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ON THE COVER – Gayle Ambrose poses with two rag dolls, which were made at Friend’s of Dudley Farm’s rag doll making demo. Ambrose has been a volunteer with the group for 11 1⁄2 years. Born and raised in Gainesville, she said on her first visit to the historic farm she planned to leave after learning just one thing. “And now they can’t run me off with a stick,” Ambrose said. PHOTO BY ERICKA WINTERROWD
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Dudley Farm’s Annual Quilt Day & Antique Show Offers a Taste of Old Florida
Longtime Backbone of UF Chemistry Department had Role in Defeat of Japan
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Growing up Crom The Legacy of a Unique Gainesville Family of Artists and Artisans BY PEGGY MACDONALD
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Patchworking Sew Much to Quilt, Sew Little Time BY HAYLI ZUCCOLA
Enjoying Act Three by Ellis Amburn
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Reading Corner Review by Terri Schlichenmeyer
WINNER! Congratulations to the winner from our AUGUST 2016 issue…
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“As a 3rd generation farmer, I have dedicated 75 years to working the land … until a problem with my heart — an irregular heartbeat — slowed me down. Dr. Floyd Burke was able to find the problem. He quickly sent me to Dr. Charles Klodell for heart surgery that saved my life. I know that UF Health has the brightest medical minds, and the most advanced technology and research in North Central Florida. I’m thankful to everyone there for getting me back to doing what I love.“
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FROM THE EDITOR œ ALBERT ISAAC
Sew Talented My grandmother could sew and crochet and make quilts and afghans that were absolutely beautiful. I was always surprised at how these afghans could keep me so warm in the winter despite all the spaces in the weave. My wife and I still have a magnificent quilt Grandma gave us when we got married. She continued to knit and crochet well into her 90s, even after she’d had a stroke; even after she was nearly blind. She was a remarkable woman in many ways, but particularly impressive with a needle and thread, and with latch hook and yarn. My mom has inherited this talent as well. Now in her 80s, Mom recently began crocheting, creating a spectacular blanket for our grown daughter — her granddaughter. I, on the other hand, have no such skills. Recently I had to sew a button on my shirt. I managed to do it, but it looked pretty weird and it was slightly lower than it needed to be, causing an unwelcome gap between the buttons on the front of my shirt. (I still wear it. If I pull on the material between the buttons
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real hard I can make it look presentable.) Back in the ‘70s we used a neat little invention called the Buttoneer that would reattach a button in a jiffy. I no longer have this device, so I went at it with a needle and thread. Just threading that needle was a chore in itself. The only other sewing experience I can remember is when I was in college and my motorcycle seat was pulling apart at the seams. I got my hands on some surgical suture, complete with the needle, and stitched that bad boy back together. I was rather impressed, and it held up until I sold the bike. (Fortunately it wasn’t suture that dissolves.) So, with sewing in mind, we bring you a couple of pieces about the craft. Care to join a quilting organization? In this issue you can learn about a few of the local quilting guilds. We also visit Dudley Farm in Newberry for a bit of quilting history — which has an upcoming Annual Quilt Day & Antique Show in early October. You can also learn about making quilts and rag dolls. Additionally, we have a story about a local family that was instrumental in repairing and installing the old Alachua County Courthouse clock in downtown Gainesville back in the mid-80s. Theodore Crom rescued the 1885 tower clock from a junkyard. Lastly, we continue with our series of World War II Veteran profiles, this month featuring Morris Mixson, who retired from the UF Chemistry Department in 1989. Enjoy! s
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HISTORY Sept 1, 1939 WWII began in Europe when the German troops invaded Poland. Sept 2, 1739 The US Department of Treasury was formed. Sept 3, 1783 the Revolutionary War in America ended after Great Britain signed the Treaty of Paris. Sep 6, 1901 The 25th President of the United States, William McKinley, was assassinated. Sept 11, 2001 Four airliners air were hijacked and hija iintentionally crashed; two crashed into the World Trade Center. About 3,000 people were killed, making this day the largest terrorist attack in America.
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Portal to the Past Dudley Farm’s Annual Quilt Day & Antique Show Offers a Taste of Old Florida
by Peggy Macdonald photography by Ericka Winterrowd
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ust as the Historic Haile Homestead in Gainesville is known for its “talking walls,” Dudley Farm Historic State Park is associated with its “talking quilts.” Throughout American history, quilts have been used not only to keep warm, but also to communicate. According to oral tradition, quilts contained secret codes that helped runaway slaves find their way to freedom on the Underground Railroad. Quilts have also been used for social causes ranging from AIDS awareness and memorials to protests against the devastating effects of the use of DDT and other pesticides on Lake Apopka farmworkers and the environment. At Dudley Farm, located in Newberry, historic quilts from the Dudley collection are on display in the visitor center and inside the Dudleys’ farmhouse. Each quilt tells a unique story about what life was like in the past. Quilting is an art form born out of necessity. Just as the European settlers who first came to America could not afford to discard scraps of clothing or other materials, homesteaders who came to Florida before the Civil War made use of every piece of cloth they owned in order to conserve resources. This led to the creation of pieced or patchwork quilts that blended cut pieces of cloth from a variety of sources. The pieces were cut into strips that were sewn together to form a variety of patterns.
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Quilts and rag dolls were a huge part of the Dudley’s lives. Strips of fabric were never wasted and became the base from which each rag doll was made.
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“The Dudley girls used to make rag dolls out of old clothes,they would get strips of old clothes and rags and tie them together.”
The rag doll-making event took place in the summer and attracted lots of families. The activity proved to be very popular for children still waiting for the school year to begin. Grandparents attended the event with grandchildren, and not one of the participants had a smart phone or tablet in hand.
Quilting enabled families who could not afford expensive whole cloth to create beautiful patchwork quilts that were both practical and decorative. They also served as a pictorial record of a family’s history. On Oct. 1, Dudley Farm’s annual Quilt Day & Antique Show shares the stories of the Dudley family through its extensive quilt collection. Novices can learn how to make their own quilts and purchase supplies from a variety of local vendors.
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Quilt Day features a bed turning with popular quilts representative of the Dudley era. During the bed turning, volunteers will share stories about the history or style of a variety of quilts on display. Traditionally, layers of quilts are placed on top of each other, and as each quilt is lifted off the stack its story is shared with comments on the pattern or how it was made. Quilt Day also includes demonstrations of historical skills such as quilting, pine needle basket weaving, palm weaving, seniortimesmagazine.com
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Cindy Frost leads a rag doll demo at Dudley Farm. She has been a volunteer there for five years. Most of the participants at the event used materials that were provided for them at the demonstration.
tatting, spinning, inkle loom and cornhusk brooms. The Levy County Quilt Museum and Quilters of Alachua County Day Guild are partnering with Dudley Farm for this special event. Quilts and quilt-related products will be available for purchase, along with a selection of antiques from several vendors. As young girls, one of the first skills Myrtle Dudley and her seven sisters learned was how to quilt. According to park services specialist Sandra Cashes, each of the Dudley girls were required to complete eight quilts before they were permitted to marry. “We needed them, with all that family to keep warm in the winter,” Myrtle Dudley told “The Older American” in March 1990. “The wind really swept through their old houses in those days.” Cashes joked that the quilt-making requirement might be one of the reasons Myrtle Dudley — the youngest of Phillip Benjamin Harvey Dudley Jr.’s 12 children — never married. In fact, three of Myrtle’s sisters also remained unwed. “There was too much work on the farm to do courting,” Myrtle Dudley once told her niece, Sue Dees, who spent a great deal of time on the farm
as a child. At the time of Dudley’s death in 1996 at age 94, Dees told The Gainesville Sun she often watched her aunt making quilts and doing woodwork. On December 1, 1901, Myrtle Dudley was born in her parents’ bedroom at her family’s rustic farmhouse. In a 1992 interview with the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program, Dudley said her grandfather, Phillip Benjamin Harvey Dudley, moved from South Carolina to Alachua County in the 1850s to grow cotton with the assistance of enslaved laborers. Three generations of Dudleys operated the farm, which is now one of the oldest working Cracker style farms in the state. In 1983, Myrtle Dudley — who had no children — donated 24 acres of the farm she inherited to the state, with the condition that she could remain there until her death. Today, volunteers teach domestic skills to park visitors on most Wednesday mornings. These workshops usually focus on quilting, although other popular topics include how to make cornhusk brooms or rag dolls. “Everything is done by hand, so it’s really cool,” Cashes said. Dudley offers a variety of hands-on seniortimesmagazine.com
programs to help visitors appreciate what life was like in Old Florida. Living history re-enactors in period dress offer tours and manage a sprawling farm and historic state park. On August 10, volunteers led a rag doll workshop, educating families about clothing and toy making in the late 1800s and early 1900s. “The Dudley girls used to make rag dolls out of old clothes,” Cashes explained. “They would get strips of old clothes and rags and tie them together.” Strips of cloth are used to make the doll’s body. Yarn, string or lace can be used to make the hair. A face can be painted on or embroidered, or it can be left blank. Rag dolls were used not only to comfort and amuse young girls, but also as a fun way for children to learn valuable sewing skills. The oldest surviving rag doll in North America was made in 1770. Named Bangwell Putt, this well-loved doll was made for Clarissa Field, who
was born blind and kept the doll until she died in her 80s, according to Memorial Hall Museum Online’s “American Centuries” exhibit. Learn how to make a rag doll, quilt, cornhusk broom and more at the annual Quilt Day & Antique Show Saturday, Oct. 1 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Park staff and volunteers encourage visitors to bring their own quilts to the event and share their family stories with fellow quilters. s
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Treatment of rare disease gives UF Health patient her life back For two years starting in October 2011, Lori Gilstrap knew something was very wrong with her health. She was experiencing large amounts of blood loss, as well as constant exhaustion. “I’m on my feet all day, and people said they could not believe that I was even up and walking,” Lori recalled. “On the weekends, I crashed. I sat in my chair and didn’t do anything. I was just so weak, and oh — the fatigue — it was horrible.” Lori’s husband, Tommy, provided all the moral support he could, but says that didn’t help with her physical problem. “I personally don’t know how she got through,” Tommy recalls. After seeing many different doctors in her hometown of Orange Park, Florida, Lori eventually received a diagnosis: nutcracker syndrome. This rarely diagnosed condition occurs when the renal vein, which drains blood from the kidney, is compressed between the aorta and the artery that supplies the intestines with blood. In severe cases, the vein collapses. Blood that should flow out of the kidney and back to the heart instead backs up into the
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kidney and comes out in the urine. “All of my life, these two arteries have pounded on this vein and eventually it just collapsed,” Lori explained. As a very slender person, she does not have much fat in her abdomen to help cushion the vein. Lori was relieved to finally have a diagnosis, but began to feel lost again when she saw several vascular surgeons who said they would not operate on her for one reason or another. Finally UF Health said yes. “When UF Health told me they could fix me, it was like 1,000 pounds got lifted off my shoulders.” Lori recalled. “I could breathe again. I knew I was going to be OK.” Lori initially met with Thomas Huber, MD, PhD, chief of vascular surgery and endovascular therapy at UF Health, who brought the case to his team for review. During a weekly meeting, Dr. Huber and his team decided that an associate professor in the division, Robert Feezor, MD, would be best to perform her surgery, as he had treated nutcracker syndrome previously. Dr. Feezor opted for a minimally invasive approach first, which works for some patients. Ultimately, because of the severity of Lori’s condition, she required a renal vein bypass. He took a portion of vein from Lori’s leg and attached both ends of it to the renal vein, seniortimesmagazine.com
creating a path for blood to flow around the problem area between the two arteries. The surgery took place in October 2013, more than two years after her symptoms began. Since surgery, Lori has returned to horseback riding, a favorite activity made difficult by the fatigue accompanying her illness, and one she gave up temporarily after surgery. She is also back to spending more time with Tommy and their family dog, Elkie, at the beach and local parks. Lori is glad to have moved past nutcracker syndrome and on with her life, and says she is grateful for the very personal, high-quality care she received at UF Health. “I can’t say enough good things about Dr. Feezor, the ICU staff, the clinic.” she said. “UF Health gave me my life back.”
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Healthy Edge What’s Up, Doc? For a Healthy Edge, Try a Carrot a Day
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id you know that Marilyn Monroe ate a carrot a day for health reasons? Here’s why you should, too… Carrots may be “different” today than they were centuries ago, but they still pack a healthy punch. According to the National Carrot Museum, early carrots were first cultivated thousands of years ago, where Afghanistan is today. They were bitter tasting, multi-pronged roots. Carrots weren’t “orange” until the 16th century. Over time, farmers have developed them into the sweet and crunchy super foods they are today. What are the benefits of eating carrots? Research shows that carrots and other antioxidant- and fiber-rich fruits and vegetables reduce the risk of cancer and cardiovascular disease. Carrots also help with blood sugar regulation, in part because carrots contain chromium. Carrots also aid in the removal of toxins and liver metabolites that are no longer useful by binding the waste material in your digestive track. Carrots have been shown to prevent cancers such as lung, colorectal, and prostate cancers. For instance, an “International Journal of Epidemiology” study entitled “Carrots, green vegetables and lung cancer: a case-control
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study” showed that smokers who ate carrots more than once a week had a substantially lower risk of developing lung cancer than those who didn’t eat carrots. Another case-control study by the Harvard School of Public Health’s Department of Nutrition showed that diets rich in beta-carotene (like carrots) are protective against prostate cancer. Lastly, a 2011 “Journal of Medicinal Food” study showed that carrot juice extract could kill leukemia cells. Although carrots have some vision benefits, it’s probably not exactly what your parents told you. Carrots help vision if you are lacking vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency can deteriorate portions of the eyes’ photoreceptors. Duke ophthalmologist Jill Koury, M.D. said that eating carrots repairs the damaged photoreceptors, restoring vision. Many believe that the rumor that is still repeated today (about carrots helping vision) started with a World War II British Royal Air Force campaign. The campaign claimed that British fighter pilots had greater accuracy because they ate carrots. Actually, the fighter pilots’ “perfect vision” was due to their new radar system that they wanted to keep hidden from the Germans.
What nutrients are in carrots? Based on United States Department of Agriculture estimates, a serving of carrots is 25 calories, 3 grams of sugar, and a gram of protein. Carrots provide 210 percent of the vitamin A that an adult would need in a day. (Your intestines turn the beta-carotene of carrots into vitamin A.) Carrots also have fiber, vitamins C, E, and K, calcium, potassium, folate, manganese, phosphorous, magnesium and zinc. What are the best ways to eat carrots? Baby cut carrots are a great snack. Many people also enjoy shredded carrots in coleslaw and on salads. Raw and steamed carrots provide the most nutritional value. Juiced carrots are also tasty. To keep your carrots fresher for longer, store them in the refrigerator in a sealed plastic bag. Remove the green carrot top before storing; the green tops can draw out moisture and nutrients from the carrot. Make sure you peel and wash your carrots before consuming. Carrots can pick up dangerous bacteria when they are shipped and handled. E. coli, Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella species are some of the bacteria that can contaminate carrots. Remember that you can eat TOO many carrots! Overconsumption of carotene may give your skin a yellow or orange tinge (it’s called carotenemia). It won’t likely affect your health and usually just discolors your knees, palms, soles, and nasal areas. To reverse carotenemia, just cut back on your carrot consumption. Vitamin A overconsumption usually only happens when people take vitamin A supplements. So, for that healthy edge, make like Bugs Bunny and have a carrot a day. s Kendra Siler-Marsiglio, PhD, HCC is the Director of Rural Health Partnership at WellFlorida Council.
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Growing Up Crom The Legacy of a Unique Gainesville Family of Artists and Artisans
by Peggy Macdonald
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he name Theodore Crom is synonymous with the 1885 Alachua County Courthouse tower clock, which he rescued from the junkyard, restored and later installed in a new location at the corner of Northeast 1st Street and University Avenue. However, few people are aware that the tower clock’s restoration was actually a family affair. Before the tower clock was installed in its new home in downtown Gainesville in 1983, it was gradually nursed back to life at the Crom residence, said Theodore R. Crom’s son, Theodore P. “Ted” Crom. Ted’s father, Theodore, was an internationally known horologist who published several books on horology — the study of time and the art of making timepieces. Crom was also the founding president of the Crom Corporation, which produces pre-stressed concrete tanks for water and wastewater treatment and storage. Each of the Crom children played a
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role in restoring the 1885 Seth Thomas tower clock. “We all contributed something,” said Theodore’s son, Frank “Gary” Crom, in a May 25 interview at his house. Theodore put the clock in the bedroom and hung the bell in the backyard. Ted and Gary — the last surviving children of Theodore and Wynona Crom — remember their mother ringing the bell to call them back inside when they played in Rattlesnake Creek. The bell could be heard from their home on NE 10th Avenue, all the way to J. J. Finley Elementary School on NW 5th Avenue. “That’s how Mom called us when she wanted us to come home,” Ted said in a June 1 interview at his Cross Creek workshop. Ted recalled that before the Alachua County Courthouse was demolished in 1961, the tower clock could be heard from downtown Gainesville all the way to their home. “Gainesville was much smaller and seniortimesmagazine.com
Ted Crom peeks through the eye of the Luna statue as it is assembled. The completed statue is located in downtown Gainesville.
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PHOTO BY PEGGY MACDONALD Top left: Gary Crom holds a rattrap art piece. Bottom left: Artie Beckham sandblasts Luna, a 13-foot-tall moon sculpture. At right: The entire Crom family restored the tower clock from the 1885 Alachua County Courthouse, which was demolished in 1961.
quieter then,” he said. When Theodore brought the pile of tower clock parts home from the scrapyard, his wife, Wynona thought it looked like a piece of junk, she told The Sun in a 2013 interview (she died in 2014; Theodore died in 2008). Theodore did the brunt of the mechanical work to restore the tower clock. On a trip through Georgia, Theodore and Gary found two missing pieces needed to fully restore the clock. These rare parts were necessary to regulate the time before the tower clock was electrified, Gary said. The family had the weights cast at the Maddox Foundry and Machine Works in Archer. “It was a community project,” Ted recalled. Ted and Gary’s brother, Brady — who died in 2015 — painted the clock. Ted helped with the machine work, repairing or replacing missing pieces. “Daddy restored it all,” Ted said. When the tower clock broke down last summer, Ted helped Fred North — a carpenter with the City of Gainesville — bring it back to life. Beyond their father’s passion for clocks, the Crom children had an unusual upbringing. According to Ted, the family kept a mule in the backyard. Ted and his brothers sometimes rode the mule to J. J. Finley.
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In the summers, the Crom boys practically lived at Glen Springs. “The smell of Clorox takes me back to the Glen Springs dressing room,” Ted said. The Glen Springs Pool was where Theodore Crom and his wife, Wynona (“Nonie”), met. “My dad was a diving clown there,” Ted said. “Mom was a mermaid in a tank at the pool.” Gary lives in his childhood home, which his father designed. It is a miniature museum of sorts; the rooms are filled with paintings by his mother and brother, Duff, along with furniture and eccentric creations made by Gary. Some pieces feature the bones of dead fish or a rat caught in a trap. Other zany items include a sword made from the rostral bone of a swordfish, and an end table decorated with sharks’ teeth from Hogtown Creek. “Some people don’t know what to make of my work,” Gary said. Facemasks made with Gary’s beard hair and his mother’s teeth line the entry way. Handsome oak tables adorned with coquina shells fill the living room. Some of Gary’s work fittingly features a clock motif. Gary has also dabbled with performance art. In a 2011 YouTube video, “Tossin’ Daddy Over The Falls,” Gary is seen tossing a cork filled with some of Theodore Crom’s ashes over the Canadian Horseshoe Falls. He had cut a hole in the cork to accommodate the cremains. seniortimesmagazine.com
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“My dad was a diving clown there,” Ted said. “Mom was a mermaid in a tank at the pool.”
Ted Crom with a fire pit and other pieces he created at his Cross Creek workshop. The manticore (bottom) — a legendary Persian creature — emits fire.
“I had to drink a bottle of wine to get it,” Gary said about the cork in an interview before he launched his father’s ashes over Niagara Falls. Gary also keeps his father’s memory alive in more conventional ways. Anyone who has driven west along Northwest 10th Avenue from 13th Street has likely spotted the tall, white clock in Gary’s yard. His father installed it there 50 years ago, and Gary ensures that it keeps accurate time. The clock used to stand in front of an Ocala jewelry store, Gary said. In addition to this highly visible testament to the Crom family legacy, Ted Crom’s public art adds spice to the streets of downtown Gainesville. “Luna,” the popular man-in-the-moon sculpture is located at the corner of Southeast 2nd Avenue and 1st Street. The piece has become so beloved that people have absconded with tokens from the statue — strange tokens. For instance, someone stole the mole hair off the moon statue (the mole is still there). Ted said he took the barbed orb that used to hang from the moon home so that it would not be stolen. “Art does somewhat run in the family,” Ted said humbly. His brother, Duff (who died in 2007), was also an artist. His portrait of a local artist, the late Lennie Kesl, is on display at Hector Framing and Gallery. Kesl was the father of Duff’s longtime love and companion, Diana. Ted’s work has been featured in three major Hollywood films. He said he was a prop maker for “Forrest Gump” and made the iconic bench Forrest sat on while he told his life story. He made a version of the experimental weather pod, “Dorothy” for the “Twister” attraction at the Universal Studios Orlando theme park. Ted also built sets, walls, art and props for the films “Under Siege” and “The Truman Show.” “Then I got married and didn’t want to travel anymore,” Ted said. “They really work you hard.” Today Ted is working with engineering students at UF to build a plasma torch table that would allow artists to cut anything without having to worry about warping, because the metal is underwater. It will be the first in Gainesville, Ted said. In addition, he continues to crank out massive pieces of public art that strike his fancy. “I’ll do any art anyone wants,” he said. In 2013, thanks to the efforts of Brady Crom, the City of Gainesville declared August 10th Ted Crom Day. That date was chosen to pay tribute not only to the Crom children’s father, but also to their mother, Wynona, whose birthday is August 10th. Today, brothers Gary and Ted are keeping the Crom family legacy alive. s September 2016
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Enjoying Act Three Ginger Rogers
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inger Rogers and I lunched at Manhattan’s La Grenouille, known as The Frog Pond by its clientele — made up principally of fashion designers and socialites — after she’d flown down from her ranch in Oregon to talk about the autobiography we’d been discussing for months on the telephone. Specializing in celebrity memoirs, I was editorial director of G.P. Putnam’s Sons in the 1980s and hopeful of adding Ginger to my list of such stars as June Allyson, Shelley Winters, Stewart Granger, and Ms. Elvis (Priscilla) Presley. In her early seventies, Ginger had put on weight. Her secretary and I supported her between us as we strolled down Sixth Avenue from her modest hotel to the restaurant at 3 East 52nd Street. She still looked glamorous in her peroxided, teased, and sprayed shoulder-length blond hair. Stardom had not warped her. Though no longer the vivacious gold digger of 1933, she was amiable in a warm but low-keyed way as she spoke of learning to operate her word processor. I’d once lived at 440 Riverside Drive and inquired whether she’d ever been to George Gershwin’s apartment at 55 Riverside when they worked together in Girl Crazy. “Yes, mother and I were up there at a party one night,” she said. “Ginger, come sit here beside me,” Gershwin had called out from his seat at the concert grand. “I’ve written a special song for you. I
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hope you like it.” He sang/talked the lyrics, beginning with, “They’re writing songs of love but not for me.” A “forlorn little love song” was the way he told her to sing “But Not for Me.” Another of the tunes Ginger had in the 1930 musical “Girl Crazy” was “Embraceable You,” which Gershwin sang to her next. I waited in vain for her to say what I’d come to hear — what Gershwin was like, in and out of bed. Instead, we discussed Oscar night 1941, when she’d been nominated for “Kitty Foyle.” On February 27 in the Biltmore Hotel banquet room, Ginger was resplendent in black lace and gray peau-de-soie by Irene. She didn’t expect to win. Smart money was on Joan Fontaine for “Rebecca,” directed by Alfred Hitchcock. “Rebecca” producer David O. Selznick took home two Academy Awards that night, one for best picture, the other, the Irving Thalberg, for lifetime achievement. Joan’s chances looked good. Seated next to Ginger was her mother Lela. Ginger didn’t even hear Lynn Fontanne, first lady of the American theatre, call her name, and it took a nudge from a tablemate to get her out of her chair. She reciprocated her mother’s smile, stood up, and sobbed her way to the presentation table. “The first thing that came to my lips was
what a wonderful mother I had to guide me … I was deeply grateful for God’s love being with me at this momentous hour.” Jimmy Stewart won the Oscar for “The Philadelphia Story.” “I jumped with joy to think my sweet friend Jimmy and I were in the same bivouac together,” she recalled. Years later Joan Fontaine and I were involved at William Morrow and Company when we published her memoir “No Bed of Roses,” and she explained how she’d blown off her loss, but it sounded like a rationalization to me. “The voters might well have thought Hitch was my Svengali, that after so many undistinguished performances in the past, surely it was Hitchcock who had mesmerized me into the performance I was nominated for.” I wanted to buy Ginger’s book, but HarperCollins bought it out from under me. “Revelations about her personal life are guarded,” one critic complained, adding the nature of her romances with Gershwin, Stewart, Lew Ayres, Rudy Vallee, Fred Astaire, New Yorker editor Harold Ross, Mervyn LeRoy, Howard Hughes, Cary Grant, and Alfred Vanderbilt were insufficiently documented because of her concern about “discretion and taste.” I have never stopped thinking about Ginger and the pleasure of her company, nor regretting that my situation at Putnam made it difficult for me to cut a check for deals without a manuscript or at least a written proposal. I know it’s a big gamble — Betty Hutton and Yvonne De Carlo between them stiffed me for $100,000 — but a rigid policy means losing out on some important books. s Ellis Amburn is in the Hall of Excellence at TCU’s Schieffer School of Journalism. His 2000 biography of Elizabeth Taylor, “The Most Beautiful Woman in the World,” has recently been reissued by HarperCollins. ellis.amburn@gmail.com
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Veteran Morris Mixson Longtime Backbone of UF Chemistry Department had Role in Defeat of Japan Story and Photography by Michael Stone
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hen Morris Mixson started working as a stockroom clerk in the University of Florida’s chemistry department in 1948, he did so under chemistry curator Burton Otte. Glad to have work after his time in the war and a few odds and ends after, Mixson became a protégé to Otte. He learned all the intricacies of the job, a behind-the-scenes role that keeps the chemistry department afloat. Managing the purchases and shipments of hundreds of different chemicals. Storing them. Dispensing them to faculty and students. Keeping up with increasing regulations on them. Also managing beakers, flasks and all the other equipment. But a noticeable difference emerged between the styles of mentor and protégé, who became the curator himself in the mid-‘60s upon Otte’s retirement. Otte ran the stockroom “like a tyrant,” said William Dolbier, who’s been with the department since 1966 and today serves as its chair. Otte kept chemicals — especially the regularly used solvent ethyl alcohol during the Prohibition era — under lock and key, with multiple signatures needed and only professors allowed to check them out, never students. “He ran that stockroom with an iron fist,” Dolbier said, “and then Morris was brought up and taught by Otte how to run the stockroom. But when Morris took it over, he had a much lighter hand.” “What you remember about Morris is that he was one of the most cooperative people in the world,” he added. “He would never say something couldn’t be done; he would find a way to
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do it. And he always had a smile. “Whether it was a faculty member or a graduate student or a staff member or an undergraduate, he always treated them with respect, and everybody loved Morris.” Mixson approaches his time at UF a little differently, remembering the craziness of lab accidents and chemicals ending up down the drain pre-regulations, as well as him holding the position for four decades despite not graduating from college. “They all thought I had a degree, but I didn’t have any college degree,” said the Gainesville resident and Navy veteran, who retired from the job in 1989 and turned 90 in August. “I’ve helped many a graduate student get started and get going with his research. I knew enough to stay out of trouble. I didn’t get blown up, anyway.” And shortly before UF, during his time in the Pacific aboard LST-1041, Mixson avoided disaster, too, today being able to recall that time as one of the roughly 700,000 World War II veterans still living from the original 16 million. But their stories, he said, seem to be falling from the mind of America. “Most people don’t realize what happened back then now. World War II, people are beginning to forget all about it,” he said, adding jokingly, “All you hear now is Vietnam.” Mixson grew up on a vegetable farm in the rural community of Flemington in northwest Marion County. Being told the draft would come for him anyway, he volunteered for the Navy in the fall of 1944 after his junior year at Reddick High School. (He was 18 then because a school transfer as a child forced him to repeat first grade.) seniortimesmagazine.com
World War II veteran Morris Mixson, a retired University of Florida chemistry employee and Gator fan, sits in the living room of his Gainesville home with his dachshund, Lucky.
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At his dining-room table, Mixson goes through his logbook from his service aboard LST (Landing Ship, Tank) 1041. The list of to-and-from destinations (left) shows the frequent movement among Guam, Saipan, Okinawa and other Pacific islands as the ship transported troops, supplies, vehicles and mail. Mixson transcribed his Thanksgiving 1945 menu (bottom right), which included ham, turkey, mashed potatoes, other staples of the holiday, cigarettes and candy.
“I decided I wasn’t getting anywhere there,” Mixson said of leaving his hometown and joining the military, “and out in the country where I lived, I couldn’t get to Reddick hardly for the football and basketball practices because my folks didn’t have no way to get me back and forth.” Though Mixson didn’t know it at the time, his cousin, Ralph Mixson, had likely already been killed in the war. The family later found out that he survived the brutal Bataan Death March, which saw the Japanese forcing maybe 75,000 American and Filipino prisoners 65 miles across Luzon Island in the Philippines.
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But the Ocala native died afterward in a prison camp, a survivor of the camp later said. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 4209 in Ocala is named after Ralph Mixson and J.T. McCullough, the first Ocala casualties from the war. Morris Mixson went through boot camp at the Great Lakes Naval Training Center in Illinois and received further naval training at Camp Bradford in Virginia. It was then off to Pittsburg to board his newly made ship — LST (Landing Ship, Tank) 1041 — which launched on Jan. 20, 1945. The 328-foot-long ship would serve primarily for troop, supseniortimesmagazine.com
ply, vehicle and even mail transport, though it did carry 20mm and 40mm guns topside for defense. The flat-bottom design allowed such ships to beach themselves for direct unloading. Mixson and the rest of the 226-person crew started from the Ohio River in Pittsburg to get to the Mississippi and then to the Gulf of Mexico. His topside job proved rough on the Mississippi amid winter, so he requested a different assignment. “It was cold, man, it was cold, and ice [was] in the river,” he remembered. “I was just a deckhand, and I got tired of handling them lines. So I volunteered for mess duty.” (The mess work, which came with extra monthly pay because of the long hours, was on a rotational basis, so Mixson eventually returned to the deck.) In the gulf, the ship had its shakedown cruise, the term for testing seaworthiness. The shakedown ended with docking in New Orleans, where some nice-looking women charged Mixson and other servicemen to pose together in photographs. There, four PT (Patrol Torpedo) boats — made famous by the heroism on PT-109, the one commanded by John F. Kennedy pre-presidency — were loaded onto the ship and were carried through the Panama Canal, along the West Coast and to Seattle. Already fitted with Russian equipment, the PT boats were
taken by the Russian crews awaiting them in Seattle across the Northern Pacific to the allied country — a transfer allowed by the Lend-Lease Act. LST-1041’s crew knew all along the eventual destination was the Pacific front, and on May 12, 1945, just a few days after Victory in Europe Day, the ship set out for Pearl Harbor loaded with amphibious DUKW (popularly “duck”) vehicles. The details of the specifics after Pearl — transporting soldiers and supplies from island to island to island — get somewhat hazy for Mixson these decades later, but his well-organized logbook and scrapbook greatly aid in the recollections. From Pearl, the ship went to Eniwetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands, then to Guam, then to Saipan, then to Okinawa, the site of the last great battle of the Pacific and its bloodiest. LST-1041 arrived on the Okinawa shoreline on July 4, about two weeks after the battle’s declared conclusion, to drop off DUKWs. Mixson was surprised to see the vehicles staffed by black Americans, a rarity amid the highly segregated military. He also recalled seeing Japanese pillbox emplacements and religious tombs built by the natives of the island. Kamikaze attacks — Mixson called them “suicide planes” in his logbook — frequently befell the waters around Okinawa, but in LST-1041’s six days there, it didn’t see an attack, nor did it encounter enemies in its full tenure in the Pacific. Mixson did
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think once, though, that it had taken a shell while off Okinawa. “We had a big explosion, and we thought, ‘Oh heck, we’ve been hit,’” he said. “And everybody run to the top deck. They didn’t want to be down below” in case of sinking. But it turned out to be a malfunction from the smoke generator. These machines were equipped to ships to create a dense fog overhead from water and the output from oil that would disguise the activity below — be it ships or beach landing parties emerging from them — from enemy airplanes. The malfunction wasn’t uncommon. These machines “were known to flare up and burst into flames at times,” according to the 2016 book “The U.S. Navy’s ‘Interim’ LSM(R)s in World War II.” “It would get so thick with that smoke,” Mixson recalled of when the machine worked, “you could reach out and grab it.” LST-1041 traveled frequently after Okinawa and made several journeys between Guam, Saipan and Okinawa again but also to Agrihan — which is, like Guam and Saipan, in the Mariana Islands chain. Though the ship traveled in the heart of convoys of up to 88 ships, including those much more equipped for combat, its crew was often ordered to general quarters, meaning be prepared at battle stations. Mixson’s post: one of the 12 20mm guns. But things never turned fearfully dicey. At Agrihan, Mixson wrote in his logbook that he “had lot[s] of fun. Ate coconuts and bananas and brought some aboard. Natives wanted to go back to Saipan with us, and I don’t blame them.” The inhabitants of the small island, who got a tour of LST1041, perhaps wanted to immigrate to Saipan because of the larger landmass, Mixson said. The time on board often included tedious tasks, like painting the deck under the hot sun, as Mixson noted in his logbook. Meanwhile, with nothing much else to do, poker ruled the night. “We played a lot of poker,” he said, noting that he was by no means a shark and today still owes money to a fellow sailor from Georgia. Among the more eventful duties of the ship was transporting Marines between islands who brought their combat dogs along. “They had them under control real good,” Mixson said. “When they told them to do something, them dogs would do it. But you walk by there and you’re a stranger to them, they just act like they’re going to eat you up. The trainer would have to calm them down.” Starting with the Bougainville Campaign in November 1943 and through the battles on Guam, Peleliu, Iwo Jima and Okinawa, the dogs, mainly Doberman pinschers, led patrols to alert the Marines of enemies hidden in the island
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A map (middle) shows islands in the Mariana archipelago, some of which LST-1041 (top and bottom) made transport runs to and from. The Marianas saw significant fighting during the war as part of the U.S. strategy of island hopping.
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jungles, stood on guard at night, and detected mines and other “That storm, you could hardly stand up on the main deck,” hazards. In recognition of the 25 dogs that lost their lives on he remembered, describing damage to his ship’s propellers Guam, a memorial was erected in 1994 on the island and is when it collided with another ship. “It was really blowing.” topped by a Doberman statue. As part of its post-war duties, LST-1041 transferred B-29 The atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagabomber parts to ally Chinese Nationalists in their conflict saki on Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945, respectively, and Japan relayed against the Communists in the country’s civil war. But the its acceptance of surrender on Aug. 10 — on the condition that time on board didn’t return to the intensity of wartime. Emperor Hirohito be allowed to stay in power. “Last day of old 1945,” Mixson wrote for his Jan. 1, 1946, The U.S. replied on Aug. 12 that this stipulation would be entry. “Had a pretty good time seeing the old year out and new determined by the “Supreme Commander of the Allied Powyear in. New Year’s Day. Don’t feel very good. G.P.D.D.L.N.” ers,” not Japan, and this led to The acronym’s meaning: a further delay until Hirohito got pretty damn drunk last finally announced the surrender night. “I guess they let us have over the radio at noon on Aug. a beer party or something,” 15, according to the History Mixson said. channel. When Mixson left the This back-and-forth might service that June, he held the explain the confusion aboard rank of seaman and was still a LST-1041. Mixson’s Aug. 10 teenager. logbook entry says that Japan He returned to Reddick had surrendered, but the Aug. High School, finished up his 12 one says, “Blowing whistles degree there, helped some and raising all kinds of hell only back on the farm, attended to hear that it wasn’t over.” Massey Business College in But then on Aug. 15, while Jacksonville only to find out he the ship was at Agrihan, Mixson didn’t want to be a bookkeeper noted in his logbook that things and quit, and ended up at UF’s were official. chemistry department in 1948 “We just really hollered and through a jobs program. hooped,” he said of the celebraAs for the explosions in the tion. “I do remember one thing: department, Mixson rememI remember after the war ended, bered students once experithe poker games slowed down.” menting with what’s called a (This was because the upcoming pressure reactor and putting it discharges would mean no more on machine that was meant to military paychecks.) shake the device. It wouldn’t be until June ’46, “Well, about the time they After its shakedown cruise in the Gulf of Mexico, LST-1041 though, that Mixson would be got it in there and started to docked in New Orleans, where Mixson (second from left) and other sailors paid to pose with women. discharged, and he spent several rocking it — Boom! It went off, more months in the Pacific, and it blew half-inch metal including during the typhoon of Sept. 16, 1945, which wreaked through the side of the wall,” he said. “I don’t know why it havoc on the ships docked in Bucker Bay at Okinawa and didn’t hit somebody.” killed six aboard an LCI (Landing Craft, Infantry) ship. He met his wife, Barbara Rose, while attending church in The heavier ships docked there — the battleships CaliforFlemington, and the two married in 1950. Also a long-time UF nia, Nevada, Tennessee and Texas and the cruiser Alaska, employee, she passed away in 2013. Mixson’s logbook says — made it out OK. But more than a Mixson has four children, “about eight” grandchildren and dozen lighter ships, according to a news report from the time, three great-grandchildren. He’s held Gator football season didn’t come out unscathed, including an LCT that sank and tickets every year since 1964, so naturally, his retirement hobMixson’s LST. bies include going the games.
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New Teeth… Implant Dentistry by Dr. Art Mowery Written by Laura Holloway Photo of the doctor by Kristin Kozelsky
Well known as an accomplished cosmetic dentist and former University of Florida adjunct professor, Dr. Arthur Mowery, places hundreds of dental implants each year. Dr. Mowery recently was one of 12 doctors worldwide invited to Harvard School of Dental Medicine to discuss leading trends in dentistry. A new technique discussed was utilizing just four to six dental implants to permanently secure dentures. It has been described as life-changing with the benefit of being less expensive.
Attaching dentures on implants not only firmly secures and supports the denture, it helps maintain bone that would normally deteriorate under traditional dentures (without implants). The implant-secured denture also functions much better, is more easily maintained, and can be argued to be better than real teeth since they do not get cavities and never need a root canal. Oftentimes, our dentures can be secured to the implants on the same day! With twenty years as a dentist in the Gainesville area, Dr. Art Mowery admits experience matters. “I have never stopped learning,” says Dr. Mowery. “I have taken continued education courses with new certifications and additional credentials my entire career. That will not change. However, what has become obvious is how much experience has taught me. “ Dr. Mowery was recently Awarded Affiliate Associate Fellowship in the
American Academy of Implant Dentistry. “Not a day goes by that I haven’t looked into someone’s mouth with an understanding of what not to do because of my experience. I love learning new techniques and procedures to do things better and faster with more comfort; however, experience has taught me valuable lessons. In the long run, experience helps me to assess the person, the procedure, the materials and the situation to create the optimal outcome.” When looking for the right dentist to do your implant dentistry, one of the things to you should ask to see are before and after photos of the dentist’s actual work and patients. You should ask to see specific examples of the procedure being recommended to you so you can see the level of experience (how many case photos do they have), and do the end results look natural? A new trend in dentistry is part-time doctors. These doctors are usually trying to figure out their career path or how to open their own practice. It’s not unusual for these practice-associates to leave the office they are part-timers in for a fulltime position, leaving their patients behind, sometimes in the middle of treatment.
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“My dental implants are awesome. I can feel hot and cold again as well as eat anything I want. Dr. Mowery is incredibility attentive and has the best chairside manner I’ve ever experienced. I can’t thank him and his team enough for restoring my smile. I use it every day!” - Lisa
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Lisa less than 24 hours later, enjoying her new smile
they can guarantee they will be there for you in the long run. Again, implant dentistry is complex. It could be very important months or years down the road to see the same doctor in case you have complications. The next best advice is to ask what name-brand of implants the doctor uses so you can do a little research about them. Is it a generic copy of a name brand implant? I suggest implants made by a large experienced company so that in the case of an implant failure (less likely with an established company), they are guaranteed and improved replacement parts are easily found. Dr. Mowery currently uses Strauman and Biohorizons dental implants. The advantages to having one comprehensive doctor, is that doctor knows you and your dental past. You go to one office and one doctor for all your dentistry needs. You won’t need to see multiple doctors in multiple locations. This can reduce your number of visits and speed up treatment time.
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Whether you have a fear of the dentist or want to be more relaxed during surgery, sedation is a wonderful option. Not all dental practices offer sedation and very few offer IV sedation. Again, the experience of the doctor will help determine your experience in the chair. A qualified IV sedation dentist could actually make your dental implant surgery the best dental visit you’ve ever had. IV sedation helps the patient relax and recover to alertness more quickly with less memory of the procedure than other forms of sedation. You may want to choose a dentist that can offer this option based on your dental experience. Dr. Mowery utilizes IV sedation for most implant cases. When it comes to choosing an implant dentist remember to consider—Experience, Photos, Part-timers, Materials, and Sedation options. Please do not hesitate to call us at Exceptional Dentistry to answer any questions about this article. We hope you found it informative. For more info visit ExceptionalDentistry.com
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PIECE BY PIECE
Patchworking Sew Much to Quilt, Sew Little Time
by Hayli Zuccola
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ows of shelves are filled to capacity with stacks of fabric draped with nearly every color imaginable and etched with dozens of patterns and textures. Although a sight of beauty, the addition of a yard or two more could send the whole collection tumbling down — and it wouldn’t be the first time. Clusters of empty spools and bobbins wait to be hugged by strands of thread while forgotten pins scattered around the floor anticipate the prick of a bare foot. The rest of the room is filled with mismatched scraps of fabric, a seemingly never-ending supply of sewing magazines and let’s not forget the piles of quilts ready to be displayed. No, this cluttered wonderland is not the inside of a Jo-Ann’s warehouse or the contents of a fabric store closeout sale — this is the home of a quilter. The best way to live the life of a quilter is to surround yourself with those who share your passion while making life-long friends in the process, which is what a quilt guild is all about.
Tree City Quilters Guild of Gainesville Established in 1993, the Tree City Quilters Guild has grown to a membership of almost 100 people. Sandy Pozzetta is the current president of the guild who began sewing when she was just four years old. Getting her start by sewing clothes out of necessity, she was later drawn to the artistic elements of quilting. “I enjoy art in general and just the graphics of quilts and the idea that I can put pieces of fabric together that [make] some kind of artistic statement,” she said.
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Despite being around sewing almost her entire life, Pozzetta enjoys attending guild meetings because it provides an environment that allows everyone to bounce ideas off each other. Guild meetings also offer the chance to attend workshops and retreats as well as the opportunity to participate in a large amount of charity work. “We just feel that need to give back to the community,” Pozzetta said. From July 2015 to May 2016, the Tree City Quilters Guild has given an estimated $42,030 worth of quilt-related donations to various charities. Just some of their yearly donations include creating flannel hearts for the families of babies in the Intensive Care Unit at Shands, donating pillowcases to pa-
“I enjoy art in general and just the graphics of quilts and the idea that I can put pieces of fabric together that [make] some kind of artistic statement.” tients at Haven Hospice, or making other donations — quilts, tote bags and pillow cases — to Ronald McDonald House, Camp Blanding Military Base, Peaceful Paths, Catholic Charities and many others. Besides making beautiful creations for others, the quilters of Tree City still like to show off the work they do for themselves. During every odd year, the guild hosts a quilt show for seniortimesmagazine.com
A display of quilts designed by members of the Tree City Quilt Guild for Trenton’s Suwannee Valley Quilt Festival held every March on National Quilt Day. (Photo Courtesy of Tree City Guild)
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PHOTO COURTESY OF TREE CITY GUILD Members of the Tree City Quilt Guild attending a workshop to learn a new quilt called French Roses. Below is just one of the veterans who received a donated Tree City quilt.
PHOTO COURTESY OF COUNTRY ROAD QUILTERS
“If you show an interest in quilting or learning more about it, we have brand new beginners and we’ve had people who’ve been quilters for decades.” members and the public to see the work they have put into their unique creations for the past two years. For those interested in joining a local guild, the Tree City Quilters Guild meets the second Monday of every month at the Westside Baptist Church Family Life Center located at 10000 Newberry Road in Gainesville. Doors open at 6:30 p.m. and meetings start at 7. People can become members of the Tree City Quilters Guild at any time of the year with a $25 fee for dues.
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was originally started as a branch of Tree City Quilters Guild but has continued to grow in popularity on its own. Similar to Tree City, the day guild is also involved in charitable work by making various donations to organizations like Fisher House, Shands Hospital, Alachua County Fire Rescue, Art Initiative, Waldo Fire Department, among many others. From 2003 to 2015, the day guild donated over 1,000 service quilts, 850 pillow cases, 576 teddy bears and 600 totes, just to name a few. The Quilters of Alachua County Day Guild meets on the first Thursday of every month at the Senior Recreation Center at 5701 NW 34th St. in Gainesville. Doors open at 9:30 a.m. and meetings start at 10. To become a member, dues are $25 from January 1 to June 30 and $13 after July 1. seniortimesmagazine.com
Upcoming Quilting Events Jacksonville Quilt Fest September 15 – 17 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Prime F. Osborn III Convention Center Jacksonville, Florida Quilt & Bluegrass Festival – Quilt Registration Saturday November 19 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. Thornebrook Village 2441 NW 43rd Street Gainesville, FL Country Road Quilters’ “Down a Sunny Country Road of Quilts” Quilt Show Friday and Saturday November 4 and 5 9 a.m. – 4 p.m. College of Central Florida Ewers Century Center
Country Road Quilters of Ocala Established in 1986 with just 10 members to their name, the Country Road Quilters became Ocala’s first official quilt guild. Now in its 30th year, Country Road Quilters has around 80 to 90 active members. One such member is JoEllen Oppliger, the current president of the guild. Oppliger comes from a long line of quilters and learned to sew from her mom as early as age seven, but it wasn’t until she created a quilt with the women’s group she belonged to in 1975 that she became interested in quilting. “It is an art form that allows you to express yourself,” she said. Like other guilds, meetings at the Country Road Quilters guild consist of show and tell, workshops, retreats and charitable donations including making pet beds to donate to the humane society, sewing pillowcases for patients at Shands and, of course, creating their beloved quilts. Besides celebrating turning 30 this year, the guild also has its biannual quilt show coming up in November to look forward to. With their first show in 1988 housing 100 quilts, that number has grown to an expected 150 to 200 quilt entries at this year’s event. This year members of the guild created a king-size op-
portunity quilt and matching pillowcases made out of Batik fabric, which is fabric created by applying wax-resistant dye to cloth, to showcase at this year’s event. Besides sharing a love of quilting, what brings members of the guild closer together is the obsession every quilter has with fabric. “We like to refer to ourselves as curators of a fabric archive,” Oppliger said. Despite having a common interest in fabric, the guild prides itself on being inclusive of members who enjoy different areas of quilting, whether that means providing a place for traditional quilters, artistic quilters, or even quilters who prefer hand sewing and applique, everyone is welcome. “If you show an interest in quilting or learning more about it, we have brand new beginners and we’ve had people who’ve been quilters for decades,” she said. The Country Road Quilters Guild meets on the first and third Thursdays of every month at St. Mark’s Methodist Church located at 1839 Northeast 8th Road in Ocala. Doors open at 6 p.m. and meetings start at 7. To become a member of the guild, dues are $24 for the year or, as Oppliger puts it, $2 a month for cheap entertainment. s September 2016
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CALENDAR UPCOMING EVENTS IN ALACHUA & MARION
YOGA Sundays 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.
ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCING
ESL CLASSES
Mondays
YOGA FOR MEN
Wednesdays
Sundays
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.
6:00pm - 7:30pm OCALA - First Baptist Church of Ocala, 2801 SE Maricamp Rd. English as a Second Language classes resume August 17. Room 202/204, on the 2nd floor of the education building. 352-629-5683.
9:00am – 10:15am OCALA - Blissful Life Corporation, 725 E. Silver Springs Blvd. It is specifically designed to address and challenge men physically, mentally and spiritually. All yoga classes at Blissful Life are donation-based. Sundays through end of December.
ZUMBA
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LABOR DAZE FEST
Thursdays
Sunday, September 4
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.
4:00pm -10:00pm GAINESVILLE - Bo Diddley Plaza. A FREE festival, with five local bands, free rock wall, services, and activities for the kids! LaborDazeFest. org & Facebook.com/LaborDazeFest.
Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays Times Vary OCALA - Silver Springs Shores Community Center, 590 Silver Rd. Monday & Wednesday evening at 6:00pm and on Thursday morning at 9:00am. Cost is $3 per class.
SQUARE DANCE CLASS Tuesdays
ENCORE DANCE WORKSHOP
6:15pm – 7:15pm GAINESVILLE - Westside Park Recreation Building, 1001 NW 34th St. Non-profit community organization that teaches square dancing classes for singles, couples and families with children age 10 and up. September 6th & 13th are free, after that $5 per class. Contact Susie 352-283-1296 or susiemoon@cox.net.
Thursdays
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.
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.
WIC FARMERS MARKET Fridays 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.
LADY GAMERS Fridays
COMPUTER CLASSES Wednesdays 10:00am – 12:00pm OCALA - Silver Springs Shores Community Center, 590 Silver Rd. Free program that helps people learn how to use a computer as well as computer set-up and repair.
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
CIVIL WAR ROUNDTABLE Thursday, September 8 6:00pm - 8:00pm GAINESVILLE - Trinity United Methodist Church, 4000 NW 53rd Ave., Education Bldg. #232. This monthly meeting is held the second Thursday of each month, is open to the public, and features guest speakers every meeting. 352-378-3726, www.cwrnf.org or diane@proofinggrounds.com.
ASPECTS OF EARLY US PRESIDENTS Thursday, September 8 2:30pm – 4:00pm GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th Blvd. Presented by PrimeTime Institute. Presentation by UF’s Lee R. McDowell, Professor Emeritus, University of Florida, www. primetimeinstitute.org or 352-367-8169.
LOVE WINS Thursday, September 8 6:00pm GAINESVILLE - Pugh Hall, UF Campus. “Love Wins,” authored by Washington Post reporter Debbie Cenziper and Jim Obergefell is about the legalization of same-sex marriage. Free and open to the public and streamed live at www.bobgrahamcenter.ufl.edu.
FUN & FITNESS
Saturdays & Sundays
LEMON BALL
Wednesdays
9:00am – 3:00pm CITRA - Crones’ Cradle Conserve, 6411 NW 217th Place. Tour a working vegetable and herb farm. Plants, fresh produce, books, farm and fine crafts are available. 352-595-3377.
Thursday, September 8
6:00pm – 8:00pm SILVER SPRINGS - Forest Community Center at Sandhill Park, 777 S. CR 314A. Beginner/ improver instruction. 352-438-2840.
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6:30pm GAINESVILLE - The Florida Museum of Natural History, 3215 Hull Rd. A fun evening of music, food and drinks including signature
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lemon cocktails! All proceeds benefit Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation and its efforts to fund childhood cancer research projects. Attire is cocktail casual.
CCOA MEETING Friday, September 9 9:30am – 11:00am GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th St. This month’s speaker: Samuel Verghese, Secretary of Elder Affairs. The Community Coalition for Older Adults (CCOA) is committed to providing Gainesville and Alachua County elders respect and dignity. Meets second Friday each month.
ARTIST MEET & GREET RECEPTION Friday, September 9 6:00pm -8:00pm NEWBERRY - Fire House Gallery, 25435 W. Newberry Rd. Light refreshments and raffle. 352-472-2112.
FLATLAND Friday, September 9 8:00pm – 10:00pm GAINESVILLE - Bo Diddley Plaza, 111 E. University Ave. Gainesville’s “Free Fridays” Concert Series presents: Flatland. Funk, Blues. www.gvlculturalaffairs.org.
FOOD TRUCK - N - FLICK NIGHT WITH CLASSIC CAR CRUISE IN Saturday, September 10 5:00pm LEESBURG - Towne Square. Food Trucks assemble at Towne Square and Classic Cars line up on Main Street. Gourmet fare and culinary wonders with live music and a cash bar. Enjoy “Pokemon – Heroes” on a 24-foot outdoor movie screen. This evening’s movie feature begins around dusk. Extra Pokemon lures will be dropped in Towne Square during the event. Remember to bring your blankets and lawn chairs. foodtrucknflick.leesburgpartnership. com; Facebook.com/LeesburgEvents.
PAINT OUT September 9 – 11 Times Vary GAINESVILLE - Kanapaha Botanical Gardens, 4700 SW 58th Dr. Local landscape artists will create live paintings at Kanapaha Botanical Gardens. The 3-day event is part of the 13th Worldwide Artist Paint Out, linking artists and locations all over the world and promoting art as a universal language that has no borders.
WRITING A MEMOIR Sunday, September 11 2:30pm - 4:00pm GAINESVILLE - Millhopper Branch Library, 3145 NW 43rd St. Nancy Rankie Shelton - professor,
Dorrance Dance Friday, September 9
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GAINESVILLE - Phillips Center, 3201 Hull Rd. Michelle Dorrance is a MacArthur “Genius” Grant Winner, Bessie Award winner and Alpert Award winner. Tap dance doesn’t just break out of the box. It leaps off the floor. It soars to the ceiling. Dorrance Dance is one of the few dance groups that travels with their own floor. performingarts.ufl.edu.
researcher and writer - will show how her memoir, “5-13: Memoir of Love, Loss and Survival,” adapts for any writer’s personal story of surviving a love lost. www.writersalliance.org.
NARFE MEETING Monday, September 12 10:00am GAINESVILLE - Trinity United Methodist Church, 4000 NW 53rd Ave. National active and retired Federal Employee Association is a non-profit group dedicated to improve knowledge of the benefits for federal employees. Meets the second Monday of the month September thru May.
OPEN HOUSE & LUNCHEON Thursday, September 15 11:00am – 1:00pm GAINESVILLE - Gainesville Garden Club, 1350 NW 75th St. Speaker Wendy Wilber, the Florida Statewide Master Gardener Coordinator, will present a program on gardening, the use of native plants, plants that attract pollinators, and more. Stay for lunch and learn about the GGC, a not-for-profit organization. RSVP: 352332-6342 or email ggcfl.org@gmail.com.
AGING AND MOBILITY Thursday, September 15
AFTER ORLANDO PANEL DISCUSSION Tuesday, September 13 6:00pm GAINESVILLE - Pugh Hall, UF Campus. The discussion will address how we move forward in unity by taking the fear out of diversity and focusing instead on the many benefits of our diverse population.
2:30pm – 4:00pm GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th Blvd. Presented by PrimeTime Institute. Each month, UF’s Institute on Aging provides a speaker describing research they are conducting. Dr. Todd Manini, Ph.D., of the Division of Clinical Research will present “Do You Miss the Pep in Your Step? Aging and Mobility.” www.primetimeinstitute.org or 352-367-8169.
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TRAFFIC SAFETY TEAM Thursday September 15 10:00am – 12:00pm GAINESVILLE - Gainesville Technology Entrepreneurship Center, 2153 SE Hawthorne Rd. The CTST is a volunteer organization with the mission of helping to reduce crashes and improve safety on area roadways through events, information, ongoing programs and education. Held on third Thursday. trafficsafetyteam.com.
BEATLES TRIBUTE Friday, September 16 8:00pm – 10:00pm GAINESVILLE - Bo Diddley Plaza, 111 E. University Ave. Gainesville’s “Free Fridays” Concert Series presents: The Imposters. www.gvlculturalaffairs.org.
NEXT GENERATION FLAPJACK BREAKFAST Saturday, September 17 8:00am – 10:00am GAINESVILLE - Applebee’s, 1005 NW 13th St. This flapjack fundraiser helps to raise funds to present educational programming throughout the year. Costs $7. 352-373-1166 or dalive@bellsouth.net.
CLASSY & SASSY BURLESQUE Saturday, September 17 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 10:00 pm. $10 Advance, $12 Door. This show is 18+. For reservations: sallybdash.com.
SUNDAY ASSEMBLY GAINESVILLE Sunday, September 18 11:00am GAINESVILLE - Santa Fe College, downtown, 530 W. University Ave. “Who Is this Notorious Ruth Bader Ginsburg?” presented by Barbara Oberlander. A retired professor from Santa Fe College, Oberlander will focus on the justice’s early life. There will be music, poetry, inspiration, and discussion, followed by potluck lunch. 352-376-7074. sagainesville.weebly.com.
Heavy Petty/Hedges Friday, September 30
GAINESVILLE - Bo Diddley Plaza, 111 E. University Ave. Gainesville’s “Free Fridays” Concert Series presents: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Tribute and originals. www.gvlculturalaffairs.org.
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3:00pm – 5:00pm OCALA - Guitar Center, 3920 SW 42nd Ave. Last Sunday each month, the stage is open for all musicians and all instruments.
2:30pm – 4:00pm GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th Blvd. Presented by PrimeTime Institute. Donna Waller, retired (mostly) professor of Political Science at Santa Fe College, presents this country’s process of electing a President. www.primetimeinstitute.org or 352-367-8169.
BRUCE NESWICK ORGAN CONCERT Friday, September 23 7:30pm – 9:00pm GAINESVILLE - Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 100 NW 1st St. This international concert artist performs a concert of organ literature and improvisation. Free. holytrinitygnv.org or lowe@holytrinitygnv.org or 352-372-4721.
Friday, September 23 8:00pm – 10:00pm GAINESVILLE - Bo Diddley Plaza, 111 E. University Ave. Gainesville’s “Free Fridays” Concert Series presents: Gilberto De Paz & Tropix. Latin Fusion. www.gvlculturalaffairs.org.
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11:00am - 1:00pm. HIGH SPRINGS - The High Springs New Century Woman’s Club, 23674 W. U.S. Highway 27. “A Better World for Every Girl” fashion show presented by Belk’s Department store. The proceeds will help support domestic violence awareness. Tickets are $10.00, seating is limited. hsncwclub@gmail.com.
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CANCER CONNECTIONS Wednesday, September 28 12:00pm – 1:00pm GAINESVILLE - HealthStreet, 2401 SW Archer Rd. Dr. Jon Licht of UF Health will speak about blood cancers. 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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GAINESVILLE PHOTOGRAPHY CLUB 7:00pm – 9:00pm GAINESVILLE - LifeSouth Community Blood Center, 4039 Newberry Rd. Meet, share photographs and improve your skills. Located in the rear conference room. www.gainesvillephotoclub.com.
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2:30pm – 4:00pm GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th Blvd. Presented by PrimeTime Institute. Jane Hendricks, local elder law attorney, will discuss estate-planning documents (living wills, health care surrogate designations, durable powers of attorney, pre-need guardian, last wills and testament, living trusts) and address frequently asked questions. www.primetimeinstitute.org or 352-367-8169.
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GFAA GALLERY ART WALK Friday, September 30 6:00pm – 9:00pm GAINESVILLE - Gainesville Fine Arts Association, 1314 S. Main St. Enjoy a variety of themed work by many talented artists. Last Friday of every month. info@gainsevillefinearts.org.
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QUILT SHOW Saturday, October 1 10:00am - 3:00pm NEWBERRY - Dudley Farm Historical State Park, 18730 W. Newberry Rd. At 11:00am, “Bed Turning” quilt experts will look at each quilt and discuss age, condition, colors and patterns. $5 per vehicle. 352-472-1142.
ARTS & CRAFTS FESTIVAL Saturday, October 1 9:00am – 2:00pm OCALA - First Baptist Church of Ocala, 2801 SE Maricamp Rd. Shop early for Christmas gifts in Air Conditioned comfort. Food, drinks, unique gifts and great door prizes. 352-629-5683.
CRAFT SHOW Saturday, October 1 9:00am - 4:00pm GAINESVILLE - Gainesville Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th St. The show will feature over 60 crafters selling a variety of handmade merchandise. Free parking and admission. Joy Flowers: 352-335-7797.
THEATRE Acrosstown Repertory Theatre.....................619 S. Main Street, Gainesville Curtis M. Phillips Center ........................................... 315 Hull Road, Gainesville Fine Arts Hall Theatre - SFC ........................... 3000 NW 83rd St., Gainesville Gainesville Community Playhouse ....... 4039 N.W. 16th Blvd., Gainesville Hippodrome State Theatre................................. 25 SE 2nd Place, Gainesville UF Constans Theatre ................................................. Museum Road, Gainesville McGuire Pavilion Black Box Theatre................ Museum Road, Gainesville Actors’ Warehouse .............................................. 608 N. Main Street, Gainesville Ocala Civic Theatre ..................................4337 East Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala High Springs Playhouse ................................ 130 NE 1st Avenue, High Springs
THE HIPPODROME
Stage Kiss
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Saturday, October 1
The Hippodrome collaborates with the UF School of Theatre & Dance
7:00am GAINESVILLE - Cancer & Genetics Research Complex at UF, 2033 Mowry Rd. A charity bicycle ride to raise funds to support local research on treatment-resistant breast cancers. Ride distances are 22, 40, or 62.5 miles. Registration, packet pickup, and breakfast at 7:00am. Ride begins at 8:30am. Register at pinkpumpkinpedaloff.org.
Moby Dick
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Saturday, October 1 9:00am – 2:00pm OCALA - First Baptist Church, 2801 SE Maricamp Rd. Door prizes, sweets, Christmas gifts. 352-629-5683, fbcocala.org.
October 1 – 2 10:00am – 5:00pm LEESBURG - Main Street. The DLBA will host the inaugural Howard Allen Fine Craft Show downtown, a two-day juried craft show. Downtown merchants and restaurants will be open during event hours.
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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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to create a romantic comedy with plenty of drama. This New York Times Critic’s Pick is a charming and clever tale about what happens when lovers share a stage kiss — or when actors share a real one.
Gare St. Lazare Ireland presents theater without props, special effects or elaborate stage sets. By stripping away these elements, the focus is on the language, the characters and the story. Accompanied by live music, this one-man adaptation of Herman Melville’s classic tells the story of Ahab’s relentless pursuit of the great white whale that took both his ship and his leg.
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September 8 – October 2
The smash comedy hit of the London and Broadway stages, this muchrevived classic offers up fussy, cantankerous novelist Charles Condomine, re-married but haunted by the ghost of his late first wife, the clever and insistent Elvira.
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 —
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Trials of the Earth: The True Story of a Pioneer Woman MARY MANN HAMILTON c.2016, Little, Brown $27.00 / $32.50 Canada 319 pages
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our toast was burnt this morning. It was the first in a tsunami of irritation you had to endure today: the house WiFi was down, your shirt got wrinkled, the cat threw up on the carpet, humid weather, your coffee got cold. What next? Read “Trials of the Earth” by Mary Mann Hamilton, and review your day again. The “wild country of Arkansas … was just beginning to settle up” when Mary
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Mann’s father brought his family down from Missouri to buy a home. He didn’t live long enough to enjoy it, however — he died 10 days after they arrived, leaving Mary’s mother with six children to feed. There was work in Arkansas, though, so Mary’s brothers got jobs at the sawmill, while Mary and her sisters took in boarders. One of them, a roguish Englishman named Frank Hamilton convinced Mary’s brothers that he had romantic intentions for the 17-year-old, though marriage wasn’t what Mary wanted. Still, she agreed to it as her mother and eldest brother lay dying. Married life was a challenge. Unbeknownst to Mary before the wedding, Frank was quite the drinker, which greatly embarrassed her. He couldn’t seem to hold a job for long, or jobs didn’t last for him, either. She hoped her first child would help glue their marriage, but the baby died and Frank drank harder. She was in a different country, in a different home when her second baby died. And then, despite a lot of moves that uprooted their growing family, life smoothed. Mary became a mother again, a dressmaker and a county-renowned cook, learned how to keep house in a
tent (though she always dreamed of a real home), how to feed a crowd, and what signs to heed when a storm or flood was imminent. She was brave. She was a good wife but a lousy widow. Life was “an adventure.” And at some point, she “quit looking back in my mind and looked forward.” Wait. Did I say this is all true? — because it is. Author Mary Mann Hamilton was a real person who really homesteaded in the south from roughly 1882 to the early part of the last century, and “Trials of the Earth” is her tale. Here, the word “pioneer” takes on new meaning: covered wagons and prairies tend to come to mind, but Hamilton makes it clear that, a mere hundred years ago, there were still wild parts to this country and settling them was no picnic. Life was tough for our forebears, really tough: as quick deaths rack up, readers will be shocked; likewise, over the casual racism. Overall, you’ll never whine about your cold coffee again. Be aware that this “direct and simple autobiography” can be confusing: the Hamilton family moved often, and that’s hard to follow. We meet many, many scamps and even more kind folks and neighbors, and it’s hard to keep track of them, too. The trick is not to try too hard, enjoy the journey, and “Trials of the Earth” is a book you’ll toast. s Terri Schlichenmeyer has been reading since she was 3 years old and she never goes anywhere without a book. She lives with her two dogs and 11,000 books.
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Betty’s Story Heart attack survivor Betty McMahon returned to North Florida Regional to thank a special group of people. From the moment she arrived in our ER and Chest Pain Center, Betty received a level of care she says made it possible for her to come back strong. Betty has returned to her work and her hiking and wants to share her story because the things she knows now might help save your life. The full story about the people who were there when Betty needed them most is on our website. The ER and Chest Pain Center at North Florida Regional. Lifesaving care for Life’s Emergencies.
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