Inspiring Living your guide to
Summer 2012
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A Publication of Shannondell at Valley Forge
Driving The Blue Ridge Parkway
INSIDE Health & Wellness ..................3 Meadows awarded Excellence Downsizing .............................4 Helpful pre-planning checklist Living ......................................7 Summer Book Club reads Travel ......................................8 2012 Summer Olympics Nostalgia ................................9 Remembering the Willys Jeep Crossword ..............................9 Entertainment .......................10 Shows & exhibits around town Shannondell Shows ..............11 Concerts, musicals and more!
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Shannondell Residents Inspired By Lifelong Learning What do the Hubble, a Shakuhachi, cryptology, Mahjong, non-fiction, acting and President Gerald Ford all have in common? All are among the dozens of classes, workshops and group learning sessions available to residents of Shannondell at Valley Forge over the coming summer months. “We’re always learning something new,” says Mary, a Shannondell resident since 2007. She adds, “Just this morning we had our very lively current events group meeting, where we covered topics ranging from the upcoming presidential election and
Greece’s Euro exit threat to issues with the Facebook IPO. Talk about a spectrum of interests and respective opinions to get you thinking!” And thinking, or the longterm benefits of thinking, is what lifelong learning is all about. Called a “health club for the mind, body and spirit,” the term “lifelong learning” recognizes that learning is not confined to childhood or the classroom. In fact, adult students are now Continued on pg. 2
Reading Your Dog’s Whines And Whimpers As a pet friendly community, Shannondell residents enjoy walking their dogs and letting them run ‘til their hearts’ content in the dog run, adjacent to the resident gardens and horse pastures. Always vying for their owner’s attention, dogs can be a vocal bunch. So what, exactly, are their whines and whimpers trying to tell us? We asked the experts.
If you’ve ever toyed with the idea of driving the entire Blue Ridge Parkway, this is the summer to get your driving gloves out and hit the road … or, make that Parkway. For the first time in many years, the entire stretch of the Blue Ridge (469 miles) will be open. There will be a few construction projects underway, but in all cases one lane will remain open. A quick visit to the National Park Service website (www.nps.gov) lists five projects scheduled over the summer, including mile marker locations. Celebrating its 75th anniversary
Whines –
Produced when the mouth is closed, whines are an effort, usually, for attention. While whines can indicate some level of stress, more than likely, it’s a way to say, “Hey, pay attention to me. I’m hungry, or I’ve got to go outside, or hey, they’re rabbits in See Dogs pg. 6
in 2010, The Blue Ridge is the longest road planned as a single unit in the United States. It’s been called a “museum of the managed American countryside,” offering sweeping vistas and Appalachian heritage from The Great Smoky Mountains National Park to Shenandoah National Park. The product of a series of major public works projects that helped the Appalachian region climb out of the depths of the Great Depression, construction on the Parkway began in 1935 near the North Carolina and Virginia state line. Originally called the “Appalachian Scenic Highway,” the current name was Continued on pg. 8