CARLETON-WILLARD VILLAGER

MARCH 2020 ❀ VOLUME 38 ❁ Number 1 T h e C a r l e t o n -W i l l a r d V i l l a g e r • M a r c h 2 0 2 0 • V o l u m e 3 8 • N u m b er 1 2 T h e C a r l e t o n -W i l l a r d Editor’s Corner VILLAGER Published quarterly by and for the residents With this issue the Villager has a new Editor. and administration of Carleton-Willard Village, It is with some trepidation that one follows in the a continuing care retirement community at footsteps of Alice Morrish and Peggy McKibben. 100 Old Billerica Road, Bedford, Massachusetts 01730. They have produced an excellent magazine for five years and over 20 issues. This has entertained and informed us, and as a marketing tool it has put the Editor best face forward for Carleton-Willard Village. Anne Schmalz It is inevitable that there may be some changes with new hands at the helm, but hopefully we will Editorial Board remain on course. In addition to saying ‘good bye’ Madelyn Armstrong • Diane Buck to Alice and Peggy as they retired from the Board, we regretted the illness and departure of Stephanie Wally Campbell • Edwin Cox Rolfe. Besides writing enjoyable stories of an interest- Henry Hoover • Marjorie Roemer ing life she was an excellent proof-reader! Mary Ellen Turner • Cornelia (Neela) Zinsser A new feature is the “Conversation with...” Each issue we will feature a resident who has been here Production Designer for many years. The choice will be up to a member of the Editorial Board. We hope you will enjoy this new Kathy Copeland, Allegiance Design·Print·Mail profile feature. Life here at the village is full of opportunities to Circulation be creative, to be active, and to enjoy the remarkable Wally Campbell, Chair natural richness of our lovely campus. We hope that Fran Bronzo • Gerry Cathcart you will want to share stories of your life before Janet Kennedy • Edward Lowry coming here as well as the observations that occur to you now. Sheila Veidenheimer We can use your poetry and art to enliven our pages. Creativity does not have to be at a level to Carleton-Willard Village Administration amaze the world. Our individual efforts are worthy of Barbara A. Doyle recognition however simple they may be. Give it a try! President & CEO I appreciate the encouragement and support I have received in embarking upon this new venture of editorship. The editorial board and I will always be open to suggestion or criticism and look forward to An archive of Villagers from past years continuing the fine tradition of the Villager. is located in the Carleton-Willard Village library.

Anne Schmalz, Editor

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“Progress is not enhancing what is, but advancing toward what will be.” - Khalil Gibran I remember JFK’s speech in 1962 when he told us, “We choose to go to the Moon … not because [it is] easy, but because [it is] hard, because [it will] measure the best of our energies and skills, because that challenge is one that we are willing to accept.” I think of this speech often whenever I’m faced with a sizeable challenge. To the moon and back in a decade. Anything is possible when you decide something is just going to get done, no matter what! As far as challenges go, the Village’s new Arlington Court – 13 years in the making – certainly qualifies as “sizeable.” But as with all creative challenges, the time spent, distance traveled and efforts made are not the real story. The value of the journey is what is important. In reality, Arlington Court is part of a bigger strategy – a logical development of the same plan that shaped our new Village Centre (including the Brass Rail Bistro, Art Studio, Crafts Studio, Computer Lab, Exercise Studio and Spa). Arlington Court is a natural extension of our community and will nestle seamlessly into the Village’s landscape. The 12 units (configured as six duplex residences) will each have two bedrooms, a study, open kitchen, and other “in-demand” features. Each unit will follow the ever-advancing design standard we employ for all our construction and existing renovations. So how exactly are Arlington Court and the Village Centre part of the same strategic plan? Like everything else at the Village, our focus is as much on where we are now as it is on where we want to be. What do residents want and need in a full-scale retirement community? Can we imagine what those wants and needs will be in the future? What amenities must we provide to make today’s quality of Village life exceptional – and to attract the residents we desire in years to come? One cannot be committed to being a premier community without continually asking these questions. In a very real way, then, the road to Arlington Court began when we launched Carleton- Willard Village nearly 38 years ago. Some journey! Construction on Arlington Court is scheduled to begin mid-March, with occupancy expected by April 2021.

Barbara A. Doyle President and CEO

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Theme – Opening Up Cover – Moose Crossing - a multi-media collage by Gracia Dayton, photograph: Bard Turner Inside Front Cover – Gracia Dayton in her Bedford Court Studio, photograph: Sheldon Buck 1 Editor’s Page • Anne Schmalz 2 From the Chief Executive Officer • Barbara A. Doyle 4 Joe and Nancy Down Under • Joe Horowitz and Nancy Hicks 4 My Friend Daisy • Madelyn Armstrong 5 The Gray Fox • Janet Lovejoy 5 Sylvan Choreography Opens the View • Sonja Strong 7 Seasonal Complaint • Lois Pulliam 7 Severe Frost on the Danube • Daisy Illich 7 My Heart Leaps Up • Marjorie Roemer 8 Understanding Emily • Wally Campbell 8 With Apologies to Emily Dickinson • Barbara Pennypacker Worcester 9 Tale of a Marriage • Pat Pease 9 Opening Night at the BCH • Luis Fernandez-Herlihy 10 Welcome New Residents 10 About Your Cold • Byron D. Roseman 11 For Some Reason • Victoria Gaw 11 Spring Puddles • Virginia Steel 12 Village Happenings • Harry Hoover 14 Profiles • Gretchen Scott, Julia and Bruce Francis, Jeanne Reidy Barbara Worcester, Hilary Creighton, Katherine Halmi and Jerry Green 18 To The Redecorated Library • Madelyn Armstrong 18 Library Confessions • Lois Pulliam 19 A Conversation with Margaret Mendelsohn • Anne Schmalz 19 In Memory 20 Facts from the Stacks • Katherine F. Graff 21 Among the Newest • Louis W. Pitt, Jr. 22 Recent Library Acquisitions • Katherine F. Graff Inside Back Cover – Nature Page - The Omnivorous Squirrels • Anne Schmalz Back Cover – “Earthrise From the Moon” bookends this issue in honor of the several men at Carleton-Willard who worked to make the Apollo 11 flight to the moon possible.

T h e C a r l e t o n -W i l l a r d V i l l a g e r • M a r c h 2 0 2 0 • V o l u m e 3 8 • N u m b er 1 3 Joe and Nancy Down Under averted only by heroic efforts by the Rural Fire Service and others. e, Joe Horowitz and Nancy Hicks, of Badger Also on the trip, we spent many days in and WTerrace, travelled far to the south last Octo- around Sydney, including hiring a local birder, ber. This was a 27 day visit to Australia, instigat- who in a day and a half showed us 70 species ed by our love of the music of country performer nearly all of which were new to us. In Sydney the Slim Dusty, whom we discovered three years ago. Opera House was a highlight, including a behind Slim passed on in 2003, but a museum well the scenes tour. The Taronga Zoo was great fun, north of Sydney, dedicated to his life, opened in involving another behind the scenes tour, with 2015. We HAD to go to Australia to go there. an up close and personal visit with a Koala. We also had the privilege of seeing the rare Southern Cassowary, called a ‘living dinosaur.’ It is seen in captivity at only a few zoos around the world. In the suburbs of Sydney, the beautiful coastal beach towns of Bondi and Manly greeted us. For our final destination we ventured 700 miles west to a town called Broken Hill to experience the uniqueness of the outback. This gave us dark night skies to view stars and constellations unfamiliar to us northern hemi- sphere people (we’d never before been south of the equator). Nancy taught a basic astronomy course at the college level for years, and was particularly excited about this. During this part of the trip we saw kangaroos and emus in the wild. All of our travels were by private car with great, informed, fun and friendly guides.

Joe Horowitz and Nancy Hicks My Friend Daisy

was always a dog person. We had two dogs Iwhen I was little, Joe and Trixie. Oh yeah, there was also a cat, Mary, who ruled the front We really enjoyed the Slim Dusty Centre in door and the dining room. Joe, a big old hound the town of Kempsey, and were also driven by two dog, and Trixie, a sweet collie-shepherd mix, volunteer guides to his boyhood home way out were terrified of Mary. She would allow them in in farm country. Slim was a national treasure as the front door which led directly into the dining the most productive country music performer room so long as they didn’t linger there. They in Australia’s history. He even closed the 2000 would dash out to the kitchen or through the Sydney Olympics for an audience of 110,000 other doorway into the living room – to relative people at the Olympic Stadium with a rousing safety. version of “Waltzing Matilda” Segue to many years later and a dear friend (https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2nwuqt). who had three feline members of her household. Of note, in early December 2019, bushfires When any of them passed on, she would head threatened to consume Slim’s boyhood home, to the shelter and rescue another. At first they

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•••••• were all named for great musicians – Kirsten The Gray Fox (Flagstad), Dmitri (Shostakovich), Robert (Hon- eysucker, locally well-known singer). Then came ast April on an evening around dusk, I Emily (for Dickinson), and a couple of others Lstepped onto my small deck here at Carleton- whose names I can’t remember. But they were Willard to be greatly surprised by an absolutely cats after all, so who cares. gorgeous gray fox sauntering by. His coat was Every late Fall we would have a choir potluck thick and his tail very bushy. From the tip of his party at my friend’s house. As people arrived, nose to the end of his tail, he was about three she told us to throw our coats in her bedroom. feet long. He trotted by me silently but with Midway through the evening, I needed a break determination. Of course I wondered where he from the party hubbub and went into the bed- was going. room for a few minutes of peace and quiet. Now let me introduce my friend’s cat Daisy. Not named for a composer, nor an author, Daisy was a slightly over-weight, shy tiger cat rescued from a shelter in Augusta, Maine. I’m pretty sure Daisy didn’t like people any more than I liked cats. She too had escaped the party and sought out the only peaceful spot in the house. And where was Daisy when I entered the bed- room? Not just in the bedroom, but of all the coats piled on the bed, she had picked out mine and was happily curled up on it. For some rea- son we instantly bonded and became best friends Knowing that some might not believe me, for the rest of her life. I called a friend of mine in Carlisle, told him my story and asked if what I thought I saw could be true? To my relief he replied “Oh yes, this is the time of year when he would be staking out his territory to establish a home for his family-to-be.” Now I can hardly wait for next April.

Janet Lovejoy

Sylvan Choreography Opens The View

And the rest of the story? I never did get an- he performance was scheduled to begin at other dog. Thanks to my friend Daisy I got two T7:00 A.M. on December 17th, and the audi- rescue kittens from Northeast Animal Shelter in ence was ready. The removal of thirty trees in Salem, which I named Poco a Poco and Motet. the wetlands that abut several cottages had been They lived with me for almost 20 years. And carefully planned. Trees that had grown in the then I got my new friend Frederick who loves be- thirty-five years since the courts had been built ing at CWV and watching the birds at the feeders were now too tall and too wet and too close to off my deck. So much for being a dog person. some of the cottages and were marked by the arborist and approved for removal by the Conser- Madelyn E. Armstrong vation Commission.

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•••••• It had taken several months to coordinate made a clean cut about 1 or 2 feet above ground Stumpy’s Tree Removal Service and their use of through trunks 2-3 feet in diameter! The root an enormous crane that would be necessary. The ball remained in place, continuing to serve the FAA even had to give approval so that Hanscom’s wetlands. flights would know to stay clear of the 200 foot With a signal from the Star, the crane then crane during the operation. Finally the big day lifted the tree straight up and over the cottage arrived! Having been “evicted” for safety, the directly and precisely to the bucket loader, who residents (audience) in the affected cottages were grabbed the tree trunk with claws and gently watching from the Village Center with binoculars. positioned the tree on the driveway. A crew with At 6:57 A.M. a huge crane rolled quietly into saws was in place: some to cut the trunk into place at Dartmouth Court where the first act would haul-away lengths and some to cut branches off take place. It was early-morning dark, and the cast for the wood chipper. It was about 10 minutes of characters must have left the crane’s home garage from lifting the Star off the ground to the cut- several hours earlier to navigate such huge equip- ting into lengths and chipping. Trucks for haul- ment on the roadways. Within minutes, several huge ing chips and trunks were waiting in the wings. Kenworth trucks with 50’ trailers slid into place Talk about precision choreography! A sylvan within two feet of the big crane. Precision chore- ballet if there ever was one. ography! The trailers’ job was to deliver 170,000 Meanwhile, the Operator was re-connecting pounds of counterweight for the operation of lean- our Star with the tree harness and moving him ing over the cottages to the next tree. and high and deep There was no into the woods. rushing about, just Next on stage calm precision of a was a bucket-load- crew who had done er with a pincer- this many times claw, followed by before. The opera- a large-throated tion in Dartmouth wood chipper and Court removed 15 a dump truck. All trees that day. of this was choreo- What a show! graphed perfectly, The cast and crew and directed by a were headed home work crew who knew precisely what should be about 3:30 P.M. for a well-deserved rest before re- happening, where and when. No raised voices turning at 7:00 A.M. the next day to Essex Court were necessary, and simple hand gestures were for Act Two of this performance. As residents enough to position each truck in the staging returned to their homes, the stage was swept area. This performance had been rehearsed! free of wood chips and was quiet now. The crane The crane Operator was paying attention to rested in place, patiently waiting for the stage the extension of the crane, and conversed with crew to arrive the next day. the crewman who would be doing the sawing What was new and different? The view into part of the job and the Star of our performance the woods was more open, and more sky was today. The Star’s helmet had a walkie-talkie so visible above the cottages. It was the result of that Star and Operator were a perfectly coordi- careful planning and an experienced crew work- nated duet. The Star (with chainsaw hanging ing together in a performance they do regularly from his belt) was hoisted over the cottages to but few get to witness. It was a thrill to be part of the tree top where he fastened a harness about the audience. 25 feet from the top of the tree before detaching himself and rapelling to the ground. Our Star Sonja Strong

T h e C a r l e t o n -W i l l a r d V i l l a g e r • M a r c h 2 0 2 0 • V o l u m e 3 8 • N u m b er 1 6 Seasonal Complaint the bridge would be demolished if they could not withstand the forceful onslaught of the ice Green turned to gold blocks coming down in the rapid current of the And gold turned to red river. Shivering in the cold, now frightened of With orange and brown in turn. the bridge trembling underfoot, I pleaded with As leaves fell off and flowers froze nurse to get me away onto the safety of solid We all began to yearn. ground immediately. What a relief to feel the How could that Spring and Summer go? familiar solid cobble stones under my feet on the We’re now awaiting frost and snow way home! As far as I know, the footings of the But luckily as the months go on, old bridge are holding up to this day, but there We’ll see green again on trees and lawn. has never been such a severe frost gripping the Bulbs will burst and blossoms sprout, river since then. (Our gardener’s magic brings them out!) Daisy Illich Seasons change, so never fear, We know it happens every year!

Lois Pulliam •••••• Severe Frost on the Danube

n 1928 there was great excitement in Vienna. IFor the first time in over fifty years, the Dan- ube as well as the Danube Canal, the important Editor’s note: In August of 1976 the Reichsbrücke international shipping waterway, were freezing bridge did in fact collapse. It was built in 1936 and over. An enormous crowd of curious Viennese rebuilt after W.W.II and serves as a main artery folks turned out to observe this unusual event. across the river. My nurse, too, did not wish to miss this sight, and took me there to watch it, though I was barely three and a half years old. •••••• We walked well onto the middle of the bridge pushing through the bundled up people to get a My Heart Leaps Up good look. Much to my surprise, the river was not frozen over like a flat skating rink, but rush- My heart leaps up too ing by with big blocks of ice struggling up and But not in a good way down in the current. When they reached the Actually, it’s in my mouth footings of the bridge, they got jammed, piled up As we careen down the highway on each other, unable to continue. A ripple went Going 80 miles per hour through the bystanders when some crazy young While you fiddle with your sunglasses fellows jumped onto the heaving mass of colossal And I brace myself blocks of ice in the river. They seemed to make For a collision with destiny. a game of skipping from one block to the other. Don’t let me die! Some of the bystanders screamed at them: Watch the guy in the left lane “Get back on the embankment, stop this foolish- Forget the rainbow. ness!” Then I also overheard two women near me expressing doubt whether the footings of Marjorie Roemer

T h e C a r l e t o n -W i l l a r d V i l l a g e r • M a r c h 2 0 2 0 • V o l u m e 3 8 • N u m b er 1 7 Understanding Emily How near I had forgot! And if to miss were merry, t one point a few years ago, I realized my lit- And if to mourn were gay, Aerary background was pitiful. Of Emily Dick- How very blithe the fingers inson for instance, I knew practically nothing. That gathered these today! Emily Dickinson is I just can’t figure it out. I should be more recognized as a major mournful than I am to not recollect what I have American poet of the nine- forgotten to remember. Alas, I’m just not. I think. teenth century. She was Maybe I should try Charles Lamb next. very reclusive and lived her entire life in her father’s Wally Campbell house in Amherst, Massa- chusetts. She rarely left the house and probably wrote With Apologies to Emily Dickinson’s her 1775 poems and 1045 letters in this house and “Hope” (is the thing with feathers) its garden. Most of her poems had no titles and many were only two or three short stanzas long. Hope is the thing with scales I gleaned this information from a slim volume That fins beneath the stream, I purchased at a local bookstore for $4.95 plus And tests the tune of anglers’ skills tax. Even at that this slim book included over And stops perchance to dream. 400 poems. I approached it skeptically. Could I even make it through a dozen of these poems? Oh sweetest is the mayfly spring, Yes, I could and would. Each day I read a few. But sore must be the lip Some were quite readable. Here is “VI” in the sec- That does remind the hungry trout tion titled “Life.” (While not titled, each poem has ‘Tis better wait, than sip. identifying Roman Numerals. When you get up to I’ve heard it said in troutful lands “CXXXVIII,” it can become quite dizzying.) From here to Zealand’s sea If I can stop one heart from breaking, That never, standing rod in hand, I shall not live in vain; Was hope denied to thee. If I can ease one life the aching, Or cool one pain, So, dearest Em, forgive me now Or help one fainting robin For adding further lines - - Unto his nest again, The countless pleasures angling brings I shall not live in vain. Outweigh its frequent pains. This is admirable and seems a worthwhile The little mayfly bravely floats effort for anyone. I would certainly like to ease Down current’s errant stream, someone’s pain or aching, but what’s this about As fish and angler’s hearts beat both lifting a robin into its nest? I’m not averse to To share the hopeful dream. rescuing a fainting robin (or woman for that matter) but I’m not quite sure what Emily is Barbara P. Worcester driving at here. I found something a little meatier. Number CVIII also in the Life section looked promising. Now read it slowly, word-by-word, so you get the full impact. If recollecting were forgetting, Then I remember not; And if forgetting, recollecting, BPW

T h e C a r l e t o n -W i l l a r d V i l l a g e r • M a r c h 2 0 2 0 • V o l u m e 3 8 • N u m b er 1 8 Tale of a Marriage Opening Night at the BCH

n sixty-four years of marriage my husband ne night many years ago I was on a team Iand I were lucky and blessed to have so many Oassigned to deal with night-time surgical interests in common. We both enjoyed sports, emergencies at Boston City Hospital. The team the theatre and laughed at the same jokes! Some comprised two senior residents, two senior of our happiest times were spent by a river fly interns, and one junior intern, me. Sometime casting for trout. before midnight we received the victim of a We met in 1939 in England, where I was car crash who needed immediate surgery. Four born. He had been sent to England by the com- of the team surgeons would operate on him; I pany he worked for, which had purchased a tool would stand by to receive any other emergen- company, and his job was to find an Englishman cies. At midnight I received a young man who to run this new acquisition. The man he found had engaged in a gun fight and sustained a bullet happened to be a friend of mine, so that’s how we wound in the lower abdomen. Emergency Room became friends. We enjoyed fly fishing in some doctors had stabilized him, started IV fluids, ob- beautiful Derbyshire rivers nearby. tained blood tests and x-rays. The latter showed War between England and Germany was a bullet in the lower abdomen toward the back, declared in September 1939. All Americans were its exact location not clear. He needed immediate told to leave, so Hoyt, my future husband, left. surgery because of possible internal bleeding. I was reluctant to go because I had four brothers The patient arrived in our OR handcuffed who had already signed up to fight, and I was to a gurney and accompanied by two Boston worried about my parents being left. However, my policemen—he knew the man who shot him, but father and mother liked Hoyt and felt I should join refused to identify him. I presented the case to him. It was important that I find an American ship the chief resident working on the other patient as the British ones were so likely to be torpedoed. in the adjoining OR and was told to go ahead I was able to find the last American ship in Novem- and prepare the patient for surgery—they would ber and made it to America, where I lived with be finished shortly and relieve me. It didn’t take Hoyt’s family until we were married in New Britain long to clean the skin around the bullet wound in January of 1940. We continued fishing, some- and surround the area with sterile towels. I times at a wonderful club in Blooming Grove, PA. checked with my chief again and was told to have Despite having three sons to care for, we still the anesthesiologist put him to sleep—they were enjoyed our joint interests until Hoyt died in almost finished. But soon after that the chief 2003. I read the following well-known poem at told me to go ahead because they had run into his memorial service. a complication with the other patient. “Do you mean I should make the incision and open the Fishing for Trout abdomen?” I asked. “Yes, go ahead, we won’t be I pray that I may fish for trout too long.” Until my dying day I had never performed major surgery And when I come to my last out without the supervision of a senior resident or I’ll then respectfully pray. an attending physician. The anesthesiologist on When in the Lord’s safe landing net my case was one of the best in Boston. Dr. Syd- I’m peacefully asleep, ney Wiggin was a Harvard Medical School class- That in His mercy He will judge me mate of my father-in-law and, as I learned years Big enough to keep. later, father of C-W’s own mellow-voiced Paul Wiggin. He had watched a lot of surgery and [Author unknown] somehow his seniority and experience steadied my nerves. He gave me the go-ahead, and as- Pat Pease

T h e C a r l e t o n -W i l l a r d V i l l a g e r • M a r c h 2 0 2 0 • V o l u m e 3 8 • N u m b er 1 9 sisted by the Scrub Nurse, I made my incision About Your Cold across the bullet wound, stanching any bleeding as I cut deeper and eventually into the bladder. My dear friends, young and old(er) Using a thin probe, I made contact with the bul- I’ll relate the truth about the common cold. let and extracted it. Then I backed up, sewing up It starts with sneezing and a slight sore throat the tissues I had cut, and just as I was sewing up the skin, my chief came in full of apologies and And hasn’t to do with being out in a boat, kind words. With swimming in the pool or cold, wet feet, My patient recovered uneventfully and ended Standing in a draft or too little heat. up at the mercy of the BPD. Were you to go to the Clinic they’d give you some pills, Luis Fernandez-Herlihy Lozenges, cough syrup and a chat for your ills. But, in a day you’ll feel better or maybe feel worse– Then it’s a real cold which no doctor or nurse Can cure with a shot or good-tasting medicine. You’ll just have to hope that you’ll be feeling bedda soon. As you’ll read later on, for your cold to peak Research has shown takes a long, sick week. So, heed me dear readers and take our advice– Welcome Do pay close attention, please now, be nice. New Residents If you have a cold, stay out in the sun, Go to sleep early: lots of rest is such fun! Katherine Halmi and Gerry Green Drink gallons of liquids, friends, if you please 65 Dartmouth Court And aim for your elbow if you must cough or from Lexington, 10/22/19 sneeze. Keep your hands clean and scrubbed in no Jane Pemberton uncertain terms 7 Andover Court To keep us so readily from spreading these from Amherst, MA, 11/19/19 germs. Get a big box of tissues for disposable use: Jean Rabovsky Burn them, wash again, just don’t be obtuse. 89 Falmouth Court Toast your colds with beverages, sun, rest and from El Cerrito,California, sleep. 12/16/19 It is hopeless and futile to mope, cry or weep. All the vain meds there are for colds would Amelia ‘Amy’ Breiting amaze, and John Schmitz 45 Concord Court But really to cure, you see, takes mostly–seven from Lexington,1/21/20 days.

Robert ‘Bob’ Garner Byron D. Roseman 76 Essex Court from Lincoln,1/23/20

T h e C a r l e t o n -W i l l a r d V i l l a g e r • M a r c h 2 0 2 0 • V o l u m e 3 8 • N u m b er 1 10 For Some Reason The bedding was rinsed, wrung out and hung outside on clothes lines, followed by the other whites. The washer was emptied, filled with water or some reason, opening up the laundry and detergent and the same process was followed Fhamper to load the washer this morning for the colored clothes. By lunch time, all the brought back vivid memories of Monday wash clothes were drying on the line, the laundry days at my maternal grandparents. I was a war room cleaned and the ironing board ready. baby. My father received unexpected orders to I’m told I was initially relegated to an empty report to the Norfolk naval base in 48 hours. clothes basket with a toy or two while Gram This left my mother, 7 months pregnant with worked. As I got older and more able, I was allowed me, and their car stranded in New Orleans, LA. to help in many ways but never ever allowed to put My maternal grandmother begged, and borrowed clothes through the ringer. I remember playing in gas ration stamps, and took the train from the clothes yard while Grandma took down the dry Rochester, NY to New Orleans. She then drove clothes and the wonderful smell of the sundried my mother back to the family farm on Sodus sheets as they hung on the line. Until Carleton- Bay, NY. Without interstates or air conditioning Willard, I always hung my laundry outside to recapture that wonderful smell that brought back it was a long hot ride in August. I was born less so many fond memories. than two weeks after they arrived. Mom and I lived on the farm until my dad got home after Victoria Gaw the war. I frequently stayed with my grandpar- ents while my folks got settled and my Dad at- tended college on the GI Bill, and spent summer •••••• holidays there each year for many years. Despite being on a bay, water was a precious Spring Puddles commodity, especially in the summer dry season. The house had two sources of water – the well Fifty-six years in the same house, for drinking water and a cistern that collected rainwater for all other uses. When there was Fifty-six years of spring puddles on quiet roads, little rain, water was pumped from the bay to the A quiet corner in a quiet neighborhood, cistern. Grandpa always made sure the cistern Spring puddles inviting children’s feet and wheels. had enough water for wash day. I loved to tag Our children, long ago, on tricycles, in boots, along to watch him fire up the pump and listen Little fireman boots, froggy boots, rainbow boots. to the water gurgle into the cistern. Puddles even better when splashed, pants get wet, Right after breakfast, Grandma would strip Not far to home, warm bath, dry clothes. the beds, collect used towels and sort the whites from the darks in the laundry hamper. All Years of multiple potholes - deep, exciting would be emptied into large wicker baskets and puddles, carried to the cellar laundry area that held a Roads finally rebuilt, puddles more tame, more large washer tub with an agitator and ringer or, temporary. in later days, a spin tub, and three large utility Flocks of children now, again, thriving in sinks. She filled the washer tub with hot water puddles, through a hose from the sink. Soap and bleach or bluing were added, followed by the bedding. New kinds of wheels, scooters make good wet After a sufficient agitation, Gram would fish each tracks. piece out of the water, run it through the ringer, Tricycles, bikes, strollers for dolls, through the and put it in one of the empty sinks. Towels puddles, and other white clothes would go in the same Watchful parents, patient, bemused, remembering, wash water. After the all whites were washed and Spring puddles again invite children’s feet. wrung, the tub was drained into the sink and refilled with clean water for the rinse. Virginia Steel

T h e C a r l e t o n -W i l l a r d V i l l a g e r • M a r c h 2 0 2 0 • V o l u m e 3 8 • N u m b er 1 11 Village This is a selected summary of events that were enjoyed by residents of Carleton-Willard Village in recent months.

Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals Justice Denied: A Personal Perspective The CWV Civics Issues Interest Group convened a Margaret Yamamoto, co-president of the New England panel of CWV residents to focus on DACA, Delayed Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League Action for Childhood Arrivals, the American policy and friend of resident Pamela Herrick, told of the that allows immigrants brought to the country Japanese incarceration during World War II through as children to be deferred from deportation for the eyes of her Japanese American family. With over a renewable period of two years. An informative 100 personal and historic photographs, Margaret briefing cited personal qualifications and cost for poignantly described the family’s passage from DACA registration, the rights of Massachusetts immigration in the 1890s, through their imprison- DACA recipients, and status of arguments before ment during the war years, to rebuilding their lives the Supreme Court due to rule on the program thereafter. Moving beyond the experiences of a single next spring. Special guests Larissa and Leslie, family, Margaret then focussed on the plight of DACA recipients originally from El Salvador, shared 120,000 imprisoned Japanese - most of them Amer- their stories and progress with a rapt audience. ican citizens - and later efforts to compensate them.

New Bedford Whaling Museum On a breezy morning, residents strolled down cobblestone streets to tour the New Bedford Whaling Museum celebrating the international whaling industry. Following a 25-minute film on the history of whaling, we met our excellent guide, Charles Chace, whose ancestors were whalers. He led us open- mouthed beneath five fully articulated room-sized skeletons, the world’s largest collection of scrimshaw, and a mammoth model of a 1,500-pound whale heart. Most thrilling was boarding and snaking through the Lagoda, a half-scale 89-foot model of a 1916 whaling The Grand Canyon of the Colorado ship. Lunch at Tia Maria concluded a memorable day. On a crisp autumn evening, resident Ed Cox presented an illustrated lecture of his three trips A Visit to the Concord Museum to the Grand Canyon, “a source of inspiration An enthusiastic group toured the Concord Museum to and perspiration,” first to the rim in 1957, by enjoy this famous visitors’ gateway to Concord. Visitors mule to the bottom in 1976, and by river raft the reveled in the world’s largest collection of over 250 canyon’s entire 280 miles in 1995. Celebrating household and personal objects related to Henry David the 150th anniversary of explorer John Wesley Thoreau, including his 1838 pinewood desk, compass Powell’s 1869 expedition, Ed accompanied his and spyglass. Most learned for the first time about the striking photographs of flora. fauna and geological ancient indigenous settlement of Musketaquid, which wonders with the words of explorers, writers and later became Concord, viewing artifacts found in the poets, including Theodore Roosevelt, with whom area. Opening eyes and bringing smiles were the 27 all agreed, “Keep this great wonder of nature as it whimsical trees and wreaths decorated for Christmas, is now ... for all who come after you.” inspired by children’s books including “The Night Before Christmas.” A delicious lunch at nearby Fiorella’s restaurant began the delightful afternoon.

T h e C a r l e t o n -W i l l a r d V i l l a g e r • M a r c h 2 0 2 0 • V o l u m e 3 8 • N u m b er 1 12 Happenings They are samples of the ongoing activities planned by our Learning In Retirement and Off-site Programs offices.

A Christmas Carol: A Play with Music The Nativity in Stained Glass On a snowy December evening, actor Jeffries Thaiss Resident Ed Cox presented an illustrated lecture and guitarist Eric Scott Anthony presented a fast- culled from his travels that focused on the story of paced, imaginative production of Charles Dickens’ Jesus’ birth as reflected in stained glass windows timely classic. Combining the author’s brilliant text appearing in cathedrals, churches and secular with both traditional and unexpected Christmas buildings dating from the 12th to 20th centuries. music, the audience accompanied Ebenezer After describing the making of stained glass and Scrooge on his self-revelatory visits to Christmases its purpose to tell a story, Ed led his rapt audience Past, Present and Yet to Come. Wafting us into through Europe, the Middle East, England, France Dickens’ world were eerily realistic sound effects and the US to marvel at windows in brilliant color issuing from the guitarist: whistling wind from bow and exquisite detail. The intense cobalt-blue windows drawn across strings, jolly laughter, the crunch of of Chartres and those of St. John Neumann church boots in snow. Tim smiled, raising his glass to all: in East Freetown, MA, were but two dramatic and “God bless us, every one!” exquisite examples.

Apollo - The Grandest Project in the 20th Century On the fiftieth anniversary of the first moon walk, residents Bard Crawford, Bard Turner and Sheldon Buck re-captured their dramatic involvement with the Apollo space missions. First, Bard Crawford led us through the pioneering, nail-biting steps of the first manned earth orbit and lunar space walk. Next, Bard Turner recounted his high-pressure challenge to develop a compact, powerful computer. Lastly, Sheldon kept all in suspense in determining a safe lunar landing site for the Lunar Rover. The program safely landed with a breathtaking view of the “Blue Marble” photograph. The Foggy Mountain Consort Boston’s premier R & B Band played an exciting Holiday Caroling in the Village concert of Renaissance and Bluegrass gems, fusing ’Twas the week before Christmas when all through the delicate beauty of 17th and 18th-century dances the halls 24 resident carolers donned Santa hats to with the inventiveness and energy of fiddle, and wend their way through halls decked with boughs banjo-driven bluegrass and traditional folk songs. of holly and ivy to bring joy to the world of Carleton- Playing eight instruments, fiddle, lute, mandolin, Willard nursing center residents. Rudolph the red- violone and two varieties of guitar and banjo, the nosed reindeer flew with jingle bells on a midnight five member ensemble often combined both musical clear over new-fallen snow to land in Caswell and traditions in the same song, as in a set of English Ross-Worthen. There arose such a clatter in Llewsac country dances that fused stately Elizabethan that residents came smiling from their rooms to see measures with bluegrass’ high-powered Appalachian what was the matter. Came all ye faithful, joyful and rhythms. The quintet melted hearts with their vocal- triumphant, to the cafeteria for punch and cookies. izing of “Poor Wayfarin‘ Stranger” before wrapping up with a foot-tapping “Will the Roses Bloom.” Harry Hoover

T h e C a r l e t o n -W i l l a r d V i l l a g e r • M a r c h 2 0 2 0 • V o l u m e 3 8 • N u m b er 1 13 Sanibel has a long history in her life. Her parents vacationed there over the years, so when Gretchen and her husband decided to retire, it seemed the likely choice. Unfortunately Guy’s illness and death in 2015 cut short that plan. With two children in the area, returning to New England and settling at Carleton-Willard was O F I L the next step. Gretchen describes the atmo- R E S sphere as kind and embracing. P Involvement with her five grandchildren is now a focal point of her life. Exercise and the outdoors are also very important to her. Walk- Gretchen Scott ing and bicycling trips all over Europe have 222 Llewsac Lodge, April 1, 2019 been part of her experience, and at some point she even prepared to run the marathon here, he’s lived in an awful lot of places: Watertown but for now she’s just making sure not to miss and Madison, WI; Wellesley and Weston, MA; S a day of walking and taking advantage of our Tiburon, Oceanside and Sonoma, CA; Chatham, varied exercise program. She thinks she’ll try NJ; Quechee, VT; and more recently Sanibel exploring painting next. Island, but for now Gretchen Scott is getting attached to the view from her home on the second floor of Llewsac. It feels like a refuge, MR she says. The moves from place to place were oc- Julia and Bruce Francis casioned by her husband Guy’s jobs with vari- 203 Badger Terrace, July 19, 2019 ous investment firms, but Gretchen’s own life experiences have led her on quite a varied path ulia and Bruce Francis moved to Carleton- as well. She started college as a freshman at JWillard from forty years in nearby Lexington, Wellesley, but a serious car accident derailed but it does not take long to realize when talking that plan. She headed home to Wisconsin and to them that they have deeper roots in Australia. resumed her studies at the University of Wiscon- They were born and raised in Adelaide, a pretty, sin. One husband and eventually four children small city on the southern coast of Australia. later, she continued studying wherever she was, Their forebears came in the middle of the 1880’s getting credits at San Diego State and other from England and were farmers and skilled crafts- educational institutions until she could apply men. Julia and Bruce both attended the same them to her degree from U of Wisconsin. primary school although several years apart. Later, when the youngest child was enter- Bruce went to the South Australian School ing eighth grade, Gretchen began a new project: of Mines and Industries, earning the equivalent nursing school. Her father had been a doctor in of a BA in Electrical Engineering. (Later he went a small town and her mother a lab technician, to the University of Lowell and earned a master’s so entering the medical field felt right to her. degree in Computer Engineering.) Julia qualified Her ten years at Mclean Hospital were very re- as a nurse at a private hospital then took a year- warding. She describes the experience as a nice long mid-wifery course. They met through a time in her life, fascinating work, well done. cousin of Julia’s and were married in 1961. She learned a lot and had a chance to work on Bruce’s specialty is analysis of radar signa- “exposure therapy” for many different kinds of tures of space objects. At a conference in Austra- patients. (All of whom she seems to remember lia in 1968 he met someone from RCA who in great detail and with great compassion.) asked whether he would think of emigrating to

T h e C a r l e t o n -W i l l a r d V i l l a g e r • M a r c h 2 0 2 0 • V o l u m e 3 8 • N u m b er 1 14 the United States to continue this kind of work. Jeanne Reidy Julia and Bruce thought about it and agreed to 308 Badger Terrace, August 17, 2019 make the move at the company’s expense. Thus began the long process of seeking a permanent eanne Reidy moved to Carleton-Willard in resident visa for the USA.. JAugust 2019 after having grown up in the In 1970, after waiting two years, they were Bronx, New York, and resided in Bedford for able to pack up their three children, ages 3, 6 58 years. She and her late husband, William, a and 7, and embarked on a fairly hectic journey. physicist, raised two sons and two daughters, Bruce worked for two years at the RCA division plus two dogs and a horse. Since 1993, Jeanne in Moorestown, NJ, and then moved to Massa- has traveled to Naples, Florida, for the winter chusetts to work on an analysis contract that RCA after the holidays, where she shares a condo- had at MIT Lincoln Laboratory in Lexington. After minium on Naples Bay. She recently retired living in a rental house in Woburn for two years, from serving as Chairperson of the local Social they bought a house in Lexington and lived there Committee there. until they moved to CWV in July 2019. Bruce Jeanne received a Bachelor’s Degree in retired at the end of 2000. Nursing at the College of Mount Saint Vincent Life in Lexington was full and rewarding and New York before earning her Master’s Degree in made especially happy with their involvement Gerontology at Lowell University in Massachu- with the Church of Our Redeemer where they setts. This led to positions as a Registered Nurse/ both sang in the choir and held positions on the Nurse Practitioner at Chelsea Soldiers Home vestry at various times. Bruce was Mr. Fixit for the and Metropolitan State Hospital in Waltham. Property Committee. He installed and managed Jeanne loves both oil painting and water- the audio system in the church and recorded the colors. Her active life in Bedford includes par- sermons and music of services. He also enjoyed ticipating in an evening watercolor group. She his role in the maintenance of the organ. joined the Bedford Arts and Crafts Society in the The Garden Club benefited from Julia’s 1960’s, serving as President for twelve terms and enthusiasm. She was President for two years and is now an Honorary Member. She has hosted chaired various committees locally as well as for art shows, manning a booth on every Bedford the State Federation of Garden Clubs. Day to raise money for her art club, which has Their travels have included England, sponsored a scholarship for art students. She Holland, many places in Canada as well as many taught Sunday school at St. Michael’s in Bed- states of the USA. Of course their most frequent ford, joined gourmet cooking groups, and assists destination overseas has been Australia to which in Bedford’s holiday Santa program every year. they have returned several times, taking all the Both William and Jeanne loved to travel: children in 1976. Their children have returned Europe, Hawaii, Florida, California, Mexico, there to visit but none have moved back. On Canada, and Portugal. William’s business with Julia’s 80th birthday her sister made a surprise Visidyne took him to Alaska and New Mexico visit here. for high-atmospheric testing with rockets and The three children are now grown and there balloons for government and private companies. are eight grandchildren. Two families live nearby Jeanne recalls purchasing a tent trailer in the – in Natick and Sudbury, and the youngest 1970s to travel to the Grand Canyon, the Cabot daughter is in Kentucky. Trail in Nova Scotia, and Disney World in Flori- Bruce hopes to work in the shop, and Julia is da when the children were teenagers. singing in the chorus at Carleton-Willard. They The couple’s interest in sailboating began in are enjoying the life here while still maintaining 1987. A Coast Guard course with a 26-foot train- some ties to Lexington. er boat in Marblehead led to purchasing their own vessel, which they docked in Mattapoiset APS

T h e C a r l e t o n -W i l l a r d V i l l a g e r • M a r c h 2 0 2 0 • V o l u m e 3 8 • N u m b er 1 15 to sail around Buzzards Bay. They upgraded to History, minored in music, sang in the Glee Club, a 30-foot Catalina, which Jeanne calls “a gem!” and also dabbled in theater. (She had played In Naples they joined a boating club, starting Mark Antony in a 9th grade production of Julius with a fishing boat before moving to a 10-seater Caesar.) After college, Barbara worked in the “Hurricane.” Jeanne recalls driving the boat up American Wing at the Metropolitan Museum, and on the sand of Keewayden Island in the Gulf of later, for many years, in the Invertebrates Dept. Mexico during monthly get-togethers to swim at the American Museum of Natural History. with sailing friends. Barbara met her husband, Dean, at a re- She enjoys regular visits to her daughter’s hearsal of The Canterbury Choral Society. They house on Lake Taunton in Connecticut. Looking adopted three children: Charlie, now deceased, out her third-floor window, Jeanne sighs, “I love Ned who lives in Seattle, and Amanda who lives it here at Carleton-Willard. I can hardly wait ‘til in Watertown. Living in NYC, the family spent my first spring!” summers in a log cabin in Chocorua, NH, or at her in-laws’ at Southwest Harbor Maine. Bar- HBH bara moved to Cambridge in 2001, attending Christ Church where she sang in the choir and worked in the Thrift Shop, for 10 years manag- Barbara Pennypacker Worcester ing the volunteer schedules. 215 Badger Terrace, Sept. 7, 2019 Her daughter Amanda’s family have pro- vided a home for Sam, Barbara’s beloved dog. oving to Carleton-Willard has brought Barbara and her cat, Moth, already feel really at “Msome happy memories of growing up home here. during WWII. Suddenly this past September, drinking an iced tea on my Badger balcony, MEA a large plane roared overhead on its way to Hanscom. It seemed only a few years ago that I stood entranced behind my family’s house in Hilary Holcomb Creighton New Canaan, CT, staring at the large silver bird 112 Llewsac Lodge, September 11, 2019 up in the sky, the mail plane from Boston to New York. Planes seem always to have fasci- visit to the apartment of Hilary Creighton nated me and I’m now in the perfect place to Atells the visitor much about her love of Maine see them.” and of sailing. A model of the hull of her Her- Barbara grew up in New York City next to eschoff “Loon” is mounted in a prominent place Central Park. Needing a country connection, on her wall. her parents built a house in New Canaan, even- Hilary was born and raised in Beverly Farms, tually moving there in 1937. Massachusetts. She attended the Shore School For six years Barbara attended a girl’s sum- and then the Masters School in Dobbs Ferry, mer camp near Bridgton, ME. In addition to New York, before entering Smith College. There canoeing, hiking, etc., Barbara completed the she majored in Sociology. After college she lived Junior Maine Guide Program. Years later she in Cambridge and worked as a secretary for the learned, and acquired a love for fly fishing, sub- principals in the architectural firm of Shepley sequently becoming a member, and later becom- Bulfinch. ing president of the Woman Flyfishers Club. In 1960 she married Albert Creighton and in Barbara followed her sister Joanna to Milton 1961 she and Al moved to Manchester near Academy, occasionally going into Boston to Singing Beach. Al had two daughters and a son have lunch with her Marlboro Street grand- by a previous marriage, and he and Hilary had mother. At Bryn Mawr her neighbor was Neela two sons who now live with their families in Perkins (now Zinsser). Barbara majored in Art Manchester.

T h e C a r l e t o n -W i l l a r d V i l l a g e r • M a r c h 2 0 2 0 • V o l u m e 3 8 • N u m b er 1 16 Son Albert M. “Mory” Creighton III owns boasts a historic anniversary edition baby Stein- Pinpoint Laser Systems in Danvers that manu- way, thousands of books, music, and all the trap- factures lasers for precision measurement. His pings of the vigorous life led by these two new wife Sarah was the manager of Appleton Farms members of our community. Kathy and Jerry for the Trustees of Reservations for several are definitely settling in to Carleton-Willard. years and now works in Boston. They have two Their large home in Dartmouth Court already sons who just graduated from Cornell and UVM. houses one room as a library and another as a Hilary’s other son, Peter, and his wife Catherine study, and clearly reflects their preoccupations. also have two sons 3 and 5 years old. They love The two met on a Sierra Club hike in the to come and visit with their black Labrador Dolomites in 2003 and have lived together in retriever named Galamander. Peter has been Jerry’s Lexington home since 2009. Hiking, teaching primary science in the Boston Public cycling, and English Country dancing have been School System. some of the activities that they have delighted Through Al’s sister Peggy Williams, (a past in. Together and separately, they have traveled resident of Carleton-Willard) they discovered all over: Kathy boasts eighty-six countries on Vinalhaven Maine. Hilary and Al built a house her itinerary; Jerry forty-nine of the fifty states adjacent to a granite quarry that provided years as well as much of Europe, Japan, Nepal, New of happy times for the whole family. It was here Zealand and Chile. They have covered a lot of that she had her boat. ground, sometimes just for pleasure and often Hilary was an avid horseback rider. She was for professional engagements. the North Shore representative of the Associ- Kathy is Board Certified in Pediatrics and ates of The Boston Museum of Fine Arts. She Psychiatry. She is one of the pioneers who loves gardening and was president of the North developed treatment and biological research in Shore Garden Club. Her specialty was daffodils. eating disorders. For the past 30 years of her Hilary has many friends from the North academic career she was the director of the Shore among the residents here and Smith Eating Disorder Treatment and Research College classmates as well. Her mother, Julia program at the New York Presbyterian Hospital- Holcomb, lived here in the 1980’s. Hilary was a Westchester Division and the Weill Cornell Trustee of CWV for two terms, thus she was very Medical College in New York City where she familiar with Carleton-Willard. She is delighted continues as professor emerita. Jerry holds a that her living room here looks west out over PhD in physics from Harvard, and has spent the exquisite window boxes, and she has room most of his professional life as a Principal for her plants to summer on her little patio. Scientist at Raytheon, focusing especially on She enjoys feeding the birds and that, too, she the microwave properties of ferrite materials. can do here. From their earlier marriages, Jerry has four children and Kathy two. She has two grandchil- APS dren; Jerry has nine and two great-grandchil- dren. At least a few of these live nearby, though Kathy’s son is a professor at Oxford, and one of Katherine Halmi and Jerry’s sons lives as far away as San Francisco. Nearer at hand is Jerry’s old classmate from Jerome Green Harvard, Frank Horrigan. The two couples 65 Dartmouth Court, October 22, 2019 have been friends for a long time and share their interest in birding. While Jerry describes iles, tiles, tiles everywhere. They document himself as an amateur birder, Frank and Kathy Kathy’s travels all over the world, her artis- T are known to be quite competitive! One of the tic leanings, and her interest in accumulating attractions of their new home is an excellent the traces of her explorations. Their new home

T h e C a r l e t o n -W i l l a r d V i l l a g e r • M a r c h 2 0 2 0 • V o l u m e 3 8 • N u m b er 1 17 vantage point from which to observe our New England avian stock. Bird feeders already grace the outside decks. Back to the tiles. They line the fireplace and trim the molding above the windows. Hand paint- ed, from Italy, Holland and most especially from a tile shop in Sloane Square in England, they make this home distinctively Kathy and Jerry’s, bright, colorful, and personally meaningful. Library Confessions Though the days of swimming, tennis, golf- ing and being part of the Appalachian Mountain Many happy hours I’ve spent Club may be past, Jerry and Kathy seem to be Browsing among both large happily relaxing into the life of CWV, enjoying and small print. the friendliness of so many people, sharing I’ve wandered by Nature, dinner with different couples, and charting Religion and Art, the new activities they might enjoy. Once they I’ve fingered Biography: now finish the overwhelming task of emptying the where to start? Lexington house, they will truly relax! I’ve read today’s papers and checked out my books MR And my whispers have helped me avoid dirty looks. •••••• Lois Pulliam To the Redecorated Library

The soft pastels inspire quietude. Let the news lie today! And peruse The shelves to amuse Or (re-)discover books in nooks with gratitude. Madelyn Armstrong

The Yoga Class

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T h e C a r l e t o n -W i l l a r d V i l l a g e r • M a r c h 2 0 2 0 • V o l u m e 3 8 • N u m b er 1 18 A Conversation with ... Margaret Mendelsohn

n forthcoming issues we plan to profile a Iresident who has been here many years. Our profile this issue is of Margaret Mendelsohn, who came to Carleton-Willard in 1994. She lived at 67 Dartmouth Court until 2014 when she moved Gladys Moore Oct. 17 to Llewsac Lodge. She had enjoyed the view of the woodlands and the birds, and she still has a Shirley Buck Oct. 25 bird feeder hanging over the terrace outside her home. She regrets that there are few birds, but Helen Sakakeeny Oct. 26 her view is of the croquet court and there are lovely sunsets. In Margaret’s original profile, written Katherine McLaughlin Nov. 5 twenty-five years ago and found in a brown notebook on a table in the library, one can read Stuart Strong Nov. 6 of her family’s origins in Vienna, her childhood in Toronto, her art studies in New York City and Cecelia Parks Nov. 7 her life with her husband Josef. Referring to herself as a sculptor/potter, she has a few pieces Elizabeth Hardy Nov. 15 around her in her home here and treasures a small sculpture of a grandmother with a child in Emanuella ‘Ella’ Pinals Nov. 17 her lap. Of her three sons, six grandchildren and two great-grandchildren, some are near enough James Spindler Dec. 7 to visit her. She remembers volunteering with Special Francis Tallman Dec. 13 Needs children and at her childrens’ school. Although limited now by her diminished hearing, eyesight and dexterity she enjoys the Annette Dykema Dec. 22 lectures and concerts. Margaret’s favorite book of all time is To Kill A Mockingbird. Susan Poverman Dec. 25 Margaret takes her meals in the Brass Rail and Abbott Dining Room. On a recent Saturday George O’Malley Dec. 26 morning she arrived for breakfast before eight o’clock and ordered french toast instead of her Katherine Cowan Dec. 27 usual poached egg. She had brought her own maple syrup! Verla ‘Pat’ Eston Jan. 10 Margaret maintains an active interest in life here at Carleton-Willard and is an easy conver- Selma Melnick Jan. 14 sationalist. She will celebrate her birthday on February 23 when she will be 106!

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T h e C a r l e t o n -W i l l a r d V i l l a g e r • M a r c h 2 0 2 0 • V o l u m e 3 8 • N u m b er 1 19 “Libraries are the mainstays of democracy...So keep them, find them, embrace and cherish them.” David Baldacci

2019 In Review

The library is a very important part of our ways: shelving books, tracking circulation, wonderful life here at Carleton-Willard Village. mending books, displaying book covers on the It is open around the clock, the atmosphere is bulletin board in the hallway outside the library, warm and inviting, and there are newspapers to and taking a book cart up to the Health Center read, puzzles to do and, of course, lots of good once a week. There is always a lot of work to do, books to read. and our volunteers are a very important part of our library’s success. 2019 was a very busy and successful year. We added 368 books to the collection, buying 187 A major highlight of the year was the renovation regular print titles and 84 large print titles and of the library. New carpeting and valances, new accepting 97 donations. Selection of material upholstered furniture, new lighting and new art is done by the library committee every month, work have given the library, a beautiful look. We so all through the year there has been a steady are grateful to our CEO, Barbara Doyle, and our supply of new books to read. Director of Learning in Retirement, Gail Hatfield, for the time and thought they put into this Our library circulation was brisk. Over the course project and, best of all, they arranged to have the of the year a total of 3253 books were signed work done at night so that the library was always out, 2/3 of them regular print titles and 1/3 of available to our residents. them large print titles. A small group of resident volunteers tracked circulation, so we were always To top the year off, we received a charming aware of what our residents like to read. shadow box library, which now resides on a table in the reading room. This was made by a Over the summer the library committee did a former resident, Polly Eaton, and was given to thorough weeding of the collection, removing the library by her family. It has added an extra over 400 books that were no longer being taken warm touch to our new décor. out. Regular print removals were given to the CWV staff and to the Bedford Public Library. We now begin a new year on a very positive Large print removals were given to the CWV note, resolved to continue to provide the best in Health Center and to the Bedford Council on library service to our enthusiastic and supportive Aging. Every book found a new home. residents.

There are fifteen residents on the library Katherine F. Graff committee who are responsible for book Chair of the Library Committee selection and for the establishment of library policy. Other volunteers help in a variety of

T h e C a r l e t o n -W i l l a r d V i l l a g e r • M a r c h 2 0 2 0 • V o l u m e 3 8 • N u m b er 1 20 Among the Newest

Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strout Finding Chika by Mitch Albom A continuation of the life of Olive Kittredge, The author, as director of the Have Faith Haiti the cantankerous retired math teacher, set in orphanage, adopts a young Haitian with a brain the small coastal town of Crosby, Maine. tumor. A highly expressive, tender memoir.

Blowout by Rachel Maddow Death in Focus by Anne Perry A brilliant description of the problems The first book in a new series. Elena Standish, caused by our reliance on fossil fuels. a resourceful photographer, is caught up in a world of international intrigue. Guilty not Guilty by Felix Francis An unstable woman is strangled, and her The Yellow House by Sarah Broom husband and her brother battle over who A memoir of growing up in New Orleans will be convicted. and experiencing Katrina. A masterpiece ot history, politics, sociology, and memory. The Ship of Dreams by Gareth Russell An account of the myths and lies that have The Giver of Stars by Jojo Moyes muddled the historical record of the sinking A young Englishwoman becomes a librarian- of the Titanic. on-horseback in depression era Kentucky. Based on a true person. A Door in the Earth by Amy Waldman An idealistic woman goes to Afghanistan to The Age of Illusions by Andrew J. Bacevich “do good,” and is trapped between her ideals After the Cold War ended, the United States and the complicated truth she finds there. abused its position as sole superpower and disillusioned the world. Barnum by Robert Wilson The life of P. T. Barnum, a champion of wonder, To the Land of Long Lost Friends by joy, and trickery. Truly a self-made man. Alexander McCall Smith The newest case for Precious Ramotswe of The Family Upstairs by Lisa Jewell The #1 Ladies’ Detective Agency, given to her A young woman inherits a house in fashionable by a long lost friend that she thought had died. Chelsea, where twenty five years earlier three people were found dead and others missing. The Seine by Elaine Sciolino A guidebook to the river, from its source, through Paris to the mouth.

Louis W. Pitt, Jr.

T h e C a r l e t o n -W i l l a r d V i l l a g e r • M a r c h 2 0 2 0 • V o l u m e 3 8 • N u m b er 1 21 Recent Library Acquisitions (* indicates Large Print)

Autobiography/Memoir Siegel, Seth Troubled Water Albom, Mitch Finding Chika Theroux, Paul On the Plain of Snakes Andrews, Julie Home Work Barelli, John Stealing the Show Environment Broom, Sarah The Yellow House Foer, Jonathan Safran We Are the Weather (*) Croft, Jennifer Homesick Lewis, George 50 Years of Conservation Fiske, John Horizons and Runways Frenkel, Francoise A Bookshop in Berlin Fiction Klobuchar, Amy The Senator Next Door Archer, Jeffrey Nothing Ventured (*) Lee, Hyeonseo The Girl With Seven Names Bardugo, Leigh Ninth House Simon, Carly Touched By the Sun (*) Blake, Sarah The Guest Book Cantor, Melanie Death and Other Happy Biography Endings (*) Guinn, Jeff The Vagabonds (*) Chevalier, Tracy A Single Thread Jacobs, Alexandra Still Here Chevalier, Tracy A Single Thread (*) Wilson, Robert Barnum Child, Lee Blue Moon Wilson, Robert Barnum (*) Choi, Susan Trust Exercise Cleveland, Karen Need to Know Current Affairs Collette, Katherine The Helpline (*) Anonymous A Warning Connelly, Michael The Night Fire Appelbaum, The Economists’ Hour Crombie, Deborah A Bitter Feast Binyamin Donati, Sarah Where the Light Enters Bacevich, Andrew The Age of Illusions Fesperman, Dan Safe Houses Clinton, Hillary The Book of Gutsy Women Francis, Felix Guilty Not Guilty Rodham Fry, Stephen Mythos Foner, Eric The Second Founding Furman, Laura (Ed.) The O. Henry Prize Stories German, Mike Disrupt, Discredit, and 2019 Divide Furst, Alan Under Occupation LoBianco, Tom Piety and Power Grimes, Martha The Old Success Maddow, Rachel Blowout Grisham, John The Guardians Marcus, Ruth Supreme Ambition Groen, Hendrik On the Bright Side (*) Moscatello, Caitlin See Jane Win Harper, Jane The Dry Mueller, Tom Crisis of Conscience Hawkins, Karen The Book Charmer (*) Power, Samantha The Education of an Hodgetts, Eileen Air Raid Idealist Hurston, Zora Neale Their Eyes Were Watching Rice, Susan Tough Love God

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