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CONTENTS JUNE 2016 • VOL. 17 ISSUE 06

ON THE COVER – Paynes Prairie by Night. Former Gainesvillian, James Pion, provided this month’s cover photo, using a long exposure to capture the stars and the Milky Way. The light from the cars on 441 illuminates the palm trees.

PHOTO BY JAMES PION

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Tapas Community Page Charity of the Month

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Calendar of Events Theatre Listings Crossword Puzzle

Springs Protection Scientists From Across Disciplines Come Together For Springs Research

BY HANNAH O. BROWN

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The Final Frontier Our Trip to the Kennedy Space Center

BY ALBERT ISAAC

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Enjoying Act Three

by Ellis Amburn

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Tinseltown Talks

by Nick Thomas

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Healthy Edge

by Kendra Siler-Marsiglio

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Veteran J.J. Corbett One of Three Living WWII Smokejumpers Recalls Putting Out Fires from Japan’s Balloon Bombs

BY MICHAEL STONE

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Reading Corner Review by Terri Schlichenmeyer

WINNER! Congratulations to the winner from our MAY 2016 issue…

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“I was born with the heart of a competitor, but it failed without warning when I was a University of Florida swimmer. Dr. Jamie Conti and her team at UF Health diagnosed my rare arrhythmia and provided a unique treatment plan that keeps my heart beating strong. Knowing that I could have died at any moment now helps me live each one to the fullest. I wouldn’t trust my heart care to anyone else.”

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FROM THE EDITOR œ ALBERT ISAAC

Space, Sky, Environment Greetings fellow Earthlings!

I’m glad we’re taking this cosmic journey together — at about 67,000 miles per hour, as it turns out. That’s our speed as we race around the sun.

Additionally, our entire solar system whirls around the center of our galaxy at 490,000 miles per hour. Oh, and the galaxies are flying through the cosmos at some 621 miles per second.

I took an astronomy course in college (only one — it wasn’t easy) and what I learned truly boggled my mind. Wish I could remember most of it.

With Space and the Environment in mind, Senior Times offers up a few stories about star gazing, NASA and conservation.

Did you know there is an astronomy club in our area? Indeed, there is. The Alachua Astronomy Club, founded back in the ‘80s, is still going strong. You can read about this organization and its upcoming Star Party in our Community section.

Not so very long ago, the family and I

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took a trip down to the Kennedy Space Center (talk about mind boggling!). I very much enjoyed taking in the sights with my wife and our two boys and snapping photos. You can read all about our experiences visiting this remarkable place.

By now most of us have heard that our precious springs are in peril. But there are organizations that work tirelessly to study and protect these remarkable natural resources. One such group is known as the Collaborative Research Initiative on Sustainability and Protection of Springs (CRISPS), which is focused on the Silver Springs springshed in Marion County. Learn all about this project in which researchers from the University of Florida have been paired with researchers from the St. Johns River Water Management District. Each team is focused on a specific area of research impacting springs conservation.

Speaking of conservation, we also offer some information on the types of things you can recycle. We’ve really become a ‘throw-away society,’ but this is one way to help cut back on all the garbage that otherwise goes to the landfill.

Lastly, we continue with our series on World War II veterans with a profile on J.J. Corbett, one of only three living “Smokejumpers.” I learned a bit about history from this story.

If you know a WWII veteran in North Central Florida who would like to tell his or her story to Senior Times, please email Michael Stone at MichaelStone428@gmail.com.

As always, I hope you enjoy our magazine and thank you again for reading! s

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This revolutionary thinker in feminism was arrested and fined for her valiant efforts in securing women the right to vote. The right to vote was finally obtained by women in 1920 with the 19th Amendment.

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Anne Frank was born, in Frankfurt, Germany. Her diary about her life in hiding during World War II was published posthumously on June 25, 1947.

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Paul McCartney JUNE 18, 1942

Paul McCartney is one of the most famous rock stars of all-time. From an early age McCartney had an affinity for instruments, teaching himself to play the Spanish guitar, piano and trumpet. At age 15 he joined his friend John’s (John Lennon) band.

Throughout the next few years the band changed names multiple times, landing on the name “The Beatles.” The two shared songwriting privileges and played clubs across Europe. Throughout the ‘60s the Beatles were a fixture in popular culture. After his career in the Beatles McCartney released solo albums and formed his own band, Wings.

McCartney has been knighted, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, and has received many awards.

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Born on June 7, 1943, Nikki Giovanni is one of the most famous AfricanAmerican poets. Giovanni spent much of her childhood with her grandmother who shared her love of storytelling and her African-American heritage with her. Giovanni is best known for her influential book of poems entitled “Black Feeling, Black Talk” that sold Years Old more than 10,000 copies in just its first year. In addition to exposing social problems in her many works, Giovanni is also a political activist, speaker and professor. She currently teaches at Virginia Tech as a University Distinguished Professor.

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COMMUNITY œ ASTRONOMY

THE ALACHUA ASTRONOMY CLUB’S JULY STAR PARTY

Stargazers Unite! story by Ericka Winterrowd photography by Howard L. Cohen

The Alachua Astronomy Club, Inc. (AAC) is a group of people who enjoy looking at stars and planets, and who love to communicate their excitement about the heavens to others.

According to the organization’s website, the AAC was founded in 1987 when Dr. Armen C. Tarjan (Charlie) contacted astronomy professor Howard L. Cohen and asked if Gainesville had an astronomy club. Professor Cohen responded, “Not any longer, but do you want to start one?” The AAC flourished over the next 11 years and was incorporated as a not for profit organization under the laws of the State of Florida in 1999.

The AAC provides opportunities for its general membership to get together and participate in a variety of astronomyrelated activities. The club’s outreach programs strive to bring in the general public, too. Membership is open to anyone

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with an interest in astronomy. No knowledge of astronomy is needed and no equipment is necessary. All ages are welcome.

Annual Senior memberships are $20.

Andy Howell is the President of the club and said that a July Star Party event, which is open to the public, is currently planned. Visitors can expect to see summer stars at that time as well as the globular cluster M13 in the constellation Hercules, the Ring Nebula M57 in the constellation Lyra, the Dumbbell Nebula M27 in the constellation Vulpecula, and the double-double star Epsilon Lyra, to name a few.

“At approximately 9:01 pm, observers will be treated to the sight of the Hubble Space Telescope streaking across the night sky, looking like a first-magnitude star moving through space.

It will be easily visible to the unaided eye,” Howell said in a seniortimesmagazine.com

recent email.

“The planets Mars, Jupiter and Saturn will be visible in the sky as well,” Howell said. “Mars is at one of its closer approaches to Earth this year, so [the planet] may show some details on its surface through telescopes.”

Howell said the giant planet Jupiter and its four bright moons would be in the western sky. Saturn with its rings and bright moon Titan will also be spectacular in the southeastern sky.

“Saturn’s moon Titan is the only moon in the solar system that has an atmosphere,” Howell said.

The gathering is contingent on clear skies, so those planning to attend should call that day, when a recording will update them on the status of the event. Assuming the weather is good, about 25 members would be present with up to a dozen telescopes.

“Members are usually more than happy to show guests sights in the sky,” Howell said.

Most of the club’s members first became interested in astronomy in the 1960s and 1970s, when the Apollo missions to the moon were happening, Howell said.

Some are beginners, some are intermediate, and there are a few advanced members who have professional experience, too.

“Our mission is to enjoy astronomy for it’s own sake,” Howell said. “And to also share our knowledge and love of astronomy through school outreach and public outreach events.”

He said that space is the environment is which the Earth exists, which is why it’s so important to continue to study the sky above us.

“If it weren’t for space and our galaxy, and our solar system, and the universe — if it weren’t for those things — then the Earth wouldn’t have a place to be.” s Howard L. Cohen is Associate Professor of Astronomy (Emeritus) at Newberry Star Park.

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ECOLOGY

Springs Protection Scientists From Across Disciplines Come Together For Springs Research

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t the same site where the Father of Springs Ecology, Howard T. Odum, began his pioneering research on springs decades ago, a group of scientists from the University of Florida and the St. John’s River Water Management District (SJRWMD) have begun a three-year $3 million initiative to take a closer look at some of the same questions that Odum himself explored.

“It’s the same question now,” said David Kaplan, UF assistant professor in the Engineering School of Sustainable Infrastructure and the Environment. “How productive are they? What are the drivers? So we are still trying to figure it out.”

The project, called Collaborative Research Initiative on Sustainability and Protection of Springs (CRISPS), is focused on the Silver Springs springshed in Marion County.

While some conditions have changed since Odum’s initial research in the 1950s, such as reduced water flow and an increase in nitrate concentrations, the project aims to use interdisciplinary

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research to identify any and all variables that may have an effect on the health of the spring.

The project’s research team is organized into two “super groups” and six work groups.

Researchers from UF have been paired with researchers from the SJRWMD, the funding organization, and each team is focused on a specific area of research impacting springs conservation.

“From our perspective, it’s an excellent investment and a great opportunity to have a partnership like this,” said Casey Fitzgerald, director of the Springs Protection Initiative at SJRWMD.

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BY THREE QUESTIONS: 1. When and where is it most feasible and cost effective to reduce nitrate loading to the spring?

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Researchers are investigating questions at many scales, from the entire springshed to the molecular level. Sensors allow scientists to record data on dissolved oxygen, nitrates, and other parameters.

Springs were historically dominated by native submerged aquatic vegetation, although many have recently transitioned to an algal-dominated state.

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“It’s a lot of disparate research in a sense,” Kaplan said. “There are people looking at the scale of a springshed, which is thousands of hectares, and then people looking at the molecular scale almost, and so to synthesize that information is very hard and to do it in a way that’s useful is even harder.”

Dr. Pete Suscy, a researcher with SJRWMD for 22 years, works with Kaplan specifically on determining the role that the speed of water plays in the spring system.

“Our part is to focus on what velocity itself can potentially do to alter community structure in the spring, but, in particular, also to remove algae that is attached to the grasses,” he said.

Velocity is just one element under consideration. Other areas of research include the effects of the food chain, what influence snails that graze on algae have, the impact of trace minerals, and other topics that focus on what elements impact the health of the springshed.

UF and SJRWMD teams meet at least three times a year, with smaller groups meeting as often as each month. With so many scientists involved, the feedback between researchers has become an intense process, pushing the team to ask new questions and consider fresh alternatives.

Fitzgerald said the abundance of scientific opinion is not a coincidence. The project was engineered to include a continuous feedback loop from the start.

“It’s very healthy to have that cross-pollination,” Fitzgerald said.

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Much of the work for the CRISPS project will take place at Silver Springs, the same place H.T. Odum first conducted his pioneering ecological research in springs in the 1950s.

Researchers are investigating a wide range of factors that may affect algal growth in the springs, including the role of grazers such as snails.

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“People tend to get so locked into their own areas, and really one of the keys is that we are not going to let that happen.

We are going to make sure there is constant communication among the work groups and between ourselves and UF.” And when the meetings are adjourned, the group makes sure not to cut the conversations short.

“When we ‘end’ the meeting, it doesn’t really end for another hour or so because people just sit there and keep talking, comparing ideas and whatnot,” Fitzgerald said. “It’s a very healthy exchange.”

CRISPS researchers aim not only to identify and define the factors involved at Silver Springs, but also to create a foundation for future research in springs across Florida.

“We are confident that the restoration projects we have been funding are going to benefit the springs, but we want to be even more strategic in the future,” Fitzgerald said. “In order to do so, we need better science to answer a number of questions so that we can better direct future investments, not only by the district but also all of the entities that are involved.”

The end goal, Fitzgerald said, is to have a more complete picture of the

Scientists are looking at different links in the food web to determine the role of certain organisms in spring ecosystems. One organism being studied is the Suwannee cooter (Pseudemys concinna suwanniensis), a subspecies of freshwater turtles endemic to north Florida and southern Georgia.

various aspects impacting the springs, and then, ultimately, to come up with a plan to work toward conserving and protecting the springs as much as possible.

“So at the end of this study, we will have a much better understanding of what all of the influential factors out there are that are causing degradation of the spring systems and then how do we address those, how do we reverse those trends,” Fitzgerald said.

The project has come to the end of its first year, and Fitzgerald said everything

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COLUMN œ ELLIS AMBURN

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art of the joy of being a New York book editor was meeting and working with such brilliant stars as Ingrid Bergman and Olivia de Havilland. I was editor-in-chief of the Delacorte Press, which published Ingrid’s book “My Story,” and later I was Olivia’s editor for her autobiography.

These two amazing women knew each other and had often been up for the same roles. Ingrid turned down “The Snake Pit,” terrified by the prospect of playing an insane woman. Olivia took on the part and won an Academy Award nomination.

In 1941 they found themselves both houseguests at Burgess Meredith’s upstate New York hideaway. Meredith was best known as George in “Of Mice and Men” and later as the raspy-voiced boxing trainer Mickey Goldmill in Sylvester Stallone’s Rocky films.

He and Ingrid had just costarred in a Broadway revival of Liliom, the Ferencz Molnar play on which the Rogers and Hammerstein musical Carousel was based.

Olivia had been dating both Meredith and Jimmy Stewart, who were roommates in Los Angeles.

Ingrid had brought along her husband Petter Lindstrom, a Los Angeles dentist, and their three-year-old daughter Pia, who’d grow up to be a television journalist.

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Each morning, Olivia would see Petter and Ingrid sitting outside the guesthouse, Ingrid perusing scripts and Petter absorbed in a book.

“He adored her and she knew it,” Olivia recalled, “but I think every man adored her.”

At lunchtime, Ingrid went to the main house and raided the refrigerator, enlisting Olivia to help her prepare a simple meal and supervising the operation like a chef giving orders to his staff.

Ingrid had just finished filming “Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” at MGM, where she was having affairs with both her director Victor Fleming and costar Spencer Tracy.

Years later when I worked with Petter on his memoir, which was never published, he told me that Ingrid slept with all her leading men, that she was an alcoholic, and that when she was drunk one night she fell and cut her face.

To spare her scandal, Petter, being a doctor, stitched her in their bedroom.

“It took a lot of effort to hold Ingrid together,” he said. “I’d been doing that for years, and would continue to do so until she deserted me and our young daughter.”

I could easily see why Ingrid left him.

During the months Petter and I collaborated on his book in his comfortable home in Fullerton, 40 miles from Los Angeles, he took over my life, controlling

me with the same iron hand he’d used on Ingrid, beginning with my diet. I was moderately overweight, and Petter lectured me endlessly, insisting on preparing my meals himself, which consisted of shrimp and sliced homegrown tomatoes.

I quickly lost a great deal of weight, which delighted him. He took great satisfaction in controlling needy persons’ lives, but eventually I rebelled against such relentless domination. Almost 60 years old at the time, I was in no mood to be bossed around like a child.

But that was the least of my worries.

Working with Petter was like lancing a boil ripe and stinking with the puss of hatred and resentment.

Though he had undertaken our book to exorcise Ingrid once and for all, it had the opposite effect, plunging him into a cesspool of vengeful acrimony and dragging me in with him.

It began to make me sick. I’d assumed we’d cover the scandal that ensued when Ingrid deserted him and their young daughter to run off with Italian director Roberto Rossellini and live with him on the remote volcanic island of Stromboli, where she promptly got pregnant, enraging a public that thought of her as their favorite saint. But instead we dwelt on their romance and early marriage in Sweden, the films she made there and in Nazi Germany — I was surprised that he’d permitted his young wife to do so, and that he still felt no guilt — and how they came to Hollywood where, in his view, her life fell apart.

I couldn’t agree less, feeling Ingrid had been forced to leave him to grow up.

Although I liked Petter, I had to drop out of our project for the same reason. s Ellis Amburn is the author of biographies published by HarperCollins and is in the Hall of Excellence at TCU’s Schieffer School of Journalism. He lives at a retirement community in Gainesville. ellis.amburn@gmail.com

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The Final Frontier A Trip to the Kennedy Space Center

story and photography by Albert Isaac It was 1969. I well remember the night Dad woke us up so we could huddle in front of the black and white television and watch Neil Armstrong take his first step on the Moon.

And even before that, I remember opening our World Book Encyclopedia and reading detailed descriptions and drawings depicting the way in which the long voyage would be accomplished. It was the stuff of science fiction.

I — like so many of us born at the dawn of the Space Age — had a keen interest in everything space related. I had books. I had models. And I had rockets — model rockets that I launched high into the sky, powered by Estes engines.

Much has changed since those early days of the Space Age. People don’t use Encyclopedias very much; computers can be found in most households; and my cell phone has more processing power than the Lunar Landing Module.

But one thing hasn’t changed — humankind’s resolve to explore.

So, a few years back, it was with great anticipation that my family and I took a drive down to the Kennedy Space Center to see its marvels.

We were not disappointed.

I had visited once before, many years ago.

I was in college, and had traveled to Cape

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Canaveral with my buddies to watch the Space Shuttle Columbia take off. It was a daytime launch and I snapped photos with my trusty old nto space.

35 mm SLR as the orbiter roared into Fast-forward more years than I care to mention and I’m back, gawking att these ceships. almost indescribably massive spaceships. nd Only this time I’m with my wife and th sons and I’m snapping photos with my new digital SLR. it We had the good fortune to visit the Space Center on both Saturday and Sunday – fortuitous because there is a lot to see. We wandered the grounds marveling at the majesty of the gigantic rockets. It’s hard to believe that k something so massive could break free of Earth’s gravity.

The Apollo/Saturn V Center wass particularly impressive. There we stood d — the h beneath the largest rocket ever made Saturn V. This colossal craft carried 27 heroic astronauts to the moon. Later it was used to launch the Skylab space station. The Saturn V is taller than the Statue of Liberty and weighs 6.2 million pounds. seniortimesmagazine.com

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Our son stands in front of the immense rocket engines of the Saturn V. Positioned horizontally, we could see all 363 feet of this engineering marvel. Apollo 15 astronaut “Al” Worden (above) mingled with the visitors and signed autographs during our visit to the Center.

These beasts are 19 feet high and burned for a mere 165 seconds.

We marveled at the sight of this amazing ship, the four of us dwarfed by the enormity of its five F-1 rocket engines.

These beasts are 19 feet high and burned for a mere 165 seconds — producing enough thrust to launch the Saturn V through its first of three stages. According to space.com, the first stage alone consumed 4.5 million pounds of propellant at 15 tons per second.

The Saturn V is where it all began. On July 20, 1969, millions of people throughout the world — myself included — watched on live television as a man stepped onto the moon’s surface.

Also on display were the Lunar Module, the Moon Buggy and the scorched and rust-colored Apollo 14 capsule — among many other historic items.

We also strolled through the Rocket Garden, where we en-

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joyed a bit of American space program history. Here visitors can see a collection of authentic and replica rockets representing the progression of manned space flight through the Mercury, Gemini and Apollo eras. We climbed into a capsule and we walked the gantry used by the crew of Apollo 11. Our youngest boy enjoyed the hands-on experience very much.

We all did.

A must-see for us was the Shuttle Launch Experience — a simulated ride in the Space Shuttle. We climbed in, buckled up and experienced what it must feel like to blast off into space.

Veteran NASA astronauts call this attraction the world’s most realistic simulation of a space shuttle launch. We enjoyed it much. When we returned the following day my youngest son and I went twice. Good times. seniortimesmagazine.com

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Many people don’t realize how NASA technology has helped their lives. Here are just a few examples…

Light-Emitting Diodes (LEDs): Red light-emitting diodes are growing plants in space and healing humans on Earth. LED technology has contributed to the development of the WARP 10, a hand-held, high-intensity, LED intended for the temporary relief of minor muscle and joint pain, arthritis, stiffness, and muscle spasms, and also promotes muscle relaxation and increases local blood circulation.

Infrared Ear Thermometers: The aural thermometer uses infrared astronomy technology to measure the amount of energy emitted by the eardrum, the same way the temperature of stars and planets are measured. This method avoids contact with mucous membranes, virtually eliminating the possibility of cross infection, and permits rapid temperature measurement of newborn, critically ill, or incapacitated patients.

Artificial Limbs: Advancements such as Environmental Robots Inc.’s development of artificial muscle systems with robotic sensing and actuation capabilities for use in NASA space robotic and extravehicular activities are being adapted to create more functionally dynamic artificial limbs.

Highway Safety: Safety grooving, the cutting of grooves in concrete to increase traction and prevent injury, was first developed to reduce aircraft accidents on wet runways.

Improved Radial Tires: Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company developed a fibrous material, five times stronger than steel, for NASA to use in parachute shrouds to soft-land the Vikings on the Martian surface.

Goodyear expanded this technology and produced a new radial tire with a tread life expected to be 10,000 miles greater than conventional radials.

Firefighter Gear: Firefighting equipment widely used throughout the United States is based on a NASA development that coupled Agency design expertise with lightweight materials developed for the U.S. Space Program.

Temper Foam: While developing a padding concept to improve crash protection for airplane passengers, Ames Research Center created a foam material widely used and commonly known as temper foam or “memory foam.” The material has been incorporated into mattresses, pillows, military and civilian aircraft, automobiles and motorcycles, sports safety equipment, amusement park rides and arenas, horseback saddles, archery targets, furniture, and human and animal prostheses.

Enriched Baby Food: Infant formulas now contain a nutritional enrichment ingredient that traces its existence to NASA-sponsored research that explored the potential of algae as a recycling agent for longduration space travel.

Portable Cordless Vacuums: Apollo and Gemini space mission technologies created by Black & Decker have helped change the way we clean around the house. For the Apollo space mission, NASA required a portable, self-contained drill capable of extracting core samples from below the lunar surface.

Solar Energy: Homes across the country are now being outfitted with modern, high-performance, lowcost, single crystal silicon solar power cells that allow them to reduce their traditional energy expenditures and contribute to pollution reduction.

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Visitors also have opportunities to meet with veteran astronauts. We listened to Alfred Merrill “Al” Worden tell us what it was like to travel to the moon. This legendary astronaut and engineer was the Command Module Pilot for the Apollo 15 lunar mission in 1971. He talked with us afterward, signed autographs and posed for photos.

The Center also offers Lunch with an Astronaut, where you can sit down for a hot meal as a NASA veteran astronaut shares personal recollections of his or her time in space.

Seems everything is immense at the Space Center, and the crawler-transporters are no exception. These behemoths had carried the Saturn V — and later, the Space Shuttle — to the launch pads.

Among the largest tracked vehicles ever constructed, the two crawler-transporters weigh in at a whopping six million pounds. They hold 5,000 gallons of diesel fuel and average 42 fpg (that’s feet per gallon). Operated by a team of 30 engineers, technicians and drivers, these enormous machines move slowly, very slowly (1 mph — 2 mph unloaded); it takes six hours to reach the launch pad.

Recently upgraded, the crawler-transporters will carry NASA’s Space Launch System and Orion spacecraft to the launch pad for the Exploration Mission-1 in 2017.

Since our visit to the Space Center, the shuttle program has come to a close, with Atlantis completing its final flight on July 21, 2011. Atlantis is now enshrined at the Kennedy Space Center Visitor Complex, offering visitors a 360-degree view of the orbiter as only astronauts have seen it before — tilted at a 43.21 degree angle with its payload bay doors open and its robotic arm extended.

The Space Shuttle Atlantis exhibit showcases this historic spacecraft and tells the story of NASA’s 30-year Space Shuttle Program. By the end of its final mission, Atlantis had orbited Earth 4,848 times, traveling nearly 126,000,000 miles in space — more than 525 times the distance from Earth to the moon.

When we left after our first visit, it wasn’t until we reached Orlando that our oldest boy realized he had lost his wallet. Upon our return the following day the good people at the Space Center let him enter even though he had lost his ticket along with his wallet. We went straight to lost-andfound and there it was — complete with ticket, license and cash. It’s refreshing to know there are still honest people in the world.

Needless to say, we had another fun, fascinating and informative visit; there’s a lot more I could write about if I had the space. There are many new things to see at the Kennedy Space Center and it’s high time we return — it’s out of this world. s June 2016

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Tinseltown Talks Singer Toni Tennille’s Brush with Hollywood

by Nick Thomas

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he put the “Tennille” in the popular ‘70s music duo of “The Captain and Tennille” and enjoyed two huge number one Billboard hits — “Love Will Keep Us Together” and “Do That to Me One More Time.” But Toni Tennille also brushed shoulders with Hollywood’s biggest stars.

Born and raised in Montgomery, Ala., Toni recently left five decades of West Coast life behind her, as well as nearly 40 years of marriage to musical partner Daryl “The Captain” Dragon, and returned to the South.

“I’m now living just northeast of Orlando near my sister,” said Toni who released her April autobiography “Toni Tennille: A Memoir” written with niece, Caroline Tennille St. Clair.

“It took two years to write and looks back at my childhood growing up in the segregated South,” she said.

After arriving in California in 1961, Toni worked in Repertory Theater, wrote music, and eventually met and married musician Daryl Dragon. When “The Captain and Tennille” exploded onto the pop music scene in 1975, they were given their own primetime weekly TV variety show on ABC also called “The Captain and Tennille.”

Toni said working with the weekly guests was a highlight.

“I was so excited about meeting all those fabulous stars like George Burns and Bob Hope,” she said.

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Toni Tennille today with her neice and book co-author Caroline Tennille St. Clair.

ries was “Masterjoke Theater” where a guest would perform a short monologue and close by tossing a pie in his own face.

“Big stars like Vincent Price, Raymond Burr, Bob Hope, and Tony Randall were all game to be silly.”

The show, however, only lasted one season. But with her cheerful and engag-

ing personality, Toni was back on television again in 1980 starring in her own program, “The Toni Tennille Show,” a nationally syndicated series featuring musical numbers and her interviews with special guests. She also drew on advice her mother had offered years before.

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The show only lasted a year, too, but the parade of stars was once again stellar and included Ginger Rogers, Ernest Borgnine, and Charlton Heston. However, one of her most memorable encounters occurred off-screen at Dodger Stadium in 1978.

“I used to sing the National Anthem there,” she recalled.

“I was sitting at a table during one of the events and a man came up to me and said ‘Miss Tennille, I’m Cary Grant. I just wanted to tell you that I have never heard the National Anthem sung more beautifully.’ Wow, such high praise from Cary Grant. And I found it so endearing that he felt the need to introduce himself to me!”

Her glitzy entertainment career now in the distant past, Tennille, 75, said she found the perfect house last summer after moving to Florida, and easily slipped back into Southern living.

But her decision to divorce Daryl in 2014 took many fans by surprise, as the duo was publicly perceived as a devoted couple performing their string of love songs for years. However, Toni said, throughout the marriage there were problems that became overwhelming, so it was time to move on.

“We were not the lovebirds that the public saw,” she said.

“We still talk regularly and care for each other. But my message for people who are in a bad relationship is to get all the help you can to remove yourself from the situation. We all deserve happiness.” s Nick Thomas teaches at Auburn University at Montgomery, and has written features, columns, and interviews for over 600 maga-

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TRIBUTE

Veteran J.J. Corbett One of Three Living Triple Nickle Smokejumpers Recalls Putting Out Fires from Japan’s Balloon Bombs

by Michael Stone

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earl Harbor stands out as the United States’ biggest homeland catastrophe during World War II, of course, but afterward, other close-to-home threats persisted.

During the five-plus-years-long, tumultuous Battle of the Atlantic, German U-boats patrolled and attacked within a few miles of the East Coast, including on the night of Jan. 19, 1942, when the freighter City of Atlanta was sunk just seven miles off the edge of North Carolina. Forty-four of the 47 crew members were killed.

On Feb. 23, 1942, a Japanese sub surfaced off Santa Barbara, California, and shelled a coastal oil operation, causing only minor damage but stirring panic at the thought of invasion.

In fact, the next day, artillery was sent into the skies over Los Angeles following reports of enemy aircraft — an incident that would be named “the Battle of Los Angeles,” according to the History channel.

On June 21, 1942, a different Japanese submarine attacked Fort Stevens in Oregon at the mouth of the Columbia River, which flows into the Pacific. It fired 17 shells in the base’s direction but inflicted little damage, mostly hitting a nearby baseball field, the History channel says.

That September, the same sub launched a floatplane twice that dropped bombs in and around Brookings, Oregon, in hopes of starting fires — but this, too, was unsuccessful.

And then there were acts of espionage and sabotage.

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November 1944. Set to drop after the three-day journey, only roughly 350 crossed the mainland’s coast, but those that did make it occasionally drifted for great lengths, even going as far east as Michigan.

At the ready to fight the fires caused by the successful bombs were Sgt. Jordan Jerome “J.J.” Corbett and the other “smokejumpers” of the Army’s 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion. Called the “Triple Nickles” (intentional spelling), the 555th was the first group of all-black paratroopers — officers and enlisted personnel — in the U.S. Armed Forces.

“Patriotism, to me, was at its highest for this country, even though things were segregated and whatnot — people wanted to prove, wanted to do,” Corbett, 93, said from his Bartow, Florida, home, his wife of 61 years, Eva, sitting close by. g we had to “It was a good time in that respect, even though

“I had never been in a plane before. I had to go up and jump out.” senses.” suffer through a lot of segregated nonsenses.”

Corbett is one of only three known living smokejumpers from the 555th, which contributed 300 men total to the 2,700-person effort to put out the fires, codenamed Operation Firefly.

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A painting shows Sgt. J.J. Corbett in his service uniform next to photographs of members of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion during World War II. (Right) A paratrooper bust sits in the living room of Corbett’s Bartow home.

at the time that such men and women weren’t as capable as their white counterparts.

“They wanted to see if black folks had the courage and the intelligence to jump out of an airplane and carry out a mission on the ground after they got there,” Joe Murchison, president of the 555th Parachute Infantry Association who joined the battalion in 1947, said of the War Department launching what was considered an “experiment” in December 1943 with 20 black paratroopers.

(Seventeen of this “test platoon” made it through training, and one, Sgt. Clarence Beavers of New York, is still living.)

Still, even with the stateside roles, Corbett said he today reflects on the smokejumpers’ actions as significant — though it took he and others of the 555th a while to realize it because of the heroics that quickly emerged from Europe, the Pacific and elsewhere.

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“I didn’t see it at first because most of my friends had been overseas. They’d talk about their experiences overseas,” said Corbett, a member of the 555th’s original company of maybe 150 that followed the test platoon. “I was just here at the homeland putting out fire. It was a long time before we talked about this.”

Corbett is originally from Pierce, Florida, a now-nonexistent phosphate-mining community west of Bartow in Polk County.

His dad had been a sharecropper in Rich Bay in the Panhandle but was dissatisfied with the work because, among other reasons, equipment breakdowns came out of his paychecks.

“He said, ‘We’d work a whole week and make a dollar and a half,” Corbett recalled, noting his dad had heard about phosphate mining elsewhere in Florida and decided that was seniortimesmagazine.com

(Above) Corbett’s home is lined with his trophies from his many years as a successful high school coach of football and track and field, as well as from his own time as a golfer. (Right) His family stands with him at his May 1950 graduation from North Carolina A&T. (Below) A Triple Nickle hat.

a better alternative.

“One day, he said, about noon … he just mowed the horse all the way to the end of his line and stopped and started walking south. And [he] hoboed his way down south.”

Corbett’s dad settled into American Agricultural Chemical Company’s phosphate-mining operation in Pierce. He didn’t have to pay rent because the company owned the houses, which were divided into white and black sections, as were the two K-8 schools.

“It was still extremely racial,” Corbett said. “Some of the people, as far as the language — they didn’t refer to you as colored or black [but instead as] negroes.”

For high school, the white kids were given bus transportation to Mulberry about five miles to the north, but black students had to furnish their own to get to the black high schools farther away in Bartow or Lakeland.

But thankfully for Corbett, his first year of high school was the first for transportation for black students. So he went to the all-black Union Academy in Bartow, where he played football and basketball, and during the summer, he worked 12-hour days at the mine for 35 cents an hour.

“That was pretty good during that time,” he said of the pay.

Corbett’s football prowess proved good enough for a scholarship to play center and linebacker for the all-black college Bethune-Cookman in Daytona Beach. He started in the summer of 1942, but he didn’t stay long because, in January 1943 at age 20, he was drafted into military service.

After his first training stop at Camp Blanding near Starke, Florida, his educational level resulted in him being sent to Camp Tyson in Paris, Tennessee, to learn how to operate barrage balloons.

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Barrage balloons (left and top) would be sent into the air up to 5,000 feet by steel cables to deter air attacks because pilots feared running into the cables. Paratroopers then and today learn to fall by being dropped from a 250-foot tower (right) with their chutes already deployed.

said, “so within five or six months, I had gone from private to sergeant.”

Barrage balloons are the giant blimp-shaped balloons that would be sent into the air up to 5,000 feet by steel cables from land or aboard ships. The balloons deterred attacks from lowflying aircraft because of the fear of running into the cables.

“If you look at some of the [Normandy] invasion films, you’ll probably see on some of the ships … those balloons,” Corbett said.

After finishing barrage-balloon training and starting to train others, he somehow got reassigned to Fort Bragg in North Carolina to learn artillery and then to Fort Bliss in Texas for aircraft training.

Fort Bliss is “where I saw on the wall they were looking for colored soldiers to volunteer as a paratroop,” Corbett said,

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describing the poster advertising nice boots — and nice pay — which looked good to a young man. “That’s when I signed up.”

But Corbett’s roots in wanting to go airborne date farther back, all the way to his childhood, when kids would pay 50 cents for two- or three-minute fun rides in the backseat of a biplane.

“I never could raise that 50 cents. I never did get a chance to go up in one,” he said. “I always wanted to go up in a plane.

I had my chance as a paratrooper.”

Yet playing the part of adult paratrooper provided little fun in the beginning.

“First of all,” Corbett said, “the physical fitness was the most difficult part than all the other parts: learning how to fall and how to roll when they fall, going through all these different exercises and jumping out these different little towers and seniortimesmagazine.com

“That blast, if you’re not in the right position, it shakes you up something.”

then taking you up on the 250-foot tower.”

The towers, which continue in paratrooper training today, teach how to fall and land prior to actually jumping out of a plane, and the 250-foot one already has trainees harnessed in and chute deployed before releasing them to the ground.

Noting his first real jump, Corbett said: “That’s when I found out I wasn’t as brave as I thought I was. I had never been in a plane before. I had to go up and jump out.”

And on that jump, “I didn’t do much right,” he said, describing the jerk of the chute, which was designed to pop open by the propeller blast two or three seconds after the paratrooper jumped.

“That blast, if you’re not in the right position, it shakes you up something,” he said. “And boy, when it opened, I tell anybody, I swear I saw confetti-looking light all around me.”

In other words, he saw stars. “It shook me up that hard.”

After several months of training and finishing with his wings, Corbett and the others of the 555th Parachute Infantry Company were sent to Camp Mackall in North Carolina and, on Nov. 25, 1944, were transformed into Company A of what had grown into the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion.

Thoughts among the battalion centered on being sent to

Europe or the Pacific front. But instead, they were presented with a “secret mission”: 200 from the 555th were to be sent to Pendleton, Oregon, and 100 to Chico, California, to join the U.S. Forest Service in fighting fires caused by Japan’s balloon bombs.

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Officials labeled Operation Firefly as a secret because they didn’t want the public to panic — especially after one of the bombs killed Elyse Mitchell, a minister’s wife, and five Sunday-school classmates, ages 11 to 14, who had come across the unexploded device while on a picnic outing near Bly in southern Oregon.

These were the only combat deaths in the contiguous 48 states during the war.

Parachuting in near the fires was preferred because it allowed the smokejumpers to reach a destination quickly amid undeveloped forests and put the fires out while they were still easily containable. Equipment was parachuted in, too, Corbett said.

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West Coast’s forests because, without clear fields, the smokejumpers had to get themselves hung up in a tree. Once caught by the tree, they’d lower themselves down with a rope.

They could still find a place to hit the ground, of course, but the terrain — with its stumps, roots, boulders and other dangers — made such a landing inadvisable. Some of those who did land like this got badly hurt, Corbett said, but the one smokejumper who died in Operation Firefly did so under different circumstances.

Despite not receiving full smokejumper training, medic Malvin Brown volunteered to replace the assigned medic, who was sick, for the Aug. 6, 1945, jump to fight a fire in Umpqua National Forest in western Oregon. Brown fell 150 feet into a ravine “from a very tall and leaning fir tree,” according to the Army, and he’s believed to have died instantly. seniortimesmagazine.com

(Left) Corbett — second from right in the top photo and marked with letters and an arrow in the bottom one — with other members of the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion. (Above) Corbett and his wife, Eva, when they married in 1954. (Below) Among Corbett’s many recognition for his high school coaching career is a lifetime membership into the Florida Athletic Coaches Association.

Once on the ground, the smokejumpers assisted Forest Service rangers already there, mainly by clearing vegetation to create a fireline that would prevent the fire from spreading.

Between the Pendleton and Chico groups, the Triple Nickle smokejumpers are believed to have helped rangers fight 28 fires, including 15 that saw the soldiers reach their destination by parachuting in, according to the Army.

Corbett doesn’t remember his mission total, but he did note that “there were a lot of fires, and firefighting is dangerous.”

“All of a sudden, one area’s just like somebody poured gasoline all over everything,” he said. “And the flame was extremely hot. Our eyebrows were singed.”

He doesn’t remember seeing fire from the plane, only from the ground: “You didn’t wanna jump too close to the fire,” he said with a laugh.

Operation Firefly ended with Japan’s defeat in August 1945, and when the 82nd Airborne Division held its victory parade in New York City on Jan. 12, 1946, the 555th smokejumpers were the only black participants.

“You won’t see us on the movies,” said Corbett, who participated in the parade and was discharged from service the following month.

He immediately wanted to return to school, but the G.I. Bill flooded Florida’s black colleges, Bethune-Cookman and Florida A&M, with new students. So instead of waiting another year to enroll, Corbett found an alternative: the all-black North Carolina A&T in Greensboro, where he played center on the football team, majored in math, and minored in health and physical education.

After graduation, he returned to Union Academy to teach math and serve as offensive-line coach for the football team and head track and field coach. Several football players from his tenure at Union went onto the pros, including cornerback Ken Riley, who played 15 seasons for the June 2016

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Cincinnati Bengals, and wide receiver Jerry Simmons, who put nine seasons under his belt for various teams.

At Union, Corbett met Eva, his wife, who taught home economics there.

Corbett retained his same positions at Bartow High School when it integrated with Union in 1969, though he did only one year of football at Bartow.

“The students didn’t like what was going on, but we were able — especially the black coaches — to quiet things down before they got out of control,” he said of integration. “We didn’t have any big situations like they had in some areas during the time.”

Though he had a state track championship with Union, two with Bartow, and his name in the Florida High School Athletic Hall of Fame, Corbett said none of his runners went on to be household names.

“I thought I had guys who probably could have if they’d have stayed with it,” he said. “But they didn’t stay with it.”

Corbett retired from Bartow in 1980, but two years later, he began his 12-year tenure on the Polk County school board.

“As soon as I retired, I got busy,” Corbett joked.

After the school board, he served 14 years on the board of directors for the now-defunct Citrus & Chemical Bank before really retiring in 2008.

Corbett said his Citrus & Chemical appointment came at the recommendation of another board member, Chesterfield Smith, who wanted black Americans on the board so it would “represent the community.”

As president of the American Bar Association during the Watergate scandal, Smith grabbed the national spotlight for the statement “No man is above the law” that followed President Richard Nixon firing Watergate’s special prosecutor to try to save himself.

After marrying in 1954, the Corbetts would go on to have a son, Jerome, and the whole family, which today includes two grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, still lives in Polk County.

As for the 555th, the battalion was officially integrated into the 82nd Airborne Division in December 1947 as the renamed 3rd Battalion of the 505th Parachute Infantry Brigade.

Even without segregation, “to be considered as good as the white soldiers, we had to be better,” said Murchison, who was part of the integration shortly after joining in 1947 and served in the military until 1960, “and we consistently proved that when we were put up against white soldiers.”

Summing up his involvement, Corbett reiterated that he and the other Triple Nickles were ready to serve overseas — they just weren’t given the opportunity.

“We were trained to fight. We wanted to be a part of the actual fighting and whatnot, but that didn’t happen,” he said. “And it was a long time before the guys realized that they had done something kind of important.” s

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(Above) In recognition of his military, education, coaching and community service, the Polk County Board of Commissioners made Feb. 7, 2016, “J.J. Corbett Day in Polk County.” (Below) Corbett points to himself among others from the 555th Parachute Infantry Battalion.

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Our digestive tracks are lined with an intricate system of two layers of over 100 million nerve cells. Scientists are now nicknaming it the “second brain.”

This second brain, formally called the enteric nervous system (ENS), aids in digestion — independent of our central nervous system. More interestingly, it also affects our moods, our decisionmaking and our health.

If you’ve ever “gone with your gut” to make decisions, then you’ve used your ENS. If you’ve ever felt “butterflies in your stomach” when you were nervous or saw your love interest approaching, then you’ve experienced your ENS giving you signals.

When we aren’t in decision-making mode or going on an exciting date, our ENS’ primary function is to help us digest our food. Jay Pasricha, M.D., director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Neurogastroenterology has conducted extensive research on the ENS. “Its [the ENS’] main role is controlling digestion, from swallowing to the release of enzymes that break down food, to the control of blood flow that

helps with nutrient absorption to elimination,” Pasricha said.

We may not be able to solve math problems with our stomachs, but according to Pasricha, digestive-system activity may also affect cognition (thinking skills and memory).

“The ENS communicates back and forth with our big brain — with profound results,” Pasricha said.

have shown that it’s often physical issues sensed by the ENS that initiate our emotional state — not the emotional state in the brain leading to digestive issues. Mounting evidence shows that irritation in the digestive track can send signals that trigger mood changes to the central nervous system (CNS). About 40 percent of Americans have digestive issues at some point.

To further complicate things, microbiota — the bacteria that live in the digestive system — also play a role in the connection and communications between the ENS (gut) and CNS (brain).

Researchers are currently working on studies that explore the intersection of the ENS, the CNS, microbiota and gut hormones.

What should you do with this information? Know how everyone says, “listen to your body?” If you finish a meal and you feel tired, nauseous or unfocused, then it may be your ENS sending signals to your brain. It’s letting you

Mounting evidence shows that irritation in the digestive track can send signals that trigger mood changes to the central nervous system.

Studies by Dr. Jeffrey Zigman’s team at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center have shown that the ENS can affect our food intake if it senses stress. Their work in the Journal of Clinical Investigation showed that stressed mice go for high-fat, energy dense foods because the mice’s ENSs produce a gut hormone called ghrelin in response to stress. Ghrelin works on mice and humans similarly. It tells your brain (the one in your skull) to eat food, especially high-fat (COMFORT) food.

ENS studies focusing on irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and other digestive issues such as constipation, diarrhea, bloating, pain, or stomach upset,

know that it doesn’t like something you ate. If you can figure out what it’s reacting to, and avoid it, you may feel better.

Also, if you want to start using your “gut” more, try talking to it. It may sound silly, but visualize your stomach, and ask it a question. Did an answer pop in your head? Many people find that talking to their body (as if it’s a friend) works for them. Over time, you may surprise yourself with how wise your digestive track really is. s Kendra Siler-Marsiglio, Ph.D. is the Director of the Rural Health Partnership at WellFlorida Council.

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10am – 3:00pm GAINESVILLE - Florida Museum of Natural History, 3215 Hull Rd. Children and families are invited to tour the museum’s exhibit with staff from the Sea Turtle Conservancy. The free event features sea turtle specimens, a turtle library and stickers and bookmarks for all kids. Children also may create fun crafts to take home, meet sea turtle scientists and play turtle trivia for a chance to win a cool prize.

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JUNETEENTH CELEBRATION Saturday, June 18 4:00pm – 7:00pm GAINESVILLE - Cone Park Library Branch, 2801 E. University Ave. Special presentations, music, exhibits, activities, food, drinks and prizes. This year marks the 151st anniversary of Juneteenth, a day of recognition and celebration of the end of African American slavery in the United States.

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FANFARE AND FIREWORKS Sunday, July 3 9:00pm GAINESVILLE - University of Florida’s Flavet Field. The Gainesville Community Band plays 4th of July Favorites. www.gnvband.org.

JULY 4TH CELEBRATION Monday, July 4 3:00pm to 10:00pm ALACHUA - Hal Brady Recreation Complex.

Activities for the kids, including a petting zoo, bounce houses, water slides, a spray park and skateboard park. For adults there are vendors, bingo contests, dancing groups and live musical entertainment to name a few.

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Devin Leonard, you’ll never take it for granted again.

When 14-year-old Ben Franklin ran away from home in 1723, the only job he could find was a printer’s apprenticeship. Five years later, Franklin started a newspaper, but he needed the postal service to grow it.

When he got the chance to be U.S. postmaster, he pounced on it.

Long before that, the Assyrians established a way of carrying messages but the service was available only to high-ranking individuals. By the time the Dark Ages ended, there were several public postal services around Eurasia, and when the British came to America, they established one, too. Franklin merely improved the one he’d inherited.

As America grew, so did the need to get mail to everyone, everywhere: in 1801, there were just over 900 post offices; 30 years later, there were nearly 9,000 of them – many, in the homes of local postmasters.

Folks picked up their own letters then, and mail could take a month to arrive. As settlers moved west, mail was delivered via a circuitous route that included boat, which took up to 90 days.

That spurred three men to start the Pony Express, which carried mail for just 18 months and resulted in a $200,000 loss for them before the telegraph made messaging an instant thing.

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Still, clamor for word from loved ones at wartime led to mail’s re-popularity, free home delivery in 1863, and the outlawing of mailed pornography in 1865. A few years after wars’ end, Christmas cards helped keep the Post Office in business — just in time to see rural free delivery for farmers and non-citydwellers. Airmail was available starting in 1918, V-Mail kept up morale for troops in World War II, and the Zip Code appeared in 1963. And though email is relatively new, the words “snail mail” have been around for decades…

Every now and then, I really crave a good, quirky history book.

“Neither Snow nor Rain” really fit the bill this week.

Lively, fun, and a bit on the gossipy side, this book takes readers through a basic history of message-relaying before author Devin Leonard dives into a full tale of Ben Franklin’s tenure with the Post Office, Britain’s involvement, and chaos in the system. Leonard delivers a lot here, and moves fast as he entertains; as his book progresses, we watch businesses get involved, the USPS sort itself out, and a nation grow. There are surprises in this book, and that quirkiness you just have to have sometimes.

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