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March 2019 • Vol. 20 No. 3

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Russia: Cruising the Waterways of the Tsars Andrea Gross

“Russia is a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma,” said Winston Churchill in a 1939 radio broadcast.

Things haven’t changed much in the intervening years. The world’s largest country is still a land of gilded domes and golden spires as well as grand art, great music, and blue waterways.

But it’s also a land that has been ruled by those St. Petersburg is filled with magnificent who win revolutions as domed cathedrals. well as by those who win elections; is sometimes officially communistic and other times casually capitalistic; and whose relationship with the United States has ranged from somewhat cooperative to outright confrontational.

An enigma indeed — which is, of course, exactly why my husband and I

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wanted to go there.

The first thing we learn is that Russia isn’t a particularly easy place for American tourists.

Most find the language unintelligible, the alphabet indecipherable, and the regulations innumerable.

For example, individual travelers need an “invitation” from an authorized Russian travel agency verifying exactly where they’ll be staying Cathedrals abound in the small towns each night during their between St. Petersburg and Moscow. visit. Spontaneity is not allowed.

Thus we opt for a riverboat cruise specifically designed for English-speaking passengers, which will let us travel in comfort and security.

Our first stop is St. Petersburg, the cultural gem of Russia. It’s here that I see my first onion-domed cathedral, proudly presiding over a watery maze that splinters the city into 100 islands connected by nearly 400 canals and bridges.

We spend three days amongst spectacular palaces, world-renowned museums, and magnificent gardens. We thrill to the performance of Swan Lake, which was first presented to the Imperial Ballet in St. Petersburg in 1895; tap our feet in rhythm to the rollicking music of the Cossacks; and are overwhelmed by the art of the Hermitage Museum, which has prehistoric artifacts as well as Greek sculptures and Impressionist paintings.

Experts say that if a person were to spend one minute per exhibit, it would take him 11 years to see it all.

Finally we visit a kommunalka, a communal home owned by several unrelated families. Each family has its own small room for living and dining, but they all share a common bathroom and small cooking area, which, in this case, consists of two stoves, a mini-refrigerator, and a few overloaded shelves.

I don’t want to leave St. Petersburg. It has an air of restrained elegance — historically important, regally proud, and visually stunning. But it’s time for the Viking Akun, our 200-passenger ship, to head south to Moscow.

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All things considered, it seems a safer choice than the one that portrays Putin and Trump.

We visit a school, eat lunch with a typical middle-class family, and tour churches filled with outstanding art. Before we leave I The Cossacks perform lively folk dances St. Petersburg is a city of islands decide to be purified in a banya, in a private performance for cruise connected by nearly 400 bridges and which involves taking a steam bath passengers. canals. and birch-broom massage before plunging into the cold river.

Back aboard the ship we sit in the Panorama Bar and enjoy the river views as we listen to presentations on all things Russian, from the Volga to the vodka. Finally, sated with knowledge and food, the Viking Akun docks at Moscow.

Like St. Petersburg, Moscow is gilded with domes, but while St. Petersburg is magical, Moscow is muscular. The cars are flashier, the Matryoshka dolls, also called nesting or stacking streets more crowded, the malls dolls, were first carved in Russia in 1890. larger. There’s even a toy store that covers more than a block.

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We tour the Kremlin, where we hear stories of Romanov tsars and Communist leaders; enjoy the festive ambience of Red Square; and lunch at the enormous GUM department store, where any thoughts of Russia as a country devoid of luxury goods are quickly dispelled.

But of course Moscow isn’t Russia. Nearly 80 percent of Russia’s people live west of the Ural Mountains, where traditions may be stronger but life may be harder.

“But in Moscow there are more billionaires than babushkas,” says our guide.

On the last night of our cruise a group of us reflects on our trip while we enjoy a Russian-inspired meal.

“Churchill was right,” says one man. “Russia is most definitely an enigma.”

For an expanded form of this story, see traveltizers.com.

Photos ©Irv Green unless otherwise noted; story by Andrea Gross (andreagross.com).

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Island as an officer on a destroyer escort ship, a small vessel with a small staff that was tasked with patrolling waters in the Caribbean.

Visitors to historic Cornwall Iron Furnace in Freeland was in charge of the communications Lebanon have the opportunity to learn all about division of the operations the Revolutionary-War-era department (while also forge from local history serving as tactical signals buff-turned-tour guide Pat officer, cryptosecurity officer, Freeland. communications officer, “The furnace opened postal officer, Protestant lay in 1742 and has a lot of leader, and legal officer. historical significance.

After his stint in the Cannonballs and cannons military ended, Freeland used by the Navy during returned to the area and the Revolutionary War were began his career in education made here, but not a lot of as a sixth-grade English people know about it,” he teacher — a job he enjoyed says. for 17 years, first in Maryland Freeland, now retired As a Navy officer during the Vietnam War and then in Massachusetts from a wide-ranging, eclectic era, Freeland spent three years based in after moving there to career, lives with his wife Rhode Island on a destroyer escort. pursue a master’s degree in of 40 years, Vicki, close to educational administration where he grew up in Lebanon at Northeastern and Boston County. A fan of all things universities. historical, Freeland’s own Along the way, he and personal history could fill a Vicki married in 1978 book or two. and soon had a son and a “I never knew exactly what daughter.

I wanted to do with my life While in Massachusetts, when I was young, and I still a co-worker at his school don’t think I’ve figured it introduced Freeland to flying out,” he laughs. small single-engine planes, After graduating from and he soon received his own Cornwall High School, he pilot’s license. attended Lafayette College “My friend took me flying to earn a bachelor’s degree in a few times, and as usual, psychology, with the vague I wanted to know how all notion that he may one day The furnace’s “Great Wheel” weighs of those dials, levers, and become a school principal.

4 tons and measures 24 feet in diameter. instruments worked, and I He attributes his interest ended up becoming a pilot in education with his passion myself,” he remembers. for language, including a Tragedy was narrowly “passing familiarity with averted on one of Freeland’s French, Latin, German, and first solo flights when the Pennsylvania Dutch.” plane’s engine sputtered to a Shortly after his college stop shortly after takeoff. graduation, however, “I was relatively Freeland’s career plans were inexperienced, so instead put on hold when war broke of letting the plane spiral out in Vietnam and many downward and reduce speed, young men in the U.S. faced Cannonballs were cast in Cornwall for I just wanted to get back military conscription or the American Revolution. Pictured down on the ground as soon enlistment. here are “12-pounders.” as possible,” he laughs.

“It was 1966 and the draft He guided the plane back down to a rough had begun. I figured my best option would be to go landing on a dirt runway at 120 miles per hour, ahead and enlist in the Navy,” he recalls.

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he worked with a crew of volunteers to build and restore homes for needy cemetery at the edge of the airport. families in Lebanon.

“I lost a couple teeth that day, but kept flying for years afterwards,” he remembers.

But in 2016, Freeland was diagnosed with stage 4 bowel and liver cancer and After almost two decades in public education, Freeland would make the first told by his doctor that he may have only six months to live. Doctors advised him to discontinue the home renovations due to the possible infections that of many about-faces in his career.

“The best part of teaching could result. was dealing with the kids each “I started chemotherapy day. I loved teaching the kids, immediately, and within a few but ultimately I just got tired months the lab results showed of dealing with the parents day that the cancer had gone into in and day out,” he laughs. remission. I’m really lucky, but After teaching, Freeland I’m still here tickin’.” dabbled in real estate sales, Cancer may have slowed but ultimately found his niche him down a little bit, but at 75 doing home renovation and Freeland remains busy. maintenance, founding a “We see our grandkids company that would perform every day, and when I’m not these services for realtors before puttering around the house homes went on the market. or yard, working, I’m at the Forty-two cannon were cast at the furnace; 41 were taken by wagon to Revolution-era ships “I’ve always enjoyed furnace giving tours or doing in Philadelphia. This one may not have proved tinkering, problem-solving, maintenance work,” he says. structurally sound. and being handy, so this was a In the casting house, the molten “One of the biggest lessons iron was tapped twice daily. Each much more natural fit for me I’ve learned through all of my tap was 2,800 pounds at 3,000 than sales,” he says. experiences is the importance of treating everyone you meet with respect. Every degrees.

Two years later, he would one of us has a story to tell, and we can learn a lot if we take the time to listen.” jump into a completely Visit the Cornwall Iron Furnace website at cornwallironfurnace.org or call different career field by chance, when his neighbor offered him a job in (717) 272-9711. computer software programming — a field in which Freeland had no formal training.

On the cover: “It was the late ’80s, and software companies were getting huge and needing Installed around 1841, this 20-horsepower, single-cylinder steam engine powered the furnace’s blowing equipment. to increase their staffing. I just dove into coding; I really loved it. There is something about problem-solving combined with creating something new that has always appealed to me,” he says.

Tom & Randi LaNasa “MEMORY MUSIC” Freeland contributed coding to what would become one of the world’s most popular business email and calendar programs, Lotus Notes, and would go on to co-author a Lotus Notes for Dummies book and other tech-related publications.

After retiring from the tech industry in 2002, he and Vicki moved back to the Cornwall area to be closer to family, including their five grandchildren.

While living in Massachusetts, Freeland spent his free time volunteering as a tour guide at WGBH Boston, a PBS television and radio affiliate.

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Peter Grubb in 1742, Cornwall Iron Furnace underwent extensive renovations Now booking our Christmas, variety, and specialty shows for 2019. in 1856-57 under its subsequent owners, the Coleman family, and closed in We have many variety shows featuring the music from the 1930s to the 60s.

1883, according to its website (cornwallironfurnace.org).

Songs by legendary artists like Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Doris Day, It is this mid-19th century ironmaking complex — furnace, blast equipment, Kay Starr, Dean Martin, Patsy Cline, and the Mills Brothers. and related buildings — that survives today as a National Historic Landmark.

Specialty shows include …

“I continue to do tours at the furnace and can supply lots of information Songs from the WWII Years • The Post WWII Years: 1945 – 1955 about its history and the processes involved in the production of iron,” Freeland AMERICA: From Sea to Shining Sea says.

Salute to the Rat Pack (or if you prefer, just Sinatra) “Recently I created a PowerPoint ‘Virtual Tour of the Cornwall Iron Elvis & Patsy • Classic Country Furnace’ for people who could not manage the 90-plus steps in the furnace building. We hope to present it in the future to retirement homes around this Please contact Memory Music to book your next event! area.”

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6 Startling Reasons to Be Less Nice This Year Suzy Cohen

Do you currently strive to be superhuman — always loving, kind, and generous? Do you demand this of yourself, in all of your relationships? Inside you may feel resentful, burnt out, and unappreciated.

Depending on how nice you are, you might experience insomnia, depression, minor compulsions or phobias, resentment, nagging aches and pains, autoimmune problems, or chronic infections.

I propose that in 2019, you be less nice.

“Nice” often includes the following:

On the days when you feel overly tired or spent, as yourself, “Whom am I meeting with today or what is on my agenda that is weighing me down?”

3. You will feel empowered. Have you ever wished your time was spent doing something different, but it was too late?

You have the power to say yes or no, as well as the power to decide what to do with your time. It’s not infinite, so spend it wisely.

When you say no to someone else’s plan for you, you are simultaneously saying yes to your own plan.

• Don’t interrupt a person, even if they’re boring.

• A lways compliment; don’t tell the truth.

4. You’ll feel less anxiety and sleep better. When you spend months in frustration mode, or ruminate, you figuratively chew something in your mind over and over.

Every thought you have squirts out a chemical that locks you into “sympathetic alarm.” This blunts your parasympathetic nervous system, the one that allows you to rest and digest.

• Text back within 15 minutes.

• Like everyone’s Facebook post, even if you don’t.

• Let the neighbor’s dog urinate on and kill your lawn.

• Don’t say a word about her drinking.

• Don’t scold your son, even if he’s obnoxious and deserves it.

• Let your co-worker pile more on your desk and take credit for the work.

• Just say yes. Say yes to everything!

You’re nice, right? Saying no, or calling someone out, is not nice.

I submit to you that I am not a nice person. I propose that in 2019, you be less nice as a method of improving your health and mental well-being.

Let’s go over the six startling benefits of not being nice: 1. You have more time. When you stop saying yes to doing things and going places that don’t bring you enjoyment, you regain precious time in your own schedule.

Remember, people’s agendas are most important to them, but as they try to claim your time, once that time is spent by you, it’s literally gone forever.

2. You will have more energy. Not being nice is liberating sometimes, especially when you disconnect from a situation, person, job, or relationship that has been weighing on you for years.

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5. You’ll develop stronger relationships. You’ll lose toxic friends; you might become estranged from needy siblings. People don’t like to be cut off from their source of help, their battering board, or their support system.

Being less nice will ultimately translate to stronger relationships, as people will like you for who you are.

6. Your schedule becomes more reliable. Nice people have erratic schedules because they jump to it when others are in need.

When you become “not nice” and stop agreeing to someone’s sudden whim for you or perceived emergency, your schedule suddenly becomes more consistent, decluttered, and efficient.

So, at this point, let me ask you: Can you be less nice this year?

Being warm, enthusiastic, upbeat, affirming, and kind is important. I used to be a saint, but full disclosure … I’ve put down my crown! It’s exhausting.

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What should you do? equality and against antiWhen relationships Semitism. break down, what then?

Politically, Roosevelt Or you lose your job and used her experiences as your bank account is first lady to back up her depleted, your home is in beliefs on democracy, foreclosure, you’re a victim the office of president, of discrimination — what eliminating the Electoral do you do?

College, and on dealing You ask yourself “What with political rifts within next?” and then you reach families. for help, and with She hoped that If You Ask Me: Essential Advice national healthcare the new book If You from Eleanor Roosevelt Ask Me by Eleanor would become a reality.

By Eleanor Roosevelt, Roosevelt, edited by She called for calm in edited by Mary Jo Binker Mary Jo Binker, the c. 1946, 1974, 2018, Atria Books times of trouble. She advice you get might be firmly favored birth 245 pages decades old. control and believed Arguments on immigration, world that the future would turn out all right. issues, patriotism, and messy politics.

The surprise inside If You Ask Me Minority issues, equal pay, family is twofold: In reading the words that problems, and constitutional matters. editor Mary Jo Binker collected, one is Though these things may seem to reminded by their shiny relevance that be problems strictly of the modern everything old is new again. age, from 1921 until 1962, Eleanor Seventy-five years have passed, and Roosevelt, wife of our 32nd president, the same old issues have returned like sharks to chum, giving readers a also tackled these same topics in her dreadful, treading-water feeling. So books and magazine articles. In those what’s changed?

41 years, she ultimately penned more In a word, us. In the other half than 600 pieces. of the surprise is a quaint, sweetly People from every walk of life amusing look at a time when good girls consulted Roosevelt for advice: politicians asked her and women sought weren’t “necking,” businesswomen in her out. Men looked toward her wisdom “taverns” was worrisome, and the first lady believed that “rock ’n’ roll” was a and, says Binker, she had a particular “fad [that] will probably pass” and that affection for teenagers (and vice versa). parents “needn’t take it too seriously.”

Though she wrote the words in this The amusement also comes from book generations ago, her advice is Roosevelt’s wit and her ladylike rebukes still relevant, even when contemporary viewpoints are taken into consideration. that could be delivered on razor blades.

Yes, she “cared about people”… but “She genuinely cared about people she could cut, too. and their problems,” says Binker, This book is obviously perfect for consulting editor for the Eleanor historians, but anyone can enjoy what’s Roosevelt Papers Project and editor of inside these mostly-still-applicable this book. words. It’s easy to browse and fun, too, Roosevelt’s words were comforting, so read If You Ask Me. but she did not suffer fools.

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Living Your Best Retirement

Navigating the 3 Financial Stages of Retirement People often view retirement as just one more stage of life.

But that’s not exactly the case. Retirement isn’t just one stage; it’s at least three — although all three do share something in common.

“Every stage of retirement requires planning,” says Jack Teboda, president of Teboda & Associates, a financial services firm in Illinois.

“Otherwise, you could end up running out of money, or your health might take a turn for the worse and negatively impact your retirement savings because you hadn’t planned for it in those early years of retirement.”

It’s not easy to put exact ages on each of the three stages of retirement. That likely will vary from person to person, depending on their finances, health, and family situation.

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STAGES from page 9 Stage One: Adjust to a new lifestyle. Many new retirees brim with excitement when retirement begins. They can golf, visit museums, play with their grandchildren, travel, or catch up on their reading.

Not everyone adjusts well, though. It’s not easy to flip the switch overnight after you’ve spent several decades reporting to work every day.

Also, if your retirement income is largely dependent on your savings, you’ll want to be careful that you don’t spend too much in those initial years.

“Your adviser should be able to help you come up with a plan that will give you income for life so you don’t have to worry about running out of money,” Teboda says.

Stage Two: Staying socially connected. As the years pass, many retirees move closer to their children or move into a retirement community because it makes them feel more socially connected.

“Sometimes at this point, especially if they haven’t planned well, people may start to have even more worries that they will outlive their money,” Teboda says.

“One way to address that is to cut back on expenses.

Some people even decide to get a part-time job to bring in extra money, and working becomes another way to stay connected.”

Stage Three: Realizing you may need assistance. More than 70 percent of Americans older than 65 will need some form of long-term care at some point in their lives, according to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

“When people map out their retirement,” Teboda says, “they need to plan for that possibility because the cost of long-term care can be devastating to your finances.”

He says people need to consider a number of factors — taxes, longevity, and market risks, among others — to improve the odds of a joyful retirement.

This is one reason Teboda says his firm takes a team approach to advising, using financial professionals with different areas of expertise. For example, one team member is an associate financial adviser and another is an attorney specializing in estate planning.

“In each stage of retirement,” Teboda says, “it’s important to confer regularly with your adviser and to be ready to adjust your financial plans if necessary.”

Jack Teboda, president and founder of Teboda & Associates (teboda.com), has more than 35 years’ experience helping people pursue financial independence through personalized investment strategies. An investment adviser representative, Teboda’s firm takes a team approach to advising clients on retirement concerns and other financial-planning issues.

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Deciding What to Do in Retirement

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Dear Savvy Senior, I just turned 62 and am financially prepared for retirement, but I’m less certain about how to spend my time after leaving work. Can you recommend some resources or tools that can help me with this?

– Feeling Lost Dear Lost, This is a great question! Many people, when asked what they want to do when they retire, will say they want a mix of travel, play, and meaningful work. Specifics, however, tend to be few and far between.

But planning how to fill your time in retirement is just as important as the financialplanning aspect. Here are some resources that can help.

Online Tools A good starting point to figuring out what you want to do in retirement is at Life Reimagined (lifereimagined.aarp.org).

This is an AARP website (you don’t have to be a member to use it) that can help you rediscover what truly matters to you and focus on what you really want to do. It offers a variety of online exercises and programs that will hopefully spark some ideas and give you inspiration.

Encore.org is another good resource that helps people who are seeking work that matters in the second half of life. Click on “Resources” on the menu bar and download their free Encore guide, and consider purchasing a copy of their Encore Career Handbook by Marci Alboher, which is excellent.

Also check out the free e-book called The Age for Change, which can help answer the question: “What now?” You can download this from Coming of Age (comingofage.org).

And if you’ve never taken a personality test before, this too can be a good tool to help you figure out what type of activities or work you’d like to do. A good option for this is the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assessment, which you can take online at mbticomplete. com.

Personalized Guidance If you want personalized help, you can also get one-on-one guidance from a retirement or life planning coach.

Some resources that can help you here include Life Planning for You (lifeplanningforyou.com), which has a free exercise called EVOKE to help identify a path that might suit you best in later life and provides a directory to registered life planners to help guide you.

Also see Retirement Options (retirementoptions.com), which will connect you with a retirement coach who will give you an assessment to help reveal your attitudes and opinions about work, family life, relationship, leisure time, and more.

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And check out the Life Planning Network (lifeplanningnetwork. org), a group of professionals and organizations that help people navigate the second half of life.

You can also find life and retirement coaching at the International Coach Federation (coachfederation.org).

Coaching sessions typically range from $75 to $300 or more and usually require four to six sessions to get the most out of the process.

Other Resources If you’re primarily interested in volunteering, finding a retirement job, or even starting a business when you retire, there are lots of resources that can help here too.

For volunteering, Points of Light (pointsoflife.weebly.com), VolunteerMatch (volunteermatch.org), and Senior Corps (seniorcorps. gov) can help you search for opportunities or even create one on your own.

To look for job ideas, sites like RetirementJobs.com, Workforce50. com, and Retired Brains (retiredbrains.com) list thousands of jobs nationwide from companies that are actively seeking older workers.

FlexJobs (flexjobs.com) can help you find good work-at-home jobs.

CoolWorks (coolworks.com) and Backdoorjobs.com are great for locating seasonal or summer jobs in terrific places.

Or to search for freelance opportunities in a wide variety of areas, there’s Upwork (upwork.com) and Guru (guru.com).

And if you’re interested in starting a new business, the U.S. Small Business Administration (sba.gov/content/50-entrepreneurs) offers tips, tools, and free online courses to entrepreneurs who are 50 and older, as does the nonprofit association Score (score.org).

Send your senior questions to: Savvy Senior, P.O. Box 5443, Norman, OK 73070, or visit savvysenior.org. Jim Miller is a contributor to NBC’s Today show and author of The Savvy Senior book.

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Green Thumb Garden Club Meeting Emmanuel Lutheran Church 2650 Freysville Road, Red Lion (717) 235-2823 March 5, 7 p.m.

Surviving Spouse Socials of York County Faith United Church of Christ 509 Pacific Ave., York (717) 266-2784

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The U.S. National Coffee Association’s 2018 National Coffee Drinking Trends report says that the number of Americans who drank coffee in the past day is the highest it’s been in six years.

According to the report, based on a study of more than 2,700 adults 18 or older, 64 percent said they drank coffee within the past day, the highest amount since 2012.

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This is higher than the growth from 57 percent in 2016 to 62 percent in 2017.

The study also found that past-day consumption of traditional coffee, defined as “regular coffee” brewed from “gourmet-quality” beans, held steady over the previous years, at 16 percent.

Similarly, consumption of espresso-based drinks held steady from 2017, at 24 percent.

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Art and Antiques

Celebrity Collections Dr. Lori Verderame

In my line of work, I have had the Piguet Royal Oak Perpetual Calendar opportunity to appraise some very Skeleton in 18-karat yellow gold. This is interesting, high-profile objects belonging one of many fine wristwatches that would to some very famous individuals. Some certainly make other horology collectors of these objects are more memorable jealous. than others, and some are downright This particular watch from Jay-Z’s unforgettable. collection features automatic movement, Celebrity collections are not unlike other perpetual calendar, moon phase, 18-karat collections. Most are amassed over time, gold with a fixed bezel, etc. and some show a lifetime of interest in a The price tag is as big as the impact of particular field of collecting.

Jay-Z, born Shawn Corey Carter, who When it comes to celebrity collectors, is an award-winning American rapper, you might be surprised to learn what some President Kennedy collected maritime scrimshaw art similar to songwriter, and record producer. famous folks have sitting on their curio this 19th-century scrimshaw on whale tooth. cabinet shelves.

Some famous figures are major collectors It is common knowledge that actresses Elizabeth Taylor and Jennifer and collect only for collecting’s sake. Of course, some celebrity collectors amass Aniston both collected antique and vintage jewelry, but did you know that all unique objects for sport and fully enjoy the thrill of a quite expensive hunt. types of objects are collected by the famous few?

Dr. Lori Verderame is an author and award-winning TV personality on History’s The Here are some fascinating collections of the rich and famous.

Princess Diana The late Princess Diana (née Spencer) was an avid collector and one that adorned her private spaces with her collections.

Known adoringly as “The People’s Princess” following her untimely death, Princess Diana was an international advocate for the less fortunate in addition to being a devoted mother and member of the British royal family.

According to a top member of Princess Diana’s professional staff, Patrick Jephson — whom I recently interviewed about the princess’s lifelong collecting interests when we were both keynote speakers together — the princess collected hand-painted Herend porcelain figurines from Hungary.

According to Jephson, Diana’s private sitting room and personal office at Kensington Palace were adorned with the collectible figurines in the form of bunny rabbits and other animals.

It is fitting that in 2013, Hungary presented a Herend porcelain set as the official gift to the newborn British Crown Prince George, grandson of Princess Diana.

President John F. Kennedy According to documents of the late first lady Jacqueline Kennedy, President John F. Kennedy collected antique scrimshaw and other objects of New England’s shipping and seafaring history.

A reflection of his love of sailing near his family home on Cape Cod in Massachusetts, the young president collected fine examples of carved walrustooth scrimshaw and other objects that referenced New England’s grand seafaring and whaling tradition.

In the Kennedys’ private residence, President Kennedy’s antique scrimshaw and his engravings of ship and battle scenes were on display along with Mrs. Kennedy’s fine art collection of paintings and sculpture.

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Grief Relief

7 Ways to Grieve Mindfully Victor M. Parachin

Mounting scientific evidence from scores of universities strongly suggests that mindfulness not only reduces stress, but also gently builds an inner strength so that future stressors have less impact on our happiness and physical well-being.

Simply stated, mindfulness is the natural human ability to be paying attention and aware of what is happening around us, to us, and within us. When we are mindful, we are more able to respond rather than react to issues, events, and people.

Mindfulness is an important quality to bring into the bereavement process. Here are seven ways to grieve mindfully.

4. Mindful action. Take steps necessary to educate and inform yourself about the grief process. Read books and magazine articles, take workshops, join a grief support group.

Some of the many benefits of being in a self-help group include: • Emotional, psychological, and spiritual support in a safe and nonjudgmental environment • Sympathy and understanding from others who have experienced a similar loss

1. Mindful breathing. Grief produces stress, and when you are stressed, there are physical changes, such as increased heart rate, fast breathing, and high blood pressure.

The shortest route to reducing this stress is to breathe deeply and slowly. When you breathe deeply, it sends a message to your brain to calm down and relax.

Here is a simple breath exercise to do when feeling stressed called CPR. It’s done with three inhales and exhales. First, inhale slowly and say, “I am,” and then exhale slowly and say, “calm.”

Second, inhale slowly and say, “I am,” and then exhale slowly and say, “peaceful.”

Third, inhale slowly and say, “I am,” and then exhale slowly and say, “relaxed.”

Do this for several minutes until you feel more calm, peaceful, and relaxed.

2. Mindful thoughts. When grieving, it’s easy to let the mind gravitate toward negative, catastrophic thinking.

However, it doesn’t need to be that way. Rather than having your mind manage you and your feelings, flip the switch and manage your mind, training it to think positively and optimistically.

Whenever negative thoughts emerge, replace them with positive ones. Move from “I can’t” and “I’m not able” toward “I can” and “I am able.”

3. Mindful words. Pay attention to the way you speak. Is your vocabulary positive and uplifting, or does it tend to focus on the negative and pessimistic?

Use words, phrases, and sentences that build up, encourage, inspire, and applaud yourself and all those you come in contact with.

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• The opportunity to accelerate the healing process through sharing your own story and hearing the stories of other grievers • Coping skills to help you through the most difficult days of your grief journey • New friendships with people who “get it” and understand firsthand what you’re going through • In a grief support group, you will meet people who are adjusting and adapting to their loss; these women and men can become inspiring role models for you • Permission to grieve and permission to live a happy, productive life 5. Mindful eating. Grief disrupts appetite. Some grievers eat too little, while others overeat.

Practice mindfulness at meals. Be sure to mindfully eat fresh, healthy foods to keep your body strong during your grief journey.

If preparing meals for just yourself is uninspiring, use this as a reason to invite company over for a meal or try a new restaurant with a friend.

6. Mindful exercise. To offset the shock and sadness of grief, engage in regular exercise most days of the week. Studies reveal that exercise can be just as effective for reducing depression as anti-depressant drugs.

Even if you feel you can’t possibly drag yourself out of bed, get up and get moving. Think carefully about an activity that appeals to you — hiking, biking, swimming, yoga, group fitness classes, dancing, kayaking — and do it.

7. Mindful possibilities. As grief eases and days become lighter and brighter, begin to be mindful about your future. One chapter of your life has concluded, and now is the time to begin writing a new chapter.

Be mindful about your ability to tap into inner strength, move forward, and reinvent yourself.

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Fifties Flashback

The Cat with 10 Million Lives Randal C. Hill

“Write me a story that first-graders can’t put down.” the while balancing himself precariously upon a huge ball. To This was the challenge that William Spaulding, a director nobody’s surprise, the cat and all his accoutrements crash to the at Houghton Mifflin Publishers, offered to Theodor Geisel one floor in a heap. day in 1955 as he handed Geisel a list of vocabulary words for Undaunted, he then hauls in a huge box that contains two 6- and 7-year-olds. wild-haired, impish creatures called Thing One and Thing Two. At the time, Geisel was a little-known children’s author They proceed to run amok throughout the house, flying kites who wrote under the name Dr. Seuss. (Seuss was his mother’s and scattering things everywhere. maiden name.) His fortunes — and his life — would change When the children and the fish realize that Mother will be forever when he accepted Spaulding’s unconventional coming home soon, panic sets in. That’s when the irrepressible assignment. invader removes both Things, then zips about the house in an Geisel had scanned the list and decided that creating and ingenuous machine that quickly tidies up everything. illustrating such a book should be quite easy.

By the time Mother returns, the cat has slipped out, the “I figured I could knock it off in a week or so,” he admitted house is back in order, and Mother is none the wiser. later. “It took a year and a half.”

••• Cover of the book Geisel had underestimated just how hard it would be to Published in March 1957 and composed mostly of oneThe Cat in the Hat. write a truly compelling children’s tale that utilized a mere 200 syllable words, The Cat in the Hat sold 1 million copies by the words. decade’s end and, in the process, made Dr. Seuss a household name.

Determined to outdo the ubiquitous — and boring — Dick and Jane books Geisel later proclaimed, “I have great pride in taking Dick and Jane out of found throughout American elementary schools, Geisel decided to write a fun- most school libraries. That is my greatest satisfaction.” to-read story predicated on the first two rhyming words that appeared on his His delightful classic has now sold over 10 million books, and The Cat in list. the Hat has lived on through a 1971 animated TV special and a live-action They happened to be cat and hat.

2003 film. But when the movie was panned for its adult humor and innuendo, ••• Geisel’s widow, Audrey, disallowed any future films based on her husband’s Seuss’s clever creation tells of an outrageous anthropomorphic feline who works. wears an impossibly tall striped hat. One rainy day, this odd intruder drops by Theodor Geisel was childless by choice, but he always enjoyed telling others, to relieve the boredom of two housebound youngsters, a girl called Sally and “You have ’em, I’ll entertain ’em.” her unnamed brother, who narrates the story.

The cheerful cat sets about performing a bizarre trick that involves balancing Although Randal C. Hill’s heart lives in the past, the rest of him resides in Bandon, Ore. He can be reached at wryterhill@msn.com. plates, books, a cake, toys, a milk bottle, and even the family goldfish, all

Women’s History: France’s First Female University Graduate During Women’s History Month, we celebrate the efforts and accomplishments of women in America.

Yet we can also find inspiration in the achievements of women from anywhere in the world throughout the course of history. One such woman is Julie-Victoire Daubié.

Born in France in 1824 as one of eight children, Daubié’s father died when she was less than 2 years old. She studied Latin, Greek, German, history, and geography with help from her brother and grew to adulthood frustrated by the constraints limiting women’s roles in society.

By 1844, she received a teacher’s certificate and had studied zoology at the Museum of Natural History in Paris by renowned specialist Geoffroy Saint-Hilaire.

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Her work, which centered on the opportunities denied women during that Portrait of era, earned her first place in the contest Julie-Victoire and a spot in the academy’s baccalaureate Daubié program. In 1861, at age 37, Daubié became the first woman to graduate from March is a French university.

Women’s Julie-Victoire Daubié spent her adult History life engaged in activism and scholarship focused on gender equality. A recognized Month economic journalist, in 1871, she also became a literature graduate in Lyon, becoming the first female graduate in letters.

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The Beauty in Nature

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wind. These attractive male catkins are yellow with pollen that is blown by the wind to female flowers.

The beautiful female blooms are clusters of two to five tiny, red styles protruding from each of several little, bark “vases” near the tips of slender twigs. The job of the styles is to receive pollen from male catkins and grow the nuts their shrubs are named for.

The nuts of American hazelnuts are lovely in and of themselves when ripe in September. They are warm Photo by Quadell, 14 February 2005.

Cone cluster from female blossoms of brown and the diameter of dimes when mature. They a speckled alder. developed in summer in green, leaf-like bracts that turn brown on their twig moorings toward autumn.

Several kinds of birds and mammals eat those pretty nuts during fall and

American hazelnuts and speckled alders are wild shrubs native to northeastern North America. Both species have beautiful, intriguing parts early in spring that make them interesting.

Both bushes are fairly common, each in its sun-filled habitat. And both are part of the beauty and intrigue of early spring in southeastern Pennsylvania.

Hazelnut shrubbery flourishes in sunny woodland clearings and edges and along hedgerows Fruit cluster of an American between fields. Their wooded, hazelnut. Nuts are enclosed in multi-stemmed crowns grow up leaflike bracts. to 15 feet tall. And they have unique flowers in March.

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winter, including wild turkeys, ruffed grouse, blue jays, white-tailed deer, foxes, and various kinds of rodents. Jays and squirrels stash many hazelnuts in tree cavities and holes they dig in the ground to house the nuts until they are consumed in winter.

Speckled alders grow almost exclusively on the edges of streams and ponds, where they associate with crack willows and red-twigged dogwoods. Alders often grow thickets of themselves along water, shading and cooling it.

Their many woody stems provide shelter for wildlife. And some beavers chew them off to use their stems in their dams and lodges.

Each alder has male and female blooms. The many attractive male catkins are 1 inch long and deep purple in winter. In March they grow to 4 inches, are pendulous, and are yellow with pollen.

Female catkins on alders grow to a half inch. They are upright and dull red and receive pollen from male catkins. Little clusters of half-inch, woody cones grow where female blossoms were.

A tiny, golden-brown seed grows under each protective scale of each cone.

When the seeds mature, the scales die, turn brown, and open to release their seeds into the wind. Many seeds are eaten by mice and birds.

American hazelnuts and speckled alders benefit wildlife and have esthetic beauty to appreciate. But their greatest beauties are their unique flowers in March.

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