50plus LIFE Lancaster County August 2016

Complimentary | Lancaster County Edition | August 2016 • Vol. 22 No. 8

Dirty Hands Unearth Health and Happiness page 4

Dating When a Spouse Has Alzheimer’s page 8

‘Roots’ Series Reimagined page 18

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.

Organization of a collection shows

best object right there tured antique object in a guest room, powder room, or foyer entryway. with pride.

Feature a single antique object with family significance, like Grandma’s Family Friendly 19th-century ironstone mixing bowl, in If you have an object that has been The Front is Forea prominent area of your home. most handed down in the Use objects to let your family history family over the years, shine. For instance, I have my father’s When you enter consider designing a any room in your war medals proudly displayed in my room around it. home, there is one home library along with World War II If you have your wall that is right in literature and military scrapbooks. front of you or one Talk about the origin of these special Ironstone mixing bowl in foyer atop grandmother’s Regina a repurposed chest. music box dating wall that you focus on old pieces and let your history speak the most. back to the early through heirloom objects throughout 1900s, feature it proudly where everyThis wall is the starting point for your home. one can admire it. any design concept, and in museums Is that antique parlor chair from the Ph.D. antique appraiser and awardit is called the confrontation wall— winning TV expert Dr. Lori Verderame is Victorian period or cut-glass punch aptly named as it is the first wall you the star appraiser on Discovery channel’s confront. This wall shouts out for bowl looking for a new space to show international hit TV show Auction Kings its stuff? Take it out of the living room and appears on FOX Business Network’s something important, big, colorful, or bright. where it may get lost in the array of Strange Inheritance. Visit www.DrLori V.com or call (888) 431-1010. other furnishings and make it the feaThis is a statement wall. Put your

that you have given some thought to your collection and its arrangement.

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backyard. Each side of

By Sam Peeples the house is surrounded

by greenery, whether it is Driving up to Melanie a row of bushes and trees Markowski’s house, the or carefully constructed butterfly garden sits flowerbeds. prominently in the front “I love doing theme yard. It is filled with flowers gardens. I have a butterfly of cool lavender, pink, and garden, a hummingbird white and surrounded by garden, and colorplants specially chosen to coordinated gardens,” provide for every stage of a Markowski’s kitchen herb garden contains Markowski said. “I love butterfly’s lifecycle.

20 favorite herbs. matching the gardens with Following the short the color of the house.” walkway to her front door While the front yard is is another bed of reds centered on the butterfly and yellows supported by garden and flowers from shrubs and berry bushes. friends, the back and sides Right away, it is evident of the yard provide their that nature is important in own beauty. her life and has been for a A small herb garden sits long time. in pots growing thyme, Markowski’s first parsley, and oregano. memory is of planting lima Her shed is surrounded beans in June. by wildflowers and self“When they pop up out seeding plants that provide of the ground, they have A wooden tub The Green Thumb these little dirt caps. I went pollinator garden of Garden Club’s memorial cover for a small pond beloved by frogs. out and picked up all the annual flowers. garden of native plants Another pond sits dirt caps because I thought in a local park. by the fence’s gate with I was helping them be fish enjoying shade from born. I don’t think Dad nearby trees. And just active within the community. appreciated that.” off of her patio sits a bed of silver She and the other members are Markowski is a longtime plants promising to glow the next member and current vice president responsible for planting and time there’s moonlight. of the Green Thumb Garden Club. maintaining the flowerbeds Markowski’s love of gardening She joined when one of the group’s surrounding the town square and extends beyond the confines of founding members, Lucretia Fake, its borough’s four welcome signs.

They also manage a native plant her own backyard or the Green invited her to a meeting one day.

Thumb Gardening Club. memorial garden at a park and “Lucretia invited me to a For 15 years she ran the playground to honor club members meeting in 1997 and I promptly afterschool Junior Garden Program who have passed on. joined,” she said. “It’s amazing for a local elementary school. More Members donate plants to an how you can grow up right next to than 250 students passed through annual yard sale, and last year’s something and never hear of it.” the program and 2,000 more proceeds were enough to create Since joining the Green toured the gardens and learned two $500 scholarships for local Thumbs, Markowski has been about local wildlife. both correspondence secretary and students pursuing gardening“I very much enjoyed running related fields. membership chair. Her secretarial an afterschool Junior Garden Club members engage the duties consisted of writing letters, Program with a focus on gardening residents of Victorian Villa in keeping members informed of for wildlife,” she said. “Since horticultural therapy, teaching events, and sharing incoming that program has ended, Green them to create floral designs and correspondence.

Thumb and I have been looking gardens. And during the holidays, As chair, she reached out to into another way to reach out to they decorate a Christmas tree for potential members and invited children.” them to meetings, welcoming new Olivia’s House, a grief and loss She and Green Thumb also host members and maintaining a list of center for children. a series of library lectures every Of course, she makes sure to all their attendees. fourth Thursday of the month. spare plenty of time for her own The club has been consistently www.50plusLifePA.com

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://gardenclubof york.com), email info@gardenclub york.com, or contact Markowski at (717) 244-8476 or mmarkowski@ juno.com.

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RSVP of the Capital Region/ They were teachers before Lancaster County is pleased to retiring: Mary-Ellen Bradley taught recognize its Volunteers of the home economics at JP McCaskey Month: John and Mary-Ellen High School, while John Bradley Bradley. supervised the English department of Just last year, the Bradleys drove Hempfield School nearly 4,000 miles, District. delivering 154 They are routes for Meals on active members Wheels of Lancaster. of First United “We wouldn’t Methodist Church have done that of Lancaster, if we didn’t feel where they enjoy that the work was volunteering their worthwhile,� John Bradley said, while John and Mary-Ellen Bradley time to various events. he clutched his “The community gave a lot to 3-inch-thick binder full of organized routes of MOW delivery clients. us growing up through school and church. We are truly blessed to have The Bradleys have been volunteering regularly with the the opportunity to give back,� MaryEllen Bradley said.

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It Was 50 Years Ago Today

‘Summer in the City’ Randal Hill

The old radio soundman scratched his head. Those scraggly, hippielooking musicians had requested his entire sound effects collection of traffic noises. They had even asked him to include the sound of a jackhammer.

They said all the noise would show up on their next record.

The elderly gentleman rolled his eyes. Whatever happened to “normal” music? And just what kind of oddball name was the Lovin’ Spoonful, anyway?

Harmonica player/autoharpist John Sebastian and guitarist Zal Yanovsky had played in a bohemian Greenwich Village jug band/folk group called the Mugwumps, which included future Mamas and Papas members Cass Elliot and Denny Doherty.

Seeking a new direction, Sebastian and Yanovsky eventually left the band,

recruited drummer/ winning streak alive. vocalist Joe Butler and No problem. To the Lovin’ Spoonful, bassist Steve Boone, “Summer in the City” and formed the Lovin’ had hit written all Spoonful. For the name, Sebastian had over it.

The future ’60s lifted a lyric phrase classic had begun as from “Coffee Blues,” a freshman English an obscure song by an class poem written by old bluesman named the younger brother Mississippi John of Spoonful leader Hurt.

After gigging in John Sebastian.

Mark Sebastian New York City clubs had been discouraged for a while, the bluesy “Summer in the City” by the “F” grade the folkies signed with the The Lovin’ Spoonful poem had earned fledgling Kama Sutra August 1966 Records label and him, but he thought his brother might be quickly found success when the group racked up five Top able to do something with the words as song lyrics about a young city guy Ten singles in as many releases. being out on a summer night.

Now pressure was on to keep the

The elder Sebastian said he’d take a look but then saw only two lines he liked: But at night it’s a different world/Go out and find a girl Working with Steve Boone, Sebastian fashioned the poem into a winning musical composition that included the novelty of urban sound effects.

“We listened for hours to various traffic-jam noises and car horns and selected the ones we wanted,” Sebastian explained to Fred Bronson in The Billboard Book of Number 1 Hits. “We found [the sound of] a pneumatic hammer to provide for that section and put it all together.”

“Summer in the City” proved to be another winner for the Big Apple boys. Musicologist Toby Cresswell, in his book 1001 Songs, enthuses,

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“The pounding bass and drums with staccato organ jabs build an intense mood that’s shattered by the sound effects of jackhammers and car horns.

This really is the sound of the city and the promise of excitement and adventure to be had in the streets and nightclubs.”

“Summer in the City” gave the Lovin’ Spoonful its sixth winning single and their only No. 1 release.

There’s no way to calculate just how much the added sound effects contributed to the million-seller’s popularity. Maybe not much, really.

For all the time and effort spent on the project, the entire gimmick lasts all of eight seconds.

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On Life and Love after 50

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?

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The woman entered this relationship knowing the situation.

She should have known she was walking into a minefield. Now, she wants to go visit the wife to see how 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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Buying Caskets with Coupons

When my husband, Bob, typed “caskets” into the online retailer’s search box, he found 93 results.

“Why on earth are you looking at these?” I said.

“We need a coffee table,” he said sarcastically. “Why do you think?

We’re not going to be here forever.”

He clicked on the description of one casket, and then excitedly read out loud: “Our pleated ‘soft to the touch’ velvet interior bedding in light blue and a tufted velvet head panel—” “Bob, I’ve never been given as much column material as you just gave me.”

“You’re making fun of buying a coffin?” he said.

“Of course not. I wonder if the store has any BOGOs.” “What?”

“Buy one. Get one free.”

Before he got off the computer, I tenderly took his hands in mine.

“Sweets,” I said. “I promise I’ll be serious.”

Hearing that, he hugged me.

“If I go first,” he said, “I want you to go on with your life. Nothing would make me happier than to know that you’ll live fully. I’d want you to laugh again, even love again.”

“Oh, Bob. You’re so wonderful.”

I placed my lips on his forehead and gently gave him a whisper of a kiss.

“If you go first,” I said softly, “and you take a good woman out to dinner, my ghost will dump a gigantic plate of spaghetti in your lap.”

“I’m glad you’re taking this so seriously,” Bob said.

“Is there some reason I should?

Frankly, I don’t think it’s such a hot idea to focus on morbidity. Also, if you go first, who’s going to clean the house? I can’t vacuum with my disability.”

“What was your excuse before you were disabled?”

He started to leave the room but quickly stopped himself.

“All right,” he said. “But before I stop thinking about caskets, I need us to be serious. I just want some closure.”

That’s when my heart started to break because I could tell this was gut wrenching for him—as well as for me.

“Saralee, I want to decide on our coffins.”

We sat on the couch, holding each other tightly.

“OK, sweets,” I said.

“There are two beautiful ones.”

I took a deep breath, preparing myself for this sad decision about finality.

He said, “If we buy them within the next 18 minutes, we get a free tomato slicer.”

We both started laughing so hard we were doubled over in hysterics.

Bob said, “I think I saw a coupon; if we both drop dead today, we’ll each get a free Apple iPhone 6!”

And so, we finally approached this delicate subject with the dignity it deserved. I solemnly decided that when I’m buried, I’ll be wearing my pink silk dress.

And Bob? He’ll rent a tuxedo.

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That Championship Lesson

By Bill Levine I was extremely proud when a retiring Coach R said that his favorite team was my championship 1966 club. I was the hardworking, but physically awkward, starting center for the coach’s Meadowbrook Junior High team.

Wiry-built, 30ish, with a flattop cut, Coach R was an ex-serviceman whose wind sprints were boot-camptough for us carpooled suburban kids.

Besides conditioning, the coach stressed defense, but since we were just 14 and 15 years old, and somewhat oblivious to X’s and O’s, he kept it simple.

His defensive strategy was just “ball-you-man.” This meant that you had to be between the kid you were guarding and wherever the ball was at all times.

Occasionally, though, during practice I couldn’t find my man with an all-points bulletin. The coach would then blow his ominous whistle.

“Ball-you-man, Bill. Remember,

ball-you-man. Try to anticipate where your man is going.”

I appreciated Coach R’s calm corrections. I never felt embarrassed or humiliated, unlike the time in summer camp, when I was reprimanded for a bad jumping jack in front of 150 fellow campers.

The camp never provided remedial jumping-jack classes, but Coach R would work with me one on one to improve my drive to the basket. I had developed a good jump shot via constant practice but lacked the finer coordination to dribble past defenders for layups.

Knowing my limits, he outlined a simple move, where with my back to the basket, I could spin around, take a few dribbles, and lay the ball in.

In mid-season I led the team in scoring in a game against Day Junior

High. The next day, Coach R used me as inspirational material.

“Guys, look what Levine did yesterday: 12 points, 10 rebounds, sold popcorn, ran his rear end off. That’s the way to play this game.”

There were numerous, albeit more subtle, confidence boosts by the coach throughout the year.

By the last game of the year, Coach R had me convinced I was worthy enough to be instrumental in beating Warren Junior High for the city championship. I was nervous before the game and thus doubly appreciated the pregame Stickum applied to my sweaty palms.

Once the game started, the adrenaline worked for me and not against me. I used as much physicality as I could muster, fighting for

rebounds and unleashing a frenzy of ball-you-man-ing.

With about a minute left in the game, I took a relaxed breath for the first time. We were going to win. The final score was Meadowbrook 53, Warren 46. I was the third-highest scorer.

In the game’s immediate aftermath, my dad bestowed unqualified congratulations on me. This, combined with my fellow students’ praise and the heroics of the win, fueled several days’ worth of air walking.

But more important was the epiphany I had right then that with hard work, it would be possible for me to pleasantly surprise myself big time—like I had just done.

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Rocking on the High Seas with the Inaugural Flower Power Cruise

By Stephanie Kalina-Metzger About a year or so ago, I was intrigued by a commercial announcing a “Flower Power Cruise,” featuring a star lineup of bands from the ’60s. The ship was scheduled to set sail in late February, so I hinted to my husband that it might be a great birthday present.

Being a child of the era, the trip struck his fancy and soon afterward we were booked. On Feb. 29, 2016, we joined about 2,000 other funloving music fans on a six-day, musicfilled voyage, with stops in Cozumel and Key West.

Headliners included Herman’s Hermits, starring Peter Noone; Peter Asher; Blood, Sweat & Tears featuring Bo Bice; Felix Cavaliere’s Rascals; Micky Dolenz of the Monkees; the Grass Roots; the Guess Who; Jefferson Starship; Mark Lindsay of Paul Revere and the Raiders; Gary Puckett and the Union Gap; the

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Herman’s Hermits performing for cruisegoers.

Buckinghams; and the Family Stone.

The schedule of events for the Flower Power Cruise (www. flowerpowercruise.com) was literally “jam” packed, with numerous concerts slated for every day of the cruise.

To kick things off the first night, Peter Noone packed the auditorium.

The ’60s icon still looks great and drew many laughs when he responded to an enamored female who shouted, “We want to see you in

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“In England, we call that ‘Fat Boy Soup,’” he replied, without missing a beat.

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Other bands that played on the Celebrity Constellation during that fun-filled week pumped up the crowd with popular numbers.

One of my favorites, the Guess Who, started out with a bang with hits like “No Sugar Tonight” and “American Woman,” which, as we learned from bass player Jim Kale, was written about the Statue of Liberty.

Many of the passengers contributed to the fun by parading around the ship in tie-dyed shirts, beads, fringe, headbands, and other fashions of the era.

Musicians mingled with the crowd and were often spotted in elevators, deck areas, and later on stage. Micky Dolenz was oft-seen sitting and chatting with people at several bars aboard the ship.

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Our first stop was Discover Mexico, where a tour guide led us into a building to watch a short film describing Mexican culture, crafts, and countryside. When the movie ended, we viewed Mexican-made arts and crafts at the small museum located in the same building.

Afterward, we walked the park grounds, where we inspected “toscale� replicas and learned more about Mexican landmarks like the Great Pyramid of Cholula and Palenque’s Temple of the Inscriptions.

Before we exited the park, a group of men elicited “oohs� and “ahhs� from the crowd by performing a dance, climbing an 80-foot pole and finally spiraling down the structure tethered by one ankle.

Another stop on our tour included the old town of El Cidral, home to the oldest Mayan Ruins on the island.

A “Mayan warrior� stood guard in front of the ruins and posed with tourists for pictures.

Ernest Hemingway’s home.

A “Mayan warrior� guards the ruins in El Cidral, Cozumel.

During our visit, we participated in a tequila tasting at the Hacienda Tequila Museum, where we learned about the history of the beverage and sampled several tequilas crafted in the area.

Before departing the small town, we climbed a small hill to snap a few pictures of the first Catholic church erected in Cozumel dating back to 1848.

Next was a brief stop to behold the rugged beauty of El Mirador beach, where tourists enjoyed climbing the natural bridge to look out toward Cuba and across the horizon of the Caribbean Sea. Our final stop included a visit to San Miguel, most of which I saw

through the windows of the van, wishing they would have allotted more time to allow us to walk the streets, peer inside the shops and galleries, or stroll along the wide sidewalks next to the seawall.

Time was tight, however, so we headed back to the ship to sail to Key West.

Visiting Key West and the Hemingway House Temperatures in Key West hovered at a comfortable 70 degrees during our visit, and we spent several hours on the walkable island, enjoying the shops along Duval Street and the neighborhoods ensconced in the small 3-by-5-mile town.

Our most memorable stop in Key West was the Hemingway Home built in 1851, where we learned the importance of being Ernest and the life of the prolific writer. Guests were permitted a glimpse into his studio where he penned works like For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Snows of Kilimanjaro.

Hemingway was once a boxer and that, paired with his clumsiness, resulted in nine concussions, which may have contributed to his sometimes erratic behavior.

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We made a brief stop in Mallory Square to peruse the shops and watch a steel drum player before boarding the ship. The plaza comes alive with entertainers during the nightly sunset watching.

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Dreamland: Where the Action Is Walt Sonneville

Do you like adventurous experiences, maybe with a dose of shock that startles your tranquility?

If so, there is no need to visit an amusement park.

Instead, rely on your dreams. You will find plenty of action without leaving your home: thrills, anxiety, terror, romance, and the pleasure of superhuman endowments that you don’t experience during waking hours.

Sleep researcher William C. Dement describes the phenomenon this way: “Dreaming permits each and every one of us to be quietly and safely insane every night of our lives.”

It is less terrifying to dream in our advanced years than dreaming in early childhood. Some dream analysts have a theory that evolution has given children nightmares to prepare their subconscious for the shocks that will occur in later life.

The word mare in nightmare comes from Old English (450-1100 AD). A mare in Old English was a mythological demon that violates the peace of sleep. Nightmares are uncommon among children under 5 years of age. They are most common among young children older than 5. Among adults, nightmares significantly diminish in occurrence from age 25-55.

Not all dreams are nonsensical.

Famous people have reported prophetic dreams. Abraham Lincoln

allegedly told friends, days before he was assassinated, that he had a prophetic dream.

In his dream he heard crying in the White House. In his dream state, he arose from his bed, entered the east wing of the White House, and saw there a casket guarded by a soldier.

Lincoln asked the soldier: “Who is dead in the White House?”

He was told it was the president, “killed by an assassin.” Lincoln reportedly said he slept no more that night.

King Henry III of France had a dream, three days before his assassination (1589), that he had been bloodied by monks. He actually was stabbed to death by one monk.

Mark Twain related that he had seen his brother in a casket. A few days later his brother died in an accident.

Albert Einstein was asked by Edwin Newman, the radio journalist, when it was that Einstein had the initial concept of his theory of relativity. Einstein replied the idea

came to him years ago when he was an adolescent in Germany.

The dream was particularly memorable, Einstein said.

“I knew that I had to understand that dream. You could say, and I would say, that my entire scientific career has been a meditation on that dream.”

Einstein did not disclose to Newman the nature of that special dream. In an edition of Scientific American (September 2015), an article states that Einstein “traced his realization of light’s finite speed—the core idea of special relativity—to his teenage daydreams about riding beams of light.”

Recalling our dreams becomes less frequent as we age. Recall is most frequent among those aged 1029. For males, the decrease in recall begins in their mid-30s; for females, the decrease begins in their mid-40s.

Dream recall drops significantly for both sexes in their mid-50s, and even more for those over 60.

Dr. Ernest Hartmann, who died in 2013, spent much of his

professional life trying to determine the significance of dreams and nightmares. He concluded that “after all my years of trying, I do not completely understand dreaming.”

If scientists have no answers, the meaning of dreams has been left to the musing of poets and songwriters.

English poet Thomas Hood, who died in 1845, expressed his view when he wrote: Some dreams we have are nothing else but dreams Unnatural and full of contradictions Yet others of our most romantic schemes Are nothing more than fictions Hood is telling us that our most romantic schemes during wakeful hours can be no more real than dreams during our sleeping hours.

But, as children, we knew that, for a song reminds us to “row, row, row your boat, gently down the stream, merrily, merrily, merrily, merrily, life is but a dream.”

Walt Sonneville, a retired marketresearch analyst, is the author of My 22 Cents’ Worth: The Higher-Valued Opinion of a Senior Citizen and A Musing Moment: Meditative Essays on Life and Learning, books of personalopinion essays, free of partisan and sectarian viewpoints. Contact him at waltsonneville@verizon.net.

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

When Newton Dana graduated have supplied the Japanese their from Trenton High School in 1941 all-essential access to the Chinese at age 17, he enrolled at Ohio State heartland.

University. But by the end of his When the list of consequential sophomore year there, the draft was targets ran thin in early 1945, Dana about to pay and his crew him a visit. were assigned So he to fly the decided to Hump back enlist in the to Chabua, Army Air India, to Corps, and join the he headed planes that for Atlantic were flying City, New the Hump Jersey, around for basic the clock, training. carrying fuel, He was ammo, and then selected supplies of all for the other kinds to aviation China. cadet Flying the program, Hump had and after begun in early completing 1942, when primary, the Japanese Newton Dana with the PT-17 Stearman he flew in primary flight training. basic, and advance had advanced taken Burma flight training, he won his wings and and had sealed off the Burma Road, became a flight officer. which had permitted trucks to carry He then joined the crew of a fourdrastically needed supplies to the engine B-24 Liberator bomber as coChinese. pilot in late 1944 and was on his way That 1,000-mile roundtrip airlift east across the Atlantic, Africa, and the turned out to be an extremely Near East to India. From there, the hazardous undertaking for our flight crew flew the Hump to their base in crews. Planes flew around the clock China, where they flew as members of over high mountains and deep gorges the Flying Tigers. between Burma and China.

Their crew’s bombing missions were Fully loaded C-47s couldn’t climb against the Japanese-occupied facilities over the tallest peaks, so they had along the eastern part of China, to fly dangerous paths between the tearing up bridges, marshalling yards, peaks, some of which reached 20,000 and airfields. feet into the skies. There was violent One mission Dana especially turbulence—with winds of 200 remembers is attacking and helping mph—huge downdrafts, and icing, to destroy the Yellow River Bridge and wild weather as a daily threat. that spanned the river that is China’s Also, there was a severe lack of second longest and the cradle of suitable charts and an absence of Chinese civilization. The bridge would navigational equipment, like radio www.50plusLifePA.com

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 still above the tops of the mountains … although barely.

“There were plenty of crashed airplanes below us, so many that it used to be called ‘an aluminum

undercast.’”

How about An the food?

Air Force “Typically, report in China it said, “A was C-rations byproduct we were of the delivering. numerous In India you air crashes felt like you was a local hadn’t lived boom in until you had native some Buffalo wares cacciatore.” made from Gen. A B-24 like the one Dana flew makes a high-altitude turn in the clouds. aluminum William crash Tunner, who debris.” had commanded the last phases of What happened when a Hump the Hump, later wrote, “Once the flight got to China? airlift got underway, every drop of “Usually, when we got there, they fuel, every weapon, and every round unloaded everything but the meager of ammunition, and 100 percent of load of fuel aboard that would get such diverse supplies as carbon paper us back to India, and then sent us and C-rations, every such item used by back over the Hump to fly another American forces in China was flown mission,” Dana says. in by air.

When he had a chance to grab “Never in the history of some rest between missions, what transportation had any community were the quarters like? been supplied such a large proportion “They’d have made a good tree of its needs by air, even in the heart house back home,” Dana remembers. of civilization over friendly terrain.

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

By Sam Peeples

oral histories Haley his experiences as a slave and used to create his descendants’ experiences, ALEX HALEY his timeline have ending with Alex Haley proven unreliable. himself.

An examination The novel was first of his sources by published in 1976.

TOM historian Gary B. Haley claims that the Mills and genealogist novel is partially MATILDA Elizabeth Shown autobiographical.

Mills found that While some plot most of the physical elements were his CHICKEN GEORGE evidence either own invention provides no and the book TOM LEA proof is classified supporting as a novel KIZZY Haley’s rather than story or a historical BELLE account, contradicts it outright.

Haley KUNTA KINTE In purports his addition, ancestry to be people the same as the BINTA from Kinte’s one laid out in apparent home the book.

OMORO village of Juffure However, were inconsistent in many of the documents and corroborating Haley’s

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.

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story, changing details with each rendition. Even the village’s griot, a professional storyteller who acts as a repository of oral history, gave conflicted accounts each time he was asked to relate the story.

Juffure itself was represented in both the novel and the original series as what it was in Haley’s time rather than Kinte’s. In the book, it is said to be a small village several miles from the coast that had only heard rumors of white men.

In truth, it was a port city very close to James’s Island, an important trading outpost owned by the British.

The new series remedied these errors, showing both Juffure and Kinte’s tribe, the Mandinka, as we now know they were back in 18th century—specifically, that they were actually mounted warriors who rode horses well enough that Europeans visited them for training.

The new miniseries also corrected how Kinte was caught and sold: by African slave traders who sold men

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and women, sometimes those of their own tribe, to visiting Europeans—as opposed to white slave catchers, who were far less prevalent than many assume.

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 reviewaggregation 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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The Beauty in Nature

Fall Webworms Clyde McMillan-Gamber

During late July and all of August in Lancaster County, 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 sibling fall webworm caterpillars, the offspring of a small, mostly white moth, engulf the leaves of entire limbs.

There, those webworm larvae eat the enclosed foliage in relative safety from predators and the weather.

The webs get larger as the caterpillars grow. Sometimes those limbs are almost completely defoliated, but fall webworms don’t cause permanent damage to the trees.

Fall webworms aren’t beautiful creatures that lend to the esthetics of local landscapes. They are pale-yellow

to dark gray each fertilized and have long female lays hundreds and short of eggs in a bristles that cluster. protect them from most The larvae hatch one kinds of birds. week later They always and become stay in their noticeable in protective, Photo by Alison Hunter their obvious webbed homes Web of fall webworm. webs for about and writhe at once if it five weeks.

Then each larva leaves its webbed is disturbed. That massed wiggling nursery and pantry and pupates in a scares away or repels most would-be thin, brown cocoon of its silk, plus predators. It’s unnerving to me. debris that camouflages it, beneath The adult moths of fall webworms are furry and mostly white with a few tree bark or in leaf litter on the dark spots. There is one generation of ground. them per year in the north and two Each fall, webworm overwinters in its pupal stage and emerges the next generations in the south. Adults of summer as a moth, ready to mate, this moth appear in midsummer and

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lay fertilized eggs on host trees, and die. The next generation of larvae soon hatches and together the larvae spin silk to form 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’re not harmful either. They are another interesting part of the Lancaster County landscape late in summer every year.

Clyde McMillan-Gamber is a retired Lancaster County Parks naturalist.

Around Town Senior Prom Gets a Vegas Vibe Lancashire Terrace Retirement Village held its sixth annual senior prom on May 26.

Residents dressed up for the “Viva Las Vegas”-themed event and were photographed in front of the blackjack table as they entered the Lancashire Terrace auditorium.

Music from the Rat Pack era filled the room for dancing and listening, and prom attendees enjoyed a variety of hors d’oeuvres and beverages.

Knight and Day Diner, Subway, Rainforest Café, and Tropical Smoothie Café donated door prizes for the event.

Bob Shenk (husband of Evelyn) and Anne Adams were crowned prom king and queen for 2016.

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Calendar of Events

Support Groups Free and open to the public

Senior Center Activities

Aug. 3, 7 to 8:15 p.m.

Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group Willow Lakes Outpatient Center 212 Willow Valley Lakes Drive, Willow Street (717) 464-9365

Aug. 18, noon Brain Tumor Support Group Lancaster General Health Campus Wellness Center 2100 Harrisburg Pike, Lancaster (717) 626-2894

Cocalico Senior Association – (717) 336-7489 Aug. 1, 10 a.m. – Self-Defense with Ernest Aug. 16, 10 a.m. – Shopping at Walmart Aug. 21, 10 a.m. – Shopping at Dollar Tree, Big Lots, and Weis

Aug. 8, 10 to 11 a.m.

Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group Garden Spot Village Concord Room 433 S. Kinzer Ave., New Holland (717) 355-6076 jmorton@gardenspotvillage.org

Aug. 22, 2 to 3 p.m.

Parkinson’s Support Group Garden Spot Village Concord Room 433 S. Kinzer Ave., New Holland (717) 355-6259 jshaffer@gardenspotvillage.org

Aug. 15, 2 p.m.

Lancaster County Parkinson’s Support Group Landis Homes 1001 E. Oregon Road, Lititz (717) 509-5494

Aug. 24, 6 to 8 p.m.

Epilepsy Foundation of Eastern Pennsylvania Support Group Lancaster General Hospital – Stager Room 5 555 N. Duke St., Lancaster (800) 887-7165, ext. 104

Community Programs Free and open to the public Through Oct. 15 except Sundays, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.

Seasonal Opening: Mascot Roller Mills and Ressler Family Home Ressler Mill Foundation 443 W. Newport Road, Ronks (717) 656-7616 resslermill@gmail.com Aug. 1, 6 p.m.

Red Rose Singles Meeting Centerville Diner 100 S. Centerville Road, Lancaster (717) 406-6098 Aug. 3, 2 p.m.

Korean War Veterans Association Meeting Oak Leaf Manor North 2901 Harrisburg Pike, Landisville (717) 299-1990 pcunningham1841@verizon.net Aug. 5, 5-9 p.m.

First Friday Opening Reception: Leslie McCarthy Mulberry Art Studios 19-21 N. Mulberry St., Lancaster (717) 295-1949

Aug. 5, 6 to 9 p.m.

Music Fridays Downtown Lancaster (717) 341-0028 Aug. 7, 7 p.m.

Singspiration – 14th Annual Community Hymn Sings Series Historic Old Leacock Presbyterian Church 3181 Lincoln Highway East, Paradise (717) 687-6619 www.leacockpres.org Aug. 11, 12, 13, 6 p.m.

Works in the Parks Series: ¡Bocón!

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Library Programs Lititz Public Library, 651 Kissel Hill Road, Lititz, (717) 626-2255 Aug. 2, 6 p.m. – Olympic Movie Night: Race Aug. 10, 7 p.m. – Concert: Break from Blue Collar Aug. 11, 7 p.m. – Civil War Photograph Extravaganza www.50plusLifePA.com

Columbia Senior Center – (717) 684-4850 Aug. 2, 10:15 a.m. – Trip to Roots Market Aug. 12, 10:15 a.m. – Health News with Britney Aug. 23, 9 a.m. – R iverboat Trip on the Pride of the Susquehanna Elizabethtown Area Senior Center – (717) 367-7984 Aug. 3, 11 a.m. – Chase the Rat Game Aug. 11, 11 a.m. – Trip to Mt. Gretna Timbers Aug. 19, 1:30 p.m. – Car Wash Lancaster House North Happy Hearts Club Senior Center – (717) 299-1278 Tuesdays, 1 p.m. – Varied Activities Thursdays, noon – Pinochle Lancaster Neighborhood Senior Center – (717) 299-3943 Aug. 4, 10:30 a.m. – Consumer Problems Aug. 11, 9 a.m. – Picnic at Pavilion 22, Lancaster County Park Aug. 24, 9:30 a.m. – iPads Lancaster Rec. Senior Center – (717) 392-2115, ext. 147 Aug. 3, 10:45 a.m. – “Little-Known Facts about Lancaster County” by John Brown Aug. 10, 10:30 a.m. – Ceramics with Pottery Works Aug. 31, 10:30 a.m. – “Musicians of the Night” by Nancy Millhouse Lititz Senior Center – (717) 626-2800 Aug. 11, 10:15 a.m. – Music with Naomi Thompson and Band Aug. 18, 10:15 a.m. – Music with Dora Zlatkin Aug. 27, 10:15 a.m. – Music with Lost & Found Luis Munoz Marin Senior Center – (717) 295-7989 Aug. 8, 10 a.m. – Group Conversations Aug. 9, 9:30 a.m. – Trip to Thrift Shop Aug. 25, 10:30 a.m. – Diabetic Care with Madelyn Diaz Millersville Senior Center – (717) 871-9600 Aug. 5, 10 a.m. – Music with Clyde Spangler Aug. 10, 10:30 a.m. – Haircuts and Manicures by Lancaster School of Cosmetology Aug. 24, 9 a.m. – Crafts with Amy Holland Next Gen Senior Center – (717) 786-4770 Aug. 2, 9:30 a.m. – Tai Chi with Tony Aug. 11, 10:30 a.m. – Trip to Ferguson & Hassler Aug. 31, 10:30 a.m. – Sing-Along Rodney Park Happy Hearts Club Senior Center – (717) 393-7786 Tuesdays, noon – Pinochle Wednesdays, 1 p.m. – Varied Activities Thursdays, noon – Bingo Just a snippet of what you may be missing … please call or visit their website for more information.

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Fragments of History

The World’s First Road Trip Victor Parachin

Though the distance of the world’s first road trip was only 65 miles, it took from sunrise to sunset to complete and required numerous stops to hand repair malfunctioning auto parts.

There were no gas stations, no auto repair facilities, no towing services, no paved highways, and no road signs.

Yet, the world’s first road trip was successfully undertaken by a woman who took the risk of proving to the world that the automobile, developed by her husband, was the future for affordable, comfortable, and reliable transportation.

Bertha Ringer was born May 3, 1849, in Pforzheim, Germany, and married inventor Carl Benz in 1872.

During their engagement, Carl was struggling financially in his attempts

to create also erased a “vehicle self-doubts he had about powered by a his project. gas engine.”

Because Expenses and bills were of her confidence mounting but in him, Carl investors were continued few. developing Just as it his vehicle, appeared The Benz Patent-Motorwagen No. 3 of 1886, that Carl used by Bertha Benz for her highly publicized overcoming would have repeated road trip. setbacks. to give up his Before long, Carl produced his dream and seek employment, Bertha, vehicle, called the “Patent Motor his fiancée, selflessly arranged for her dowry to be paid out in advance. The Car,” but the public was skeptical amount was sufficient for Carl to pay about a gas-powered carriage so the off debts and continue developing his desired commercial success continued vehicle. to elude Carl.

This was where Bertha stepped in.

However, the money not only She realized that public skepticism restored his financial foundation, but

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Age 55 or over? Unemployed? The 55+ Job Bank is one of three services offered by Employment Unit at the Office of Aging.

Jobs are matched with those looking for work. Based on an evaluation of your skills and abilities, we can match you with a position needed by a local employer. Some employers are specifically looking for older workers because of the reliability and experience they bring to the workplace. There is a mix of full-time and part-time jobs covering all shifts, requiring varying levels of skill and experience, and offering a wide range of salaries.

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about a vehicle which moved by “mysterious forces” needed to be offset. So, unknown to her husband, she devised the first automobile publicity tour.

In the early-morning hours of August 1888, she and her two sons— Eugen, 15, and Richard, 13—slipped out of their home in Mannheim, went into the shop, and pushed the threewheeled vehicle out of the garage and down the driveway to avoid awakening and alerting Carl to their scheme.

Later she explained that “Carl would never have allowed a trip like that, so the boys and I hatched a real conspiracy. We left early in the morning and had already traveled a couple of hours before Father woke up.”

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Once beyond hearing distance, Finally, they arrived in Pforzheim they powered up the vehicle and just before sunset. That was good began driving. Because there were timing because Carl’s vehicle didn’t no road signs and people generally have headlights. Another telegram traveled by train in her part of was sent off to Carl, which read: Germany, Bertha followed railroad “Arrived safe. Mother sends love.” lines to avoid getting lost en route Upon arrival, word of her trip from Mannheim to Pforzheim, began to spread and, on the way where they would visit her mother. home a few days later, people lined Along the way, several stops were the road cheering and applauding forced out of necessity. In Wiesloch, the three members of the Benz Bertha stopped at the family for their Wiesloch pharmacy historic trip. to refuel because Additionally, Ligroin, a detergent the drive provided used as a fuel at Bertha with that time, was sold suggestions for Carl through pharmacies. on improving his Interestingly, this vehicle. Specifically, pharmacy—which she advised him could be called the to introduce an world’s first filling additional gear for station—still exists climbing hills. Carl today. took her suggestions In Bruchsal, the seriously. chain drive snapped, Positive reports Bertha Ringer, c. 1871, so she and the boys in the press as she became Carl Benz’s stopped to seek out a brought Carl and business partner. blacksmith to repair his invention the it. Further along in Bauschlott, attention he needed as a struggling the leather brake shoe came off so, developer. Before long, his vehicle, once again, they stopped to find a the Benz Patent Motorwagen, was shoemaker, who sewed it back on. being sold in Europe, making his Since it was now well into midcar the first commercially available morning, she sent her husband a automobile in history. telegraph letting him know what she Over the next few years, he and the boys were up to so that he continued to improve his vehicles would not worry about their absence. and patented the speed-regulation A little later, the fuel line became system, the ignition using sparks clogged, and since they were not near with battery, the spark plug, the a village or town, Bertha used her hat carburetor, the clutch, the gear shift, pin to clear the line. Next they were and the water radiator. stopped so that Bertha could insulate In later years, Carl Benz, the a short-circuited wire with material founder of what would become from her garter.

Mercedes-Benz, wrote in his With every hill, Bertha and her memoir, “Only one person remained sons, along with some friendly local with me in the small ship of life farmers, had to push the car up as when it seemed destined to sink. the 2.5-horsepower engine didn’t That was my wife. Bravely and have enough power to make it up on resolutely she set the new sails of its own. hope.”

LESSON from page 11 The one positive, though, about my de-facto retirement so far is the ramping up of my writing. I have had more time to write and have disciplined myself to crank out pages. I have begun the habit of taking writing courses.

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