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CONTENTS JANUARY 2012 • VOL. 13 ISSUE 01

COVER STORY – Henry Morrison Flagler built the railway linking Florida’s mainland with Key West. The story behind that masterpiece involves a crossroads of engineering, labor, materials and his tireless pursuit of that goal.

departments 8 13 38

Tapas Senior Center Calendar of Events

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Theatre Listings Crossword Puzzle Reading Corner

Enjoying Act Three by Ellis Amburn

Embracing Life by Donna Bonnell

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The Overseas Wonder How One Man Transformed a Chain of Islands into a Tourist’s Paradise

Community Voice Reader submitted writing

Healthy Edge by Kendra Siler-Marsiglio

BY CINDY LONG

The Show Goes On Brothers Reopen the Historic Ocala Drive-in Theater BY BONNIE KRETCHIK

Cross Creek and the Big Scrub Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Listened to Her Editor BY ELLIS AMBURN

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FROM THE EDITOR œ ALBERT ISAAC

2012. Wow. Seems like I had just gotten used to writing 2011. And now, as we say goodbye to the old and welcome the new, I ﬁnd myself reﬂecting on the past year, and my good fortune. I have many reasons to be thankful, although I often forget them — particularly if I’m in a bad mood and feeling sorry for myself. Most of my woes are trivial when compared to the trials and tribulations of others. After all, I was born into a loving, middle-class family, in the United States of America, in the 20th Century. I’ve never known what it is like to be homeless or to go to bed hungry. I’ve enjoyed good health, a fantastic family and (nearly) continuous employment. Throughout the course of my life I’ve been fortunate to have found steadfast friends. Going back to my earliest memories, I think back upon these important people in my life — important to my development and to my achievement — and I realize how crucial my friends have been to me. Pick your friends wisely, we tell our

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children. Friends can lift you up, support you when you fall, and inspire you to be better. But hang with the wrong crowd and they can bring you down with them. I’m quite surprised (although I shouldn’t be) that I’ve managed to ﬁnd such outstanding people to be part of my life. Perhaps this is my greatest fortune. Thank you. Of course, being a New Year, it is time to be making resolutions. As I type these words, I’m thinking that this year I may just refrain. After all, many of my lofty goals and aspirations from 2011 — to exercise, to be better organized, to do more chores around the house — weren’t exactly realized, leaving me to wonder why I made them in the ﬁrst place. Perhaps I should just make a resolution to try to keep last year’s resolutions. But then I am reminded of a quote by Yoda (yes, I’m a nerd), the ever-wise Jedi Master: “Do or do not. There is no try.” So I’m not going to try. I’m going to do. Or do not. Senior Times magazine enjoyed a great year in 2011, with a new look and more editorial content. We plan to continue improving, and we certainly look forward to your comments and suggestions. Plus, we still offer you an opportunity to send us your stories to be considered for publication in Community Voice. You can mail them to the address shown or e-mail me directly: editor@ towerpublications.com. I think you will enjoy this edition of Senior Times, as our roving writers bring you stories from Ocala to Cross Creek to the Florida Keys. I sincerely hope that you all had a rewarding year and an even better New Year. Cheers! s

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STAFF œ CONTRIBUTORS

You don’t need multiple locations to serve your cancer care needs.

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The one-stop treatment center for all your cancer care. clockwise from top left ELLIS AMBURN is a resident of High Springs as well as the author of biographies of Roy Orbison, Elizabeth Taylor and others. He is also a guest-lecturer at UF. ellis.amburn@gmail.com

Your partner for life.

CINDY LONG is a freelance writer. She also creates and updates websites. Her family life is ﬁlled with a great husband, Jim and four little dogs. Her passion for contra dance threatens to take over her life. cindy@isyourwebsiteuptodate.com BONNIE KRETCHIK grew up in Pennsylvania, but has spent her winters in Florida for the past 10 years. Aside from writing, Bonnie has been riding horses since the age of six. She enjoys running long distance and training for triathlons. bonniek83@hotmail.com

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TAPAS œ JANUARY

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SUPER BOWL I The First AFL-NFL World Championship Game (later to become known as Super Bowl I) was established as part of the June 8 , 1966 merger agreement between the NFL and the AFL. Coming into this ﬁrst game, there was considerable animosity between the two rival leagues, with both of them putting pressure on their respective champions to trounce the other and prove each league’s dominance in professional football. The (NFL) champion Green Bay Packers (14–2) scored 3 secondhalf touchdowns en route to a 35–10 win over the (AFL) champion Kansas City Chiefs (12–3–1). Green Bay quarterback Bart Starr, who completed 16 of 23 passes for 250 yards and two touchdowns, with 1 interception, was named Super Bowl MVP.

THE BALL DROP From Harbors to Times Square

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Before its use in New Year’s Eve countdowns, the ball drop was a necessary aspect of precise marine navigation. In order to correctly determine longitude while at sea, mariners employed marine chronometers, a clock that was used as a portable time standard. Although the chronometers were originally set using celestial navigation, such as the position of the Sun at noon, they were later set before heading off on a voyage based on a ball drop at their departure harbor. Unlike the New Year’s tradition, which drops one minute before midnight, harbor ball drops occurred at exactly 1:00 p.m. (or noon, in some cases). The time was recorded when the ball began to drop, not when it ﬁnished. This method allowed ship crews to check the accuracy of their chronometers before departing on a long voyage. The system was eventually replaced with radio-time signals and the ball drop became obsolete in the 1920s.

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A Shrewd Calculation Contrary to popular belief, at the time that President Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, no slaves were actually freed. The proclamation freed all slaves in rebelling states; however, since the rebelling states seceded from the Union, and therefore were not under the control of the Union, this proclamation would only end slavery after the states were recaptured. Nevertheless, the proclamation is considered one of the most important acts in American history, and a shrewd political move on Lincoln’s part. According to History.com, when the North’s only goal was reuniﬁcation, foreign governments could view the Confederates as freedom ﬁghters. The proclamation changed the North’s goals and the South’s defense, branding the Confederate States as a slave nation, which in turn isolated the Confederacy and made foreign aid impossible. For example, when no states returned to the Union after the proclamation was signed, Britain, which was ideologically opposed to slavery, could no longer recognize the Confederacy.

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GASTROENTEROLOGY JANUARY

Edison’s Electric Incandescent Lamp On January 27, 1880, Thomas Edison received the historic patent embodying the principles of his incandescent lamp that paved the way for the universal domestic use of electric light. Thomas Edison propelled the United States out of the gaslight era and into the electric age. From the time he was a boy, he was mesmerized by the mechanics of the universe and, with virtually no formal education, brought forth innovations that continue to dominate our lives. Out of his New Jersey laboratories, which were themselves inventions — thoroughly equipped and fully staffed — came 1,093 patented inventions and innovations that made Edison one of the most proliﬁc inventors of all time. Three of his most famous inventions, the phonograph, a practical incandescent light bulb, and the moving picture camera, dazzled the public and revolutionized the way people live throughout the world. His thundering dynamos transformed the United States into the world’s greatest industrial superpower. — OURDOCUMENTS.GOV

Each month, our practice receives hundreds of questions about colonoscopies and what to expect. We would like to help the community by featuring a question and answer column each month based on our experience and the usual questions that arise.

Dear Dr. Reddy, My husband has refused to schedule a colonoscopy even though his general physician has recommended one for the past 3 years. My sister has refused to schedule her own for the past 5 years! Could you please explain what will happen during a colonoscopy? — Grace*, Ocala Dear Grace, A colonoscopy is an exam of your entire colon. During this procedure your gastroenterologist is looking for polyps or signs of cancer. Polyps are small growths that over time can become cancer. Your gastroenterologist uses a thin (about the thickness of a ﬁnger), ﬂexible, hollow, lighted tube that has a tiny video camera called a colonoscope. The colonoscope is gently eased into the colon and sends pictures to a monitor. Small amounts of air are puffed into the colon to keep it open so the doctor can see clearly. The exam itself takes about 30 minutes. Patients are given a sedative to relax and sleep through the procedure.

Many patients ask: Will it hurt? The answer is: No. The anesthesia keeps patients free from pain. I think you (and your family) ought to know why this test is so important: Colorectal cancer screenings keep people healthy and can save lives. This testing is one of the most powerful weapons for preventing colorectal cancer. Removing polyps prevents colorectal cancer from starting. And cancers found at an early stage are more easily treated. Nine out of ten people who are diagnosed with colon cancer early will be alive 5 years later and the majority will live a normal life span. The key is early detection through screenings. Please consider a consultation if you would like to learn more. *The name has been changed, and any similarity to any person, living or dead, is a coincidence.

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Rod Stewart JANUARY 10, 1945

67 Years Old

Roderick David “Rod” Stewart is a British singer-songwriter of Scottish and English ancestry, born and raised in North London, England. With his distinctive raspy singing voice, Stewart came to prominence in the late 1960s and early 1970s with The Jeff Beck Group and then Faces. He launched his solo career in 1969 with his debut album “An Old Raincoat Won’t Ever Let You Down” (US: “The Rod Stewart Album”). With his career in its ﬁfth decade, Stewart is one of the best-selling artists of all time, having sold more than 100 million records worldwide. In the UK, he has garnered six consecutive number one albums, and his tally of 62 hit singles include 31 that reached the top 10, six of which gained the number one position. As a solo artist, Stewart was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1994, and will be inducted a second time, as a member of Faces, in April 2012. — Wikipedia.org A FEW OTHER NOTABLE

January Birthdays

Betty White (90) January 17, 1922

Stephen Stills (67)

Buzz Aldrin (82)

January 3, 1945

January 20, 1930

Dabney Coleman (80)

Aaron Neville (71)

January 3, 1932

January 24, 1941

“Man, I was tame compared to what they do now. Are you kidding? I didn’t do anything but just jiggle.” — ELVIS PRESLEY, FROM THE PRESS CONFERENCE PRIOR TO HIS RECORD-BREAKING MADISON SQUARE GARDEN SHOWS IN NEW YORK CITY, 1972

Despite his death nearly 35 years ago, Elvis Aaron Presley’s lives on as he continues to inspire musical acts of the current generation, personality imitators and mysterious sightings. On Jan. 8, Elvis would have been 76 years old. This year, it is time to celebrate the little known facts of his life. Although Elvis grew up as an only child, he originally had a twin, Jessie Garon Presley, who was stillborn. As an only child, Elvis grew especially close to his parents, and his mother in particular. Among the horses and dogs that Elvis owned at one point or another, he also owned a chimpanzee named Scatter. In 1968, Elvis’s comeback restored his stardom and even though Elvis knew his fame was fading, the only way producer Steve Binder got Elvis to agree to a comeback was a bet to see if Elvis would still be mobbed by crowds if he walked along Sunset Boulevard. He did not get mobbed, ushering in a comeback. By the end of his career, Elvis starred in 33 successful ﬁlms, racked up 14 Grammy nominations (and won three), and recorded and performed umpteen albums and concerts. Despite his wildly successful career, Elvis was just a man with different titles: singer, actor, soldier, father, The King.

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hen Sergio Campanaro’s grandmother-in-law became ill with dementia, he wanted nothing but the best of care for her. But most places he found had too much of a hospital setting for his liking. “We cared for her in home for 19 months before she passed away,” he said. “We couldn’t ﬁnd a place that would give her that family atmosphere that (dementia patients) should be in when they’re in that kind of condition.” The experience inspired Campanaro and his family to open a facility like the one they had looked for but never found – a homelike environment with individual attention and care. This vision was real-

ized in June when with the opening of Loving Care Assisted Living. Centrally located at 1205 NW 9th Avenue, Loving Care has eight bedrooms, most of which are private. Meals are cooked from scratch and can be customized to speciﬁc health needs, such as diabetes or high blood pressure. Daily activities for residents include exercise such as walking and stretching, crafts, tea time, beauty sessions and more. Campanaro emphasizes that the physical activity in particular, combined with the low resident to staff ratio, provides key beneﬁts for seniors with dementia. “We make sure they’re active every single day,”

he said. “Even if someone is in a wheelchair, the improvements are dramatic within a few weeks of being with us. We’ve had some people previously in a nursing home who were told they would never walk again, but they’re up now! They’re not running marathons, but they’re not completely dependent on somebody having to do everything for them.” The individual attention isn’t the only unique aspect of Loving Care. The facility also offers daytime care on an hourly or daily basis, as well as short-term overnight stays. Tending to a loved one with dementia is exhausting, and caregivers need a break every now and then. Patients can be brought to Loving Care

for just about any time frame without a long-term commitment, even if it’s just for an hour so they can go to an appointment or for a week or two while they go on vacation. All staff members, including a registered nurse on call and certiﬁed nursing assistants, meet and often exceed the state requirements of care for dementia patients. But Campanaro said there is one more important qualiﬁcation they must have. “They must love what they do. This has to be a calling for them,” he said. “They take joy in every improvement in a resident here; they take it personally. They just absolutely love our clients.”

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Age 45+ THE NEW MAJORITY “MEDIAN U.S. AGE IS 37.2 — UP FROM 32.6 IN 1990. NOW NEARLY FOUR IN TEN AMERICANS (39 PERCENT) ARE OVER AGE 45, UP FROM 34 PERCENT IN 2000 AND 31 PERCENT IN 1990. THIS IS THE FIRST CENSUS WHEN PERSONS AGE 45 AND OVER REPRESENT A MAJORITY (53 PERCENT) OF THE VOTING-AGE (18 AND OVER) POPULATION,” ACCORDING TO A 2011 ANALYSIS OF 2010 CENSUS DATA.

CROC COMEBACK The American Crocodile has made it off the endangered species list thanks in part to a to a man-made creation. Turkey Point Nuclear Power Plant and its approximately 167 miles of cooling canals in Homestead, Fla. seem to have turned into a prime crocodile habitat. The utility set up a monitoring program to watch the crocs in the late 1970s, but the program also ended up recording the facility’s role in their comeback. By the 1970s, the American Crocodile numbered less than 300 in the state. Due in part to Florida Power and Light’s accidental crocodile habitat, there are now more than 1,500 American Crocodiles in the state — a huge improvement. However, this reptile still remains threatened. The American Crocodile is so sensitive to the cold that the only place they inhabit in the U.S. is South Florida. They can grow as long as 15 feet and weigh up to a ton. South Florida’s extreme development eventually lead to the destruction of much of its habitat and its dwindling numbers over the decades.

“Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year ﬁnd you a better man.” — BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

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TIME TO DITCH THE

New Year’s Resolutions New Year’s resolutions are notorious for their short-life span and annoying nature. If this is the case once again in 2012, fear not! Remove the stress and anxiety of an unfortunately chosen resolution on January 17, unofficially known as Ditch New Year’s Resolution Day.

It is not completely clear where the phrase “cold feet,” meaning a lack of courage or doubt, came from; nevertheless, evidence suggests that e phrase may have been coined in h Stephen Crane’s “Maggie: A Girl of the Streets” (1896). Crane wrote, “I knew this was the way it could be. They got cold feet.” On the other hand, a military use suggests the phrase originally referred to a soldier’s inability to ﬁght due to frostbitten toes. Yet another theory suggests it was originally a German phrase found in a popular 1862 Fritz Reuter novel.

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AARP Driving Safety Course Among the many class offerings for January 2012 at the newly opened Senior Recreation Center is the AARP Driving Safety Course. According to the AARP website, in 1969, AARP volunteers began teaching the Defensive Driving Course (DDC) of the National Safety Council. More than 400,000 people completed the course between 1969 and 1979, and more than 4,500 volunteer instructors had been trained to teach the course by 1979. However, the DDC program was designed for drivers age 16 and up, and AARP believed that older drivers should have a training program of their own. In 1979, AARP created its own driver safety program, then called “55 ALIVE.” While younger drivers were typically cited for speeding, reckless driving and DWI offenses, older drivers’ infractions typically included failure to yield the right-of-way, improper turning, and incorrect lane changing. Generally,

older drivers have problems in driving situations that require quick responses, full vision and interaction with other drivers. So the program taught participants how to adjust their driving in response to those changes. “55 ALIVE” continued to teach defensive driving techniques but added information on age-related cognitive and physical changes that affect drivers. On Wednesday, January 18, from 9:00 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., the AARP Driving Safety Course will be offered at the Alachua County Senior Recreation Center. To learn more about the Alachua County Senior Recreation Center’s activities for January, see the calendar in this edition of Senior Times (page 38), or visit alachuacountyactiveseniors.net. s The Alachua County Senior Recreation Center is located at 5701 NW 34th Street in Gainesville. For more information, call

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS DIVISION WASHINGTON, D.C. Construction of Seven Mile Bridge, Linking Florida Keys, Knight Key, Monroe, FL. Southern view, showing upper chords, lateral and sway bracing.

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FLAGLER’S DREAM

Overseas Wonder How One Man Transformed a Chain of Islands into a Tourist’s Paradise

by Cindy Long

“Flung out over the Florida Keys, across miles of open sea, a masterpiece of engineering takes you 170 miles from Miami to Key West” — DESCRIPTION FROM AN OLD MAP

he story behind that masterpiece involves a crossroads of engineering, labor, materials and the gilded-age fortune of one man. Henry Morrison Flagler built the Florida East Railway (FEC), Key West Extension, to link the mainland with Key West. What is now known as the Overseas Highway, US 1 to Key West, got its start as a railway. In the 1920s, a traveler could catch the Havana Special in New York, journey down the east coast to

Key West, board a steamer and head for Cuba. A portion of this journey through the keys was a slow glide over the water, for passengers could not see the track below when creeping across the bridges at 15 MPH. Flagler’s interest in Key West was its natural harbor and proximity to the soon-to-be-completed Panama Canal. It was a thriving city of 20,000, whose citizens labored at cigar factories, ﬁshing, sponge diving, ship building and wreck salvage. He saw a future for January 2012

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS DIVISION WASHINGTON, D.C. Knight’s Key Bridge, view of driving pilings in cofferdam.

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The Men To Do The Job Key West to be the stepping off point miles long and another seven miles Flagler and Parrott decided the FEC for shipping traffic through the new long, and moving not only 17 million could build the overseas railway because Panama Canal route and for robust trade cubic yards of marl, sand, and coral they had the experience, the equipment with Cuba. rock, but also reshaping the islands and and the men to do it. In fact, they had The journey from Flagler’s Folly possibly diverting the tidal flow. These been building roadbed for 20 years. (as detractors called it) to the Eighth days, a roadway involving this type of They needed an engineer with master Wonder of the World (dubbed after it disruption to the natural surroundings bridge building experience, so they was a success) was arduous. The rail would not be permitted in the U.S. tapped Joseph C. Meredith, the head line would cross three major bodies of When Flagler was questioned about engineer in charge of a $3.5 million, halfwater, one a seven-mile stretch, another how his Key West Extension would be mile long pier in Tampico, Mexico. 30 feet deep, and the nearly three miles built his reply was, “It’s perfectly simple. According to Les Standiford’s book, from Long Key to Conch Key. It may All you have to do is to build one concrete “Last Train to Paradise,” be difficult to grasp just how during Meredith’s interview extraordinary the project was for the job Flagler asked in 1905: electricity was just him, “When can you start?” beginning in common use, the Meredith is reported to Wright Brother’s first flight have replied, “I’m ready this had happened only two years afternoon, but I’d like a few before and the Empire State days to go home to Kansas Building was 26 years away. City, to pack some things, and Engineers studied see my family. I’ll have to be options for constructing on this job for several years.” the Extension. William J. Meredith did not reveal Krome and his team explored in his interview that he was a westward route at the diabetic. The heat, sun and tip of the peninsula. They stress of the job took its toll, picked their way through the and after four very intense swampy Everglades filled with years of working, he fell into sawgrass and mosquitoes to a diabetic coma and died in reach Cape Sable. From there April 1909. Flagler grieved the a bridge would be built to the loss of his valued engineer, lower Keys. stopping all rail traffic and The second option, which work in his honor for five was chosen for the project, minutes during the funeral. was to cross the swampy LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS DIVISION WASHINGTON, D.C. William Krome, having muck south of Homestead Pigeon Key Bridge, construction details of method for adapting been on the project since to Jewfish Creek, build a bridge into highway. October 5-6, 1937 its inception working as bridge to Key Largo and then Meredith’s assistant, became island hop down the length project manager to “launch a railroad of the Keys. This route had previously arch, and then another, and pretty soon straight at the blank horizon of the been surveyed in 1866 by J.C. Bailey you will find yourself in Key West.” A Atlantic,” according to “Last Train for the International Ocean Telegraph simple statement but a complex reality. Company for a line from Miami to Cuba. Joseph R. Parrott, president and gener- to Paradise.” He was 32 years old but Roadbeds had been built, but it was al manager of the FEC, was Flagler’s close described by Flagler as “a very efficient man.” Flagler wrote that he “had no quite a different task to build a road consultant on the project. An exchange anxieties about him being able to across a swamp. Not water and not land, often quoted between the two was, “Joe, prosecute the work successfully.” a man could sink hip-deep in muck. are you sure this railroad can be built?” The third key engineer, Clarence S. Bridges had also been built, but this Parrott’s reply, “Yes, I am.” Coe, received a phone call at his home endeavor required a bridge nearly three “Very well, then, go to Key West.” January 2012

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in Iowa late one autumn evening in 1905. Coe’s daughter, Priscilla Coe Pyfrom, recounts hearing his end of the conversation in her book, “The Bridges Stand Tall.” “Yes, I am the engineer who designed and built the Boone Bridge. No, I am not working at the present. I am generally off for the winter. Would I be interested in a job in Florida? What part of Florida?” Coe accepted, moving down immediately and bringing his family eleven months later. Since Coe would be the main engineer for the Seven Mile Bridge, he, his wife and three children moved onto a houseboat named Miriam, anchoring off of Pigeon Key, the island in the middle of the bridge, from 1908 to 1913. During hurricane season the family traveled back to Iowa to stay out of harm’s way. By the end of the project, Coe was responsible for ﬁfteen major bridges on the extension.

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The Heavy Lifters Flagler wanted to employ as many men as possible. Initially, 400 men were brought on but a few months into the project the crew had dwindled to less than 150. But one source reports that during the course of construction 50,000 men were employed on the railway, but never more than 5,000 at a time. Conditions were miserable, because of clouds of mosquitoes, intense heat and humidity in the summer, with the only respite of a summer storm to bring a breeze and cooling rains. While slogging and building through the Everglades, the laborers had to be persuaded not to run away which would mean certain death. The swamp was full of alligators — often found lounging on the equipment in the mornings — poisonous snakes, brackish water and torment. Because work conditions were so extreme Flagler told his managers to provide the best living conditions possible. They built dormitories on

barges called quarter-boats, and set up field kitchens with fresh food brought in every three days. Water and ice were readily available. The men were an amalgamation of ethnicities. In 1906 there were 1,000 black workers, many from Florida, and 700 white, predominantly Greeks, Italians and Germans. Over the years the work force comprised Grand Cayman islanders, Spaniards, north-easterners from New York and Pennsylvania, and Native Americans. The pay in the early years was $1.50 per day plus room, board and transportation to the job, which had to be reimbursed to the FEC. Tools were fabricated specifically for the job such as vessels for transportation and construction as well as quarterboats for the workers, cement mixers, excavators and forms for the concrete piers and arches. Initially, the railway would be built by floating machines, but water transportation routes needed to be as minimal as possible because of the seniortimesmagazine.com

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS DIVISION WASHINGTON, D.C. LEFT: H.M. Flagler’s Special, ﬁrst train crossing Long Key Viaduct, 2.7 miles long, Long Key, FL BELOW: Moser Channel Draw, pivot pier under construction w/steel reinforcing

cost. Comparatively, rail was inexpensive; the sooner rail bed or temporary trestles were built the easier and less costly getting materials to a site would be. “In 1906, the Extension operation listed three tugs, eight stern-wheel steamers, 27 gasoline launches, 14 houseboats, eight work boats with derricks and cement mixers, three pile drivers, one ﬂoating machine shop, and 72 barges,” writes Dan Gallagher in his book, “Florida’s Great Ocean Railway: Building the Key West Extension.” During the six years of the main construction two hurricanes tore through the Keys. On October 17 1906, a makeshift barometer, a tube with water in it and a piece of weed, alerted the workers that bad weather was coming. There was no way out of the Keys. By midnight the winds were strong enough to shut down work and send the men to their quarter-boat. But that proved to be deadly for many. The quarter-boat was lashed, whipped and driven into the

Gulf Stream where it was ripped apart. Various accounts estimate the loss of life from 125 to 200 men. Not only did the loss of life cause the team to rethink worker housing but also the construction of the roadbed. Changes to housing included land-based camps and dredged canals to harbor quarter-boats. Later, the quarter-boats were abandoned altogether. Krome urged Flagler to run telegraph wires down to the work crews so they could receive timely weather bulletins. The 1909 hurricane wiped out 40 miles of roadbed and track. They learned that a bridge holds up better in a storm than fill — even fill buttressed by riprap, which is rubble and rock used to armor shorelines from washouts. A great example of this still exists. The Long Key Viaduct originally called for 180 arches with fill on the approaches. After the 1909 hurricane, the engineers added 35 arches. A wing-wall from the original construction appears out

of place but marks the addition of the added arches. The Long Key Viaduct still stands next to its successor.

Onto Key West By 1908, the railway was half ﬁnished and the town of Marathon became a central player in the construction of the Seven Mile and Bahia Honda Bridges, as well as the rest of the stretch to completion. The island earned its name when a worker reportedly said, “Building this railroad has become a regular marathon.” Between 1908 and 1912 there were as many as 1,500 working men and their families living on Marathon. It was a close-knit community with a “bold spirit of camaraderie” living side by side with one goal in mind: completion of the railway to Key West. The Seven Mile Bridge, as it came to be called in the 1930s, has two styles because of the difference in water depths, ranging from two feet to more than 20 feet. It was originally planned as four January 2012

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LIBRARY OF CONGRESS PRINTS AND PHOTOGRAPHS DIVISION WASHINGTON, D.C. H. M. Flagler and party leaving ﬁrst train to arrive at Key West, Fla. Oversea Florida East Coast R. R.

different b bridges: rid idges: K Knight’s niigh ht’s ’ K Key ey B Bridge, rid idge, Pigeon Key Bridge, Moser Channel Bridge and Pacet Channel Viaduct. The concrete spandrel arches in the shallows are 53 feet apart. In the deeper water, 80-foot long steel pedestal plates weighing 19 tons each were placed directly on the concrete piers. It also had the 253-foot Moser Channel Draw that swung away for tall ship trafﬁc. Working off of ﬂoating equipment barges powered by coal and fresh water were dredges and cementmixing vessels that “ran day and night; two crews for double shifts and were equipped with electric dynamos to run lights after dark.” The raw materials came from a variety of locations. The cement for above the waterline came from New York; below the waterline the cement came from Alsace, France. Steel and track were from Pittsburgh. The pine lumber came from Georgia and Florida while the hardwood came from the Midwest. Crews dug quarries for rock, sand and marl — a lime-rich mud — on several of the Keys, most notably Key Largo and Windley’s Island. Today, people can visit Windley Key Fossil Reef Geological State Park at

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mil ile marker mark ker 84.9 and and d see where wh here some of mile the stone came from. Work was also progressing on the other signature bridge, the Bahia Honda. The channel, appropriately named by the conquistadors meaning “deep channel,” was more than 30 feet in the center. The rule of thumb used by the engineers was one foot up for every foot of water below, which meant very tall piers needed to be built at this particular passage. According to “Florida’s Great Ocean Railway,” “Engineers had to use steel cofferdams for the seal; wooden forms could not withstand water pressure at that depth.” A cofferdam is a temporary watertight enclosure that is pumped dry to expose the bottom of a body of water for the construction of piers. And “in order to decrease the number of piers, the engineers decided to make the spans longer, a feat they could do only by building a truss bridge,” like the Moser Channel truss. The trusses to span the piers were built in place using falsework, a wooden bridge used as a temporary support until each truss was completed. It was the strongest bridge built on the line and when it was converted to a roadway, the

tru tr us trusses were left in place and the road was built on top of them. With the most difficult waters now bridged the goal of Key West was in sight. In his book, “The Railroad That Died At Sea,” Pat Parks tells this story: Flagler was a frail 81 year old when Krome received a call from Parrott asking, “Can you finish the road down to Key West so we can put Mr. Flagler there in his private car over his own rails out of Jacksonville on this next birthday, January 2nd?” Krome, inspired by and dedicated to Flagler, cut a year off of the schedule by running crews day and night. On a perfect Chamber of Commerce Day, January 22, 1912, Flagler rode into Key West on his car, the Rambler, over sparkling aqua water under the clearest of blue Florida Keys skies. Emerging from a cloudy Knight’s Key the historic crossing was heralded by the neverbefore-heard sound of a train whistle on this island 90 miles from Cuba. Old Glory and Cuban flags, military, ragtime and marimba bands greeted the old man and his train with a crowd estimated to be more than 10,000 people, half of the population of Key West at that seniortimesmagazine.com

Overseas Railway 100th Anniversary RAILWAY MEMORABILIA DISPLAY Through January 31, 2012 KEY LARGO - See historic items and memorabilia on loan from historian Seth H. Bramson and the Gold Coast Railroad Museum, on display at the Key Largo Chamber of Commerce Visitor Center, located at MM 106. See an original, official souvenir program from Flagler’s trip to Key West on Jan. 22, 1912, a Florida East Coast Railway steam whistle and several other railroad artifacts, circa 1900-1935. Call 800-822-1088 or visit www.keylargochamber.org. time. Dignitaries, including congressmen, senators and Florida Governor Albert Gilchrist, were in attendance. A frail and nearly blind Flagler stepped out of his private car at 10:30 a.m. to a throng of cheers and speeches. Several accounts tell the story of Flagler leaning on J.R. Parrott, saying, “I can hear the children, but I cannot see them.” When Flagler stepped up to the podium to speak he said, “We have been trying to anchor Key West to the mainland, and anchor it we have done.” The following year Flagler died at the age of 83. His vision transformed Florida and the Keys, and endeared him to the people of the state. Edward N. Akin, a biographer of Flagler, states Flagler built the Key West Extension as “his enduring monument.” The old bridges were replaced in the 1970s and ‘80s, but many remain as ﬁshing piers and can sometimes be seen in motion pictures. “True Lies” was shot in the Keys and the Seven Mile Bridge had a starring role. As stated in a 1949 map: The Overseas Highway is a masterpiece and still a wonder.” The statement still rings true to this day. s

HISTORICAL REENACTMENT January 20, 2012 11:00 am to 1:00 pm BAHIA HONDA STATE PARK - Step back in time to the early 1900s as Mr. Henry Flagler and other travelers share their unique experiences on the railroad. Meet at the railway car “stage” inside the park, just past the Sand & Sea Center. Show begins at 11:00am. Bring chairs and/or beach blankets for comfort.

FREE FAMILY FUN DAY January 14, 2012 10:00am - 4:00pm HISTORIC PIGEON KEY - This ﬁve-acre property served as a home base for railroad workers erecting and later operating the ﬁnal installment of the FEC Railway: the Old Seven-Mile Bridge. Ferry ride and entrance FREE. Historical reenactment activities with period games and demonstrations for children of all ages.

FLAGLER’S 100TH ANNIVERSARY GALA COSTUME BALL January 21, 2012 6:00PM - 10:00pm KEY WEST - Enjoy a night of period costumes, dinner, dancing and celebrating 100 years of the Flagler era at the historic Casa Marina - A Waldorf Astoria Resort, 1500 Reynolds Street, Key West. 180 guest maximum. Cost: $100. Includes one hour of open bar cocktails, dinner, beverages, fireworks as well as a silent auction to benefit Friends of Old Seven, a nonprofit organization formed as a community effort to save, enhance and maintain the historic Old Seven Mile Bridge in Marathon, a significant piece of railroad history. www.flaglerkeys100.com.

FLAGLER CENTENNIAL PARADE January 22, 2012 1:00pm - 2:00pm KEY WEST - The modern day Rambler, the railcar that Henry Flagler traveled in, is expected to make an appearance at the 2012 parade. Free and open to the public. Parade route is expected to begin at Higgs Beach, continue along Duval Street and conclude at the Customs House steps, from where Henry Flagler is to address the spectators, visitors and residents of the Florida Keys and Key West.

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COLUMN œ ELLIS AMBURN

Enjoying Act Three One of the advantages of being a Senior is the clarity to reﬂect on life and see at last what it all meant, and continues to mean.

am far enough along in the memoir I’m writing to agree with author Henri J.M. Nouwen that autobiography is “the awesome story of God in the life of an attentive human being.” At 70-something it’s clear that every person and every event in my life were put there to teach me something. If only I’d been more attentive during my ﬁrst half century, when it never occurred to me that God was trying to communicate through people, places and things. Thinking myself insigniﬁcant made me devalue everything in my life, my attitude being, there must be something wrong with anybody who’d love me. Now I see the people and events of my life as angels. The unfolding of God’s will came to me through books, movies, music, and, above all, relationships. If people enabled me to achieve things beyond my wildest dreams, then perhaps I possess the same power to help others. Power comes when I open the channel to God through prayer and meditation, which amounts to attentive listening. To clear my mind of what clogs it up — fear, resentment, anger, jealousy, desire, envy, and worry — I only need to meditate and pray. Meditation

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— relaxing, bringing my attention to my breath, and remaining still for a while after emptying my mind — makes it possible to sense the presence of the spirit within, and prayer enables me to ask for help and receive direction.

nonetheless amazing in its message: The power of the universe is at our ﬁngertips for the asking, not only to help ourselves but conceivably to help and heal others. It is not our brilliance or achievements but the wreckage of our past, our suffering, which can work miracles in the lives of others. One of the only facts we can be sure of is that we all suffer and that, as Nouwen writes, “a sharing of suffering can make us move forward in the conviction that the full liberation of man and his world is still to come.” The world, like us, is in a state of becoming, if hurricanes and volcanoes can be viewed as growing pains. “The whole created universe groans in all its parts as if in the pangs of childbirth,” St. Paul wrote. What kept Paul going, despite the fact that he was in prison when he penned these words, was his certainty beyond the shadow of a doubt

To clear my mind of what clogs it up — fear, resentment, anger, jealousy, desire, envy, and worry — I only need to meditate and pray. I can pray whether I believe in God or not. Like any good parent, God probably doesn’t care what I think, so long as I’m willing to ask for help and follow directions. Lack of willingness is the stumbling block for many of us, but there’s a way around it. All I need to do is get on my knees, put my forehead to the ﬂoor and say, “I surrender. Everything. 100 percent. I don’t know how to turn my thoughts and actions over to You, but I am herewith making a decision to do so; You take it from there, please.” Not immediately, and certainly not in a ﬂash of blinding light, but gradually I become aware that I am getting everything I need. To me, that’s a miracle, not a very dramatic one, in fact rather mundane and everyday, but

“that the sufferings we now endure bear no comparison with the splendor, as yet unrevealed, which is in store for us.” When Frederick Buechner, one of my favorite writers, was contemplating his memoirs, he decided “it would be the presence of God rather than His absence that I would write about, of death and dark and despair as not the last reality but only the next to the last.” What keeps me writing these days despite my messy life and world chaos is the quiet place I can go to within, where God dwells, and tells me, “You are my beloved son, on you my favor rests.” s High Springs resident Ellis Amburn is the author of biographies of Roy Orbison, Elizabeth Taylor, Jack Kerouac, and others. He can be reached at ellis.amburn@gmail.com.

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SILVER SCREEN

The Show Goes On Brothers Reopen the Historic Ocala Drive-in Theater by Bonnie Kretchik

ho can forget a staple of the American culture, the drive-in theater? An idea perhaps somewhat foreign to today’s generation, the drive-in theater hit its peak popularity in the 1950s with thousands of these hot spots located throughout the United States. However, times change, technology advances, and people and ideas move on. But that is not to say that pieces of the past are forgotten. Thanks to brothers John and Charles Watzke, Ocala is once again home to one of the few remaining drive-in theaters in the country. John and Charles were practically born into the business of drive-in theaters. “My grandfather was working with projectors since he was 12 years old in New Orleans,” said John Watzke, the younger of the two brothers. “He started the Projectionist Union in 1918, my father joined in 1939, and people always used to say my brother and I were raised in a projection booth.” John later went to work in the food industry while his brother Charles stayed active as a projectionist.

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Unlike many drive-ins that began closing in subsequent decades, Ocala’s own theater had a much more active history. The theater opened in 1948. It closed for a brief period in 2002 and was reopened from 2003 to 2007. For the past few years though, the theater has been home only to wildlife, overgrown foliage and a ﬂea market that opened in January of 2011.

“My grandfather was working with projectors since he was 12 years old in New Orleans.” But while it seemed that Ocala’s historic theater was destined to remain in the dark, these two brothers from New Orleans had a different idea. “One night I got to reminiscing about working as a projectionist and being in the theater again and I couldn’t get it out of my head,” John said. He decided on a whim to do a computer search for closed seniortimesmagazine.com

PHOTOS BY TJ MORRISSEY for LOTUS STUDIOS John Watzke poses with some of the people that work at the drivein theater in Ocala. From left: Annie, Kim, Matt, John and Ethel.

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theaters with the long-shot idea that he could possibly reopen one. He found Ocala’s theater. But it was not going to be as easy as the brothers had hoped. There was no contact information for the property. So John, who was living in New Orleans, used Google Earth to zoom in on the property on his computer screen. “Hidden behind overgrown shrubs there was a sign with a phone number,” he said with a laugh, grateful for the technology. The owner was living in Chicago. After a few attempts the brothers reached

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him. As to the condition of the place? “Well, I guess you could say it’s still standing,” the owner said. This left the brothers hopeful, but not sure what to expect. So they made the trip from New Orleans to Ocala to take a look. “We arrived at three and by ten after three we made a decision,” John said. But it was not going to be an easy task to get the theater up and running. Left unattended for almost three years, the place was overgrown with grass and shrubs. In fact, the brothers could not ﬁnd the concession stand because it was completely covered with foliage.

“It was just a mess,” John said. “We were actually afraid to walk into the bathroom.” But after 11 months of hard work and countless hours of clearing, cleaning and restoration, the Ocala Drive-in Theater made its grand reopening this past summer on July 29. “We put a lot of effort into this place and we’re glad people are coming to appreciate what we’ve done,” John said. His brother, Charles disassembled the original 1948 projector, refurbished it and has it running like new. And in keeping with tradition, John’s grandson seniortimesmagazine.com

now works in the theater alongside his grandfather. “He’s the ﬁfth generation to work in the drive-ins and he started at the same age I was when I began,” boasted the proud grandparent. The Watzke brothers’ hard work has deﬁnitely paid off. The theater is up and running as good as new. The IMAX-size screen is freshly painted and the new sound system is offering crisp clear audio. The vintage concession stand is reminiscent of days past and along with traditional movie-going snacks, they also serve a variety of affordable fare.

“Our concession prices are half the price of what you’ll pay in the theaters,” John said. He encourages people to buy from the concession stand since that is how the theater makes its money and not, contrary to belief, from ticket sales. John said that for every ticket sold, the theater only makes $1.20 after paying the ﬁlm companies. “It takes a lot of $1.20s to stay open,” he said. And though ticket prices are higher than the original drive-in’s admission of 40 cents, they are still considerably less than a sit-in theater where patrons can expect to pay $9.75 or more.

“I’m very happy. I was meant to be here.” For a double feature, which plays every night with the ﬁrst ﬁlm repeating a second time on Fridays and Saturdays during the winter months, adult tickets are $6 and children 6-12 years tickets are $3. Children under 6 get in free. “We’re trying to offer some affordable entertainment that’s unique and interesting,” John said. He and his brother have also reintroduced cartoons, which were common during the heyday January 2012

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of drive-in theaters. “Back when we were kids, a cartoon always used to play before the second ﬁlm but it got expensive and theaters began to cut them,” John said. In between the double feature at the Ocala Drive-in, audiences are entertained by the likes of Tom and Jerry and other classic cartoon characters while they make a trip to the concession stand or get up to stretch their legs. The Ocala Drive-in had remained open considerably longer than most. The short timeframe when its screen was empty left many regular attendees

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without a theater. John and Charles know where every drive-in theater is located and the ones closest to Ocala are in Lakeland, Dade City and Ft. Lauderdale. Tina and Charles Schippee were regular patrons of the drive-in theater. “We used to come all of the time,” Trina said. “I’m glad it has reopened again.” Charles said he and his wife plan to keep coming back. The Ocala Drive-in also attracts people from outside of Marion County. The Berbert family made the trip from Inverness with their two sons in tow. They said that

coming to the drive-in for them is something different to do as a family. “We’ve seen a good response,” John said. He currently resides in Cocoa Beach where is business is located and travels to Ocala to oversee the drive-in on weekends. He hopes to move to Ocala one day but enjoys coming to his theater when he can. “I’m very happy,” he said. “I was meant to be here.” s The Ocala Drive-in Theater is located at 4850 South Pine Ave. in Ocala. For movie listings, call 352-629-1325

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COLUMN œ DONNA BONNELL

Embracing Life After an exhausting day, there is nothing more soothing than soaking in a tub of wonderful warm water.

enjoy an extravagance many humans on our planet will never experience. Of the 60 million people added to the world’s cities every year, the vast majority live in impoverished areas without sanitation facilities. Try to imagine life without ever having running water. It is difficult to grasp, as most of us take it for granted. My family ‘suffered’ when we lost electricity for an extended period following a storm. Toting water for everything was a time consuming daunting task. We learned quickly how to conserve. Unfortunately, when the power returned so did our old wasteful habits. Without realizing it, I needed lessons in poverty and planet preservation. God provided me that opportunity with an unexpected visit to a third world country. My group stayed in a secure compound with armed guards. The locals considered our rudimentary rooms palatial suites, compared to their dirtfloored huts. Our facility had a shower (with cold, slow-dripping water) and toilets that flushed (most of the time). The hospitable citizens warned us not to brush our teeth with running water from the spigot. We heeded their advice. Witnessing women washing clothes and children bathing in the same river where they got their drinking water really got my attention. It was sickening

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and saddening to see their deplorable living conditions. Due to greed and ignorance, humans have wasted the world’s fresh water, and underground aquifers are drying up.

Every eight seconds a child dies from drinking dirty water. Agricultural runoff, crude oil, sewage and other contaminants are polluting much of what is left. A West African proverb reminds us that, “Filthy water cannot be washed.” The time to pay attention is now! The following frightening global estimates appeared in the feature, “25 Signs That A Horriﬁc Global Water Crisis Is Coming,” written on September 17, 2011: • A billion people do not have access to safe drinking water. • By 2030, global demand for water will be 40 percent higher than today. • Worldwide demand for fresh water tripled during the last century and is doubling every 21 years. • Every eight seconds a child dies from drinking dirty water.

the United States than anywhere else in the world. Unless we implement controls, a severe scarcity may take place in our own backyards. • According to the US National Academy of Sciences, our western interior is the driest it has been in 500 years. • Approximately 81 percent of Texas is experiencing exceptional drought conditions. Wildfires have burned 3.6 million acres in that state. • Lake Mead is falling so fast that some believe the Hoover dam could stop producing electricity in the near future. • Eight states in the Great Lakes region have signed a pact banning the export of water to outsiders — even to other US states. • More than 40 percent of the rivers and lakes in the US are not safe for fishing or swimming, due to pollution. Benjamin Franklin’s quote published in the Poor Richard’s Almanac, “When the well is dry, we know the worth of water,” is more applicable today than it was in 1746. Every day we are getting closer to a horrific global water crisis. Modern industrial nations may consider themselves too advanced to be concerned. The reality is — rich or poor — we simply cannot function without fresh water! When making resolutions for 2012, we should embrace Maude Barlow’s (co-author of Blue Gold) statement, “If this waste and abuse continues, twothirds of the world’s population will lack adequate safe water by 2025, and half of those will have no safe water at all.” Savoring sensual warm bubble baths, while using only a minimal supply of water, is one of my goals. They are little luxuries, which may not last forever! s Donna Bonnell is a freelance writer who

Many Americans never give a second thought to an unlimited amount of clean water. We use more water per person in

moved to Newberry in 1983. She enjoys living and working in the town she now calls home. donna@towerpublications.com

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READER SUBMITTED œ WILMA SMITH

Community Voice A Tree

A tree no not a tree a special place to play each day today a doll house another time a ranch with cowboys resting, or a place to talk with friends or even your dog that listens well. It’s a big huge maple tree in the front yard when I was small. It was a place to hide for fun or a game. I’ve left that big huge maple tree, It was more than a tree It was my special place to learn about life and play something different everyday. No not just a tree my special tree my special place. s

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LITERARY LEGACY

Cross Creek and the Big Scrub Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Listened to Her Editor by Ellis Amburn

ust 17 miles from Gainesville is the deep backcountry where author Marjorie Kinnan (pronounced Kin-NAN) Rawlings wrote her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel “The Yearling.” When Rawlings died in 1953, she left the manuscript, along with her home in Cross Creek, to the University of Florida. Later designated a National Historic Landmark, the Cracker-style farmhouse and surrounding orange grove are now open to the public as the Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park, located on Country Road 325. The setting of “The Yearling,” Rawlings’s story of a Florida Cracker family, their young son Jody, and his pet deer, is not Cross Creek, as many assume, but the nearby area known as the Big Scrub, located within the 383,573-acre Ocala National Forest. Rawlings memorably evoked the Scrub in the opening pages as Jody gallops through sweet gum and loblolly bay to “a secret and lovely place [where] a spring as clear as well water bubbled up from nowhere in the sand [and] began to run rapidly downhill to make a creek.

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The creek joined Lake George, Lake George was part of the St. John’s River, the great river ﬂowed northward and into the sea. It excited Jody to watch the beginning of the ocean.”

mouth. She disliked cities and was never happier than when her brilliant and doting father, an attorney in the U.S. Patent Ofﬁce, took her along on visits to his dairy farm. She felt a mystical connec-

She fell in love with Florida while on vacation in 1928 and impulsively purchased a 73-acre spread in Cross Creek for $9,000 Today, 75 years after the publication of “The Yearling,” Pat Griggs, a Gainesville librarian who lives in a solar-powered house in the Big Scrub, enjoys canoeing around Juniper Springs but warned, “The sand looks like normal sand but it’s quicksand and it’ll swallow your canoe paddle.” Asked for the best spot to view the Big Scrub, Griggs advised, “At Ocala turn east on Highway 40.” Occasional towns and public recreation areas dot the road all the way to Daytona Beach. Born August 8, 1896 in Washington, D.C., Rawlings was a tomboy who grew into a beauty with blue eyes, brown hair, round cheeks, and a tiny but alluring

tion to the earth, once writing, “I have never seen an ugly tree.” In fact, she added, given a choice between people and trees, she would take trees. At the University of Wisconsin, Rawlings majored in English and served on student publications, as did a young man from Rochester, New York, Charles Rawlings. They married in 1919. While Chuck went off to ﬁght World War I, Marjorie wrote “trashy” stories for pulp magazines. Later, in Louisville, Kentucky, both she and Chuck wrote for the Courier-Journal. She fell in love with Florida while on vacation in 1928 and impulsively purchased a 73-acre spread in Cross Creek for $9,000, including a seniortimesmagazine.com

LEFT: Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings at age 49-50 at “The Yearling” set with Cal Long. (photo courtesy University of Florida). BELOW: The Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings house, typical of the late 19th century “cracker” farmhouse of Central Florida, was purchased in 1928 by Rawlings, famous for “The Yearling” (Pulitzer Prize, 1939), “South Moon Under,” “Cross Creek,” and “Golden Apples.” Rawlings repaired the house and added bathrooms and a carport to the existing building. She bequeathed the house to the University of Florida when she died in 1954. (Photo courtesy of the Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division.)

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PHOTO BY ELLIS AMBURN The bell in Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s orange grove at Cross Creek is an “emergency bell,” said guide Brian Angell. If a freeze was coming, Rawlings would strike the bell with a clapper, and “neighbors would come to ﬁre up the grove,” Angell explained. “Smoke from the ﬁres they built kept the temperature higher and protected the citrus through the night.”

farmhouse, tenant cottage, barn, 3,300 orange trees, and 800 pecan trees. Freed from the distraction of urban life she quickly turned out her first novel, “Blood of My Blood,” a scathing portrait of her despised mother. Wisely, she stashed the manuscript in a bottom drawer where it languished until well after her death, when the University Press of Florida finally issued it. As she got to know her neighbors in Cross Creek, one of whom considered her a “good fisherman” and a “pretty good hunter,” she discovered that Crackers made viable fodder for her fiction. She sent a short story based on the occupants of her tenant house to Scribner’s. Maxwell Perkins, the legendary editor of Thomas Wolfe, F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ernest Hemingway, admired her sympathetic treatment of Crackers, urged her to supply a happy ending, and sent her a check for $700. At Perkins’ urging she began researching a Cracker novel, going into the Big Scrub for two and a half months in August 1931, living with Piety Fiddia and her son Leonard, a moon-shiner, and

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sharing chores in their house on a bluff above the Ocklawaha River. She wanted to call it “The Big Scrub,” but Perkins said non-Floridians would think it a football story. They compromised on “South Moon Under,” a term denoting one of the feeding times of deer and ﬁsh in the Big Scrub: when the moon is “under the earth.” Perkins accepted the manuscript but suggested she weave its disparate episodes into a cohesive narrative; he also indicated places where characters could see events, replacing authorial descriptions. Thus did this self-described “random and rambling” writer ﬁnd — and forever treasure — the man who was born to make her rich. The Book-of-the-Month Club validated Perkins’ estimation of the fenceraising scene as “a classic” and the river passages as “good as Huckleberry Finn.” The judges made “South Moon Under” a dual selection for March 1933. Rawlings’ share was $4,000. Continuing to guide her burgeoning career, Perkins talked her out of writing a historical novel, “Hamaca,” and

suggested instead a juvenile book about “a child in the Scrub.” Back to the Big Scrub she went, this time to Pat’s Island, where Cal Long handed her the seed of “The Yearling,” telling her about his pet deer jumping a fence, ruining a corn crop, and having to be shot. Penny Baxter, Jody’s father, was based on both Long’s and Rawlings’ fathers, and Ma Baxter resembles Rawlings’ bitter mother. The Forrester family was based on the Sullivans who lived near Pat’s Island, and Fodderwing Forrester was cobbled together from two Cross Creek boys, J.T. Glisson and Rodney Slater. The original title was “The SinkHole,” but she also sounded Perkins out on “The Flutter Mill,” “The Fawn,” “Juniper Creek, “Juniper Island,” and “The Yearling.” Max deemed “The Fawn” rather too soft but favored “The Yearling,” which Rawlings found stark but agreed to because it symbolized both the 12-year-old boy and his pet. Long before publication Perkins started lobbying his brother, a member the Pulitzer Prize committee, and the Bookseniortimesmagazine.com

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of-the-Month Club. That “The Yearling” won both the Pulitzer and became a full BOMC selection — her share was $5,000 — demonstrates the power of both her editor and her talent. The book shot to the top of the bestseller lists, lingered there 93 weeks, sold 240,000 copies, and went on to become an international publishing phenomenon with editions in 21 languages. After paying $30,000 for ﬁlm rights, MGM descended on Cross Creek for location shooting. “Gone With the Wind” director Victor Fleming disliked North Florida but fell hard for Rawlings as she took him through the Scrub. Though she personally liked Anne Revere she found the actress too stern as Ma Baxter, Gene Eckman too delicate for Jody, and Spencer Tracy too bored and drunk to play Jody’s father. Fleming was replaced by King Vidor; Tracy by Gregory Peck; Eckman by Claude Jarman Jr.; and Revere by Jane Wyman. “The Yearling” became one of the most honored movies of 1946, winning Oscars for photography, art direction, and for Jarman as best juvenile

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PHOTOS BY ELLIS AMBURN Three miles east of Ocala lies the vast Big Scrub wilderness in the Ocala National Forest, scene of Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings’s Cracker classic “The Yearling.” The word “Cracker” derives from early ox-drivers who cracked rawhide whips. Bears, alligators, deer, boars, bats, skunks, bobcats, and Opossums inhabit the rugged Scrub, whose seemingly endless stands of Sand and Longleaf Pine are riddled by 600 lakes as well as ponds, rivers, wet “prairies,” swamps, springs, cypress, blackjack oak, and water lilies.

actor. Nominations, but not Oscars, went to Peck; producer Sidney Franklin; and ﬁlm editor Harold Kress. As a box-ofﬁce hit it made Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings a household name, and brought her such remunerative if repugnant Metro assignments as scripting “Lassie” pictures. Despite success and wealth, happiness eluded her throughout two marriages. Rawlings felt that her husbands should put up with her tirades because it came with the territory of marrying an artist. With Chuck Rawlings, she

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behaved pretty much like Martha in “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf,” getting loaded and ripping her partner to shreds. Chuck retaliated in kind until he tired of abuse and abandoned her in Cross Creek. Norton Baskin, her second spouse, tolerated her tantrums — always remaining silent and waiting for her to calm down. Though he stayed with her until she died in 1953, they maintained separate residences and spent only half of each year together. A St. Augustine hotelier, Baskin once

told a guest who remarked that Rawlings’ influence could be detected in the décor of the Castle Warden Hotel, “You do not see Ms. Rawlings’s fine hand in this place. Nor will you see my big foot in her next book. That’s our agreement. She writes. I run a hotel.” The success of her next book, the autobiographical “Cross Creek,” led to a lawsuit by a Cracker who alleged slander and invasion of privacy. The suit was finally settled for $1 plus $1,050.10 court costs, far from the $100,000 the plaintiff sought, but the trial dragged on for almost six years. “I could have saved all kinds of trouble if she had let me just kill that poor white trash,” said Rawlings’ good friend, the black novelist Zora Neale Hurston. Exhausted, demoralized by the tension and heartbreak of the trial, and beset by a host of alcohol-related ills, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings died in 1953 at the age of 57. A remark by Jody’s pa in “The Yearling” could serve as her epitaph: “Ever’ man wants life to be a fine thing, and a easy. ‘Tis fine, boy, powerful fine, but ‘tain’t easy.” s seniortimesmagazine.com

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f you’ve experienced shingles or not, protect yourself from this condition that would otherwise affect half of all Seniors by age 85. According to the CDC, about 1 in 3 Americans develop shingles during their lifetime. Anyone who has had chicken pox can develop shingles (AKA herpes zoster). Chicken pox virus can hide in the nerves for many years. If the immune system weakens with age, stress or chronic medical conditions, the chicken pox virus reactivates, causing a shingles outbreak. The location of the rash depends on which nerves are affected; however, it most commonly attacks the trunk of the body (one side or the other).

Why would I think I have shingles? Common first signs of shingles are pain, itching, burning or the sensation of pins and needles in the affected area. Then, clusters of fluid-filled blisters develop. Eventually, the blisters become red-brown crusting lesions lasting up to 30 days. Think you’re developing shingles? Call your medical provider. Antiviral medications such as acyclovir, valacyclovir and famciclovir can effectively treat shingles by shortening the illnesses’ length and severity. Ideally, treatment should begin within 72 hours.

What are the long-term consequences of shingles? For most people, shingles pain lessens as the rash resolves. In some cases, however, the shingles-induced inﬂammation and scarring can cause nerves to misﬁre resulting in sharp, burning, and shooting pain called post herpetic neuralgia (PHN). PHN can last from weeks to years. If you have PHN, your provider may manage your pain with an FDA-approved topical medication called the Qutenza patch. It’s a high-dose, synthetic form of capsaicin (the chemical that makes chili peppers hot) that has been on the market since April 2011. A one-hour treatment relieves pain for up to three months.

Who should not receive the vaccine? According to the CDC, this vaccine may not be appropriate for you if: • you’re allergic to gelatin products, the antibiotic neomycin, monosodium glutamate (MSG) or bovine calf serum • you’re taking medication that effect the immune system (e.g., high-dose steroids) • you have AIDS or another disease that affects the immune system • you have active untreated tuberculosis • you’re receiving cancer treatments, or have certain types of cancer. Don’t get the vaccine if you’re sick or experiencing a shingles outbreak, either. Once your shingles has resolved, you may receive the vaccine to prevent or lessen the effects of future outbreaks.

Does the vaccine have potential side effects? One in three of Seniors will develop redness, swelling, pain or tenderness at the injection site. One in 70 Seniors will get a headache. If you’re severely allergic to a component of the vaccine, symptoms usually present within an hour. Many providers have their patients stick around for 20 minutes after receiving the vaccine.

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Zostavax” is a bit pricey; it ranges from $165 to $300. However, it’s covered under Medicare Part D, the prescription drug coverage plan. Uninsured? You may qualify for a free vaccine through the Merck Vaccine Patient Assistance Program. www.merck.com or call 1-800-293-3881. For more information about the shingles vaccine, contact the CDC at 1-800-232-4636 or visit www.cdc.gov s Kendra Siler-Marsiglio, Ph.D. is the Director of the Rural Health Partnership at WellFlorida Council.

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2:30pm - 4:00pm SENIOR RECREATION CENTER - 5701 NW 34th St. A panel of healthcare professionals will discuss and answer questions about the various components of patient care that are delivered to Seniors by providers of home-assisted living, home-nursing care, and hospice care by three local healthcare organizations: Mederi Care Tenders, Comfort Keepers and Haven Hospice. 352-265-9040.

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AMAHL AND THE NIGHT VISITORS Friday, January 6 7:30pm FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH - 300 SW Second Ave. The opera by Gian Carlo Menotti tells the story of three kings, a crippled boy, and a miracle. 352-378-9024.

BRIDGES TO PROSPERITY Monday, January 9 10:00am - 11:00am LIBRARY PARTNERSHIP - 1130 NE 16th Ave. Program designed to counter poverty or its impact on people and businesses in your community offering an approach that helps employers, community organizations, socialservice agencies, and individuals address poverty in a comprehensive way. 352-224-6423.

HOW TO DEAL WITH DIFFICULT PEOPLE Monday, January 9 1:00pm - 2:00pm SENIOR RECREATION CENTER - 5701 NW 34th St. Dottie Baker will offer a session full

The Manhattan Transfer PHILLIPS CENTER - Grammy award-winning vocalists Manhattan Transfer are known for their genre-defying sound. More than 40 years after they began singing in New York clubs, the Manhattan Transfer continues to defy musical pigeonholing, remaining a staple of both jazz and mainstream audiences. 352-392-ARTS

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FORD AND MUSTANG ROUNDUP Jan. 7 - Jan. 8 10:00am - 5:00pm SILVER SPRINGS - 5656 E. Silver Springs Blvd. No judges, no tech, no “leave your top and windows up!” Just a relaxing weekend in a natural setting to visit with fellow hobbyists and friends. 352-861-8701 x4207.

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types and sounds of flutes featured in works by composers such as Monteverdi, Mozart and Debussy. Tickets are $15 and include a pre-concert guided tour of the museum. 352-351-1606. www.ocalasymphony.com.

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BEIJING GUITAR DUO Friday, January 13 7:30pm PHILLIPS CENTER - Meng Su and Yameng Wang share their exceptional musicality. Concert will include works by Bach/Busoni, Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Sergio Assad and Radames Gnattali. 352-392-ARTS.

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MERLE HAGGARD Saturday, January 14 3:00pm SILVER SPRINGS - 5656 E. Silver Springs Blvd. Merle Haggard has released over 65 albums. Four of his albums have been certified gold. He has been nominated 42 times for CMA awards, more than any other male country entertainer. 352-236-2121. silversprings.com.

TOUR DE FELASCO Saturday, January 14 6:00am SAN FELASCO HAMMOCK PRESERVE STATE PARK - A 50-mile off-road bicycle tour (with a metric-century option). Pre-ride snacks, SAG stops, goodie bags, t-shirts and a hot lunch are provided. Proceeds benefit the San Felasco Hammock Preserve State Park. 386-462-7905.

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Saturday, January 14 2:00pm - 3:30pm HAWTHORNE BRANCH LIBRARY - Dr. Mark Barrow brings Alachua County History alive with his collection of historic postcards and the stories of collecting them. Hear about the cards and the history they represent as well as about the writing and publishing of “A Penny for Your Thoughts.” Reception to follow at the Hawthorne Museum and Cultural Center. 352-481-1920.

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Saturday, January 14 3:00pm - 6:00pm MATHESON MUSEUM - Gary Monroe presents Beyond Expectations: a photographic exhibit of the prison murals of Highwaymen, Al Black. Black was the only Highwayman that was incarcerated. Panelist will talk about the need for

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9:00am BORDEAUX FIELDS AT BROADMOOR EQUESTRIAN - 12770 NW 35th St., Ocala. Broadmoor Equestrian is hosting its first jumper schooling show series. Trainers are on staff to offer schooling over our wide selection of jumps. 352-622-9063. www.broadmoorequestrian.com.

FREE TO DANCE Sunday, January 15 6:00pm - 10:00pm CREEKSIDE COMMUNITY CHURCH - 2640 NW 39th Ave (tentative). An hour of swing-dancing lessons followed by an evening of dancing, music and fun. Informational booth will educate about human trafficking and to get involved to help eradicate it. $10 at the door. Festive attire encouraged. www.FightSexTrafficking.org.

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1:00pm - 2:00pm MILLHOPPER BRANCH LIBRARY - Join Dr. Brenda Williams from the Alachua County Extension Service for the program, “Important Papers: What to Keep and Where to Keep It.” Get tips on organizing your life without burdening yourself with unnecessary documents.

Sunday, January 15 2:00pm UNIVERSITY AUDITORIUM - The Ritz Chamber Players are devoted to combining exceptional artistry on stage with engaging educational programs in schools and throughout the community, bringing a fresh perspective to the classical music genre. 352-392-2346.

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All Day PAYNES PRAIRIE STATE PARK - Join the Florida Trail Association to celebrate the wintering Sandhill Cranes, endangered Whooping Cranes, wild horses, bison and more than 270 species

2:00pm DUNNELLON PUBLIC LIBRARY - Be the envy of your neighbors with these easy tips to grow a successful garden. 352-438-2520.

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INFORMATION WORKSHOP Tuesday, January 17 9:00am - Noon SENIOR RECREATION CENTER - 5710 NW 34 St. Are you new to Medicare? Do you have questions, need information, and would like to speak to a SHINE counselor? SHINE provides free, unbiased, and confidential health insurance counseling through a network of volunteer counselors. SHINE Counselors empower Florida Seniors and the disabled to make informed healthcare choices. 1-800-963-5337.

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AARP DRIVING SAFETY COURSE Wednesday, January 18 9:00am - 3:30pm SENIOR RECREATION CENTER - 5710 NW 34 St. Open to all Seniors 55 and over. $12 for AARP members and $14 for non-members.

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Wednesday, January 18 6:30pm - 8:00pm MILLHOPPER BRANCH LIBRARY - Erika Simons participated in a recent trip to Antarctica arranged by the Florida Museum of Natural History. She will share video and photography of that exciting trip with emphasis on wildlife. 352-372-0754.

AARP TAX AIDE Wednesday, January 18 10:00am - 2:00pm SENIOR RECREATION CENTER - 5710 NW 34 St. Providing free, quality tax assistance to low- and moderate-income taxpayers with special attention to those age 60 and over by certified tax specialist. 352-378-2524.

CHRONIC DISEASE SELF MANAGEMENT Jan. 18 - Feb. 22 Noon - 2:30pm HAWTHORNE BRANCH LIBRARY - Registration Required. Join Elder Options trainers for this 6-week workshop covering topics such as managing symptoms, working effectively with your healthcare team, dealing with chronic pain, exercising safely and easily, etc. Dates: Jan. 18, Jan. 25, Feb. 1, Feb. 8, Feb. 15, Feb. 22. Limited to 15 people. 352-692-5246.

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1:00pm HEADQUARTERS LIBRARY, OCALA - Discover the world of Silver Springs in its heyday through the images and words of film master Bruce Mozert. Enjoy a select screening of his humorous underwater films and an accompanying discussion. There may even be mermaids! 352-671-8551.

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Friday, January 20

Jan. 21 - Jan. 22

7:30pm UNIVERSITY AUDITORIUM - The Gainesville Chamber Orchestra. 352-392-2346.

Show Times Vary PHILLIPS CENTER - Squitieri Studio Theatre. These four “fully clothed” gals — Robin Duke, Jayne Eastwood, Kathryn Greenwood and Teresa Pavlinck — are bringing their humor to Gainesville. Based on their lives as moms, sisters, daughters and comediennes, this sketch comedy show will give your funny bone a workout. 352-392-ARTS.

Noon - 1:30pm GAINESVILLE COUNTRY CLUB. All ladies of the community are invited to a buffet luncheon, a special feature and an inspirational speaker. Cost is $16. Free nursery. 352-372-7956.

ESTATE PLANNING

Friday, January 20

SEVEN STEPS TO A WILDLY SUCCESSFUL BOOK TOUR 1:30pm - 3:00pm HEADQUARTERS LIBRARY GAINESVILLE - The focus of this event is to provide authors with practical tools. Topics include several steps an author can take immediately upon leaving the event, how to prepare for the tour, how to market and publicize each event and how to make each event special. lizinsarasota@yahoo.com.

Thursday, January 19 6:00pm - 7:00pm MILLHOPPER BRANCH LIBRARY - Basics of wills, trusts, powers of attorney, living wills and probate. Learn what happens if you become incapacitated or pass away without a will. 352-226-8005.

BRAIN BASICS OF STROKE PREVENTION Thursday, January 19 2:30pm - 4:00pm SENIOR RECREATION CENTER - 5701 NW 34th St. Constance R. Uphold, Ph.D. will discuss the effects of strokes, the fourth leading cause of death in the U.S. The good news is that there are ways to protect the brain from damage. It is important to know your stroke risk and to start now to lower your treatable risk factors. 352-265-9040.

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AUTOBIOGRAPHY IN 3 EASY STEPS Saturday, January 21 10:30am - 12:00pm HEADQUARTERS LIBRARY GAINESVILLE - Liz Coursen’s lively presentation will provide an overview of autobiographical writing, practical tips to get started and tools necessary to finish. Topics include writing structure, organizing illustrations, editing, working with an editor, book design and self-publishing. lizinsarasota@yahoo.com.

ARTIST WITHIN VII Saturday, January 21 6:00pm COUNTRY CLUB OF OCALA - Review of art and entertainment from 6:00pm - 7:00pm (cash bar) with dinner and an auction from 8:00pm. Admission - MCA Member, $65; Non-MCA Member, $75. 325-369-1500.

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Reo Speedwagon

3:00pm - 5:00pm OCALA SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA - 820 SE Fort King St.! This recital allows you to become a part of the action as you support the finalists competing on stage for a chance to perform with the OSO at the third subscription concert of the season and a $1,000 prize. 352-351-1606. www.ocalasymphony.com.

Saturday, Jan. 28 3:30pm SILVER SPRINGS - 5656 E. Silver Springs Blvd. The 9-times certified Hi Infidelity remains a high-water mark for rock bands. Its 9 million in sales was fueled by huge hit singles in “Keep On Loving You” and “Take It On the Run.” 352-236-2121. silversprings.com.

CARILLON RECITAL Sunday, January 22 3:00pm CENTURY TOWER - Newell Drive and Stadium Road. A recital on the 61-bell carillon housed in Century Tower on the UF campus. Free and open to the public. Bring blankets and lawn chairs. 352-392-3463.

EXERCISE OPTIONS

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Tuesday, January 24

Friday, January 27

Sunday, January 22

2:30pm - 4:00pm SENIOR RECREATION CENTER - 5701 NW 34th St. Monica O’Reilly, Fit for Life Fitness Center owner, will demonstrate exercise routines for Seniors to help stay healthy and active. She will focus on exercise options that do not require special equipment and may be done at home. 352-265-9040.

7:30pm UNIVERSITY AUDITORIUM - Singer/songwriter Karla Bonoff has been praised throughout her four-decade career for her writing, albums and performances. Among the most well known songs she has written is “All My Life,” which People magazine ranked as one of the top five most popular wedding songs. 352-392-2346.

11:00am HOMEWOOD SUITES BY HILTON IN OCALA - New bridal show that offers a venue for brides-to-be and vendors to meet. Brides are allowed one guest and will have access to the finest professionals in Ocala. Limited to only 25 brides per event. 352207-4057. www.ocalabridalsocial.com.

AUDITIONS Monday, January 23 7:00pm ACROSSTOWN REPERTORY THEATRE - Auditions for “The Aunts” by Gary Bonasorte, directed by Katie Kirkpatrick. Show Dates: March 30-April 15. Looking for: one male in his 50’s — fun-loving, reckless, handsome; one female — 28-35-plus size, playful, loves to laugh, dim; one female in her early 50’s, — very feminine, full of fun, considered the beauty; and one female in her late 50’s, — spunky, addicted to alcohol, unhappy in her marriage. Be ready to “cold” read from the script. Please bring a resume and headshot if you have one, and be prepared to list your rehearsal conflicts. 352-234-6ART.

CAREER SHOWCASE Jan. 24 - Jan. 26 Times Vary STEPHEN C. O’CONNELL CENTER - Two-day fair hosted each fall and spring. Representatives from technical and non-technical industries seek talented candidates of all majors and classifications for internships, cooperative education or full-time positions. Non-Technical Day, January 24; Technical Day, January 25; Interview Day, January 26. 352-392-5500.

AMERICAN SEWING GUILD Wednesday, January 25

A MIDWINTER NIGHT’S DREAM

9:30am - Noon SENIOR RECREATION CENTER - 5710 NW 34 St. Celeste Beck demonstrates how to make zipper flowers. For supply list, contact Jill Werschin, sewingcircle@asgocalachapter.org.

Saturday, January 28

LECTURE Thursday, January 26 11:30am - 12:30pm SENIOR RECREATION CENTER - 5710 NW 34 St. Lecture on fitness and nutrition.

6:00pm - 11:00pm PHILLIPS CENTER - Join the UFPA Annual Gala for an evening of cocktails, hors d’oeuvres, a gourmet-buffet dinner, beverage ice luges, a unique silent auction, dancing and more. This year’s fundraising event will bring a silvery winter wonderland to life. 352-273-2480.

APPLETON MUSEUM’S ANNUAL GALA

CRAFT CLASS

Saturday, January 28

Thursday, January 26

6:00pm - 10:00pm APPLETON MUSEUM OF ART - 4333 E. Silver Springs Blvd. Join the Appleton Museum for “La Belle Epoque.” 352-291-4455.

1:00pm - 2:30pm SENIOR RECREATION CENTER - 5710 NW 34 St. Craft class with Joy Flowers. *Registration required, limit of 15 people. Ask what supplies you will need to bring. 352-265-9040.

PROCRASTINATION, WHAT CAN WE DO ABOUT IT? Thursday, January 26 2:30pm - 4:00pm SENIOR RECREATION CENTER - 5701 NW 34th St. Helen Kornblum, owner of Natural Order Organizing and a professional organizer/coach, will offer an understanding of many causes, strategies to help overcome it, and case studies to analyze possible solutions. 352-265-9040.

SOUPER FUN SUNDAY Sunday, January 29 1:00pm - 3:30pm ST. FRANCIS HIGH SCHOOL - Gymnasium. Soup-tasting competition showcasing the area’s best soups, featuring over 30 restaurants. Vote for your favorite soup. All proceeds benefit the students of St. Francis Catholic High School. Adults, $15; students or Seniors (65+), $10; children (4-10), $7.50; family pass, $45. www. souperfunsunday.com. 352-248-0356.

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RON WHITE

>> RECURRING EVENTS

Sunday, January 29

LIVING HEALTHY PROGRAM Every Wednesday

7:00pm PHILLIPS CENTER - Moral Compass Tour. For Mature Audiences. Comedian Ron “Tater Salad” White is best known as the cigar-smoking, scotch-drinking funnyman from the “Blue Collar Comedy” phenomenon. But with two Grammy nominations, a Gold Record, three of the top rated one-hour TV specials in Comedy Central history, a book that appeared on the New York Times Best Seller List, and CD and DVD sales of over 10-million units, Ron has established himself as a star in his own right. 352-392-ARTS.

THE GAINESVILLE CHILDREN’S CHORAL FESTIVAL

SWING & SWAY DANCE CLUB Friday, January 13, 27 8:00pm to 11:00pm GAINESVILLE. Thelma Boltin Community Center, 516 NE Second Ave. Senior ballroom dancing on the 2nd and 4th Friday of each month. Mr. October provides the tunes on Jan. 13; dance to the live music of the Opus Trio on Jan. 27. Bring your own drink or snack. $10 a person - $7.00 for members. 352-215-5660 or email angieferk@gmail.com. swingandsway.org/.

LAURA STEWART BRIDGE CLUB

Sunday, January 29

Every Tuesday

4:00pm FIRST PRESBYTERIAN CHURCH OF GAINESVILLE - 106 SW Third St. Guest conductor Averill Summer directs the area’s younger singers, as they present the music they learned in their Saturday workshop. 352-378-1527.

9:00am - 2:00pm SENIOR RECREATION CENTER - 5701 NW 34th St. Eloise Page Education Room.

INFORMATION SESSION Tuesday, January 31 7:00pm - 8:00pm HEADQUARTERS LIBRARY GAINESVILLE - Learn more about the importance of screening for cervical cancer and how this devastating disease can frequently be treated to save lives.

YOGA Every Tuesday 10:00am - 11:00am SENIOR RECREATION CENTER - 5701 NW 34th St. Wear comfortable clothing and shoes. Bring a yoga mat if you have one (instructor may have extra mats). For further information, contact Marilyn at tangogainesville@ gmail.com. Multi-purpose Room.

9:00am - 11:30am SENIOR RECREATION CENTER - 5701 NW 34th St. Six-week workshop to help Seniors discover new skills for living better with ongoing health issues. *Registration required. Limit to 16 people. Info: Betty Flagg at 352-692-5219 or 352-265-9040. Dharma Endowment Foundation Education Room.

SCRABBLE CLUB Every Friday, 1pm - 4pm SENIOR RECREATION CENTER - 5701 NW 34th St. If you have a scrabble board, please bring it with you. Dharma Endowment Foundation Education Room.

If you would like us to publicize an event in Alachua or Marion counties, send information by the 13th day of the month prior. All submissions will be reviewed and every effort will be made to run qualified submissions if page space is available.

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THEATRE

NADINE MCGUIRE BLACKBOX THEATRE

Roberto Zucco Jan. 27 - Feb. 12

Acrosstown Repertory Theatre.....................619 S. Main Street, Gainesville Curtis M. Phillips Center ........................................... 315 Hull Road, Gainesville Gainesville Community Playhouse ....... 4039 N.W. 16th Blvd., Gainesville Hippodrome State Theatre................................. 25 SE 2nd Place, Gainesville UF Constans Theatre ................................................. Museum Road, Gainesville Nadine McGuire Blackbox Theatre ................... Museum Road, Gainesville Insomniac Theatre Company ............................E. Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala Ocala Civic Theatre ..................................4337 East Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala High Springs Community Theater .......... 130 NE 1st Avenue, High Springs

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This psychological thriller based on a true story revolves around a serial killer who is guilty of murdering his parents. After escaping jail, the antihero encounters a variety of characters that help to shape his criminal adventures, all the while changing his identity several times on his unex-

ACROSSTOWN REPERTORY THEATRE

Galileo of Gainesville

American lingerie seamstress. While

pected journey. 352-392-1653.

working, she hears the secrets of high society from the socialites

Jan. 13 - Jan. 29

and gets the lowdown on life from

A modern-day drama centering

a piano-playing prostitute. Using

around an astronomy professor,

threads of gender, racial, class and re-

cosmology, spirituality and homeless-

ligious issues, this award-winning play

ness. This is an original script writ-

results in a rich drama, embroidered

Neil Simon crafts an evening of

ten by a Gainesville resident, and

with romance. This production is suit-

hysterical laughter for audiences with

Acrosstown Repertory is excited to

able for older teens and up.

this zany farce. The deputy mayor of

bring it to its stage! Inspiration comes hard and squirrelly into the mind of an astronomy professor. As his ac-

OCALA CIVIC THEATRE

Neil Simon’s Rumors Jan. 5 - Jan. 15

New York and his wife have invited HIPPODROME STATE THEATRE

four couples to their fancy suburban

Sirens

home to celebrate their tenth wedding

Jan. 11 - Feb. 5

anniversary. When the ﬁrst couple

classroom to living room to parkland

By the playwright of last season’s hit,

arrives, they ﬁnd the hostess missing

to dreamscape, and from the heights

“End Days,” Sirens is a clever comedy

and the host unconscious upstairs with

of academia to the grime of living in

about ﬁnding one’s muse. Sam and

a superﬁcial bullet wound. Concerned

the streets, our hero’s journey must in-

Rose have been married for 25 years

about a political scandal, they make

clude all voices and all visions to give

and living off the royalties of a hit song

up a story when the second couple

sense to his expanding sensibilities.

that Sam wrote in the early days of

arrives. Add a few embellishments,

their courtship. After Rose discovers

some innuendo, and soon all the

customed structures crumble, other things are rising...and shining. From

GAINESVILLE COMMUNITY

Sam’s all-female Facebook friend list,

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they decide to rekindle their passion

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with a romantic cruise to the mythical Greek Isles. All goes well until Sam

guests are caught in a swirl of rumor and misunderstanding. And then the police arrive, touching off another

leaps overboard after falling under the

cover-up! Rumor has it, it’s Simon’s

Immerse yourselves in the bustling

spell of a Siren’s song. Through the

funniest play ever! Note: This play con-

world of turn of the century city life

healing power of laughter, Sirens is the

tains profanity and strong language

with Esther, an unmarried African-

perfect post-holiday pick-me-up.

that may be offensive to some people.

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TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER Imagine how they felt the ﬁrst time you screamed “NO!” or declared hate or reminded them that it wasn’t your idea to enter the world. Out of the mouths of babes? Yes, and into the new book by Bill Cosby. In “I

Peanut Armhouse was never seen again in person… On another note, Cosby is sure that there are pages missing from the Bible. What, for instance, did God do with the animals after Adam named them? Did Adam get tired doing it? Where did Eve get a needle and thread to sew leaves? Cosby doesn’t know the answers, but he is pretty sure that God has a wife. In this book, you’ll learn the difference between getting a beating versus getting a whupping; wise words for grooms and

What, for instance, did God do with the animals after Adam named them? Did Adam get tired doing it? Where did Eve get a needle and thread to sew leaves? Cosby doesn’t know the answers, but he is pretty sure that God has a wife.

I Didn’t Ask to Be Born (but I’m glad I was) BILL COSBY ILLUSTRATIONS BY GEORGE BOOTH c.2011, Center Street $21.99 / $23.99 Canada 208 pages

h, the things you said to your parents! Imagine how melty they felt when you, as a toddler, declared your love and adoration. Think about how proud they were when you spouted the kind of child-wisdom that kids always seem to utter. Remember how they told everybody all about the cute things you used to say?

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Didn’t Ask to Be Born (But I’m Glad I Was),” the Cos is back to make us laugh about childhood, parenting, and things in between. We’ve all, it seems, spent part of our lives hanging out with Fat Albert, Mushmouth, and Weird Harold. They were our friends, too, and we couldn’t get enough of them. So in this book, Bill Cosby gives us more. Years ago, when Cos lived in Philadelphia, Old Mother Harold lived in a nearby apartment. She hated when kids skateboarded near her house, so she chased them — and, by the way, “skateboard” is the correct word, since it was made from two skates and a board. And then there was Peanut Armhouse. Peanut Armhouse was an old friend whose mother had an unusual way of calling him home. One day, during a particularly hot baseball game, Peanut’s mother came out and hollered but Peanut was up to bat and, with jaws dropped, the other boys watched him morph into something they didn’t recognize. After that, let’s say that

grandparents; wise advice for parents; observations on the parenting styles of animals and people; and a bittersweet story about Cosby’s son, Ennis. So when was the last time you had a good, hearty laugh? If it’s been awhile, then you’re overdue and “I Didn’t Ask to Be Born” will set you right. Author Bill Cosby’s voice comes through strong in this book; in fact, it’s hard not to hear him inside your head while you’re reading. Cosby’s childhood, his family, things he did for love, and the things he ponders are all fair game for fun-poking but, as always, Cosby seems to be winking at his audience, and his stories are good-natured. They’re also wickedly on-target and hilarious. This book is classic Cos, quick to read, and fans will love it. Grab “I Didn’t Ask to Be Born (But I’m Glad I Was)” and you’ll be glad he was, too. s Terri Schlichenmeyer has been reading since she was 3 years old and she never goes anywhere without a book. She lives with her two dogs and 11,000 books.

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