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FROM JUNK TO ART

MAJESTIC MERMAIDS

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Celebrate 65 Years at Weeki Wachee

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CONTENTS JULY 2012 • VOL. 13 ISSUE 07

ON THE COVER – Nansi Carroll studied voice at the Royal Academy of Music in London, and earned her Master of Music, Master of Musical Arts, and Doctor of Musical Arts from the Yale School of Music. In 1999, she co-founded Jubilus with Dr. Stephen Coxe, and in 2010 established “A Musical Offering” to fund concerts and support outreach.

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Tapas Senior Center Calendar of Events

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Theatre Listings Crossword Puzzle Reading Corner

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Healthy Edge

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Embracing Life

by Donna Bonnell

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Enjoying Act Three

by Ellis Amburn

From Junk to Art Gainesville’s Repurpose Project Takes Off

BY ELLIS AMBURN

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Meet Nansi Carroll Gainesville’s Cultural Hidden Treasure

BY ELLIS AMBURN

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Majestic Mermaids at Any Age Celebrating 65 Years at Weeki Wachee Springs

BY JEWEL MIDELIS

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Water Legacy Ocala Family Teaches Swimming For Nine Decades

BY BONNIE KRETCHIK

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FROM THE EDITOR œ ALBERT ISAAC

After much effort, I have finally made our swimming pool habitable for human activities.

It required a healthy dose of various chemicals, new skimmer baskets, a timer for the pool pump and a formidable amount of elbow grease.

And just in time for summer. Our youngest has been in it every day since getting the green light that it was clean enough to use. In fact, when I come home from work I often find him at the door, clad in his swimming trunks, towel over his shoulder, waiting to jump in.

“Pool time, Dad!” By this time of the day the sun is no longer blasting down upon us. The water is cool but certainly tolerable. Plus the rowdy little man keeps me active enough to stay warm.

“OK,” I tell him. “We’ll swim until I finish my drink or we see a bat, whichever comes first.”

Yes, bats. As the day ends, the bats arrive, flittering in the sky above our pool, devouring insects, and occasionally

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swooping down for a drink. We are grateful. I’ve read that one bat can devour 600 mosquitoes in an hour. So bats are welcome in our yard.

Snakes are welcome too, by the way.

But that’s another story for another day.

Summer is definitely here, and so we bring you a pair of stories about swimming — and mermaids. Ocala is home to a family that has been providing swimming lessons to the community for close to a century. Bonnie Kretchik writes about Ocala resident Delee Perry, who still teaches swimming, following a long tradition started by her parents years ago.

Delee Perry’s father, Newton Perry, founded Weeki Wachee in 1947, now one of Florida’s oldest and most unique roadside attractions. Thus, we also bring you a story by Jewel Midelis about the Mermaids of Weeki Wachee Springs, and the attraction that is celebrating its 65th anniversary this month.

Also in this edition are features on music and arts in Gainesville.

Ellis Amburn tells us about Nansi Carroll, who studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London, Tanglewood, and the Yale University School of Music. She has sung with the Annapolis Symphony, the New Jersey Symphony under the baton of Hugh Wolff, the Peabody Trio, and the Willis Bodine Chorale. Additionally, she is a former faculty member of Stetson University and the University of Florida, among other things.

Lastly, there’s a new project in downtown Gainesville that transforms junk into art. Ellis recently visited with the co-founders of the Repurpose Project.

Read all about this and other interesting stories in this edition of Senior Times. s

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On July 21, 1969, two men skipped across the surface of the moon. After a four-day journey into space, Neil Armstrong and Buzz Aldrin were the first men to land on and explore the crater-filled surface, while the command module pilot Michael Collins remained in orbit around the moon.

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MERMAID TALES Popular myth has been around for Ages From Hans Christian Andersen’s 1837 fable “The Little Mermaid,” to the 1984 movie “Splash,” to present-day entertainers at Weeki Wachee, mermaids have captivated imaginations for thousands of years.

Tales of these mystical aquatic creatures first appear in Assyira (now Northern Iraq) around 1,000 BC. The story tells of the goddess Atargatis, who fell in love with a shepherd but unintentionally killed him. Ashamed, she jumped into a lake to take the form of a fish, but the waters would not conceal her divine beauty, whereupon she grew a fishtail and assumed the upper body of a human.

In Chinese folklore a mermaid’s tears can turn into pearls.

So although fishermen sought mermaids, there was great risk, because the mermaid sang a song so beautiful that it would lure the men into a trance, causing them to make foolish decisions that could result in death.

While there have been many reported sightings, like the Skunk Ape and the Abominable Snowman, there is no substantiated evidence.

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The Bold and Beautiful Firework Many historians believe that this explosive entertainment was created in China as early as 200 B.C. The Chinese would throw bamboo into a fire; the air inside of the bamboo would then expand, eventually creating a big “bang.” This first form of fireworks was used to ward off evil spirits.

The Chinese began experimenting, attaching gunpowder-filled bamboo tubes to arrows. They soon discovered that the gunpowder tubes could launch themselves and thus the rocket was born.

190 MILLION In 2010, the United States imported a whopping $190.7 million worth of fireworks from China, according to the US Census Bureau.

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UPCYCLED

From Junk to Art Gainesville’s Repurpose Project Takes Off

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on’t buy, upcycle!” could be the motto of Gainesville’s Repurchase Project, a creative reuse center where people can browse and buy, and artists can collaborate and workshop with the public.

The center is located in a downtown warehouse crammed with reclaimed and recycled materials said to be perfect for the artistic temperament.

The goal is to help people learn how to incorporate trash into their art while also sparking inspiration.

That it is also a thrift store was demonstrated on a recent afternoon when a woman came in looking to purchase a used television and did not go away disappointed. Other walk-ins donated merchandise or purchased such items as old music records or pots, pans and kitchen cutlery at 50 cents per pound.

Price tags appear on more upscale objects such as the elegant picture frames on exhibit in the gallery by resident artist Todd Bicker, who rescued heart pine floorboards from a local restoration site and created vintage frames for photo-

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graphs of historic Gainesville. They go for $90 each; unframed prints are $15.

The three-part, 3,000-square-foot Repurpose headquarters is on Main Street in a 1940s landmark building that was formerly a repair garage for

founder Sarah Goff.

Repurpose is part of an “upcycling” movement that promotes taking used materials and reusing them. The practice has recently become popular with artists and eco-friendly citizens. Case

“We participate in all the Art Walks on the last Friday of every month.” city buses. Workshops are in the planning stage for such crafts as decoupage, mosaics, jewelry making, sewing with unusual materials, and crocheting with plastic bags. The whole idea at Repurpose is to get together and make neat stuff out of junk.

Repurpose co-founder Mike Myers, 66, disclosed that a songwriting workshop is being held the first Sunday of every month at 6:30 p.m. (“jam and compose”), and a movie night based on trash-themed films is in the works.

“If you have suggestions for a workshop you’d like to attend, or would like to lead a workshop, please contact us,” Myers said, referring to himself and co-

in point: Anderson Cooper devoted part of his June 12 afternoon TV show to upcycling a large used scarf into a oneof-a-kind wall decoration. His guest, Lara Spencer, “Good Morning America’s” lifestyle anchor and author of the bestselling book “I Brake for Yard Sales,” demonstrated how the scarf could be stretched, mounted, and framed.

Myers, once the owner a recycling center in Fayetteville, Arkansas, has been recycling for 40 years, long before it became a household word, and is passionately dedicated to convincing people to rethink the way they discard things.

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PHOTO BY ELLIS AMBURN Sarah Goff, co-founder of The Repurpose gallery and store in Gainesville, crocheted this purse using old VHS tape. The Repurpose Project’s aims to help people learn how to incorporate trash into their art while also sparking inspiration.

a society that casually throws away stillviable merchandise because so many people can easily buy new products. He hopes the center will encourage people to reconnect with their more resourceful and crafty ancestors.

“If you care enough about the environment,” Myers said, “you can make stuff out of anything.”

Empty baby-food jars, for instance, are incipient snow globes. Tin soup cans virtually cry out to be turned into sculpture. VHS cassettes can support shelves, and soda can tabs easily double as street-smart earrings.

Co-founder Sarah Goff, who worked with the Creative Reuse Center in Fort Lauderdale before joining Repurpose,

said, “I grew up on tiny Kwajalein Island and reused stuff out of necessity.”

“Kwadg,” as it is called, is part of the Republic of the Marshall Islands, 2,100 nautical miles southwest of Honolulu.

On display at the store is a chic purse Goff fashioned by crocheting used VHS tape, producing what could pass for a designer beaded or sequined evening bag.

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PHOTOS BY ELLIS AMBURN Ties for a pittance, at Gainesville’s Repurpose Project, a center for both artists and also the general public. Mike Myers, 66-year-old cofounder of the Repurpose Center and gallery, brandishes plastic lids that he is upcycling into -- well, he said, “come and see.” Myers created the inlaid mirror entirely of scraps. Sarah Goff is reflected at left, his wife Cathy at right.

“You just unscrew the tape [cartridge] to take out the tape,” she explained.

“The thin metal loop attached to the zipper was an old bracelet.”

The handbag, which she crocheted in all of two hours, is lined with a scrap of yellow fabric.

She hopes people will consider buying used items instead of patronizing big-box stores, and urges everyone to bring in to the Repurpose Center items that cannot normally be recycled.

“We want to fill that void,” she said in an article in Gainesville Today, point-

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ing out that everything in the gallery is repurposed, including the tables holding art and merchandise.

Myers and Goff acquired the building on January 1, 2012, hoping to introduce upcycling to Gainesville.

“It’s been a long road,” Myers said.

“Picking up artists helped. We scrubbed away the grease from the old garage.”

They opened later in the year during one of the Art Walks held monthly in downtown Gainesville.

Items included a clothespin and a piece of wood that had been turned into

a business card holder; a former toothbrush now a modish bracelet; and a roof shingle transformed into a small canvas.

“We participate in all the Art Walks on the last Friday of every month,” Myers said. “At the July Art Walk our theme is going to be plastic: resident artists who do something with plastic.” As he spoke, he was examining a cardboard boxful of International Delight lids in bold blues and reds. “Come to the next Art Walk if you want to see the toys I’m turning these into,” he promised. “Upcycling lessens the impact on the landfill.” seniortimesmagazine.com

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PHOTO BY ELLIS AMBURN Todd Bicker, contractor and Repurpose Project artist-in-residence, holds discarded scrap pine from which he fashioned picture frames.

Mike Myers created the art gallery out of an old city bus-repair garage.

Myers, shown at left with artist-in-residence Todd Bicker, offers bargains and workshops on jewelry-making, mosaics, decoupage and crocheting with plastic bags and VHS tape.

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The grand opening was followed by a May 12 fundraiser called “Family Fest... a day to love each other and love the planet,” featuring crafts, live music, a raffle, children’s recycling games and food. Participating businesses included Ward’s, The Fat Tuscan, Maude’s, and Satchel’s Pizza. Myers stressed that Repurpose is an education-based nonprofit community effort, and can accept tax-deductible donations through the 501(c) status of “our good friends at Trash To Treasure Creative Reuse Center.”

“We have a University of Florida intern, Jenna Thompson,” he added, “who’s in charge of kids’ activities this summer.”

Workshops are held from 6-8 p.m.

“We rent space to those who want to sponsor projects here,” Myers said.

Repurpose’s wish-list includes a movie projector, arts and crafts tools such as scissors and sewing machines, plywood, track lighting, sponsors to help with rent, printing companies to supply promotional postcards, shelving, and more participating artists and community volunteers.

Two resident artists were busily at work when Senior Times recently visited the art gallery. A smiling Christina Rohan posed for a photograph beneath her delightfully cluttered and gaudy collage, which easily dominated an entire wall and epitomized Repurpose’s theory that commonplace materials can produce uncommon art.

Rohan’s dazzling array of baubles, bangles, and beads — the sort of detritus Repurpose stocks in its art-supply store — shows what can be accomplished with a little glue and lots of talent, and is reminiscent of Joe Brainard’s pop art, Jean Dubuffet’s assemblages inspired by art of the insane, and Alfonso Ossorio’s surreal “congregations” of shells, bones, driftwood, doll’s eyes, costume jewelry and children’s toys.

Todd Bicker, whose frames and

photographs are the current featured display, is a perfect candidate for Repurpose artist-in-residence. He restores historic Gainesville homes for a living and knows where the treasures are hidden; the antique heart pine in his frames came from an old church.

He mentioned how fortunate he was to have the expert counsel of his mother, Dee Henrichs, historic preservation planner for the City of Gainesville, whose job is to preserve historic homes.

Among the photos in Bicker’s frames are shots of the Bailey House, constructed on Sixth Street from 1848 to 1854 and still standing; the First Baptist Church, erected in 1897 and demolished in 1965; the Alachua County Courthouse (18841961); McCrory’s 5-20-25-cent downtown emporium; and young Floridians off to WWII circa 1915.

Explaining the upcycling process by which he morphed rough, long-used lumber into glossy picture frames, he said, “First, I ripped it on the table saw, then used a router, sanded it and applied three coats of polyurethane. This took two to three weeks of working evenings and weekends.”

Although resident artist spots are currently full, associate artists who prove the most active, reliable, and productive customarily fill resident vacancies the minute they become available. To become an associate artist, visit the Repurpose website and complete the questionnaire. Applicants should be committed to the environment, interested in a co-op atmosphere with community work spaces, using recycled/reclaimed materials in preferably 75 percent of their projects, donating eight hours per month to minding the retail store and contributing $25 per month to rent and exhibit in the Depot Park area. s The Repurpose Project is located at 519 South Main Street in Gainesville. Visit www.repurposeproject.org for more info.

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Healthy Edge Post-menopausal? Should You Take Vitamin D and Calcium Supplements?

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re you taking vitamin D and calcium supplements to prevent bone fractures? If you’re a healthy, post-menopausal woman, the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force asserts that there’s not much evidence on the benefits or harm of those supplements in combination.

For years now, vitamin D and calcium have been regarded by the medical community at-large as the “go-to” nutrients for bone health.

These supplements are even endorsed by the Institute of Medicine, which recommends a daily vitamin D intake of up to 800 international units (IUs) and up to 1,300 milligrams of calcium.

The task force is reporting that doses for the purpose of deterring bone fractures in healthy women (that is, less than or equal to 400 IU of vitamin D and 1,000 milligrams of calcium) pose an increased risk for kidney stones. Based on the kidney stone risk, the panel is currently dissuading the use of vitamin D and calcium for fracture prevention.

Should you and your doctor heed this warning? Dr. David Willis, a family physician in Ocala, points out that the report discourages the primary preventive use of the supplements, but not their secondary preventive uses.

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(“Primary prevention” means that you don’t have a medical condition, but want to prevent one. “Secondary prevention” means that you have a condition, but you try to keep it from getting worse.)

“This is a draft recommendation that’s still open for public comment,” said Dr. Willis. “Within it, the task force is recommending that healthy, postmenopausal women — those without a diagnosis of osteoporosis or osteopenia —shouldn’t take a calcium and vitamin D combination because the current evidence is insufficient to determine the benefits and harms.”

The Society of Bone and Mineral Research asserts that the task force didn’t fully consider the largest fracture trial: a study of 36,282 post-menopausal women ages 50-79 led by the Women’s Health Initiative. (Although this study showed that Vitamin D and calcium supplements improved hipbone density — a 1.06 percent increase, hip fractures were not significantly reduced by supplement intake.)

Additionally, an analysis on 50 fall prevention studies released May 29 showed that Vitamin D supplements and exercise reduce the risk of falls in community-dwelling Seniors.

According to this assessment in the

Annals of Internal Medicine, vitamin D supplements and exercise were better fall preventives than home hazard modification and behavioral counseling.

So, what do you do if you’re a healthy post-menopausal woman and you don’t want to take calcium and vitamin D supplements? For your D, take walks in the Florida sunshine. Your skin produces vitamin D when it’s exposed to enough sunlight. According to the Norwegian Institute for Air Research In Gainesville, a Senior who has a light complexion needs sun exposure for about 8 minutes every other day. This institute also suggests that Seniors with dark complexions may need up to 40 minutes of sun every couple of days.

Foods, such as milk and yogurt products, are rich in calcium and fortified with vitamin D. A 3 oz. sockeye salmon provides 794 IU of vitamin D. Or, try cod liver oil. It gives you over 10X the D in milk. If you go for the fish oil, avoid it when it’s combined with vitamin A. At high levels, A can be toxic and can weaken bones.

The U.S. Preventative Services Task Force is the same one that discouraged prostate-specific antigen tests to screen for prostate cancer in healthy men and suggested that women ages 50 to 74 have a mammogram every other year instead of yearly. Like the vitamin D and calcium decision, these recommendations are being debated by stakeholders nationwide.

Want more information about the U.S. Preventative Services Task Force’s recommendations regarding vitamin D? Check out the vitamin D “Scorecard” at www.uspreventiveservicestaskforce.org/ draftrec3fig.htm. The task force’s draft recommendations are open for public comment through July 10, 2012. s Kendra Siler-Marsiglio, Ph.D. is the Director of the Rural Health Partnership at WellFlorida Council.

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Senior Recreation Center Awarded LEED Gold

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he City of Gainesville Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs, in conjunction with the General Services Department and Alachua County Eldercare, is proud to announce that the Gainesville/Alachua County Senior Recreation Center has been awarded the LEED certification at the Gold Level by the U.S. Green Building Council and verified by the Green Building Certification Institute.

“A part of what makes the Senior Recreation Center a valuable resource to the community goes beyond the services provided.

This certification demonstrates that is a model for future projects where we want to reduce the long term costs to the environment through sustainable building practices,” said Steve Phillips, Director for the Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs.

The U.S. Green Building Council (USGBC) has four levels of sustainable design: Certified, Silver, Gold and Platinum. Under the current requirements for new construction, projects are considered on a 110 point scale for a variety of aspects such as site selection, water efficiency, energy use and monitoring, materials and resources, indoor environmental quality, proximity to established transit and low emission transportation, education, innovation in design and regional priority. According to the USGBC, only 24 percent of all certified projects achieve LEED Gold status.

The Senior Recreation Center was a collaborative project between the City of Gainesville, Alachua County and Elder Care of Alachua County. The development team consisted of MRI Architects, TLC Engineering, civil engineers from Brown and Cullen, and Mills-Gilbane construction.

The achievement of the LEED Gold certification for the Senior Recreation Center marks a significant progress for capital improvement projects in the efforts to integrate sustainability in new construction, as well as improving conditions at existing sites. By applying these standards, the City of Gainesville Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs invests in the longterm benefit to the community through sustainable practices. s

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ART & MUSIC

Nansi Carroll Gainesville’s Cultural Hidden Treasure

by Ellis Amburn

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hen Dr. Nansi Carroll, a gale force in Gainesville music at 65, was recently asked to name her favorite artist, she chuckled before replying, “It always changes, but there are standouts.”

She mentioned her father, Edward, who was a Methodist pastor at a church in Baltimore.

“Roland Hayes presented a recital there,” Carroll said, referring to the lyric tenor born in 1887 in Curryville, Georgia, the son of former slaves. Hayes became the first African-American male concert artist to receive international recognition, earning $100,000 per year touring and teaching voice. Long before the civil rights movement, he defied racist segregation laws in Rome, Georgia, and was beaten and arrested. His recordings of “Were You There [when they crucified my Lord?]” and “Go Down Moses,” are heartrending and noble.

“Marian Anderson,” Carroll continued, naming another powerful motivator. “I saw her in a live performance at the Baltimore concert hall toward the end of her career.”

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Arturo Toscanini, Anderson scored a historic victory over racial discrimination when she sang “God Bless America” from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial after the DAR refused to let her perform before an integrated audience in Constitution Hall in 1939.

“Just to be in her presence...” Carroll said, and left it at that.

Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau was the next artist on her list of all-time greats.

“I saw him when he first began singing — two concerts in London, one all Schubert. Extraordinary,” she said.

In a British poll, the German lyric baritone was ranked the second greatest singer of the 20th century after Jussi Bjorling, and Who’s Who cited him as the most recorded artist of all time.

“When I was studying in England at the Dartington College of Arts, I went to a summer festival in Devon,” Carroll continued. “Gerald Moore had just retired from live performing. He’d been a hero of mine.

He and Janet Baker gave a recital. I walked two miles back, I was so flabbergasted.”

Moore had long been the piano accompanist of choice for the world’s most

celebrated musicians.

“He partnered for Pablo Casals, Elisabeth Schwarzkopf, Fischer-Dieskau,” she said. “I met Moore. He wrote a [1962] autobiography, “Am I Too Loud?” and made the public aware of the significance of the collaborative piano.”

To Carroll, piano accompaniment “is a serious course of study, and Moore was the pioneer.” As Fischer-Dieskau wrote in the introduction to Moore’s 1943 book “The Unashamed Accompanist,” Moore raised the status of accompaniment from a supporting role to equal partnership with the soloist.

It was also at Dartington that Carroll encountered the Argentinean-born Daniel Barenboim.

“His father did a master class there,” she recalled.

Once the conductor of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Daniel Barenboim is currently music director of both La Scala in Milan and the Berlin State Opera.

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In the Barenboim tradition of multifaceted musicianship, Nansi Carroll is a quadruple-threat, adept at piano, composing, singing, and conducting. She is also artistic co-director of Jubilus, an annual classical-music concert series, and during its Spring Gala at the Doris Bardon Community Cultural Center in May, she and flautist Christine Alicot collaborated on two pieces by Debussy. Later in the program she returned to the piano as bassoonist Javier Rodriguez’s partner in Villa-Lobos’s “Ciranda das Sete Notas.”

“I’ve known Javier since he was 13,” she later said, adding that it “was amazing to see him develop over the years. I wrote for his senior recital for his bachelor’s for unaccompanied bassoon. Then he requested other pieces for his recitals.

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clown of the orchestra,’ but it has extraordinary pitch, agility and range. It has a lot of depth.”

Puerto-Rico born and Gainesvillereared, Rodriguez’s doctoral dissertation concerns Carroll as a composer, and he also commissioned her to write “Mr. Mitty,” a piece based on a James Thurber story.

“I learned a lot about my piece listening to Javier’s lectures at recital,” she reminisced with a smile.

In 2009 Rodriguez and saxophonist Sean Fredenberg, who holds a Master of Music degree from the University of North Carolina, launched the Post-Haste Reed Duo, and in order to expand their repertoire commissioned Carroll to work on “The Servant Girl at Emmaus,” a composition for soprano saxophone, bassoon, contralto, and three sopranos.

“Javier and Sean wrote the contralto solo with me,” she said, and explained that she drew on a Denise Levertov poem about the dinner the resurrected Christ ate with the two disciples he met on the road to Emmaus. “A Velasquez painting inspired Levertov’s poem. The main figure is the servant girl. She recognizes Jesus before the disciples do.”

The divine presence is only suggested through Velasquez’s use of light.

In May, Carroll had just completed a rush job celebrating the 25th anniversary of the ordination of Rev. John Phillips, formerly of Gainesville’s St. Augustine Catholic Church and more recently of Holy Faith. As for future compositions, she said she is “collecting ideas for a piece for the Post-Haste Duo. Javier and I will be applying for a composing grant.”

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PHOTOS BY ELLIS AMBURN OPPOSITE: Artistic co-directors Nansi Carroll and Stephen Coxe at the Jubilus Spring Gala held in May at The Doris.

TOP: Bassoonist Javier Rodriguez with alto Jenna Nishida and VOICES Choir tenor Cedric Douglas. A doctoral student at Florida State University, Rodriguez wrote his dissertation on Nansi Carroll and has commissioned musical compositions by her.

RIGHT: Soprano Adrianna Rodgers (right) and mezzo-soprano Alyssa Rodgers (front) with parents John and Ressa. Their Rossini “Cat Duet” stopped the show.

BOTTOM LEFT: Gainesville residents Dustin and Rebekah Rodgers.

writing music, Carroll revealed that improvisation plays a crucial role in musical creativity. When she was a child, her uncle, Julius Carroll, an organist, instructed her when he was doing his master’s in music education.

“My father’s brother always said, ‘If you get a child young enough, you can indoctrinate them in music.’ I would see him off and on at various times in my life — it wasn’t concentrated. He introduced me to improvising. It’s fun to improvise at the piano.

“There was improvisation in the Baroque,” she explained, referring to a Bran-

denburg Concerto in which the harpsichordist improvises the entire second movement, and, in the classical period, a Mozart concerto in which “the cadenza is improvised on the spot. Musicianship develops through improvisation and using intervals, composing creatively.”

She called improvisation “the big deal of my life,” explaining that some composers “work from a concept, a disciplined plan from the beginning. With me, I often find — depending on the piece — improvising in my life has been my main creative conduit.”

Her composition, “Stabat Mater,”

which she described as “variations on the spiritual ‘Were You There,’” was performed to the choreography of Vic Rose.

Composers who have written settings to this 13th-century Catholic hymn (“At the cross her station keeping stood the mournful mother weeping”) include Palestrina, Pergolesi, Haydn, Rossini, Vivaldi, Gounod, Schubert, Verdi, and Dvorak.

For her 40-minute version, Carroll employed a 20th-century setting.

“It was written at the time of the Second Iraq War,” she said, referring to the 2003-2011 conflict over weapons of mass destruction, of which the U.S.-led Iraq Survey Group later found insufficient evidence. The war cost the lives of 4,408 U.S. and 110,600 Iraqis, with a total cost to the U.S. economy of $3 trillion.

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harmony in the world.”

The Yale School of Music, where Carroll was educated, emphasizes the service element in music, and service has always played a large role in Carroll’s work — the spiritual messages implicit in her compositions, her co-founding Jubilus with Dr. Stephen Coxe 13 years ago, and establishing AMO (A Musical Offering) in 2010 to fund concerts and support outreach.

Alachua High School student David Ousley won AMO’s 2012 young composers competition with his quartet for French horn, “Taking Flight Fanfare,” which will be performed by Jubilus Ensemble musicians at their 2013 festival.

Of considerable help in bringing musical education to children and youth was the 2010-2011 grant Carroll received from Yale, thanks to tenacity, imagination, and being a distinguished 1982 Doctor of Musical Arts alumni.

Looking to the future, Carroll said, “The fall gala will be in October, and will be a preview of the festival in February, probably to be held at Holy Faith Church. Two upcoming anniversaries will figure significantly, one marking 50 years since the death of Poulenc, and the other the 100th anniversary of Benjamin Britten’s birth.”

Her 2011 retirement as music director of St. Augustine Catholic Church and Student Center, a ministry begun in 1987, evidently has not slowed her down. What she most desires now is for “people to realize what a wonderful resource Jubilus is for the community: a wide range of programming and commitment to the works of living composers and new pieces.”

UF’s professor Jennings declared, “The Jubilus Concert Series that she organizes and presents annually is truly among Gainesville’s greatest cultural ‘hidden treasures.’”

Most important, “the concerts are free!” Carroll said. “We just want people to come. Our audiences are getting bigger all the time.” s seniortimesmagazine.com

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bed. After some much-needed rest, I awakened to an unbelievable thirst, but was afraid to put anything in my stomach. Posttraumatic stress disorder ensued. My fear of facing a resurgence of the enemy was almost overwhelming.

Yikes! A flashback from a conversation held earlier in the week snapped me back to reality. I had nearly forgotten! Guests were scheduled to arrive that afternoon for supper.

I stopped feeling sorry for myself, slowing swallowed ginger ale and saltine crackers and waved a white washcloth begging for a truce.

My next maneuver was to remove the evidence from the battlefield. All s I groaned, curled in a pathetic something that did not agree with my the defense weapons were sanitized, fetal position on the once plush digestive system, so I drank a cup of hot including the porcelain throne and bathroom mat, the music from Bad Boys, herbal tea to settle my nausea, downed my well-weathered companion, the written by Bob Marley, played in my an anti-diarrhea drug and went back bathmat. The entire house received an mind. Since this took place during one to bed. I rolled over, took a deep breath arsenal of disinfectant spray. I was ready of the 15-minute intermissions between and then everything exploded. My body for action. Dinner was a success and the kneeling towards to the porcelain engaged in a full-blown battle against mêlée from the night before was never God, I actually laughed when my brain the bad bugs. This time I ran to the mentioned. automatically substituted bugs for bathroom, where I would stay the rest of After everyone left, battle fatigue boys. I knew everything would be okay. the night. Any vessel capable of holding struck hard. Before retreating, I took Eventually I would find some sort of liquid was in the war zone. some time to reflect on my experience. humor to share about a night One perk of being the author most people would like to of Embracing Life is that “Perhaps, when I was kneeling at the forget. In the meantime, my everything I encounter has porcelain altar, God heard my prayers a purpose and a story to answer to Marley’s question, “watcha gonna do,” was and sent me a subtle message by way share. This episode took an simple: survive the night. unexpected twist — comic of the Bad Boys jingle.”

The journey began slowly relief. Who knows why? and I was in complete denial.

Perhaps, when I was At about 10:00 p.m. my bowels began Extreme sweats and chills kneeling at the porcelain altar, God to churn. Thinking it was stress from accompanied my bodily secretions as heard my prayers and sent me a subtle the day’s demands and anticipation of it waged its war on bugs. Thankfully, message by way of the Bad Boys jingle. hosting a dinner for 12 people in less the brief interludes between combat Maybe my years of training to focus on than 24 hours (for which I was not missions provided an opportunity the positive paid off. Or, maybe I am just prepared), I dismissed all thoughts of to rebuild my strength. The bathmat losing my mind. Whatever the case may being ill and went to bed. Just as I was became my best friend and security be, I am grateful for receiving the gift of drifting off to sleep, I was jolted awake blanket during those times of peace. humor. s by severe stomach cramps. Stumbling to Sometime in the wee hours of Donna Bonnell is a freelance writer who the bathroom, I made it just in time, to the morning the bad bugs either moved to Newberry in 1983. She enjoys experience round one of the attack from surrendered or my aching body won the living and working in the town she now calls the bad bugs. It was not very pleasant. battle. Even though I was lightheaded, home. donna@towerpublications.com At first, I thought I had eaten I pulled myself up and staggered to

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Mermaids at Any Age Celebrating 65 Years at Weeki Wachee Springs

by Jewel Midelis

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efore the curtains open, smiling children bounce in their seats with excitement. Families crowd the 500-person theatre. When the curtains are drawn, the gasp comes that silences the room.

“I want to see the blue one!” children cry out with joy. Then, the first mermaid appears and the audience is captivated.

Since 1947, this underwater mermaid performance at Weeki Wachee Springs has been attracting visitors to the park.

One year prior to the mermaid’s first performance, in 1946, former Navy sailor Newton Perry created and developed a business off of U.S. Highway 19 at Weeki Wachee Springs. Perry cleaned the spring, which was littered with abandoned refrigerators and car parts.

After restoring the second-magnitude spring in the park, Perry set out on his most important mission — to recruit beautiful women to become part of his roadside attraction. Applying knowledge from his Navy experiences, Perry invented a way to breathe air underwater through an air tube rather than a scuba tank. Perry taught his recruits to swim

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and smile, drink grape soda and even eat bananas, all while underwater. This was the beginning for the mermaids at Weeki Wachee Springs.

Barbara Wynns performed as a mermaid from 1967 to 1969 and from 1972 to 1975. She then returned to perform as a “former mermaid” in 1997. In a recent interview at Weeki Wachee Springs, Wynns recounted a story of the early days at the park. When the girls would hear a Model-

“There is no competition to Weeki Wachee mermaids because of our uniqueness.”

T on the highway, she said, they would run to the road and wave people in. After luring the travelers into the park, the girls would jump into the spring, do a performance for their audience, and then feed them hotdogs and hamburgers.

In 1959, the American Broadcasting Company (ABC) purchased Weeki

PHOTOS BY ALBERT ISAAC In addition to performing in the Mermaid Theater at Weeki Wachee Springs Park, mermaids also commune with their aquatic friends, and offer youngsters an opportunity to pose with a mermaid. Visitors are encouraged to applaud and cheer during shows because the Mermaids can hear the audience while performing in their natural fishbowl.

BOTTOM RIGHT: Weeki Wachee Mermaid Alumni posed for this photo in 2007 for the attraction’s 60th anniversary. From left to right: Vicki Smith, Bev Brooks Sutton, Dottie Meares, Marianne Bennett and Barbara Wynns.

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Wachee Springs. The company promoted the park, attracting audiences from all over the world. ABC also built the current 500-seat theater that is embedded in the side of the spring 16 feet below surface, according to the Weeki Wachee website.

“They built this multi-million dollar theater in 1961, so that was the first year that it opened, when they had choreographed shows, music, costumes and so forth,” Wynns said. “Before, it had been a live, announced show with a

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few girls in the water always eating and drinking Grapette.”

Throughout the ‘60s and ‘70s, Weeki Wachee flourished. The underwater shows became themed, involving storylines such as “Cinderella” “Underwater Follies,” “The Lion King,” “Wizard of Oz,” “Snow White” and “Underwater Dream Girls.”

“From the ‘60s to ‘75 or ‘80, when it was owned by ABC, it was in its prime,” Wynns said. “There would be a show

every hour from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.

There were 32 girls on the roster. It would be an hour-long show with six or seven girls performing [at a time].”

Celebrities such as Arthur Godfrey, Larry the Cable Guy, and even Elvis Presley traveled to see the beautiful mermaids perform at this underwater extravaganza, according to the website.

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PHOTOS BY JEWEL MIDELIS CLOCKWISE FROM TOP LEFT: Weeki Wachee Springs also features Buccaneer Bay, Florida’s only spring-fed water park, with slides, animal shows and a River Boat Cruise.

South Carolina resident Miriam Vannoy traveled to Weeki Wachee to participate in the mermaid camp for adults. Vannoy has wanted to be a mermaid since visiting the springs as a young girl.

Kylee Troche, 20, became a mermaid in 2009, and said she loves the glitter, makeup and swimming. Inbetween shows, mermaids in training twist and dive, trying their best to become an everlasting Weeki Wachee mermaid, while former mermaid, Bev Brooks Sutton, captivates a young boy in the Mermaid Theater.

Bev Brooks Sutton swam as a mermaid from 1969 to 1972 and then returned as a former mermaid in 1997.

“The best part of performing was being able to swim for family when we were young and making life-long friends,” she said.

A shift came when Disney opened and took business away, Brooks Sutton said. “We are lucky that we’re still alive.”

“Robyn [the current park manager] saved the park; there would not be a

park if it weren’t for Robyn because she was like the Tank [Man] at Tiananmen Square,” Wynns said adamantly.

“Otherwise, we would have gone into roadside-attraction oblivion. We would not be here.”

Although faced with challenging times, Wynns believes that “there is no competition to Weeki Wachee mermaids because of our uniqueness.”

“Now that the state has bought that, it’s going to go on forever,” Wynns said. “The

park with mermaids will go on forever.”

Like Wynns and Brooks Sutton, some of the former mermaids volunteer their time at the spring to keep the funds within the park.

“I love this place, I absolutely love it,” said Arlene Mahoney Brooks, who worked with Wynns as a mermaid in 1967 and 1968. “All these ladies who volunteer for the swimming camps are absolute heroes in my book.”

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PHOTO BY ALBERT ISAAC Like a fish out of water, a Weeki Wachee mermaid must be carried on dry land, as seen in this 2007 photograph. Visitors can also encounter a variety of wildlife at the park.

Weeki Wachee, but one of the most popular is the “Sirens of the Deep Mermaid Camp,” which is already sold out for the rest of the year. This two-day camp for $350 allows women — and men — 30 years and older to explore their “inner” mermaid (or merman).

“The camp started three years ago,” Wynns said. “Our camp helps people go home and know that they have been and are going to be a mermaid their whole life.”

Now, 65 years later, the mermaids from both past and present are celebrating Weeki Wachee’s 65th Mermaid Reunion. This event gives an opportunity for all mermaid alumni to enjoy a weekend of reminiscing and talking about their former, or current, mermaid lives. On Saturday, July 14, the former mermaids will perform two different shows, one with just the veterans and one with the current mermaids, as well.

Brooks Sutton said the former mermaids practice every Thursday for their monthly shows and in preparation for the 65th anniversary show with the “young guns.”

“This [being a mermaid] affects people the rest of their lives. If they stay months or 10 years, this is the hardest first job to have because when you have

to go into the real world after this, no other job is as good,” Wynns said. “At the 65th Mermaid Anniversary you will have girls crying because it is in our core.”

“It can be very difficult to find mermaid alumni, so the reunions help us network,” said Becky Young, who was a mermaid from 1973 to 1976 and again from 1981 to 1985. Young, who also volunteers for Weeki Wachee, said the mermaid reunion will be more nostalgic than her high school reunion.

During the beginning of the Cold War, and when Meet the Press — the longestrunning television series in American broadcasting history — first aired on television, Weeki Wachee Springs had its first underwater spectacular on October 13, 1947.

“There are mermaids all over the world now, but again, what makes us special is that we are Weeki Wachee mermaids,” Wynns said. “We are the only ones like it in the world.” s

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“Even though we have a lot of big company benefits, we’re very integrated into the Gainesville community,” said Prem Paul Murrhee, Director of Sales and Marketing for The Atrium. “We have a lot of community partners and we form relationships with them to provide helpful services for our residents.”

The all-inclusive aspect of living at The Atrium is a well-known benefit enjoyed by residents. Monthly rent includes all utilities except personal phone service, three meals a day, weekly housecleaning, activities and entertainment, transportation, 24/7 live-in management and more.

But what many people don’t realize is that transitional services are also part of the package.

Moving can be a difficult process, and The Atrium strives to minimize that stress for each and every resident.

“We can help people sell their house, rent their house, downsize and move. The moving company that we’ve partnered with will literally pack and unpack boxes, put medicine in the medicine cabinet, hook up the television and make up the bed,” said Murrhee, adding that The Atrium also handles transfers of prescriptions and newspaper subscriptions for incoming residents. “We’ve also partnered with a company that can do an unsecured loan for people who need the proceeds of the sale of their house to move to The Atrium.”

The convenience does not stop once residents are settled into their new home. Many local businesses are brought in to provide goods and services to seniors at The Atrium, including a veterinarian who visits regularly to make house calls on cats and dogs owned by residents. A local pharmacy sends personnel for “brown bag” sessions – a resident brings

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All of these services are paid for by The Atrium at no cost to the residents and are designed not only for convenience, but to keep seniors in touch with members of the community.

“We form relationships to provide services for our residents, because we’re not some exclusive place that’s trying to keep people out.

We want others to come in,” Murrhee said.

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All food served at meals is made completely from scratch, right down to the salad dressings, bread and even the tortilla chips used for loaded nachos.

Live-in managers, on call at all hours, are more like neighbors than hired personnel, adding unparalleled reassurance and comfort.

“They pour coffee at meals, they participate in some of the activities, and they get to know the residents and their families by name,” said Murrhee. “If any of our residents need help in the middle of the night, they know the people who will come and help them. It’s not somebody they’ve never met before.”

Even when traveling across the continent, residents can feel at home. The Atrium shares visiting privileges with all Holiday properties, each of which includes a fully furnished guest suite that is just like a hotel suite. Normally rented at a nominal fee for guests visiting property residents, these suites are also perfect for traveling Atrium residents to stay in at no charge.

Such wide-ranging programs and personal touches highlight The Atrium’s ability to provide big-company services while keeping that all-important sense of home intact.

“It’s nice to know that even though we’ve been here for 30 years so and we have a lot of resources, we’re still very personable,” said Murrhee. “That’s one of the things that people like about us.”

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TRADITION

Water Legacy Ocala Family Has Been Teaching Swimming For Nine Decades

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tep one foot onto Delee Perry’s property and one immediately gets the sense that this land has a history. Aside from the pristine swimming pool complete with a shade-providing cover, brick pathways that lead down to a grove lush with landscaping, and comfortable cabana-like poolside seating, there is a sense in the atmosphere that something very special took place with the people who live here.

Delee Perry’s Ocala home, and current site of Perry’s Swim School, was originally considered the “edge of town” when her parents, Newton and Dorothy (Dot) Perry bought the land in 1950. To say they lived the American Dream of the 1950s is an understatement. Delee’s parents founded a swimming and aquatic empire in Ocala consisting of three generations of swim instructors, as well as the world-famous Weeki Wachee Springs. Additionally, they produced

more than 150 Grantland Rice Sportlight reels and worked with headlining actors of the day including Johnny Weissmuller, Gary Cooper, Lloyd Bridges and Cary Grant, just to name a few.

“My family has been involved in swimming since my father became an instructor in 1923 at the age of 14,” Delee

who had been an integral part of the aquatic world for decades. She explained that back when her father was a teenager the only way to get to Silver Springs was via a dirt road through a forest.

“My dad moved here from Tampa and made it his mission to find a place to swim,” she said. “Once he found

“The mayor was there, and Dick Pope, the founder of Cypress Gardens, sent his Southern Belles to parade around the deck.

It was such a big deal.” said with pride. “Next year will celebrate 90 years that my family has been teaching swimming in Ocala. There are not many families who can boast that kind of achievement.”

Delee claims her passion for the water is a gift handed down from her father

Silver Springs, he would swim there every chance he could. He just had to be in the water.”

It did not take long before Newton’s keen swimming ability was noticed and he was asked to start teaching swimming lessons, even though he was just 14 years

PHOTO BY TJ MORRISSEY (historic photos courtesy of Perry Archives) Delee Perry takes a break from giving swimming lessons to pose with her granddaughter, eight-year-old Deliah in June.

Most anything people could do on land, Newt Perry would do underwater, such as riding a bicycle in this photo from the 1930s. The Cypress Gardens Southern Belles were on hand for the grand opening of the new Perry swimming pool in 1959.

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PHOTOS BY TJ MORRISSEY (historic photos courtesy of Perry Archives) Following a long family tradition spanning four generations of Perrys, Delee Perry still offers swimming lessons at the Perry’s Swim School in Ocala. Both Newton and Dorothy strike an impressive pose on (and off ) the diving board in these historic images.

old. His swimming talents and passion for the water extended well beyond his achievements as a high school and collegiate swimmer. During the 1930s and ‘40s, he worked alongside Grantland Rice producing the Grantland Rice Sportlight reels. The films consisted of short, human-interest stories of anywhere from 8 to 15 minutes long that played in movie theaters before the main feature.

“Anything you could imagine doing on land my father did underwater,” Delee said, recalling some of her father’s underwater stunts. “There would be picnics set up, bicycle rides, you name it. People actually didn’t believe it was truly filmed underwater, that is how bizarre it was for its day,” she said.

Eventually the reels caught the eye of film directors who wanted the same underwater techniques for their films.

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stars over the years,” Delee said, recalling some of her father’s most notable roles.

“He would dive off cliffs, wrestle alligators, and even worked as Johnny Weissmuller’s double in the Tarzan films.”

Because of his expertise with filming underwater, he became Hollywood’s go-to guy any time an underwater scene had to be shot. And his passion for aquatic sports and talent for performing did not end when the film wrapped.

In 1947 Newton founded the Weeki Wachee attraction at Weeki Wachee Springs. He taught his “mermaids” how to perform underwater-dance routines and breathe with air hoses in a show that was as unique 65 years ago as it continues to be today.

And while the history of Newton Perry’s achievements and accomplishments in the aquatic world can easily fill a book, Dot’s story is equally as intriguing.

“My mother was training for the 1948 Olympics as a diver when my father spotted her, and the rest is history,” Delee said. Dot and Newton were married in 1950 and built their home in Ocala in 1951. They opened their first pool on the property in 1955. In 1959, when she was just eight years old, they opened the second larger pool, in which the Perrys have taught generations of students to swim.

“It was the largest private pool back then,” Delee said, recalling the grand opening. “The mayor was there, and Dick Pope, the founder of Cypress Gardens, sent his Southern Belles to parade around the deck. It was such a big deal.”

And the pool has certainly seen a number of famous faces over the decades.

“My mom directed the water ballet team of synchronized swimmers who swam with Esther Williams,” Delee said, seniortimesmagazine.com

recalling that the star used to flirt with her father.

Delee’s family photo albums are akin to those owned by a movie director. Her parents worked with a number of film stars and directors including Ocala native Patrick O’Neil and Ricou Browning, who happened to produce a film about a Dolphin titled “Flipper.” But aside from their extensive involvement and prestige in the movie industry, the Perrys worked closely with the people of their community.

“My dad was a pioneer in the aquatic world in Central Florida,” Delee said, primarily citing that he not only established swimming education programs for white children and instructors, but also for black children, which was taboo during the days of segregation.

“My dad taught Ed Croskey how to teach swimming, and I vividly remember being around him at the pool,” Delee said.

The family was passionate about swimming and teaching the sport to others. Dot taught hundreds of children in their home pool through the years. Even a diagnosis of skin cancer could not keep her from teaching. The family simply built a cover over the pool so that she could continue teaching without concern.

Newton’s love for children eventually led him to the classroom where he worked as a school principle until 1972, and to help build the current Eighth Street Elementary School. On the weekends and in the summer, he would pick up children from around town and drive them to Silver Springs to swim.

It is no surprise then that Newton and Dot’s only daughter together inherited their love of the water. Delee describes herself as Newton’s “shadow.” She too spent long hours in the pool and has dedicated her life to the sport and to

teaching it to others.

“It is an absolute joy,” she said. “I enjoy it more now than I did when I first started.”

Delee continues the family tradition at Perry’s Swim School and offers classes to everyone six months and older.

Delee’s hope is that the Perry legacy will continue through a fourth generation with her granddaughter, eight-yearold Deleah. While all of her grandchildren are active swimmers, it is Deleah who Delee believes will be the next Perry swim teacher, bringing the family tradition well over a 100-year run. s This year marks the 65th Anniversary of the Weeki Wachee Springs State Park. The park is open daily and features animal shows, riverboat rides, swimming and plenty of mermaids. Visit www.weekiwachee.com for more information.

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COLUMN œ ELLIS AMBURN

Enjoying Act Three Many of us spend our lives in bondage, never knowing that encoded in our spiritual DNA is the key to freedom.

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verworking, overeating — overeverything — are typical of human nature. If a little is good, we think, more must be better. And so we develop habits that eventually enslave us.

Not until fairly recently did I learn that bondage to these flaws in our character, like any other form of slavery, can be overcome.

Habits are natural reactions, formed as ways to survive injuries sustained in the painful process of growing up. Katharine Hepburn famously said old age is not for sissies, but even with its inevitable setbacks I find it preferable to the nightmare of childhood and adolescence, for our society has not yet found ways to protect children from inexpert parenting and schoolyard bullies.

My first awareness of bondage was having my wrists tied together by brutalizing punks in junior high. It made me feel like a mistake, so I shut out life, and thereafter hid in the shadow world of the imagination, peopled by characters in novels and movies. That’s better, though no less crippling, than the alternative taken all too frequently today, as bullied kids commit suicide, or, worse, exact revenge, as in the 1999 Columbine High School massacre.

Society remains clueless with regard to bullying. When I recently told a friend that I’d never fully recovered from junior-high abuse, she replied, “Oh, it builds character. Look how strong and successful you are today.” I appreciated the compliment, wrong-headed and unintentionally glib as it was.

In adolescence, I related to Somerset Maugham’s novel, “Of Human Bondage,” in which Philip Carey, a sensitive medical student with a clubfoot — played by Leslie Howard in the movie — falls in love with a prostitute named Mildred, portrayed at full-tilt hysteria by Bette Davis. Lust enslaves Philip, body and soul, and his pursuit of Mildred leads to abject humiliation before he wises up and dumps her.

Maugham took his title from Spinoza’s “Ethics,” part four of which, “Of Human Bondage, or the Strength of the Emotions,” states, “When a man is prey to his emotions, he is not his own master... I call him free who is led solely by reason.”

As a teenager I began to develop one-sided crushes, but was even more hapless than Philip Carey because I lacked the self-esteem to declare my love, as Philip had done with Mildred.

Rejection can be survived and overcome,

but undeclared love festers and maims, as in Henry James’s darkly powerful novella, “The Beast in the Jungle.”

In the 1970s I took to the fast lane, but the stimulants and sedatives that fueled the disco subculture did nothing to release me from lonely selfabsorption — my abiding issue. I was not only prey to runaway emotions, especially lust and fear, but to an addled conviction that everything was about me, and usually against me.

I tried Spinoza’s rationalism, but found it impossible to shake off obsessions. I embraced Theodore Dreiser’s determinism, which says you’re doomed — get used to it, but nothing alleviated my sense of alienation and isolation.

Today I realize that although I can never think my way into right action, I can act my way into right thinking. By some alchemy of nature, acting as if I possess a virtue eventually produces it, bringing about a change in my nature.

By always trying to do the next right thing, asking God for help, being of service in my community to those who need it and want it, and staying clean and sober, I was finally dragged kicking and screaming out of the bondage of self into the sunlight of the spirit.

Character transformation is not rocket science but mainly the willingness to pitch in and help those who are desperate enough to know they can’t make it on their own, and have a desire to change. Free at last, I looked in the mirror one day and saw that I was okay, even worth loving. And so was life, now that pain had been replaced by an altogether new feeling — call it comfort. s Ellis Amburn recently took first place for best original writing for “Living in the Present,” which appeared in this column, at the Association of Free Community Papers Conference. ellis.amburn@gmail.com

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AMERICAN HISTORY THROUGH SONGS Saturday, July 7 2:00pm - 3:15pm HAWTHORNE - Hawthorne Branch Library.

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MARK CHESNUTT Wednesday, July 4 7:30pm OCALA - Silver Springs Park, 5656 E. Silver Springs Blvd. Mark Chesnutt celebrated his first LP release in 1988. One of Billboard’s Ten Most-Played Radio Artists of the ‘90s, Mark’s singles were some OF the decade’s most memorable; from the fun tempo “Bubba Shot The Jukebox” to THE emotional ballad “I’ll Think Of Something.” www.silversprings.com.

CREATIVE B-MOVIE SERIES Friday, July 6 7:00pm GAINESVILLE - Museum of Natural History.

Free movie series. Explore the balance between science and art with an expert panel.

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4:00pm - 7:00pm OCALA - Marion Oaks Community Center, 294 Marion Oaks Ln. An eclectic group of musicians getting together to have a “Jam Session.” All types of music, all types of fans are welcome.

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BOOK TALK ON BONESHAKER Sunday, July 8 1:00pm GAINESVILLE - Headquarters Library - This book talk covers Boneshaker by Cherie Priest and other Steampunk related materials.

During a visit to headquarters sign up for the Adult Summer Reading Program and receive a small gift. 352-334-3900.

REV. MARTY DOW Sunday, July 8 11:00am GAINESVILLE - Unity of Gainesville, 8801 NW 39 Ave. “Sacred Network Marketing,” by guest speaker Rev. Marty Dow, ordained nondenominational minister, spiritual teacher and author. 352-373-1030.

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10:00am - 11:30am GAINESVILLE - United Way of North Central Florida, 6031 NW 1 Place. A four-part series of free classes offered by the UF & Shands Speech and Hearing Center and the Gainesville chapter of the Hearing Loss Association of Florida. Classes are free and open to the public. 352-294-5151 or e-mail mmccaghren@phhp.ufl.edu to register.

6:00pm GAINESVILLE - Civic Media Center, 433 South Main St. Farmageddon tells the story of the U.S. government’s assault against smallscale family farms throughout America.

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FANFARES AND FIREWORKS Tuesday, July 3 7:00pm - 10:00pm GAINESVILLE - UF Bandshell at Flavet Field.

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GETTING FINANCIALLY ORGANIZED Monday, July 9 9:30am - 11:30am GAINESVILLE - Alachua County Extension Office, 2800 NE 39 Ave. Topics include organizing important papers, what to keep, where and for how long. Tips on record keeping for income tax will also be discussed.

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GENEALOGY HELP Tuesday, July 10 10:30am - Noon DUNNELLON - Public Library, 20351 Robinson Rd. Find a family’s roots and dig into the past with the assistance of an experienced genealogist. 352-438-2520. marioncountyfl.org

HAND ON HAND HELD Wednesday, July 11 6:00pm - 7:00pm GAINESVILLE - Tower Road Library, 3020 SW 75 St. Wondering how to use with that eBook reader, media player or tablet computer with the library collection? Stop by and learn about the eBooks and audiobooks available for download from the ACLD, all free with a library card. Bring laptop and device, if possible. 352-333-2840.

FILM: VASERMIL Wednesday, July 11 6:00pm - 8:00pm GAINESVILLE - Headquarters Library. Named after the local soccer stadium in the Southern Israeli town of Be’er Sheva, Vasermil tells the story of three teenagers from separate marginalized communities, who pin their hopes on soccer as a way out. This film is from Israel, and in Hebrew, Amharic and Russian with English subtitles. 95 min. 352-334-3900.

RED, WHITE AND MORE RED Thursday, July 12 6:00pm - 8:00pm GAINESVILLE - Gainesville Woman’s Club, 2809 West University Ave. The Woman’s Club and Gainesville Junior Woman’s Club are hosting the second annual “Wine Tasting: Red, White & More Red!” benefit with proceeds going to the Girls Place and Peaceful Paths. 352-3763901. gfwcfl-gainesvillewomansclub.org.

BAT HOUSE WORKSHOP Thursday, July 12 2:00pm 905 S. County Road 314A OCKLAWAHA - Forest Park Library, 905 S. CR 314A. Tired of mosquitoes? Build a bat house! One per family. Registration required. 352-438-2540.

FREEMASONRY ANNUAL OPEN HOUSE Friday, July 13 6:30pm - 8:30pm OCALA - Marion-Dunn Freemason Lodge #19, 1846 SE 36 Ave. What does “Friday the 13th” have to do with Freemasonry? Learn about this symbolic date, as well as the mysteries of Freemasonry. The 163-yearold Marion-Dunn Masonic Lodge of Ocala, will again open its doors to the public for a glimpse inside the world’s oldest and largest fraternal organization. 352-694-2461.

Fourth of July Celebration Wednesday, July 4 3:00pm - 10:00pm ALACHUA - Hal Brady Recreation Complex. The City of Alachua invites its citizens and neighboring communities to join in celebrating Independence Day at the “Largest Small-Town Fireworks Display in America.” Free. There are dozens of activities for children. 386-462-6100.352-392-ARTS.

Car Show Cruise-In Saturday,, July 14 6:00pm - 9:00pm pm GAINESVILLE - Springhill nghill Commons, 9200 NW W 39 Ave. Hosted by the Gainesville Street et Rods. Founded more e than 20 years ago byy a group of Automobile ile Lovers who meet to show and tell “all who will listen” about their street rods and/or classic cars. www.gainesvillestreetrods.com. etrods.com.

WRITE AN EFFECTIVE RESUME Friday, July 13 2:00pm OCALA - Headquarters Library. Create a professional resume that reflects accomplishments and presents your best side to employers. Registration required. 352-671-8551.

JAZZ FESTIVAL Saturday, July 14 7:00pm - 10:30pm JONESVILLE - Tioga Community Center. The 10th Annual Gainesville Jazz Festival moves

outdoors for the first time at The Town of Tioga Town Square. The free concert features three of Gainesville’s top jazz bands, including Mercury’s Refrain, The Marty Liquori jazztet and The Scott Wilson Quartet. An after-hours jam will be held at 10:30 p.m. until 12:30 a.m. at Sabore Restaurant. gnvfriendsofjazz.org.

MY WEDDING DAY EXPO Sunday, July 15 Noon - 4:00pm OCALA - The Pioneer Garden Club, 4331 E. Silver Springs Blvd. Professionals from the wedding industry, live fashion show, great food and music.

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Sunday, July 15 11:00am GAINESVILLE - Unity of Gainesville, 8801 NW 39 Ave. Pastor of Colby Temple, Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp; spiritual medium, healer and teacher; Reiki master. Founder of “Angel Gates,” a place of rest on the soul’s journey and a place to touch God. www.angelgates.com. 352-373-1030.

AUTHORS@UF: LEELA CORMAN Wednesday, July 18 6:15pm GAINESVILLE. Architecture and Fine Arts Library at UF. Leela Corman will discuss her new graphic novel, “UNTERZAKHN,” which has received rave reviews from Publishers Weekly and Booklist. This is a mesmerizing, heartbreaking graphic novel of immigrant life on New York’s Lower East Side at the turn of the 20th century, as seen through the eyes of twin sisters whose lives take radically and tragically different paths. A reception, book sale and signing will follow the program.

ART, CRAFT & LIFESTYLE SHOW July 19 - July 22 Times Vary OCALA - Paddock Mall. Visit exhibitors throughout the mall, offering a selection of

COUPONING — TIPS, TRICKS AND TACTICS Saturday, July 21 3:00pm - 4:30pm GAINESVILLE - Headquarters Library. Learn the latest tactics for getting the most savings out of coupons. Learn where and how to score big value coupons, and hear tips for shopping local stores to the best advantage.

Angelia, the coupon queen, will share her best tricks of the trade. 352-334-3900.

UFPA FILM COMPETITION Sunday, July 22 2:00pm GAINESVILLE - Squitieri Studio Theatre. This film competition is designed to provide those who are interested in filmmaking with a creative deadline and then the opportunity to show off their work. Contestants will have 24 hours to make a five-minute film, followed by a public viewing. July 21, 1 p.m., team check-in; July 22, 2 p.m., deadline and public viewing. dwohlust@ performingarts.ufl.edu. creativeb.aa.ufl.edu.

REV. MARITA GRAVES Sunday, July 22 11:00am GAINESVILLE - Unity of Gainesville. 8801 NW 39 Ave. Ocala-based, New Thought minister and motivational speaker. 352-373-1030.

SUN-KIRTAN EXPERIENCE Sunday, July 22 4:30pm GAINESVILLE - Unity of Gainesville. 8801 NW 39 Ave. Krishna Rose and Radhaji invite the community to an exquisite time of chanting and kirtan featuring soul-searching blends of ancient Indian devotional music and their own mystical Celtic-inspired songs. Swami B.V. Ashram will give a short talk explaining the significance of meditation and the yoga system; a sumptuous vegetarian feast will complete the event. Suggested donation $15. 352-373-1030.

SUPERHERO SCRAMBLE Saturday, July 28 8:00am WALDO - Waldo Motor Sports, 16258 NE US Highway 301. An obstacle-style race that has 20-plus obstacles and is four- to six-miles long.

Racers also have the chance to raise money for Forgotten Soldiers Outreach, a nonprofit organization that sends monthly care packages to troops deployed overseas. FSO is also looking for volunteers for the event. www. forgottensoldiers.org/community-2/team-fso.

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Ask Your Master Gardener Saturday, July 14 at 2:00pm OCALA - Headquarters Library. Square foot gardening. Lack of space will no longer keep people from planting gardens. Presented by UF/IFAS Marion County Master Gardeners; UF/IFAS Marion County Extension Service.

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SUMMER READING FAREWELL Saturday, July 28 2:00pm HAWTHORNE - Branch Library. Visit with awardwinning Florida author Mary Anna Evans. Author of the Faye Longchamp mysteries, Evans also has a new short story collection called “Jewel Box,” and a book on writing fiction called, “Your Novel, Day By Day: A Fiction Writer’s Companion.”

Following this event and book signing, the Hawthorne Historical Society will host a reception at the nearby Hawthorne Historical Museum and Cultural Center. 352-334-3939.

VICKIE GRIFFTH Sunday, July 29 11:00am GAINESVILLE - Unity of Gainesville. 8801 NW 39 Ave. “Kick Buts - Eliminating Selfsabotage,” plus workshop. EFT practitioner, certified hypnotist, professional speaker, and owner of “Break-Through,” coaching clients in techniques designed to give the mind and body an overall sense of well being. www.break-through.org. 352-373-1030.

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

Dear Dr. Reddy, My husband was diagnosed with Gastroparesis, and his doctor thinks it is linked to diabetes. How can we mange this disease and the diabetes?

— Gretchen*, Gainesville Dear Grace, The cause of gastroparesis is unknown, but it may be caused by a disruption of nerve signals to the stomach. The condition is a common complication of diabetes and can be a complication of some surgeries. Your husband should have an Esophagogastroduodenoscopy (EGD) to confirm whether he has Gastroparesis.

His primary physician probably has record of these symptoms in your husband’s history: • Abdominal distention • Hypoglycemia • Nausea • Premature abdominal fullness after meals • Weight loss without trying • Vomiting People with diabetes should always control their blood sugar levels. Better control of blood sugar levels may improve symptoms of gastroparesis.

Changing your eating habits can help control gastroparesis: Your doctor or dietitian may prescribe six small meals a day instead of three large ones. If less food enters the stomach each time you eat, it may not become overly full. In more severe cases, a liquid or pureed diet may be prescribed.

The doctor may recommend that you avoid

high-fat and high-fiber foods. Fat naturally slows digestion—a problem you do not need if you have gastroparesis—and fiber is difficult to digest.

Some high-fiber foods like oranges and broccoli contain material that cannot be digested. Avoid these foods because the indigestible part will remain in the stomach too long and possibly form bezoars.

The primary treatment goals for gastroparesis related to diabetes are to improve stomach emptying and regain control of blood glucose levels. Treatment includes dietary changes, insulin, oral medications, and, in severe cases, a feeding tube and parenteral nutrition.

If you have gastroparesis & diabetes, food is being absorbed more slowly and at unpredictable times. Therefore to control blood glucose, you may need to: take insulin more often or change the type of insulin you take; take your insulin after you eat instead of before; check your blood glucose levels frequently after you eat and administer insulin whenever necessary; But please: consult with your primary physician before making any changes. *The name has been changed, and any similarity to any person, living or dead, is a coincidence.

Dr. Vishnu Reddy 7 Hill Gastroenterology, PA 316 SE 12th St, Ocala

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with the proper way to enjoy the water.”

It didn’t take long for them to figure it out, though, and it didn’t take long for them to deny their darker brethren a chance to dip their toes in the pool. Even today, 60 percent of African American children don’t know how to swim. ou’re a little scared.

For water-lovers, a lot has Looking at the changed over the centuries, temperature these days is not including the water itself: pools for the faint of heart. The red are much cleaner than 11thline on the thermometer has century moat swimmers found. to be somewhere in the Hades Swimsuits are racier, and racing which means the less you know, results are more precise. Various the more comfortable you’ll feel strokes have been “invented” and — although you won’t be totally most are scientifically measured comfortable until you get home for speed and efficiency. Even the and slip into the dip, take a cool way we enter the water is different plunge, have a cold drink while than it was a hundred years ago: lounging in the drink. chances are that your bashful You need to go swimming. great-grandma got wet by wagon.

But why do we — land animals Beginning with a legendary that we are — spend so much challenge that took her on a time trying to be fish? In the swim from one continent to new book “Swim: Why We Love another, author Lynn Sherr the Water” by Lynn Sherr, you’ll strokes readers’ curiosity and wade into the answer. gives us plenty of excuses to It doesn’t take much to go jump in the lake. She glides imagine the first human who from psychology to seaside, from joyfully leaped into the water. bathing beauties to beach bums, Ancient Egyptians were so and from ancient Greece to familiar with swimming that they swimmer’s grease here. created hieroglyphs for it. A cave What sets this book apart, in the Eastern Sahara not only though, is that Sherr’s words are as proves that there was once water meditative as the act about which there, but that humans swam in she writes. You’re lulled into the it. Early Greeks created coins kind of relaxation you’d get from LYNN SHERR depicting a skinnydip, and Roman a 75-degree pool, but Sherr will noblemen thought swimming also surprise you with splashes of c.2012, PublicAffairs was one of “the manly arts.” sidebars that are pure fun. $25.99 / $29.00 Canada Yes, humans swam until about If you’re sometimes regretful 213 pages, includes index the late Middle Ages... and then that you don’t have gills, or if we stopped, for reasons that you spend most of your workday historians can only guess at. For about 500 years, we shunned thinking about your pool, then “Swim” is definitely your kind water — possibly because of its lack of cleanliness — but by of book. Grab a copy, and dive right in. s the latter 1500s, humans were once again splashing away and Terri Schlichenmeyer has been reading since she was 3 years old and inventing ways to get wet. she never goes anywhere without a book. She lives with her two dogs While Native Americans and Africans had “practiced the art and 11,000 books. with natural grace,” Sherr says that white Americans “struggled

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Prescription for Independence CARETENDERS’ MEDICATION MANAGEMENT PROGRAM HELPS SENIORS TAKE CHARGE OF THEIR LIVES

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any Seniors rely on medications to help them live more independently.

But remembering what to take and when to take it can be intimidating, especially given the consequences.

According to the National Institutes of Health, approximately 30 percent of hospital admissions for older adults are related to medication mismanagement – missing a dose, taking an incorrect amount of medication, adverse drug interactions and more.

“It’s a big concern with Seniors; there are often cognitive and physical barriers for the patient,” said Janie Gant, a certified occupational therapy assistant with Mederi Caretenders of Gainesville. “We look at whatever barriers they have, and then we implement a plan to help them be more independent.”

The Caretenders medication management program was developed several years ago, when an occupational therapist on staff saw that clients needed simple yet effective ways to carry out their treatments.

The program has a basic outline that is tweaked for each individual client depending upon his or her needs.

For example, patients with fine motor and coordination deficits are given bigger pill boxes with scoop bottoms to make it easier to retrieve

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Large-print labels for medications are supplied to vision-impaired clients.

For those with cognitive deficits, Caretenders has a number system to make prescription management easier.

Medications are assigned numbers, and a corresponding paper tells the client the dosage and timing of each.

Once the system is set up, the therapist practices it with the client over the course of several weeks until he or she feels comfortable with the arrangement.

“The program is designed so they don’t have to read their labels,” said Gant. “All they have to do is match the number on their paper with the number on their bottle and it tells them how many to put in their pill box. They don’t have to read labels to figure out what they have to do with each medicine, and it eliminates them having to problem-solve.”

Gant explains that while procedures and modifications are helpful, it’s the reassurance and comfort provided by Caretenders that make these accommodations work.

“Many patients have a lot of fear about making a mistake with their medicine,” she said. “This system has proven really effective and sometimes that’s all they need. If they can just handle their own medicines, they’re good to go.”

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