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Sports That Last A Lifetime As a boy and young man, my major source of exercise was hiking and camping with the Boy Scouts.

Many of my classmates played football, basketball, baseball, and hockey, team sports that in their senior citizen years are mostly memories, and activities to be watched, rather than played.

Scouting faced the competition of team sports like Little League, Pop Warner football, pick up basketball, and dozens of hockey leagues.

The Boy Scouts of American developed a new program to teach and encourage their members to learn and participate in “Sports That Last a Lifetime�, setting the stage for activities that could be a part of your life long after retirement, unlike most organized team sports.

Swimming, Tennis, and Golf were the key sports that were promoted.

My father-in-law used to call swimming “The only sport you could do lying down�.

It is also the sport with the least impact on your old bones and sore muscles.

The buoyancy of the water makes it easier to participate, whether swimming laps in a pool or participating in water aerobics.

In my boyhood days, I won a badge for completing the Mile Swim at Boy Scout Camp. In my thirties, I swam a mile a day in 45 minutes at the Boy’s Club during my lunch hour.

Today I swim for 45 minutes twice a week at the Cranston YMCA. I don’t make a mile, and I stop to rest, but the sport has lasted me a lifetime.

Tennis was a sport I took up in my thirties, about the time it went from being a Country Club sport to an accessible venue at many city parks, usually built

next to the basketball courts.

My tennis partners aged along with me. Singles became doubles. The game slowed down a bit, but we kept on swinging. Eventually, knee and back surgery, heart problems, and other ailments caused many to hang up their racquets.

Open heart surgery in September created a hiatus for my participation. Lying on my back with a cracked sternum and tubes stuck in every part of my body, I set a goal of late January to return to the tennis court.

In early February I found a group of senior citizens who play round robin tennis every Monday and Thursday mornings at Centre Court in East Providence.

Men in their sixties, seventies and eighties enjoy the exercise and sociability of the game, playing with other men at the same level.

Tennis has become a lifetime sport for us.

Golf, like tennis has become accessible and affordable to seniors, with special rates at public and municipal courses for seniors. Carts make it easier to manage eighteen holes.

Par 3 golf courses like Mulligan’s Island shorten the length and time for those who can’t handle the long par 4’s and 5’s.

For those who are limited in their strength and endurance, pickleball, played on a shortened tennis court with paddles and a softer ball, has grown in popularity.

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Senior Olympics Keeping Fit & Staying Young “He’s out,” yelled number 24.

“Let him walk,” yelled number 12.

A group of fierce and competitive men argued back and forth after one of the players on the Rhode Island Senior Softball league slid into second base. After slamming the softball that was pitched to him way into the outfield, he flew past first base and then tried to steal second, but the quick passing members of the opposing team brought the play to an extremely close call.

The men, all of which are over the age of 50, are members of the Rhode Island Senior Softball League. Several of those men, Mike Lyons, being one of them, also participate in an even more intense competition, better known as the Senior Olympics. Lyons serves as the Executive Director and the Ocean State Games coordinator, but also participates in the games as a player on the Ocean State Senior Olympics softball team.

Just like the Olympics that most of the world is already familiar with, the Senior Olympics holds competitive events in a variety of sports such as softball, track and field, swimming and basketball, just to name a few.

Twenty-four athletes from Rhode Island recently competed at the 2017 National Senior Games in Birmingham, Alabama across several sports - Basketball, Volleyball, Tennis, Track & Field, Cycling, Pickleball and Swimming.

The 2017 National Senior Games presented by Humana ran from June 2-15 and drew more than 10,500 athletes age 50 and over, along with another estimated 15,000 family members and friends. Competition is held in five-year age divisions with 19 Medal Sports that were contested at 20 sport venues across the city.

And just like the Olympics, there is lighting and carrying of the torch ceremony and a celebration of athletes post party. The primary difference in the two is that these athletes are 50 years of age or older. Many are wearing knee and or wrist braces and several have no shortage of varied ailments which are masked by their fierce and competitive mentality.

Al Freniere, a 77-year-old Senior Olympic veteran, from East Greenwich, has survived three strokes in the past year, but vows to continue competing.

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whose also known as “Flying Feet,” has earned a slew of honors and accolades since his tenure in the games began back in the early 90s.

“I had always competed in around 9 events plus basketball, but since my stroke, now I usually do around five,” Freniere said.

His typical events are the 50, 100 and 200 meter dash, and long and triple jump. Freniere currently holds the record in Rhode Island in his age bracket for the triple jump. He’s jumped as far as 26 and a half feet for the long jump and thrown the javelin 146 feet. He earned a place in the Senior Olympics Hall of Fame in 2017 for his participation in Track and Field events.

“A lot of it is inner self confidence,” Freniere said. “Your inner strength and endurance, everybody has it, you just have to find out how to tap into it.

“I never smoked or drank in my life, and I’ve always been active; for 49 years I coached all kinds of different sports in my life, but as we get older, you have to keep physical,” he said. “Look at me, I always had, and I still had a stroke, three of them in a year. Sure I am a little more cautious now, my eye sight and balance is not as good as it used to be, but you’ve got to keep pushing.”

Freniere doesn’t go at it alone. His wife of 47 years, Janet Freniere, who is 79 years old, also competes in various track and field events with the Senior Olympics. In Janet’s earlier years, she was usually on the sidelines rooting her husband on as a spectator, but things changed 14 years ago at one event in Vermont.

“I hadn’t run since first grade,” Janet Freniere said. “I didn’t do any sports in high school, it just wasn’t my thing. But I always went to support Al. I would take my vacation and go with him to

all of the games and then one day 14 years ago in Vermont; Al looked at me and said, ‘I think you could beat those ladies.’ He told me to go pay my money so I could compete, so I did, and with my jeans and my everyday sneakers, I beat them all and I amazed myself.”

Ever since then, Al and Janet train together. They walk daily and belong to a local East Greenwich gym. Janet is running the 200 meter dash in less than a minute and the 50 meter dash is just about 10 seconds.

“I have never really been an overweight person, but our involvement [in the senior Olympics] together has definitely helped to change our lifestyle,” Janet said. “And coming from someone who never exercised before, it can be done. I mean we work at it; I’m running as fast as my short little legs will let me, but we are doing it.”

Between Al and Janet, who stands at approximately five feet tall, the two have earned more than a dozen ribbons.

Several other Rhode Islanders have been recognized for their involvement in the Senior Olympics as well. Ann McGowan, a 93-year-old, Providence native, was just named one of the “Great Eight.” She and seven other competitors from around the country have participated in every single National Senior Olympics Games since its inception in 1987.

Through the years McGowan has participated in the 100, 200 and 400 meter races, long jump, javelin, discus and hammer throws. She has earned countless medals and made even more friendships through the events, she said.

“Through the years I have participated in mostly all the track and field events, but my most joyful is javelin,” McGowan said. “I’ve done softball and volleyball and just being a part of it all

has given me the stability and motivation to live as long as I have.”

McGowan, like many of the athletes her age, has not escaped illness. She said that she has battled breast cancer, spleen and gall bladder issues, as well as spinal stenosis.

“I didn’t always have the best of health,” McGowan said. “But having always done sports and being physical has kept my body healthy enough that I was able to overcome these issues and just keep going.”

Ray Carroll, an 81 year old Bonnet Shores resident, is no stranger to the basketball court. Although he typically plays against young men half his age, Carroll, standing at 6 feet 2 inches tall, has been known to hold his own.

“I live right near URI so I play there every day,” Carroll said. “Everybody I play with is around 25 years old, but I do OK.” All of that practice obviously paid off for Carroll and his Senior Olympic team as they were awarded the gold medal in Alabama at the 2017 National Games.

“If you ask my wife, she’ll say that we dominated the Senior Olympics,” Carroll said.

He described his tam as “reasonably competitive, good players.”

“My knees aren’t as good as they used to be and I typically have to ice them when I am done playing, but you have to keep at it and stay in shape, plus my wife, Nancy, says I’ve always been pretty competitive,” Carroll said.

Carroll has been participating in the Senior Olympics for just over 20 years and has since that time earned more than 70 medals. He said he hopes and plans to stay on the team and keep competing as long as he can.

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Nihilistic Security Questions for Seniors One of the funnier Facebook posts going around is a list of Nihilistic Security Questions. Instead of frothy ones like “What is the name of your first pet?” it includes such witty inquiries as “What is the name of your least favorite child?” and “In what city did you first experience ennui?” I decided to have some fun with similarly nihilistic questions for seniors. As you might expect, this column pretty much wrote itself. Herewith, a score of them for you to chose from.

11. How many cats could you have before your spouse would threaten to leave you? (And how close are you to your limit?)

12. How many times have you left your cane on the bus or commuter train?

13. How many miles can you drive at night before the halos around the street lights drive you crazy?

14. How many bridges are you willing to drive across in Rhode Island before you feel the trip is just too 1. How soon before your planned far to be worth it? retirement date did you realize you couldn’t afford to retire then, es- 15. What is your favorite place to pecially if you wanted to live in a hide in your house when you see condo community where the asso- someone coming up the walk and ciation does all the yard work and you’re just not in the mood to answer the door (even if you know snow removal? them)?

2. How many cans of beer can you drink before you forget which color 16. How old were you when you realized you no longer understood trash bin the empty ones go into? the difference between collecting 3. How many times a night do you things and hoarding? get out of bed to go to the bathroom, especially after you’ve had a 17. Which emergency service provider do you have on speed dial few beers? and how many times have you 4. What is the name of your favorite called them in the past year?

OTC acid-reflux medication and is it effective for a meal with lots of to- 18. What is the epitaph you’ve decided upon for your tombstone? mato sauce?

And for your spouse’s tombstone?

5. How many pairs of cheap magnifying readers do have around your 19. Name your favorite rock ’n’ roll house and what number magnifica- star who died before you graduated from high school. (Choose carefultion are they? ly: this one could give away your 6. How many inches have you shrunk age.) in the past 5 years?

7. How long does it take you to get into a pair of Spanx? And how many minutes does it take to get out of them? (And yes, men are eligible to use this question, too.)

And finally: 20. How many Facebook friends did you change to “acquaintance” (or un-friend) during the 2016 Presidential election season?

8. How many pairs of footwear do Copyright 2017 Business Theatre Unlimited you own that have Velcro closures Elaine M. Decker’s books include Retirement on them?

Sparks, Retirement Sparks Again, Retirement Sparks Redux and CANCER: A Coping Guide.

9. What is the minimum diameter the Her essays appear in the anthologies: 80 Things buttons on a garment must have be- To Do When You Turn 80 and 70 Things To fore you’ll even try it on in a store? Do When You Turn 70. All are available on

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The Elusive Lemur & Me I need my occasional obsessions: they give me a sense of purpose. If I can’t find what I seek, I murmur to myself that the pursuit itself counts. Some seasons ago I saw a flick at the Mall --a 3D documentary titled “The Lemurs of Madagascar”. A lady from around here made it her personal obsession to save the two surviving species of lemur from extinction the large and the small. These close cousins of ours (you can google them to confirm this genetic claim) are threatened by both Industry and Agriculture. Human primates need more territory, so they “clear” the forests for farming. Or “develop” the deep wilderness of this exotic island to make parking space for manufacturing businesses, factory answers to the expanding demands of our ever-growing people-population upon the poor planet.

Well, the lady brought up the subject, and my alumni(ae) magazine reports, under the headling “”Orphaned Trees in the Rain Forest” subtitled “Some Tree Species Will not Survive without Lemurs” that these ecological emergencies concern us all.

And then, two friends of mine, Liza, a Rhode Islander from Warwick and Coventry, and her Texan son Zachary, went to Madagascar and sent me a portrait of the pair of them with lemurs on their arms, bidding them farewell with hopes for the spreading of respect and good will for their kind! Anyway, that’s what I got from those images on my face-book screen.

I had a few days in July to roam around our colony, and took a high-speed ferry to Block Island in hopes of finding my lemur in the Abrams Animal Ark. You must have heard about this remarkable and happy version of peaceful Noah’s respect for All Life, it’s a two minute stroll from Old Harbor where the ferry lands and from which it departs. That was all in a brief rapid morning.

Jerusalem to Galilee past Hope and Despair islands and on to the Eden with its rare, and also common, creatures listed in Genesis in the Bible. There are two, among several other, kinds of lemurs, the smallest is called the “Mouse Lemur” and the largest is even more endangered by its co-dependent relationship to the great trees of that island empire. Neither can long survive without the other.

I was unable to find my lemur! Its habitat was being re-designed, and it was in hiding in secrecy, and the tourists had to be satisfied with a Vietnamese piglet and some friendly burros and tall birds from afar off. And some signage.

I was chatting about my disappointment at a drugstore in town, and the friendly clerk said to me, “But there is a lemur right here close-by in Roger Williams Park!” So I made my way there at once, smirking to myself that we always find what we seek right under our feet, you don’t need a jet plane or a limousine large or small. But I was met at the opening of the zoo by the animal docent staff and they informed me, “We USED to have a lemur but alas, no more! only a stuffed specimen. We can show you other monkeys though.”

I sighed and sadly smiled and moved on, first stopping on Verndale Avenue that abuts the zoo, to peer at the house I had once lived in from birth to age 3. I know that in a straw stroller I first discovered all the beautiful beings of this great world, the most beautiful of all, my mother, pushing the carriage and presenting me folklorically to the world of living wonders shaped by God, as if reality were designed by Walt Disney!

I had to be temporarily satisfied with doll trophies, I mean toy stuffed cotton lemurs to amuse a grand-daughter or an art student visiting my office.

I have however another chance this summer to satisfy and quell my obsession, summer 2017, but I will have to brave the humid heat of Washington, D.C. My son-in-law works in the Justice Department and dwells with my daughter and their two little girls but a few blocks from the National Zoo! And they DO have lemurs there, at least he reassures me that the government doesn’t make dishonest claims about its menagerie. Please, wish me luck with this August adventure!

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Lyme Disease prevention URI-led program first in nation to provide treatment from pharmacists that could prevent Lyme Disease In the first program of its kind in the nation, local pharmacies are offering eligible consumers on-site antibiotic treatment to reduce the chance of developing Lyme disease.

The initiative is the result of collaborative practice agreements among the University of Rhode Island College of Pharmacy, Green Line Apothecary in South Kingstown, Seaside Pharmacy in Westerly and Dr. Fredric Silverblatt, an infectious disease specialist with South County Health. As part of the agreements, Anita Jacobson, clinical associate professor of pharmacy at URI and the program catalyst, trains pharmacists to provide the service, and Silverblatt acts as the clinical overseer.

In June, Green Line Apothecary, owned by pharmacist Christina Procaccianti, became the nation’s first pharmacy to provide the single, 200-milligram dose of doxycycline on site without a doctor’s order. “It’s been much more popular than I thought it would be,” said Procaccianti, who administered about 20 doses in the first three weeks. “It’s been very rewarding. If this can help prevent one case of Lyme disease, it’s worth it.”

Prompt treatment with the antibiotic doxycycline is crucial to successful treatment of the tick-borne illness, and making it readily available without a doctor’s visit could help reduce the incidence of Lyme disease, Jacobson said. In fact, a 2001 study published in the New Eng-

Anita Jacobson, clinical associate professor at URI’s College of Pharmacy, is pictured with pharmacist Christina Procaccianti at her business, Green Line Apothecary in South Kingstown. The independent pharmacy is the first in the nation to offer a singe-dose of doxycycline as a Lyme disease preventive without a doctor’s order. (Photo by Nora Lewis/URI)

Those eligible receive single dose of antibiotics at pharmacy, without doctor visit land Journal of Medicine reported that such prophylactic treatment can reduce the risk of developing Lyme Disease by 87 percent.

“Due to the time-sensitivity of treatment, community pharmacies like Green Line and Seaside are ideal practice locations,” Jacobson said. “The availability and convenience of a pharmacy are important to potentially preventing development of Lyme disease.”

William Quirk, a URI pharmacy alumnus, will soon offer the program at Seaside Pharmacy.

The service fits easily into Procaccianti’s practice. “It takes about the same time as filling a prescription, and it is exciting for the students (URI pharmacy interns) who get a chance to see a collaborative practice agreement in a real-life setting,” she said.

The ease of pharmacy-based care is particularly beneficial to tourists and others from out of town who might not get to their own doctor for days or whose doctors might not recognize Lyme disease symptoms, Jacobson noted. Procaccianti said she has treated several tourists who learned of the service at local hotels.

Pharmacists assess the customers and determine whether they meet U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention criteria. The antibiotic can be given only to patients who are at least 8 years old, have had a deer tick attached to the body for at least 36 hours and have removed it no more than 72 hours prior. The protocol is only effective as prophylaxis against Lyme disease, not other tick-borne illnesses.

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Procaccianti said she has turned away customers who either did not meet the criteria or removed insects that were not ticks. She said education is an important part of the service, and to this end, she provides interested customers with a detailed handout on tick-borne illnesses, treatment and prevention.

Jacobson conceived the idea in 2012, and with pharmacy colleagues Kelly Orr and Jeffrey Bratberg, conducted a research study to determine the efficacy and practicality of offering the treatment in community pharmacies. The study was a success: No subjects developed Lyme Disease after receiving the treatment or developed serious adverse effects.

“The only way we could have pharmacists initiate antibiotic therapy was for it to be a research study,” Jacobson said, explaining that the practice required a research exemption from the Rhode Island Board of Pharmacy.

Jacobson then collaborated with the Rhode Island Pharmacists Association and the Rhode Island Society of HealthSystem Pharmacists to pass legislation in the state’s General Assembly in 2016 expanding pharmacists’ role to include initiation of drug therapies under collaborative practice agreements.

Any pharmacy in Rhode Island can participate once its pharmacists receive training at URI and it is part of a collaborative practice agreement with a doctor.

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Sandi Ruggiero, a 61-year-old Warwick resident, swims in the games.

Ruggiero said that she started her athletic career in running and participated in countless marathons, but following foot surgery, she found herself in the pool.

“I swam when I was young, but after high school I didn’t anymore,” Ruggiero said. “But when I couldn’t run for a while because of my foot surgery I returned to the pool and immediately remembered how much I enjoyed it.

“I never did get a coach or anything like that, I just swam at the municipal pool near where I live and a woman there came over to me while I was swimming one day and said ‘you swim like the 70s’ and I told her that was about right because that was when I was swimming last,” Ruggiero said. “But she was really nice and showed me some drills to correct my old technique which has obviously helped a lot.”

Since that time, Ruggiero has participated in a multitude of swimming meets and other events as well as a handful of Senior Olympics National games. She won the bronze medal in the 2015 Minnesota National Games and said that she typically earns a spot in the top 10 in most events that she participates in. She said that she averages around 7 minutes and 30 seconds for the 500 meter race.

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As the games coordinator, it is Lyons who typically organizes the local events.

He said that he felt called to the position after he first came to the games as a television broadcaster covering the National Games as an assignment.

“It was 1978 and I was working as a TV sports caster for Channel 6 when I covered these games and I remember being amazed at all of these seniors and how hard they were working,” said Lyons. “It just never left me so once I became of age, I had to get involved and now I am one of them and I am proud to say that we do OK for a bunch of old guys!”

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The Walk to End Alzheimer’s is more than a walk. It is an experience for 3,000 participants who will learn about Alzheimer’s disease and how to get involved with this critical cause, from advocacy opportunities, the latest in Alzheimer’s research and clinical trial enrollment to support programs and services. Each walker will also join in a ceremony to honor those affected by Alzheimer’s disease.

Alzheimer’s disease is a growing epidemic and is now the nation’s sixth-leading cause of death. As baby boomers age, the number of individuals living with Alzheimer’s disease will rapidly escalate, increasing well beyond today’s more than 5 million Americans living with Alzheimer’s. In addition to the 3.5 mile walk at Fort Adams in Newport and through Roger Williams Park in Providence, there will be exhibitor tents and giveaways, refreshments, entertainment and a special tribute to those who have experienced or are experiencing Alzheimer’s with the Flower Garden Ceremony. Start or join a team today at alz.org/ri “There has never been a greater need for the citizens of Rhode Island to join in the fight against Alzheimer’s disease by participating in Walk to End Alzheimer’s,” said Donna McGowan, Alzheimer’s Association Rhode Island Chapter Executive Director. “Funds raised will provide care and support services to the 23,000 Rhode Island residents living with Alzheimer’s, while also contributing to advancing critically-needed research.”

About the Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s: The Alzheimer’s Association Walk to End Alzheimer’s is the nation’s largest event to raise awareness and funds for Alzheimer’s care, support and research. Since 1989, the Alzheimer’s Association mobilized millions of Americans in the Alzheimer’s Association Memory Walk®; now the Alzheimer’s Association is continuing to lead the way with Walk to End Alzheimer’s. Together, we can end Alzheimer’s – the nation’s sixth-leading cause of death.

About the Alzheimer’s Association Rhode Island Chapter The Rhode Island Chapter provides programs and services include a 24/7 Helpline, Support Groups, Training for Families, Early Stage Social Engagement Program, Newsletters, Advocacy, Resource Library, Conferences, Lectures, and special fundraising events. Office is located at 245 Waterman Street, Suite 306, Providence, RI 02906. Phone: 800-272-3900, Fax: 401-421-0115, Website: www.alz.org/ri

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Five Rhode Islanders Pen World War ii History Did you know that there was a U.S. Air Force base located in Warwick during World War II? And that the Cranston Arms Corporation manufactured Johnson semiautomatic rifles and machine guns for the Marine Corps and the Dutch Army?

These are two of many ways that our small state participated in the war effort, told in a fascinating book written by five Rhode Island historians, telling of Rhode Island’s important contributions to World War II. Chapters are written by Christian McBurney, publisher of the “Online Review of R.I. History”; Brian L. Wallin, trustee of the Varnum Amory Museum; Patrick T. Conley, President of the R.I. Heritage Hall of Fame; John W. Kennedy, who served as Director of Education and Outreach at the Naval War College Museum at Newport; and Maureen A. Taylor, author of 16 books, including R.I. History.

The paperback book contains many old photos of the war effort in Rhode Island, including the Newport Naval Torpedo Station, the PT Boat training center, and the famous Quonset Huts developed at Quonset Point.

Quonset Point, the largest naval air station in the Northeast, played a major role in the war, while nearby Davisville was the home of the Seabees.

Jamestown and Narragansett (now the site of the URI bay campus) were homes to top secret POW camps.

Thousands of workers in Rhode Island were a part of the war effort, a disproportionate number when compared to other states. Many of the women of Rhode Island served as nurses and workers in manufacturing plants.

The comprehensive book is filled with information about the effect that the pearl Harbor attack had on Rhode Islanders, the growth of naval activity and its effect on Aquidneck Island, and the Battle of Point Judith.

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One of the most devastating hurricanes to make landfall in Rhode Island began as a tropical disturbance in the Bahamas. By the time Hurricane Carol slammed into the Ocean State on August 25, 1954, it had torn up the southern New England coastline leaving more than 60 persons dead and hundreds of millions of dollars in property destruction in its wake. To those people who were old enough, Carol brought back memories of the unnamed hurricane of 1938.

The coastal communities of Newport, Westerly, Warwick, and the Edgewood section of Cranston and Providence faced the brunt of Carol’s wrath. By the time Carol finally left the battered state, 19 people had perished, 4,000 homes were obliterated or washed out to sea, 90 million dollars in damage had been wrought, 200 boats were smashed into timber, and downtown Providence was submerged under 12 feet of flood waters. Some reports pegged Carol’s maximum wind speed at 125 mph. On Block Island, the wind speed was clocked at an astounding 135 mph. The power and impact of Carol was so impressive that the name was removed from the national hurricane roster for 10 years!

My recollections of August 25 are anchored in the powerful images of nature’s fury as seen through the eyes of a five year old, my age in 1954. My grandfather owned a small one-room beach shack in the Conimicut Beach section of Warwick. I slept on a cot (I guess) on the small screened in front porch when we stayed with my grandfather. Shortly after school let out for the summer, many families who, were related to each other one way or another, packed up their belongings and moved from living next to each other on Crary Street in South Providence to almostnext to each other in what de facto became Crary Street South in Conimicut.

Earlier that summer, we had stopped at the local hardware store in Conimicut to buy streamers for handgrips on my bicycle. I spent many glorious summer hours pedaling up and down the street fast enough to make the streamers fly in the wind! On weekends, my father and uncles would drive “down beach” to dig for quahogs. What they did not eat right there on the spot would be put into the gravy for the spaghetti and quahog feast that night.

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angry dark sky. While we would have frequent short rain showers during the summer, these threatening clouds were buffeted by very strong winds. The tall, slender tree in the small front yard was nearly bent in two. Looking towards another section of Conimicut cove, I saw walls of brown water raging over the beach and just beginning to spill on to the road.

Not too long after (a five year-old kid’s memory of time has certain gaps), my father drove to the beach to take my mother, my one-year old sister, and my grandfather home and out of harm’s way. My grandfather refused to leave.

The reason was much more financially motivated than sentimental. True to many of his generation who distrusted banks after the Great Depression, they kept their money with them and hide it in curious places. During the winter, he kept it in the freezer and hidden in several places around his house. In the summer, he carted it to the beach house and stored it in a locked cast iron stove in a shed.

While I don’t remember the words in the obviously testy exchange between my father and grandfather, my father’s ultimatum was perfectly clear. He would

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take his family home and if my grandfather wanted to stay and perish with his money, he could. While my grandfather did choose to leave with us, I remember watching him struggle against powerful winds to retrieve his “fortune.”

Many days after the hurricane, when we were allowed to return to the site of shack to assess the damage Carol had caused. Astonishment quickly overwhelmed curiosity. Nothing was left.

Not a shingle, not a window, not a wall, no clothing, no appliances, and certainly not that cast iron stove/safe. Carol, the giant eraser, had obliterated the shack and any traces of time spent there.

Ironically, 63 years later, that small plot of land is still unoccupied. It stands as a ghostly reminder of lost summers.

On August 31, 1954, the Providence Journal published “Hurricane Carol Lashes Rhode Island.” This impressive collection of photos and news stories from August 25 and the aftermath gives the reader some insight as to the fury of the storm. From time to time, I re-read my faded copy. Copies are available on line.

Every year when the names of the potential hurricanes are announced, my memory re-plays the vivid images

Health-wise Community Conversations: Optimism, Joy & Resilience in Aging Home Care Assistance of Rhode Island in partnership with Atria Harborhill in East Greenwich invites you to a conversation about the benefits of singing and mindful breathing in an enriching conversation on Thursday, August 10, 3:30-5:30 PM. Open to the public, community partners, seniors and their families.

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of nature’s raw power unfold before his eyes. I see my grandfather battling wind and rain to get to his money and think of the adage, “A fool and his money are soon parted.” In his case, it would have read, “A fool and his money were soon departed.”

I suppose that many of us who survived August 25, 1954 have measured other hurricanes to Carol when comparing the devastation, property loss, and human loss that each storm imposes on our community. As seen through the eyes of a five year-old, such comparisons are meaningless because they diminish the terrifying impact of I was seen that day, first hand.

Larry Grimaldi is a retired freelance writer living in North Providence. Comments can be e-mailed to lgrimaldi49@gmail.com

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