf matches to the game’s rules and history. He hopes to catch the ear of people who may not be golfers to get them interested in the game.

Baker has even invented a golf training aid that has been featured on Inside Golf on Comcast SportsNet and at the 2016 PGA Merchandise Show, broadcast on The Golf Channel.

The Laser Golf Cap is a baseball cap with a red laser attached that is designed to keep golfers’ heads down on the ball through their golf swing, one of the most important mechanics for a swing that doesn’t result in a slice, hook, or shanked ball.

“I was giving a lesson and noticed that the student’s head was moving during the putting stroke.

As his eyes were following the movement of the putter, his head was moving with it,” he says.

After taping a laser pointer to the brim of a golf cap, Baker was able to keep his student focused on the red dot on the ball and not move his head during the swing.

After getting great results from his students, he patented the idea and retails the cap online. Baker’s instructional video can be found on YouTube by searching for “Laser Golf Cap.” Baker is reflective about the ways that golf has enriched his life.

“I grew up playing golf and just love everything about it,” he says.

“Everything I do, I can relate to golf. I adore my grandchildren and love being with them. I’m teaching my 5-year-old granddaughter Khloe now how to swing the golf club.

“Go play,” he says. “Don’t let anyone tell you that you have to have 10 lessons before you can go on the course. We all started at the beginning, and we were all terrible at one time, but this is one of very few games that you can play all your life, so go out and play and enjoy the outdoors.” www.50plusLifePA.com

Fruit and Vegetable Vouchers Available The York County Area Agency on Aging, in conjunction with the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture, is again offering the Senior Farmers Market Nutrition Program to eligible York County seniors.

This program provides $20 in vouchers to eligible seniors to buy fresh fruit and vegetables from participating local farm markets.

York County residents who are 60 years of age or older, and who have a 2016 total gross annual household income at or below $21,978 for a single person or $29,637 for a couple, are eligible to participate.

All income is included when calculating total gross income. Proof of age and York County residency must be shown to obtain vouchers.

A 2016 farmers market proxy form, along with proof of age and residency, is required for anyone picking up vouchers for another eligible individual, including a power of attorney.

The 2016 proxy form is available at most senior centers or can be downloaded from the Forms & Documents page of the Agency on Aging’s website at www.ycaaa.org.

One individual may not pick up vouchers for more than four people.

Individuals are eligible to receive the vouchers only once per calendar year. The vouchers can be redeemed between June 1 and Nov. 30.

Residents of nursing homes, personal care facilities, or any residential setting that offers meals are ineligible to receive the vouchers.

Vouchers will be distributed at the following York County locations for as long as the supply lasts: Wednesday, June 1, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. – Crispus Attucks, 605 S. Duke St., York www.50plusLifePA.com

Thursday, June 2, 9 to 11:30 a.m.

Tuesday, July 19, 9:30 to 11:30 – Heritage Senior Center, 3700 a.m. – Brown’s Orchards & Farm Davidsburg Road, Dover Township Market (Pavilion), 8892 Susquehanna Trail South, Springfield Township Friday, June 3, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

– Stewartstown Senior Center, 26 S. Thursday, July 21, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

Main St., Stewartstown – Flinchbaugh’s Orchard & Farm Market (Pavilion), 110 Ducktown Tuesday, June 7, 9 to 11:30 a.m.

Road, Hellam Township – White Rose Senior Center, 27 S. Broad St., York Tuesday, July 26, 9 to 11:30 a.m.

– White Rose Senior Center, 27 S. Thursday, June 9, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. Broad St., York – Northeastern Senior Community Center, 131 Center St., Mount Wolf

Thursday, July 28, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

– Calvary Bible Church (Lobby), 603 Wilson Ave., Hanover Thursday, Aug. 4, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

– St. Matthews Evangelical Lutheran Church (Lobby), 839 W. Market St., York Anyone requiring further information should contact the York County Area Agency on Aging at (717) 771-9610.

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– Delta Area Senior Center, 5 Pendyrus St., Suite 1, Peach Bottom Township Wednesday, June 29, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. – Susquehanna Senior Center, 2427 Craley Road, Lower Windsor Township Thursday, June 30, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. – Dillsburg Senior Activity Center, Inc., 1 N. Second St., Dillsburg Tuesday, July 5, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. – Yorktown Senior Center, 509 Pacific Ave., York

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Register Now! 15th Anniversary

June 20–24 For York County Residents Age 50+

Wednesday, July 6, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. – Windy Hill on the Campus, 1472 Roth’s Church Road, Suite 103, Spring Grove Friday, July 8, 9 to 11:30 a.m. – Red Lion Area Senior Center, 20-C Gotham Place, York Township Tuesday, July 12, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

– Hanover Council of Churches 136 Carlisle St., Hanover Wednesday, July 13, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m. – Red Land Senior Center, 736 Wyndamere Road, Newberry Township Thursday, July 14, 9:30 to 11:30 a.m.

– South Central Senior Center, 150 E. Main St., New Freedom

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Both competitive and non-competitive events!

Compete in favorites such as bocce, bowling, foul shooting, mini golf, or horseshoes, to name a few.

Join us for the opening ceremony the morning of June 21 on the front lawn of Central York High School!

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Assisted Living Residences/Personal Care Homes Bethany Village — MapleWood

325 Wesley Drive • Mechanicsburg, PA 17055 717-766-0279 • www.BethanyVillage.org Total AL and/or PC Beds: 100 Assisted Living Residence: Yes Private: 100 Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: No Short-term Lease: Yes Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes

Alzheimer’s Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: Yes Comments: One-bedroom suites; secured memory support neighborhood; skilled nursing – The Oaks.

The Bridges at Bent Creek

2100 Bent Creek Blvd. • Mechanicsburg, PA 17050 717-795-1100 • www.thebridgesatbentcreek.com Total AL and/or PC Beds: 100 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: Yes Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: No Short-term Lease: Yes Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: Yes Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: No

Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes Alzheimer’s Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: Yes Comments: Home-like setting, personalized, tailored care and healthcare, secured memory supports, peace of mind. Call today!

Colonial Lodge Community

2015 North Reading Road • Denver, PA 17519 717-336-5501 • www.coloniallodgepa.com Total AL and/or PC Beds: 70 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: Yes Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: Yes* Short-term Lease: No Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: No Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

Health Fee-for-Service Available: No Alzheimer’s Care: No Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: No Comments: *SSI depends on availability. A veteran-approved “home for heroes” facility, all in a beautiful, rural setting.

Harrison House of Chester County

300 Strode Avenue (Rt. 82) • East Fallowfield, PA 19320 610-384-6310 • www.harrisonseniorliving.com Total AL and/or PC Beds: 80 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: Yes Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: No Short-term Lease: Yes Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: No Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes Alzheimer’s Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: Yes Comments: Excellent arts and entertainment programs. Affordable rates and professional staff. Call to schedule a tour.

Homeland Center

1901 North Fifth Street • Harrisburg, PA 17102 717-221-7727 • www.homelandcenter.org Total AL and/or PC Beds: 56 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: No Short-term Lease: No Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: No Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes

Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: Yes Comments: Providing exemplary care in a beautiful environment for more than 149 years. Our continuum includes a hospice program, therapy services, and 24-hour medical staffing. All-private rooms with full baths and kitchenettes.

Homewood at Plum Creek

425 Westminster Avenue • Hanover, PA 17331 717-637-4166 • www.homewood.com Total AL and/or PC Beds: 92 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: No Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: No Short-term Lease: Yes Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: No Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes Alzheimer’s Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: No Comments: Excellent care in a lovely environment. Call to schedule a visit.

Mennonite Home Communities

1520 Harrisburg Pike • Lancaster, PA 17601 717-393-1301 • www.mennonitehome.org Total AL and/or PC Beds: 145 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: Yes Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: Yes Short-term Lease: No Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: No Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes Alzheimer’s Care: Yes Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: No Comments: Supportive, encouraging environment. Various room types and suites available. Secure memory care offered.

The Middletown Home

999 West Harrisburg Pike • Middletown, PA 17057 717-944-3351 • www.middletownhome.org Total AL and/or PC Beds: 64 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: Yes Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: No Short-term Lease: Yes Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: No Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

Serving from the Heart in the Spirit of Friendship, Love, and Truth

Health Fee-for-Service Available: Yes Alzheimer’s Care: No Respite Care: Yes Social Programs: Yes Housekeeping/Laundry Service: Yes Transportation (Scheduled): Yes Personal Car Permitted: Yes Pets Permitted: No Comments: Beautifully appointed apartments overlooking the garden terrace with the safety and security of 24-hour nursing care.

This is not an all-inclusive list of agencies and providers. These advertisers are eager to provide additional information about their services.

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Assisted Living Residences/Personal Care Homes Pleasant View Retirement Community

St. Anne’s Retirement Community

Total AL and/or PC Beds: 96 Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: No Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: Yes* Short-term Lease: No Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: Yes Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

Personal Care Home: Yes Private: Yes Semi-private: No Private Pay: Yes SSI Accepted: Yes* Short-term Lease: No Entrance Fee/Security Deposit: Minimal Part/Totally Refundable: No Outdoor Areas/Fitness Center: Yes Medication Management: Yes On-call Medical Service: Yes

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‘Paperback Writer’ Randal Hill

It’s the spring of 1966. You’re a creative Beatle, and you know that whatever your band releases next will undoubtedly rocket to No. 1 overnight on the hit charts. So you know that it’s OK for you to sometimes try something different, maybe push the envelope a bit.

Maybe even to the point of putting a letter inside that envelope.

It all started one day when Paul McCartney was driving to John Lennon’s estate. McCartney began thinking about, of all things, books.

Books? Hmm. Paperbacks from England’s Penguin Books had become wildly popular there after World War II. They seemed to be everywhere during the 1950s and 1960s. Could there be a song idea here? McCartney began imagining lyrics in the form of a business letter …

Dear Sir or Madam, would you read my book? It took me years to write. Will you take a look?

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“Paperback promising that his book would Writer,” John Lennon sell millions of and George copies, while Harrison also offering decided to have to do anything to please the a bit of fun.

In the song’s potential second chorus, publisher, The Beatles with producer George Martin the two don’t including in the studio at Abbey Road, 1966. sing “paperback lengthening the work or writer” in the “Paperback Writer” background but changing the The Beatles, June 1966 manuscript’s “Frere Jacques” instead. Why? Who knows? style.

The future smash would be different Paperback books in England at that from prior winners in another way. time were usually cheaply produced, Lennon had been complaining that slim volumes and not the “thousand pages” that McCartney describes in the Beatles’ bass lines were never strong enough to suit him. his song.

Also a bit strange was his line, “It’s According to Mark Lewisohn’s The Complete Beatles Recording Sessions, based on a novel by a man named this was remedied by recording Lear.” This is an obvious reference to one of Lennon’s favorite authors, poet engineer Geoff Emerick, who explained, “First of all, Paul played and humorist Edward Lear (18121888); however, Lear never actually a different bass, a Rickenbacker.

Then we boosted it further by using wrote a novel. a loudspeaker as a microphone. We When it came time to record

positioned it directly in front of the bass speaker.”

Another engineer, Tony Clark, cut the master for “Paperback Writer,” which became the loudest Beatles release to date. To do this, Clark used a new piece of recording equipment called the Automatic Transient Overload Control for the volume increase.

“It was a huge box with flashing lights and what looked like the eye of a Cyclops staring at you,” he said. “But it did the trick.”

While it was Paul McCartney who composed the fictional scenario, it was John Lennon who had actually been a paperback writer before the song came about. Lennon’s 1964 book In His Own Write became a popular UK publication, as did A Spaniard in the Works a year later. And both had been done in the whimsical style of—yes— that legendary “novelist” Edward Lear.

Randal C. Hill is a rock ’n’ roll historian who lives at the Oregon coast. He may be reached at wryterhill@msn.com.

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Salute to a Veteran

Robert D. Wilcox

The Admiral Hosted Dinner at His Home for Prince Philip

When Clarence Arthur Edward (Cricket) Johnson grew up in Minneapolis, there were so many Swedes in Minnesota that the Minneapolis phone directory once had 22 pages of nothing but Johnsons … which may help explain his rather long name—or his nickname.

As long as he could remember, he had “a passion to fly.” And in his senior year of high school in 1947, when he had to give a book report on Man of Annapolis, he became enthralled with the prospect of a career as a Navy pilot. So, as soon as he graduated, he enlisted in a local Navy squadron.

After basic training, he got duty that had him check out Navy SNJ trainers and warm them up to get them ready for the pilots to fly. Then he took and excelled in

written exams, after which he earned his congressman’s appointment to the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis.

After four years, he graduated as an ensign in the spring of 1953 and spent the summer helping to indoctrinate the incoming class.

In September, he shipped to Pensacola, Florida, where he started flight training in the SNJ single-engine trainer. Then it was to Kingsville, Texas,

Rear Adm. C.A.E. Johnson Jr. when he was commander, Naval Base, Philadelphia.

where he flew the TBM, which was the heaviest singleengine aircraft of World War II. Next it was to Norfolk for learning to land aboard a carrier.

They decided to try to set a record for the number of landings aboard a carrier in a single day, and he was part of setting that record.

And there he got his wings and a promotion to lieutenant junior grade in December

1954. What was that like?

“Once the admiral pinned those wings on me,” he grins, “I felt I was invincible!”

Johnson flew anti-submarine tours for a couple of years, and then was called to Norfolk to help set up a school for teaching a highly classified new form of anti-sub chasing.

After that he taught at Annapolis for a few years and then began a 10-year posting of Pentagon assignments, where he worked in the Navy’s Aviation Section on advanced strategies for tracking and countering Soviet submarines.

After being promoted to commander, he served as executive officer at Naval Air Station Glenview in Michigan for a couple of years before he was called back to the Pentagon for two more years, where

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“In fact,” Johnson says, “it had Pointing to it, he asked the admiral plenty of space to permit me to inquiringly, “What is that?” farm again, growing the raspberries, Johnson said, “Oh, that’s Southern strawberries, and fruit that I seem food. It’s called grits.” to have a green thumb for. So, I’m “Is it good?” the prince asked. a lucky man … continuing to farm, “Ah … yes,” the admiral replied. as I love to do … and surrounded by “Covered with lots of butter and with warm memories of all those wonderful plenty of salt and pepper, it’s quite years serving my country in our good.”

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By Andrea Gross

Sea, Sand, and Ships: 12 Days on the North Carolina Coast

A few days before my husband and I leave for a beach vacation on the North Carolina coast, I happen across a news article written by Adam Wagner of the region’s StarNews: “Researchers are calling an ironhulled Civil War-era steamer found near Caswell Beach one of the bestpreserved blockade runners they’ve ever seen …”

It’s been decades since one of these ships was discovered, so this is a very big deal.

No, we won’t be able to see the wreck—it’s still buried under 18 to 20 feet of ocean—but as we read more, we realize how important the sea was to the growth of America.

The United States was settled by seafaring people during the 16th century, blockaded and bombarded from the sea during the 19th, and a

In the 16th century vessels like Elizabeth II sailed the Atlantic to lay claim to the New World.

major port during the 20th.

We have a lot to explore between beach outings.

We time-travel back more than 400 years by going to the Outer Banks near the North Carolina-Virginia state line. Here, not far from the Bodie Island Lighthouse, is Roanoke Island Festival Park, which features a

Roanoke Island Festival Park features an English village of the late 1500s.

full-size replica of a British merchant vessel.

In 1585 seven of these vessels sailed to the New World in order to claim territory for England. The waters were so hazardous that the area is often called “The Graveyard of the Atlantic.”

“A big part of navigating is going the direction the wind wants you

to go,” says a sailor, authentically outfitted in 16th-century garb.

A man standing next to me grins.

“Seems that the history of America was written by the wind,” he says.

Point well taken.

Near the ship is a small Algonquian town, replete with longhouse and dugout canoe, that shows what the mariners found when they followed the wind across the ocean. A few steps farther and we see a representative English village, where a blacksmith and woodworker explain how the first settlers lived.

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Of course, living on water’s edge is both a blessing and a curse. Beautiful?

Absolutely. Dangerous? Definitely.

Having learned during the War of 1812 that their young country was vulnerable to attacks by sea, the United States government rushed to build forts along the Eastern seaboard.

But for North Carolina, the enemy came not from across the Atlantic but from across the Potomac.

When the Civil War broke out, the Confederates quickly occupied Fort Macon, which is surrounded on three sides by water. They held the fort for nearly a year, until April 1862 when they were forced to surrender.

We fast-forward through a century and a half during the two-hour drive to Wilmington, the largest city along the coast.

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The North Carolina coast encourages folks to enjoy the sun as well as the historic sites.

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It takes us nearly a half day to see the exhibits, explore the decks, and listen to the recorded stories of the men who lived in the cramped quarters, worked in the engine room, and fired the giant guns.

We’re still in a sober frame of mind as we head toward Southport, a charming community not too far from the North CarolinaSouth Carolina state line.

During the 1500s when the British were settling Carolina’s

northern shore, the Spanish were exploring the future state’s southern coast. Today the area is equally well known as the filming location for the Nicholas Sparks’ movie Safe Haven.

How times have changed!

Finally we get to Caswell Beach.

Off to the left is Old Baldy, the oldest existing lighthouse in North Carolina. Right behind us is the Oak Island lighthouse, the newest and most southern lighthouse in the state.

And in front of us, in the Atlantic Ocean, is the spot where the historic blockade runner was discovered.

We’ve traveled nearly 400 miles, learned about more than 400 years, and slathered ourselves with more than four tubes of sunscreen. It’s been a varied, stimulating, and yet relaxing vacation.

By our standards, that means it’s been a perfect vacation.

For an expanded version of this article, as well as information on how film lovers can “follow the stars” along the North Carolina coast, go to www.traveltizers.com.

Photos © Irv Green unless otherwise noted; story by Andrea Gross (www. andreagross.com).

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Plan ahead for other holidays as well. Invite others who have nothing planned to your home for a small potluck dinner party. Start rounding up your single friends now.

5. Go out to enrich your life, but not with the sole purpose of seeking a mate. If the only reason you go out is to find someone, you will become discouraged and frustrated because

meeting someone may not happen right away. It might not happen at all.

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Simple Steps to Protect Yourself from Melanoma

Dear Savvy Senior, Does skin cancer run in families? My 63-year-old brother died of melanoma last year, and I’m wondering about my risks of getting this. What can you tell me?

– Younger Sibling Dear Sibling, While long-term sun exposure and sunburns are the biggest risk factors for melanoma—the deadliest form of skin cancer—having a sibling or parent with melanoma does indeed increase your risk of getting it two to three times.

Each year, about 75,000 Americans are diagnosed with melanoma, and around 10,000 people will die from it.

While anyone can get it, those most often diagnosed are Caucasians, age 50 and older.

And those with the highest risk are people with red or blond hair, blue or green eyes, fair skin, freckles, moles, and a family history of skin cancer and those who had blistering sunburns in their youth.

Skin Exams The best way you can guard against melanoma and other skin cancers (basal and squamous cell carcinomas) is to protect yourself from the sun, and if you’re over age 50, get a full-body skin exam done by a dermatologist every year, especially if you’re high risk.

Self-examinations every month

or so are also a smart way to detect early problems. Using mirrors, check the front and back side of your entire body, including the tops and undersides of your arms and hands, between your toes, the soles of your feet, your neck, your scalp, and your buttocks.

Be on the lookout for new growths, moles that have changed, or sores that don’t heal. Follow the ABCDE rule when examining suspicious moles.

• A symmetry: One half of a mole doesn’t match the other.

• Border: The border is blurred or ragged.

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• Color: The mole has uneven colors, often shades of brown, tan, or black, with patches of pink, red, white, or blue.

• Diameter: The lesion is new or at least a quarter-inch in diameter.

• Evolving: The mole is changing in size, shape, or color.

For more self-examination tips and actual pictures of what to look for, see the websites of the Skin Cancer Foundation (www.skincancer.org) or the Melanoma Research Foundation (www.melanoma.org).

In the spring and summer, there are a variety of places that offer free skin cancer screenings. Check with the American Academy of Dermatology (www.aad.org/public/spot-skin-cancer or (888) 462-3376), which offers screenings done by hundreds of volunteer dermatologists across the U.S., and the American Society for Dermatologic Surgery (www.asds.net/ skincancerscreening.aspx).

Sun Protection Even though you can’t change your skin or family history, there are some proven strategies that can help you protect yourself.

For starters, avoid tanning beds, and when you go outside, slather on broad-spectrum SPF 30, waterresistant sunscreen on both sunny and cloudy days. If you don’t like the rub-on lotions, try the continuous spray-on sunscreens, which are easier to apply and reapply and less messy.

Also, seek the shade when rays are most intense—between 10 a.m. and 2 p.m.

You can also protect your skin by wearing a wide-brimmed hat and long sleeves and pants when possible.

The best clothing options are tightly woven fabrics that help prevent the sun’s rays from reaching your skin, or you can wash an invisible-shield sun protection into your clothes with SunGuard laundry additive (see www. please see melanoma page 16

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Partners in Thyme Herb Club of Southern York County John Rudy Park 400 Mundis Race Road, York (717) 428-2210

Crispus Attucks Active Living Center – (717) 848-3610, www.crispusattucks.org

June 6, 9:30 a.m.

Green Thumb Garden Club Meeting Emmanuel Lutheran Church 2650 Freysville Road, Red Lion (717) 235-2823

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Surviving Spouse Socials of York County Faith United Church of Christ 509 Pacific Ave., York (717) 266-2784 If you have an event you would like to include, please email information to mjoyce@onlinepub.com for consideration.

Delta Area Senior Center, Inc. – (717) 456-5753, www.deltaseniorcenter.com Dillsburg Senior Activity Center – (717) 432-2216 Eastern Area Senior Center, Inc. – (717) 252-1641 Golden Visions Senior Community Center – (717) 633-5072, www.goldenvisionspa.com

Parks and Recreation June 10 to July 10 – Reptile and Amphibian Art Exhibit, Nixon County Park June 12, 2:30 to 4 p.m. – Nesting Birds Program, Nixon County Park June 22, 7 p.m. – Porch Talks: “John Wilkes Booth and the Plot to Assassinate President Lincoln,” Hanover Junction

Heritage Senior Center, Inc. – (717) 292-7471, www.heritagesrcenter.org Northeastern Senior Community Center – (717) 266-1400, www.mtwolf.org/SeniorCenter

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Red Land Senior Center – (717) 938-4649, www.redlandseniorcenter.org

Collinsville Community Library, 2632 Delta Road, Brogue, (717) 927-9014 Tuesdays, 6 to 8 p.m. – Purls of Brogue Knitting Club

Red Lion Area Senior Center – (717) 244-7229, www.redlionseniorcenter.com

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• Picking up and delivering supplies and equipment during the games • Helping at events, restocking supplies, and much more

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South Central Senior Community Center – (717) 235-6060, http://southcentralyorkcountysrctr.webs.com Tuesdays, 10 to 11 a.m. – Stretch Yoga W ednesdays, 9 to 9:45 a.m. – Intermediate Line Dancing; 10 to 11 a.m. – Beginner Line Dancing Wednesdays, 12:45 p.m. – HoopFit Stewartstown Senior Center – (717) 993-3488, www.stewsenior.org Susquehanna Senior Center – (717) 244-0340, www.susquehannaseniorcenter.org Mondays, 9:30 to 10:30 a.m. – Chorus Practice Tuesdays, 6 to 10 p.m. – Bluegrass/Country Music Jam Session White Rose Senior Center – (717) 843-9704, www.whiteroseseniorcenter.org

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1. 1954 – Florida: Fo_____ Hotel

2. 1955 – California: Di_____

3. 1959 – New York: L_____ Center

4. 1961 – Texas: Six F_____ over Texas

5. 1962 – Nevada: C_____ Palace Hotel

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Settings of Movies of the ’50s and ’60s Find the states where these movies were set.

1. Vertigo – __________a 2. The Cardinal – M__________ 3. The Unsinkable Molly Brown – __________o 4. Psycho – A__________ 5. God’s Little Acre – __________a 6. In Cold Blood – __________s 7. A Summer Place – M__________ 8. Inherit the Wind – __________e 9. Seven Brides for Seven Brothers – __________n 10. True Grit – __________a Written by Alan Stillson. Please see http://stillsonworks.com

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By Gloria May, M.S., R.N., CHES

How Cataract Surgery Can Prevent a Broken Hip

What is casually called a “broken hip” usually isn’t. More often than not, it’s a fracture of the thigh bone (the femur) at the joint where it meets the pelvic bone (the hip socket).

But whatever we call it, it’s a serious medical event for anyone, but particularly so for those over age 65.

It’s also expensive, costing Medicare almost $3 billion a year.

The treatment involves more than “just” surgery. It also includes weeks or months of post-op therapy, usually in a nursing home or rehabilitation center.

It more often than not negatively impacts quality of life, as statistics indicate only about one in four “posthips” return to their previous level of functioning.

What’s more, one in five “broken hip” patients die of complications within a year of the break.

So, it’s paramount that we help

Information and support whenever you need it

• Use ourselves nonslip (and we help rugs or our aging rug tape relatives) do • Tie up everything electrical possible to and phone avoid falling cords and breaking • Increase anything, especially lighting in dim areas the biggest • Install and longest handrails bone in the June is Cataract Awareness Month on all body. stairs Fallprevention strategies can be separated into two Second, we look at how we can make our bodies more fall-resistant: general categories. First, we can look at how to modify our homes to make • Keep moving, and with your them less fall-risky: doctor’s approval, increase your level of physical activity.

• Install grab bars (especially in the • Do anything you can (walk, bathroom) dance, swim, stretch) to improve • De-clutter high-traffic paths strength, balance, coordination, and flexibility.

• Wear “sensible” shoes.

• Review your medications with your doctor for any that have the potential to make you dizzy or to slow your response time, and while you are there, ask if you should be taking vitamin D3 and calcium supplements.

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Construction Projects of the ’50s and ’60s 1. Fontainebleau Hotel 6. Dulles Airport 2. Disneyland 7. Space Needle 3. Lincoln Center 8. Dodger Stadium 4. Six Flags over Texas 9. Astrodome 5. Caesar’s Palace Hotel 10. Gateway Arch

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All these recommendations may be old hat to you. But here’s one you may not be aware of: Did you know

that having cataract surgery might just decrease your risk of incurring a “broken hip”?

A cataract is a clouding of the lens behind the colored part of your eye.

It’s a common condition (the most common cause of decreased vision and blindness) and affects the majority of those over age 60.

Every year, there are more than 1.5 million outpatient surgeries performed to remove and replace the affected lens. While all surgery has risks, for the most part, cataract surgery is safe and without complications.

A Johns Hopkins publication reported on a study demonstrating that of a million Medicare beneficiaries who had cataracts, patients who had surgery to remove and replace them had a 16 to 23 percent lower hip-fracture risk than those who had cataracts but who didn’t have the surgery.

And it’s never too late, as patients 80 to 84 years of age who had the surgery had the lowest odds of hip fracture among all age groups.

Who would figure that taking care of those cataracts might just well protect your bones? It may be time to see your eye doctor to reduce your risk of breaking your hip.

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Most everybody is familiar with Veeries hatch young in leafy American robins that run across lawns nurseries on leaf-carpeted forest floors in search of invertebrates and nest in near streams. Males sing musical, shrubbery and young trees on those breezy notes that spiral downward. same lawns. Robins are thrushes that Those lovely songs seem mysterious. originally nested in small trees and Veeries’ chest spotting is faint, which bushes in woodland clearings and identifies them. woodland edges.

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All bluebird species, Five kinds of brownincluding our eastern backed, spot-breasted bluebirds, are thrush thrushes nest in North relatives, too, and America woodlands, young bluebirds have three of them— spotted breasts to including veeries, prove it. Bluebirds wood thrushes, and traditionally hatched hermit thrushes—in young in abandoned Eastern bluebird.

Pennsylvania. Their woodpecker holes and similar sizes, shapes, other tree cavities in plumage colors and patterns, and woodland clearings. habits demonstrate their close kinship And they have increased their from a common ancestor. numbers by adapting to the everBut each kind has its own traits growing farmland and boxes erected and niche that set it apart as a species. for them to nest in. There are more Each type in its specific woodland eastern bluebirds today than ever niche experiences reduced competition before. for food and nesting space with its Five species of the thrush family relatives. But all these thrushes are nest in Pennsylvania. These handsome suffering reduced numbers as their birds with pleasant songs add beauty forest homes are being cut away or and interest to Pennsylvania’s woods developed. and farmland.

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