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CONTENTS APRIL 2017 • VOL. 18 ISSUE 04
ON THE COVER – ‘Tis the season to start planting! Grab your shovel, gloves and a whole bunch of dirt. Gardening is a great way to stay active while celebrating springtime -- not to mention the physical and mental benefits gained from connecting with nature. PHOTO BY ERICKA WINTERROWD
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Rare, Beautiful and Fascinating The Florida Museum of Natural History Celebrates 100 Years BY PEGGY MACDONALD
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Gardening in Your Golden Years
Planting for the Future Garden Clubs Rooted in Community Service
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Cass, West Virginia: Steaming Back in Time to the Top of Bald Knob
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FROM THE EDITOR œ ALBERT ISAAC
Green Thumbs Up! I’ve recently gotten back into gardening. I’ve been on hiatus for the past several years, mostly because other things have taken my time, plus we had removed our garden plot during one of our innumerable home improvement projects (said projects being the main reason I had no time). When my wife and I bought our first home and started a family it seemed only natural to nurture a small garden in our small back yard and let the kids pick fresh produce. I had moderate success, but success nevertheless. When we moved into our current home, I eventually started another garden. Again, I had moderate success. I grew corn, beans, a single (small but tasty) watermelon, tomatoes, radishes, flowers and other veggies. Despite cutting corners (like not properly tilling the soil, or fertilizing, or even watering regularly), I still managed to get a lot of satisfaction from my meager crops — and the silver queen corn, while small, was the best we’d ever eaten. And despite the bugs and the heat and the drought (and the rainstorm that knocked down my
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corn stalks), I still found great satisfaction in tending to the garden (and standing the stalks back up). So a few months ago I got back into it, starting with some tomato plants in a tiny garden patch we had created after rebuilding a fence (gotta keep the critters out). In November, I resurrected our old EarthBox (a container planter) and planted some lettuce and broccoli. Holy florets, Batman, that thing is still producing salads! Then my wife spotted a small greenhouse on sale (half-price!). This brought my gardening to a new level as now I can start all kinds of cuttings and seedlings, and actually keep them alive through the winter. I now understand how Dad must have felt when I would see him in his greenhouse tending to his plants with a profound sense of tranquility. It can be very therapeutic. Which brings us to this month’s theme: Gardening. Read about the benefits of gardening, both physical and mental. As I mentioned, I have experienced some remarkable tranquility watching my garden grow (at least until it gets too hot to step outside). And as for the physical benefits, my wife and I certainly got a workout recently while digging up a large portion of the yard and relocating dozens of large rocks for our new flower garden (who needs a gym?). (I do!) Additionally, we offer a feature on a couple of Garden Clubs: the Gainesville Garden Club and the Pioneer Garden Club of Ocala, as well. Gardening can be fun, even if you don’t have a green thumb. s
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clockwise from top left CRYSTAL HENRY is a freelance writer and columnist born and raised in West Texas. She received her B.S. in Journalism in 2006 from the University of Florida. She is in love with the Florida landscape. ces03k@gmail.com
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April Showers Bring May Flowers: Think Washington and Oregon see the country’s majority of rain? Think again. According to a 2016 article about the top 30 U.S. cities that get the most rain on Chicago television station WGN-TV’s website, Florida and Louisiana made up nearly two-thirds of the list, with each state featuring nine cities. For instance, Pembroke Pines, Florida (No. 12 on the list), received roughly 64 inches of rainfall between January 2015 and December 2015, with June being the rainiest month. And the No. 1 city, averaging nearly 157 inches of precipitation? Hilo, Hawaii.
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What’s In A Name? From 1880 to 2015, nearly 240,000 people have been named April in the U.S., according to the Social Security Administration. That’s enough to populate both Ocala and Gainesville combined! In 1975, April ranked No. 21 in popularity in Florida, with a total of 313 babies welcomed into the state with that name (and another 8,272 nationwide during that year!).
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AND SPEAKING OF NAMES… If two’s company, and three’s a crowd, then four or more makes up a … flamboyance? When it comes to naming a collection of animals, whoever was put in charge of the task certainly got creative. •
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Doris Day APRIL 3, 1924 Born Doris Mary Ann von Kappelhoff in Cincinnati, Ohio, the actress and singer, known for her “girl next door” image, adopted the stage name “Day” at the age of 15. She began her career as a singer in 1939 and has since released 29 albums. Day starred in her first movie, “Romance on the High Seas,” in 1948, which began her 20-year film career. She was well known for starring in romantic comedies such as “Teacher’s Pet” Years Old (1958), “Pillow Talk” (1959) and “Move Over, Darling” (1963). There is still a longstanding debate as to whether Day was born in 1924, the year she has given, or 1922, the year written on census records.
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George Takei (80) April 20, 1937
Born April 7, 1954 in Hong Kong, China, Jackie Chan’s given name is Chan Kongsang, which means “born in Hong Kong.” Known for his martial arts, acting, film directing, producing, stunting and singing, Chan began acting in the 1960s and has appeared in more than 150 films. He is also an operatically trained singer, having released multiple albums, and has often sung many of the theme songs of films in which he has Years Old starred.
Beverly Clearly (101)
Queen Elizabeth II (91)
April 12, 1916
April 21, 1926
Al Green (71)
Cloris Leachman (91)
April 13, 1946
April 30, 1926
“Anyone can be a Superman, but nobody can be Jackie Chan.”
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VegFest Whether you’re an herbivore or an omnivore, all members of the community are welcome and encouraged to enjoy Gainesville’s first-ever VegFest on Saturday, April 8, at Westside Park! Joyce Colton, the assistant event coordinator for this year’s festival, said that VegFests have become increasingly popular over the last 10 years, and a group of local vegans and vegetarians decided it was Gainesville’s turn. The Gainesville VegFest aims to celebrate a way of life that is healthy, sustainable, and compassionate on all levels. For this free, family-friendly event, attendees are invited to learn about improving healthy living while keeping a focus on helping the environment and reducing the amount of animal suffering seen in the world. There will be speakers, entertainment, food and merchandise vendors, exhibitors, educational booths, children’s activities (including a “Kid’s Zone” section), and more. Participating local music groups include: Brian Brown (acoustic guitarist playing “post rock,” Americana music); Gosia & Ali ( jazz, R&B, and contemporary pop); Cuatro (ukulele quartet playing a wide-range of popular music); and Bears and Lions (a children’s band). There will be multiple vendors serving a variety of national
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Celebrating a Healthy, Compassionate and Sustainable Way of Life
and international vegan foods (such as Latin, Indian, Jamaican, Creole) from local restaurants. Exhibitors will be providing information on health, environment and animal advocacy, and animal rescue organizations and sanctuaries will educate on caring for animals. Many vendors will be selling unique merchandise such as pet bedding and furniture, personal pet artwork, beauty products, non-toxic household products, and much more. There will also be massage therapists and dieticians offering their services, a raffle with multiple prizes (including a massage and a pet portrait), and a silent auction to raise money for next year’s VegFest. The Kid’s Zone offers children the opportunity to participate in a variety of crafts and activities, including making eco-friendly paint out of flour, vegetables and olive oil, and then using it to create their very own masterpiece on an upcycled pallet-wood canvas! Come out and help turn the first official VegFest of Gainesville into a lasting tradition — both as an annual event and as a way of life. s For more information, email organizers@gainesvillevegfest.com, or visit the website at gainesvillevegfest.com and Facebook page at Facebook.com/GainesvilleVegfest.
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Rare, Beautiful and Fascinating The Florida Museum of Natural History Celebrates 100 Years
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oug Jones, Florida Museum director, said the museum is actually more than 100 years old. “It began as part of the Florida Agricultural College in Lake City,” Jones said. “The oldest documentation of the museum we can find is from 1891.” The museum moved to the newly established University of Florida campus in Gainesville in 1906. The museum’s collections were originally housed in Thomas Hall, a dormitory. The museum was later relocated to the basement of Science Hall, which is now Keene-Flint Hall, the current headquarters of the history department. In 1914, Thompson Van Hyning became the museum’s first director. One of his early accomplishments was to get the museum declared the official state museum. The legislation was enacted in 1917. “So we’re actually celebrating 100 years as the state museum,” Jones explained.
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For 100 years, the Florida State Museum — which changed its name to the Florida Museum of Natural History in 1988 — has been tasked with being a repository for all of the state’s collections. In addition, the museum is charged with creating exhibits and programs for the enlightenment of the citizenry. By 1939, the museum’s collections had outgrown Science Hall and were transferred to the basement and two floors of the
In 1914, Thompson Van Hyning became the museum’s first director. One of his early accomplishments was to get the museum declared the official state museum. The legislation was enacted in 1917. seniortimesmagazine.com
The Florida Museum of Natural Historyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s public face is now located at 3215 Hull Road in the University of Florida Cultural Plaza, but the museum has had several locations on and off campus over the years. Pictured above is the current museum facility. At bottom left, Dickinson Hall is seen under construction ca. 1970. At bottom right is the Seagle Building location ca. 1950s.
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Seagle Building, Jones said. The museum was housed there for over 30 years. In 1970, construction of Dickinson Hall at UF was complete. “That still is home to most of the museum’s collections and research staff,” Jones said. The top floor was used for public exhibits and educational programs, and the collections and research activities were housed in the two lower levels. “We usually describe it to people as the building that looks like it’s underground,” said Paul Ramey, Assistant Director of Marketing & Public Relations.
Baby boomers recall visiting the museum at the Seagle Building at 408 West University Avenue.
Children explore the specimen drawers at Dickinson Hall, which was dedicated in 1971.
Dickinson Hall’s namesake, former museum director J. C. Dickinson, Jr. (at left), in the courtyard.
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For 100 years, the Florida State Museum — which changed its name to the Florida Museum of Natural History in 1988 — has been tasked with being a repository for all of the state’s collections. As UF continued to grow, it became increasingly difficult for the public to visit and park at the museum, Jones recalled. Eventually, the decision was made to join the UF Cultural Plaza at the corner of Southwest 34th Street and Hull Road. The public side of the museum moved west, Jones explained, while the collections and research remained in Dickinson Hall. “We still have people coming to Dickinson to see the exhibits,” Ramey said. One time, early in the morning, a patron told Ramey that he wanted to get into Dickinson Hall to see the cave. When Ramey explained that there was a cave exhibit at the new museum location, the visitor responded, “Dude, how do you move a cave?” Ramey praised the staff members who designed the museum’s new cave exhibit. “It’s amazing what the artists can create,” he said. “It’s so realistic looking.” All of the work is done in-house, down to the cases built by the museum’s cabinetmakers. “We have a woodshop in the back,” Ramey said. Jeff Huber, who made 1/6 scale models in the museum’s fossil exhibit to enable visually impaired visitors to experience the fossils, is now building a gigantic, purple passion flower for the new Beverly and Jon Thompson Discovery Zone. The Discovery Zone, which opens July 17, is an interactive exhibit for children 8 and under that includes a special area for infants and toddlers. seniortimesmagazine.com
National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore n Earth Day weekend, the Florida Museum of Natural History kicks off a yearlong celebration of the 100th anniversary of its establishment as Florida’s official state natural history museum with a talk by National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore and a fundraiser gala.
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Sartore is the founder of the Photo Ark, whose mission is to photograph every animal in captivity across the globe. Sartore’s new book, “The Photo Ark,” was released March 7. The April issue of National Geographic magazine features 10 different Photo Ark images on collectible covers.
A pair of red wolves (above), Canis rufus gregoryi, at the Great Plains Zoo. An endangered baby Bornean orangutan (below), Pongo pygmaeus, named Aurora, with her adoptive mother, Cheyenne, a Bornean/Sumatran cross, Pongo pygmaeus x abelii, at the Houston Zoo. © Photos by Joel Sartore/National Geographic Photo Ark
After a photo shoot at the Columbus Zoo in Ohio, a clouded leopard cub climbs on Sartore’s head. The leopards, which live in Asian tropical forests, are illegally hunted for their spotted pelts. Photo by Grahm S. Jones/ Columbus Zoo and Aquarium
To date, Sartore has photographed more than 6,000 species, ranging from the Florida grasshopper sparrow to the greater one-horned rhinoceros. His goal is to photograph 12,000 animals, with an emphasis on species facing extinction. Sartore speaks at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, April 21 at 8 p.m. Tickets for this free event will be available at the Phillips Center box office at noon on April 21.
Visit natgeophotoark.org to learn more about the Photo Ark project and see more of Sartore’s work.
Currently, the museum’s curators are preparing an original exhibition titled “Rare, Beautiful & Fascinating: 100 Years @Florida Museum,” which opens September 23. Ramey said it was difficult to decide what to include in the exhibition because there are so many inspirational objects in the museum’s collections. “We have more than 40 million specimens and artifacts,” he said. “We’re actually one of the largest natural history museums in the country now in terms of collection size. A lot of our collections rank highly either nationally or internationally.” The museum’s geographic strengths are in Florida, the
Southeastern U.S. and the Caribbean, but its collections include specimens from every continent and almost all the world’s island groups. One of the museum’s oldest collections, the Charles E. Doe collection, was once displayed on the top floor of Norman Hall. Named for the museum’s first ornithology curator, the Doe collection was one of the strengths of the museum’s early collections, Ramey said, and includes 8,000 to 13,000 eggs, mounted birds and nests. “[Doe] was still climbing pine trees to get eggs out of nests when he was in his 70s,” Ramey said. April 2017
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The Doe egg collection was vital to the research conducted in the 1970s to determine whether DDT contributed to the thinning of eggshells that were unable to support the weight of an incubating bird. “The collections were used for testing to compare the new specimens to the old specimens,” Ramey said. The test results led to a ban on the widespread use of DDT in 1972. Other noteworthy collections the museum has acquired include the Cerros collection, a Mayan collection that was digitized with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Amazonian collection is another strength. It includes ceremonial masks, headdresses, jewelry, blowguns and darts, musical instruments, bows and arrows, spears and baskets. The artifacts were seized in a federal raid after being imported illegally and were given to the museum in 2005. In terms of scope and number of species represented from around the world, the lepidoptera and bird egg collections are among the museum’s strongest. Other comprehensive collections include the vertebrate paleontology collection and Calusa materials from the Randell Research Center in Pineland, which was gifted to the museum. The center includes the Calusa Heritage Trail, a 0.7-mile interpretive walkway that allows visitors to explore the shell mounds and other aspects of the Calusa Indians of Southwest Florida. Other signature events for the museum’s 100th anniversary include an exclusive birthday party for museum members on May 30; ButterflyFest on October 8; and a talk about Florida’s past, present and future by author and Miami Herald columnist Carl Hiaasen on December 1. The museum will also release a book to commemorate its first century as the state’s official museum of natural history. “We are hoping to promote inquiry and curiosity,” Jones said, “and examine what new exhibits will look like in the next 100 years.” If the museum’s first century is any indication of what is to come in the next 100 years, the future looks bright for the Florida Museum. s
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Tinseltown Talks Variety the spice of Ed Asner’s life by Nick Thomas
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on’t expect Ed Asner’s name to fade from casting lists anytime soon. With a variety of current and upcoming projects, 87-year-old Asner remains as busy and versatile as ever. It’s a trend that follows a lifetime of dedication to his craft, playing bishops, doctors, judges, cops, cowboys, professors, villains and hundreds more film, television and stage characters and voice roles. “When I came out to Hollywood in 1961, I was determined not to be typecast,” said Asner from his office in Los Angeles. “My agent and I worked assiduously ever since to make sure that never happened.” Nevertheless, Asner is still widely recognized as Lou Grant, the TV news director and newspaper editor, respectively, on “The Mary Tyler Moore Show” and its spinoff series “Lou Grant.” In fact, five of his seven Primetime Emmys were awarded for the character. But Asner also collected the award for darker portrayals in “Rich Man, Poor Man” in 1976 and, the following year, “Roots.” Thirteen more Primetime and Daytime Emmy nominations came his way, too. Yet he modestly brushes aside any reference to his hefty collection of iconic gold-plated figures that feature a woman with pointed wings holding an atom (representing the arts and sciences). “They’re distributed throughout the house,” Asner said of his statuettes.
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“Those prongs [on the wings] are really sharp. I just have to be sure I don’t sit on one.” Before arriving in Hollywood from his native Kansas City, young Ed found one of his first television jobs in the New York anthology drama series, “Studio One.” In 1957, he appeared in the episode “The Night America Trembled,” a recreation of the reputed panic caused to some listeners by an Orson Welles’ radio broadcast of H.G. Wells’ “War of the Worlds” in 1938. “Imagine being in the studio with Welles for those broadcasts,” noted Asner of Welles’ “Mercury Theatre on the Air” radio dramas. “I’ve heard he would stay in bed and roll out just in time to
make it to the studio so his voice would be as deep as he could get it.” The ‘60s brought movie roles alongside the likes of Boris Karloff, John Wayne and Elvis Presley. And after working on the Mary Tyler Moore comedy series, Asner took the lead in his own show in 1977 — a rare network move to spinoff a 1-hour drama series from a half-hour comedy. But “Lou Grant” eventually found an audience and good ratings during its five-season run. “I didn’t base the character on any particular journalist,” Asner said. “I looked to my older brothers for their largeness and for their teasing and doubting qualities. For the hour show that dealt with more serious issues, I seniortimesmagazine.com
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New Teeth… Implant Dentistry by Dr. Art Mowery Written by Laura Holloway Photo of the doctor by Kristin Kozelsky
Well known as an accomplished cosmetic dentist and former University of Florida adjunct professor, Dr. Arthur Mowery, places hundreds of dental implants each year. Dr. Mowery recently was one of 12 doctors worldwide invited to Harvard School of Dental Medicine to discuss leading trends in dentistry. A new technique discussed was utilizing just four to six dental implants to permanently secure dentures. It has been described as life-changing with the benefit of being less expensive.
Attaching dentures on implants not only firmly secures and supports the denture, it helps maintain bone that would normally deteriorate under traditional dentures (without implants). The implant-secured denture also functions much better, is more easily maintained, and can be argued to be better than real teeth since they do not get cavities and never need a root canal. Oftentimes, our dentures can be secured to the implants on the same day! With twenty years as a dentist in the Gainesville area, Dr. Art Mowery admits experience matters. “I have never stopped learning,” says Dr. Mowery. “I have taken continued education courses with new certifications and additional credentials my entire career. That will not change. However, what has become obvious is how much experience has taught me. “ Dr. Mowery was recently Awarded Affiliate Associate Fellowship in the
American Academy of Implant Dentistry. “Not a day goes by that I haven’t looked into someone’s mouth with an understanding of what not to do because of my experience. I love learning new techniques and procedures to do things better and faster with more comfort; however, experience has taught me valuable lessons. In the long run, experience helps me to assess the person, the procedure, the materials and the situation to create the optimal outcome.” When looking for the right dentist to do your implant dentistry, one of the things to you should ask to see are before and after photos of the dentist’s actual work and patients. You should ask to see specific examples of the procedure being recommended to you so you can see the level of experience (how many case photos do they have), and do the end results look natural? A new trend in dentistry is part-time doctors. These doctors are usually trying to figure out their career path or how to open their own practice. It’s not unusual for these practice-associates to leave the office they are part-timers in for a fulltime position, leaving their patients behind, sometimes in the middle of treatment.
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“My dental implants are awesome. I can feel hot and cold again as well as eat anything I want. Dr. Mowery is incredibility attentive and has the best chairside manner I’ve ever experienced. I can’t thank him and his team enough for restoring my smile. I use it every day!” - Lisa
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they can guarantee they will be there for you in the long run. Again, implant dentistry is complex. It could be very important months or years down the road to see the same doctor in case you have complications. The next best advice is to ask what name-brand of implants the doctor uses so you can do a little research about them. Is it a generic copy of a name brand implant? I suggest implants made by a large experienced company so that in the case of an implant failure (less likely with an established company), they are guaranteed and improved replacement parts are easily found. Dr. Mowery currently uses Strauman and Biohorizons dental implants. The advantages to having one comprehensive doctor, is that doctor knows you and your dental past. You go to one office and one doctor for all your dentistry needs. You won’t need to see multiple doctors in multiple locations. This can reduce your number of visits and speed up treatment time.
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Whether you have a fear of the dentist or want to be more relaxed during surgery, sedation is a wonderful option. Not all dental practices offer sedation and very few offer IV sedation. Again, the experience of the doctor will help determine your experience in the chair. A qualified IV sedation dentist could actually make your dental implant surgery the best dental visit you’ve ever had. IV sedation helps the patient relax and recover to alertness more quickly with less memory of the procedure than other forms of sedation. You may want to choose a dentist that can offer this option based on your dental experience. Dr. Mowery utilizes IV sedation for most implant cases. When it comes to choosing an implant dentist remember to consider—Experience, Photos, Part-timers, Materials, and Sedation options. Please do not hesitate to call us at Exceptional Dentistry to answer any questions about this article. We hope you found it informative. For more info visit ExceptionalDentistry.com
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Gardening in Your Golden Years The Latest Tips, Tricks and Tools of the Trade
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ardening has evolved from an essential survival skill of our ancestors to a leisurely hobby. But there’s a reason gardening is such a popular hobby for people over 55. Besides the aesthetic value of cultivating life, gardening offers physical and mental health benefits as well. And the technological advances in gardening have made it possible for people to continue their horticultural hobbies well into the autumn years of their lives.
THE PERKS Gardening is a great way to stay active and promote a healthy lifestyle. The physical aspect of gardening keeps muscles active and promotes a nice low-impact outdoor activity. According to the Centers for Disease Control, gardening reduces the risk of obesity, high blood pressure, type 2 diabetes, osteoporosis, heart disease, stroke, depression, colon cancer and premature death. A study at Kansas State University saw an increase in hand strength, self esteem and even stroke recovery in older gardeners. But reconnecting with nature has mental health benefits as well. One study in the Journal of Health Psychology found that gardening decreases cortisol levels and increases positive thinking. It can be a peaceful solitary activity or a fun and social one. Another study found that people who garden were even less stressed than those who exercised indoors. The soil even has harmless bacteria that were shown to increase serotonin levels in mice. Serotonin is the happy chemical that controls cognitive function and mood.
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Gardening promotes mental clarity and gardeners in their 60s and 70s are 36 to 47 percent less likely to develop dementia than non-gardeners. The physical activity of gardening is balanced with oxygenation and heart rate, which boosts blood flow to the brain. Gardening isn’t without its challenges, but those challenges are another benefit. The problem solving, planning and acquisition of new skills that gardening requires all create new neural pathways, which keep the brain active. The sights and smells of gardening can also call up fond memories for Seniors suffering from dementia, which helps reduce anxiety and stress. Enclosed gardens can be a safe place to wander without getting lost. THE RISKS Seniors should take a few extra safety precautions in the garden. Thinning skin can lead to bumps, scrapes bruises and sunburns that take a bit longer to heal. Just wear a hat and sunscreen, attend to any cuts or insect bites right away, and watch out for uneven ground levels or for tools in the yard to prevent falls. Drink extra water and be sure to cool off inside to avoid heat exhaustion. Use non-slip materials when making walkways in the garden and store equipment safely away when finished. RAISED BED GARDENS The key to successful gardening for Seniors is adjusting your garden to accommodate your own abilities, and there seniortimesmagazine.com
PHOTO BY CRYSTAL STRUCTURES Clockwise From Top Left: There have been many changes in glass technology over the past few decades. The hobby greenhouse pictured uses glass that is environmentally controlled to accommodate both people and plants. PHOTOS BY GARDENINMINUTES.COM The type of irrigation a garden needs will depend on the climate and the crop. Many people opt for an irrigation drip or a sprinkler type system to easily evenly distribute water. But a watering can or gardening hose will work as well. The best thing to do is to research how much water your plants require before choosing an irrigation system. A tiered raised bed garden offers the ability to grow crops with different soil depth requirements. And the higher top tier is easily accessible to Seniors who have mobility limitations. Plants such as lettuce and basil are hearty and relatively easy to grow. They provide aesthetic value and they encourage healthy eating.
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are plenty of modified gardening tools to help you do that. One modification to traditional gardening is a raised bed garden. Dianne Venetta, a Central Florida organic gardening author and blogging host of BloominThyme.com, said gardening for Seniors is best accomplished with a raised planter bed or container, both of which can be maintained on an outdoor patio. She recommends those options because neither require much bending or kneeling, and they can easily accommodate crops such as lettuce, radish, scallions and garlic, which all promote healthier eating. A patio trellis is great for sugar snap peas, green beans or cucumbers, which can climb almost six feet high. Cucumbers need to be pollinated, which means the gardener gets to enjoy little pollinators such as bees and butterflies. Venetta said tomatoes and peppers are a great option for container gardens, and they require a lot of sun, which is great for Central Florida gardeners. However, a screened porch isn’t ideal for tomatoes, unless you plan to pollinate by hand. Bryan Traficante, co-founder of GardenInMinutes.com, a raised bed gardening business in South Florida, said his company created a modular raised bed garden that can be put together in minutes without any tools. They started the company so that anyone at any skill level could easily start a garden, and that the stacked raised bed gardens are ideal for Seniors with mobility limitations since it doesn’t require them to kneel or bend over very far. The contained soil also makes for a lowermaintenance growing environment. Traficante recommended square-foot gardening as opposed to gardening in rows because it is much more easily accessible. For those looking to bring the garden inside, Venetta recommended an herb or lettuce garden in a sunny window. Rosemary and basil are great options that offer fragrance as well as aesthetics. GREENHOUSES For the ambitious outdoor gardener, there’s the option of a greenhouse. Teajai Kimsey, of Sunshine Rooms, said their greenhouses were first developed for schools with stringent building codes. The greenhouse was often on the science teacher’s wish list, but they were seen as unsustainable and too hot for people to be in for any amount of time. Kimsey said Seniors who don’t get enough sun risk losing bone density, so greenhouses offer sunlight and a chance to work with their hands. “The growing process is something that can be nurtured and cared for, a sense of purpose,” Kimsey said. Gardening has plenty of health benefits, both mental and physical. But the most rewarding part is reconnecting with nature and the satisfaction of knowing you are sustaining life with your bare — or garden-gloved — hands. s
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Aside from the traditional method of tilling the soil in the yard, there are other options for those with small yards — container gardens. Here are three options. EARTHBOX This self-contained planter includes a kit with a growing guide, cover, fertilizer and dolomite. Gardeners need only buy the soil and the seedlings. This method otherwise only requires sunlight and periodic watering via a tube in the top.
TOWER GARDEN This vertical, aeroponic growing system allows gardeners to grow up to 20 vegetables, herbs, fruits and flowers in less than three square feet — indoors or out. There is no dirt; the system grows plants with only water and nutrients. All that is needed is sunlight (or grow lights), electricity, water, about three square feet and roughly 30 minutes a week.
FARMDADDY This self-watering system needs no electricity. The FarmDaddy garden container provides each plant the precise amount of water it needs at the exact time it needs it. Each self-watering FarmDaddy container maintains optimal plant hydration 24/7, which maximizes plant growth potential. One box can be daisy chained to up to 600 boxes. Each box is equipped with a bypass so only the boxes that need water receive hydration.
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Planting for the Future Garden Clubs Rooted in Community Service by Darla Kinney Scoles
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ctress Audrey Hepburn once declared, “To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow,” a sentiment that is most certainly shared by members of both the Gainesville Garden Club and Pioneer Garden Club of Ocala. Participants in each of these groups are involved not only in their own gardens, but in ensuring that future generations learn to care for — and create — both personal and community garden habitats in years to come. These men and women are, in fact, so involved in outreach efforts it is a wonder they have time to tend their home landscape plantings at all. GGC - GAINESVILLE GARDEN CLUB Abuzz With Altruistic Activities A recent gathering of this group included a presentation on “Promoting Bees Through Knowledge,” in keeping with the GGC literature declaration that, “Gone are the days of ladies dressed up in hats and white gloves drinking tea! Today’s members are stewards of the environment. They make choices in their everyday lives to conserve water, protect pollinators and wildlife by avoiding or minimizing pesticide use, and providing plants and habitats that support them.” Guest speaker and president of the Plant City Garden Club, Christy Linke, encouraged the roughly 50 Gainesville attendees to create a friendly habitat for native, solitary bees, who — while they don’t produce honey — are key players in the process of plant pollination. “Anyone can have a bee hive or bee house in their yard here in Florida,” Linke said. “Hosting these bees makes a big dif-
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ference in the production of our fruit trees, garden plants and flowers.” Linke, who not only has bees, but raises bees, shared her knowledge of bee habitat, pollination, reproduction, and importance to our ecosystem. Those listening soaked up every enthusiastic word. “I didn’t realize there were so many solitary bees until I started researching,” Linke said. “I knew nothing when I started and it’s amazing what I know now.” When asked what they didn’t realize about garden clubs before joining this one, GGC members commented most often on the vast expanse of what a club such as theirs accomplishes outside of their own back yards. “I’ve been here a long time,” said GGC member, Margaret Chodosh. “Forty-plus years! The most impressive learning ex-
“With over 200 members, we are a diverse group, and our activities appeal to a lot of different people.” perience for me has been working with the VISTA Rehabilitation Center here. Twice a year we re-do the courtyard pavilion for the patients to enjoy as gardening therapy. Community involvement like this is a big part of this club.” The list of community projects in which the GGC participates is indeed lengthy and includes undertakings such as a butterfly sanctuary and prayer garden at Tacachale, an seniortimesmagazine.com
PHOTO BY DARLA KINNEY SCOLES Clockwise From Top Left: Representing the Florida Federation of Garden Club’s “Bees, Birds and Butterflies” effort, speaker and Plant City Garden Club President, Christy Linke, offers information on the care and keeping of native bee houses to GGC club members at a recent luncheon program. The grounds of the Gainesville Garden Club reflect the efforts and knowledge of the club’s members, who are encouraged to go out and make a difference in the surrounding community with their know-how and enthusiasm for all things natural and beautiful. Guest speaker and native bee enthusiast, Christy Linke (R), visits with GGC member Alee Karpf (L Front) about the best ways to brings bees into the backyard. Linke spoke to GGC members at their March luncheon. The Gainesville Garden Club and its members are enthusiastically committed to education, beautification and conservation. Their efforts can be seen throughout the Gainesville community.
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Clockwise From Top: GGC member, Florence Cline and her husband Carl, share a moment at the tree planted in Florence’s honor on the club’s grounds. Cline was recently awarded the Mrs. Lyndon B. Johnson Award at the 2016 Keep America Beautiful National Awards. Cline’s garden club membership offers her many opportunities to keep her community beautiful. Creating a home for solitary bees was the topic of a recent luncheon presentation at the Gainesville Garden Club. Members learned how to enhance their landscape and encourage leaf cutter bees to settle, repopulate — and pollinate — the area.
heirloom garden at Morningside Nature Center, and a garden for veterans at The Residence at the HONOR Center — as well as anti-litter campaigns, Arbor Day tree plantings, recycling and seed distribution efforts, demonstrations, workshops and plant giveaways. “This year in particular,” said current GGC president, Sandra Arnold, “our emphasis is on the environment — learning to be water wise, eliminate pesticides and to accommodate bees. Then
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we take this knowledge and go out into the community and do all that we can. With over 200 members, we are a diverse group, and our activities appeal to a lot of different people.” That large membership also makes for a greater impact on the surrounding community, according to five-year member Alee Karpf, who finds at GGC a very caring, generous group of people who are “verdant inside and out.” New member and retired nurse, Pat Sampson, has been seniortimesmagazine.com
Did you know? 1 in 3 bites of food we eat is made possible by bees and ators. other pollinators. 42 percent of bee colonies in the ed U.S. collapsed in 2015.
Top: Pioneer Garden Club of Ocala member Judy Greenberg shows off a club-created rain barrel that was recently auctioned off during the March Florida SpringsFest at Silver Springs State Park.
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Bottom: Orlando Garden Club member, Joanne Mulinare, checks out the informational table at Florida SpringsFest, where Athena Philips (L, seated) of the Homosassa River Garden Club, Carolyn Schaag of the Clermont Garden Club (R, seated), and Judy Greenberg of the PGCO (standing, rear) help her sort out the day’s class offerings. All these club members agreed that they had already learned much and enhanced their lives by virtue of their garden club memberships.
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excited to learn, since joining GGC a year ago, that participating in club projects has helped her not only be involved in her community (“People need to be more engaged in their environment!”), but more involved in her own yard, as well. “The two go hand in hand,” Sampson said.
PGCO - PIONEER GARDEN CLUB OF OCALA Enthusiastic About Environmental Education Recently hosting an informational booth at Springsfest in Ocala’s Silver Springs State Park, the members of the PGCO are working hard to educate and
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PHOTO COURTESY OF PGCO Pioneer Garden Club of Ocala has two flower shows a year — a Spring Flower Show and a Small Standard Flower Show in conjunction with the Ocala Camellia Society, featuring camellias in the designs.
hands-on, interactive and experiential event, S.E.E.K. involves students entering grades 10-12 in workshops, field activities, recreation and service projects, all geared toward helping youth appreciate the environment and find their place as its steward. Pioneer Garden Club of Ocala members are also instrumental as volunteers with Wekiva Youth Camp, an annual sixweek summer camp for first-througheighth grade budding naturalists. The club also sponsors children with scholarships to attend the camp, which hosts more than 650 youth each year. “I’m extremely proud that in April we will be celebrating our 90th year here in Marion County,” said PGCO president,
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Mary Woods. “Our strong influence is our attitude toward education. We also build good relationships that run in so many different directions. “The fact that we have been here 90 years and that we can continue with our own gifts and talents and building relationships and can keep doing this in the future is what amazes me. And there is always room for someone new and always new opportunities to serve.” So, what do new and experienced PGCO members know now that they didn’t know before joining a garden club? “I had no idea of the depth and breadth of a garden club when I joined eight years ago,” said PGCO member
Judy Greenberg. “When you look at what garden club members have interests in, it runs the gamut — history, design, activism, education, landscaping, tree planting — and it’s endless. The list goes on and on.” In fact, Greenberg said, it is garden club members who have been instrumental in the establishment of the State Wildflower License Plate, which has raised over $1 million for research and plantings statewide. Several state parks and botanical gardens also have garden clubs to thank for their existence as grass roots efforts blossomed into fullblown creation and adoption projects. Many churches and libraries have garden club members who learn floral seniortimesmagazine.com
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PHOTO DARLA KINNEY SCOLES As members of the Florida Federation of Garden Clubs, both PGCO and GGC help sponsor an annual S.E.E.K. conference for students in grades 10-12, in an effort to help educate and motivate future generations in caring for the natural environment.
design in order to create arrangements for their facilities. Blue Star Memorial Markers are another garden club effort honoring fallen military members in a visible way. These markers along our roadways, rest stops, in parks and cemeteries are ever-present reminders of sacrifice. Thanks to Florida garden clubs each of our state’s nine national cemeteries will have a Blue Star Memorial Marker next month. Marge Hendon, a PGCO member who enjoys being part of a local effort that is also part of a regional (Deep South) and national effort, has learned that things done at those broader levels trickle down to each individual garden club. “What I see now,” Hendon said, “along with our traditional shows, workshops and projects, is a lot of education for the youth. If you can get the younger generation going, you can have an impact for generations to come. One of our former Wekiva Youth Camp-ers is now with Marion County Parks and Recreation.” Greenberg said that Florida’s garden clubs — including both GGC and PGCO — lead the other states in environmental studies efforts, especially for youth. “Why do we do this? We do it for the kids,” Greenberg said. “And we should be enthusiastic about it and passionate about it, so that then they will become passionate and enthusiastic about it themselves. Because they are going to be the ones who keep it going.” s
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Simply Smart Travel Cass, West Virginia: Steaming Back In Time To The Top Of Bald Knob
Whittaker Station, 3.8 rail miles from Cass, is a stop on the way to Bald Knob. It has restrooms, shanties, a kitchen/ dining car, a log loader, a skidder and a fire tower.
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The Cass Scenic Railroad, part of the West Virginia State Park System, offers a nostalgic and educational train ride back in time. It’s fun for the whole family, not just rail enthusiasts. Cass is an authentic logging town, not an amusement park ride. The town is situated in the mountains, on the Greenbrier River. It is largely intact and looks a lot like it did in its logging era heyday, complete with an operating train station, company store, quaint shops, a couple of restaurants, company houses and a working steam railroad shop. The railroad line that is presently operating was built around the turn of the 20th century to haul logs down from
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the mountain. It connected with the branch that the C & O Railroad built in 1901 to reach logging country. A large lumber mill flourished in Cass until 1960 and its ruins are visible today. Even though the mill is gone and the C & O Railroad (now part of CSX) abandoned its branch to Cass, the town and its steam-powered logging railroad still flourish. The logging railroad operates as it once did except its geared steam engines haul tourists instead of logs up and down the mountain. The line’s features include meticulously maintained historic rolling stock, steep grades, sharp curves, switchbacks, gorgeous views and a ride in open cars through the dense woods. seniortimesmagazine.com
Deep in the West Virginia mountains, Cass is way off the beaten path and not near any major urban areas. But despite its remote setting, it is a worthwhile destination that offers a rare glimpse into history and a memorable train ride.
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Cass is best reached by highway or train. • By highway: Cass is in eastern West Virginia, roughly between I-79 and I-81. Once you leave the interstate, the driving is over twisty two-lane mountain roads. Cass is accessible by State Route 28/92N between Dunmore and Green Bank in Pocahontas County. An 11-mile connector route, WV 66, links the town
The observation tower at Bald Knob overlooks Green Bank, W.V. The mountains in the distance are in Virginia.
of Cass to U.S. 219, which connects to Slaty Fork. The driving distance from Cass, West Virginia to Charleston, West Virginia is 158 miles and Roanoke is 141 miles away.
Ginny O’s Tips For Dressing The Simply Smart Travel Way For Cass Casual and comfortable are the operative words. There is no reason or place to dress up. Be comfortable and be warm. Layers help. It can be as much as 10 to 15 degrees colder at Bald Knob than Cass. Also, wear dark clothing and a hat because steam locomotives produce prodigious amounts of soot which can land back on the passenger cars.
• By train: the Cheat Mountain Salamander offers service from Elkins.
The morning’s first train to Whittaker Station led by Shay locomotive #2 eases its way from the shop toward the station to pick up passengers as it glides by Shay #3 parked at the station.
• By air: The closest major airport to Cass, West Virginia is Greenbrier Valley Airport (LWB) in Lewisburg, W.W., 68 miles away. It is served by United and Silver. The nearest airports with extensive service are Roanoke Regional Airport (ROA) at 121 miles and Washington Dulles International (IAD at 198 miles distant).
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Passengers transferring from the Cass Scenic Railroad to the Cheat Mountain Salamander (right) as the tracks meet on the side of the mountain.
MUST SEES FOR A SHORT TRIP
• Take a ride on the Cass Scenic Railroad to Whittaker Station or all the way to Bald Knob • Walk through the logging town of Cass and explore history, with or without a guide. • Visit the Cass Company Store. • Take a ranger-led interpretive tour.
IF YOU HAVE SEVERAL DAYS
• Explore the Snowshoe ski area. • Visit nearby Green Bank and see the Green Bank National Radio Astronomy Observatory
Cass At A Glance
• Take a combined ride on two trains with one ticket. The Cass Scenic Railroad connects with the diesel-drawn Cheat Mountain Salamander half way up the mountain and offers overnight package options in Elkins or Cass. Stops include Elkins, Cheat Bridge and Cass, WV.
Mobility Level: Fairly high. The town of Cass has hills and company houses can have steep steps.
• Ride the train and stay overnight in the caboose at Bald Knob, elevation 4,700 ft. Reservations required.
Where to Stay: The 22 Cass Company Houses can be rented. They range from accommodating two to 12. The rustic Bear Creek Lodge is right across the river bridge from the train station. Close by are Seneca State Forest cabins and rustic campground,private campgrounds, smallish motels and other accommodations, especially near Snowshoe.
When To Go: Avoid winter unless you are a skier. Late spring, summer and fall are best.
Getting Around: There is no public transportation except for the trains; walking or a car is necessary. Special Travel Interests: Scenic train rides, mountain scenery, history.
Shay locomotive #6 fills the woods with coal smoke as it pushes a loaded train uphill toward Bald Knob.
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Enjoying Act Three F. Scott Fitzgerald and Sheilah Graham
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. Scott Fitzgerald, immortal bard of the Jazz Age, was the first name Hollywood gossip columnist Sheilah Graham dropped when I arrived in 1962 at her suite in Manhattan’s posh Regency Hotel to edit her memoir, “The Rest of the Story.” Though Fitzgerald was married to Zelda, Sheilah had become his mistress in 1937 after Zelda was institutionalized for schizophrenia. There were high expectations for Sheila’s biography, which had fallen into my lap when her editor suddenly left Putnam/Coward-McCann, where I was a 27-year-old underling who’d been hoping for a break, but never dreaming that when it came, it would be the lead title on the spring list. Dressed in a sexy negligee, and sipping from a cup of steaming lemonade and honey for her sore throat, Sheilah said, “I certainly hope you can help me turn this book into literature.” Disdaining my suggestion for rewriting an absurd passage — “WWII made it difficult for me to find a Japanese gardener” — she said, “Scott Fitzgerald told me that his editor at Scribner’s, Maxwell Perkins, would take a page of rough draft, run his pencil over it, and turn it into high literary art.” Though afraid of losing her book, I managed to say, “I am not Max Perkins,
and you are not Scott Fitzgerald.” She came to her senses and we set to work polishing her manuscript. Sheilah and Fitzgerald had met and fallen in love at a party Robert Benchley, the Algonquin Round Table wit, gave her on the occasion of her engagement to the Marquess of Donegall. Fitzgerald had too much to drink and asked her to help him get back to villa #1 at the Garden of Allah, the Hollywood hotel where his rent was $300 per month. Though he sprained his shoulder, he assured her, “I can stop drinking any time I want to,” and asked that she not call again till he detoxed. During her three-year affair with Fitzgerald, he churned out movie scripts to pay for Zelda’s insane asylum and daughter Scottie’s Vassar education. His boozing with Dorothy Parker, Ernest Hemingway, Nathanael West, and Humphrey Bogart went on nonstop at the Garden of Allah, so “Sheilo,” as he called her, helped him pack and move out to Malibu in 1938. He began to write again, using pencils and yellow paper. After Joseph L. Mankiewicz filmed Fitzgerald’s “Three Comrades,” starring Robert Taylor and Margaret Sullavan, the author complained that the producer cut all his nuances. Sometimes Fitzgerald would take a break and read aloud to Sheilah from
“The Great Gatsby,” as if to prove he was capable of producing better work when freed from the constraints of Hollywood. Theirs was a Henry Higgins-Eliza Doolittle relationship. She yearned for an education, and he had her read his favorite authors, among them Charles Dickens, Leo Tolstoy, Henry James, Joseph Conrad, Rupert Brooke, William Wordsworth, and Theodore Dreiser. He confessed his drinking problem in “The Crack-Up,” describing “the real dark night of the soul [where] it’s always 3 o’clock in the morning, day after day.” Hemingway read “The Crack-Up” in Esquire and told Fitzgerald he ought to keep his drinking problem to himself. Fitzgerald told Sheilah, “I don’t think I can ever forgive him.” He began work on “Gone With the Wind” in 1939, and at home he and Sheilah would act out scenes before he wrote them, Sheilah playing Scarlett to his Rhett. Fitzgerald wrote Ashley’s memorable line, “Some of our men are barefooted now, and the snow is deep in Virginia,” but Selznick fired him for not coming up with enough funny dialogue for Aunt Pittypat, paying him $64,584 for three weeks’ work. Malibu proved too damp and cold in the winter, and Sheilah moved him to Edward Everett Horton’s Encino estate, “Belly Acres,” where Fitzgerald wrote his final novel, “The Last Tycoon.” Sheilah inspired the lovely heroine Kathleen, about whom Fitzgerald wrote, “She gave the impression of living half way between heaven and earth.” He died in her arms, in her West Hollywood apartment, of a heart attack just before Christmas 1940. He was 44. Sheilah lived until 84, dying in 1988 at Palm Beach, Florida. s Ellis Amburn, author of “Subterranean Kerouac” and other biographies, lives in Gainesville and can be reached at ellis. amburn@gmail.com.
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CALENDAR UPCOMING EVENTS IN ALACHUA & MARION
7:00pm – 9:30pm GAINESVILLE - Grace Presbyterian Church, 3146 NW 13th St. For all who are interested in learning and singing women’s Acapella barbershop harmony music. 352-318-1281.
from Dr. Donna Waller and sponsored by Community Coalition for Older Adults. CoSponsored by the LWV. April 4: Principles of the Constitution; April 11: The Congress; April 18: The Executive Branch; April 25: The Judiciary; May 2: Political Parties and Interest Groups; May 9: Voting and Participation. Classes are FREE (donations accepted).
TAP DANCE WITH CHAYA
PRESENTATION ON FAKE NEWS
Tuesdays
Thursday, April 6
Times Vary GAINESVILLE - North Central Florida YMCA, Studio 2, 5201 NW 34th Blvd. Designed to demonstrate that creativity can be fun for everyone and make our community stronger and healthier! Open to the public, all are welcome. 6:00pm beginner and 7:00pm intermediate. Class cards are 6/$74 or 10/$108. 352-358-5005.
6:00pm GAINESVILLE - Matheson History Museum, 513 East University Ave. “Fake News, The Gainesville Sun and the Cuban War of Independence.” Paul S. Losch, Head Librarian of the George A. Smathers Latin American and Caribbean Collection at the University of Florida, shares a gem of fake news from the pages of The Gainesville Sun, tracing Gainesville’s connection to the Cuban Independence. Free event for all ages. www.mathesonmuseum.org.
GAINESVILLE HARMONY SHOW CHORUS Thursdays
LADY GAMERS Fridays 1:00pm HIGH SPRINGS - New Century Woman’s Club, 40 NW 1st Ave. The Lady Gamers meet for fun, friendship and food. Everyone is invited. Meet old friends and make some new ones.
WINTER MARKET First Saturday
Thursday, April 6 7:30pm - 9:30pm GAINESVILLE - University Auditorium, 333 Newell Dr. Free concert by the UF Wind Symphony. 352-392-2346.
JAZZ UP SPRING
VOICES RISING COMMUNITY CHORUS
RUN THE GOOD RACE 5K/10K
Sundays
8:00am GAINESVILLE - NFRMC. Run hosted by Drs Peter and Kathy Sarantos and World Help is being held to generate awareness and support for the Syrian and Iraqi Refugee Crisis. www.rungoodrace.com.
Friday, April 7 7:30pm GAINESVILLE - Santa Fe College Fine Arts Hall, 3000 NW 83rd St. Cool spring concert of hot jazz featuring the Santa Fe Jazz Band under the direction of Dr. Steve Bingham. 352-395-4181.
Saturday, April 8
CIVIC CLASSES
Saturday, April 8
Tuesdays, April 4 thru May 9
10:00am – 5:00pm GAINESVILLE - Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 4225 NW 34th St. This fair nurtures the body, mind and spirit. Psychics
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Saturday, April 8 9:00am – 12:00pm GAINESVILLE - Dogwood Park & Daycare, 5505 SW Archer Rd. Event will feature your favorite canine Easter Egg Hunt, and will include some fun, new activities! 100% of the proceeds will go to Gainesville Pet Rescue! www. gainesvillepetrescue.org/events/pups-in-the-park.
SLOW ART DAY Saturday, April 8 11:00am – 12:30pm GAINESVILLE - Harn Museum of Art, 3259 Hull Rd. A worldwide celebration of art that encourages people to slow down and appreciate the experience of looking. After spending time with the art, visitors will get together with a discussion leader to share their discoveries over tea and treats. Free admission. harn.ufl.edu.
SPRING YOUTH CONCERT 2:00pm GAINESVILLE - P.K. Yonge Auditorium, 1080 SW 11th St. Sun Country Dance Theatre will feature an original story ballet, “Hansel & Gretel,” as well as guest artists from the Orlando Ballet, and works by both resident and guest choreographers. $10 general admission. Tickets available at Sun Country Sports Center West and at the door (cash only). Contact Judy Benton, 352331-8773 or dance@suncountrysports.com.
GAINESVILLE VEGFEST Saturday, April 8 11:00am - 5:00pm GAINESVILLE - A.R. Massey Westside Park, 1001 NW 34th St. Event will feature informative exhibitors, vegan food vendors, animal rescue organizations and sanctuaries, speakers, a kid zone, music and more. Free. For info, or to exhibit/sponsor, visit gainesvillevegfest.com.
INDIA FEST AND HEALTH FAIR Saturday, April 8
SPIRITUAL WISDOM FAIR 1:30pm – 3:30pm GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th Blvd. Learn about our government
PUPS IN THE PARK
Saturday, April 8
UF WIND SYMPHONY
9:00am to 12:30pm NEWBERRY - Munger Barn on Dudley Farm, 18730 West Newberry Rd. Baked goods, eggs, handmade crafts, jams and jellies, naturally-raised meats, pickles, winter vegetables and more. Subject to cancellation due to bad weather. 352-472-1142.
6:00pm - 8:00pm GAINESVILLE - Trinity United Methodist Church, 4000 NW 53rd Ave. An intergenerational chorus open to adults and youth age 10 and up. 352-328-9922, www.vrccgainesville.org.
offer readings, practitioners help you feel fantastic, and workshops empower you to strengthen and nourish yourself and your loved ones. $5 donation for adults; children free. Proceeds will go to Three Aunties, a nonprofit organization dedicated to nurturing healthy relationships between people and our natural environment. threeaunties.blogspot.com.
9:00am – 6:00pm GAINESVILLE - Santa Fe College Gym, Bldg. V, 3000 NW 83rd St. Come out for the Health Fair in the morning and then experience music, dance and cuisine of India. Admission is $5 and includes both events. 352-871-7112.
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PLANT EXPO Saturday, April 8 8:00am – 2:00pm NEWBERRY - The Persimmon Farm, 17010 W. Newberry Rd. Newberry Garden Club’s annual fundraiser to support community projects and scholarships. Reasonable prices for flowers of all kinds, bulbs, shrubs, trees, fruit trees and vegetable plants. Hotdogs, drinks and yardassociated craft vendors. 352-472-3928.
SPRING FESTIVAL Saturday, April 8 8:00am – 3:00pm LAKE CITY - Alligator Lake Park. Bird walks led by experts start at 8:00am on the Florida Birding Trail. Walking workshops highlight butterflies, native plants and flowers. Many free activities for children. Music, food and drinks will be available. fourriversaudubon.org.
CELEBRATION OF THE ARTS April 8 – 9 10:00am - 5:00pm CEDAR KEY - Downtown. Presented by the Cedar Key Arts Center. An experienced jury selects the 120 artists invited to show their work at the Old Florida Celebration of the Arts. Artwork includes traditional 2D paintings, prints and photography in addition to 3D ceramic, glass, wood, metal and mixed media sculpture. 352-543-5400.
GAINESVILLE COMMUNITY BAND SPRING CONCERT
Step Afrika! Friday, April 7 7:30pm GAINESVILLE - Phillips Center, 3201 Hull Rd. Stepping is a percussive dance style historically practiced by African-American fraternities and sororities. Step Afrika is the first professional dance company in the world dedicated solely to the art of stepping. You’ll like this show if you like stepping, percussive dance styles, elements of hip-hop or experiences like STOMP. Not for those who dislike loud sounds. 352-392-2787.
Sunday, April 9 3:00pm GAINESVILLE - Santa Fe College Fine Arts Hall, 3000 NW 83rd St. Under the directorship of Gary Langford, the Gainesville Community Band, with a current roster of about 80 members, is made up of teachers, professors, scientists, business professionals, students, physicians, contractors, realtors, trades-persons and retirees. $6 donation requested. www.gnvband.org.
RIVER FEST Sunday, April 9 1:00pm – 7:00pm HIGH SPRINGS - Rum 138, 2070 SW CR 138. Songwriting contest and fundraiser. Music, food and silent auction. Master of Ceremonies: Storm Roberts. Tickets: $5 per person online, $7 at door, children under 12 are free. OurSantaFeRiver.org.
MAIN STREET FESTIVAL Sunday, April 9 11:00am – 5:00pm ALACHUA - Downtown. Hosted by the Alachua Business League. Spend your time listening to music and eating delicious food. Kids can also participate in numerous free activities. www.alachuabusiness.com.
SOCIAL ISSUES IN YOUR FICTION
EASTER EGG HUNT
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2:30pm – 4:00pm GAINESVILLE - Millhopper Branch Library, 3145 NW 43rd St. Kassandra Lamb, a retired psychotherapist and psychology professor, will discuss how she incorporates professional knowledge into her mystery novels at the Writers Alliance of Gainesville (WAG). Author of mystery series, Lamb will share tips on how to incorporate social issues in fiction writing. This meeting is open to all who are interested in the written word. writersalliance.org.
11:00am GAINESVILLE - Kanapaha Botanical Gardens, 4700 SW 58th Dr. There will be 4,000 candy- and toy-filled eggs spread over the expansive lawns for the youngsters to hunt. Bring a picnic basket for collecting the eggs. Show up 30 minutes early, as the line can get long (event starts on time). Children ages 0-2 are free; 3-10 are $10. Adults regular admission. 352-372-4981.
OCALA BOAT CLUB OPEN HOUSE
Thursday, April 13
Sunday, April 9 11:00am – 4:00pm OCALA - Ocala Boat Club, 9570 NE 28th Lane, Silver Springs. For it’s 70th Anniversary, the Boat Club invites guests to enjoy free boat rides on the Silver River, free pulled pork lunches, live music by The Coral Reef Revue, all while meeting fellow boaters and club members. A free boat safety inspection will be offered to those who bring their boat. www. ocalaboatclub.org or call 352-236-3227.
TRAVEL TALK 2:30pm – 4:00pm GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th Blvd. Two PrimeTime Institute volunteers share pictures and tales from their recent travels. Susan Williams reconnected with a British friend who gave her an insiders’ tour of the UK. Prue Tucker took a “Fjords and Highlands” cruise around the North Sea, including Denmark, Norway, Scotland, and Northern Ireland. Presented by PTI. www. primetimeinstitute.org or 352-367-8169.
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SING INTO SPRING Thursday, April 20 7:30pm GAINESVILLE - Santa Fe College Fine Arts Hall, 3000 NW 83rd St. A light and entertaining concert for choral music lovers, directed by Professor Lynn Sandefur. 352-395-4181.
MANAGING THE ACHING KNEE Thursday, April 20 2:30pm – 4:00pm GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th Blvd. This month’s presenter from the Institute on Aging is Kevin Vincent, MD, PhD, Medical Director of the UF Sports Performance Center in UF’s Orthopaedic & Sports Medicine Department. His areas of research include exercise adaptations in healthy and clinical populations. Presented by PrimeTime Institute. www.primetimeinstitute.org or 352-367-8169.
Second Annual Plein Air Paintout April 21 – April 26 HIGH SPRINGS - Various Locations. Artists will be painting the North Florida springs and High Springs “en plein air.” April 24: Blue Springs Park, 7450 NE 60th Ave. April 25: Ginnie Springs, 7300 Ginnie Springs Rd. A map of artist locations and schedule can be obtained from the Lanza Gallery & Art Supplies, 23645 W US Hwy 27, during the event. Paintings will be for sale during and after the paint out at Lanza Gallery. 352-474-9922.
FREE FRIDAYS CONCERT SERIES Fridays, beginning April 14 8:00pm – 10:00pm GAINESVILLE - Bo Diddley Plaza, 111 E University Ave. The region’s longest-running and largest free outdoor concert series features local and regional musical talent. These concerts under the stars showcase diverse musical acts sure to delight music lovers with classic rock, reggae, R & B, soul, ska, funk, blues and more.
EASTER EGG HUNT Saturday, April 15 10:00am - 2:00pm JONESVILLE - Tioga Town Center, 105 SW 128th St. Easter Egg Hunt separated by age groups, games, face painting, and the Easter Bunny will make an appearance. Free. 352-224-2600.
EASTER EGG & TREASURE HUNT
various booths where vendors will be giving away assorted prizes for our egg hunters.
HYMNS & HEROES FROM THE MOVIES Saturday, April 15 7:30pm GAINESVILLE - Curtis M. Phillips Center, 3201 Hull Rd. UF Symphony Orchestra, UF Chorus and Gainesville Civic Chorus, conducted by Will Kesling. Featuring compositions from the soundtracks of Saving Private Ryan, Star Wars, and Chariots of Fire. 352-392-1900.
MUSIC IN THE PARK Sunday, April 16 2:00pm – 4:00pm HIGH SPRINGS - 120 NW 2nd Ave. A free concert featuring artists from all over North Florida. Performances take place at locations in and around the James Paul Park area.
Saturday, April 15 10:00am WALDO - Waldo Farmers and Flea Market, 17805 NE US HWY 301. FREE event for all kids ages 1-10. There will be over 3,000 eggs filled with candy, trinkets and other surprises. Special Scavenger Hunt Eggs will lead to
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UF CONCERT BANDS Tuesday, April 18 7:30pm – 9:30pm GAINESVILLE - University Auditorium, 333 Newell Dr. Join the UF Concert Bands for a free performance. 352-392-2346.
HOGTOWN CRAFT BEER FESTIVAL Saturday, April 22 1:00pm - 5:00pm JONESVILLE - Tioga Town Center, 105 SW 128th St. Craft beer from Florida breweries as well as many other regional and national breweries, food and craft beer pairings from local restaurants and caterers, beer education, a home-brewing tent, and more. Hosted by the Hogtown Brewers. www.hogtownbeerfest.com.
FLORIDA MUSEUM’S 100TH ANNIVERSARY WEEKEND April 21 – April 22 Times Vary GAINESVILLE - Various Locations. The weekend kicks off with a presentation featuring National Geographic photographer Joel Sartore, who will speak at the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts on Friday, April 21. On Saturday, April 22 (Earth Day), the museum will host a gala at Powell Hall on the UF campus, with dinner, live entertainment and dancing. The celebration marks the anniversary of the museum’s designation as the state’s official natural history museum and Florida’s first state-legislated cultural institution. For info contact Paul Ramey, pramey@flmnh.ufl.edu or 352-273-2054.
THE KEY TO TOMORROW’S HEALTH Saturday, April 22 7:00pm GAINESVILLE - Unity of Gainesville Church, 8801 NW 39th Ave. Dr. Matjaz Lesjak, M.D., a member of the Medical Scientific Group of the Bruno Groening Circle of Friends, will present lectures about medically verifiable spiritual healings. This event belongs to a series of over 100 lectures worldwide. 561-342-1783; email: lecture.florida@
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gmx.net. Follow-up lecture April 26, at 7:00pm at Total Wine & More, 3965 Plaza Blvd. Suite 10. Admission is free, a donation appreciated.
BROMELIANA Sunday, April 23 2:00pm - 4:00pm GAINESVILLE - UF Entomology Building on Natural Area Dr. Come and learn more about growing bromeliads — plants that are easy to grow, do well in sun or shade, require little water, and multiply easily. Get a free plant, buy more at reasonable prices, and meet nice people. Sponsored by the Gainesville Bromeliad Society. GainesvilleBromeliadSociety.org.
ANNUAL EMPTY BOWLS Thursday, April 27 5:00pm – 7:30pm GAINESVILLE - Trinity United Methodist Church, 4000 NW 53rd Ave. Admission includes a bowl of soup provided by Chick-Fil-A Oaks Mall, bread, fruit, a beverage and a handcrafted ceramic bowl. A Silent Auction and Tricky Tray basket auction will also be offered. $25 advance sales; $30 at the door, $240 for reserved table of 8. Proceeds benefit Bread of the Mighty Food Bank. Purchase tickets at breadofthemighty.org or call 352-336-0839.
MATHESON HISTORY MUSEUM TOUR
PIONEER DAYS FESTIVAL
Thursday, April 27
April 22 – April 23
2:30pm – 4:00pm GAINESVILLE - Matheson History Museum, 513 E University Ave. Tour current exhibit, “River of Dreams: The St. Johns and its Springs,” followed by a visit to the adjoining restored 1867 Matheson House. Free, donations appreciated. Parking on the east side of the museum at the Law Offices of Attorneys Folds & Walker, and the Kirby Smith Administration Building. Presented by PrimeTime Institute. www.primetimeinstitute.org or 352-367-8169.
Times Vary HIGH SPRINGS - Historic Downtown James Paul Park. Fine art, crafts, commercial/ retail, homegrown products and antique/ collectibles exhibitors, and seven food booths. Enjoy three stages of regional and local talent performing country, old-time, folk and variety music. www.highsprings.com.
SPRING BOOK SALE April 22 – 26 Times Vary GAINESVILLE - Friends Of The Library, 430 North Main St. This sale has over 500,000 books and other items in 64 categories, including audio books, music CDs, DVDs, manga, comics, art, posters, vinyl records, games and puzzles, video games, craft patterns, magazines, and more! Cash or check only. Shoppers bring your own boxes or bags. www.folacld.org.
AUDUBON TOUR Sunday, April 23 8:00am GAINESVILLE - Kanapaha Botanical Gardens, 4700 SW 58th Dr. Learn about the birds of Kanapaha. Bring binoculars and arrive promptly at 8am. $4 per person. Members are admitted free of charge. 352-372-4981.
AUTHOR TED GELTNER Sunday, April 23 2:30pm GAINESVILLE - Headquarters Library, 401 E. University Ave. Ted Geltner will speak, answer questions and sign books. Geltner is an award-winning writer, editor and a journalism educator who specializes in biography, sports writing and the history of sports journalism. His latest book “Blood, Bone & Marrow: A Biography of Harry Crews,” is the first fulllength biography of Gainesville’s legendary novelist and journalist. 352-334-3939.
ARTWALK GAINESVILLE Friday, April 28 7:00pm - 10:00pm GAINESVILLE - Downtown. Artwalk is a free monthly self-guided tour that combines exciting visual art, live performance and events with many local galleries, eateries and businesses participating. www.artwalkgainesville.com.
POPS SEASON FINALE Friday, May 5 7:30pm GAINESVILLE - Santa Fe College Fine Arts Hall, 3000 NW 83rd St. The Gainesville Orchestra celebrates Mister Broadway — Jerry Herman — with an all-star Broadway cast and music from his shows Hello Dolly, Mame, La Cage Aux Folles, Dear World, Mack and Mabel and more. One of only four orchestras chosen each year to present this unique and joyous celebration of the man who has defined Broadway for 60 years. 352-395-5296.
CHAYAVEDA MINDFUL MOTION 300 Beginning May 5 Times Vary GAINESVILLE - The Gainesville Retreat Center, 1551 SE 51 St. Unlock your potential with this 13-part, monthly immersion into yogic wellness. Deepen your experience and practice of yoga with a focus on mindfulness and Ayurveda for a transformative yoga and wellness experience
that will enhance your health and your life. Open to all and advanced certification and CEU’s are available for yoga teachers, massage therapists and Ayurvedic Practitioners. One weekend per month, beginning on May 5. www.ChayaVeda.com; 352-358-5005.
MOONLIGHT WALK Saturday, May 6 7:00pm – 11:00pm GAINESVILLE - Kanapaha Botanical Gardens, 4700 SW 58th Dr. Twinkle lights, lanterns and approximately 1,500 luminaries along a 1.25-mile walkway. Live entertainment, food and refreshments. The Alachua Astronomy Club will be out with telescopes to view the cosmos. No pets allowed during this event. Please bring a flashlight. Cash only. Gardens close from 5:00pm-7:00pm the day of the Moonlight Walk. 352-372-4981.
AUTHOR ACE ATKINS Saturday, May 6 2:30pm GAINESVILLE - Headquarters Library, 401 E. University Ave. Ace Atkins is a journalist and an author who earned a Pulitzer Prize nomination for an investigative series on a forgotten murder in the 1950s, which later was an inspiration for his novel “White Shadow.” Atkins graduated from Auburn University in 1994 where many Gator fans may remember him as he played on the football team. 352-334-3939.
QUILT SHOW May 6 – 7 Times Vary GAINESVILLE - Best Western Gateway Grand Hotel, 4200 NW 97th Blvd. “Where Stitches Bloom,” Tree City Quilters Guild 10th Biennial Quilt Show. Over 100 quilts on display, plus vintage quilts to highlight work of talented quilters of yesteryear and a youth quilt exhibition. Vendor mall, quiltique bazaar with handcrafted items, fabulous basket raffle, music, details of the guild’s charity efforts and Project 70273 exhibit. Saturday: 10am – 5pm; Sunday: 10am – 4pm. Admission $7.00; free parking. Info: treecityquiltersguild.com. Contact: Helen Gyllstrom, Show Chairman, gyllstr@bellsouth.net, 352-871-4473. 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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COLUMN œ DONNA BONNELL
Embracing Life Spring Cleaning & Cleansing
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egular readers know I recently retired. It was not a planned retirement, so I found myself suddenly thrust into a different way of life — without routine or daily purpose. Since my career meant much more than merely a paycheck, I found myself struggling for significance of some sort. As odd as it seemed, I was led to begin one of the lowest projects on my lifelong priority list — purging past paraphernalia. Was this divine direction meant to assist me in facing my new reality? Was the plan also intended to provide guidance in releasing my past? Silly? Perhaps. Rather than dismissing these thoughts, I embraced them. By reflecting, reminiscing and researching, my questions were answered. My mother’s mantra was that our house should be “presentable” to visitors. She described a respectable home as one whose bathrooms and kitchen were clean. Chores, such as reorganizing storage areas, were intended for rainy days. Mom maintained that guests should not look at personal spaces anyway. Life sped by, and the rainy days dedicated to decluttering were few and far between. Those rare events were usually spurred by major milestones, such as marriages or moving. Fortunately, occasional yard sales kept my array of possessions somewhat under control. Fast-forward to the fall of 2016. I was challenged, not only with an unexpected
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retirement, but also with bringing home decades of decorations and other office memorabilia. Incorporating additional, seemingly important items with other precious keepsakes was overwhelming. Rather than dealing with the dilemma, I surrendered to the enchanting spell of Christmas. Those boxes were stored for a future rainy day. Suddenly, almost by surprise, spring had sprung. Spring — the season repre-
what we might discover, but never wanted to destroy the protective parcel. Magically (maybe), I found the ideal home for the dress. A volunteer organization that renovates bridal apparel into angel-like dresses was happy to get my contribution. The transformed clothing is given to the families of newborns or infants who passed away at birth or shortly thereafter. My husband and I were finally able to unwrap and reveal the garb packaged so long ago. Carefully opening the outer box, we found another carton wedged inside. The suspense seemed to grow as we gently pulled it out. In the third and final container we found a beautifully adorned lightweight gift box and in it, my perfectly preserved gown. When I delivered the delicate dress, I knew my mission had been accomplished. My heart mended a bit that day. Maybe the spiritual intervention was designed to support parents of deceased
In an uncanny way, shredding paperwork, after reading those treasures one last time, was cleansing. senting rebirth, rejuvenation and resurrection. My psyche seemed to suck in a sense of urgency to renew and reorganize my existence. The feeling was comparable to my intense need to nest when I was pregnant with my children more than 30 years ago. Only this time I am a 62-yearold Senior. I wondered why. Relinquishing resistance, my quest to purge began. In an uncanny way, shredding paperwork, after reading those treasures one last time, was cleansing. It was a lengthy, but gratifying, emotional process. Giving away things was equally as satisfying. The most moving, however, was donating my ancient wedding gown. That dress had been dry-cleaned and professionally boxed 40 years ago. We never knew if the correct items were in the tightly sealed plain brown box. For years, we speculated and joked about
babies, whose grief is extremely devastating. By doing so, it lessened my mourning for the loss of a job, which is minimal in comparison. Professional Organizer, Deborah Goldstein, believes that getting rid of stuff frees up space — both mentally and physically. In her opinion, one must remove clutter to visualize the future and find a new goal. Life is filled with mystically mysterious messages. Perhaps by applying Goldstein’s theory, I will discover my next earthly assignment. If not, at least the enigmatic contents in that big brown box (and their purpose) were revealed. s Donna Bonnell is a freelance writer who moved to Newberry in 1983. She enjoys living and working in the town she now calls home. bonneldj@gmail.com
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Never Curse the Rain: A Farm Boy’s Reflections on Water BY JERRY APPS c.2017, Wisconsin Historical Society Press, $22.95 / higher in Canada 145 pages
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our eyes are on the forecast. Depending on what it says, you’ll either approve or scowl. You don’t want your plans ruined but here’s the thing: you know that weather changes and you can’t do anything about it anyhow. So read the new book “Never Curse the Rain” by Jerry Apps, and learn to
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which meant multiple trips with heavy pails. Other days, they carried water for cooking, drinking, and washing-up. Apps says he was grown and gone before his parents had indoor plumbing in the house; the barn had it first. But water wasn’t important just on the farm. Apps writes of fishing in local lakes, appreciate what comes from the skies. of visiting the water-powered mill, campGrowing up on a farm in north central ing in the rain, after-chores swimming on Wisconsin, Jerry Apps remembers the hot summer days, and the blessed relief importance of water. One of his first of a night-time thunderstorm. memories of the liquid, in fact, was Do April showers bring May flowers? when his little brother was sick: there They say it’s so. You have a few weeks was an emergency rite performed and, before you’ll know for sure. In the meanbecause he was standing nearby, fourtime, might as well read “Never Curse year-old Apps was conveniently bapthe Rain.” tized, too. For the average reader, this book His father, knowing how essential is like the literary version of comfortmoisture is to crops and livestock, food: put it in your hands, and always admonished Apps you’ll feel as though you’re and his brothers to wrapped in Grandma’s “never curse the rain.” hand-knitted afghan He understood, says while sipping Apps, that “the tomato soup on a farm’s need for gray day. Author water must come Jerry Apps will do before the family’s that to you; he’s a hopes and wishes.” consummate storyThere were times teller who can sadAuthor, Jerry Apps when rain didn’t come. den you on one page, Apps remembers when tickle your funny bone the windmill didn’t turn and the two pages later, and astound cows bawled their thirst. His father first you with facts in between. His memohauled water from a neighbor’s farm; ries evoke a time many readers have when that wasn’t enough, he purchased only learned about in books. a second-hand gas-powered pump that, For those who share the memories, with “wheezing and kabooming,” saved “Never Curse the Rain” is like a handthe livestock until the wind and rains shake from a friend. returned. There are, therefore, two distinct Theirs was an otherwise good well, audiences for this book: 16-to-35-year180 feet down and dug by hand in the late old readers, and anyone who’s 36-to-104. 1800s. The family was lucky; Apps says If you fit inside those basic groups, the he knew of farmers who had to relocate forecast for this book is sunny. s their homesteads when wells went bad. Terri Schlichenmeyer has been reading As for indoors, Apps recalls how he since she was 3 years old and she never goes and his brothers hauled water from an anywhere without a book. She lives with her outdoor pump for indoor use. Saturday was bath day and Monday was wash day, two dogs and 11,000 books. seniortimesmagazine.com
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