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ON THE COVER – Korean War Ex-POW Sarge McQuinn salutes during the Korean War Veterans Memorial Dedication held on July 27. The Gen. James A. Van Fleet Korean War Veteran’s Association, Chapter 267 voted for a monument in early 2014.

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Tapas Community Page Charity of the Month

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Calendar of Events Crossword Puzzle Theatre Listings

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by Donna Bonnell

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by Nick Thomas

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Forgotten Heroes The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers

Veteran Leo McCracken Between Utah Beach and Buchenwald, Artillery Man Found Pieces to Remember the War

BY MICHAEL STONE

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The Last Good Place A Trip to Newfoundland

BY RAY CARSON

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BY RICK SAPP

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The Forgotten War New Gainesville Monument Gives Remembrance to Korean War Veterans

BY MICHAEL STONE

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Honoring Our Heroes It’s that time of year again, the time to recognize and thank those men and women who have served — and continue to serve — in the U.S. Armed Services.

As many of us know, on the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month of 1918, an armistice was declared between the Allied nations and Germany in the First World War, then known as the Great War. In the aftermath of World War II and the Korean War, Armistice Day became Veterans Day, a holiday dedicated to American veterans of all wars.

My father served in the U.S. Navy during the Korean War. I understand he and his best buddy both enlisted soon after their 18th birthdays. I can’t imagine what it was like for him to serve and he never spoke very much about his time overseas.

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War II. He was at Pearl Harbor on the day of the attack. Sadly, neither he nor Dad is with us to share their stories. I’d sure be interested in hearing them.

In this issue we continue with our series on WWII Veterans. We also have a story on efforts in Gainesville to honor those who served during the Korean War — known as the Forgotten War. Additionally, we have a story on perhaps an even lesser known group of WWII heroes: The Navajo Code Talkers — Native American soldiers who created the only code the enemy couldn’t crack. After the war they were sworn to secrecy for decades.

Lastly, on a lighter (much lighter) note, read about one man’s travel in Newfoundland.

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There are approximately 21.8 million military veterans in the United States.

President Eisenhower officially changed the name of the holiday from Armistice Day to Veterans Day in 1954.

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France, Australia, Britain and Canada also have their own versions of the holiday to honor the veterans in their respective countries.

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November is National Novel Writing Month.

Each year, thousands of participants attempt to write a 50,000-word novel in one month. It’s also National Blog Posting Month, a time where writers are encouraged to publish one blog post a day for the duration of the month.

Veterans Day honors all who have served in the military. It is typically confused with Memorial Day, a holiday that commemorates those who died during their service to the country.

Listen Up! Instead of hitting the stores on Black In Friday, why not dust off your tape recorder to celebrate National Day of Listening? This holiday falls on the Friday following Thanksgiving and was launched by National Public Radio’s StoryCorps as a way of encouraging people to interview and learn about one another.

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Gary Marshall is responsible for a wide array of beloved television shows and films. From creating “Happy Days” and its various spinoffs to directing “The Princess Years Old Diaries” and “Pretty Woman,” Marshall has a accomplished a lot since he began his career as a joke writer for comedians. Before creating his own works, Marshall collaborated with writers on “The Dick Van Dyke Show” and “The Odd Couple.” In addition to directing and producing, he acted in multiple television shows and ran his own theatre, The Falcon, in Toluca Lake.

Marshall’s creative endeavors landed him an induction into the Television Hall of Fame in 1997. Married to actress Barbara Marshall since 1963, the couple has worked together on several movies in addition to raising three children.

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Born on November 15, 1932, Petula Clark has enjoyed international success in a performing arts career that has stretched over seven decades. After achieving fame for her singing at the age of 11, Clark went on to sing for troops during WWII and act as a child star in several British films. By the 1960s, Clark had infiltrated the Years Old American radio charts with hit songs such as “Downtown” and “My Love.””

Clark has been called the First Lady of the British Invasion because of her international acclaim and has sold over 68 million records during her career.

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“It was a strange life, I suppose, but it was the only one I’ve ever known.”

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Exhibits at the Matheson History Museum FLORIDA GIRLS AND BOYS AND THEIR TOYS AND WWII IN FLORIDA November 9th, 2015 to December 23rd, 2015 “Florida Girls and Boys and Their Toys,” an exhibit on loan from the Museum of Florida History, will be on display at the Matheson History Museum from November 9th, 2015, to December 23rd, 2015. This exhibit chronicles the history and love of toys in Florida through reproduction items such as dolls, games, a puppet theater and a series of historic photographs.

“WWII in Florida” will explore the many ways that the war affected not only Gainesville and Alachua County but also the state. Items from the Matheson’s collection and on loan from the Camp Blanding Museum & Memorial Park will explore the ways that Floridians contributed to the fight. Camp Blanding, the Alachua Army Air Field, and the Gainesville Service Center will be highlighted.

EXHIBIT RELATED PROGRAM Sentimental Journey: World War II Here and Over There Wednesday, November 11th, 6pm — Free The Matheson is excited to partner with the UF Samuel Proctor Oral History Program Veterans History Project in celebration of Veterans Day. Dr. Steven Noll, UF History Department Senior Lecturer, and Ann Pauline Smith, SPOHP Veterans History Project Coordinator, will give presentations about the Veterans History Project and the impact of World War II on Alachua County.

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He is a two-time winner of the Paul Hansell Distinguished Journalism Award, the highest award given by the Florida Society of Newspaper Editors.

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Forgotten Heroes The Story of the Navajo Code Talkers

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illing to leave home and family to protect the people and ideals they hold dear, Americans have answered the call to serve in the military since this nation’s birth. For some, they were fighting for freedoms that they had not fully shared, but as Americans believed that preserving the principals of our democracy is every citizen’s duty.

When the Pearl Harbor was attacked by Japan on December 7th, 1941, America was drawn into a World War for the very survival of freedom from the Axis powers. Sixteen million Americans would serve in the military and over 450,670 would pay the supreme price with their lives. This is the story of 421 of those soldiers whose role was so secret that it was unknown for a quarter century.

In the first few months of the war, Japan was conquering the Pacific, defeating American and British forces on land and sea. Part of their success was based on the fact that they had broken every communications code and ciphers the Allies were using. This gave the Japanese advance knowledge of Allied defenses and operations.

A civilian engineer named Phillip Johnson came up with an idea to counter this problem. He had grown up as the son of a Protestant missionary on the Navajo reservation. He spoke the Navajo language and felt it could be used as an unbreakable code. Native dialects had been used in codes during World War I, but only in limited use in the Choctaw language. Prior to

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World War II, both Germany and Japanese intelligence officers had studied some Native American dialects, but had focused on tribes from the east that were well known, with more information on their language. The Navajo were more secluded on their western reservation and few outsiders spoke their language — an unwritten language of extreme complexity. Syntax and tonality added to the difficulty since different inflections on the same word could have up to four meanings.

The original code had translations for 211 English words, but was later expanded to 411 to include words for different planes, ships, military units, rank and countries.

Johnson proposed his idea to Marine General Clayton Vogel. Although skeptical, the Marines agreed to a test. Using four Navajo speakers in different rooms, they were able to send and decode a three-sentence message in 20 seconds. The machines then in use for deciphering took up to 30 minutes on the same length regular coded message.

The next step was secretly enlisting Navajos into a speseniortimesmagazine.com

“[Code talkers] were in the line of battle,” said Edwin Schupman, education product developer at the National Museum of the American Indian. “They were out there in the field with other soldiers, so they were exposed to live fire and part of the major engagements in the wars.”

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In the field, [Navajo Code Talkers] were not allowed to write any part of the code down as a reference. They became living codes, and even under harried battle conditions, had to rapidly recall every word with utmost precision or risk hundreds or thousands of lives.

“Many Code Talkers attended boarding schools. As adults, they found it puzzling that the same government that had tried to take away their languages in schools later gave them a critical role speaking their languages in military service,” according to the National Museum of the American Indian’s Native Words, Native Warriors website.

cial unit. The historical interactions between the tribe and government had been troubled at best. Treaties were signed between the army and the Navajo tribes in 1846. However, there were continued conflicts between various tribes as well as the original Spanish settlers and new Anglo settlers from America. All sides broke the treaties. As the settler population increased, hostilities continued as more clashes erupted over land and resources.

In 1861, the army had launched a brutal campaign against the Navajo, destroying all livestock and property. By 1863 the Navajo were forced to surrender or starve. They were then put on a 300-mile trek to internment at Fort Sumner, forever known to the tribe as the Long Walk.

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The internment was a miserable disaster. Disease, crop failure and inadequate shelter decimated the Navajo population.

In 1868, the tribe was finally allowed to return to a reservation on part of their land. The tribe subsisted on farming, cattle and sheep herding. However, in the 1930s the animosity grew again when the government decided there was too much livestock on the reservation to support the land. The Bureau of Indian Affairs forced the Navajos to sell half their stock, thereby cutting the source of much of their income.

Despite this, recruiters had plenty of Navajo men volunteer for the unit. General Vogel asked for 200 recruits, but to test the program and maintain secrecy, the original unit was authorized for 30 chosen volunteers; one dropped out making the final group of 29. They had to speak both English and Navajo fluently.

In an interview years later reported by navajocodetalkers. org, Code Talker Chester Nez explained why he joined.

“We were raised to believe in the warrior code,” he said. “It was our duty to protect and care for the people and the land.”

That belief included the nation as a whole. For many young Navajo men it was also an opportunity to leave the secluded life of the reservation and see the world outside. Besides basic training, they had to design their own code and train in communications equipment that was totally foreign to their culture.

Nicknamed the Code Talkers, they devised a code using three different Navajo words for each letter. For example, for the letter A, they could use Wol-la-chee (ant), Be-la-sana (apple) or Tse-Nill (axe). Initially they used just animal names but expanded it to make it more complex. They devised code words for the month such as Yas-hil-tes (crusted snow) for December and My-tah-so (big plant) for May. Pronunciation symbols would be words like Da-ahl-zin (big spot) for periods. The original code had translations for 211 English words, but was later expanded to 411 to include words for different planes, ships, military units, rank and countries.

Twenty-seven original Code Talkers were put into combat units and two were left behind to train others. Phillip Johnson was inducted with the rank of Staff Sergeant to help oversee the program.

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language. Eventually 421 Navajos were recruited as Code Talkers. They served in every major amphibious assault carried out by the Marines between 1942 and 1945. The code was never written down; each Code Talker had to commit it to memory.

The men received high praise for their reliability and courage. According to historynet.com, Major Howard Conner commented on their action at Iwo Jima saying, “The entire operation was directed by Navajo Code Talkers. During the ďŹ rst two days I had six Code Talkers working around the clock. They sent and received over 800 messages without a single error. If it were not for the Code Talkers the Marines would never have taken Iwo Jima.â€?

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Navajos proved to be excellent soldiers. Life on the reservation had prepared them for hardship and self-reliance. Hunting and tracking skills came in handy in combat situations.

The Code Talkers faced additional dangers as well. Since their job was top secret they had soldiers assigned as bodyguards to avoid capture. If capture seemed eminent, the soldiers had orders to shoot the Code Talkers rather than let them fall into enemy hands. It never happened and only 13 Code Talkers died during the war from enemy ďŹ re. Bodyguards also protected them from friendly ďŹ re. Japanese soldiers would sometimes dress in the uniforms of dead Marines and inďŹ ltrate the lines. Nervous Marines could mistake the Navajo’s for enemy soldiers because of their darker skin tone and slightly Asiatic facial features. In the brutal warfare of the PaciďŹ c, there was often an attitude of shoot ďŹ rst and ask questions later. According to historynet.com, Code Talkers William McCabe and Sam Holiday both recounted stories of being threatened by other Marines who had mistaken them for

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PHOTO COURTESY OF THE NAVAJO CODE TALKERS FOUNDATION Veteran Navajo Code Talker Keith Little served in the U.S. Marine Corps from 1943 until after the war.

When asked why he chose to go to war, he answered simply: “[because] the Japanese made a sneak attack on the US,” adding that he wanted “to protect our people, land and country,” according to the Navajo Code Talkers Foundation website.

the enemy until members of their own units identified them.

When the war ended and soldiers returned, the Code Talkers faced additional hardships at home. For some it was hard to return to the secluded lifestyle of the reservation life. They drifted away from their family ties, seeking jobs and excitement in a society where they were outsiders.

For those that did return to the reservation, there were few jobs. Many banks refused to give them GI loans since Navajo lands were held in a public trust and could not be used for collateral. Their role in the war had been top secret and they were not allowed to talk to anyone, including family, about what they had done. In many cases they felt forgotten by the government they had served. But they persevered. As one Code Talker said, in a story on historynet.com, “We have faced difficult situations before, and tough trials have never defeated us. Somehow the Navajo survive.”

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Because the program was so secret, for decades there was no public knowledge that it existed. The role of these unsung heroes faded into obscurity until 1968, when the government finally declassified it. In 1969, they received their first recognition when they were honored at a 4th Marine veterans reunion with a commemorative medal. In 1971, President Nixon presented them with a certificate of appreciation and the public became aware of their role. In 2001 President Clinton authorized the Medal of Honor for the 29 original Code Talkers. For many this recognition came too late, as age had caught up with the survivors. Chester Nez, the last surviving member of the original 29, passed away in June 2014.

These men did their duty not for glory or recognition, but because they felt it was their obligation as Navajo warriors and American citizens to protect the people and country they loved. s seniortimesmagazine.com

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My husband was in the unit fighting a life-threatening ailment. He has since been discharged and is on the road to recovery. However, the message seemed such a focal point of my existence during that trying time. It became imbedded in my mind and I began to look for the excellence in individuals.

Most of the medical personnel were outstanding and truly cared about saving lives. Many family members and true friends shared their unselfish love for which I am eternally grateful. Unfortunately, some folks chose a judgmental uninformed path and spoke their hurtful opinions.

Their negative responses cast a shadow of doubt to the message I absorbed so many times entering through the security of the floor where people were fighting for their lives. My quest to determine how critical conditions bring out the best (or worst) in people began.

When you are a visitor in the ICU, everything, including restroom facilities, exists beyond the confines of the double doors leading to the patients’ rooms.

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The days evolve around physicians’ visits, coffee consumption and almost continuous trips to the bathroom. It does not take long to get to know the gatekeepers.

One day, the gate guard was an angel who I knew from the past. She explained that her part-time work not only supplemented her income, but also kept her grounded in life. Towards the end of her 12-hour shift, I asked her how this intense environment helped.

Her answer struck home: “Working in ICU keeps life in perspective. It reminds me of what is urgent and what is important.”

Regular readers know how her profound statement, coupled with the sign entering ICU, plunged me into a new journey of discovery. I began by researching the definitions of important and urgent. The two words seem synonymous but are very different.

Important is indicative of significant worth, consequence or value in relationships.

Critical means to be in or approaching a state of crisis. Another meaning is a person who is inclined to criticize severely and unfavorably.

In acute care settings, such as in emergency rooms (ER) and intensive

care facilities, the healthcare professionals have that unique combination of extensive medical knowledge and the ability to react when their patient’s life is in crisis. The urgent action provided in emergencies is important.

Unfortunately, many workplaces whose functions are not of a critical nature, operate under an unnecessary tyranny of urgency. Continual lack of planning and/or procrastination leads to projects being completed at the last minute. Ironically, humans can be invigorated in these situations. Pushing hard and completing what seemed to be an impossible task makes the work feel important.

In fact, an occasional rallying of the troops and positive team work is good. Coworkers interact and bond at a higher level when the stakes are high.

The satisfaction level diminishes when management expects their employees to constantly work under those exhausting conditions. Their critical crisis call turns into the proverbial crying wolf.

Likewise, demands on personal time can be overwhelming as well, with similar scenarios.

When urgent crowds out the important, life becomes a grind. The urgent issues seem to overtake the important and steal life’s joy.

My life has been in full-blown critical status this past year. Most crises were out of my control. I am ready to get a grip and refocus on the important and let go of things that only seem urgent.

The ER and ICU teams at NFRMC provided my husband with the best care possible. However, it was the unexpected lesson I learned from the gatekeeper in ICU that will remain with me forever — stop surviving and begin thriving. 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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Tinseltown Talks A ‘High Chaparral’ Thanksgiving with Henry Darrow

by Nick Thomas

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ome November, Henry Darrow’s thoughts typically turn to turkeys … and burros.

Darrow, who turned 82 in September, played Manolito in the popular ‘60s western television series “High Chaparral.” He recalls the memorable Thanksgiving episode, “For What We Are About to Receive,” first broadcast on NBC on November 29, 1968.

“We spent that episode looking for a lost turkey that I’d won in a shooting contest,” Darrow said from his home in North Carolina. “The bird falls off my wagon and in one scene we’re all out in the desert making various turkey sounds trying to catch it. That was a fun episode.”

Earlier in the plot, Manolito’s buckboard holding the turkey is stolen, forcing him to seek alternative transportation.

“A burro!” Darrow recalled, laughing. “I can still picture myself riding that animal — it was very bony and uncomfortable!”

Darrow appeared in all 98 “High Chaparral” episodes, as well as over 130 film and television roles, many discussed in his 2012 autobiography “Henry Darrow: Lightning in the Bottle” co-written with Jan Pippins (see www.henrydarrowbook.com).

“High Chaparral” was one of numerous TV westerns dominating network television in the ‘60s.

“About 15 of the top 20 shows were westerns,” Darrow said.

But the series stood out with its real-

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istic treatment of life and conflict in the old West.

“It was also the first show to feature a Hispanic family alongside an Anglo family in primetime,” he said.

The show was created by “Bonanza” producer David Dortort, who was looking for a Hispanic actor to play Manolito.

“I got lucky when he saw me in a play,” said Darrow, whose parents were from Puerto Rico although he was actually born in Manhattan.

Darrow was a teenager when his family returned to Puerto Rico, where he studied at the university before heading back to the U.S. to take up acting.

“As a kid in Puerto Rico, I’d get out of school and go down to a small, local theater and for a quarter could see all the great cowboy stars like Charlie Starrett (the Durango Kid), Buck Jones, Gene Autry and Roy Rogers,” he recalled. “Then, as a young adult, I got to play one on TV!” Darrow said he wanted Manolito to have his own easy-going personality, but also drew on previous stage work.

“I styled him after two Shakespearian characters I played: Mercutio from Romeo and Juliet, which added a comedic touch, and Iago from Othello, which mixed a little darkness to the character,” Darrow said. “He was a free spirit!” seniortimesmagazine.com

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“Cam (Mitchell) was quite a character,” Darrow said. “He introduced me to horse and dog racing and poker, but I learned a lot from watching him and his inventiveness on the set.”

During summer shooting on location, Darrow said ground temperatures could exceed 120 degrees.

“If you got knocked down during a fight scene and brushed your skin against a rock out in the sun, it would burn you.”

Despite the heat, Darrow remembers Mitchell usually dressed in black.

“Cam would jump into the horse troughs when it was hot and after dripping a bit when he got out, you couldn’t tell his black shirt and pants were wet,” he said. “Very smart!”

Planning for the final banquet scene of the Thanksgiving episode, after a turkey is finally caught and cooked, Darrow remembers Mitchell saying he would serve the peas, leaving the mashed potatoes for Darrow.

“But Cam grabbed the potatoes,” Darrow said with a laugh.

“He was always doing something unexpected.”

Neighbors and local American Indians also interrupted the meal, each claiming ownership of the turkey.

“Instead of fighting, we ended up sharing the meal,” Darrow said. “It was like the first Thanksgiving all over again — a wonderfully written episode for the season.” s

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Veteran Leo McCracken Between Utah Beach and Buchenwald, Artillery Man Found Pieces to Remember the War Story and photography by Michael Stone

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eated in the power-lift chair of his southwest Gainesville home, Leo McCracken flips through a box with layers of items in small plastic bags that reveals a different time in Europe and the world: an Eastern Front Medal, a Hitler Youth armband, a German soldier’s dog tags, Reichsmarks.

Nearly all the items are marked with swastikas, and while several have online-purchase receipts in the bag with them, others are labeled “self-liberated.”

Until a recent leg injury, McCracken, 92, got around pretty well, but even with a slight hindrance to mobility, he’s kind and gives a tour of an adjoining room, where a captured Nazi banner hangs alongside photos and medals and a Sturmabteilung (SA) dagger and a map of his division’s route through Europe during World War II. Tucked away in another room’s closet, inside the crumbling K-ration box he sent it home in all those years ago, is one of his most prized possessions: Kriegsmarine U-boat coveralls, for which he traded a pistol while still stationed in Europe. The name “Voigt” is written on a tag.

Many WWII vets have collections of war memorabilia, often comprised of items acquired long after the war was over.

But finding a “self-liberated” collection like McCracken’s can be rare, and he joked that someone once asked him how he had the time to fight while also yanking so many spoils.

McCraken’s older son, Chip, said he remembers the items in the attic from his childhood and that his dad had been in the war, but the specifics didn’t come up until recent years.

“He wasn’t interested in talking about it at all until 10 or 15

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years ago,” the 68-year-old Gainesville resident said. “I know what he did and I saw the photos, but he just didn’t want to talk about it — a lot of bad memories.”

Yet McCracken, one of the less than 1 million WWII vets left from the original 16 million, is more willing to take on the task now, using a timeline he wrote a few years back as a guide to relay his experiences and filling in anecdotes along the way.

He’ll be the first to say that he was lucky in his position as an ammo loader for a 105 mm Howitzer Motor Carriage M7 (nicknamed the M7 Priest tank), serving behind the front lines to provide field artillery support.

“I was sick from the time we left the Statue of Liberty ‘til we hit Scotland.”

“That’s why I’m still alive,” McCracken said, noting the especially high infantry mortality rate in Gen. George Patton’s Third Army, which he served in as a 20-something private first class within the Sixth Armored Division. “If I was in the infantry … you wouldn’t be talking to me.”

But McCracken’s year fighting in Europe wouldn’t be without close calls, coming into a trap at Brest, France, because of poor intelligence, another ambush at Leipzig, Germany, from the Hitler Youth, and the continual gunfire, artillery bursts and anxiety that comes with being in a warzone. seniortimesmagazine.com

World War II veteran Leo McCracken in his wartime military uniform (left) and on the couch of his Gainesville home (below). While still deployed in Europe, he traded a pistol for the Kriegsmarine U-boat coveralls (above).

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Among McCracken’s many items of memorabilia from the war are a Nazi banner and a Hitler Youth knife, which has “Blut und Ehre!” inscribed on the blade. Translated to English, the phrase means “Blood and Honor!” Like most items from the Nazi era, they’re distinguished by the swastika, a millennia-old and widely used design that came to symbolize Aryan identity and nationalist pride in Adolf Hitler’s Germany.

“The only thing you own is the road you’re on,” he said of the armored division’s miles-long vehicle column. “You could be hit at any time … turn the corner and Wham!”

McCracken’s journey into the war started when he signed up for the Army in November 1942, just after his 20th birthday.

The native of Youngstown, Ohio, would stay in training stateside until February 1944, when he launched from New York to Scotland and spent 12 days crossing the Atlantic — a relatively long time for such a trip but necessary to dodge U-boats.

“I was sick from the time we left the Statue of Liberty ‘til we hit Scotland,” he said of the journey, his first time on a boat.

He stayed in Great Britain for months, including during DDay, when, from outside Stratford-on-Avon, he saw wave after wave of planes flying overhead.

“We knew something was up, but, of course, nobody really knew for sure,” he said.

About 40 days after the D-Day invasion, after crossing the English Channel within his M7 on a boat, McCracken arrived on a peaceful Utah beach, the fighting and dying now taking place inland.

But soon after, on his way to his first time in combat at Lessay, France, he quickly began to notice the horrors of war.

Dead German soldiers along the road, turning yellow. Cow carcasses in fields with their legs sticking straight up, killed by bombs that also dotted the landscape with craters. Ambulances rushing injured U.S. troops away from the front. Fire from German 88 mm artillery guns raining down.

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ern French coast proved intense and perilous. But McCracken said that nothing compared to the fighting, starting on Aug. 6 at the port city of Brest, which held an important naval base for the Germans.

Arriving on the outskirts of Brest, McCracken’s M7 and others in the Sixth Armored set up a firing position behind a hedgerow. The spot they picked turned out to be a trap, just where the Germans were expecting.

“They let us set up, and then they lowered the boom on us,” McCracken said.

The hedgerow offered no protection from the German’s 88 mm rounds, fired at 2,600-feet-per-second into the trees to make them burst.

A member of McCracken’s M7, not three feet from him, took a hit to the arm and shoulder and began to bleed madly.

“I can still see the flash from that thing,” McCracken recalled. “Why it didn’t hit me, I don’t know. But I was lying on the ground. That’s probably why it didn’t get me. He was standing up.”

The injured man began to run off, and McCracken and another soldier pursued and tackled him and then were able to stop the bleeding.

A gunner corporal from a nearby tank was also hit, and when McCracken ran over to help, the tank crew had him stretched out behind the tank, where he babbled like a baby.

“His brain was blown half out of his head,” McCracken wrote in his timeline. “He died a few minutes later.”

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so they could eventually retreat from the hedgerow. McCracken said faulty intelligence underestimated the German garrison, which didn’t surrender until six weeks later, on Sept. 19, at a cost of roughly 10,000 Americans killed or wounded.

Moving southward of Brest, the U.S. didn’t risk such action against the other vital German naval ports at Lorient and St. Nazaire, leaving the pockets of Germans there cut off from their supply lines for the rest of the war.

Over the next few months, the Sixth Armored moved quickly south and then directly west across France until reach-

and being thankful for all the gear that kept him warm: wool gloves, galoshes and a tent with heavy canvas and a stove in the middle.

But the enemy fire still came down around McCracken, and he and the others couldn’t change their positions because the Germans were throughout the area.

“We got shelled all the time. You just duck and hope for the best,” he said, noting, though, that being outside Bastogne still didn’t surmount the Brest hedgerow.

The Germans drive had proved futile by the end of January, at enormous costs to both sides, so the Sixth Armored

“I saw lampshades made out of tattooed, dried human skin. That’s a fact. I saw these prisoners leaning up against the wall, so weak they couldn’t stand … They weren’t all half dead, but some of them were dead.” ing the German border on December 6th.

But, on Dec. 23, it received the sudden orders to head to Metz, France, to help stop the German’s last great offensive, dubbed the Battle of the Bulge.

A few days later, the Sixth Armored was sent to help the sieged town of Bastogne, where the German line “bulged” forward and briefly left the 101st Airborne Division encircled.

McCracken remembered stopping at a building for Christmas dinner before his and other M7s arrived at their firing location, a mile outside Bastogne. The hardship that stuck out the most to McCracken was not the German fire but the unbearable cold, with temperatures sometimes falling below zero.

He recalled some men peeing on their 105 mm Howitzers to thaw them

returned to its push toward and into Germany. McCracken said that while leaving Bastogne in the aftermath of the Battle of the Bulge, he saw American and German bodies the length of a football field being stacked by U.S. troops.

“I mentioned this to somebody else, and they were dubious, I know,” he said of the scene. “But I read that same thing — only read it once — that said the same thing that I said.”

The Sixth Armored crossed into Germany about Feb. 20, 1945, and then quickly moved through the countryside, capturing many towns and thousands of prisoners along the way.

Toward the end of their march, around the eastern German cities of Leipzig and Chemnitz in April, the Sixth Armored column fell into an-

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McCracken’s medals hang on a wall in his Gainesville home.

other trap while passing over a long, gradual hill. Hitler Youth members, 16 and 17 years old, had gun emplacements abound and had the road zeroed in for when the Americans would pass through.

“They were good shots, too, unfortunately,” McCracken said. “Those Hitler Youths, they were remarkably good soldiers and fearless.”

By the time the fighting with the teenagers stopped, McCracken’s M7 had only seven Howitzer rounds left.

The Sixth Armored finally ceased its advance on April 15th and waited for the Russians’ arrival at Rochlitz, Germany.

Four days earlier in the advance, the division freed Buchenwald concentration camp outside the nearby city of Weimar, but McCracken saw it in the days after the liberation.

Many living prisoners were still there when he arrived, as were piledup corpses of the dead. A more well-off English-speaking inmate gave McCracken and four other soldiers a tour, showing them the gas chamber (though noted by others who saw the original camp, the existence of one at Buchenwald has since been heavily debated) and other

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gruesome sights.

“I saw lampshades made out of tattooed, dried human skin,” he said.

“That’s a fact. I saw these prisoners leaning up against the wall, so weak they couldn’t stand … They weren’t all half dead, but some of them were dead.”

Germany surrendered on May 7, and McCracken, still in his early 20s, returned home and had two sons, Chip and David, with his wife, Lois, who was in the Navy during WWII and chauffeured admirals around Washington D.C. She passed away in 2006.

McCracken spent about 30 years as a mechanic for Ford Motor Company, finishing up for a dealer in Gainesville, which he and his wife moved to from Ohio to be close to their sons.

Reflecting on the war all these years later, McCracken said that despite “all the training and this and that and the other,” him never getting touched had a lot to do with luck, plus something else.

“The Lord was on my side, and the round didn’t have my number on it,” he said, also writing in his timeline: “These were the prime years of my life, not the best years.

“You never forget it.” s seniortimesmagazine.com

COLUMN œ ELLIS AMBURN

Enjoying Act Three Sister Act

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y some quirk of fate, I became involved in the 1970s with both members of the bitterest sister act in show-business history — Joan Fontaine and Olivia de Havilland.

I was Olivia’s editor for her memoir at the Delacorte Press. Later, when I moved on to William Morrow and Company, Joan beat her sister to the punch by completing and turning in her autobiography “No Bed of Roses.”

Other sisters had achieved stardom in Hollywood — the Gishes, the Talmadges and the Bennetts — but never on the scale of Olivia and Joan, both breathtaking beauties and both Oscar winners in the coveted best-actress category.

Although Olivia and Joan were related to the founder of the famous de Havilland aircraft empire, a precursor of British Aerospace, they were not close to that branch of the family until they became movie stars, when the young heir to the fortune, dashing British air ace Geoffrey de Havilland, visited Hollywood and flirted outrageously with both girls.

While still a teenager Olivia emerged as a star in Max Reinhardt’s extravaganza “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and laid claim to the distinguished family name. Success came much later to Joan, who was forbidden by Olivia and Lilian

to use the name de Havilland. A victim of what Joan derisively called “the law of primogeniture,” she resorted to adopting her stepfather’s name.

In the early 1940s the sisters competed for the lead in “Rebecca.” Joan won, and soon her fame was equal to Olivia’s. The Second World War was just beginning, and so was the War Between the Sisters.

The girls had been born in Tokyo, Olivia in 1916, Joan in 1917. Though Olivia declined to shed light on the origins of their rivalry when we discussed her book, Joan spilled her guts, saying, “Olivia so hated the idea of a sibling she wouldn’t go near my crib.” When asked to reply to the charge, Olivia said, “That is one subject on which I never speak.”

According to Joan, her birth was regarded by Olivia as an “inexcusable intrusion into her life. I remember not one act of kindness from her all through my childhood.”

As siblings they were an extreme case of ying and yang — Olivia a scholar, Joan an absentee at roll call; Olivia valentine-faced, Joan all sharp angles; Olivia focused, Joan a dreamer; Olivia her mother’s favorite, Joan virtually an outcast.

Their parents were British — Lilian a frustrated actress, and Walter a

hack lawyer who specialized in helping Japanese businessmen rip off American patents. A fickle spouse and deadbeat dad, he consorted with their Japanese housemaid Yoki-san in front of Lilian and the children.

Lilian left him and fled to California when Olivia was two years old, finding work in a milliner’s store in Saratoga.

With little money, they were reduced to living in boarding houses until Lilian married her second husband, George Milan Fontaine, who turned out to be a creep of the first order.

Joan said her stepfather sexually abused her and Olivia when they were age 6 and 7 respectively, bathing them and letting his hands “tarry too long in intimate places [with] his too lingering caresses.” Lilian had the poor judgment to leave her daughters alone with him.

A brutal disciplinarian, he threatened to bury Joan alive, knocked her through a glass door, and subjected her and Olivia to “blinding rages.” He abandoned Joan when she was an adolescent, and she sought refuge with her real father Walter, but incest again raised its ugly head when he tried to move his bed into her room and made “ugly, suggestive references to my questionable virginity.”

Lilian resented her daughters and made no secret of it, telling them, “You girls ruined my figure.” Inducing shame and guilt, the accusation had an emotionally crippling effect. Neither Olivia nor Joan would ever achieve a lasting relationship with a man, though the former married twice and the latter four times.

As for their rivalry, their mother was also responsible. She drove them apart by pitting them against each other. The resulting conflict would fuel two of Hollywood’s most brilliant careers — as well as a tragic lifelong feud. s The author of biographies published by HarperCollins, Ellis Amburn lives at a retirement community in Gainesville.

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The Last Good Place A Trip to Newfoundland

Story and photography by Rick Sapp

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t may be the last good place you will never visit. Of course, it isn’t New York or Paris, a South Seas Island or the Great Wall of China.

Two thousand miles away lies an island of rock and frigid water; bigger than Japan, with a population less than Jacksonville; closer to Greenland than to Gainesville. This is a land of mosquitoes and moose, tundra and crashing surf, wildflowers and ragged cliffs. Eight shivering, frigid months sandwiching a brief, glorious summer.

Newfoundland is Canada’s eastern-most province, where hockey is inspiration and fishing is the way of life. Home of “Newfies,” where a visitor must listen carefully to understand the spoken word. It is the first outpost of European civilization and the first to witness the extinction of a native North American people and their way of life.

YOUR TRAVEL Visits to Newfoundland begin at the capital city airport after a series of flights: somewhere to somewhere to Atlanta to Toronto to St. John’s. It’s not a lovely airport, St. John’s. Functional. Methodical. No place to linger. And while the taxi ride into the city — St. John’s is about the size of Gainesville — is unimpressive, the town itself beguiles visitors right away with a quirky, colorful charm. In the North Country manner, this capital city is sculptured around the rugged landscape, with no identifiable center.

RIGHT: The Beothuk were an indigenous hunter-gatherer people of Newfoundland. Never numerous, they died out in the early decades of the 19th century due to pressure on Newfoundland’s limited food resources by other Indian groups and Europeans, infectious disease and violent encounters with trappers, settlers and other Indians. A statue commemorating their existence marks the trail to the seasonal Boyd’s Cove encampment at the Beothuk Interpretive Center an hour north of Gander.

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At the ragged edge of North America, Newfies cheerfully refer to their island as “the rock” for a reason. Opportunities abound to see icebergs, moose and whales, black bear and caribou.

BELOW: If you know what this is you have lived in the far north. No longer in service, the Newfoundland Railway from St. John’s to Port aux Basques required high-speed snow removal during the province’s long and bitter winters. The rail bed, minus the rails and crossties, has been converted to a multi-use trail, primarily for snowmobiles in the winter and ATVs in the summer. In two weeks of hiking, primarily through wilderness, the author and his partner did not meet another hiker.

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The Author’s Journey I began my trek through Newfoundland with a map and a too-heavy backpack.

The Trans-Canada Trail across this province is an old railroad bed, which means gravel. Ragged granite. Hard on the feet and frequently walled-off from the countryside by a green wall of spruce and birch, impossible to walk through when the trail is flooded.

Quick vistas are enticing but exceptional. And at every bend in the trail one expects a moose or a bear, but there is only wet tundra and the occasional horde of mosquitoes. A dry, level spot to pitch a tent is rare and by evening, after a 10-to-12-hour hike with a 35-pound pack, I was ready for the sleeping bag, ready to gulp a mouthful of trail mix, sip iodine-treated stream water, lance my blisters and fall asleep.

The glory of this trail is the Newfies. Groups on ATVs stop and visit. Offer you a beer — “Thanks, but I have to walk 10 more miles today” — and a joke.

Residents shout at you from trailside cabins to come in for tea or eat their moose fritters. The Newfies are genuine, even exultant on their rock.

I left the hiking trail at Gander, after 225 miles, and rented a car. Driving an automobile is so … bourgeoisie … so American, but there was no other way to fully experience the island unless by pre-arranged tour bus. In a month I saw one cross-country cyclist and no other hikers, except my travel partner.

With the car, I could visit the 1,000-year-old Norse settlement at L’Anse aux Meadows and watch humpback whales feed near the coast. Could camp at Blow-Me-Down and Dildo Run Provincial Parks. Join the men’s coffee group at the R&J at 7:00 a.m. and explore the lighthouse in Twillingate. Take the ferry to Fogo Island and look for icebergs.

In the end, the DRL bus from Gander to Channel-Port aux Basques on the hottest day of the year immediately lost its air conditioning. And the Marine Atlantic mega-ferry across the Cabot Strait by night was impossibly cold, but I made my Canada Air and Delta flights on time and that’s all a part of the beauty and the hardship of travel.

From St. John’s the visitor begins with a bus or a rental car — or in the author’s case, a backpack, tent and sleeping bag — and sets out to see this immense and charismatic island.

The other entry to Newfoundland is 500 miles away at the extreme southwestern edge of the province. Channel-Port aux Basques. This jumped-up village is to St. John’s what Micanopy is to Miami. Rustic and without resources. Stubbornly clinging to the edge of a continent for no better reason than it has nowhere else to go. To reach Newfoundland through Port aux Basques requires all-day flights to Halifax, Nova Scotia, a six-hour shuttle to North Sydney and a seven-hour crosschannel ferry ride. The trip alone is an adventure.

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WHY NEWFOUNDLAND? You would be the rare Floridian indeed if you had ever considered a vacation in Newfoundland. It would mean that you were related to a fisherman or that your snowbird neighbors spoke English with a pay-attention Irish or Scottish brogue.

It’s a tough place with a long winter, Newfoundland. Snow and ice, sub-zero temperatures and an unbearable wind that feels, at times, like an unforgiving stepmother. Lacking the immense evergreen forests of Maine or Michigan to chop the blast into manageable gusts, the howling, the house rattling, the rime creeping inside through cracks in window and doorframes can last for months. No buffer shields this raw island seniortimesmagazine.com

from North Atlantic storms. Only a man or a woman with the most urgent business, a family member in trouble, or the most insane snowmobile thrill-seeker visits in the winter. Not a Floridian … never a Floridian.

And so the summer, because spring is wan and muddy, and autumn hurries to complete its chores before first snowfall. Robins and wildflowers — daisies carelessly lifting their ruffs from trailside, scatterings of sky iris, pink and lavender lupine, even lipstick-red pitcher plant — and excited (but not “excitable,” because they are, after all, Canadian) residents released from the hard fist of winter to riff on Snoopy’s happy dance. In summer, Newfies celebrate the outdoors by roaring across the island on ATVs while visitors by the thousands line up for their tour buses outside independent hotels like the Sinbad in Gander or the century-old, half-timbered Glynmill Inn in Corner Brook or the battered Sea Echo in Port au Choix.

A visitor will find the customary chains in Newfoundland, but locally owned is the flavor that makes travel worthwhile. Marlaine’s Tidewatcher Café and Crafts in Lark Harbor is only a few miles from Bottle Cove and BlowMe-Down Provincial Park. It is closer still to Sheppard’s Clover Farm general store where the lady at the counter, discovering that they were out of towels (everything except fish and firewood must be imported to Newfoundland) disappeared into a back room. She returned with a towel from her own closet, worn but clean.

“I have plenty, no worries,” she said, dismissing me with a smile and a wave of her hand.

But if you are absolutely addicted to chains, Canada has its own. Mary Brown’s Chicken and Taters for Kentucky’s Colonel Sanders. Tim Horton’s competes quite favorably with Starbucks.

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For those with a sense of high adventure slightly beyond reason, the Strait of Belle Isle Ferry from St. Barbé to Blanc Sablon is a two-hour ride to Quebec, although the schedule notes, “Difficult ice conditions may increase crossing times.” Once ashore, four-wheel drive vehicles and extra insurance are recommended because this corner of Canada is a bear-filled wilderness. The 500-mile backwoods trek to Happy ValleyGoose Bay still leaves an adventurer with a thousand miles of gravel and potholes before the road ends in Kegashka, 200 frustrating miles short of the ferry.

Labrador and eastern Quebec are as wild as Newfoundland, the locals maintain, only more so. But if you are curious about a chance to explore a region where no friend, no relative, no neighbor has ever set foot, this is your destination.

For romantics seeking remnants of France in North America, mai ouis, bien sûr, the islands of St. Pierre and Miquelon are a mere 15 miles away. French is spoken here, on the southern, practically tropical side of Newfoundland, although English is accepted from visitors. You can withdraw Euros from an ATM before crossing to St. Pierre for a croque-monsieur, a grilled ham and cheese sandwich, optionally topped with béchamel cheese, or a croque-madame, which either has no meat or may be topped with an egg over-easy.

To spend your holiday hearing French, take the bus from St. John’s to Goobies, just beyond Come-ByChance on the Trans-Canada Highway, Newfoundland’s only four-lane. Arrange in advance for the three-hour shuttle to Fortune, then the hour-and-ahalf ferry to St. Pierre. You could simply fly from St. John’s to St. Pierre, but where’s the thrill in that?

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You will never regret exploring Newfoundland. You may see whales and icebergs, moose and caribou and bears. Villages built over water. A town that cheerfully doubled its population on 9/11 when it was suddenly asked to care for 10,000 grounded airline passengers.

Open your eyes and heart to Newfoundland and you may briefly experience a lifestyle that is familiar, yet different enough to enchant the most seasoned veteran of cramped airline seats and lost luggage. But at the heart of your trip you will remember an affable and genuinely welcoming people. In these days of TSA pat-downs, extra fees for basic human comforts and long lines at crowded world attractions, that should be sufficient incentive. s

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Most residents of Newfoundland live within a few miles of the coast and the province’s human architecture can be as Spartan and inventive as its natural landscape. It is still easy to find houses built in the old style, atop tree trunks sunk through mud to the bedrock of shallow harbors.

Sailing from Greenland a thousand years ago, Vikings (the Norse) were the first Europeans to set foot in the Americas. Their purpose certainly was resource exploitation, primarily perhaps timber for longships and houses. A partially reconstructed settlement lies at the extreme end of Newfoundland’s Great Northern Peninsula at a site named L’Anse aux Meadows by French fisherman.

BELOW: St. John’s, the capital city of the Canadian province of Newfoundland, is roughly the size of Gainesville. When you visit, set your watch ahead by 1.5 hours.

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FORGET-ME-NOT

‘The Forgotten War’ New Gainesville Monument Gives Remembrance to Korean War Veterans

written by Michael Stone photography by Ericka Winterrowd

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hen Betty Ann Means’ husband, Korean War veteran Samuel Means, got sick a few years ago, she began to take him to Alachua County’s military monuments.

Using the Veterans Memorials in Alachua County catalog, they drove around to the 50 memorials in the county, but something was missing.

“We kept looking for Korean War monuments,” the city of Alachua resident said, “and there just weren’t any.”

Indeed, at Kanapaha Park, renamed Veterans Memorial Park in July, brick stacks of varying heights show the losses of major wars from the American Revolution to today.

And along Archer Road, between the Malcolm Randall VA Medical Center and 34th Street, a flag memorial was erected in the early 2000s, with plaques at the base listing the 136 names of University of Florida students and Alachua County residents lost in Korea and Vietnam. (Each of the 136 trees around the monument represents one of the fallen soldiers.)

But, the Meanses wondered, what about a memorial that stands alone for Korean War veterans, that recognizes those lost as well as those who survived, in Korea and stateside, for them and their families?

Samuel Means — who was stationed at the 38th parallel, the dividing line between North and South Korea, during the war — passed away in May 2013 at age 79. Afterward, his wife pursued the Korean War monument that she and her husband couldn’t find.

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death, I followed up on it,” she said.

About two years later, after much planning and permission from Gainesville’s city government, the monument was erected in July of this year at the base of the Archer Road flag memorial — specifically, at 2672 Old Archer Road.

Means was backed by the organization she and her husband had been part of since its 2002 formation, the Gainesvillebased General James A. Van Fleet chapter of the Korean War Veterans Association, and she served as chairperson of the organization’s committee that saw the monument through.

“She did all the heavy lifting,” said Don Sherry, the chapter’s adjutant and a former commander. “She did all the work.”

The polished blue granite monument is vertically rectangular in shape except at the top, which is cut in jagged lines to represent both the mountainous terrain that played a major role in battle strategy, and the stairstep separating line at the 38th parallel.

The first inscriptions are “Korea” and the dates of the war: “June 25, 1950 — July 27, 1953.” Next, over an outline of the two Korean countries, the U.S. and South Korean flags cross to show their unity in the conflict.

The logos of the five military branches — Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force and Coast Guard — span the monument left to right and are followed by a quote derived from the Korean War Veterans Memorial in Washington D.C.: “In honor and remembrance of those who served and sacrificed to promote freedom for all. They went to defend a country they never knew and a people they never met. Freedom is not free.” seniortimesmagazine.com

The back of the monument is unique, as most people will approach it ďŹ rst, because of its location.

The Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) and the 38th Parallel are noted toward the top, markers speciďŹ c to the Korean War that are still important to this day.

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The monument was made and erected at basically cost by O.T. Davis of O.T. Davis Monument Co. in Gainesville, Sherry said, adding Davis is a Korean War veteran himself and, through the monument’s construction, ended up joining the Van Fleet chapter.

Davis said his favorite projects are veteran memorials and that he’s worked on several in the area. Once Davis received the final plans from the chapter, he said the Korean monument specifically took about a week to ready and roughly three hours to install.

“It’s a lot of pride that goes into it. ... It’s a real good feeling knowing that there is a monument in Alachua [County] dedicated to the veterans of Korea,” Davis said.

The monument’s dedication ceremony took place on July 27 and included a wreath laying, a 21-gun salute, the singing of the National Anthem and “God Bless America” from Brittany Roughton and words from the guest of honor, Eddie Ko. Ko was just 14 years old when he and other locals told Lt.

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Eugene Clark and the U.S. Navy the location of North Korean troop emplacements as the Americans landed on the western coast for the invasion at Inchon in September 1950. With the intelligence, the U.S. was able to encircle the North Koreans and avoid fighting them before recapturing Seoul — the South Korean capital, which had fallen in June — shortly thereafter.

“When the Marines finally landed in Inchon,” Sherry said, “these kids met them and explained to them where to go and where not to go. They were a tremendous help.”

Ko now helps the U.S. government find the bodies of soldiers missing in action (as of April, 7,846 soldiers were still unaccounted for in Korea, according to the Department of Defense).

Also at the dedication, retired Air Force Brig. Gen. Paul Albritton — who Sherry said organized the dedication and installation and is a member of the Van Fleet chapter — led the Pledge of Allegiance.

On the day of the dedication, the first touches of local appreciation were shown. One attendee, for instance, apseniortimesmagazine.com

proached Means to tell her that his uncle had been killed in the Korean War. “He was very excited,” Means said of the nephew seeing the new monument, “because his uncle was one of the names (of those killed in the war) on the back of the flag monument.”

Means said she has also seen two flower bouquets laid at the base and has received calls from veterans saying they’ll have another place to take their grandchildren.

“Another veteran said that he goes out and volunteers at the VA,” she said, “and he said he salutes the monument every single day that he goes.”

‘THE FORGOTTEN WAR’ The Korean War, often nicknamed “the forgotten war,” was called a “police action,” not a war, by President Harry Truman.

“The Korean War veterans are the unknown veterans,” said Davis, who served in the Mediterranean Sea aboard the aircraft carrier USS Lake Champlain during the war. “Nobody has ever paid any attention to them. They are a forgotten group. They’re almost like the Vietnam [veterans].”

Sherry agreed: “Any Korean War veteran will tell you that it really was the forgotten war.”

The fighting started when North Korea, supplied with arms from the Soviet Union, invaded South Korea with the intention of creating a single communist Korea.

The U.S. and other United Nations countries came to South Korea’s defense, with 41 sending equipment and aid and 16 sending troops, according to CNN. But 90 percent of the troop total came from the U.S. “We had just disarmed our armies and sent millions of men home to their families and mothballed the fleets and put everything away, saying, ‘Now, we’ve got peace in our time,’” Sherry said. “And guess what: Here comes another.”

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shortly before him. Other recent graduates, who were home on leave from Korea, also attended and spoke to classes at the high school about their experiences.

China joining North Korean forces in October 1950 moved the conflict toward an overall stalemate. Eventually, after the election of President Dwight Eisenhower, who had campaigned on ending the war, and after two years of ceasefire negotiations, the two Korean countries agreed to a truce on July 27, 1953.

The truce, though, was not a permanent treaty for peace, and the two Koreas, which do sometimes test the other side with small military actions, are still divided today by a demilitarized zone between them.

Though the Korean War was only three years, the estimated death toll climbed to almost 5 million, with more than half that figure being civilians, according to the History Channel.

Of the dead, nearly 37,000 were Americans, with another 100,000-plus wounded.

The National Archive and Records Administration lists Florida’s dead at 577, many whose remains were never found.

Two of those still missing are Alachua County residents Sgt. Jone Rogers, who was killed in action in 1950, and Sgt. Elmer Clyde Wear, who died in 1951 after almost two months of imprisonment by the North Koreans.

Of the 5.7 million Americans who served in Korea and elsewhere during the war, 1.74 million are estimated to be living, according to the Department of Veterans Affairs. Most are in their 80s and 90s.

“I’m 80 years old, and when [the Van Fleet chapter is] having a meeting and something comes up, they all say, ‘Hey, get the kid,’” said Sherry, who joined the Air Force in January 1954 but is still considered a Korean War-era veteran. “They call me

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the kid, and I’m 80. So these guys are up there [in age].”

Nevertheless, the chapter’s 80 members (Korean veterans) and 20 associate members (spouses and supporters) are still active, always accepting the invitation to broaden the sense of patriotism at events around the county: performing honorguard duties at business openings and local veterans’ funeral services; participating in every veteran holiday; and hosting an annual dedication for World War II veterans, which didn’t take place this year because of the era’s dwindling numbers.

The Van Fleet chapter “very well might be the most active veteran organization in the area and have helped thousands of fellow veterans throughout the years,” Jim Lynch, a retired director of Alachua County Veteran Services, wrote in the Gainesville Sun in 2013.

“Any patriotic thing people ask them to do, they do it,” Means added.

But they also recognize that it will be the 7.1 million living Vietnam-era veterans who will be stepping up to the plate next.

“We’re on the way out,” Sherry said, “so the Vietnam War veterans are going to come more into being now because they’re at the age we were 10 to 20 years ago.”

Local Vietnam veterans are planning to install a similar monument next to the new one for the Korean War, and there’s also talk about putting a sidewalk around the monuments and flagpole and possibly some benches, he said.

“It means a lot to all of the veterans because … it was called the forgotten war,” Sherry said of the monument, noting that after his four years in the Air Force, people back home in Massachusetts didn’t notice he had been gone.

“I said, ‘Yeah, I was serving during the Korean War,’ and they said, ‘Oh yeah, that’s right. We did have a war over there, didn’t we?’” s

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CALENDAR UPCOMING EVENTS IN ALACHUA & MARION TIOGA MONDAY MARKET Mondays 4:00pm - 7:00pm JONESVILLE - Tioga Center, 13005 W. Newberry Rd. Market features a selection of vegetables, crafts, organic food, fruits and local specialties.

opening program at its new location. It explores the rich history of wildlife art in Florida throughout the past 250 years including works by contemporary Florida artists. Organizers are planning a series of workshops/lectures that will take place in Gainesville during the exhibition period. www.thedoris.org.

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11:00am - 1:00pm GAINESVILLE - Wesley United Methodist Church, 826 NW 23rd Ave. Gainesville Chapter of the DAR meet on the second Wednesday of each month, October through May. gainesvilleDAR@gmail.com.

Times Vary GAINESVILLE - The Thomas Center, 302 NE 6th Ave. Curated by Margaret Ross Tolbert, AQUIFERious is an expansive, multi-disciplinary exhibition to be presented in both the Main and Mezzanine Galleries and is based on her award-winning book of the same title featuring her large-scale paintings based on our region’s springs, as well the work of the world-renowned photographers, filmmakers and cartographers that have inspired her.

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. For information call Beckie at 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.

RANGER-LED WALK Saturdays 10:00am GAINESVILLE - Devil’s Millhopper Geological State Park, 4732 Millhopper Rd. Guided walks leave from the visitor center every Saturday at 10 am sharp. Visitors who dare to join-in on the adventure have the opportunity to learn about the history and surrounding nature.

ART EXHIBITION Now Through December 11 Times Vary GAINESVILLE - The Doris Bardon Community Cultural Center, 1315 S. Main St. The Artist Naturalists in Florida: Then and Now is the

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MOVIE ON THE LAWN Thursday, November 5 5:30pm JONESVILLE - Campus USA Credit Union Empower Park Headquarters, 14007 NC 1st Rd. Bring the family to watch Big Hero 6 on a large outdoor screen. Guests are encouraged to bring blankets and warm clothing. Free popcorn, parking and admission. Visit campuscu.com for more information.

GRACE MARKETPLACE HELPING THE HOMELESS Thursday, November 5 2:30pm –4:00pm GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th Blvd. Presented by PrimeTime Institute. Theresa Lowe will discuss the history of Grace Marketplace and the services provided there. She will also describe its relationship with the adjacent tent city, Dignity Village.

FLAGS OVER FLORIDA Friday, November 6 7:30pm GAINESVILLE - The Santa Fe Fine Arts Hall, 3000 NW 83rd St E-127. The Gainesville Orchestra celebrates Florida’s 500th anniversary with music from Spain, England, France, and more. Tickets: 352-395-4181.

PAINTOUT November 7 – 8 9:00am – 5:00pm NEWBERRY - Dudley Farm Historic State Park, 18730 W. Newberry Rd. Watch artists capture the beauty of Dudley Farm. Proceeds from sales benefit the Dudley Farm Education Building fund. Fun for the whole family. Admission is $5 per car up to 8 occupants. 352-472-1142 or visit www.friendsofdudleyfarm.org.

FOSTER THE LOVE 5K Saturday, November 7 6:00am OCALA - Cross Florida Greenway Park, Baseline Road Trailhead Pavilion, 4255 SE 58th Ave. The 5K-event raises awareness for Arnette House, an organization that provides safe and effective programs to strengthen youth and families. Early packet pickup on November 6 at Arnette House from 10am to 6pm. Post-event festivities include awards for the top male and female runner awards, door prizes and refreshments. Info: www. arnettehouse.org/events or call 352-622-4432.

COMMUNITY BLOCK PARTY Saturday, November 7 2:00pm — 5:00pm OCALA - Druid Hills United Methodist Church, SE 17th St. and 1712 SE Lake Weir Rd. Free. Bring the whole family for fun activities including a bounce house, large inflatable slide, twin spin ride, rock wall climb and more. There will also be clowns, face-painting, and free food. Contact John Battin at 620-2616.

JAMES B. KING VETERAN’S DAY CONCERT Sunday, November 8 4:00pm GAINESVILLE - First Presbyterian Church, 106 SW 3rd St. Concert by the Gainesville Community Band, directed by Professor R. Gary Langford.

Venue offering requested. www.gnvband.org.

BIKER’S ON PARADE Sunday, November 8 11:00am GAINESVILLE - Santa Fe College, 3000 NW 83rd St. Charity ride to support local veterans.

The ride starts at Santa Fe College and ends at Gainesville Raceway. Pre-register to avoid the lines on www.bikersonparade.org. To sponsor email Beau Crevasse at beau@ crevassesimplecremation.com. To volunteer email Emilee MacDonald at hello@bikersonparade.org.

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MAIN STREET FALL FESTIVAL Sunday, November 8 11:00am – 5:00pm ALACHUA - Downtown Historic Main Street. A relaxing afternoon of fun, friends and family. Music, food, and many free child-friendly activities.

DAVID DORFMAN DANCE Tuesday, November 10 7:30pm GAINESVILLE - Phillips Center. David Dorfman Dance - “Prophets of Funk.” Since its founding in 1985, David Dorfman Dance has performed extensively throughout North and South America, Great Britain, Europe, Russia, Poland, and most recently, Central Asia as part of DanceMotion USA.

VETERAN’S DAY SPECIAL Wednesday, November 11 9:00am - 5:00pm GAINESVILLE - Kanapaha Botanical Gardens, 4700 SW 58th Dr. Active or retired military get into the Gardens FREE on Veteran’s Day.

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GAINESVILLE - Phillips Center - Squitieri Studio Theatre, 3201 Hull Rd. French clarinetist Raphaël Sévère is quickly gaining attention. After making his concerto debut at age 11 with the Beijing Opera Orchestra, Mr. Sévère’s budding career took off when he won five international competitions at age 12. By the time he turned 19, he had already received a degree with highest honors from the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Paris.

Wednesday, November 11 7:30pm GAINESVILLE - Phillips Center. With a cast of breast cancer survivors and co-survivors, Menopause The Musical and the Susan G. Komen Foundation partner to offer inspiration, sisterhood and hope. Tickets: 352-392-2787, or performingarts.ufl.edu. The production will donate no less than $2 per ticket sold to Susan G. Komen® to further its mission to save lives and end breast cancer.

AGING, HEARING FUNCTION & SOCIAL INTERACTION Thursday, November 12 2:30pm –4:00pm GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th Blvd. Presented by PrimeTime Institute. Razan AL Fakir, MD (ENT), AuD, of the UF Department of Speech, Language & Hearing Services, will describe his research and findings so far.

GAINESVILLE DURING THE CIVIL WAR Thursday, November 12 2:30pm –4:00pm GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th Blvd. Presented by PrimeTime Institute. Dr. Mark Barrow, member of the Board of Directors of the Matheson Museum,

will present on Gainesville’s role in the Civil War, including the Battles of Gainesville and Olustee. He will also describe the importance of the State of Florida in the politics of the time.

ART OF TIME ENSEMBLE Thursday, November 12 7:30pm GAINESVILLE - Curtis Center. Steven Page (founder and former lead of the iconic band Barenaked Ladies) joins an ensemble of singers including Andy Maize (Skydiggers), Glen Phillips (Toad the Wet Sprocket) and Craig Northey (The Odds) in a re-imagining of the Beatles’ groundbreaking album, Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. A collaboration of the singers and Art of Time’s world-class orchestra. One part tone poem, one part rock opera, Sgt. Pepper has defined an era for almost half a century — and yet sounds fresh today.

STARRY NIGHT Friday, November 13 6:00pm GAINESVILLE - Florida Museum of Natural History, 3215 Hull Rd. Gaze through highperformance telescopes at the stars and explore the world beyond at a portable planetarium show and 3-D presentations. Fun for the whole family. Info: call 352-273-2062.

HARVEST FEST MUSIC AND FOOD TRUCK FESTIVAL Saturday, November 14 1:00pm – 10:00pm OCALA, Tuscawilla Park, 899 N.E. Sanchez Ave. The Harvest Fest Music & Food Truck Festival will feature southern rock band Blackberry Smoke, which performed with Zac Brown Band and ZZ Top, among others. A secondary stage nearby will also host artists’ performances. Live music all day, over 10 food trucks, and a craft beer garden.

KIDS DAY Saturday, November 14 10:00am – 2:00pm NEWBERRY - Dudley Farm Historic State Park, 18730 W. Newberry Rd. The theme is Tom the Turkey. Come out for educational and interesting hands-on crafts. Fun for the whole family. Admission is $5 per car up to 8 occupants. Call 352-472-1142 or visit www.friendsofdudleyfarm.org

CHOREOGRAPHIC SHOWCASE Saturday, November 14 4:00pm GAINESVILLE - Pofahl Studios, 1325 NW 2 St. DANB’s Next Generation presents The Showcase, featuring the work of Next Gen members who

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Downtown Festival & Art Show November 14 – 15

10:00am – 5:00pm

GAINESVILLE - Downtown Gainesville, 200 E. University Ave. Presented by the City of Gainesville Department of Parks, Recreation and Cultural Affairs, the festival celebrates its 34th anniversary. For two days, visitors can stroll through historic downtown and marvel at works from more than 250 of the nation’s most talented artists, who display their original oils and acrylics, vibrant watercolors, captivating sculptures, dazzling jewelry, decorative ceramics and vivid photography.

have created, auditioned and cast works to be performed. Styles include contemporary, classical ballet, hip-hop and tap. The event includes a talkback and receptions. Funds generated assist with events through the year.

CRAFT AND BAKE SALE November 14 – 15 10:00am – 4:00pm HIGH SPRINGS - New Century Woman’s Club, 40 NW 1st Ave. Many new and returning vendors will be offering beautiful and unique items to keep or give as gifts. The Bake Sale table will be filled with all the goodies: cakes, pies, cookies, brownies and much more. The Country Store will have the great crafts and gifts made by the Woman’s Club members and their friends.

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TRASHFORMATIONS Friday, November 20 5:30pm GAINESVILLE - Florida Museum of Natural History, 3215 Hull Rd. Ever wonder how milk jugs morph into beautiful wading birds or how gears and gadgets become gigantic bugs? See how middle school, high school and college students transform “waste” into creative works of art! The Florida Museum will display winning entries through Dec. 1. Info: call Patrick Irby, 352-374-5213.

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TRAN “THE PIANO MAN” Friday, November 20 9:00pm GAINESVILLE – The Market Street Pub, 112 SW 1st Ave. Tran Whitley’s Rockin’ Floor Show & Galaxy of Guest Stars will include a Patsy Cline tribute.

Admission is $5. www.TranThePianoMan.com.

QUILT & BLUEGRASS FESTIVAL Saturday, November 21 10:0am – 5:00pm GAINESVILLE - Thornebrook Village, 2441 NW 43 St. Thornebrook Village, the Quilters of Alachua County Day Guild and the Tree City Quilters’ Guild have put together a day to enjoy the bright colors and designs of quilting with Bluegrass music playing in the background.

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WINE TASTING FUNDRAISER Friday, November 20 5:30pm – 8:00pm GAINESVILLE - Thornebrook Village, 2441 NW 43 St. Gainesville Area Rowing’s 9th Annual Wine Tasting Fundraiser. Choice of two red and two white wines and Swamp Head and Bud Light beers on tap. Hot and cold hors d’oeuvres

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7:30pm GAINESVILLE - First United Methodist Church, 419 NE 1st St. Come enjoy Frostiana, the poetry of Robert Frost set to music. Voices Rising is an intergenerational community chorus. This concert will benefit Family Promise shelter for homeless children and their families. www.familypromisegvl.org.

SUPER SALE AND PARTY Saturday, November 21 Times Vary HIGH SPRINGS - The Lanza Gallery & Art Supplies, 45 NW 1st Ave. The Black Saturday Super Sale is from 10am - 5pm and the Annual Black & White Party is from 7pm - 9pm.

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FLORIDA HISTORY PRESENTATION Saturday, November 21 6:00pm – 8:00pm NEWBERRY - Dudley Farm Historic State Park, 18730 W. Newberry Rd. Storytelling around the campfire. Admission is $5 per vehicle up to 8 occupants. Call 352-472-1142. Visit www. friendsofdudleyfarm.org for more information.

HOLIDAY BAZAAR November 20 – November 22 Times vary GAINESVILLE - Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, 100 NE 1st St. Come for fun, music, refreshments and beautiful decorations and gifts for sale. For opening night a donation of $5 is requested. The Bazaar is open from 7pm to 9pm on Friday, 9am to 3pm on Saturday, and 11am to 2pm on Sunday.

FARM TOURS Saturday, November 28 10:00am – 11:00am NEWBERRY - Dudley Farm Historic State Park, 18730 W. Newberry Rd. Take a walk with a ranger or volunteer docent around the farmstead. Learn about pioneer family life and the workings of a historic farm. Regular park entrance fee is $5.00 per vehicle.

ALUMNI PARADE Saturday, November 28 12:00pm – 1:00pm ALACHUA - Main Street. See alumni of the A. L. Mebane High School perform in this free parade. Contact A. L. Mebane High School Alumni Association for more information at 386-462-2539.

ARTWALK Friday, December 4 7:00pm – 10:00pm GAINESVILLE - Downtown. Artwalk Gainesville is a free, monthly self-guided tour that combines visual art, live performance, and events with many galleries, eateries and businesses participating. www. artwalkgainesville.com. Call 352-273-2061.

CHRISTMAS TREE LIGHTING & SANTA VISIT Friday, December 4 6:00pm – 8:00pm ALACHUA - Downtown Main Street Park.

Bring the whole family to enjoy a Christmas Tree lighting and meet with Santa Claus. The event is free. Contact the City of Alachua for more information: 386-418-6100.

Fall Farm & Cane Festival December 5 – 6

9:00am

NEWBERRY - Dudley Farm Historic State Park, 18730 W Newberry Rd. See an original Florida working farm from the post Civil War to the 1940s as they grind sugar cane using mule power and boil it into syrup. Old-time demonstrations include woodworking, blacksmithing, washday and butter churning. The event also features a quilt drawing, children’s games and toys and old-time music.

HOMESTEAD HOLIDAYS Sunday, December 6 12:00pm GAINESVILLE - Historic Haile Homestead, 8500 SW Archer Rd. Stroll through the 1856 plantation home decked out in an array of traditional greenery and Victorian finery, with a railroad theme. See docents in Victorian costume and the Homestead’s famous “Talking Walls.”

Equestrian theme this year! Enjoy live holiday music and sip some hot cider as you browse a selection of home-baked goodies and special

holiday ornaments. Horse-drawn carriage rides.

Proceeds benefit Historic Haile Homestead Inc.

HOLIDAY CONCERT Tuesday, December 8 7:30pm GAINESVILLE - The Thomas Center, 302 NE 6 Ave. The concert in the historical Thomas Center will feature Medieval, Renaissance, Baroque and some modern music associated with the holidays. It will include a solo singer, a small story-scene and audience participation. s

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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 Nadine McGuire Blackbox 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

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Shipwrecked October 23 - November 8 The adventurous Louis de Rougemont invites you to hear his amazing story of bravery, survival and celebrity that left 19th-century England spellbound.

Dare to be whisked away in a story of the high seas, populated by exotic islanders, flying wombats, giant sea turtles and a monstrous man-eating octopus. Shipwrecked examines how far we’re willing to blur the line between fact and fiction in order to leave our mark on the world.

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All Girl Frankenstein October 16 – November 8

ARTY: Ten Ways To Survive a Zombie Apocalypse November 12 - 15

Published nearly 200 years ago, the legend of Frankenstein has long haunted our dreams and imaginations.

Now, just in time for the Halloween season, the Hipp presents the Southeastern premiere of this retelling of the gothic classic Frankenstein featuring a gutsy all-female cast.

The Snow Queen November 27 – December 20 Kai and Gerda are childhood best friends, but when Kai falls under the spell of the wicked Snow Queen, Gerda sets out on magical adventure to rescue him from her evil enchantment.

Full of mystery and fantasy, this delightful new production is a holiday must-see for the entire family.

A Christmas Carol November 28 – December 19 GAINESVILLE - Hippodrome Theatre, 25 SE 2nd Pl. Popular Christmas carols and a twist of contemporary humor makes A Christmas Carol come alive with a delightfully fresh and fast-paced storytelling. The program is back by popular demand for the 38th year at the Hipp.

Halloween may be a particularly dangerous time for zombies, but that doesn’t mean people shouldn’t be vigilant all year long! Join the Acrosstown’s Youthtroupe (ARTY) as they informatively — and hilariously — show you how to survive a zombie apocalypse. Appropriate for everyone, even kids and zombies.

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The Kitchen Witches November 3 – 29 Isobel Lomax and Dolly Biddle are two seasoned cable television cooking show hostesses who have kept their mutual hostility simmering on the front burner for 30 years, ever since Larry dated Isobel but married Dolly. When the chefs are forced to co-host a new show, insults are flung harder than cream pies in a food fight. Dolly’s long-suffering TV-producer son Stephen tries to keep the peace, but it’s a losing battle. One thing’s a winner: As a combination of Martha Stewart and Jerry Springer, the show is a recipe for success that whips up smash ratings! But too many cooks can spoil more than the soup when family and career are on the chopping block. When old secrets are suddenly out of the frying pan and into the fire, will the ladies’ longtime loathing get too hot to handle?

Menopause November 11 With a cast of breast cancer survivors and co-survivors, Menopause The Musical® is partnering with Susan G. Komen® to offer inspiration, sisterhood, and hope. Four women at a lingerie sale have nothing in common but a black lace bra AND memory loss, hot flashes, night sweats, not enough sex, too much sex and more! This hilarious musical parody set to classic tunes from the ‘60s, ‘70s and ‘80s will have you cheering and dancing in the aisles.

Menopause The Musical®: The Survivor Tour® Benefiting Susan G. Komen® is the first of its kind, donating a portion of every ticket sale directly to the ongoing effort to save lives and end breast cancer forever.

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Mary Poppins November 6 - 22 Young Jane and Michael have sent many a nanny packing before Mary Poppins arrives on their doorstep. Using a combination of magic and common sense, she must teach the family how to value each other again. Mary Poppins takes the children on many magical and memorable adventures, but Jane and Michael aren’t the only ones she has a profound effect upon. Even grown-ups can learn a lesson or two from the nanny who advises that “Anything can happen if you let it.” A great family musical!

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“Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter” KATE CLIFFORD LARSON c.2015, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt $27.00 / $35.00 Canada 302 pages

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he King has spoken.

And in pretty much every fairy tale, that’s all it takes for a Happy (or not-so-Happy) Ending: he decrees, and it is so. And in the new book “Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy Daughter” by Kate Clifford Larson, you’ll see how that affected the oldest girl in what many say was America’s Royal Family.

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Nineteen-year-old Rosemary was pulled from that school for her safety, and her stateside return sent her into a tailspin.

By 1941, Joseph Kennedy was searching for new methods of treatment for his daughter, and had considered lobotomy (a radical brain surgery). Family members recommended against it, but she figured her third baby’s birth would he’d been “assured” it would work and be as uneventful as that of her first two so, sometime in early November 1941, children. Alas, the doctor was delayed in without telling his wife or children, he caring for Boston’s Spanish Flu victims authorized the surgery… so the nurse, unauthorized to deliver the Stunned. Absolutely stunned. That child, held the baby in place in the birth was me, as I read this sit-still book. Yes, canal for two excruciating hours.

I was aware that Rosemary lived until By the time little Rosemary Kenrelatively recently, tucked away in smallnedy was a year old, it was obvious that town Wisconsin, but the rest? something was amiss. Compared to her I had no idea… older brothers, “Rosie” was delayed in all That story, however, isn’t all that lies milestones, which her mother blamed on inside “Rosemary: The Hidden Kennedy “gender and temperament.” Still, hopDaughter.” Author Kate Clifford Larson ing her daughter would catch up, Rose also lays out plenty of history, both of vowed to spend more time the family as a whole, and of with Rosemary. the world. She reaches No matter how back to the earliest much parental Kennedy years attention she and, as she pulls had, howus forward, she ever, Rosemary puts into context would never be each phase of a rough-andRosemary’s life, tumble Kenplunging us into nedy. As younger the way things Author Kate Clifford Larson (Photo by David Carmack) siblings were born were early in the and quickly overtook last century. Then, beher both physically and lieve it or not, in Larson’s mentally, it became apparent that hands, this tragic tale culminates she was going to need more than the fam- in an oddly happy ending. ily could offer. Doctors diagnosed her as I couldn’t get enough of this astound“mentally retarded”; she might also have ing book and, especially if you like a suffered from epilepsy. Inwardly, she splash of historical biography in your struggled; outwardly, she was charming scandal, you’ll love it, too. “Rosemary: and fun-loving. Many thought she was The Hidden Kennedy Daughter” is a just “shy.” book I can’t speak enough about. s Desperate for a cure that would never Terri Schlichenmeyer has been reading come, Joseph and Rose Kennedy sent since she was 3 years old and she never goes Rosemary to a succession of schools unanywhere without a book. She lives with her til, in 1938, a good fit was found in Great two dogs and 11,000 books.

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