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The Newsletter of the Bigelow Center for Senior Activities August 2021 100 Mona Terrace, Fairfield CT 06824 203-256-3166 The Newsletter of the Bigelow Center for Senior Activities August 2021 100 Mona Terrace, Fairfield CT 06824 203-256-3166 www.fairfieldct.org/bigelowcenter Here’s the link to sign up for your MyActiveCenter account: Click here to renew your membership online: https://myactivecenter.com/#centers/USA.CT.Fairfield.Bigelow https://www.fairfieldct.org/bigelow/membership Join us for an Ice Cream Social with mother and Veterans Affairs daughter volunteers from The National Charity Ramon Agosto, from the CT Department of Veterans Affairs, League on Wednesday August 18th at 12:30pm on returns to offer Veterans and their families assistance with the Patio. After the treat, join us for Stories From benefits and services. By appointment only. the Attic at 1:00pm with Greg Van Antwerp. Dates: Wednesday, August 11 from 12:30 –2pm and Sign up for each event at MyActiveCenter.com, Wednesday, September 8 from 12:30—2pm space is limited! Sign up for the August date on MyActiveCenter.com or call the Center at 203-256-3166. New Member Meet & Greet Are you new to the Bigelow Center? We would love to show you Mark Albertson Presents around and get to know you! Please join us for a New Member Friday, August 20 at 10:00 *On Zoom: Hiroshima and Meet & Greet on Tuesday, August 10th at 10:00am on the Patio. Please go to MyActiveCenter.com to register or call for Nagasaki: The atomic bombings on August 6 and August 9, assistance 203-256-3166. 1945, showcased the course being taken by mankind's indulgence of Industrialized War, Total War. Emblematic, too, of Man's ardent desire to wield that technology that was rapidly altering ART CHAT Tuesday, August 17 at 1:00 PM the waging of war, Airpower. The indictment of America being Join Mastering the Masters instructor and artist Christine Goldbach the initial user of atomic weaponry pales in the face of the for a Zoom art class dealing with everything from how to hold a discussion of whoever achieved the bomb first would have used pencil to art history. Chris Goldbach will talk about art in all its it. This, of course, is the essence of Man. For war is Man's forms. This entertaining look into the wild and wide world of art greatest locomotive of change. And no other human endeavor will answer your questions and solve your art problems from a-z, galvanizes Man's time, talents and treasure as . war. abstraction to zinc white! Enjoy this special approach to art. Play Register online at MyActiveCenter.com or email along with Chris, have your art supplies (any medium) handy and [email protected]. be ready to explore. All are welcome. To register go to www.MyActiveCenter.com or send an email to [email protected] for assistance. President Harry Truman’s Legacy Tuesday, August 17 at 2:00 PM How did Truman’s Presidential decisions change people’s lives? Lunch on the Lawn The list of Harry S. Truman’s difficult and world-shaping August 2021 Menu decisions is extremely long. Assuming the presidency in the final months of World War II, he inherited a worldwide catastrophe. Lunch includes main course, sides, dessert, drinks. $5 per Truman shouldered the burden of leadership in a rudderless person. Reservations and cancellations must be made by world. With courage, integrity, and humility, he vindicated the Monday at 12:00pm of each week. American conviction that an open society can produce leaders equal to any challenge. Join Mark Adams, Education Director at Register at MyActiveCenter, send an email to Harry S Truman Presidential Library and Museum as we seek to [email protected] to register. expand appreciation of this Midwestern farm boy who never Friday, August 6: Chicken Salad on a salad went to college, his remarkable Friday, August 13: Pulled Pork on a hard roll rise and enduring character. This Friday, August 20: Egg Salad sandwich is presentation at the Bigelow Friday, August 27: Labor Day BBQ -BBQ Chicken Center presented by the Senior Learning Network. We are Please consider joining us on the patio (or in the dining room for sharing the program with senior bad weather) with your lunch. Park your car, find a table with centers across the nation. The friends, and we’ll check you in and bring you lunch. If you speaker will be live on our big don’t have time to stay and visit, please park. We’ll check you in screen in the multipurpose room bring lunch to you (collect your $5). 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Having just scared off his recent Bogart and Mary Astor star in this 1941 film that caregiver, Anthony, an ailing, octogenarian some consider the best detective drama ever, as Londoner gradually succumbing to dementia, well as the first true film noir. Sidney Greenstreet, and Peter Lorre feels abandoned when concerned Anne, his daughter, tells him she's are the criminals who will stop at nothing to get their hands on a moving to Paris. Confused and upset, against the backdrop of a priceless, jewel encrusted statuette. John Huston directed and wrote warped perspective and his rapid, heart-rending mental decline, the screenplay based on the Dashiell Hammett story. 101 min. Anthony is starting to lose his grip on reality, struggling to navigate the opaque landscape of present and past. August 9—Sorry, Wrong Number: Barbara Stanwyck stars as a August 13 – The French Exit (2020) – Directed by Azazel Jacobs wealthy, bedridden woman who dials a telephone number one night starring Michelle Pfeiffer and Lucas Hedges. Summary: "My plan only to overhear two men plotting to murder an unidentified woman. was to die before the money ran out," says 60-year-old penniless This 1948 film is a classic example of suspense and terror. Stanwyck Manhattan socialite Frances Price, but things didn't go as planned. received an Oscar nomination for her performance. Burt Lancaster Her husband Franklin has been dead for 12 years and with his vast co-starred. 89 min. inheritance gone, she cashes in the last of her possessions and resolves to live out her twilight days in a borrowed apartment in August 16—Phantom Lady: This 1944 thriller was directed by Paris, accompanied by her directionless so Malcolm and a cat named Robert Siodmak whom some critics believe to be among the best Small Frank-who may or may not embody the spirit of Frances's film noir directors. A man goes out drinking after an argument with dead husband. his wife, but on his return home the police are waiting to arrest him August 20 – The Mauritanian (2021) – Directed by Kevin for her murder. Ella Raines, Franchot Tone, and Alan Curtis star. Macdonald and featuring Tahar Rahim, Jodie Foster, Nouhe Hamady 87m min. Bari. Summary: Based on the NY Times best-selling memoir "Guantánamo Diary" by Mohamedou Ould Slahi, this is the true August 23— Touchez Pas au Grisbi: After WWII, French story of Slahi's fight for freedom after being detained and imprisoned filmmakers discovered American films that they labelled "film-noir." without charge by the U.S.
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