Shell Point Life January 2016

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MEMORABLE MUSEUM CREATIVITY AT ANY AGE EXHIBITION COMING UP

Expanding My Horizons

By Mary Kay Grimaldi What I enjoy most about writing the variety of stories that fill the pages of Shell Point Life each month is the opportunity to meet such interesting people who expand my horizons. Our residents share details about their experiences and hobbies, randomly mentioning a phrase or topic that immediately intrigues me to Google it to learn more. Such is the case with the features you’ll read in this issue.

Museum marketer Don Adams (no relation to the famous actor who played Agent 86 in the 1960’s situation comedy “Get Smart,” although that is the first reference I found when I searched online) inspired me to investigate high-wheel bicycles, the Brewster chair, and the limo in which JFK was riding when he was assassinated. Don’s definitive PR textbook is also making the rounds in our department.

Marge Lee, who also shared her professional museum background in the story with Don that appears on pages 4-11, helped curate imaginative hubcap artwork and brought The Gardens of Glen Burnie to life through her stories published in a 2003 coffee table book. During one of our many phone calls, I learned Marge was editing a

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book about “pie safes” for a client.

Nancy McDowell walked with me down memory lane as we recalled a variety of musicians from the sixties; learn about folk fiddlers who revived ballads from the Appalachians on pages 30-33. During my research, I revisited the era when artists like The Kingston Trio and Bob Dylan used their lyrics to reflect strong positions on politics, war, and civil rights.

Set your calendar in February 2017 to view the juried exhibition of Shell Point artists at the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center (see artist entry information on pages 12-15), but if you can’t wait that long, plan to attend the resident Art Show & Sale next month, February 19 & 20.

The Village Church is hosting a variety of programs for spiritual growth and inspiration, read about them on pages 40-41. Don’t miss the LifeQuest Health and Wellness Expo at The Village Church on January 12, and make time to attend the resident Gala on January 29.

Thank you to all residents for contributing to the Employee Christmas Fund (see back cover); on behalf of all our staff, it is a pleasure to serve you.

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Shell Point Life is published monthly for the residents of Shell Point Retirement Community.

Editor Mary Kay Grimaldi Director of Marketing & Comm. Rich Cerrina Senior Graphic Designer Wendy Iverson Graphic Designer Kathy Grove Contributors Dawn Boren, Heather Battey, Teri Kollath, Bev Chandley, Ginny Miller-Plaza, Debbie Brewer, Melody Desilets, Katelyn Van Scoy, Robyn Church, Mary Moore, Tom Frackenpohl, Claude Emler, Amanda Kraus, Randy Woods, Karen Chamberlin, David Pavey, Sarah Nadal, Steve Morton, Matt Whelan, Dotty Morrison, Janine Hammond, Norm Miller, Nita DeWeese, Cathy Miskell, Susan Uhleman, Marge Lee, Ruth Deuber, Ann Erickson, Marilynn Fowler, and Peggy Zimmerman Do you have story ideas or photos to share?

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Marge Lee (Lucina) and Don Adams (Junonia) built their careers marketing, curating, and collaborating on a variety of museum exhibitions. Read some of their exploits on pages 4–13.

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“Peace I leave with you; my peace I give you.”

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Hosted by The Legacy Foundation

2016 Shell Point Gala

Celebrating Today

Envisioning Tomorrow

Friday, January 29, at The Village Church Afternoon seating: 2:45 p.m., doors open 2:15 p.m.

Evening seating: 6:45 p.m., doors open 6:15 p.m.

All Shell Point residents are cordially invited to celebrate a year of accomplishments in 2015, then follow along as we “Imagine” what Shell Point will look like down the road. As President Peter Dys recalls 30 years of leadership at Florida’s largest single-site retirement community, we acknowledge

the generosity and vision tied to a mission dedicated to the service of God and the care of His people.

Enjoy decedent desserts, compliments of FineMark National Bank & Trust, and world-class folk singer Elisabeth Von Trapp, who has been performing professionally since childhood. Born and raised

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Expect your Gala invitation to arrive via intra-campus mail.

Questions? Call The Legacy Foundation at 466-8484.

Calling all Shell Point photographers – the 2016 Photo Contest and Show is coming soon, scheduled for March 21 – April 1. This year, the categories have changed somewhat to evolve the contest and challenge photographers.

A new category called “Reflections” has been added. Photographs in this category should emphasize a reflection in water, glass, metal, or other material. Photo Club members showed some creative interpretations of this category at a recent meeting.

One category that has been eliminated is the “All-Time Favorites.” Because this category included everything from kittens to catamaran voyages, the judges often found it difficult to judge fairly.

In the other categories, entrants should be sure that their photos have been taken during the last two years. One of the reasons for this rule is to encourage photographers to continue taking pictures, experimenting, and learning.

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2016 Photo Contest Categories

To spark your visual creativity, the following is a list of all 10 categories for this year’s contest: Abstract; Architecture; Birds, Bees, Bugs, and Butterflies; Other Wildlife; People; Pets; Scenery; Still Life; Travel; and Reflections.

The Juried Show is available to photographers who have won multiple first-place ribbons in recent shows and wish to participate, but not be a part of the competition.

Application and Rules

Applications and rule sheets will be available at either service desk beginning Monday, February 1.

Each photo should be printed on 8x10 photo paper only, put into an envelope with the application for that photo, and turned in at the Island service desk by March 8.

For more information, contact John Ippensen (Royal Bonnet) at 482-4486 or Dotty Morrison (Cellana) at 337-4015.

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Shell Point residents Marge and Don answer the question, “Why do they come?� for museum clients who wish to unravel the mystery of patron preferences.

Thanks to Alliance for the Arts for allowing us to photograph in their space.

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Mysteries of the Museum

By Mary Kay Grimaldi

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the most engaging museum exhibitions you ever experienced. Did you ponder how the museums developed those exhibitions or why they were able to attract such crowds to see them? Shell Point residents Don Adams (Junonia) and Marge Lee (Lucina) have some answers, as each has been instrumental in museum success stories during their long careers in the field.

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Don Adams Writing the Book

Don Adams literally wrote the book on museum marketing.

“Look at your institution from the perspective of people beyond its doors.

These individuals form the constituency on which the survival of your museum – any museum – depends,” wrote Don in his landmark textbook, Museum Public Relations, in 1983, which he nostalgically dedicated to his parents.

The tome is described as “a serious, systematic study not only of the techniques and strategies of public relations, but also of the mindset of the public relations pro-

Lobby of Henry Ford Museum

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fessional working in a cultural setting.” He provides suggestions to strengthen a museum’s relationships with its publics, which include tasks such as researching audience behavior, targeting markets of greatest opportunity, testing exhibit concepts, and creating an engaging visitor experience.

Don began his museum marketing career some 14 years before writing that book. Being in the right place at the right time in 1969, Don leveraged his interest in antique bicycles and PR experience at an Ohio college for a position overseeing marketing and external relations at the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village

in Dearborn, Michigan.

Throughout his subsequent 23-year tenure at that historical complex, it was second in attendance among history museums in North America, surpassed only by the National Museum of American History of the Smithsonian Institution.

While recalling his years at Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, Don cited several highlights: hosting visits by civil rights activist Rosa Parks, movie icon Jimmy Stewart, and astronaut Neil Armstrong; addressing museums from the former Eastern Bloc countries at a conference in Bonn, Germany; receiving the Marketing

DRIVING NOSTALGIA HOME — Peek inside the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village in Dearborn, Michigan, where Don Adams began his museum career.

Greenfield Village, the outdoor living history section of the Henry Ford complex, was dedicated in 1929 and opened to the public in 1933. Nearly 100 historical buildings were moved to the property from their original locations and arranged in a “village” setting.

The museum’s intent is to show how Americans lived and worked since the founding of our country.

Henry Ford Museum visitors can sit in the actual bus Rosa Parks was riding in when she refused to sit in the back. Don curated the presidential vehicles exhibit at Henry Ford Museum taking measures to preserve the dignity of the vehicle in which President Kennedy was riding when he was assassinated.

Classic cars came in any color the customer wanted, as long as it was black, per Henry Ford’s directive; the first Model T’s featuring colors were offered in 1909 – red.

This exhibit showed how the American roadside changed as a result of the automobile.

Excellence Award from the Travel Industry Association of America; and working on the Program Task Force for the 1997 White House Conference on Travel and Tourism.

Don left Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village in 1996 to become director of the new Automotive Hall of Fame Museum, which celebrates the people who have led the industry. It marked the first time the world-wide automotive industry had collaborated on a project of this kind.

In 1999, Don and his wife, Jane, moved to Sanibel Island, where he conducted a museum management consulting practice, moving to Shell Point in 2015. During his consulting career, Don counseled peers at more than 40 museums.

Among his projects in that capacity, Don drew upon his knowledge and passion to curate the automotive collections of the Elliott Museum on Hutchinson Island in Stuart, Florida. There he helped design a

one-of-a-kind robotic parking structure – visitors use a touch screen to select a vehicle of their choice, which then lowers onto a turntable where its history is presented.

Even closer to home, Don facilitated the strategic planning process that led to the privatization of the Edison Ford Estates in Fort Myers, and he collaborated with historians in creating the Captiva History Gallery for the island’s library. continued next page Shell Point Life | January 2016

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Marge Lee From Marketing to Curating

Marge’s story in museum marketing began in 1987 when she was hired to lead the marketing effort for The Saint Louis Art Museum (SLAM) in Missouri. Once there, she quickly found a way to prove her PR savvy.

“A curator was going to have a rare artifact X-rayed at a local hospital to determine its age. I made arrangements with the hospital to deliver the cabinet in an ambulance and carry it on a stretcher to X-ray,” Marge explained. “I then called the local TV stations. A reporter interviewed the curator as she reviewed the X-ray, and the story was covered prominently on that evening’s newscasts.”

When Marge and her husband, David, moved to Washington, D.C., in 1990, Marge became director of marketing for the Baltimore Museum of Art (BMA).

There she developed numerous successful marketing plans, including Monet at the BMA, which doubled the museum’s previous attendance record for an exhibition, and Classical Taste in America: 1800–1840, which garnered 65 million impressions in the print media.

Marge next created and managed the marketing effort for (then) 17 museums and historic sites of the National Trust for Historic Preservation. She began consulting in 1997 when husband David accepted a position in Pennsylvania. When the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley (MSV) in Winchester, Virginia, needed help creating exhibits, Marge stepped in, and the

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Marge specializes in writing label text for museum exhibitions, as her MuseumWorld.com website describes. “The challenge,” she said, “is to craft text that is succinct, powerful, and easily comprehended within a gallery context without sounding ‘dumbed down.’” She often achieved national coverage on such programs as CBS Sunday Morning and Good Morning America with personalized appeals to on-air personalities.

experience was career-changing.

Among the exhibitions she would go on to curate was the 2013 Moveable Feasts: Entertaining at Glen Burnie at MSV, in which visitors strolled through a garden maze to glimpse vignettes of various “moveable feasts” that took place at the site beginning in the 1960s – brunch, afternoon

tea, cocktails, and dinner. Along the way, they folded a dinner napkin into a crown or a peacock at the “Fancy a Fold” station, and raced against time to set a formal table on the “Butler Bamboozle” computer touch-screen.

Marge also curated exhibitions for St. Mary’s College of Maryland and the

Virginia Beach Schools, but particularly enjoyed creating the MSV’s exhibition Second Time Around: The Hubcap as Art (2014–15). It featured the work of 287 professional artists from more than 50 countries, who responded to a challenge to transform a discarded hubcap into art.

Today a 35-object version of the environmentally focused exhibition is touring the country.

“Now, I can’t pass a hubcap lying on the street without wondering what one of those artists would create using it,” Marge said. “The artwork was amazing, including objects that moved, were illuminated, or made sounds.”

GARDEN COMES TO LIFE — Marge Lee’s prose added personality and pizzazz to a classic garden exhibition, inspiring patrons to imagine the charm of a long-ago era.

Marge completed a demanding executive management program for non-profit executives at The School of Business at Harvard University. She authored in 2003 The Gardens of Glen Burnie, The History and Legends of a Virginia Legacy where she curated the Moveable Feasts exhibition (below).

Bringing the Museum to Life

Between them, Don and Marge represent about 75 years of experience working in and with museums. Over that time, they have learned a thing or two about engaging audiences, and they both endorse the same philosophies and strategies.

It is crucial, they believe, to shape programs based on audience needs and interests. “Museums have many different markets, and the key to success, today as 30 years ago, is understanding what each market segment needs and then communicating how your museum can meet that need,” said Marge.

Increasingly, museum audiences are not passive spectators, but enthusiasts who expect and appreciate participatory experiences. “We call this the power of total continued next page Below is text Marge wrote for The Raven, which was featured in the introductory gallery of Second Time Around hubcap art, where it was flanked by videos showing cars being demolished in salvage yards: “The Raven – When her daughter suffered a brain hemorrhage, artist Pattie Young spent hours at her bedside in a rehabilitation center. Her view through the window was a totem of stones and clay. Recalling that experience, when Young returned to her studio she made this totem. The Raven is 624 pounds and nearly 8 feet high. It is an appropriate introduction to this exhibition, as ravens are scavengers.

To represent the sun, Young ground one hubcap to expose its brass undercoat. The wings recall depictions of ancient Egyptian deities that symbolize eternity and protection.”

Above and facing page: Museum of the Shenandoah Valley exhibition Second Time Around: The Hubcap as Art (2014–15)

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immersion,” said Don. “The experience at some museums is like walking into a different world.”

In other words, said these experts, it is crucial to make the museum relevant and bring it to life.

“At the Museum of Tolerance in Los Angeles,” Don cited as an example, “visitors enter, then walk down a hallway hearing screams of threats and insults. At the end, they are faced with two doors – one marked ‘Tolerant’ and the other marked ‘Intolerant.’

But only the ‘Intolerant’ door will open.”

Don and Marge also agree that museums must provide visitors with enough information to make an experience engaging rather than puzzling. Some museum professionals with whom Marge has worked wanted the art to “speak for itself,” without the museum providing any information about it. “But, especially with abstract content, even a little information about the art or artists can make the difference between a perplexing or meaningful experience,” said Marge.

Galleries of Learning

Don pointed to one exhibit at the Henry Ford Museum as an example of clarity. The exhibit was designed to demonstrate how the automobile created new types of roadside businesses, changing the landscape from scenic, rural routes to asphalt ribbons of Holiday Inns and Howard Johnsons, filling stations, and billboards. This was especially true for Florida tourist highways in the 1950s.

“Our visitor surveys confirmed that people didn’t understand the story we were trying to tell; it was too abstract,” he said.

“Today, museums are more attuned to providing ‘free-choice learning,’ an educational experience based on the learner’s own agenda and goals, occurring when the individual has control over what, with whom, and where it is learned.”

Don cited another example. “In one collaboration between an art museum and a medical school, students were challenged to look at individuals’ faces in paintings, teaching the doctors-in-training to see the person and not just medical charts.”

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agree that museums must provide visitors with enough information to make an experience engaging rather than

puzzling.

of the authentic experience. Marge believes that one of the most moving museum installations today, still, is the Vietnam Veterans Memorial in Washington, D.C. “Not because of technology, but because of touch,” she said. “Visitors see more than 58,000 names of lost lives, they can touch each name, and they see the memorials left at the base. It creates a moving connection.”

(Of interest, Sanibel artist Luc Century developed the process of incising the names on the wall.)

“Walking into a place where history was made [such as the 9/11 Memorial in New York City] or sitting on the actual bus at Henry Ford Museum that Rosa Parks was riding when she staged her protest are other ways of having an authentic experience,” Marge said. “Making such connections is what it is all about, and that is as true for creating a museum exhibition as it is for marketing it.”

Final Secrets

What other lessons can we garner from a stroll through the experience galleries of these two museum masterworks? Don and Marge cited two “golden rules” of museum marketing.

Lesson #1: Get ahead of a crisis. Don and Marge are adamant about the need for the museum marketing professional to frankly assess probable visitor reactions and be prepared. Marge, for example, was once required to create a marketing campaign for an exhibition of contemporary art that she knew would likely perplex or even offend many viewers. “So, we

developed the honest advertising slogan, ‘You may love it or hate it, but don’t miss it,’” said Marge, “and it turned out to be a perfect strategy.”

Don agreed, describing the sensitivity required when the Henry Ford Museum was preparing to display the limousine President Kennedy was riding in when he was assassinated. “Even if the exhibit is provocative, you must be honest about what visitors will see,” he said.

Per restrictions, the museum could not display the automobile until the Kennedy children were older than 21. When the time came for its display and anticipating it could elicit emotional responses, Don eschewed fanfare and issued only a simple, dignified announcement that it was on view. A young man arrived early and sat cross-legged on the floor for a while in front of the car, as if in a meditative state. It was the only incident in connection with the iconic reminder of November 22, 1963.

Both Don and Marge have experienced the fact that, sometimes, crisis arrives in the form of forgery.

Don’s example was the “Brewster chair hoax.” In 1970, the president of the Henry Ford Museum stumbled upon what he

Marge is pictured in her promotional cowgirl gear at the news media preview for the 1988 opening of the Frederic Remington art exhibition. The red bandana was included in every press kit.

thought to be a remarkable 17th-century armchair sitting on a Maine Below: The missing third Brewster chair – real or fake? antiques dealer’s porch.

Three massive, thronelike chairs of this type were reportedly used by William Brewster, one of the Pilgrim leaders who landed in Plymouth, Massachusetts, in 1620.

Two chairs had been found, but the third had long been missing. The president immediately Based on a plan developed by a committee chaired by Don, the Baileypurchased the chair, Matthews National Shell Museum will give more emphasis in the future thinking it was the missing to science, including how global warming is affecting mollusks and their shells as well as breakthroughs in the use of shells in medicine. third Brewster chair.

The authenticity of the chair, however, “We feel that if indeed the numbers Bay Maritime Museum in St. Michaels, was called into question in 1977, when The Providence Journal in of the objects were produced that the self- Maryland, and curating/editing the content Rhode Island published a story about a alleged forger says were produced, this of the Elliott Museum in Stuart, Florida. woodworker who had attempted to prove to certainly has implications for museums In 2014, when Marge mentioned to museum curators that he could make a chair and private collectors nationwide,” Marge Don that she and husband, David, were that would fool the experts. Unfortunately said in an article about the incident that about to move into a continuing care retirefor the museum, the chair he made was the appeared in The New York Times. Marge’s ment community in Virginia, Don and his one the museum had purchased. With great case study was recognized for excellence by wife, Jane, then living on Sanibel Island embarrassment, the museum eventually the industry advocate American Alliance and planning a move to Shell Point, offered admitted this folly and keeps the chair as of Museums (AAM). advice: “Check out Shell Point before you Lesson #2: Rely on raves. “We learned do that!” As a result, Marge and David an educational tool about forgeries. that almost three quarters of all our visitors moved to Shell Point that same year. came to the museum because of a referral Both Don and Marge continue to work from a friend,” Don said. His master’s the- with museums today. Don serves on the The Real Deal?

Marge faced a similar situation. In sis was the first effort to explore the role of board of directors of the Bailey-Matthews 1987, it was discovered that prized ceramic word-of-mouth in people’s decisions to visit National Shell Museum, and he also has been involved in a five-year volunteer sculptures in distinguished museum col- a museum.

“Don’s work had a real impact in the project to research and launch a 22-panel lections, thought to date to A.D. 600 to 900, were actually cheap copies made in field,” said Marge, “as it quantified the Heritage Trail across Sanibel Island.

Marge still works full-time as a museum the 1950s by an artist in a Jalapa, Mexico, immense power of word-of-mouth and in workshop. The artist, who claimed that the turn helped change marketing tactics.” consultant and currently is editing a scam was perpetrated by middlemen, said Today, they claim, the power of social media museum catalogue about food safes (storage he was “cautiously proud” that his work marketing is a modern-day demonstration of cabinets with punched tins for ventilation) the same concept, with many museums now of the Shenandoah Valley, one of several could be taken as real. catalogues she has edited during her career.

These fakes found their way into col- employing a social media expert on staff.

She also is now volunteering to assist Shell lections at the Dallas Museum of Art, Point with art-related efforts, such as servMetropolitan Museum of Art in New ing as the architect of the Ageless Creativity York, and The Saint Louis Art Museum.

Parting Words Marge learned that a major publication was It is no accident that these museum exhibition (see the story on page 12).

As parting words, Don and Marge about to break the story nationally. The mavens are together at Shell Point. Having PR response she led on behalf of the three met in 1987 at an AAM function, the agreed that the mystery of the museum museums broke the story first in each of their two became friends over the course of is solved. In fact, they believe, it is really cities, sparing their local media the embar- their careers, and even worked together no mystery at all. Just start with an experassment of being “scooped” and allowing on several marketing and exhibition proj- rience that is educational and engaging, SLAM to feature its new conservation labo- ects, including presenting a marketing skillfully build marketing around visiratory that allowed the curators to discover seminar for the National Trust, conduct- tor needs, and then watch as people flow the truth about the objects. ing a marketing survey for the Chesapeake through the doors. 2 Shell Point Life | January 2016

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Calling All Shell Point Artists

Ageless Creativity

to Spotlight Senior Talent Does creativity decrease as age increases? Certainly not!

In fact, for many, the retirement years provide – at long last – the leisure to explore artistic interests … in some cases, for the first time in their lives. Through new or

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renewed exploration of artistic pursuits, seniors may discover or develop their creative passions and enrich their lives in ways they never dreamed possible.

In doing so, they open the door to the joy of Ageless Creativity.

Water Lilies (Yellow Nirvana), 1920 Claude Monet

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hrough a first-time partnership of Shell Point Retirement Community and the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center (SBDAC), a month-long exhibition titled Ageless Creativity: The Artists of Shell Point featuring the work of jury-selected Shell Point artists will be on display at 2301 First Street in downtown Fort Myers during February 2017.

“The goal of the exhibition is to demonstrate that creativity is neither limited nor defined by age,” said Marge Lee (Lucina), a museum consultant and exhibition interpretive planner who conceived this event.

“This is an opportunity to showcase the vibrancy of this retirement community with its robust amenities for residents to nurture their creative interests and help enrich their lives.”

Sponsored by FineMark National Bank & Trust, the exhibition will open concurrently with ArtFest Fort Myers, a large art fair that typically attracts hundreds of juried exhibiting artists and more than 80,000 visitors each year.

“At FineMark, we believe the arts are an investment in our community, and we are proud to support Shell Point and the artists who call Shell Point home,” said Anna Anna Smith Smith, managing executive at FineMark National Bank & Trust. “We also have a wonderful relationship with the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center and believe this will be an exceptional collaboration. We are excited to be a part of the exhibition as a supporting sponsor.”

A significant public relations effort is planned to promote the exhibition, which represents unique exposure for Shell Point and its talented artists, who will have a chance to introduce their work to a large, fresh audience – and a potential new market for sales.

In addition, awards will be presented, courtesy of The Legacy Foundation at Shell Point, for Best of Show ($500 prize),

“Think of Monet, who was producing art late in life.”

—JIM GRIFFITH

Director’s Choice ($250 prize), and People’s Choice ($250 prize).

Nurturing Culture With a mission to nurture innovation and excellence in the visual and performing arts, SBDAC brings world-renowned local and international artists and performers to Southwest Florida for exhibitions, galas, and performances. Several hundred members support SBDAC, which welcomed more than 100,000 visitors last year.

Run by Florida Arts, Inc., a 501(c)(3) charitable organization, SBDAC was named for its benefactors, the late Sidney Davis and his wife, Berne, who continues to actively support its programs. The center’s entertainment and educational outreach programs benefit local youth and the disadvantaged who may not otherwise have the opportunity or access to experience world-class cultural enrichment at such an intimate level.

Recent exhibitions featured a German artist who combines unconventional elements like tar and coffee in her mixedmedia artwork, a collection of Caribbean oil-on-canvas pieces, a photography exhibit, and several group shows. Visit the center’s website at www.sbdac.com.

In addition to its artistic mission, Florida Arts, Inc., has a 99-year lease with the City of Fort Myers and works to preserve history and restore the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center. The site on which the building now stands was a Native American Calusa Indian settlement hun-

dreds of years ago. The structure itself is a work of art – an impressive example of Neoclassical Revival architecture, with 20-foot ceilings and 10,000 square feet of exhibition space on two floors.

This historic federal building opened in 1933 as a U.S. Post Office, was converted to a courthouse in the 1960s, and later vacated and left in disrepair. Today, the center is impressively renovated with original decorative steel-cased windows, granite flooring, and art nouveau-style chandeliers; ongoing restoration plans include converting the rooftop into a sculpture garden. The building’s open-air loggia contains massive ionic columns made of Florida Keys limestone; its walls are embedded with coral formations and sea shells.

“Our patrons range from school-aged children just recently exposed to the arts to seasoned retirees,” said Jim Griffith, founder and executive director of SBDAC. Jim Griffith “Walking through our galleries, you will meet art novices, collectors, and connoisseurs.”

“The center is a premium gallery in Southwest Florida to show artwork, from large-scale to intricate pieces. As such, this exhibition space provides a brilliant venue to showcase the wide variety of work that is being produced by Shell Point artists.”

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Shell Point Juried Art Exhibition Timeline APRIL 1, 2016: Deadline for online application (no fee required); go to www.shellpoint.net/agelesscreativity WEEK OF JUNE 1, 2016: Jury selections announced.

JULY 1, 2016: Selected artists’ deadline to submit signed agreement with SBDAC.

JANUARY 30, 2017: Artwork delivered to SBDAC, ready to hang or display, including instructions and any special devices required.

FEBRUARY 3, 2017: VIP Exhibition Preview from 1:00–4:00 p.m. for Shell Point artists and residents, courtesy of FineMark National Bank & Trust, including presentation of Best of Show and Director’s Choice awards, prizes courtesy of The Legacy Foundation at Shell Point.

2017 FEBRUARY 3, 2017: Exhibition opens to the public from 6:00–10:00 p.m., concurrent with ArtWalk and ArtFest Fort Myers.

Ageless Creativity will be available for viewing at SBDAC weekdays from 9:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.; general admission is free, but donations are accepted at the door.

FEBRUARY 21, 2017: ArtTalk Tuesday meet the artists from 7:00–9:00 p.m., a celebration closing event and awarding of the People’s Choice prize. Guest tickets cost $5 (free to SBDAC members).

FEBRUARY 22, 2017: Artwork retrieved by artists.

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AGELESS CREATIVITY Continued from page 13

Ageless Exhibition Shell Point artists’ entries for the exhibition will be judged according to artistic merit, creativity, and overall excellence. Jurors will select artwork they deem to provide the most vibrant, engaging, and dynamic exhibition, reflecting artists’ creativity of expression and quality of execution.

Entries will be judged by a panel of three to five distinguished jurors selected

by SBDAC. No resident or staff member of Shell Point will serve on the panel or influence its selections. “Jurors will be selected from our pool of national and international artists, professors, collectors, and gallery directors,” Jim said.

Artwork for Ageless Creativity will be accepted in a wide range of categories and media: painting (oil on canvas; watercolor; pastel); drawing (pen and ink, pencil, charcoal); photography; ceramics; fiber; sculpture (wood, metal, stone, etc.); paper; glass (fused, blown, stained); furniture and decorative items; and a miscellaneous category for all art outside the parameters of these main categories, including artwork constructed of a variety of media.

It is anticipated that multiple artists will be selected in each category, although it is possible that a category may be eliminated if the jurors determine that no entries achieve their standards. All work may be accepted or rejected for display at the discretion of Florida Arts, Inc. The judges also reserve the right to invite any artist(s) to exhibit more than five works in the exhibition.

“Shell Point artists are encouraged to create one or more special pieces just for this exhibition,” Marge said. During the online application process, artists should submit a detailed “concept sketch” along with examples of existing pieces to help jurors visualize the proposed new work.

In discussing Ageless Creativity, both Marge and Jim challenged the misconception that artistic talent diminishes with age.

“The opposite is more often true; genius can find new expression with age,” said Marge, and Jim agreed.

“Think of Monet, who was producing art late in life,” Jim said. “At that point, he was creating for love of the medium. His boundaries were wider, and he was free to explore,

not be confined by market restrictions. The Ageless Creativity exhibition will be a way for Shell Point artists to feel newly inspired and appreciated, to continue to improve their art, and find opportunities to grow.”

There is no size restriction for artwork in this exhibition. “The magnitude of our exhibit space gives artists an opportunity to display on a scale not always available.

With 20-foot ceilings and 8,000 square feet in the Grand Atrium Gallery, artists can be as expressive as they wish,” said Devon Parker, assistant director at SBDAC.

Application Process “We realize that artists devote a lot of effort to an exhibit, so our staff will help with all aspects of curation and installation. We want to make it as easy as possible with every show so artists are happy to participate,” Devon said. “Artists especially enjoy ArtTalk Tuesday when they get a chance to describe the materials and conception of their work, and have a dialogue with patrons.”

Any resident artist interested in participating should review the call for entries, available at either service desk, or go to shellpoint.net/agelesscreativity. Then, follow the link where additional information is provided to complete the online application.

Each artist may submit up to five entries for inclusion in the exhibition, providing one image for each artwork submitted. Image files may not exceed 500KB or 800 pixels; the file format must be JPEG. For each artwork, artists must include: title of work, artist name, medium, dimensions, approximate weight, and sales price (if applicable).

Artists also must submit a summary of their background (250 words maximum), as well as an artist’s statement (also 250 words or less) summarizing their artistic approach and providing any information about their submission(s) that they wish to share.

Two-dimensional artwork, such as paintings and photographs, should be at least 16” x 20” in size, ready to hang (including instructions, specifically for abstract or triptych works).

All artists will be notified of the results of the jury process the first week of June 2016. All artists selected for inclusion in the exhibition must then sign and submit a standard artist agreement to SBDAC by July 1, 2016.

Artists may place a sales price on their works, if they wish, although all works must

remain in the exhibition through February 21, 2017, even if sold during the show. All sales that take place during the exhibition are subject to a 40% commission, which is typical for gallery exhibits of this nature; artists should price their works accordingly. SBDAC will manage the sale of all artworks sold during the exhibition, including sales tax.

SBDAC assumes no financial liability for artworks in the exhibition. Artists who display their works in the exhibition should insure it for the full sales price while the pieces are in the possession of SBDAC.

Questions?

Attend an Info Session on Jan. 22 Shell Point artists who are interested in applying for inclusion in the Ageless Creativity exhibition won’t want to miss the information session to be held on Friday, January 22, at 10:15 a.m. in the Social Center on The Island.

Exhibition planner Marge Lee (Lucina) along with Jim Griffith and Devon Parker, executive director and assistant director, respectively, of the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center (SBDAC), will be on hand to talk about SBDAC and the exhibition, and walk you step-by-step through the online application process. Ample time will be provided to answer your questions.

Artists who are interested in participating in Ageless Creativity and have general questions about the exhibition may contact Marge at (239) 437-6064.

Artistic Expressions Shell Point Art Show & Sale

February 19-20, 2016 Island Park at Shell Point Anxious to catch a glimpse of the creativity by talented Shell Point artists?

Don’t miss the Shell Point Art Show & Sale coming up next month, right here at Shell Point.

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2015-2016 Concert Series Kick Off the New Year in Musical Style

SOUTHWEST FLORIDA SYMPHONY SERIES

DISCOVERY CONCERT: BEETHOVEN’S EROICA THURSDAY, JANUARY 14, 7:30 P.M. | THE VILLAGE CHURCH | TICKETS: $25

Conductor Leif Bjaland

What happens when our heroes betray us and fall from the pedestal on which we’ve placed them? If you’re Ludwig van Beethoven and your hero is Napoleon Bonaparte, you slash his name from the title page of your new symphony, and you change the dedication to read: “To the memory of a great man.”

But that’s not the whole story … Beethoven’s Eroica is as much about musical revolution as it is about “Liberté, Egalité, Fraternité.”

Conductor Leif Bjaland is one of the most dynamic and exciting American conductors of today. He served as the artistic director/conductor of the Sarasota Orchestra when it experienced

unprecedented growth. Bjaland is currently the music director of the Waterbury Symphony in Connecticut where he has received enormous enthusiasm and critical praise for his performances and imaginative programming.

Bjaland made his debut at the 2003 Ravinia Festival conducting the Chicago Symphony Orchestra in a program entitled “Bernstein on Broadway,” which involved soloists, chorus, and dancers. He also conducted the Florida Grand Opera for three productions in four years.

Bjaland received accolades when he gave the world premiere concert performance of George Chadwick’s opera “The Padrone.”

CONCERTS & CONVERSATIONS SERIES

ASHU: SAXOPHONIST SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 7 P.M. | GRAND CYPRESS ROOM/WDL | TICKETS: $25 Ashu has established an extraordinary ability to communicate with audiences around the world through his charismatic and emotive performance style. While his virtuosity continues to thrill listeners, his artistry reaches beyond, demonstrating a unique personality and musical voice. He has repeatedly defied conventions by winning major international competitions traditionally won by pianists and violinists.

While most people have never heard the saxophone in concert music, Ashu has begun to change this. “It’s an incredible instrument,” he said. “It can play with such emotional intensity, sing like a voice, and effortlessly project in the largest of halls. It’s capable of a lot of really beautiful things.”

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Hailed by fans and audiences around the globe for his engaging stage presence, critics raved that he is “as much fun to watch as to listen to” (Chicago Tribune). With the unique ability to captivate general as well as classical audiences, Ashu has shown that the concert saxophone can reach beyond stylistic categorization to a diversity of people.

Ashu was born and raised in California and began playing the saxophone at age 10.

Since then, solo performances have taken Ashu throughout the world. He tours regularly with renowned orchestras across the U.S. and Europe, including the Vienna Chamber Orchestra and Metropolitan Orchestra of Lisbon, to venues as diverse as Carnegie Hall and Vienna Konzerthaus.

Join fellow fans of the arts with a variety of musical performances designed to appeal to every taste.

FINE & PERFORMING ARTS SERIES

THE DUKE ELLINGTON ORCHESTRA MONDAY, FEBRUARY 1, 7:30 P.M. | THE VILLAGE CHURCH | TICKETS: $35 Duke Ellington called his music “American music” rather than jazz, and described those who impressed him as “beyond category.”

He remains one of the most influential figures in jazz, if not in all American music.

As both a composer and a band leader, Ellington’s reputation has increased since his death, with his signature music often becoming best-sellers.

Recognition of his work includes a special award citation from the Pulitzer Prize Board.

Duke Ellington influenced millions of people both around the world and at home.

He gave American music its own sound for the first time. In his 50-year career, he played more than 20,000 performances in Europe, Latin America, the Middle East, and Asia. His legacy continues to live on

and will endure for years to come.

Duke Ellington’s popular compositions set the bar for generations of brilliant jazz, pop, theatre, and soundtrack composers. He is best remembered for the 3,000+ songs he composed during his lifetime, and amazingly he was the most creative while he was on the road, when he wrote his most famous

(NOTE CHANGE OF DATE, PREVIOUSLY SCHEDULED FOR JANUARY 25)

piece, “Mood Indigo” which brought him worldwide fame.

The Duke Ellington Orchestra has been performing internationally for the past 88 years under the guidance of three generations of the Ellington family. Duke’s son, Mercer Ellington, led the band for 22 years, touring and recording the orchestra until his death in 1996.

Then Mercer’s youngest son, Paul Mercer Ellington, took up the baton to lead the orchestra and preserve the music and legacy of his grandfather, the great Duke Ellington.

Tickets can be purchased at either service desk, by calling (239) 454-2067, or online at www.shellpoint.org/concerts.

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New Classes, New Programs, New Presentations

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For 40 years, Jim Nathan has led Lee Memorial Health System to become one of Florida’s largest healthcare systems.

Join him on Wednesday, January 13, at 10:15 a.m. in The Village Church as he discusses the direction that healthcare is taking in Southwest Florida and how it will affect you. Learn about the new Golisano’s Children’s Hospital and the importance of this project as it relates to access for healthcare in the adult population of Southwest Florida. Light refreshments will follow.

Wellness Specialty Classes

If fitness is a LifeQuest goal of yours for 2016, you will want to take part in the Senior Fitness Test (SFT). It is a simple, easy-to-use series of test items that assess the functional fitness of older adults. The test describes easy-to-understand and effective tests to measure aerobic fitness, strength, and flexibility. The SFT will be conducted in January, and you have the option to be re-tested in July to compare results. For more information about the SFT, contact Michelle Smith, fitness supervisor, at 4542107, or michellesmith@shellpoint.org.

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Looking for better health? Happiness?

Peace of mind? Try T’ai Chi Chih Session 1 with Certified Instructor Bev Chandley.

It is a gentle practice often referred to as “joy through movement.” Those who practice T’ai Chi Chih report improvements in balance, sleep patterns, muscle tone, blood pressure levels, patience, weight control, energy levels, and sense of joy. Class is held on Tuesdays, starting January 5, for nine weeks. Cost is $45 –

sign-up now!

If you’re looking for something fun and active to do outside, go beyond traditional fitness with Trail Walking with Fitness Coordinator Melanie Brod. This walking exercise class groups the health benefits of strength training and cardiovascular exercise as you walk around The Island. This is a Level 2 class held on Wednesday, January 13, at 9:00 a.m. Get outside and get moving!

The State of Healthcare in Southwest Florida January 13 • 10:15 a.m./Village Church Jim Nathan, CEO of Lee Memorial Health System, will discuss the new $140 million medical campus in South Lee County, and The Shipley Cardiothoracic Center, a new initiative for innovation, education, and research for heart and vascular health.

Shell Point as Your Resource Join Registered Dietitian Jennifer Vargo for this healthy presentation that focuses on three areas of nutrition that can truly promote wellness, if done the right way. Sign up for this informative class, Improve Your Health – Avoid These Three Nutritional Errors, held on Friday, January 8, at 1:00 p.m. in the Grand Cypress Room in The Woodlands.

CapTel is a free service that shows written captions of everything a caller says over the phone, helping people stay connected to family, friends, and services even if they have difficulty hearing. The CapTel Captioned Telephone presentation will be held on Thursday, January 14, at 2:15 p.m. in the Social Center on The Learn about the Island.

“CapTel Captioned TeleWhat is The phone” and how this Skinny on Fat? device can improve the clarity of phone calls on Would all of our Thursday, January 14. weight-loss problems be solved if we just eliminated fat from our diets?

Unfortunately, it’s not that simple. We actually need fats – can’t live without them, in fact! Join Wellness Coach Maria Roelle

Join Wellness Coach Maria Roelle on Monday, January 18 for “The Skinny on Fat.”

to learn more. This great presentation is on Monday, January 18, at 2:15 p.m. in the Social Center. Maria will talk about how to find hidden fats, and what fats are actually good or bad for you.

Your Medical Community

Diabetes Outpatient Coordinator Sharon Tilbe, RD, CDE, from Lee Health Solutions will discuss why the names of diabetes medications are so difficult to pronounce, and if and how new diabetes medications differ from older options. “I Can’t Even Say It!” The Alphabet Soup

of Diabetes Medication will take place on Tuesday, January 19, at 1:00 p.m. in the Oak Room.

Dr. David Eichten, DO, will be here on Friday, January 22, at 10:00 a.m. in the Grand Cypress Room in The Woodlands to discuss the latest in total knee replacement, including saving the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), which is normally cut out during total knee replacement surgery.

Sign up now for the program: Save the Ligaments – Total Knee Replacement.

On Thursday, January 28, Shelly Rogerson from Beltone Hearing will discuss Hearing Aid Expectations. Acquiring hearing aids is not as simple as going to a store and purchasing a product. It’s important to establish reasonable expectations from these highly sophisticated, miniature devices. Learn tips to improve overall success with hearing aids and other useful information. The presentation is at 10:15 a.m. in the Social Center.

Tree Lighting Tradition Entertains Seniors & Young at Heart

Katelyn Van Scoy (Activities Coordinator) with Dr. Nathan Sheckman at the tree lighting event.

Kicking off the holiday season in style, one of Shell Point’s most senior residents traditionally has the honor of pulling the switch to light the Christmas tree for display through the start of the New Year. At the December 3 event, Dr. Nathan Sheckman (Rosemont), age 103, accomplished this plan with style.

A dentist formerly practicing in Manhattan, New York, for more than 40 years, he and his wife Ruth (who has since passed away) have two sons – a

physician and an architect, who both graduated from Columbia University.

Nathan enjoys audio books and world politics, and challenged the “captive” audience to live by the “golden rule” during the coming year.

The Tree Lighting Ceremony and Shell Point Singers holiday concert were located in The Village Church due to inclement weather, but spirits were high as familiar carols encouraged the audience to join in with gusto.

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This upbeat, touching, and hilarious comedy is about an Italian family whose strong values are a stark contrast to the morals of today.

Angela, the granddaughter, played by Ann Erickson (Lucina), the only cast character who didn’t speak with an accent, was moving away from her family to advance her career, despite their strong objections and humorous traditions.

Thinking it might sway her differently, Angela’s maternal grandparents, played by Phil Hilton (Lakewood) and Kate Sullivan (Eagles Preserve), and paternal grandparents, played by Lynn Wheaton (Junonia) and Marian Davey (Junonia), introduce her to a “hopeful intended” – Timothy, played

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“Family is what pulled this performance together,” said Ruth Deuber (Periwinkle). “The idea that they all lived so closely in the same town and ate meals together doesn’t always happen in today’s world. The audience reacted to both the laughter and the tears. They said it was SPOT’s best performance ever.”

Receiving a congratulatory bouquet of three dozen, multi-colored roses from Shell Point, Ruth announced this was her last SPOT role as group leader after a decade on stage. “The cast gave 100% to this production; it was a pleasure to be the director of this fine group,” she said. “We were actually a family by the time it was over, especially during the ‘afterglow’ party as we reminisced about the play.”

For the past decade, Ruth Deuber has shared her talents and vision to direct and perform Shell Point’s Own Theater (SPOT) performances, bringing a range of emotions to the stage for all to enjoy.

Watch for details about an upcoming “Evening at Play-Reader’s Café” scheduled for March 21 in the Social Center.

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adventure – learning a skill that As we age, we may was both fun and adventurous. become reluctant to try Paul confessed that he had just new things. Some people one previous ride on a motorcycle are set in their ways or uncomin Chicago many years ago. In fortable trying a certain food, that case, the motorcycle took a hobby, or exercise routine that bad turn and spun around, leaving they aren’t used to. him a bit nervous to say the least.

While it’s good to know “That was my first and last time on what you do and do not like, a motorcycle,” he joked. it’s important to focus on With his 86th birthday comthe many positive benefits of ing up in a month, Paul continues trying something new. Just to travel, keep up with hobbies ask resident Paul Peterson such as choir, stamp collecting, (Rosemont). This avid basePaul Peterson tested the trails as a passenger of a and the concert committee; and ball and hockey fan, world Quad ATV, then took common sense along on his solo spin stays regimented on his fitness routraveler, and fitness enthusiast for a first-ever experience at the age of 85. tine. The couple moved to Shell just rode a Quad All-Terrain Point in 2001 and rarely miss the Vehicle (ATV) for the first 8:00 a.m. fitness class unless they time at the age of 85. Talk Paul decided to take it for a spin on his own. are out of town. “They have been loyally about a LifeQuest experience!

This past summer, Paul took the leap He jumped on and drove over rocks, roots, taking my class, always on time and ready after being encouraged by his niece and logs, and water through trails in the woods to go,” Michelle Smith said.

One year, Paul scored ‘above avernephew. Initially he rode as passenger around the farm, which was just north of with his nephew driving, and confessed, Grand Rapids, Michigan, where his wife age’ on all Senior Fit Test segments, and “It was a bit scary, and I held on for dear Carolyn was born and raised. “He was Carolyn framed his result sheet to show his life. But he slowly got me accustomed to thrilled to do something new at his age,” doctor as proof. As he continues meeting his LifeQuest goals, he claims he may even Carolyn declared with pleasure. the quad.”

They both looked at this as a new try quad riding again!

After “testing his wheels” on the back,

LifeQuest Discussion Group: Community/Social

Telling Your Life Story Saturday, January 23, 10-11 a.m.

Grand Cypress Room/WDL Appreciate the richness of your life, the people who are important to you, and the experiences that influenced who you are today. Each of us has gathered a lifetime of memories, of dreams and lessons we’ve learned. Though they may be helpful and interesting to many, these stories some-

times are locked away, begging to be revealed.

Join Mary Kay Grimaldi, manager of Marketing and Communications and Shell Point Life editor, for a workshop to learn how to gather recollections of special moments, inspiring you to capture them to share with loved ones.

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For the Love of Learning Join this weekly opportunity to explore the use of our fascinating, and sometimes infuriating, English language with likeminded wordies. Anatomy of Words (FLL01) takes place every Monday beginning January 11.

The Alpha Course (FLL02), presented by The Village Church, begins on Tuesday, January 12, and provides 10 sessions of opportunity for spiritual study. Join them each week to discuss the basics of the Christian faith for members of a faith community as well as those who are uncertain of their beliefs or want to grow in their faith.

Herb Sklar (Eagles Preserve) has developed yet another cutting-edge course for artistic residents. Together with George Waters (Palm Acres), they will teach about the tools needed to use your smartphone for creating quality videos. Smartphone Videography (FLL03) will run for four Wednesdays beginning January 13.

Intermediate Bridge (FLL04) will once again be offered throughout the semester by our favorite Bridge instructor Susan Willoughby. The first session will begin on Wednesday, January 13.

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A Salute to Shakespeare 2016, session one of seven (Introduction, FLL05), takes place on Thursday, January 14, with Ray Boyce (Rosemont).

Maestro Nir Kabaretti will teach a class on Symphonic Folklore (FLL06) on Tuesday, January 19, prior to his conducting the Southwest Florida Symphony concert, “Symphonic Folklore: Mendelssohn, De Falla, Copland,” to be held on February 4 at Shell Point.

Before the dawn of written language, history and literature were passed from person to person and generation to generation through music as well as the spoken word. In this presentation, Kabaretti will share how passing of history and literature is typified in the study of the folklore tradition.

Professor Adrian Kerr will move his popular Tuesday morning courses on ancient history to late afternoons on Thursdays this semester, with a couple of Saturdays interspersed. The Viking Age and Its Impact on Today (FLL07) takes place on Thursday, January 21. This new class begins with the fall of Rome.

The AARP Smart Driver Course (FLL08) will be offered on Monday, January 25, by Mary Richard (Sand Dollar). We are pleased to offer this program here in our own community, and more pleased that one of our own residents is the AARP presenter.

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the topic of his amazing series on Russia Under the Tzars, originally presented during the 2014 fall semester. On Tuesday, January 26, he will provide a visual treat as we Visit Six Russian Cities (FLL09).

Professor Kerr will present The Lost World of Atlantis – Did It Exist? (FLL10) on Thursday, January 28. Recent archaeological discoveries have shed fascinating light on the destruction of Atlantis and other related historical events, including links with Mycenae and the siege of Troy.

Legacy Foundation Top 10 Estate Planning Mistakes: “How to Avoid Frustrating Your Family and Heirs” (LS01) will be provided by The

Legacy Foundation on Wednesday, January 20. Attorneys Craig Hersch and Michael B. Hill with Sheppard, Brett, Stewart, Hersch, Kinsey and Hill, PA, will share their expertise.

Academy on the Go On Monday, January 11, resident bird expert Dr. Iver Brook (Lucina) is our guide as we travel to Bunche Beach and Sanibel Island to explore the migrating birds that visit our local shoreline each winter during Exploring Florida’s Real “Snowbirds” (OTG01).

Our next educational field trip takes us to Broadsides: “Poetry Off the Shelf” (OTG02) on Monday, January 25, at Alliance for the Arts in Fort Myers.

Broadsides is an art form combining images and the written word. The exhibit includes 15 poems and 15 artist posters.

Professor Adrian Kerr will present The Lost World of Atlantis – Did It Exist? on January 28.

If you have ever wanted to write your memoirs, and you want to do it using a computer, Writing Your Memoirs on the Computer (CC02) is the class for you, held on five Tuesdays starting January 12.

Three Lakewood residents combine their talents – Marty Gibson, a seasoned memThe Apple iPad/iPhone/Mac Free oirs instructor; Lucille Peterson, a knowlWalk-in Clinic (T3-04) will take place edgeable computer instructor; and Richard every Friday afternoon this semester beginNelson, who will help by adding pictures, ning Friday, January 15. Helpful resident clip art, and graphics. volunteer assistants will join Academy Making Word Work for You instructors Penny Modrich (Nautilus) (CC03) will teach you how to creand Bob Jakubiec (Lucina) in welcomate, edit, format, print, and save ing residents one-on-one with a questext documents or copy them to tion or problem. email. Join instructor Russ Kraay In addition to the clinic, Penny (Oakmont) on four Tuesdays beginModrich (Nautilus) will be teaching ning January 12. two iPad classes in January. Apple Al Kaplan (Oakmont) shares iPad: Why Do I Need One? Will It the similarity between your comReplace My PC? (T3-01) on Monday, puter’s hard drive and the fourJanuary 11, will help you decide if the drawer file cabinet in your office. iPad is what you are looking for.

In Organize Your Files and On two Mondays, January 18 and Bruce Findley (Sundial) will present The New Apple TV: Start Shredding (CC04) on two 25, Penny will teach Apple iPad: The Beginning of the “Future TV” on January 21.

Wednesdays, January 20 and 27, he What Are the Basics? (T3-05). This will teach you the tools available on class will get you started on your new your computer to make folders and Apple iPad tablet in two complete sesorganize your files. sions to learn the basics then start to use Larry Brock (Eagles Preserve) begins a and enjoy it. series of 10 Wednesday classes on January Bruce Findley (Sundial) will teach a series of classes using the Apple iPhone Bob Jakubiec (Lucina) teaches Basic 27 for Google Workshops (CC05). The to share a dozen important lessons in five Mac Laptop (CC01) on three Mondays first session is geared for new users of classes throughout the semester. Apple beginning January 11. Take this class to android tablets and smartphones, focusing iPhone: Setup & Basics (T3-02A) takes build your basic knowledge of the OSX on the basic functions to get you started place on four Tuesdays, beginning January 12. operating system and learn how to custom- using your device.

Bruce also teaches The New Apple ize your laptop.

T3—Technology Today & Tomorrow

TV: The Beginning of the “Future TV” (T3-03) on Thursday, January 21. The new Apple TV is not a TV, but rather a small black box that connects to your HDTV; it offers many new entertainment functions you couldn’t do before.

On three Thursdays beginning January 28, Bruce will teach Apple iPhone: All About Pictures (T3-06) to highlight the photo capabilities of the iPhone.

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www.shellpoint.net/events To include a listing for an upcoming event or activity, please contact Heather Battey, Resort Services and Wellness manager, at 454-2152, or email: heatherbattey@shellpoint.org

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Social Center/IS This series will continue featuring big cities of the USA! Have you ever traveled to the Big Apple? Do you have family there?

Interested in seeing the Statue of Liberty? Come join your Shell Point friends and neighbors for a time of story-sharing and socializing. Light refreshments will be served.

Photo Gallery Display January 7 – February 11 Tuesdays & Thursdays 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m.

Shell Point Photo Gallery & Studio Capturing My World is the title of Dotty Morrison’s (Cellana) show, which will include birds, people, and landscapes. Don’t miss this unique collection of works!

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Social Center/IS Interested in photography? Join the Photo Club for its first meeting of 2016 to meet other Shell Point photographers. The Critics’ Wall challenge for January is “people.” Find an interesting group or individual, and get creative! Bring an 8x10 print to share with club members.

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shops. View the lovely homes in historic old town, Crayton Cove, Cambier Park, Third Street South, and the famous Naples Municipal Beach & Fishing Pier. You must be physically fit and able to walk either three or six miles. Call Jerry Bishop at 8225608 to sign up.

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Butterfly Garden/IS Join us as we celebrate the generous gifts of benevolence bestowed upon the Butterfly Garden. From completion of the wheelchair-accessible walkway and viewing area, to the Butterfly Bed & Breakfast screen room, donations have been instrumental in creating this sanctuary of life. Light refreshments will be enjoyed at this dedication ceremony.

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Grand Cypress Room/WDL Started in 1982, this young group of talented dancers has performed in many shows and parades, winning numerous first-place trophies and awards for their dazzling performances. Space is limited.

Italian Lunch Outing: DeRomo’s in Bonita Springs

Saturday, January 9 10:15 a.m. Island 10:25 a.m. Woodlands 10:35 a.m. Eagles Preserve/EST (1:45 p.m. approximate return) Cost: $7 (lunch on your own) DeRomo’s is not only an Italian restaurant earning a great reputation, it is also a gourmet market.

You may be taking home more than just leftovers from this lunch outing. DeRomo’s has an in-house pasta factory where all their pasta is passionately hand-crafted. Lunch menu items typically run between $9– $19. Specially requested by residents.

Saturday DVD: He Named Me Malala (2015)

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Saturday, January 9 8:00 a.m.

Administration Courtyard/IS Join the Walking Club as they visit Naples.

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Social Center/IS The Village Church will present the movie The War Room, which first aired in August 2015. Tony and Elizabeth have it all – good jobs, a beautiful daughter, and their dream home.

Appearances can be deceiving, however, as Tony is flirting with temptation. Elizabeth becomes increasingly bitter, crumbling under the strain. Their lives take an unexpected turn for the better when Elizabeth meets her new client, Miss Clara, who encourages the couple to establish a “war room” and battle plan for prayer. Will they find happiness through prayer?

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Saturday, January 9 2:00 p.m. & 7:00 p.m.

Grand Cypress Room/WDL This documentary is sweeping the nation with its look at the events leading up to the Taliban’s attack on Pakistani schoolgirl, Malala Yousafzai.

The attack on her life was a result of her bold and outspoken stance on girls’ education.

This true story also shows the aftermath of the attack and how it changed her life forever. You won’t want to miss this real and moving story.

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Friday, January 15 8:30 a.m. Island 8:40 a.m. Woodlands 8:50 a.m. Eagles Preserve/EST (3:00 p.m. approximate return) Cost: $16 (ice cream on your own) A favorite outing for many residents, beach day gets us all out in the sun, shade, and surf. The group will head to Delnor-Wiggins Pass State Park in Naples for fun, food, and friendship. Bring your beach togs, supplies, and maybe a beach chair. A picnic lunch will be served, and a traditional stop for ice cream will be included on the trip back to Shell Point.

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Palm Beach Atlantic University Orchestra

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Monday, January 18 3:00 p.m.

Island Park/IS Fifteen students from Palm Beach Atlantic University will be performing classical and modern works of music in the shade at the park. This ensemble is committed to the finest standard repertoire available, including works by Bach, Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, Mendelssohn, Dvorak, and more! It also includes contemporary American music, such as Ives, Copland, Gershwin, Corigliano, Ruggles, Hovhaness, and Diamond. Don’t miss this unique opportunity to hear these young musicians.

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Monday, January 18 4:30 p.m. Island 4:40 p.m. Woodlands 4:50 p.m. Eagles Preserve/EST (8:00 p.m. approximate return) Cost: $7 (dinner on your own) 26

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The Monkey Bar and Steakhouse strongly stands by its mission to serve quality food in a fun environment at affordable prices. Since starting operations in 2006, it has grown to become the best steakhouse in Cape Coral, as awarded by Cape Coral Breeze. With both indoor and outdoor seating, the décor is fun and funky. Whether you chose “The Big Monkey” pork chop, the Panko snapper, or the ribeye steak, you can be assured the chef will prepare your food with great care and skill. Most menu items priced $8–$22.

Computer Club Meeting

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Thursday, January 21 2:15 p.m.

Manatee Room/IS Over 16 years, Mike Peterson and Computer Medics have completed more than 30,000 calls for computer service.

Frequently, the call is about a computer problem that is difficult to describe.

To diagnose your computer issues, a technician may need to know your computer model and what kind of operating system you have.

Mike will discuss at least 25 items such as these that technicians often ask customers when they call for service.

Ageless Creativity Exhibition: Information Session

Dinner in Cape Coral: The Monkey Bar and Steakhouse

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Friday, January 22 10:15 a.m.

Social Center/IS Shell Point artists who are interested in applying for the Ageless Creativity juried exhibition won’t want to miss this information session. Exhibition planner Marge Lee (Lucina), along with Jim Griffith and Devon Parker, executive director and assistant director, respectively, of the Sidney & Berne Davis Art Center (SBDAC), will be on hand to talk about SBDAC and the

exhibition, including walking you stepby-step through the online application.

Ample time will be provided to answer your questions. (See the story on page 12.)

Organ Concert with Ron Carter

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Friday, January 22 5:30 p.m. Hors d’oeuvres 6:30 p.m. Concert Woodlands Commons Lobby (2nd Floor) Ronald Carter, an American Theatre Organ Society (ATOS) member and on the Board of Directors for the Atlanta Chapter, has presented numerous theatre organ concerts and silent film accompaniments throughout the Southeast United States.

He is a graduate of Georgia State University, and recently retired as a Commander with the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, with more than 38 years of public law enforcement experience. He has served four churches as organist and music director over the last 40 years, currently working at the Hiram First United Methodist Church. Join us for a relaxing evening as you listen to this seasoned organist perform.

Sign-up required for this activity. Call Island (454-2282) or Woodlands (454-2054)

Sunday Matinee: The Great Train Robbery (1979)

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Sunday, January 24 2:00 p.m.

Grand Cypress Room/WDL Edward Pierce (Sean Connery) is a master thief of the Victorian era who’s never found a heist he didn’t like. For his next mission, he plans something that has never been done before: to rob a moving train.

Working with a master safecracker (Donald Sutherland) and a seductive woman (Lesley-Anne Down), Pierce devises an incredibly complex plan to break into the train’s safe and steal thousands of dollars in gold.

Library Book Talk

Special event bus will be running

Discussion and refreshments will conclude the afternoon.

Movie Night: Witness for the Prosecution (1957)

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Tuesday, January 26 6:45 p.m.

Social Center/IS Tyrone Power, Marlene Dietrich, and Charles Laughton star in this brilliant courtroom drama that left audiences reeling from its surprising twists and shocking climax. This splendid, six-time Oscarnominated classic continues to keep movie lovers riveted until the very end. When a wealthy widow is found murdered, her married suitor, Leonard Vole (Power), is accused of the crime. Vole’s only hope for acquittal is the testimony of his wife (Dietrich) … but his airtight alibi shatters when she reveals some shocking secrets of her own!

Walking up and down stairs

Fish House Marina (prices range $6–$16), you will discover what fresh fish from the Gulf really tastes like, then enjoy a heavenly morsel of fudge at the CW Fudge Factory across the bridge. *There will be substantial walking on uneven surfaces and standing for this tour, so wear good walking shoes. *Not recommended for those with balance or walking difficulties. *Be sure to bring sun/weather protection.

Aviation Club presents Drones: Unmanned Aircraft

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Tuesday, January 26 2:15 p.m.

Social Center/IS Ruth Deuber (Periwinkle) will be reviewing two timely books. The first, written for the younger generation, is by Linda Sue Park entitled A Long Walk to the Water. It tells the story of two 11-year-olds in Sudan: Mya, who walks eight hours a day to fetch water for her family; and “lost boy” Salva, who is searching Africa on foot for family and safety. Ruth will also review the best seller I Am Malala, written by the young girl Malala Yousafzai who stood up for girls’ education in Pakistan and was shot by the Taliban.

Walking required

Flavors of Matlacha Tour

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Wednesday, January 27 7:45 a.m. Island 8:00 a.m. Woodlands 8:15 a.m. Eagles Preserve/EST (2:45 p.m. approximate return) Cost: $24 (lunch on your own) This delightful historical, public art, ecological, and culinary adventure combines Matlacha’s salty history with the signature tastes of this cracker fishing village, turned artist colony. The tour begins at the Leoma Lovegrove Gallery and Gardens. Next, for lunch at the quintessential Matlacha Olde

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Thursday, January 28 1:15 p.m.

Osprey Room/IS (demonstration on The Island beach) Come hear about one of the hottest topics in aviation today – drones, unmanned aircraft that are guided remotely. Lance Schreiber, Technology educator at Florida SouthWestern Collegiate High School and sponsor of the FSWC Drone Academy, will join us via video, along with student team members, to talk about their educational outreach and involvement with drones. They will be answering questions about the current and future applications of this technology, and offering education on the rules and regulations that govern their use. Then, Bob Gossen from the Cape Coral Seahawks (a member of the Academy of Model Aeronautics) will tell about his work with drones and perform a live flight demonstration. The finale will be a live streaming video from a quadcopter drone.

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Support Groups

Hearing Enrichment Group Wednesday, January 27 1:15 p.m.

Manatee Room/IS Poor hearing can affect many aspects of one’s life. Stephanie Devlin, case manager, will be facilitating this group that will help residents cope with such issues. She can be reached at 454-8246. Friends and family are also encouraged to attend.

Memory Care Support Groups Alcoholics Anonymous Thursdays, January 7, 14, 21, and 28 4:30 p.m.

Sabal Room/WDL This is a fellowship of those who share their experience, strength, and hope with each other to solve their common problem and help others recover from alcoholism. This “open” meeting of AA welcomes those who struggle with alcohol issues. For information, call the intergroup phone number, 275-5111.

Cancer Support 1-on-1 Mentoring The goal of this resident-led program is to establish group mentoring connections between newly diagnosed cancer patients and cancer survivors. Contact Barbara Maruchi (Springs) at 333-0120.

Caregiver Support Group Tuesdays, January 5 and 19 Group 1: 9:15 a.m.

Group 2: 10:30 a.m.

Medical Center Conference Room/IS These therapeutic groups are aimed at helping residents deal with issues of being a caregiver for someone with a memory disorder. Dr. Nancy Spencer facilitates the groups and can be reached at 454-2043.

Sign-up is required.

COPD Support Group Tuesday, January 26 1:30 p.m.

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cuss nutrition issues faced by the COPD patient with any degree of the illness. For additional information, call Ken Peterson at 482-3779.

Diabetes Support Group Friday, January 8 1:00 p.m.

Social Center/IS Both insulin-dependent and non-dependent diabetics are encouraged to attend this meeting. Each monthly meeting covers a different topic and includes open discussion. For more information, contact Skyler Bauer, case manager, at 225-2929.

Finding Joy (for Caregivers) Thursday, January 14 1:30 p.m.

Manatee Room/IS This group promises to help you take care of yourself. We will be exploring ways to identify and reduce stress, improve communication skills, and understand and handle difficult feelings. Contact Jane Johnston (Lucina) at 464-5903 or email jjejjohnston@gmail.com for information.

Tuesdays, January 5 and 19 Group 1: 9:15 a.m.

Group 2: 10:30 a.m.

Behavioral Health Conference Room/IS These groups are designed to provide education and support to residents who have some type of memory disorder, to identify practical strategies to help residents better manage memory loss, address long-range planning, and offer an environment that fosters a sense of purpose and heightened self-esteem. Note: Individual assessment is required before joining a group. Kathy Fratrick, LCSW, facilitates the group and can be reached at 454-2073. Individual appointments are also available.

Parkinson’s Enrichment Group Monday, January 4 10:15 a.m.

King’s Crown Community Room/IS This group aims to provide support and educational opportunities to patients, caregivers, family members, and friends affected by Parkinson’s. For more information, call Janine Hammond, case manager, at 454-2186.

Vision Enrichment Group Journey through Grief Join this support group to share your feelings about living with grief, or just listen and learn to navigate the process of grieving a loss, whether recent or long ago. This group is not meeting in January; if you would like to join the next seven-week program, contact Jim and Judy Mayer at 454-3139 to register.

Tuesday, January 12 10:15 a.m.

Social Center/IS This group provides opportunities and support for those dealing with low vision.

Florence Putnam (Eagles Preserve) is the chariperson. For more information, contact Angie Prichard, case manager, at 454-2134.

Pavilion Auxiliary

Celebrates 25 Years of Service to Residents

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Blue-coated volunteers come and go regularly, and cheerfully, through the doors and around The Larsen Pavilion, reflecting the commitment of approximately 250 Auxiliary members who work together on 16 committees to enhance support for residents of the skilled nursing facility.

Over the course of 25 years, this unique group has grown, dedicating thousands of hours each year to improve the lives of fellow residents. “My heart is in volunteering at the Pavilion,” said Jerry Nanfelt (Lucina), who moved to Shell Point more than eight years ago. She started on the Hospitality Committee then moved to the Beverage Cart, and then served as president from 2012–2014.

Along the way, Jerry helped launch the popular Concierge program, which assists the staff on each floor. “I wanted to spend all morning at the Pavilion,” she said, coordinating the first floor with a team of 25 volunteers who worked four hours a

day, then growing the Concierge service to the Memory Care unit on the second floor, which her husband Peter now chairs.

“We build relationships, and someday I might be there needing care,” Jerry said.

Pat Straup (Macoma) has been an Auxiliary volunteer since moving to Shell Point more than 15 years ago, serving as president from 2003–2005 and involved with the successful, seven-year “Heart of It All” capital fundraising campaign.

“Pat always wanted to be a nurse; her mother was a nurse,” Jim Straup said.

“Whenever we would move someplace new, Pat always joined the local auxiliary, including the one in Cape Coral when we moved to Southwest Florida.”

Jim recalled that President Peter Dys referred to his wife Pat and fellow fundraising committee members, Bill Saunders (King’s Crown) and Dick Armstrong (Oakmont), as a ‘three-legged stool.’ “The Pavilion didn’t look anything then like

it does today, and that infusion of money helped modernize the facility tremendously,” said Jim. Bobbi Brown (Nautilus), agrees, having served as president of the Auxiliary from 2005–2007. “From a personal perspective, one of the greatest accomplishments was the $350,000 contributed by the Auxiliary for the Pavilion restoration,” she said, referring to the variety of activities launched to raise funds – the first golf tournament, fashion shows, and sponsorship walks.

“The Auxiliary means so much to me personally. Every experience is a real connection with friends and neighbors who are residents at the Pavilion,” said Bobbi. “We become a significant part of their lives, and I encourage new residents to spend time with the Auxiliary. It’s a way to respect life in its continuum and pay it forward.”

Virtually every past president has remained active in the Auxiliary on committees and other projects. “Leadership is so important in the Auxiliary to provide such caring service to the residents of the Pavilion, with opportunities at every level of responsibility,” said Teri Kollath, manager of The Auxiliary and Academy of Lifelong Learning.

“Knowing the Pavilion is here for every Shell Point resident makes the Auxiliary even more appreciated and respected by the entire community. We all join in congratulating the Auxiliary members as they celebrate 25 years of faithful service to the residents of Shell Point.”

At the annual meeting to be held on January 18, Auxiliary volunteers will be honored with a keynote presentation by President Peter Dys who will celebrate their 25-year anniversary.

Auxiliary Presidents Lead the Mission

Martha Ryckman

1999–2003

Pat Straup 2003–2005

Bobbi

Brown 2005–2007

Bill Maruchi

Nita DeWeese

2007-2008

2008-2009

Not pictured: Evelyn Davis 1991–1995, Victoria SirLouis 1995–1999

Bill

Staples 2009-2011

Mary Fountain

Jerry Nanfelt

2011–2012

2012–2014

Renee

Maxwell 2014–2015

Jane Haines

2015–2016

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Nancy McDowell is featured on the cover of “Ebenezer,” a folk album recorded with Allan Block in 1976.

Preserving

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For Nancy McDowell (Tellidora), this was a time when folk music became her passion and livelihood for an important decade of her life.

“During the seventies, I was a singer, guitarist, and self-taught, old-time country fiddler with a well-known group of folk music performers in the Northeast,” she said, fittingly over a cup of coffee at the Island Café. Coffee was another part of that American folk music culture, helping a young generation connect and maintain a high level of activity during exciting times.

“I’m still on my coffee break schedule,” Nancy said, explaining that she joined her sister and brother-in-law (Patricia and Carter Boynton, Turban) at Shell Point in 2008, after retiring early in life from a career in the corporate world. Nancy is a baby boomer who took the option on her pension just before the recent recession. “I didn’t find anything that could compare to Shell Point,” she said.

From her early days as a full-time secretary at Harvard University’s student health center and mathematics department, Nancy went on to work for a professor at Harvard Business School, where a friend introduced her to original recordings of traditional blues music from the American South, further expanding her appreciation of the roots of American folk music.

During her career, Nancy worked in the surgical device department at Ethicon, a division of Johnson & Johnson’s headquarters in New Jersey. She then moved to Plano, Texas, to support manufacturing functions at FritoLay’s command center. For the next decade, she was a document administrator in the engineering department, safeguarding digital blueprints for all product lines, including trendy new organic treats.

But music was her first love, a career

launched when she was just a teenager. “My dad bought me a little ukulele, and I learned to choke out the chords to ‘Tom Dooley’,” Nancy explained, which was an old folk song made popular by The Kingston Trio.

“In 1963 when I was in high school, my dad got me a proper folk guitar, and I taught myself vocals and folk guitar techniques by listening to Joan Baez records,” Nancy said, recalling songs like “Waggoner’s Lad” and “John Riley.”

Mid-Century Music Scene

In the mid-1950s, acoustic guitaraccompanied folk songs were mostly heard in coffee houses, at private parties, open-air concerts, sing-alongs, hootenannies, and college campus concerts. Before long, however, the folk music genre included personal and poetic creations by performers who called themselves “singer-songwriters.”

Nancy grew up near Cambridge, Massachusetts, which has a longtime stake in folk music lore dating to 1888 and is home to the student-run “Hillbilly at Harvard” radio program. Francis James Child, Harvard professor and ballad collector, founded the American Folklore Society in Harvard Yard, leading to the revival of songs embracing coal mining and tenant farming, as well as appreciation for the traditional ballads of the British Isles.

“Folk music in Cambridge was blind to class and social distinctions; the clubs would be concurrently filled with Harvard kids and native Bostonians,” according to a report in The Harvard Crimson newspaper about a 2009 commemoration of the folk music generation.

For folk aficionados from the suburbs, like Nancy, music was what mattered, and the shared link between music and social

As a teenager, Nancy taught herself to pick out tunes on a ukulele, then an old acoustic guitar before graduating to folk fiddle.

issues created an emotional connection for other mid-20th century youth.

“Joan Baez was my favorite in the early sixties, the first recording artist to really impact the folk music charts,” Nancy said. “She had a haunting, polished voice – a natural-born, note-perfect soprano who learned to play beautiful folk-style guitar and performed solo on stage. Listening to Joan was mesmerizing.

“That’s how I first honed my musical skills. I could sing on key, although I wasn’t professionally trained, but had a good ear to replicate folk-style guitar, which had progressed beyond just playing simple chords.

I learned how to finger pick a guitar from Joan Baez’s recordings.”

Indulging her musical passion, Nancy’s parents drove her around town to perform vocal and guitar solos after school and on weekends. “Some gigs were paid, some were continued next page

On the road with a group of folk fiddlers, Nancy’s versatile talents ranged from accompanying tunes on guitar, fiddle, and spoons, to unaccompanied vocals in the Southern Appalachian Mountain style.

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Biograph Records, founded in 1967, specialized in early American ragtime, jazz, and blues music, and was the first label to issue records made from piano rolls created

by Scott Joplin, Jelly Roll Morton, and George Gershwin. Allan Block and Friends (including Nancy) recorded “Tell It to Me” and other old-time fiddle tunes that are registered with the U.S. Library of Congress.

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just to get experience performing in front of an audience. It gave me opportunities to practice and helped improve my skills,” she said.

Finding Folkies

For much of this era, The Beatles rock band from England dominated the music scene. But Nancy ferretted out coffee houses near her high school in Andover, including the iconic Club 47 (known now as Club Passim), where musicians like Tom Rush and Joan Baez were making a name.

“In a bit of serendipity a few years ago, I was floored to see in the local Island Sun newspaper that a much older, white-haired, but unmistakable Tom Rush – my favorite performer at the former Club 47 – was giving a concert on Sanibel,” said Nancy.

Nancy first attended a Tom Rush concert when she was just 16 years old, and he was a Harvard student and struggling folk musician. “At the sold-out concert on Sanibel, Tom explained that a few songs from his early days couldn’t be performed anymore due to political correctness issues, but we heard most former audience favorites,” she said.

“I can still picture the ‘47’ clearly. It was so small; according to the Cambridge fire laws, only about 50 people at a time could be seated at the tables. There’d be a line going all the way down the street and sometimes around the corner. It cost a dollar to get in, and you could stay until 32

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Only water, herbal teas, and coffee were served; people wanted to concentrate on the music, not drink alcohol.”

Pursuing her musical interests further, Nancy spent five years attending the Cambridge School of Early Music, studying the music and traditional instruments of the Medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque periods.

“Craftsmen studied historic instruments that were housed in museums, measuring their dimensions and poring over old drawings in order to replicate them exactly,” she said, explaining, for example, that the classical recorder is different from the later orchestral flute, since it is played vertically not horizontally.

Figuring Out Fiddling

Performing around Boston in the early 1970s with a concert group that dressed in Medieval costumes, a friend introduced Nancy to a novel musical genre – the sound of folk tunes fiddled by Allan Block who lived in the mountains of New Hampshire.

“It was the most amazing sound I ever heard. It was meant to be – my friend happened to pick that particular record album to play, and it really spoke to me,” she said.

“So I packed up and sold my recorders, bought Allan’s album and an old, worn fiddle that still worked, then went looking to

meet some old-time mountain players.”

“During this era, there were two branches of the counter-cultural movement,” Nancy explained, “hippies who embraced everything, and folkies who liked to just listen and play music.”

Nancy was a folkie, with her main interests being the old acoustic music of the Blue Ridge and Appalachian Mountains, morphed from traditions of Scottish and Irish settlers.

“Neighbors and friends would gather on the back porch or in front of the cabin’s hearth, and jam out the old ballads and folk tunes, getting up to clog dance on the hard wooden floors as the fiddles, guitars, and banjos came to life,” she said.

“A fiddle is much different from a classical violin, which has a higher bridge and uses nylon strings, with a highly trained bowing technique to produce the sounds of classical music,” Nancy explained. “The first thing a folk fiddler does with a violin is switch from nylon to steel strings, and file down the bridge so the strings are closer to the fret board.

“The bowing technique is also markedly different from classical violin. In this way, the fiddle sound can be heard along with the dominant banjos, guitars, and hammered dulcimers, even the percussive clanging of spoons that accompany many mountain folk tunes.”

One afternoon while reading a Boston newspaper, Nancy saw an ad for a three-day folk music festival at Tufts University. “I volunteered for the hostess committee” she said, “and got to spend time in the ‘green room’ when the performers were on break.

That’s when I first met Allan Block.”

Road Tour

Allan was an established New England fiddler who often spontaneously invited

promising musicians on stage to play along, hence the name of his band – Allan Block and Friends. “Allan was a self-taught leather worker and old-time fiddle player who owned a small sandal shop in Greenwich Village during the heyday of the folk music scene in the 1950s and ‘60s,” wrote National Public Radio’s Melissa Block, host of “All Things Considered,” in a tribute to her uncle upon his death in 2013.

“His sandal shop doubled as a magnet for folk musicians in the city. Joan Baez came by and bought sandals for her family.

Bob Dylan hung around on the fringes … music would spill out onto the street, with Allan fiddling away in the middle. Allan left New York City in the late ‘60s, and moved to a farmhouse in New Hampshire.

He kept on fiddling at dances, coffee houses, and folk festivals.

“For years in the wintertime, Allan could be found busking on the streets of St. Augustine, Florida, up to the time he was 80. He was a kid from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, who somehow found his roots in the folk songs and mountain music of Appalachia,” his niece claimed.

Allan was quite taken hearing Nancy play the tunes she’d learned from his records, and they had fun playing them together. “He invited me to be a regular with his band,” Nancy said. “In those days, you just went with the flow. So I worked at Harvard by day, and traveled between Massachusetts and New Hampshire at night and on weekends, playing hundreds of concerts and folk festivals.”

For approximately 10 years, Nancy performed with the group across the United States, as well as two tours of Europe, traveling to France, Belgium, Switzerland, England, Ireland, and Scotland. In addition to their own country’s traditional sounds, the Europeans loved the rhythms of American folk music, regardless of whether they could understand the English language.

“When we were in Ireland, we saw lots of puzzled expressions as they recognized that their traditional fiddle tunes had been adapted to the style of the American South.

The Irish musicians weren’t always pleased at our mountain ‘flavor’!” Nancy said.

The group performed 33 concerts in 45 days during 1976–77, including a radio spot for the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). “I learned what it was like to be a

musician on the road,” said Nancy. “Ireland was a mixture of the old and new, with cars driving beside donkeys pulling carts. Many of the folk music gatherings in England were above pubs, so there was always noise drifting upstairs; we just had to play a little louder.

“As we were wrapping up one concert at the University of Nice (in France), which had a curfew, the students didn’t want the music to end. The university had to call in the gendarmes (police) to quell the situation before it turned into a full-blown rebellion.

We were quite impressed by that!”

Reviving Harmonies Nancy recalls jamming with other musicians to such old-time tunes as “Ryestraw” and “Dixie Bee Line,” recorded in 1926 by the Grand Ole Opry musician Uncle Dave Macon. It extolled the virtues of the Ford automobile: “The Buick won’t come where the Henry will go.”

“Music was such a part of who I was and still am…”

Old-time folk music predates bluegrass which developed later, blending the oldtime sound with gospel and jazz elements.

“The folk music revival was bringing back to life traditional melodies and instrumental styles,” Nancy said. “We were helping to preserve the songs from the Southern culture that might otherwise be forgotten, and play them for fresh Northern audiences.”

A key figure in the 1950s revival was Jean Ritchie, a treasure trove of American folk songs, most of which she learned as a child growing up in a rural corner of the Appalachian Mountains. Nancy recalled her songs, including “Barbara Allen,” one of the oldest of old songs passed on orally through generations from Great Britain to America: “They buried her in the old church yard, they buried him in the choir. And from his grave grew a red, red rose, from her grave a green briar.”

The band recorded several albums with Nancy, including one called “Tell It to Me,” which was issued a U.S. Library of Congress (LOC) number and permanently resides in the LOC music archives. Performed by their

Folk artists developed their vocal and instrumental talents by jamming the old ballads with fellow musicians on the back porch of a mountain cabin or at coffee houses across the country.

group, which they named “Ebenezer” after an old-time fiddle tune, the album includes vocals accompanied by fiddles, guitar, and banjo, which document life in the Southern Appalachians. An audience favorite was “Barlow Knife” (the most desired brand for whittling and opening cans).

The album also includes two unaccompanied vocals by Nancy, “Girl of Constant Sorrow,” a song about the plight of the miners; and “Waggoner’s Lad,” a song of unrequited love, in which Allan’s voice blends with Nancy’s to create a plaintive, unaccompanied duet.

“Unaccompanied singing (a cappella) is a strong Southern tradition, with vocal lines making subtle turns and ornaments,” Nancy explained. “There’s no right or wrong; each singer’s style and interpretation is unique.”

“Those folk music decades were unique indeed. Music was truly tied to the culture during this era,” Nancy recalled. “I’m reminded of when [singer-songwriter] Bob Dylan ‘went electric’ at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival and was booed by the crowd, causing a near riot. It was a sacrilege against acoustic instruments used for playing folk music, and the event ushered in the genre of folk rock.”

“Music was such a part of who I was and still am, but I eventually married, and life took a different turn,” she said. Looking at photos from the time she was with the folk band, Nancy asked herself, “What happened to that young, carefree fiddler?

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Nature’s Notebook

Alouette, Alouette…

Now Birds Sing the Song As far as I am concerned, a cartoon rabbit is as good an excuse as any to bring back a pleasant memory.

For unknowable reasons, I recently found myself watching a 1951 Warner Brothers short animated film featuring Bugs Bunny. In this particular episode, happy-golucky Bugs falls out of a carrot truck onto the streets of Paris and into the sights of two competing chefs who wish to serve Lapin à la Moutarde to their café patrons.

As Chef François believes he has captured Bugs in his tureen, he begins to happily hum a tune. At that moment, it hits me – it was the same song my mother sang to me as a child; I had not heard it in years: Alouette, gentille Alouette, Alouette, je te plumerai, Je te plumerai la tête, Et la tête, Alouette, O-o-o-oh My mother was not of French descent, nor did she speak the language, but her repertoire included Alouette, a shortened version of Non, Je Ne Regrette Rien, and of course, Frere Jacques. I remember liking Alouette the best because she used an “audience participation style,” with me singing the second line of the refrain.

The thing about old memories is that they make you nostalgic and curious. Sadly, I cannot ask my mother why she sang French songs to a four-year-old,

Missouri boy, because she passed away many years ago.

So I decided to Google the translation of Alouette to discover the story of the song. To paraphrase Claude Raines in his role as Captain Renault in Casablanca, “I’m shocked, shocked to find what Alouette is really about.”

It seems that the aloeutte (a morning lark) has awoken us, and we have decided to start at his head and pluck all his feathers in preparation for the kettle, as retribution for interrupting our sleep. As a bird lover, I’ll get over the torment of the poor lark, and focus appreciation on the magnificent birds that we can see every day in Southwest Florida.

do not dive for their fish, but rather, work cooperatively herding fish and swishing their giant bills through the water. Look for these pelicans in the big lake behind The Woodlands and on the golf course ponds.

Another of my favorite winter arrivals is the wood stork. With his bald head and outsized curved beak, the wood stork can often be found standing oddly at the edge of ponds. The appearance of this bird seems pre-historic and ungainly, yet in flight the wood stork stretches out his huge beak in front, while trailing his long legs behind.

He soars gracefully among the clouds like the Concorde. Often a number of wood storks can be found near the hole #1 pond on the golf course, adjacent to On Par Blvd.

A rare but most welcome Birds of a Feather visitor to Shell Point is the sandWintertime is when the hill crane. Standing nearly four birds really sing at Shell Point, feet tall, there is an understated with many migratory species elegance in the way this bird taking refuge by our lakes, moves – slowly and deliberately, fields, and ponds. If you look Sandhill Crane like Catherine Deneuve on the for no other bird this winter, red carpet. Sandhill cranes are seek out the white pelicans.

In summer, they live in the Western and a unique rusty brown with a flashy red top Midwest United States, near fresh water riv- knot and white cheeks. In 11 years, I have ers and lakes. Flying in “V” formation like only seen a sandhill pair once on the golf a squadron of French SPAD fighter planes, course driving range. If you hear the ripthe white pelicans return with panache to pling sounds as the sandhill cranes trumpet their song while in flight, it will be a memShell Point for the winter.

Unlike the local brown pelicans, whites ory that you will keep for life.

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BIRDS

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Ibis

Each year, Shell Point residents participate in the Audubon’s Christmas Bird Count. Coordinated locally by the Caloosa Bird Club, it is a day designated to track the bird population seen around our campus.

Woodstork

Turkey Vulture YellowBellied Sapsucker

Since 1998, statistics indicate anywhere from 38 to 52 species of birds also call our retirement oasis home. Data will be updated after the latest recording event, held on December 14.

The total count has fluctuated from a low of 332 in 2003 to more than 1,254 in 2007. Unique tabulations also are now recorded for sightings on the Audubon-certified Shell Point Golf Course.

Common Grackle

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Whence comes this rush of wings afar, Following straight the Noel star?

Birds from the woods in wondrous flight, Bethlehem seek this holy night.

Among the most prevalent species during any given year, watch for the double-crested cormorant (most popular with 177 counted in 2014) and the common grackle.

Other more striking and tropical birds often seen on campus include the white ibis, great egret, and turkey vulture. Residents may also catch a glimpse of the more rare yellow-bellied sapsucker and pileated woodpecker.

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THE LEGACY FOUNDATION IN CONJUNCTION WITH THE ACADEMY OF LIFELONG LEARNING PRESENT

Top 10 Estate Planning Mistakes:

How to Avoid Frustrating Your Family & Heirs (LS01) Wednesday, January 20 10:00 a.m. • Grand Cypress Room/WDL Florida Bar board-certified Wills, Trusts & Estate attorneys Craig R. Hersch and Michael B. Hill of Sheppard, Brett, Stewart, Hersch, Kinsey & Hill, PA, will enlighten us on the most common estate planning myths and mistakes. You’ll learn answers to these and a host of other questions: • • • •

If you don’t have a will, does the government take all of your assets?

Why not put assets in a joint tenancy with rights of survivorship to avoid probate?

Do you lose control over assets you put in your revocable trust?

Do durable powers of attorney avoid probate?

Craig R. Hersch Michael B. Hill

Sign-up is required; contact either service desk.

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“Legacy gifts to Shell Point begin with a heartfelt commitment to the families and friends who call this place home,” said President Peter Dys. “The generosity of our residents is the heart of Shell Point, which began at our founding with a gift to con36

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Retired Fort Myers attorney John Sheppard eloquently shared his message of giving and sharing with a purpose. As founder of the Southwest Florida Community Foundation, John made the first estate gift to benefit Shell Point, and was one of the first “visitors” to this land that later became known as Shell Point Retirement Community. He also is in the Guinness Book of World Records for donating the most blood through the American Red Cross, a sacrifice that at age 83 he still continues every 6 weeks.

The Legacy Society has 107 members to date, and 85 were available to attend the 2015 luncheon. Each guest received a membership certificate and a tote bag imprinted with the Legacy Society logo. Events will be planned each year for this group of residents whose decision to leave a legacy enhances the programs and services for residents during the generations to come.

For more information about how you can become a member of the Shell Point Legacy Society, please contact Jeff Cory, Executive Director of the Legacy Foundation at 466-8484.

Let Them Eat Cake Oakmont Men Take on a Sweet Challenge Since the Oakmont men at The Woodlands are on the cutting edge of “the latest thing,” they decided to host a unique and tasty competition – for men only. Norm Miller and Jose Ribares convinced a group of talented men to participate in a cake baking contest.

The bakers represented each of the floors in the court to compete for the coveted title of Top Chef in two categories: taste and decorating. The contestants were Carl Meier (floor 1), Russ Kraay (floor 2), Pelzer Lynah (floor 3), Ray Kincaid (floor 4), Walt McCollum (floor 5), Howard Pachman (floor 6), Hap Miller (floor 7), and Dick Armstrong (floor 8).

Held on November 14, the “Cake Bake/Coffee Break” attracted 80 “judges” from Oakmont who got a chance to taste each cake and vote for their favorite. Paul Hoden handed out name tags, while Ken Peterson and Charlie Munsch distributed ballots.

One-inch squares of the “anonymous” cake contributions were served by Chuck Durrell, Rod McGeary, Mort Zablotsky, Walt Pottgiesser, and Al Kaplan. Brad Prokop, Don Parsons, and John Carlson served coffee, tea, and water. Photos were provided compliments of resident camera experts David Dodd, Bobbi Peterson, and Al Kaplan.

In the cake decorating categor y, entries ranged from a football field rep-

lica to colorful frosting spelling O-A-KM-O-N-T surrounded by fall leaves. The cake taste competition pitted diet CocaCola chocolate, yellow, and white flavors against carrot and spicy Bundt (topped by a pumpkin turkey).

Camaraderie, the smell of coffee, and anticipation filled the air waiting for the final judging tally. In the end, Ray Kincaid (football field for Decorating) and Carl Meier (diet Coca-Cola chocolate for Taste) earned the winning votes, a round of applause, and Top Chef baker aprons.

“The glass ceiling of cake baking has been shattered,” said Norm Miller.

“Frankly, the event was just a whole lot of fun… and calories.”

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Golf Tournament Raises $40,000 for Memory Care at Shell Point B

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It was a fabulous Friday, November 13, on the Shell Point Golf Course, as 140 golfers “scrambled” with their best shots to attempt to claim a BMW motorcycle or jet ski as a hole-inone prize. Unfortunately, no one was that lucky that day to win, but the Memory Care programs at The Larsen Pavilion benefitted from the generosity of all the players and sponsors at the 2015 Shell Point Open.

The Legacy Foundation hosted the 12th annual golf tournament at Shell Point, adding a few exciting additions to the event. A silent auction with 13 prize baskets was a real draw, as the golfers enjoyed lunch provided by Sanibel Catering by Bailey’s.

“The day was spectacular, and everyone had a great time. The best part was the outstanding support and benevolence of our community toward our Shell Point family,” said Legacy Foundation Executive Director Jeff Cory. “Thanks to the professionals and businesses in our community, the 2015 Shell Point Open netted $40,000.”

The tournament team of (L-R) Rudy Zant, Randy Sabau, Cameron VandeHei, and Elliot Boldon beat 136 other golfers to place first with an impressive score of 56.

As Co-Title Sponsors this year, Wright Construction Group and FineMark National Bank & Trust contributed generously, joined by: Corporate Sponsors – Gavin’s Ace Hardware, Harvey Engelhardt Funeral Services, Alexander & Hoover, CPAs, and Alliance Development Fund; Gold Sponsors – B & I Contractors, Ziegler Investments, Weinstein Wilkes Financial Group, The Independent Order of

Foresters, Beattie Development, Trevett Capital Partners, Marco Office Supply, Povia Paints, Stevens Construction, Sheppard Brett Stewart Hersch Kinsey Hill, Attorneys, Graybar, Florida Evergreen Landscaping, Matter Bros. Furniture, and Bill Smith Appliances; Silver Sponsors – Coaste Magazine, Dade Paper, Isings Travel, C. Mark Auto, Tuscan & Co., Elmquist Eye Group, Leisure Time Cleaning, Flint Financial Group, Sanibel Catering Co., Hughes Snell, Current Electric, Huff Insurance, Green Schoenfeld Kyle, PA, Hein Brothers Painting, Gary Danis, Inc., Osterhout & McKinney PA, and McKesson Medical Supply.

A special thank you for event coordination goes to Pro Shop Manager Gary Keating and the Shell Point Golf Club staff, as well as the volunteers who made the day possible.

Below: Second place team – Brenda Powell, Richard Hall, Terri Sobeck, Larry Grimaldi

Above: Emcee and ABC-7 news anchor Krista Fogelsong announced the tournament winners.

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The Latest Hair Trends A new hair color can change how a woman feels about herself. After all, you are as young as you feel!

The change of seasons is the perfect time to change your hair color too, just as you change your make-up, nail polish shade, and wardrobe.

The most modern looks for 2016 are all about warm blondes, cool brunettes, and the “bronde” middle ground – colors to “dye” for! The best blondes are multidimensional, soft, and golden, but not brassy. Try replicating the blonde you had as a child, as that is always a flattering shade.

The best brunettes range from cool sable to luscious chocolates, always avoiding dark ends. Baylage is the perfect answer to achieving a gradual lightening with multidimensional color from root to end.

Hair that looks dry and brittle will make you look older, so look for hair color with shine-enhancing ingredients, along with styling products that produce shine. A color gloss is also a great way to add shine to dull hair.

“Beauty is in the eye of the beholder and the hands of your stylist.”

6 Secrets to Healthy Hair 1. Massage your scalp: Massaging your head will help stimulate blood flow bringing nutrients to the hair follicle.

2. Trim up: Regular hair trims will keep your ends from splitting. Unattended split ends travel up the hair making the damage worse.

3. Vitamins: Antioxidant blends with Vitamin B help increase hair strength. Biotin encourages healthy hair, nails, and skin.

4. Condition: Shampoo removes debris from the hair and scalp, while conditioner replenishes nutrients the hair needs to be healthy and shiny.

5. Cool finish: Rinsing with cool water will help seal the hair cuticle and prevent moisture loss.

6. Turn down the heat: Blow drying with medium heat will be easier on your hair and help strengthen your style.

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Good News for All Peoples Global Impact Week January 17–24

David Lauffer Charlotte Hisle

The Village Church is pleased to present the annual Global Impact week for Shell Point residents and friends.

Emphasis will be on responding effectively to the Great Commission of Jesus to give access of the good news of the Gospel to a very troubled world.

Guest speakers come with vast experiences in international ministries to share their reports and concerns.

David Lauffer has been assistant vice president of International Ministries at the Christian and Missionary Alliance for the past 8 years, and also completed 16 years in Israel serving with Messianic congregations.

David will be speaking at the two Sunday services on January 17, and at the Monday evening celebration banquet.

We will hear from 2 of the nearly 800 international personnel: Charlotte Hisle comes to us from

John Sappia

Portugal where she engages in evangelistic and church planting ministries.

John Sappia serves in Paraguay, South America, co-pastoring a new church in Asuncion and training a group of young men to become national pastors.

In addition, Shell Point resident Janet Howard (Eagles Preserve) will speak at the evening service to close the program on Sunday, January 24. Janet served as international worker in Indonesia.

GLOBAL IMPACT WEEK – SCHEDULE OF EVENTS All events take place in The Village Church (unless otherwise noted).

For more information, contact the church office at 454-2147.

Sunday, January 17 Worship Services — 10:15 a.m. and 6:15 p.m.

David Lauffer, speaker Monday, January 18 6:00 p.m.

Celebration Banquet — David Lauffer, speaker (free with ticket, call 454-2147) Tuesday, January 19 7:15 p.m.

Charlotte Hisle, speaker Wednesday, January 20 10:15 a.m.

Women’s Ministries Program refreshments at 10:00 a.m.

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Wednesday, January 20 7:15 p.m.

John Sappia, speaker Thursday, January 21 Open Forum/Q&A Session with Charlotte Hisle and John Sappia 10:00 a.m.

Grand Cypress Room/WDL Friday, January 22 7:15 p.m.

Missions drama program “Turn Your Radio On” Sunday, January 24 Worship Services 10:15 a.m., Charlotte Hisle, speaker 6:15 p.m., Janet Howard (Eagles Preserve), speaker

Women’s Bible Study Addresses

The Armor of God A seven-week, video-based, women’s bible study, “The Armor of God” by Priscilla Shirer, begins Tuesday, January 26. It is designed to equip women to get serious, specific, and strategic in their discipline of prayer.

Priscilla teaches about spiritual warfare, something women don’t talk about very often.

Some people don’t even realize that they are in an invisible wrestling match. This study shows how prayer accesses all the spiritual weapons you have.

The study will run for seven consecutive Tuesdays through March 8 from 9:30–11:15 a.m. in the Hospitality Room of The Village Church. Workbooks will be on sale at the church from January 10–17 for $13. If you don’t wish to purchase a workbook, you can come for just the video. However, the video gets you motivated to use the workbook to hear the rest of Priscilla’s teachings.

Please consider joining us for this exceptional study. If you have further questions, call Karen Chamberlin, coordinator of the Women’s Fellowship Bible Study Committee, at (239) 491-0804.

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$10 Tim Zimmerman & The King’s Brass Sunday, January 10 • 6:15 p.m.

Village Church/IS Tim Zimmerman and The King’s Brass present hymn classics with a contemporary flair. Formed more than two decades ago, the group is comprised of professional musicians from across the country who desire to use the instruments they love to lead others in praise and worship.

Featuring three trumpets, three trombones, a tuba, percussion, and keyboard, The King’s Brass creates a time of innovative worship to be enjoyed by all generations. Secular and sacred music critics alike applaud their concerts as “superb in every way,” “innovative and well played,” and “an unforgettable experience!”

Tickets cost $10 and are available by calling the church office at (239) 454-2147 or online at: www.shellpoint.org/seasonofpraise.

Flag Donation Honors Veterans On Veterans Day, November 11, a symbol of America’s freedom was dedicated near the construction site of The Clubhouse at Shell Point. Jeff Serra, son of Turban resident Bob Serra, wanted to honor his father with an icon to represent the pride he and other Americans feel about the brave men and women who have served in the Armed Forces.

Through a donation to the Legacy Foundation, erection of a 50’ flagpole and flag was arranged in a surprise ceremony, which included the color guard

from the Lee County Sheriff’s Office and the Fort Myers Police Academy. With several veterans from Shell Point in attendance, the flag was raised to a heartfelt rendition of the official song of the U.S. Army, “The Caisson Goes Rolling Along,” performed by Jack Thomson on the bagpipes.

The flag can be seen waving in the breeze as you come and go along Shell Point Boulevard – a reminder of the values we hold sacred and our allegiance to our great nation.

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Luminous Celebration

at Eagles Preserve Luminaria – a traditional Mexican Christmas lantern originally consisting of a candle set in sand inside a paper bag to light the way at a fiesta.

Radiant luminaries glowed along the roadway, lighting the 10 buildings of the Eagles Preserve neighborhood with warmth in celebration of the Christmas season. More than 180 candles lined the fountain and across the bridge, around the oak tree and the flagpole flower bed.

“The entire neighborhood was glowing and looked so pretty,” said Phyllis Ingalls, who brought this tradition from her previous court and enlisted help from Eagles Preserve volunteers. Even Shell Point administration cooperated by approving live

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candles, and the kitchen donated paper bags. “More than 80 people were out wandering with smiling faces to tour the trees on display in each lobby.”

Decked in Santa caps, a foursome of horns (Jerry Ingalls and Don Schneff, trumpet; Beth Steen, French horn; and Jack Frayer, clarinet) led the impromptu holiday concert, strolling among the buildings and gathering enthusiastic carolers.

Over the last five years, various members of this group have played for residents in the courts

on The Island, with help from the Transportation drivers with the tram and chairs.

This year, Eagles Preserve friends serenaded from balconies above, joining the merriment as fellow residents sang the chorus of familiar hymns – “Deck the Halls” and “Silent Night,” concluding with “We Wish You a Merry Christmas.”

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While getting new tech tools is great, bear in mind that your data will still remain on your other devices as you transfer that information to your new ones. Pictures, music, documents, videos, even favorites can usually be transferred, but it can take some time. If not completed properly, it may result in loss of information and files.

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Fortunately, Shell Point has knowledgeable technical staff available to assist you with moving your data. To ensure your files and browsing are secure, Shell Point technicians will be happy to inspect your computer (new or old) for up-to-date antivirus, anti-malware, and anti-spyware software.

Also, be aware that throughout the holidays and afterward, scammers may be more adamant in calling to inform you that there is a problem with your computer and coercing you to give them

access. We cannot stress enough that only you or your local technician would know if your computer is at risk.

If you receive a call from a stranger informing you that they are from Microsoft or elsewhere and that your computer is infected, we suggest you hang up immediately. Then promptly put in a work order for a Shell Point technician to inspect your machine and its security.

To learn more or to schedule an appointment, call (239) 454-8248.

Shell Point Library Annual Book & Media Sale You’re invited to Shell Point Library’s most spectacular book sale to date.

Come purchase gently used books, including new releases, stunning coffee table books, specialty items, and classics, as well as DVDs, audio books, and CDs – most of which are priced at only $1!

You won’t want to miss this sale intended for the avid reader or collector.

Wednesday and Thursday, January 20 & 21 9 a.m. – 4 p.m.

Library Lounge in the Resident Activity Center/IS

Purchases can be made by cash or check only. Due to the growing popularity of this event, you may want to come early for the best deals.

This private library is run by resident volunteers, and all proceeds from this sale are used solely for the library’s yearly operating costs, including purchasing the latest published books and media.

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Today I feel like Yogi. I am so grateful to you all for making this thank you “necessary.”

As the magazine goes to press, some days remain before the donation tally is confirmed, so we do not have final figures to share with you. I promise to report actual receipts.

Without you, there wouldn’t have been a Christmas gift distribution day for Shell Point employees. There wouldn’t have been a need for someone to chair the committee; and without you, there wouldn’t have been an Employee Christmas Fund at all.

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I wish especially to thank this year’s awesome committee: Helen McDonald (Oakmont), Nancy McCarthy (Oakmont), Marilyn Horvath (Eagles Preserve), Marcia and Carl Seeland (Eagles Preserve), and Lynda and Alvin Williams (Lucina).

(Unknown to me, Carl and Alvin were conscripted to the cause by their wives, and contributed mightily.)

My heartfelt thanks to all of you who gave and who volunteered … thank you for helping to keep Shell Point exceptional.

Every good wish to you for the coming year.

Employees from across Shell Point gathered on December 11 to receive their Christmas gift from residents who had contributed funds in thanks all year long.