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ON THE COVER – Famous Mexican painter Frida Kahlo called herself “the great concealer.” As with her many painted self-portraits, she knew how to present herself. Among the many pleasures in the Harn’s exhibition is the chance to see something of the “real” Frida Kahlo, that is, one recorded on film rather than on canvas. PHOTO BY NIKOLAS MURAY
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Calendar of Events Theatre Listings Crossword Puzzle
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Veteran Bob Gasche Injured in Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945, Marine hops out of plane in support of injured soldiers BY MICHAEL STONE
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Embracing Life by Donna Bonnell
Tinseltown Talks by Nick Thomas
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Tickling the Ivories and Brightening Lives BY MARY W. BRIDGMAN
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Mirror, Mirror … Portraits of Frida Kahlo BY ERICKA WINTERROWD
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Reading Corner Review by Terri Schlichenmeyer
Honoring Women Leaders The Friends of Susan B. Anthony Celebrate Women’s Equality Day 2016 BY PEGGY MACDONALD
WINNER! Congratulations to the winner from our JULY 2016 issue…
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FROM THE EDITOR œ ALBERT ISAAC now I take photos with my cell phone. These analogue drawings live on in the digital world. And then of course there’s music. I’ve been blessed to have a life full of joyful noise. I began playing in junior high school, the beginning of a journey that brought me tremendous enjoyment all through my school years and into college and continues to this Illustration by Albert Isaac day. I believe that playing in the high school band kept me sane. I made lifelong Artist Appreciation You may not know this about me but friends. I was so very fortunate to have I’ve always enjoyed drawing. When I had the opportunity to learn how to play, was a kid, Dad brought home a bunch basically for free, through the public of large tablets of paper. I commenced school system. to fill these tablets with all kinds of So it is with artist appreciation in drawings. I even began my own original mind that we bring you stories on art comic strip: “Cat and Dog.” They had all and music. kinds of adventures. I filled tablet after Learn about the famous Mexican arttablet with their antics. ist Frida Kahlo and the Harn Museum of They were hastily drawn, which later Art’s current exhibit, “Mirror, Mirror … I deemed to be the reason my talents as portraits of Frida Kahlo.” Reading about an artist began to stall. As an adolescent, this remarkable woman makes me want I threw the lot of them in the garbage. to head out and see the exhibit. And while I never became a great artist, In a more contemporary vein, meet I still enjoy drawing — and, yes, even Carole Yokum, a Senior pianist who’s coloring. still going strong at 82 years young. When the kids were little I would August also happens to mark the draw characters for them to color. anniversary of a woman’s right to vote, Proved to be a great way to keep them nearly a century ago. Read about Susan occupied at the restaurants once they’d B. Anthony and the Gainesville group finished coloring the single page prothat bears her name. vided by staff. I’d draw something on Of course, we continue with our the back of the sheet and they’d color it series of World War II veteran profiles, in. Perhaps a dragon. Or a gator. Maybe featuring a local force of nature by the a gorilla. I would take requests and atname of Bob Gasche (who just jumped tempt to draw whatever they wanted. out of a perfectly good airplane at 91 Now when the granddaughters visit I years of age). continue the tradition, drawing all kinds Enjoy! s of silliness so they can color it in. In the old days I would save these works of art;
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The Wizard of Oz premiered on August 15, 1939. The plot line may have symbolism. It is said that the tornado represents the Free Silver Movement. During the time the movie premiered, American farmers were suffering from the effects of federal deflation (the tornado). They wanted the value of the dollar to have fixed ratios of gold and silver. The yellow brick road is the representation of the gold standard, with the road leading to power (Emerald City = Washington D.C.).
• 70,000 volunteers are needed to run the entire event, a group comprised of Americans, Brazilians, Russians, British and Chinese. • The Rio 2016 Organizing Committee is offering Rio’s taxi drivers, or “taxistas,” free online English classes.
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Kathie Lee Gifford AUGUST 16, 1953 Kathie Lee Gifford is best known for her 15 years on “Regis and Kathie Lee” and is now the co-host of the Today Show with Hoda Kotb. She has had a successful four-decade career as a TV host, actress, singer, playwright, songwriter and author. Before p television, she played Miss Hannigan in “Annie” at Madison Square Garden, and wrote two Broadway plays. In her early life, she pursued a Christian singing career. She slowly worked her way to the small screen, Years Old first as an actress and later as a television host. To continue expanding her well-rounded career, she runs two charity organizations and even has her own fitness DVD.
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Born on August 8, 1937, Oscar– winning actor Dustin Hoffman has earned his spot in stardom from work in films like “Kramer vs. Kramer” and “Rain Man,” to name but a few. He started out at age 19 — moving to New York and living below the poverty line until age 31. He lost the tip of his finger filming “Finding Neverland” and also holds a Guinness World Record for the “Greatest Age Span Portrayed by a Movie Actor” (in “Little Big Man” he played Jack Crabb from age 17 to 121).
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Artwalk Gainesville On the final Friday of each month, downtown Gainesville comes alive with visitors experiencing a free self-guided tour that combines exciting visual art, live performance and events. From 7:00 pm until 10:00 pm, many local galleries open their doors for the public to enjoy all they have to offer, compliments of Artwalk Gainesville. Eateries and coffee shops also participate and visitors can enjoy live theater, music venues, local breweries and special events. Attendees can combine a varied art experience with a night of downtown entertainment or dinner at a local establishment. “Artwalk is an exciting, fun way to experience the wealth of creativity the Gainesville community has to offer,” states the Artwalk website. “It’s a triple win for the community — a showcase for artists, an attraction for area businesses, and a fun and accessible way for the people to learn about and experience art firsthand.” Maps are available, but stumbling upon the art is also possible. Just look for the lights and groups of people in shops that are not typically open late. While The Doris is currently closed for renovations, there are still plenty of venues, large and small, to visit and meet the artists and see their work. Galleries and venues include Lennie Kesl Studios, The Hardback Café, Wild Iris Books, Eleanor Blair Studio and The Hippodrome Art Gallery, to name but a few. Artwalk Gainesville is always looking for new artists, musicians and performers to entertain on the evening of the event. Past performers have included spoken word artists, jugglers, hula hoopers, martial arts demonstrators and more. Artists who would like to create their art live and musicians — with a group or solo act — are encouraged to contact the organization. So, come on down and join in the fun while helping to support local artists and downtown businesses. s
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arole Yocum spends every day playing — even at age 82. “I like to tell people the word ‘play’ is a strong, positive, active social word,” she said in a recent telephone interview. For Yocum, the word evokes one of her favorite activities, playing piano — which she has done for six years in a number of special Senior venues in the Gainesville area — The Village, Oak Hammock, The Atrium, and Gainesville/Alachua County Senior Recreation Center. After her retirement following 35 years as managing editor of a chemical engineering journal at the University of Florida, Yocum pictured herself spending the rest of her years playing bridge, working jigsaw, crossword and Sudoku puzzles, and doing needlework — until a different plan intervened. “I truly feel none of this is because of me or what I’ve done — it’s a PLAN — a plan that even in my most creative and enthusiastic times would never have been formulated in my own mind or by my own hands,” Yocum said. Seemingly random events put the plan in motion. A friend asked for a ride to play bridge at a local restaurant. Yocum obliged and found herself waiting, with nothing to do, while the friend took care of some personal business after the event. Spotting a piano in the shadows, she decided to try it out. Unbeknownst to her, the owner of the restaurant had decided to stay around after lunch to catch up on some bookwork. Hearing the music, he decided to investigate and was pleased to find Yocum playing. He told her that he had often thought live music would be valuable for the restaurant, but he hadn’t pur-
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sued it because of the anticipated expense. When he offered a “tips only” gig, Yocum accepted, launching an unexpected — and joyfully rewarding —new “career.” Although she enjoys making “joyful piano noise” around Gainesville, Yocum finds the response of Alzheimer’s patients particularly rewarding. According to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, music has power that can spark compelling outcomes even in the very late stages of the disease. Selections from the individual’s young adult years — ages 18 to 25 — are most likely to have the strongest responses and the most potential for engagement. Yocum’s experiences have shown this to be true. “I was playing at a sing-along one evening when a caregiver wheeled an old gentleman into the room,” she said. “He was reclining in the wheelchair, with closed eyes and no expres-
“I call myself a ‘living-room player.’ I don’t embroider the songs with arpeggios or complicated musical embellishments.” sion on his face. I glanced his way several times and saw absolutely no change in posture or expression, until all of a sudden I looked and here’s a small peaceful smile on his face. And it stayed there, never lessened.” When the event ended, the caregiver told Yocum that the gentleman not only had Alzheimer’s, he was also blind. In six months of caring for him, she had never seen him smile. seniortimesmagazine.com
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“When I sit down to play at whatever I’m there for, I tell them I’m going to play a warm-up song to reintroduce my fingers to the piano.”
“Now can you imagine how small a world this man was living in — no memory, no sight?” Yocum asked. She found it incredibly motivating to bring a little sunshine back into the man’s life, particularly when she learned on her next visit a few weeks later that he had passed away. Yocum has a playlist of 900 songs, all written before 1970, broken into groups of 57 each, which require about three hours each to play. Her performances frequently turn into sing-alongs, facilitated by pamphlets she has assembled, which include the words to each group of songs. She reads music, reporting that her repertoire includes only four pieces that she plays by memory. Two of these, “Sentimental Journey” and “Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue” are particular favorites. “When I sit down to play at whatever I’m there for, I tell them I’m going to play a warm-up song to reintroduce my fingers to the piano.” Yocum chooses one of her four memorized pieces. “They not only give me a sense of confidence in the piano’s action, they inspire foot-tapping, shoulder-swinging, and grinsinging of those sitting around.” Yokum said she is not an entertainer. “I call myself a ‘living-room player,’” she said. “I don’t embroider the songs with arpeggios or complicated musical embellishments. In fact, I sometimes don’t even play every note on the
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page. I let the tune, the song’s melody, be the ruler, the identifier. Pushing the listener’s melodic memory button is my only intention, my only desire.” Although Yocum considers herself a native Floridian, she was born in Illinois, moving to the sunshine state when she was seven years old. Her parents met while students at the Art Institute of Chicago. Yocum’s father, Henry Chatman, launched a successful advertising agency with two partners. When the Great Depression came and advertising work dried up, Chatman decided to move his family to Florida. Although Yocum had plans to attend the University of Miami to study television writing and production on graduation from Cottondale High, her father’s unexpected illness changed everything. She put her plans for college aside and went to work to help support her family, eventually marrying and starting a family of her own, which included two daughters and a son, and now, three grandchildren. When Yocum’s marriage ended after 22 years, she figured waitressing was the only work she would qualify for because she had never had the opportunity to go to college. A visit to the employment service in Gainesville yielded the discouraging news that no waitressing jobs were available. But the ladies in the office were so impressed with Yocum that they called her immediately when they learned of a new opening
at UF — editing a journal for chemical engineers. Although the job requirements included a college degree, Yocum landed it anyway, continuing with the work until she retired after 35 years. Yocum is a self-taught pianist. Neither of her parents were musical, although her mother owned a grand piano. When Yocum was seven years old, her mother hired a piano teacher for Yocum’s 11-year-old brother, Jack. During Jack’s lessons, Yocum would hang around in the background, soaking up the musical instruction intended for him. When the lesson was over, Yocum would go to the piano and do everything brother Jack was supposed to be learning. Jack hated the lessons, so Yocum’s mother decided to give her daughter a shot at being the student instead. But Yocum didn’t like the lessons any more than Jack had. Although the lessons ended, Yocum’s love for the piano continued. Building on the instruction she had overheard and received, she continued playing through high school, where she accompanied the glee club, played at school programs and at local churches. Music took a backseat while she raised her family, but it was there when she needed it later, when the children left the nest. And now, music is shining a new light on Yocum’s life and on the lives of others with whom she feels privileged to share her gift of musical sunshine. s August 2016
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Embracing Life Is Silence Golden?
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ilence Is Golden,” a tune sang by the Four Seasons, seemed sacred in my early years. Women were actively fighting for equal rights and many men still believed an ancient adage, “Silence is a woman’s best garment.” In addition, the proverb, “Speech is silver; silence is golden,” made saying nothing appear devout and heroic. Those deeply ingrained ideas, coupled with my own timidities, resulted in many decades of keeping my mouth shut and letting things go. One day the song’s second line began to haunt me, “Silence is golden; But my eyes still see.” I began to witness and recognize injustices being done to others and to myself. Seeing the hurt and bewilderment in the eyes and body language of friends when unfairly chastised turned my proverbial light switch on. In addition, my body and emotions began retaliating to years of allowing egotistical individuals to take advantage. Eventually I dismissed the notion that possessing the ability to tolerate mistreatment, while maintaining composure, was a virtuous quality. I knew that the passive pathetic person I had become must go. My intentional journey to build self-confidence began. One of the first stops on my tumultuous trek was to seek assistance from a professional counselor. With her help, I worked through my insecurities and
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literally learned how to become angry. I completed those sessions knowing that I was worthy and did not deserve to be used or abused. Simply having a new positive outlook on my own self-worth was not enough; I still hesitated to voice my opinion. However difficult, in order to move forward required setting boundaries. How much was I willing to tolerate? Once
city league basketball. Unfortunately, that sport was only available to boys. The local commissioners suggested I become a volunteer coordinator for the program. Attending all county and coaches’ meetings was part of the requirement. I knew nothing about basketball, so this was way outside of my comfort zone. However, much to the surprise of city officials, I followed through and created a girls’ team. There has been a league for girls ever since. I must admit to having made mistakes along the way as my passion for righting wrongs grew. At times anger took over and I blurted out my opinion, without pausing to first calm down. Or, I responded in haste to a Facebook post and later regretted the statement. Like everything else, embracing balance is crucial. Knowing when and how to speak out or recognizing when silence is golden are skills that took me years of practice and many hard knocks to grasp.
My first complicated encounter took place when my daughter wanted to play city league basketball. established, the next step was retraining people not to cross that invisible line. My extreme passiveness essentially gave others permission to disrespect me and only I could initiate a change. Why was it so easy for some people, but a nightmare for me? So, I delved further and finally came to a conclusion. It was fear of the unknown. Since I lived most of my life in silence, this new territory was scary. What would people think? Would I lose my friends or job? Would I sound stupid? So, I started slowly. For example, rather than paying an overpriced bill, I insisted that it be corrected. Small successes increased my confidence. So, I began speaking up about more complex issues. My first complicated encounter took place when my daughter wanted to play
Rumi’s quote has been one helpful tool for deciding how to proceed: “Before you speak, let your words pass through three gates: At the first gate, ask yourself “Is is true?” At the second gate ask, “Is it necessary?” At the third gate ask, “Is it kind?” Nowadays, I carefully consider Rumi’s rules and calmly determine the necessity to express my opinion. If the answer is yes, it becomes an obligation. One to pursue with clarity and confidence. Ignoring the problem with silence will be considered a complicit agreement and not golden. s Donna Bonnell is a freelance writer who moved to Newberry in 1983. She enjoys living and working in the town she now calls home. dbnewberry@aol.com
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Veteran Bob Gasche Hurt in Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945, Marine hops out of plane in support of injured soldiers Story and Photography by Michael Stone
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veteran of the Pacific named George H.W. Bush jumped out of an airplane on June 12, 2014, for his 90th birthday — just like he had for his 85th, his 80th, and five other times, including when the Japanese shot down his Avenger torpedo bomber during World War II. Almost exactly two years after Bush’s last jump, on June 4, 2016, Gainesville got its own Pacific vet jumper when Marine Bob Gasche, perhaps the city’s most well-known soldier, leaped out at 13,000 feet over Virginia Beach in tandem with a Navy SEAL. Bush “jumped, but he was on his 90th birthday. … I jumped at 91. I got one up on him,” Gasche joked from the living room of his Gainesville home about a week after the jump, his first-ever. “I hadn’t anticipated the force of the wind that hits you when you jump. It did,” described Gasche, who landed on Iwo Jima on Feb. 19, 1945, the first day of the invasion, and took shrapnel to the gut about two weeks later. “A younger person can go with it, so to speak. I’m not that flexible anymore — ya know, I’m 91 — and my body has a rigidity to it.” Waiting below amid the clear afternoon was the crowd that had gathered for his jump and the overall event: the annual Patriot Festival, a weekend-long series of concerts and general celebration of the military in Virginia Beach. Gasche was one of 19 wounded veterans who jumped as part of the festival’s seventh annual Jumping for a Purpose, which does provide the experience for the veterans but also serves as a fundraiser for the Combat Wounded Coalition’s Wounded Wear program. Wounded Wear donates clothing, including with spe-
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cial alterations if needed, to combat-wounded veterans. Another of the 19 was Gasche’s friend Steve Dodd, a 66-year-old Interlachen resident who received two Purple Hearts and three Bronze Stars for actions in Vietnam. Both active in area veterans affairs, Gasche and Dodd became friends in helping form Gainesville’s chapter of the Military Order of the Purple Heart in 2013, and Dodd’s veteran connections got the two involved with the jump. “He’s trying to get up from the beach to this ramp [on stage], but it’s like trying to get Mick Jagger off the stage at a concert and through the crowd,” Dodd said of Gasche landing and then being introduced to the festival-goers. “Everybody wanted to stop, congratulate him, shake his hand, get their picture taken with him, do selfies, all this kind of stuff. … Bob was quite the hero and quite the rock star.”
“All of a sudden, my body was hit, if you will, like a baseball bat — just Wham!” Jumping, freefalling for less than a minute and floating down via parachute for maybe five more surrounded by a beautiful panorama was “one of the biggest thrills of my life,” Gasche said, but “fear was not a factor.” “If you’ve been through a battle like Iwo Jima and saw the deaths and all that, things like [ jumping out of a plane] are very significant in terms of it being different and unique and seniortimesmagazine.com
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(Left) World War II Marine veteran Bob Gasche, who took part in the first day of the Iwo Jima invasion, poses in his wartime uniform. (Right) Gasche floats toward Virginia Beach on June 4 as part of the Patriot Festival’s Jumping for a Purpose event. (Right photo courtesy of Steve Dodd).
a lot of fun and excitement and wonderment,” he said, “but as far as fear, I did not have it, no. It wasn’t there.” The story of Gasche participating in perhaps the third most iconic U.S. battle of the Second World War (after maybe DDay and the Battle of the Bulge) starts in 1924 in Buffalo, New York, his birth year and place. But Gasche’s family of four soon transplanted to Bradenton, Florida, for treatment of his father’s failing health. He died when Gasche was only 12, and the family proceeded to Fort Myers then Miami. Too young to enlist when war broke out, Gasche decided on building ships as an arc welder in Savannah, Georgia, as a way to do his part. Then, in March 1943, three months after his 18th birthday, he went to the Marine recruitment office in Savannah to join. “They said, ‘Raise your hand. Say I do,’” Gasche recalled. “I said, ‘I do.’ ‘Welcome to the Marine Corps.’” Marines near the East Coast took their basic training at Par-
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ris Island, South Carolina, but upon arrival, Gasche received a surprise: A disease outbreak had shuttered the iconic base, meaning the newcomers would train in San Diego and become West Coast Marines. “We went down there, and they said, ‘You can’t come in.’ ‘Yeah? Here’s our orders. We’re going to boot camp.’ ‘No, you’re not. You’re going catch a train in Atlanta, Georgia, and you’re headed for San Diego, California,’” Gasche remembered. After stateside training and finally setting out for the front, Pfc. rifleman Gasche’s first chance at action came while in floating reserves in the Battle of Guam in the summer of 1944. But “the campaign went so well, they said, ‘Naw, we don’t need you. We’re sending you back to Hawaii.’” Gasche didn’t like it. He wanted to fight. “I really was pining, if you will, for action. I was a young teenager. I wanted to get in.” Hawaii brought months of more training, including rehearsed amphibious landings on Maui, as well as liberty at Pearl Harbor, during which soldiers got tattoos of their girlseniortimesmagazine.com
friends’ names and the Marine emblem. Then it was back out to the Pacific, a voyage toward “Island X,” complete with examinations of displays and maps in preparation. “It was all Island X. We had no idea other than you’re going to Island X.” When the Marines finally arrived at this Island X (Iwo Jima, of course), Gasche didn’t take part in the first waves of Feb. 19 but did land amid the volcanic ash and mayhem by the afternoon. Instantly, a big problem emerged for Gasche’s 5th Marine Division and the rest of the Marines’ eventual force of 110,000. Though maybe 25,000 Japanese were packed into Iwo, they rarely became visible thanks to the earthworks and tunnels throughout the island. “We had excellent weapons: M1 Garand 30-caliber rifles … we had Browning automatic rifles, we had Browning light machine guns,” Gasche said, but no targets. So in what became a battle of inches, they dug in and endured. Surviving in foxholes. Wanting to do but forced to wait. Gasche encountered murderous situations on a daily basis, whether it be a grenade fight or being bracketed, when artillery shoots over and then under an area before filling in the between land to hit the intended target. Luck sprouted more than once, including when a mortar shell landed just next to Gasche’s foxhole near Mount Suriba-
chi but was absorbed so far into the ash that its explosion only dirtied his head. “The volcanic ash was so soft,” he said. “Otherwise, I’d have been blown to pieces. But [the sand] peppered my face. I was covered.” Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal’s picture of the American flag being raised atop Mount Suribachi emerged as the most iconic moment of Iwo Jima and perhaps the war itself for the United States. (Relatedly, the Marine Corps confirmed in late June that one of the six men identified in the photo, Navy Pharmacist’s Mate 2nd Class John Bradley, is rather Marine Pfc. Harold Schultz, who died in 1995.) Gasche didn’t catch the raising of the flag, but with everyone cheering across the island, he turned around to see it right after. “We were being fired upon from Mount Suribachi … and we were almost in a killing [field]. We were having terrible casualties,” he said. “But when we saw that flag flying up there, there was a sense of relief in that we knew that we had control of that mountain.” Among Gasche’s duties as the Marines advanced northeast was popping into cave entrances to check for hidden enemies. Though he never found any, he did stumble upon six bottles of sake in one and something quite peculiar in another.
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“There was one occasion where I went in a little deeper, and I kicked something in the sand. … And I looked down, and it was children’s crayons, a box of children’s crayons” with Japanese writing on it, he said, noting the children in the civilian population that were evacuated prior to the invasion. Though his grenades might have caught an enemy before, Gasche finally got the chance at a for-sure kill near the end of his time on the island. Bam — headshot on an officer, well dressed with visible field glasses and a map case. “He acted like he was out on a beach or something sunning himself,” Gasche remembered. “He was on this ridge. … I just got my sights lined up on him and fired — as quick as I could before he might move.” On a day soon after, maybe March 3, something terrible walloped Gasche’s body.
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“All of a sudden, my body was hit, if you will, like a baseball bat — just Wham!” he said of a mortar round. “It hit my belt buckle, and it didn’t go in straight. It went in [at an angle]. And boom, I was down and helpless.” If it had gone straight in, he figures, the name Bob Gasche would add to the 6,821 Americans killed in the battle. His initial medical attention included morphine and, because he wasn’t looking good, a critical tag. He made it to an aid station and then the medical boat USS Hope offshore. Gasche’s two weeks of playing a 20-year-old soldier were over, but mementos from the battle — shrapnel and belt-buckle fragments — travel with him today everywhere he goes. (The metal used to regularly set off security scanners at airports, “especially Atlanta,” Gasche joked.) Sleeping one night during his recovery, a nightmare struck seniortimesmagazine.com
Gasche holds photos from the Iwo Jima invasion. The top one, the raising of the American flag atop Mount Suribachi, emerged as perhaps the most iconic moment for the U.S. during the war.
him. All around, Japanese soldiers stabbed their bayonets into his body, but his dire screams prompted a nurse to act fast and push more morphine into his system. This is the only PTSD-type instance Gasche can remember from the war and beyond. “I think there’s a certain amount of stoicism in my personality, and I focused on the G.I. Bill after World War II,” he said of why reoccurring psychological trauma didn’t strike him like it does so many other veterans. “I wanted to get a college education badly, which I did.” Indeed, after the war, he returned to the Miami area and earned a bachelor’s of business administration from the University of Miami. Meanwhile, he helped support his mother and sister first as a carpenter and then working for Southern Bell Telephone Company for 12 years. Yet teaching surfaced as Gasche’s true calling, so he eventually returned to the university to get a master’s in education. After teaching for a short while in the area, he received an offer in 1968 from the University of Florida-affiliated P.K. Yonge Developmental Research School in Gainesville. “My favorite part [of teaching] is something I’m still doing:
I love interacting with children,” he said of continuing to teach classes with Gainesville’s Milton Lewis Young Marines. “I try to give them a glimpse of the right way to live, what patriotism really is: a love of our country, and a desire to serve as a contributing citizen. I feel very strongly about that.” Since retiring from P.K. Yonge in 1988, Gasche said he’s gotten busier than ever. Aside from the Young Marines and the Purple Heart chapter, his involvement includes: leading the monthly meetings of the Iwo Trio veterans group, which he formed with fellow local Iwo vets Clif Cormier and Clair Chaffin; collecting used American flags from area stores, including Publix, to give to the local Veterans of Foreign Wars chapter for proper disposal; helping with the installation of veterans memorials in Alachua County; assisting in Memorial Day and Veterans Day events; and going to services at Gainesville’s Faith Presbyterian Church (he’s the church’s only founder still attending). “Bob is tireless. He’s going to work me into the ground,” his friend Dodd joked. “He’s an amazing guy. He’s in every veterans organization there is.” On retirement, Gasche said, “I can’t do that. That ain’t me. No, I can’t. I’m going down swinging.” And on what has kept Carol Gasche’s husband of 63 years, the father of three, grandfather of three, and great-grandfather of one going for nine decades, Gasche said he gives “God the credit.” “I am so blessed,” he said, “that the good Lord has allowed me to serve in this capacity that I just wake up and [say], ‘Thank you, Lord, for the blessings you’ve given me.’” s 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.
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Tinseltown Talks Lindsay Wagner’s One (Bionic) Woman Show by Nick Thomas ne of the hottest actresses to emerge from the 1970s has been appearing around the country in recent years presenting her stage show, “More than a Bionic Woman: An Evening with Lindsay Wagner.” In August, Lindsay will be in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida. (See www.lindsaywagnerinternational.com for details.) “I’ll be sharing anecdotes and stories from behind the scenes in my career, and showing clips and photos from my personal collection,” said Wagner from her California home. “So it should be a lot of fun and, hopefully, fond memories.” Wagner began appearing in primetime network television series in the early 1970s, with her breakout film role coming in 1973’s “The Paper Chase.” But it was her Emmy award-winning role as TV’s favorite female semi-cyborg in “The Bionic Woman” that brought her great acclaim, although her Jaime Sommers character was only planned as a two-part guest-starring role when introduced as a love interest for Lee Majors in “The Six Million Dollar Man.” “The story ended by killing Jaime off and the response from the audience was huge,” Wagner said. “They were so appalled that the studio had killed off a character that had resonated so deeply with them and especially their children. Even a children’s hospital in Boston wrote a letter of protest. So the studio had to bring me back for another two-parter to bring Jaime back to life and the network
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decided to do the spin-off series.” Wagner retired her bionic implants after three seasons and three reunion movies to tackle dozens of TV movies throughout the ’80s and ’90s. Those roles often focused on social issues such as domestic violence, adoption, mental health, terrorism, and capital punishment. “I have always felt that TV could be used not only to entertain, but also to highlight important issues and help people embrace their higher potential,” she explained. But Wagner almost never got to enjoy her post-Bionic Woman success. In May, 1979, almost exactly a year after the last episode aired, she was scheduled to fly
on the ill-fated American Airlines Flight 191 from Chicago to Los Angeles which crashed after takeoff, and today remains the deadliest single-aircraft aviation disaster in the U.S. “I took a flight to Portland instead to meet up with my sister and didn’t hear about the crash until after I had landed and called my secretary to tell her of my change of plans. Everybody thought I had been on the flight so there was a lot of relief, and of course I was shocked and saddened to hear what had happened.” Wagner went on to become an author, acting teacher, motivational speaker, and she continues to act. She also actively promotes a holistic approach to health seniortimesmagazine.com
— a lifestyle she adopted after suffering gallbladder issues and stomach ulcers in her teens when she was able to avoid surgery after receiving counseling from a doctor and minister who shared a common philosophy to healing. Lee Majors, Lindsay Wagner, Richard Anderson and Alan Oppenheimer in The Six Million Dollar Man - ABC And while her famous TV character from the past relied on artificial physical strength to survive, Wagner continues to advocate the potential of one’s inner strength. “We all have the ability to grow through our difficult circumstances in life rather than just survive them,” she said. “You have much more potential than you realize.” s Nick Thomas teaches at Auburn University at Montgomery, Ala., and has written features, columns, and interviews for over 600 magazines and newspapers.
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Mirror, Mirror… Portraits of Frida Kahlo “At the end of the day, we can endure much more than we think we can.” –FRIDA KAHLO
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orn in 1907, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is known for her self-portrait painting and is among the most photographed women of her generation. And now until November 27, the Harn Museum of Art will feature the exhibition “Mirror, Mirror … portraits of Frida Kahlo.” Photographs by 27 photographers, including family and friends as well as nationally renowned photographers, portray the many sides of the famous Mexican painter. According to a recent press release, the photographs span the life of Kahlo, portraying both her carefully crafted façade and rare candid moments of a strong woman who endured numerous hardships throughout her life. As Kahlo stated, “When my father took my picture in 1932 after my accident, I knew that a battlefield of suffering was in my eyes. From then on, I started looking straight at the lens, unflinching, unsmiling, determined to show that I was a good fighter to the end.” According to biography.com, Kahlo contracted polio around the age of six, which caused her to be bedridden for nine months. This would only be the beginning of her many physical hardships to come. While she did recover from the illness, she walked with a limp because the disease had damaged her right leg and foot. Despite her early illness, Kahlo was known for her jovial spirit and love of traditional colorful clothes and jewelry. In 1922 she enrolled at the renowned National Preparatory School and was one of the few female students to attend the institution. According to biography.com, while traveling on a bus at 18 years of age, the vehicle collided with a streetcar.
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Kahlo was impaled by a steel handrail, which went into her hip and came out the other side. She suffered several serious injuries, including fractures of her spine and pelvis. Carol McCusker is the curator of photography at the Harn Museum. In a recent telephone interview she described Kahlo’s understanding of the power of a camera lens. “Because her father was a photographer, she understood what the camera could reveal, and she was determined to be a strong, forthright woman who would not reveal the pain and suffering that she was in,” McCusker said. “So you just see from image to image this carefully crafted, beautiful woman who did not smile … but she also wanted to portray herself in a very particular way.”
“She had over 37 operations in her life, and this was happening back in the ‘30s when they didn’t really know a lot about medicine.” McCusker said the exhibition is very much about Kahlo’s control and determination, as well as her spirit that just kept on going. The photographs are held in the Rubin photo gallery at the Harn and are arranged so that they more or less fall chronologically, or according to what was happening in her life. “One of the walls has many pictures of when she was recuperating from the many operations that she had to have,” Mcseniortimesmagazine.com
Frida Kahlo at 18, Mexico. Photo by Guillermo Kahlo (Mexican, born Germany, 1872-1941). 1926 - Gelatin silver print. 6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in. On loan from Throckmorton Fine Art.
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Frida Painting “The Wounded Table.” Photo by Bernard Silberstein (American, 1905-1999). 1940 - Gelatin silver print, printed later. 13 3/4 x 16 1/2 in. On loan from Throckmorton Fine Art.
Cusker said. “She had over 37 operations in her life, and this was happening back in the ‘30s when they didn’t really know a lot about medicine.” It was during her three-month-long recuperation in a fullbody cast that Kahlo began to paint. According to frida-kahlofoundation.com, her mother had a special easel made for her so she could paint in bed, and her father lent her his box of oil paints and some brushes. Once recovered, the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera encouraged Kahlo’s artwork and took her under his wing. The two married in 1929, but the relationship was tumultuous and plagued by Rivera’s constant infidelity. Later, Kahlo would have her own sexual exploits outside of the union as well, with both men and women. Because of her injuries sustained in the trolley/bus accident, Kahlo was unable to have children. In 1932, she incorporated more graphic and surrealistic elements in her work. And according to biography.com, “In her painting, ‘Henry
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Ford Hospital’ (1932), a naked Kahlo appears on a hospital bed with several items —a fetus, a snail, a flower, a pelvis and others — floating around her and connected to her by red, veinlike strings. As with her earlier self-portraits, the work was deeply personal, telling the story of her second miscarriage.” “In her paintings she will show you what her body is going through,” McCusker said. “I mean, some of it is very graphic. She had to have two medical abortions, she had miscarriages, and she painted all of that.” McCusker said there is an 80-minute-long documentary called, “The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo,” which plays in the gallery as well. Discretion is advised before watching the film because of the mature content, such as the sexual exploits and miscarriages both Kahlo and Rivera experienced. The two were also communists, but did not share the same religious beliefs. Rivera was an atheist, and Kahlo a pantheist. McCusker said they were very liberated and creative people, especially for their time. Kahlo and Rivera eventually divorced seniortimesmagazine.com
Museum History The Harn Museum of Art is an integral part of the University of Florida. Since the museum opened in September 22, 1990, it has served a wide and diverse audience with a broad range of programming, made easily accessible through free admission.
Diego and His Bride, Frida, Mexico. Photo by Victor Reyes. 1929 - Gelatin silver print. 5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in. On loan from Throckmorton Fine Art.
only to remarry a year later. Kahlo died in 1954 at age 47. McCusker believes Kahlo’s painting may have been inspired by the traditional Mexican painting style called ex votos or retablo — a traditional folk art painting on tin. She explained that most of the time this kind of painting is devoted to a person, usually someone who’s poor, and they paint in honor of a saint who has saved their life. On the ex votos or retablo they inscribe what happened to them and how they’ve been saved. “And it’s very much what Frida did with her paintings,” McCusker said. “To mimic that [style,] but it was such an innovative use of the retablo … and you can still see the tradition, but it’s all about a contemporary woman’s life. It’s amazing.” McCusker said the exhibition has been so popular that she doesn’t even have to wait for the weekend for crowds to descend upon the gallery. The interest in seeing photographs of this unique artist is very apparent. “I think to focus on a woman who was actually broken,” she said, “literally her body was broken, and in many instances her spirit was too … the fact that she put herself out there and gave us a view into what it means to be a woman, to be a Mexican, to be part of a revolutionary moment, to overcome adversity. It was a real gift that she gave us — living a full life.” s
The 112,800-square-foot facility includes 40,400 square feet of exhibition space, five garden spaces, a 250-seat auditorium, study center, museum store, café and classroom spaces. The Harn’s collection totals more than 9,000 objects including African, Asian, modern and contemporary art, and photography with significant representations of Ancient American and oceanic art, as well as a growing collection of natural history works on paper. The Harn Museum was named in honor of Samuel Peebles Harn (1893 – 1957), whose widow, three daughters and their husbands and grandchildren made the founding gift for the museum’s construction. The three generations pledged more than $3 million for the construction of a fine arts museum in 1983. At that time, it was the largest private gift ever given to the University of Florida. SOURCE: HARN.UFL.EDU
IF YOU GO… Harn Museum of Art 3259 Hull Road, Gainesville Free Admission Hours: Tues. – Fri., 11 am – 5 pm Sat., 10 am – 5 pm Sun., 1 – 5 pm August 2016
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Honoring Women Leaders The Friends of Susan B. Anthony Celebrate Women’s Equality Day 2016 by Peggy Macdonald
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he Declaration of Independence upholds the promise of equal rights for all, a promise that remained unfulfilled for generations of American women. Before the 19th Amendment was ratified on August 26, 1920, women were barred from exercising the most fundamental right of citizens in a democracy: the right to vote. Susan B. Anthony devoted her life to the cause of woman suffrage. A prominent suffragist, abolitionist, author and speaker, Anthony worked to expand women’s access to higher education, property rights and economic independence. The Gainesville-based group Friends of Susan B. Anthony commemorates the anniversary of the ratification of the 19th Amendment — a day that was designated as Women’s Equality Day in 1971 — with an annual luncheon and awards ceremony. The Susan B. Anthony Award recognizes a local woman who has demonstrated concern for the full enfranchisement of women and minorities and has worked for equal rights for all citizens. The winners of this year’s Susan B. Anthony Award, Nancy Griffin and JoAnn Wilkes, have transformed countless women’s lives through their leadership of the Displaced Homemakers Program at Santa Fe College. The program empowers women who have lost their source of financial support because of divorce, the death of a spouse, or other means and offers free classes, job counseling and computer training to help displaced homemakers with the transition to the job market. “We choose someone each year who is in the spirit of Susan B. Anthony, who worked tirelessly for both women’s rights and civil rights,” explained June Littler, who is the
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co-coordinator of the Women’s Equality Day 2016 luncheon along with Barbara Oberlander, a retired Santa Fe College professor whose research has focused on women’s history. Oberlander — a Wellesley alumna with a doctorate in the History of American Civilization from Brandeis University — has served on the Gainesville Commission on the Status of Women. Today she teaches at the Institute for Learning and Retirement at Oak Hammock, focusing on the history of the First Ladies of the United States. Oberlander and Littler, a retired librarian, were colleagues at Santa Fe College, where they once made waves by setting up an Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) table in front of the library. “We were chastised for it,” Littler recalled. The two women have been active with the Friends of Susan B. Anthony for years. Oberlander is a prior recipient of the Susan B. Anthony Award. Littler was a 2015 recipient of the Rosa Parks Quiet Courage Award. A Pennsylvania native, Littler’s activism began soon after she moved to Florida. “When I came to Gainesville there were fountains that said ‘white’ and ‘colored,’” Littler said during a July 1 interview at the Matheson History Museum. “I thought that was terrible, so I let my children drink out of the water fountains that said ‘colored.’” A nontraditional student, Littler became involved with a civil rights group at the University of Florida. In December 1963, she asked a friend to babysit her children so that she could join what she said was the first integrated picket line in Ocala. seniortimesmagazine.com
Male and female UF students protest segregated dining at the College Inn in 1961, which later became the Purple Porpoise.
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“When I got to church the next day, nobody wanted to talk to me.” “I was arrested for disturbing the peace by means of disorderly conduct,” she said. Littler called her friend from jail to say she would come home later than she had expected. While incarcerated she was served a dinner that included a meat patty, baked beans, collard greens and instant coffee. After Littler was bailed out, she went to an African American church that was a staging ground for the Speaker Patricia Hilliard-Nunn with Susan B. Anthony Award winner Billie Staff at the 2014 Women’s Equality protest. The picketing had Day luncheon. continued all afternoon. Volunteers at the church served Littler a second dinner of school. Her areas of expertise include family law and the social fried chicken, corn on the cob and beans. She asked the server construction of gender. to hold the beans, and the woman asked if she had been to jail. Before the luncheon starts, guests are invited to peruse When Littler asked how she knew, the woman replied, “Anysponsoring organizations’ tables, where women’s history body who has been to jail never wants beans.” bookmarks, propaganda, and the National Women’s History At the time, Littler was a Cub Scout den mother and taught Project Gazette will be distributed. Sunday school. “It’s very patriotic and festive,” Oberlander said. Over 200 “When I got to church the next day, nobody wanted to talk movers and shakers in the community typically attend, includto me,” she said. ing elected officials and political candidates. This did not deter Littler from continuing in civil rights “When you come to the luncheon you will feel the energy in campaigns, however. She worked with Beverly Jones and Vivthe room,” Oberlander said. “It’s a happening.” ian Filer’s husband on voter registration and protested against The Women’s Equality Day 2016 luncheon will be held from the College Inn’s segregated dining policy. Littler later helped 11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, August 27 at the Best Western fellow civil rights and women’s rights activist Jean Chalmers Gateway Grand, located at 4200 NW 97th Blvd. in Gainesville. with her City Commission campaign. Tickets cost $20 per person. For further information and resThe connections between the campaigns for civil rights ervations, please contact June Littler at fosba@fosba.com or and women’s rights have been a common theme in previous go to www.fosba.com. The reservation deadline is August 24th speeches at the Friends of Susan B. Anthony luncheon. Shirley and no tickets will be sold at the door. Chisolm, the first African American woman elected to the All surplus monies from ticket sales and donations will United States Congress, spoke in 2000. In 2008, University go toward sponsorships for two Florida girls to attend the of Florida history professor Jack Davis — Marjory Stoneman American Legion Auxiliary Girls Nation, where aspiring young Douglas’ biographer — was the first and only man to deliver women leaders participate in a mock legislature and meet the keynote address. This year’s speaker, UF Law Dean Laura with senators and representatives on Capitol Hill. Surely SuRosenbury, is the first permanent female dean at the law san B. Anthony would have approved. s
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“I Enjoy Living” CENTENARIAN TILDEN COUNTS BOOTH REMEMBERS OLD GAINESVILLE Story and Photography by Peggy Macdonald
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pproaching his 100th birthday, World War II veteran Tilden Counts Booth still has a gleam in his eye and a wicked sense of humor. Born in Rockledge, Florida on Aug. 11, 1916, the longtime Gainesville resident remembers when a train ran on Main Street. “Everything moved around the old courthouse, which was in the middle of town,” Booth recalled. “You saw mostly horse and wagons, and after a while the cars came in, and of course the train was there.” His mother died in childbirth and his grandparents raised him. Booth attended Gainesville High School when it was located on University Avenue and Fritz W. Buchholz was president. Booth’s father, Mitchell, owned a small farm and grew corn and velvet beans for cattle and horse feed. Booth worked for the University of Florida when Dr. John J. Tigert was president. “He was one of the swellest guys I’ve ever met,” Booth said. “Every time he’d come by on campus he’d come over and speak to me.” Among the projects Booth worked on was the expansion of the football stadium and installing the first air conditioning unit on campus. “President Tigert’s office was the first office we ever put air conditioning in,” Booth said. During World War II, Booth served in the US Navy Seabees Construction Battalion in Efate, New Hebrides and the Philippines. He arrived at Efate in
1942, during the Battle of the Coral Sea. “We were too late to go to Iwo Jima,” Booth said. “We got in a storm and we were on those flat boats. We made it to the Philippines and missed going with the group that was going to the island.” About four months after Booth arrived in the Philippines, the war ended and he returned to Gainesville to take care of his grandmother. Before enlisting, Booth had attended revivals with a friend at a Gainesville church. One time when he arrived at his friend’s place to pick him up for church, he met a young woman, Shelly Alma Murrhee, who worked at the former Florida Farm Colony (now Tacachale). They attended church
“I don’t like to sit down and do nothing,” he said. “I try to stay as busy as I can.” Booth’s daughters have big birthday plans for their father. On August 13, there will be a celebration at the Family Life Center with an old fashioned picnic theme. Yvonne said the family turned to Facebook to invite all of his friends. Booth said he’s not a Facebook user.
“I don’t like to sit down and do nothing. I try to stay as busy as I can.” together for a couple of weeks and soon things got serious. On Feb. 20, 1946, Alma and Counts Booth were married and Booth has lived in Gainesville ever since. After Alma’s death in 2008, two of his daughters, JoAn Mills and Yvonne Booth, have taken turns looking after their father in his home. One of the secrets to Booth’s longevity may be his positive outlook on life. He also likes to stay active and enjoys gardening.
“My face never got on the book,” he joked. Booth has witnessed many changes over the years. He has watched Gainesville grow from a small town where he could leave his house without locking the door, to a city that he says has gotten too big. Still, he said Gainesville has been a great place to spend the past nine decades. “I enjoy living,” he said. “The Lord’s been good to me.” s August 2016
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CALENDAR UPCOMING EVENTS IN ALACHUA & MARION TIOGA MONDAY MARKET
WIC FARMERS MARKET
Mondays
Fridays
4:00pm - 7:00pm JONESVILLE - Tioga Center, 13005 W. Newberry Rd. Market features a selection of vegetables, crafts, organic food, fruits and local specialties.
10:00am – 2:00pm GAINESVILLE - Alachua County Health Department, 224 SE 24th St. Through October, stop by and support local farmers and choose from a variety of seasonal fruits and vegetables. 800-494-2543.
ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCING Mondays 6:45pm – 9:00pm GAINESVILLE - United Church of Gainesville. 1624 NW 5th Ave. Come dance to jigs, reels and waltzes. No partner, experience or special dress required. Live music also begins at 7:00 by Hoggetowne Fancy.
PARKINSON’S EXERCISE CLASS Tuesday & Friday 9:30am GAINESVILLE - Alachua County Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th St. A fun and effective exercise class to help those living with Parkinson’s Disease and other balancerelated health issues. Exercise is the only way to slow progression of PD. Free. www. facebook.com/gainesvilleflparkinsonsnetwork.
GAINESVILLE HARMONY SHOW CHORUS Thursdays 7:00pm – 9:30pm GAINESVILLE - Grace Presbyterian Church, 3146 NW 13th St. For all who are interested in learning and singing Women’s A Cappella Barbershop Harmony Music. Beckie: 352-318-1281.
LADY GAMERS Fridays 1:00pm HIGH SPRINGS - New Century Woman’s Club, 40 NW 1st Ave. The Lady Gamers meet for fun, friendship and food. Everyone is invited. Meet old friends and make some new ones.
FARMSTEAD WEEKEND FARMERS MARKET Saturdays and Sundays 9:00am – 3:00pm CITRA - Crones’ Cradle Conserve, 6411 NE 217th Pl. Tour a working vegetable and herb farm. Plants, fresh produce, books, farm and fine crafts are available. 352-595-3377.
Thursdays 12:00pm – 4:00pm HIGH SPRINGS - Downtown Farmers Market, 115 NE Railroad Ave.
ENCORE DANCE WORKSHOP Thursdays 4:00pm – 5:00pm GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th St. This dance workshop provides mature dancers with an opportunity to continue their practice in an adultfriendly environment. 352-733-0880.
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August 1 - 4 Times Vary GAINESVILLE - P.K. Yonge Dev. Research School, 1080 SW 11th St. Immersion in Writing, Craft and Skill Summer Institute, designed to increase understanding of writer’s voice and to support the development of personal voices in writing. 352-392-1554; cgabbard@pky.ufl. edu; summerinstitutes. pkyonge.ufl.edu.
GATOR SUMMER ORCHESTRA Thursday, August 4 7:30pm GAINESVILLE - University Auditorium, 333 Newell Dr. The completely student-run event features a full symphony orchestra comprised of UF students, local high school and middle school students, and Gainesville community members. Enjoy selections by Beethoven, Strauss, and Brahms among others. Free and open to the public. www.arts.ufl.edu.
HARD LUCK SOCIETY Friday, August 5 8:00pm – 10:00pm GAINESVILLE - Bo Diddley Plaza, 111 E. University Ave. Gainesville’s “Free Fridays” Concert Series presents Hard Luck Society: Country, Blues, Jazz. www.gvlculturalaffairs.org.
ZUMBA YOGA
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Sundays
5:00pm – 6:00pm GAINESVILLE - Bo Diddley Plaza, 111 E. University Ave. Free Zumba class every first Saturday of the month with Cristiane Machado.
1:00pm – 2:00pm GAINESVILLE - First Magnitude Brewery, 1220 SE Veitch St. Brewery Yoga in the warehouse. All experience levels welcome; suggested donation of $5 (donations go to Forage Farms through August) www.fmbrewing.com/calendar.
BLUE STAR MUSEUMS Now thru September 5
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Times Vary GAINESVILLE - Florida Museums. Free admission to all fee-based exhibits for active duty U.S. military personnel and their families. For a list of participating museums: www.flmnh. ufl.edu/calendar/grid/blue-star-museums.
CALL TO ARTISTS AND EXHIBIT August 11 - 31 Times Vary OCALA - Marion Cultural Alliance, 23 SW Broadway St. Theme: Ocala’s Backyard Galleries. Accepting art August 9 thru 11. Opening reception August 12. All mediums accepted. Open TuesdayFriday: 11:00am-5:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am– 4:00pm. Paulette Millhorn: 352-369-1500
A BURLESQUE TRIBUTE TO THE WIZARD OF OZ Saturday, August 6 9:00pm - 12:00am GAINESVILLE - Market Street Pub & Cabaret, 112 SW 1st Ave. Lions and Tigers and Burlesque dancers, Oh My! Featuring live music before and after the show. $8 Adv, $10 Door. This show is 18+.
WRITING SONGS, WRITING STORIES Sunday, August 7 2:30pm - 4:00pm GAINESVILLE - Millhopper Branch Library, 3145 NW 43rd St. Gainesville musician, poet, and novelist Arthur Crummer will describe the essential elements common to both successful songs and stories at the monthly meeting of the Writers Alliance of Gainesville. writersalliance.org.
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PAINT BY NUMBER Tuesdays through August 23 6:00PM – 8:00pm HIGH SPRINGS - Adventure Outpost, 18238 NW US HWAY 441. Every Tuesday from 6pm8pm at the Adventure Outpost, they will be doing a night of “paint by numbers” on their wall and the public is invited. In conjunction with the Smithsonian Institute event and the goal to educate and promote the importance of how finite and precious water is. www. facebook.com/events/243668402692607/.
RAG DOLLS Wednesday, August 10 9:00am – 11:00am GAINESVILLE - Friends of Dudley Farm, 18730 W. Newberry Road. A demonstration of rag doll making. 352-472-1142 or www.friendsofdudleyfarm.org.
THE SAVANTS OF SOUL Friday, August 12 8:00pm – 10:00pm GAINESVILLE - Bo Diddley Plaza, 111 E. University Ave. Gainesville’s “Free Fridays” Concert Series presents: The Savants of Soul. Soul, Blues, Jazz, Rock, Punk and Ska. www.gvlculturalaffairs.org.
MOVIE NIGHT Friday, August 12 7:00pm – 10:00pm JONESVILLE - Town of Tioga, 105 SW 128th St. The second Friday of every month. Free admission. Bring lawn chairs and blankets.
MURDER MYSTERY DINNER Saturday, August 13 6:00pm ALACHUA - Alachua Woman’s Club, 14565 Main St. Presented by the Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe to raise funds for its project account. This year it’s Murder in Margaritaland: a night of crime and chaos in the Caribbean. Doors open at 6pm; dinner at 6:30 and mystery starts 7. Dinner tickets: $40. Contact Tom Weller: 386-454-3163.
VARIETY SHOW Saturday, August 13 3:00pm GAINESVILLE - Oak Hall School Theatre. Destination Vegas! The Gainesville Harmony Show Chorus is having its variety show, silent auction and raffle to benefit the chorus attending The Sweet Adeline’s International Competition in Las Vegas. Tickets: $12 each or two for $20. 352-392-494-4124.
LITTLE JAKE & THE SOUL SEARCHERS Saturday, August 13 8:30pm - 1:00am GAINESVILLE - Market Street Pub & Cabaret, 112 SW 1st Ave. Veteran blues and R&B recording
John Raimondi, Drawing To Sculpture August 6 – October 30 OCALA - Appleton Museum, 4333 E. Silver Springs Blvd. Raimondi creates towering outdoor sculptures with geometric forms and organic shapes. The exhibit features a selection of his drawings in ink, graphite, pastel and oil stick. AppletonMuseum.org, 352-291-4455.
artist and performer, Little Jake Mitchell plays monthly at Market Street with his Soul Searchers. $10 at the door. littlejakemitchell.com.
ENGLISH AS A SECOND LANGUAGE Wednesday, August 17 6:00pm — 7:30pm OCALA - First Baptist Church of Ocala, 2801 SE Maricamp Rd. Free ESL classes resume August 17. Classes meet on Wednesdays in the Education building, 2nd floor, room 202/204. 352-629-5683.
BONNIE RAITT TRIBUTE Friday, August 19 8:00pm – 10:00pm GAINESVILLE - Bo Diddley Plaza, 111 E. University Ave. Gainesville’s “Free Fridays” Concert Series presents: “Bonnie Raitt - Road Tested.” Tribute by Jana Horton-Kowitz & Friends. Classic Rock. www.gvlculturalaffairs.org.
BURLESQUE & JAZZ Saturday, August 20 8:00pm - 1:00am GAINESVILLE - Market Street Pub & Cabaret, 112 SW 1st Ave. An intimate burlesque & variety show featuring a rotating cast of local and visiting performers. Live jazz with Swing Theory begins after the show at 10:00pm. $10 Adv, $12 door. This show is 18+. For reservations: sallybdash.com.
CANCER CONNECTIONS Wednesday, August 24 12:00pm – 1:00pm GAINESVILLE - HealthStreet, 2401 SW Archer Rd. “Update in GI Cancer Therapies.” The speaker will be Dr. Thom George, director of the GI oncology program at UF. Monthly meeting and networking opportunities for anyone involved in the care or treatment of cancer patients, or provides a service to them. Lunch provided for those who RSVP; $4 donation is requested. Barb Thomas: bnbbarb@aol.com or www.myhealthstreet.org.
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CONCERT SERIES Friday, August 26 7:00pm – 10:00pm JONESVILLE - Town of Tioga, 105 S.W. 128th St. Every last Friday of the month. Free admission. Bring your lawn chairs and blankets.
FOREVER YOUNG EXPO. Saturday, August 27 9:00am – 3:00pm OCALA - Christ’s Church Of Marion County, 6768 SW 80th St. An Expo for Fifty Plus Age Group Topics include: Financial Planning, Wills and Estate Planning, Identity Theft, Funeral Planning, Assisted Living Facility Services and more. No sales will be made during this event, however personal appointments can be made. Free lunch from noon to 12:30 pm. Donations of non-perishable food items to benefit Interfaith Emergency Services will be appreciated. www.ccomc.org.
TENNIS TOURNAMENT: ACES FOR AUTISM Saturday, August 27 Times Vary OCALA - Country Club of Ocala, 6823 SE 12th Circle. Men’s & Women’s Doubles. First match 8:00am. Entry Fee: $50 per player. Registration includes guarantee of two matches, boxed lunch, official tournament T-shirt, swag bag, entry to Friday Night Gala. Troy Leonard: 352207-2347 or Barbara Leonard: 352-804-3777.
ELECTRO AERIAL SHOW Saturday, August 27 8:00pm - 12:00am GAINESVILLE - Market Street Pub & Cabaret, 112 SW 1st Ave. Electro Aerial Show featuring aerial bartending by AscenDance acrobats to live music. $5 at the door.
Golf Scramble: Aces for Autism
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Friday, August 26 OCALA - Country Club of Ocala, 6823 SE 12th Circle. Registration begins at 11:30am. 1:00pm shotgun start. $100 Per Player. Entry forms must be received by August 19. Registration fee includes boxed lunch, on-course beverages. Friday Night Gala from 6:00pm - 9:00pm in the Banquet Room. Proceeds benefit New Horizon Academy for Exceptional Students. Troy Leonard: 352-207-2347 or Barbara Leonard: 352-804-3777.
ARTWALK GAINESVILLE
BREAKAWAY BURLESQUE
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7:00pm - 10:00pm GAINESVILLE - Downtown. Artwalk is a free monthly self-guided tour that combines exciting visual art, live performance, and events with many local galleries, eateries and businesses participating. www.artwalkgainesville.com.
10:00pm – 12:00am GAINESVILLE - Market Street Pub & Cabaret, 112 SW 1st Ave. A night of burlesque inspired by our favorite food and drinks! This show is 18+. $7 at the door.
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FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK 6:00pm – 9:00pm OCALA - Downtown Square, SE 1st Ave. First Friday of the month. Live entertainment. Website: ocalafl.org/recpark. If you would like us to publicize an event in Alachua or Marion counties, send information by the 13th day of the month prior. All submissions will be reviewed and every effort will be made to run qualified submissions if page space is available.
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Through The Looking Glass August 5 – 15 Take a trip through Alice’s looking glass to the beat of a hip-hopping soundtrack by Bill Francoeur. This silly adaptation of Lewis Carroll’s “Through the Looking Glass” depicts the coming-of-age story with fun twists and music that audiences of all ages will adore. Youth volunteers put on the entire show.
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Oklahoma! A Musical July 22 – August 14 Curly, a handsome cowboy, and Laurey, a charming farm girl, fall in love despite the boisterous rivalry between the farmers and cowboys in the West Indian Territory. Although love is never a smooth ride, the two head out to begin a new life together, in Oklahoma!
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9 to 5: The Musical September 8 – October 2 In the era of Rolodexes and rotary phones, every day feels like Monday for the three secretaries under boss Franklin Hart. United by their contempt, the three women share gleeful fantasies about his demise — then, after an extra-productive coffee break, devise a plan. Based on the 1980 hit movie, this outrageously funny ode to female friendship and empowerment is now a hilarious, high-energy musical.
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BOOK REVIEW BY
TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER
Famous Nathan LLOYD HANDWERKER with GIL REAVILL c.2016, Flatiron Books $26.99 / $37.99 Canada 320 pages
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om always loved you best. I can beat you at that. You got more than me, more from Santa and a bigger birthday cake. I was Dad’s favorite, I’m better than you, and sibling rivalry can linger long past childhood. It’s not pretty and, as you’ll see in “Famous Nathan” by Lloyd Handwerker (with Gil Reavill), it can bring down an empire. Born in 1892 in Austria-occupied Poland, Nathan Handwerker was a gogetter, even as a boy: his family was poor and had many small mouths to feed so
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must end. Coney Island changed quite a bit in 1966, thanks to a man named Trump; Nathan’s began to struggle, partly because of “small-is-beautiful versus big-is-better debate” and good old-fashioned sibling rivalry. As business biographies go, I thought “Famous Nathan” was one of the tastier. Author Lloyd Handwerker, grandson of Nathan, starts his sweeping story with a Coney Island tradition, then moves in directions that truly couldn’t be more opposite. We travel from a competitive eating stage to the sleeping-pallet of an illiterate, dirt-poor immigrant who stumbled into his life’s work to avoid starvation, the irony of which is never allowed to be lost on readers. Handwerker’s storytelling (with Gil Reavill) is
he, as the third-oldest son, begged his father to let him leave home to work. Eleven-year-old Handwerker found a series of jobs that paid little but he settled on one in a bakery, reasoning that he would never go hungry there. Living in Poland at the turn of the last century could be dangerous for a young Jewish man — gangs and military recruiters were on the hunt — so Handwerker began saving to move to America. He left the Netherlands in March, 1912 and upon his arrival in New York a month later, he quickly found a job, then another, and another. Remembering his life back home, he found employment in restaurants and worked his way up, toiling seven days a week while he learned English. While at his part-time job in Coney Island, Handwerker noticed a counter location that would make a perfect place to start a business. It took awhile for Nathan’s (later, Nathan’s Famous) to be successful; Nathan Handwerker, who built a hot dog empire, Handwerker was initially charging and his wife, Ida, in the documentary “Famous Nathan.” (credit: Film Movement) too much for his hot dogs but once he settled on a nickel apiece, two cents for a drink, “the store” started to clear, lively, and filled with such twists. I take off. Coney Island was the place to thoroughly enjoyed it. be, for New Yorkers escaping the city; From the first page, this is an easy Nathan’s was open year ‘round and book to like: it’s interesting, has a became famous for speed and spectacle smooth timeline, and sometimes reads of service. Handwerker was at the store like a novel. If you’re hungry for that, every day, sometimes for 20 hours a day “Famous Nathan” is a wiener. s but he still managed to marry and have Terri Schlichenmeyer has been reading three children — the younger two, both since she was 3 years old and she never goes sons he hoped would someday take over anywhere without a book. She lives with her the family business. two dogs and 11,000 books. As they say, though, all good things
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