50plus LIFE Chester County August 2016

Complimentary | Chester County Edition | August 2016 • Vol. 13 No. 8

Dirty Hands Unearth Health and Happiness page 4

Dating When a Spouse Has Alzheimer’s page 11

‘Roots’ Series Reimagined page 14

Art & Antiques by Dr. Lori

Decorating with Family Heirlooms Lori Verderame

There is an overwhelming abundance of home-makeover TV shows and online blogs about redecorating, redesigning, and reconsidering the objects with which we live.

Antiques and family heirlooms are front and center when it comes to innovative design. Here are some decorating tips that might prove fun and interesting.

Arrange Collections Architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was onto something when he said, “Less is more.” Even large collections can look organized if they are arranged well.

Put antique collections together by size, material, color, or texture.

This method shows both a collection’s similarities and differences.

This is a statement wall. Put your best object right there with pride.

Organization of a collection shows that you have given some thought to your collection and its arrangement.

Family Friendly If you have an object that has been handed The Front is down in the family Foremost over the years, consider When you enter designing a room any room in your home, there is one around it.

Ironstone mixing bowl in foyer atop a repurposed chest.

If you have your wall that is right in front of you or one grandmother’s Regina music box dating back to the early wall that you focus on the most.

1900s, feature it proudly where This wall is the starting point for everyone can admire it. any design concept, and in museums Is that antique parlor chair from the it is called the confrontation wall— aptly named as it is the first wall you Victorian period or cut-glass punch bowl looking for a new space to show confront. This wall shouts out for something important, big, colorful, or its stuff? Take it out of the living room where it may get lost in the array of bright.

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Use objects to let your family history shine. For instance, I have my father’s war medals proudly displayed in my home library along with World War II literature and military scrapbooks.

Talk about the origin of these special old pieces and let your history speak through heirloom objects throughout your home.

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The Beauty in Nature

Fall Webworms Clyde McMillan-Gamber

During late July and all of August in Central Pennsylvania, as across much of eastern North America, we see large sheets of webbing wrapped over whole branches of the abundant black walnut and hickory trees.

Those webs, made by hundreds of fall webworm caterpillar siblings—the offspring of a small, mostly white moth—engulf the leaves of entire limbs.

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At Your Fingertips Helpful numbers, hotlines, and local businesses and organizations eager to serve you—all just a phone call away.

Continuing Care Retirement Communities Moravian Manor 300 W. Lemon St., Lititz (717) 626-0214

Arthritis Foundation (215) 665-9200

JEWELERS American Gold & Estate Buyers, Inc. 363 E. Lincoln Highway, Exton (484) 872-8216

Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (800) 232-4636

Legal Services Lawyer Referral Service (610) 429-1500

Coatesville VA Medical Center (610) 383-7711

Legal Aid of Southeastern PA (610) 436-4510

Chester County Emergency Services (610) 344-5000

Domestic Violence (800) 799-7233

Salvation Army Coatesville (610) 384-2954

National Osteoporosis Foundation (800) 223-9994

Pine and Pine Law Offices 104 S. Church St., West Chester (610) 344-7100

Salvation Army West Chester (610) 696-8746

PACE (800) 225-7223

Nutrition Meals on Wheels Chester County Inc. (610) 430-8500

Emergency Numbers Central PA Poison Center (800) 521-6110

Senior Healthlink (610) 431-1852

Pennsylvania Hunger Action Center (800) 366-3997

Social Security Administration (800) 772-1213

Office of Aging Chester County Department of Aging Services (610) 344-6350

Disasters American Red Cross Greater Brandywine (610) 692-1200

Office of Aging (610) 344-6350/(800) 692-1100 Financial Services Internal Revenue Service (800) 829-3676 Fitness Aquatics Is, Inc. (484) 354-2720 Funeral & Cremation Services Cremation Society of Pennsylvania Serving Chester County (800) 720-8221 Health & Medical Services Alzheimer’s Association (800) 272-3900 American Cancer Society (800) 227-2345 www.50plusLifePA.com

American Heart Association (610) 940-9540

Southeastern PA Medical Institute (610) 446-0662 Hearing Services Advanced Hearing Solutions 111 Arrandale Blvd., Exton (610) 968-1039 Pennsylvania Office for the Deaf and Hard of Hearing (800) 233-3008 V/TTY Housing Assistance Community Impact Legal Services (610) 876-0804 Housing Authority of Chester County (610) 436-9200

Physicians Gateway Medical Associates Locations in Coatesville, Downingtown, Lionville, and West Chester (610) 423-8181 Senior Centers Coatesville (610) 383-6900 Downingtown (610) 269-3939 Great Valley (610) 889-2121

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Olivia’s House, a grief and

By Sam Peeples loss center for children.

Of course, she makes Driving up to Melanie sure to spare plenty Markowski’s house, the of time for her own butterfly garden sits backyard. Each side of prominently in the front the house is surrounded yard. It is filled with by greenery, whether it is flowers of cool lavender, a row of bushes and trees pink, and white and or carefully constructed surrounded by plants flowerbeds. specially chosen to provide “I love doing theme for every stage of a gardens. I have a butterfly butterfly’s lifecycle.

Markowski’s kitchen herb garden contains garden, a hummingbird Following the short 20 favorite herbs. garden, and colorwalkway to her front door coordinated gardens,” is another bed of reds Markowski said. “I love and yellows supported by matching the gardens with shrubs and berry bushes. the color of the house.”

Right away, it is evident While the front yard is that nature is important in centered on the butterfly her life and has been for a garden and flowers from long time. friends, the back and sides Markowski’s first of the yard provide their memory is of planting lima own beauty. beans in June.

A small herb garden sits “When they pop up out in pots growing thyme, of the ground, they have parsley, and oregano. these little dirt caps. I went A wooden tub The Green Thumb out and picked up all the pollinator garden of Garden Club’s memorial Her shed is surrounded by wildflowers and selfdirt caps because I thought annual flowers. garden of native plants seeding plants that provide I was helping them be in a local park. cover for a small pond born. I don’t think Dad beloved by frogs. appreciated that.”

Another pond sits by Markowski is a longtime all their attendees. the fence’s gate with fish enjoying member and current vice president The club has been consistently shade from nearby trees. And just of the Green Thumb Garden active within the community. off of her patio sits a bed of silver Club. She joined when one of She and the other members are plants promising to glow the next the group’s founding members, responsible for planting and time there’s moonlight.

Lucretia Fake, invited her to a maintaining the flowerbeds Markowski’s love of gardening meeting one day. surrounding the town square and extends beyond the confines of “Lucretia invited me to a its borough’s four welcome signs. her own backyard or the Green meeting in 1997 and I promptly They also manage a native Thumb Gardening Club. joined,” she said. “It’s amazing plant memorial garden at a park For 15 years she ran the how you can grow up right next to and playground to honor club afterschool Junior Garden something and never hear of it.” members who have passed on.

Program for a local elementary Since joining the Green Members donate plants to an school. More than 250 students Thumbs, Markowski has been annual yard sale, and last year’s passed through the program and both correspondence secretary and proceeds were enough to create 2,000 more toured the gardens membership chair. Her secretarial two $500 scholarships for local and learned about local wildlife. duties consisted of writing letters, students pursuing gardening“I very much enjoyed running keeping members informed of related fields. an afterschool Junior Garden events, and sharing incoming Club members engage the Program with a focus on correspondence. residents of Victorian Villa in gardening for wildlife,” she said.

As chair, she reached out to horticultural therapy, teaching “Since that program has ended, potential members and invited them to create floral designs and them to meetings, welcoming new gardens. And during the holidays, Green Thumb and I have been members and maintaining a list of they decorate a Christmas tree for looking into another way to reach www.50plusLifePA.com

out to children.”

She and Green Thumb also host a series of library lectures every fourth Thursday of the month. These lessons include herb growing, how to cut down on labor, making special gardens and orchards, and even a topiary demo for the holidays.

She is also happy to see local schools continuing their commitment to gardening and the outdoors.

“Since the war gardens of World War I and the victory gardens of World War II, school curriculums have included gardening,” Markowski said. “I am very happy to see a lot of schools receive grants and set up gardening programs.”

Whether it is in her home or throughout her county, Markowski is truly passionate about horticulture.

She believes in its benefits enough to recommend gardening to anyone

who has even a passing interest in working with plants.

“I hope that everyone plants a garden with their families; whether it’s flowers or vegetables, digging in the dirt helps to keep you healthy,” she said. “It doesn’t matter if you live in an apartment, the suburbs, or on a high-rise with a balcony. If you have land, plant what you enjoy, can afford, and can take care of.

“And if you really don’t like to dig in the dirt, then go outside and enjoy the efforts of others as you tour the many beautiful parks and gardens throughout Pennsylvania and beyond.”

For more information on the Green Thumb Garden Club, go to their website (http://gardenclubofyork. com), email info@gardenclubyork. com, or contact Markowski at (717) 244-8476 or mmarkowski@juno. com.

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Salute to a Veteran

Robert D. Wilcox

He Flew the Dreaded Hump, Delivering Supplies that Kept China in the War

When Newton Dana graduated from Trenton High School in 1941 at age 17, he enrolled at Ohio State University. But by the end of his sophomore year there, the draft was about to pay him a visit.

So he decided to enlist in the Army Air Corps, and he headed for Atlantic City, New Jersey, for basic training.

He was then selected for the aviation cadet program, and after completing primary, basic, and advanced flight training, he won his wings and became a flight officer.

He then joined the crew of a fourengine B-24 Liberator bomber as copilot in late 1944 and was on his way east across the Atlantic, Africa, and the Near East to India. From there, the crew flew the Hump to their base in China, where they flew as members of the Flying Tigers.

Their crew’s bombing missions were against the Japaneseoccupied facilities along the eastern part of China, tearing up bridges, marshalling yards, and airfields.

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Bridge that spanned the river that is China’s second longest and the cradle of Chinese civilization.

The bridge would have supplied the Japanese their all-essential access to the Chinese heartland.

When the list of consequential Newton Dana with the PT-17 Stearman he targets ran thin in early flew in primary flight training.

1945, Dana

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and his crew were assigned to fly the Hump back to Chabua, India, to join the planes that were flying the Hump around the clock, carrying fuel, ammo, and supplies of all other kinds to China.

Flying the Hump had begun in early 1942, when the Japanese advance had taken Burma and had sealed off the Burma Road, which had permitted trucks to carry drastically needed supplies to the Chinese.

That 1,000-mile roundtrip airlift turned out to be an extremely hazardous undertaking for our flight crews. Planes flew around the clock over high mountains and deep gorges between Burma and China.

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feet into the skies. There was violent turbulence—with winds of 200 mph—huge downdrafts, and icing, and wild weather as a daily threat.

Also, there was a severe lack of suitable charts and an absence of navigational equipment, like radio beacons. Airlift crews were said to have faced a 1-in-3 chance of being killed.

On the ground, there were not enough mechanics or spare parts to go around, so maintenance and engine overhauls were often deferred. Many overloaded planes crashed on takeoff when they lost an engine.

Author and ATC pilot Ernest Gann remembers flying into Chabua and seeing four air crashes in one day: two C-47s and two C-87s.

But, each year the tonnage carried to China increased significantly, with more planes flying, more flight crews, and more mechanics to keep them in the air.

The weather, however, remained lethal.

“Those downdrafts were a special horror,” Dana says. “Once, one grabbed us and dropped us 4,000 feet like we were on an elevator. Nothing

we could do about it. Luckily, we were “They’d have made a good tree still above the tops of the mountains house back home,” Dana remembers. … although barely.

How about the food?

“There were plenty of crashed “Typically, in China it was airplanes below us, so many that C-rations we were delivering. In it used to be called ‘an aluminum India you felt like you hadn’t lived undercast.’” until you had An Air some Buffalo Force report cacciatore.” said, “A Gen. byproduct of William the numerous Tunner, air crashes was who had a local boom commanded in native wares the last phases made from of the Hump, aluminum later wrote, crash debris.”

“Once the What airlift got A B-24 like the one Dana flew makes a happened underway, high-altitude turn in the clouds. when a Hump every drop of flight got to China? fuel, every weapon, and every round “Usually, when we got there, they of ammunition, and 100 percent of unloaded everything but the meager such diverse supplies as carbon paper load of fuel aboard that would get and C-rations, every such item used by us back to India, and then sent us American forces in China was flown back over the Hump to fly another in by air. mission,” Dana says.

“Never in the history of When he had a chance to grab transportation had any community some rest between missions, what been supplied such a large proportion were the quarters like? of its needs by air, even in the heart

of civilization over friendly terrain.

After the Hump, those of us who had developed an expertise in air transportation knew that we could fly anything, anywhere, anytime.”

The dropping of the atomic bombs brought about the surrender of Japan on Aug. 15, 1945, but the Hump flying went on until China could be supplied reliably from the ground.

And on Sept. 17, Dana and his crew headed their B-24 back to the U.S., where they were discharged at Fort Dix, New Jersey.

Dana returned to Ohio State to earn his degree in animal husbandry before forging a career as general manager of the family’s Dana Packing Company, in Wrightstown, New Jersey. He came to Central Pennsylvania to be close to his daughter.

Asked if he now thinks often of those days of bombing China and flying the Hump, he says quietly, “When you have memories like those, you’ll have them with you the rest of your life.”

Col. Wilcox flew a B-17 bomber in Europe in World War II.

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CCRCs enable older adults to remain in one care system for the duration of their lives, with much of their future care already figured out—creating both comfort and peace of mind.

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Dating When a Spouse Has Alzheimer’s Tom Blake

One of the most difficult and controversial senior-relationship topics that readers bring up is dating when a spouse has Alzheimer’s.

A woman, age 71, said, “I am dating a man, age 76, whose wife has Alzheimer’s and is very well cared for in an expensive facility. He visits her daily, sometimes as much as three times a day. They had a 35year marriage in which he raised her children, and he considers them equally his own.

“Here is my dilemma. I don’t doubt that he loved his wife, and still does as much as he can. But in his online dating profile (how I met him), he said he has more love to give than his wife can accept. That is kind of awkward wording, but I knew what he was trying to say.

“I do not think he is morally bad for seeking companionship, since his wife has been going downhill for five years and has been in this facility for the past three years. But his children do not like the idea of their father going out with other women. They know that he is, but they have told him, ‘We don’t want to hear about it.’

“That puts me in the ‘other woman’ category. I feel ‘back door’ and it doesn’t feel good. I have never asked to go with him to visit his wife. I find myself feeling resentful about the position this puts me in. I know he is happy with me as he has told me he loves me and often speaks of

our future together.

“But I also know that he will always be in touch with his children, who will probably ask at some point if I was ‘dating’ their father while their mother was still alive. I don’t want to be a pariah when the day comes that his wife passes away.

“Would it be reasonable or fair of me to tell him that unless I can be part of his life now, e.g., visit his wife in the facility and not be hidden from his children, I cannot go on this way?

“If I cannot go to the facility, then perhaps his wife is not really ‘that far along’ after all. Maybe she has another three or four years to go. I don’t want to be ‘backdoor Dora’ for the next four years. Please help me understand my situation better.”

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sick she really is. That is totally wrong and disrespectful. She has no business going there.

Next, she worries about how his stepchildren view her. She’s not going to be able to change that either.

Probably ever. After all, the ill woman is the children’s mother.

So, either she accepts the situation the way it is, stays in the background, and stops worrying so much about herself, or she needs to exit the relationship. I find her motives and dilemma to be her problem.

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The old radio brother might be able soundman scratched to do something with his head. Those the words as song lyrics scraggly, hippieabout a young city guy looking musicians had being out on a summer requested his entire night. sound effects collection The elder Sebastian of traffic noises. They said he’d take a look had even asked him to but then saw only two include the sound of lines he liked: a jackhammer. They But at night it’s a said all the noise would different world/Go out show up on their next and find a girl record.

Working with Steve “Summer in the City” The elderly Boone, Sebastian The Lovin’ Spoonful gentleman rolled fashioned the poem August 1966 his eyes. Whatever into a winning musical happened to “normal” music? And just composition that included the novelty what kind of oddball name was the of urban sound effects.

Lovin’ Spoonful, anyway?

“We listened for hours to various Harmonica player/autoharpist John traffic-jam noises and car horns Sebastian and guitarist Zal Yanovsky and selected the ones we wanted,” had played in a bohemian Greenwich Sebastian explained to Fred Bronson Village jug band/folk group called the in The Billboard Book of Number 1 Mugwumps, which included future Hits. “We found [the sound of] a Mamas and Papas members Cass pneumatic hammer to provide for that Elliot and Denny Doherty. section and put it all together.”

Seeking a new direction, Sebastian “Summer in the City” proved to and Yanovsky eventually left the band, be another winner for the Big Apple recruited drummer/vocalist Joe Butler boys. Musicologist Toby Cresswell, and bassist Steve Boone, and formed in his book 1001 Songs, enthuses, the Lovin’ Spoonful. For the name, “The pounding bass and drums with Sebastian had lifted a lyric phrase from staccato organ jabs build an intense “Coffee Blues,” an obscure song by an mood that’s shattered by the sound old bluesman named Mississippi John effects of jackhammers and car horns.

Hurt.

This really is the sound of the city After gigging in New York City and the promise of excitement and clubs for a while, the bluesy folkies adventure to be had in the streets and signed with the fledgling Kama Sutra nightclubs.”

Records label and quickly found “Summer in the City” gave the success when the group racked up five Lovin’ Spoonful its sixth winning Top Ten singles in as many releases. single and their only No. 1 release.

Now pressure was on to keep the There’s no way to calculate just winning streak alive. No problem. To how much the added sound effects the Lovin’ Spoonful, “Summer in the contributed to the million-seller’s City” had hit written all over it. popularity. Maybe not much, really.

The future ’60s classic had begun as For all the time and effort spent on the a freshman English class poem written project, the entire gimmick lasts all of by the younger brother of Spoonful eight seconds. leader John Sebastian.

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Chester County

Support Groups Free and open to the public Aug. 9, 7 p.m.

Hearing Loss Support Group Christ Community Church 1190 Phoenixville Pike, West Chester (610) 444-445 www.hearinglosschesco.com

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Grief Support Group Phoenixville Senior Center 153 Church St., Phoenixville (610) 327-7216 Aug. 2 and 16, 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Bereavement Support Group Brandywine Hospital Conference Room 2N 201 Reeceville Road, Coatesville (610) 998-1700, ext. 226 Aug. 2, 16, 30, 5 to 6:30 p.m.

Bereavement Support Group Main Line Unitarian Church 816 S. Valley Forge Road, Devon (610) 585-6604 phoenixbereavement@yahoo.com Nondenominational; all are welcome.

Aug. 3, 6 p.m.

Memory Loss and Dementia Support Group Sunrise Assisted Living of Paoli 324 W. Lancaster Ave., Malvern (610) 251-9994 Aug. 8 and 22, 10:30 a.m. to noon Caregiver Support Group Adult Care of Chester County 201 Sharp Lane, Exton (610) 363-8044

Aug. 9 and 23, 6:30 to 8 p.m.

Bereavement Support Group Jennersville Hospital Conference Room B 1015 W. Baltimore Pike, West Grove (610) 998-1700, ext. 226 Aug. 10, 1:30 p.m.

Family Caregiver Support Group Sarah Care 425 Technology Drive, Suite 200, Malvern (610) 251-0801 Aug. 16, 6 p.m.

Family Caregiver Support Group Sunrise of Westtown 501 Skiles Blvd., West Chester (610) 399-4464 Aug. 31, 6 p.m.

Living with Cancer Support Group Paoli Hospital Cancer Center 255 W. Lancaster Ave., Paoli (484) 565-1253

Community Programs Free and open to the public Aug. 2, 11:30 a.m.

West Chester University Retirees Luncheon For restaurant location, please email darsie@ verizon.net Aug. 4, 7:30 p.m.

Compassionate Friends Valley Forge Chapter Good Shepherd Lutheran Church 132 E. Valley Forge Road, King of Prussia (484) 919-0820 www.tcfvalleyforge.org

Aug. 6 and 20, 5 to 10 p.m.

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Around Town

Hawaiian Day Features Native Dancers

The Downingtown Area Senior Center recently held a Hawaiian Day featuring two young Hawaiian natives, Krisella and Angelia Gabriele. These young ladies pleased a crowd of 60 people with their grace and authentic dancing.

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Senior Center Activities Coatesville Area Senior Center – (610) 383-6900 250 Harmony St., Coatesville www.coatesvilleseniorcenter.org Monthly Veterans Coffee Hour – Call for date and time Aug. 17, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. – Senior Prom – “A Time to Remember” Downingtown Senior Center – (610) 269-3939 983 E. Lancaster Ave., Downingtown www.downingtownseniors.org Great Valley Senior Center – (610) 889-2121 47 Church Road, Malvern Tuesdays, 10 a.m. – Games and Coloring Aug. 17, 11 a. m. – Meal & a Message: Senior Issues with Sen. Dinniman’s Office Aug. 24, 1 p.m. – Meet and Eat at Great American Pub, Paoli Kennett Area Senior Center – (610) 444-4819 427 S. Walnut St., Kennett Square www.kennettseniorcenter.org Oxford Senior Center – (610) 932-5244 12 E. Locust St., Oxford – www.oxfordseniors.org Phoenixville Area Senior Center – (610) 935-1515 153 Church St., Phoenixville – www.phoenixvilleseniorcenter.org West Chester Area Senior Center – (610) 431-4242 530 E. Union St., West Chester – www.wcseniors.org Just a snippet of what you may be missing … please call or visit their website for more information.

Parks And Recreation Aug. 3, 5 to 6 p.m. – Weeding Wednesdays, Springton Manor Farm Butterfly Garden Aug. 13, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. – Old Fiddlers’ Picnic, Hibernia County Park Aug. 26, 6:30 to 8:30 p.m. – Sunset Hike and Campfire, Hibernia County Park

LIBRARY PROGRAMS Downingtown Library, 330 E. Lancaster Ave., Downingtown, (610) 269-2741 Aug. 2 and 16, 6 p.m. – Knitters Club Aug. 8, 6:30 p.m. – Fantasy Book Club Aug. 9, 6:30 p.m. – Film Forum Paoli Library, 18 Darby Road, Paoli, (610) 296-7996 Mystery Book Club – Call for dates/times 50plus LIFE u

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‘Roots’ Series Reimagined for Novel’s 40th Anniversary

By Sam Peeples On May 30, History channel began airing a reimagining of one of the most critically acclaimed series to ever appear on television: an update of the TV miniseries Roots, based on both the novel by Alex Haley and the 1977 television adaptation of the same name.

The four-episode, eight-hour series ran May 30–June 2 starring Malachi Kirby as Kunta Kinte.

History announced production in 2013 after it obtained the rights to the franchise from Mark Wolper, the son of the original series’ producer, and the Haley estate. History commissioned Wolper to produce a contemporary adaptation that drew on both examples of the work.

Roots follows the story of an African adolescent named Kunta Kinte as he is taken from his home and sent to America through the slave trade and renamed Toby by the man who buys him. It then details his experiences as a slave and his descendants’

physical evidence experiences, ending with Alex either provides no Haley himself.

ALEX HALEY proof supporting The novel was first Haley’s story or published in 1976. Haley contradicts it outright. claims that the novel is TOM In addition, people partially autobiographical. from Kinte’s apparent While some plot MATILDA home village of Juffure elements were his own were inconsistent in invention and the corroborating Haley’s book is classified as a CHICKEN GEORGE story, changing novel rather than a TOM LEA details with each historical account, rendition.

Haley purports his KIZZY Even the ancestry to be the village’s griot, same as the one BELLE a professional laid out in the KUNTA KINTE storyteller book.

However, who acts as a repository of many of the BINTA oral history, documents and gave conflicted oral histories OMORO accounts each time Haley used to create he was asked to relate his timeline have the story. proven unreliable.

Juffure itself was An examination of his represented in both the novel and sources by historian Gary B. Mills and genealogist Elizabeth the original series as what it was in Haley’s time rather than Kinte’s. In Shown Mills found that most of the the book, it is said to be a small village several miles from the coast that had FREE PARKING only heard rumors of white men. !

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Accusations of plagiarism also followed the novel. Harold Courlander accused Haley of stealing from his 1967 novel The African, while Margret Walker Alexander claimed her own book, Jubilee (1966), had been plagiarized.

Walker’s case was dismissed in court, the judge claiming that “no actionable similarities” could be found between the works.

Courlander’s suit was settled out of court for $650,000 after Haley admitted to copying several passages from The African.

The original television series premiered just one year after the release of the novel and popularized it with the American public. The series was a great success with both audiences and critics, created a new interest in genealogy among the public, and established the miniseries as a workable format on broadcast television.

In the original series, Levar Burton, of Star Trek: The Next Generation fame, starred as Kunta Kinte. David L. Wolper, Mark Wolper’s father, was the executive producer.

The series drew in the largest audience for any type of television up to that point in U.S. history at 130 million to 140 million viewers. It is regarded as one of the greatest shows to ever play on television.

The new series had a lot to live up to but was able to declare itself a success. Critics gave it near universal acclaim and the majority of audiences followed suit. The series currently holds a 97 percent “fresh” rating on the review-aggregation site Rotten Tomatoes, 83 percent on the similar site Metacritic, and glowing reviews in papers such as the New York Times and the Boston Globe.

All four episodes of the miniseries can be found on History’s website at http://roots.history.com.

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WEBWORMS from page 3 to dark gray and have long, short bristles that protect them from most kinds of birds.

They always stay in their protective, webbed homes and writhe at once if it is disturbed. That massed wiggling scares away or repels most would-be predators. It’s unnerving to me.

The adult moths of fall webworms are furry and mostly white with a few dark spots. There is one generation of them per year in the north and two generations in the south. Adults of this moth appear in midsummer,

beneath tree bark or and each fertilized in leaf litter on the female lays hundreds of eggs in ground. a cluster.

Each fall, The larvae hatch the webworm overwinters in its one week later and pupal stage and become noticeable in their obvious emerges the next webs for about summer as a moth, Photo by Alison Hunter five weeks. Then, ready to mate, Web of fall webworm. lay fertilized eggs each larva leaves its webbed nursery and pantry and on host trees, and die. The next pupates in a thin, brown cocoon of its generation of larvae soon hatches and together the larvae spin silk to form silk, plus debris that camouflages it,

protective, webbed homes.

Two kinds of cuckoos in America, the yellow-billed and the black-billed, specialize in and adapted to eating caterpillars, including fall webworms.

Those birds reach their long, curved beaks into the large webs and pull out webworms until their hunger is satisfied.

Fall webworms are not lovely, but they are not harmful either. They are another interesting part of the Central Pennsylvania landscape late in summer every year.

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