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By Katie Weeber
Some people enjoy plants, purchasing a few potted blooms each summer
to decorate their backyards, while others are born with natural green thumbs.
Francesca McNichol is one of the latter.
McNichol has been using her greenery prowess to grow a new crop of
gardeners in the Harrisburg area. A member of the Penn-Cumberland
Garden Club, McNichol has helped organize and run several successful
gardening initiatives that have brought the knowledge of growing living
things to adults and children alike, including a community garden and a
junior gardening class for inner-city youth.
McNichol’s introduction to gardening came naturally, starting with her
childhood home on Long Island, N.Y.
“My mother loved roses. When I was younger, she had a beautiful rose
garden,” McNichol said.
In addition to the rose garden, there was a rock garden and other
beautiful, growing plants that McNichol’s mother cultivated around their
home.
When she was 19 years old, McNichol’s older brother purchased a farm in
upstate New York. He and his wife became avid gardeners caring for the
property, and McNichol spent most of her summers sharing in their labors.
GrowingCommunity Spirit
One Gardenat a Time
McNichol in the wooden gazebo positioned in the center of the
127-bed community garden at Ames True Temper in Camp Hill.
Second Opinions:
When to Get One
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She Served in the British
and Israeli Armies
page 10
please see GARDEN page 18
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Cumberland County Edition August 2012 Vol. 13 No. 8
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Traveltizers Travel Appetizers: Stories that Whet the Appetite for Travel
By Andrea Gross
I’m reading the newspaper when I
realize that there are almost as many
articles about Beijing as there are
about Washington, DC.
That’s when it hits me. If one of the
main purposes—and pleasures—of travel
is education, then I have to go to China.
I need to learn more about the country
whose actions will affect the way I live
and, more importantly, the way my
children will live.
A friend recommends China Spree, a
company that offers 12-day tours to
Beijing and Shanghai that include air
from San Francisco; all meals,
admissions, and transportation within
China; guide service; and, as I soon find
out, very nice hotels.
I do the math. Why, I can visit China
for not a lot more than I’d have to pay
for an all-inclusive two-week vacation in
California. I take a deep breath and sign
on the dotted line.
In Beijing our guide leads our small
group to the must-sees: Tiananmen
Square, where Mao proclaimed the birth
of the People’s Republic of China in
1949; the Forbidden City, which was
home to 24 emperors; and, of course, the
Great Wall, which was designed to
protect the country against foreign
invaders.
To learn about more current
endeavors, we visit a jade factory, a silk
factory, a tea plantation, and an herbal
medicine museum.
But my favorite moments occur when
we mingle with ordinary folks, like the
76-year-old woman who hosts us for
lunch. She shows us her home, which is
in a hutong, one of Beijing’s fast-
disappearing old neighborhoods.
The next day we visit a park where we
see seniors doing tai chi, dancing,
fencing, and matchmaking. Their
children, explains our guide, work such
long hours that they don’t have time to
search for a spouse. Therefore, the
parents must help. They make big signs
All-Important China
The Forbidden City was home to
24 emperors during the Ming and
Qing dynasties.
The Great Wall was built
to protect China from
nomadic tribes to its north.
Students welcome American
visitors to their classroom.
please see CHINA page 6
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Dear Savvy Senior,
Are second medical opinions worth
the trouble or risk of offending your
doctor? And does Medicare cover them?
– Nervous Nelly
Dear Nelly,
Yes! A second opinion is good
medicine and your right as a patient.
Besides, good doctors welcome
second opinions and will even offer
referrals to help you get one. If they
don’t, you probably ought to find
another doctor.
Here’s what you
should know.
SecondOpinions
There’s a
mountain of
evidence that
shows that
second opinions
save lives, prevent
mistakes, and cut
costs. Yet most
older patients
choose not to get
them because
they’re either afraid of offending
their doctor, don’t want to hassle
with it, or fear their insurance won’t
cover it.
But getting a second opinion
from a different doctor may offer
you a fresh perspective, new
information, and additional options
for treating your condition so you
can make a more informed decision.
Or, if the second doctor agrees
with the first, it can give you
reassurance.
Who Pays
In most cases, Medicare pays for
second opinions under Part B and
will even pay for a third opinion if
the first two differ. Most Medicare
Advantage plans also cover second
opinions, but some plans will require
a referral first from your primary
physician.
If you have private insurance,
you’ll need to check with your
insurance provider.
When to Ask
The key times you should seek a
second opinion are when:
• Your doctor suggests surgery. You
should always question elective
procedures, especially if a less
invasive alternative is available.
• You’re diagnosed with a life-
threatening disease such as cancer
or heart disease.
• You’re not getting any better.
• Your regular doctor can’t diagnose
your problem.
• You’re having trouble talking with
your current doctor.
• You’re having multiple medical
problems.
Where to Look
When you opt for a second
opinion, you can ask your first
doctor for a referral or, if that makes
you uncomfortable, seek one on your
own.
Whatever route you choose, it’s
best to go with a doctor that has
extensive experience in treating your
condition and one that’s affiliated
with a different practice or hospital
than your original doctor. Hospitals
and practices can be set in their ways
when it comes to treatments and are
likely to offer similar advice.
Physicians from research and
teaching hospitals are smart choices,
especially for rare or complicated
conditions, because of their ongoing
research and expertise in specific
areas of medicine.
To locate and research potential
doctors, the American Medical
Association (www.ama-assn.org) and
the American Osteopathic
Association (www.osteopathic.org)
offer free doctor-finding services that
list virtually every licensed physician
in the U.S.
Another good resource is Health
Grades (www.healthgrades.com),
which provides detailed reports on
doctors for a small fee.
Also see Vitals.com, a
free service that lets
you search for top-
rated doctors based on
their training,
expertise, consumer
ratings, and
recommendations from
other doctors.
Online Advice
If you’re having a
hard time finding or
getting to another
doctor for a second
opinion, consider the
Internet. Yes, Web-based second
opinions are now available from top
medical centers that allow you to
consult with medical experts
regardless of where they’re located.
The cost for this online advice
ranges between $500 and $1,000 and
is usually not covered by insurance or
Medicare.
Savvy Tips: Before you get a
second opinion, you’ll need to have
your doctor’s office send your
medical records ahead to the second
doctor (you may have to pick them
up and deliver them yourself ), and
be sure he or she knows about your
original diagnosis and the course of
treatment recommended by your first
doctor.
If they disagree, you may want to
seek that third opinion, or go back to
your original doctor for further
consultation.
Jim Miller is a regular contributor to the
NBC Today show and author of TheSavvy Senior Book. www.savvysenior.org.
Second Opinions: Why ManySeniors Don’t, but Should, Get One
Savvy Senior
Jim Miller
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Book Review
Cape Cod psychiatrist Dr. Sophie
Green is a hypochondriac and a
compulsive eater who comically
quells her conflicts with leftovers.
Now, Sophie has a
problem of her own: One
of her patients wants her
dead.
There’s Elizabeth,
whose abusive husband
blames Sophie for his
wife’s independence.
There’s Gracie, who is
involved with a
menacingly brilliant
psychiatrist, and there’s
Charlie, a man with
obsessive-compulsive
disorder who thinks he’s
in love with Sophie.
This is not your classic whodunit.
For more information, visit her
website, www.saraleeperel.com. Raw
Nerves is available via Amazon.com.
About the Author Saralee Perel is an
award-winning,
nationally syndicated
columnist. She is a
regular contributor to
Chicken Soup for the Soul
and has been published
in many of the nation’s
leading magazines and
newspapers, including
50plus Senior News.
Although Saralee, a
psychotherapist, claims
that the central character,
a neurotic psychiatrist, is
not autobiographically
inspired, readers who know her insist she
is lying.
Raw NervesBy Saralee Perel
The Politics of CarsIn this election year, pollsters and
political strategists are looking at all
kinds of data to determine trends and
attitudes.
A two-year study by the research
group Strategic Vision, for example,
looked at how your choice of car
correlates with your political affiliation.
The results:
Top five cars driven by RepublicansFord Mustang Convertible
Audi A8
Mercedes GL
Ford Expedition
Ford F-150
Top five cars driven by DemocratsHonda Civic Hybrid
Volvo C30
Nissan Leaf
Acura TSX Wagon
Ford Fiesta Sedan
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Standing, from left, Marie Tennant, 2010 state winner; Inge Richard Kiebach,
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Willie Breeze, contestant; Patti Kuhn, 2006 winner; and Barbara Ann de Leon,
co-director and 2011 state winner.
Seated, from left, Nannette Swanson, 2011 state winner; Kimberley Moore,
Ms. Senior America 2010; Linda Bullock, 2012 state winner; Shirley Karinch,
2001 state winner; and Doris Ulrich, co-director and 2007 state winner.
Ms. PA Senior America Chosen
Linda Bullock, 65, of Berks
County was recently chosen Ms.
Pennsylvania Senior America at the
Elks Lodge in York.
Bullock was chosen out of six
contestants who competed for the
title to compete in the national Ms.
Senior America competition in
Atlantic City at Harrah’s in
October. The competition is open
to women over the age of 60 who
are U.S. citizens.
Each contestant is expected to
speak, sharing her philosophy of
life; appear in an evening gown; and
present her special talent for the
audience.
Bullock volunteers her time to
Alzheimer’s patients. Her duties for
the next year in Pennsylvania will be
to entertain and work with the Ms.
Pennsylvania Senior America
organization. Under the direction of
two state directors, the Ms.
Pennsylvania Senior America
organization prepares programs for
senior centers, nursing homes, and
assisted living facilities in
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om or call Doris Ulrich, MSPA 2007
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CHINA from page 2
proclaiming their child’s attributes and
network with other parents.
If the seniors spot a potential match,
they arrange a date for their children. It’s
a low-tech eHarmony.
My husband and I deliberately chose
an itinerary that included two free days
for personal exploration. In Beijing we go
to the Art District, where world-class
galleries occupy Communist-era factory
buildings. One heart-stopping exhibition
focuses on prostitution; another has a
disturbing display of soldiers toting
machine guns camouflaged by flowers.
There’s no thought suppression here.
In Shanghai, the energy is palpable. We
walk along the riverfront, through a
shopping thoroughfare, and over to a
public park that has carnival-style rides.
After visiting a market, we go to an
acrobatic show. Our days are packed.
During our free day, we explore two
contrasting neighborhoods: a working-
class area filled with small, slightly grubby
shops and the French Concession, which
has upscale boutiques and trendy
restaurants.
Our guides are remarkably
forthcoming. They criticize their
government but at the same time make
clear that they admire it. They say that a
U.S.-style democracy could never work in
China because there are too many people.
They speak to us about China’s one-
child policy, religion, education, medical
care, the lack of a social safety net, and,
most of all, how hard they have to work
in order to survive.
“We work much harder than people in
America,” says Chang.*
We’re amazed at their misconceptions.
Chang owns a condominium, can afford
to fly his family from his village on the
Yangtze to Shanghai for a holiday, and has
a car that he bought new two years ago.
His daughter has a new iPad as well as an
iPod.
I tell him that this is more than many
people his age in the United States can
afford, and yes, they work as many or
more hours than he does.
Another guide dreams of living on
Wisteria Lane, the home of ABC’s
Desperate Housewives, and we realize how
television shapes Chinese views of the
United States as well as our views of
China. This, says my husband, is why it’s
important for people to travel, to see
things for themselves.
We’re aware that we saw only two
cities, and we spoke with only a handful
of people. We didn’t visit the countryside,
which, despite China’s rapid urbanization,
is still home to the majority of the
population. We didn’t visit the factory
towns that are churning out goods that
are flooding the world’s markets. That will
have to wait until next time.
But in the meantime, we treasure the
glimpse we got of a country that is, and
will continue to be, a major player on the
world’s stage.
Photos © Irv Green; story by Andrea Gross
(www.andreagross.com).
*Name has been changed
Shanghai’s Nanjing Road attracts a
humongous number of shoppers,
especially during weekends and
holidays.
Shanghai’s waterfront is the face of modern China.
Beijing’s streets are a mix
of old and new.
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Jennifer Binecz
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this type of boy25. He floated like a butterfly?
28. Network of intersecting nerves30. Middle Eastern confection35. Like boys that lived in Neverland37. Lacking sensation39. “_____ the day”40. International Civil Aviation
Organization41. Attempts43. Small ladies’ handbag44. Deep opening46. To strike a piece of stone sharply47. Deep-red variety of chalcedony48. Stay clear of50. Clobber52. Big Island flower necklace
53. Of the highest quality55. 2000 lbs.57. Flying nanny61. Aunt Polly’s wayward nephew64. Fully informed65. Type of brew67. County across Golden Gate Bridge69. A pariah avoided by others70. To Kill a Mockingbird author71. “_____ and well”72. A cold ____ of weather73. “____’s the word”74. Having no cover
1. Read-only storage2. Affirm3. Musical finale4. Like last eight in college basketball5. Dolittle’s title6. Attention grabber7. Increase8. Make face in pain9. Make like a cat10. Astrid Lindgren’s ____ of
Lonneberga11. Raja’s wife12. Strong desire15. Eucalyptus-loving marsupials20. Beside, archaic
22. Exclamation of suspicion24. What prompter does25. She followed the white rabbit26. Lakes in Scotland27. Asimov or Mizrahi, e.g.29. Syrian neighbor31. Plural of #70 Across32. ____ signs33. Light shade of blue34. Girl from the Swiss Alps36. Comedy Central’s ____.O38. Corduroy, e.g.42. Phlegms45. Strong point49. Who ___ the prize?
51. Robin Hood or Eragon, e.g.54. Bible song56. African antelope57. Toot and Puddle or
Frog and Toad, e.g.58. ____ & Mzee: The True Story of a
Remarkable Friendship59. Bear with the biggest chair60. Pre-college school61. Appear62. Viking name63. Tear violently66. Romanian money68. Flanders of The Simpsons
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A gale in the night
Woke me with its roar.
It came in great gusts
Like waves on the shore.
It tugged at the screen
And rattled the pane;
Howled like a banshee,
And raged like a train.
It battered the wall
And tried to get in.
It quieted down
Then roared back again.
I lay there awake
For part of the night;
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Esther Boldes, 86, of suburban
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British Army during World War
II, the Palestinian underground prior to
1948, and the Israeli Defense Force after
the establishment of the State of Israel.
A native of Frankfurt, Germany,
Boldes attended a large, accredited Jewish
school. In 1936, Boldes’ older sister
immigrated to Palestine. Two years later,
her father lost his job with a Jewish scrap
metal company that was taken over by
the Germans.
Unable to find another job in
Germany, he, along with his wife and
daughter, made plans to move to Prague,
Czechoslovakia, where the rest of his
family was living.
Before they could leave, German SA
came to take her father to a
concentration camp. Boldes’ mother told
them they were not German but Czech
and showed them their Czech passports.
The police
believed her story
and did not arrest
him.
Once in Prague,
Boldes’ father,
along with other
Jewish transplants,
had to be
retrained. An
accountant in
Germany, he was
trained to repair
shoes. His plans
were to go to
Palestine to join
his eldest daughter.
Boldes’ cousin
encouraged her to
join a Jewish
youth group to
help pass the time.
She couldn’t go to
school because she
could not speak
Czech. As the
Nazi regime
spread throughout
Europe, including
Czechoslovakia,
Boldes’ parents
decided to get to
Palestine right
away. When
Boldes’ visa was
approved before
her parents’, they
took her to the
German
Occupation Office
in Prague to get
her passport
stamped.
“All Jews had a
big J stamped on
the outside of it.”
In July 1939, Boldes’ parents brought
her to the train station, where she met
other children bound for Palestine. The
train took them to Genoa, Italy, where,
after staying in a youth hostel, they
boarded The Jerusalem, the last legitimate
ship to transport youth from Prague to
Palestine.
Boldes’ parents never made it to the
Holy Land. She and her sister received a
postcard from the Red Cross informing
them that their mother had died of
cancer in a Prague hospital. They do not
know what happened to their father, who
was last known to have been in a ghetto
in Poland. All other members of their
mother’s family died in concentration
camps.
Boldes joined her sister in Herzliya,
Palestine. Since she had learned Hebrew
and English at her school in Germany,
Boldes was able to converse with the
locals. The youth in the village
She Served in the British, Israeli Armies and
Palestinian Underground
Beyond the Battlefield
Alvin S. Goodman
Boldes, left,
on a train
bound from
Cairo to
Tel Aviv
on leave.
Esther Boldes in the Israeli Army.
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introduced her to the “underground,” a
group formed to defend themselves
against the Arabs, although she added
there were Arab neighbors who were
very nice and generous.
The new settlements were always
being attacked by Arabs, and the only
guns they had were British World War I
issue, all others having been confiscated
by the British. Everyone was required to
do night patrol.
The unmarried
youth of the
country, both
native-born
“sabras” and
immigrants,
joined the
underground.
They later
formed the elite
Palmach Force of
the Israeli
Defense Force
(IDF). They
learned how to
send signals by
Morse code and
semaphore flags and
how to identify
night noises they
heard while on
patrol.
After graduating
from school, Boldes
volunteered with the
Auxiliary Territorial
Service (ATS), the
female branch of the
British Army out of
Palestine.
“I was 17 at the
time and lied about
my age,” she said.
Her main job was driving all types of
trucks, from pickups and jeeps to 3-ton
British trucks.
“Those large British trucks were hard
to maneuver, especially in the narrow
streets of Cairo,” she said, adding that
she ended up in the sand twice during
early training.
In addition to being a driver, she was
trained in vehicle maintenance and
repairs. Her routes covered Alexandria
and Cairo, Egypt, to Haifa, Palestine,
which took two to three days.
“At first, Egypt sympathized with the
Axis countries and Egyptian villagers
harassed us. Some Egyptians would
chase our slow-moving trucks and steal
equipment and supplies from them.”
After two months she was transferred
to Camp Mena Four, not far from a
hotel where President Roosevelt and
Prime Minister Churchill met.
In 1944, she was stationed in Haifa,
Palestine. She was discharged from the
British Army in 1946 and the British
paid for her schooling to become a
pediatric nurse, after which she worked
in a hospital and a refugee camp for
babies and children from Cypress in
1947 and 1948.
Everyone was getting ready for war
after the UN approved the
establishment of Israel in 1948, and
Boldes took a first aid course, where she
met her future
husband, Heinz,
who was the
instructor. When
Israel was
attacked by its
Arab neighbors
in May 1948,
she knew she
might be drafted
into the Israeli
Army.
They were
married that year,
and Boldes
enlisted in the
army rather than be
drafted since she
preferred driving
trucks to being
assigned to a
medical unit. She
drove a pickup truck
that supplied the
front lines and, after
her marriage, drove
a staff car for a
captain in charge of
civil defense in
Chadera.
When she got
pregnant, Boldes was
assigned to desk
duty until she was discharged in 1949.
Her husband was a major in the Israeli
Army in charge of a specialized medical
unit that could build a field hospital in
20 minutes. He traveled the entire
country training people in first aid.
The Boldeses came to the U.S. in
July 1957, first to Philadelphia, where a
cousin lived, and then to Harrisburg in
1964. After retirement, they enjoyed
traveling throughout the U.S. and other
countries. Heinz Boldes died in 1999.
They have a daughter, Naava; a son,
Eitan; three grandchildren; and six
great-grandchildren.
In 2010, Boldes wrote to the U.K.
War Office in London and Queen
Elizabeth inquiring about medals earned
for her service in the British Army. She
received two medals from the United
Kingdom: a World War II Victory
Medal and a Distinguished Service
Medal.
“I was surprised when I got them,”
she said.
Photo by Al Goodman
Esther Boldes today.
Boldes drove big rigs like this one in the
British Army during WWII.
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Visual Examples Prove Persuasive
NurseNews
Gloria May, M.S., R.N., CHES
Jack is my friend Jenny’s companion.
He’s a big bear kind of guy,
handsome, but with dangerously
high blood pressure, and he carries an
extra 40 pounds.
If it weren’t so potentially threatening
to his life and independence, it would
be amusing the way he dismisses his
hypertension. He’ll say it’s “white coat
syndrome,” meaning it reflects the
anxiety of seeing a doctor but which,
away from the doctor’s office, is “just
fine.” Or he’ll excuse it away as the
consequence of the salty meal he had
had the night before his appointment.
Until last week’s checkup, Jack had
brushed off both his doctor’s and Jenny’s
clearly stated concerns and he’d not been
at all interested in diet modifications or
medication.
Jenny told me that Jack saw a new
doctor in the practice who, without
muss or fuss or many words, brought
out a graph that showed the direct and
positive correlation between rising high
blood pressure and the increased risk of
strokes, heart attacks, and kidney failure.
Then the doctor dropped a zinger.
“Jack,” he said, “I can safely predict
you’ll have one of these ‘events’ within
five years if we don’t get this
hypertension and weight under control.”
Now, Jack’s a man with an
engineering background, so visual
representations are what he’s
comfortable with, what he understands.
Jenny said he studied the graph for a
moment, and then to everyone’s
surprise, said, “OK. What do I need to
do?”
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graph? Or was it the one-sentence
forecast? Or the combination?
If you think this is merely an isolated
incident of one man’s finally getting the
picture, maybe. But also, maybe not. At
a recent conference of heart doctors in
Chicago, two studies were presented
that showed similar phenomena:
Patients who were shown detailed
pictures of their hearts and arteries
(done by a heart CT scan) were 2.5
times more likely to take their
medication as directed.
And by the way, those who needed to
lose weight were more than three times
more likely to do so than those who
were merely only told to.
The underlying concern for these
docs at the meeting was that between 50
and 80 percent of patients who have
been prescribed cholesterol-reducing
medication fail to take it. And as far as
losing weight and embracing a diet
lower in saturated fat, just look around.
What do you think?
There is an abundance of evidence
that indicates that visual communication
is more effective than verbal, but the
most effective style combines the two. In
other words, we understand more if we
see it; we understand the most if we can
both see it and hear about it.
Is this the future of patient education?
Don’t be surprised if your next doctor’s
appointment includes a PowerPoint
presentation. After all, it does make
sense. Instead of trying to decipher all
the medical language, why not show
pictures, charts, graphs, images—
whatever it takes to drive the point
home and help motivate patients to
make necessary changes?
Gloria May is a registered nurse with a
master’s degree in adult health education and
a Certified Health Education Specialist
designation.
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Older But Not Wiser
Wanda and I went to the
county fair, which was kind
of odd for us. We’re not big
fair people, although I was looking
forward to the pig races.
Wanda has been on a kick to try new
things, to live life to the fullest. I tried to
convince her that lying on the couch
and watching the new fall TV season is
an exciting adventure, but for some
reason, she just wouldn’t buy it.
The fair
was kind of
fun but a
little
dangerous.
Everywhere
I looked
there was
food—
hotdogs,
corndogs,
sausage
dogs, beef
ribs, pork
ribs … Just
by
breathing, I
was filling
my body
with
secondhand
cholesterol.
And the rides were a little scary. You
see, I’m afraid of heights. Well, actually,
that’s not true. I’m afraid of falling from
heights. Wanda, on the other hand, was
fearless, especially when we came to this
60-foot giant slide where you had to
climb to the top, put a blanket under
your butt, and then hurtle down to the
bottom.
Wanda insisted that we both try it, so
we trudged up to the top. Being a manly
man, or at least pretending to be, I said
I’d go first.
I pushed off and the wind was in my
face—it was exciting and thrilling and
the best 4 feet of my life. That’s when I
somehow managed to stop myself and
crawl off. Slightly humiliated, I told
Wanda I’d wait for her at the bottom
and I began my walk of shame
downward.
When I reached the bottom, I waved
up to Wanda and she began her fast-
paced decent. She was really flying and
had a look of total exhilaration on her
face. I was smiling just watching her,
when I heard a young couple talking
next to me. The guy, referring to Wanda,
said, “There goes Granny!”
The thing is, I’m not exactly sure why
I took it as such an insult. Our daughter
got married about 6 months ago and we
definitely want grandchildren. But it was
the way he said it—it was mocking,
condescending, and patronizing, like
Wanda
didn’t
belong on
that slide.
He was
definitely
making fun
of her.
Luckily, she
didn’t hear
him.
I was
mad, but I
didn’t want
to make a
big deal
out of it. I
wanted to
handle the
whole
situation
maturely, and I think I did that by not
directly confronting him. Since the guy
was overweight, I simply mumbled
under my breath, “The pig races are
starting in 10 minutes. You better scurry
on down there if you want to
participate.”
The chubby guy thought he heard
something but wasn’t quite sure, so he
said, “Huh?”
I very forcefully said “huh” back.
I then took Wanda’s arm and we went
on our way. When we passed tubby, I
may have made a snorting sound, but it
was done very tastefully and maturely.
The rest of the day was a lot of fun.
Wanda went on several different
rollercoasters and I watched her while
eating several different sausage dogs.
As we were leaving the fair, Wanda
said, “I went on a lot of rides today.”
“Yes, you did,” I replied.
“Not bad for an old lady!” she
exclaimed. And when Wanda said it, it
was OK.
Sy Rosen
There Goes Granny
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A Chevy toRemember
Such Is Life
Saralee Perel
My husband, Bob, has gone so
far as to name our car. He
calls it Old Yeller. Whenever I
suggest it’s time to retire it, he lovingly
pets the steering wheel and asks, “You
mean destroy Old Yeller?”
We have a 1970-something yellowish
Chevy Blazer. I can see the street
whizzing by through the holes in the
floorboard. I hear little clinking sounds
whenever we drive, and if I look out the
rear view, I see tiny pieces of Old Yeller
leaving a wake behind us.
I really hate this car.
“It’s time,” I gently said to Bob last
month, as we pulled in our driveway
and the door
handle came
off in my
hand.
“Great!” he
said and
jumped out of
the car. “I’ll
start the gas
grill.”
I brushed clumps of foam rubber (the
insides of the seat) off my pants. We
went in the house. “You know what I
mean,” I said.
“A woodworking show’s on,” he said,
and picked up the remote.
“Sweetheart.” I took the remote.
“Old Yeller’s had a really good life.”
“He just needs a tune-up, that’s all.”
He picked up the keys.
“It put itself into park while we were
driving 30 miles per hour.”
“He stalled,” he said, fondling the
keys.
“It stopped, Bob. My forehead’s still
bleeding.”
He stood and looked out the front
door. “I can’t,” he whispered.
“It’ll be humane, honey.”
“No it won’t,” he said. “No ceremony,
no remorse. Nothing. Just a push of a
lever and Old Yeller’s squashed like a
pancake and dumped in somebody’s
scrap heap.”
Late that night, I heard him get out
of bed and head to the kitchen. I put on
my robe and tiptoed in. He was pouring
himself a shot of whiskey from a bottle
we’ve had over 10 years. He drank it in
one gulp.
After he finished his coughing fit, I
held his hand. He said, “If anybody’s
going to put Old Yeller to sleep, it will
have to be me.”
I knew then: I had to go against his
wishes and take Old Yeller myself. The
next day, I drove the Chevy away and
got back to the house around noon.
“It was quick, Bob. Painless.”
“Old Yeller …” he moaned. Then he
went back to the whiskey bottle, picked
it up, changed his mind, and put it
down. He opened the freezer and found
a bag of mini Milky Ways and began
stuffing five in his mouth at a time.
“Honey. Don’t do this to yourself.” I
tried to take the bag away but he
grabbed it and
ran out of the
room, but not
before
snatching the
peanut butter
and Ritz
crackers.
It took two
weeks to get
Bob back on track. And that happened
yesterday. He was still in bed at 11
o’clock when I called him to come into
the living room. He was a wreck.
Unshaven. Dirty. I wiped the chocolate
off his lip.
“There’s something for you outside.”
“I need marshmallow fluff,” he said.
I took his hand and led him out the
front door. In the driveway was a car
covered by a big brown tarp that I
theatrically removed. There, all shiny
and bright yellow, was the Blazer. New
mirrors, chrome, paint, engine,
transmission, and sparkling hub caps.
Painted in script on the side was, of
course, Old Yeller.
Bob was overwhelmed, to say the
least. He opened the door and saw the
beautiful upholstered seats. Although he
was too moved to say anything, I got
the biggest hug in history. And though
Bob refers to this as one of the best days
of his life, I know it couldn’t have been
half as good as it was for me.
Saralee Perel is an award-winning, nationally
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summers, including times picking
blackberries that would later be used to
make baked goods. It is from her
experiences on her brother’s farm that
McNichol believes her interest in flower
gardening comes.
After their marriage, McNichol and
her husband, Bill, lived in an apartment,
which limited McNichol’s ability to
garden. Eventually, they moved into a
house on the south shore of Long Island,
where McNichol was able to put in an
expansive garden that included flowers,
vegetables, and grapes.
“People would come by and remark
that I had a beautiful garden,” said
McNichol.
When the company that Bill had
worked for in New York went bankrupt,
the couple relocated to Pennsylvania,
where McNichol became involved with
the Penn-Cumberland Garden Club—
and she was no ordinary member.
McNichol has held almost every position
available at the club, from secretary to
vice president.
“You name it, I did it,” McNichol
said.
What makes McNichol such a
valuable asset to the garden club is her
ability to organize and champion many
of the group’s largest initiatives.
In the winter of 2010, Ames True
Temper, a company that has produced
gardening tools since the 1700s, asked
the Penn-Cumberland Garden Club for
help with a community garden project.
The company had $100,000 and a 1.7-
acre plot of empty land next to its
temporary headquarters in
Shiremanstown.
Dwayne Greenly, Ames True Temper
CEO at the time, envisioned using the
money and the land to establish a
community garden that the Penn-
Cumberland Garden Club, of which his
wife Sue was a member, would then
manage and maintain.
Penn-Cumberland Garden Club
member Amy Hatfield and McNichol
joined forces to manage the garden,
which contains 127 raised beds. The
garden is also outfitted with hoses,
connected to the water lines of the Ames
True Temper corporate office building,
and a gardening shed filled with all the
tools a gardener could possibly want.
Community gardeners, therefore, need
only bring their
seeds and a
willingness to
work to have a
successful plot.
Together,
Hatfield and
McNichol
worked to sign
up gardeners
and establish a
set of rules and
regulations. In
addition, they
organized
bimonthly
gardening
talks, inviting
local gardening
experts to give
lectures and
hold
discussions for
the community
garden
members.
“It turned
out to be an incredible success,”
McNichol said. “We had no idea we
would be able to fill [all the plots] up.
We opened up May 1, and by May 31,
there was not a plot left in the garden. As
of now, we have a three-year waiting
list.”
After her success with the Ames True
Temper community garden project,
McNichol was asked to act as chairman
for the Penn-Cumberland Garden Club’s
Junior Gardening Committee. McNichol
agreed, on the condition that she could
establish a garden at the Harrisburg
YWCA so she could work with inner-
city youth.
McNichol worked with the staff at the
YWCA to apply for funding for the
garden. After receiving a private family
donation, the YWCA was able to put in
a number of garden plots, surrounded by
a split rail fence
with rabbit
proofing.
McNichol and
her class of 30
students, ranging
from
kindergarteners
to sixth graders,
tend the plots.
In addition to
gardening,
McNichol’s
students are
exposed to a
world of
information
about the
environment
and how it
works. Their
projects have
included
building
birdhouses and
maintaining a
worm farm
and compost pile to help fertilize the
garden plots.
Thanks to some shelving donated by
Home Depot, the class was able to begin
growing plants indoors over the winter of
2011 and has since moved them outside.
“They made wonderful arrangements
out of greens and flowers that they
brought home during Christmastime,”
McNichol said.
The students also received information
about nutrition from Giant Foods’
nutritionist. They even had a class
dedicated to sampling fruits and
vegetables, many of them unique and new
to the children. The students were asked
to close their eyes and eat a piece of the
fruit or vegetable, focusing on the texture
and taste. They then wrote poems about
the experience.
The class has also been enjoying the
fruits of their labor.
“The children have already been eating
what they have been growing,” McNichol
said.
She is very proud of her class and all
that they have learned, including the basic
principles of permaculture (a method of
sustainable living that can be applied to
countless aspects of human life). Her
success with the children has sparked
discussions about establishing a second
garden at the YWCA for the adults.
Although McNichol has plenty on her
gardening plate, she is looking forward to
helping the Penn-Cumberland Garden
Club with its future initiatives. Last year,
the club celebrated its 50th anniversary by
providing all the townships in the region
with a $500 gardening gift of their
choice, such as a tree or help establishing
a garden.
The club also holds a biannual flower
sale and benefit, with the proceeds going
to various environmental organizations,
such as the Chesapeake Bay Foundation.
McNichol is assisted in her efforts by
fellow Penn-Cumberland Garden Club
members Sue Greenly, Amy Hatfield,
Susan Wilder, Donna Royal, and Shirley
Lysic.
She also receives the loving support of
her husband, Bill, and son, Tim. Tim is a
professional beach volleyball player who
has inherited his mother’s love of flowers.
McNichol is certain that when he settles
down and marries, he will have a
beautiful garden of his own.
GARDEN from page 1
YWCA Junior Gardeners showing the fruits
of their labor at the Ribbon Cutting Day
ceremony in June 2012.
Flowers and vegetable plants coexist happily at the
Penn-Cumberland Garden Club’s community
garden at the Ames True Temper site.
Last time, I covered the 1940 U.S.
census. I have, in an earlier
column, also discussed the 1920
U.S. census. This month, I want to cover
the intermediate one, the 1930 U.S.
census. I’ll continue this discussion into
next month, as well.
The 1930 census had some basic
information consistent with others that
were taken since the first one in 1790.
This included surname or family name,
gender, and address. Some of the other
questions were unique, and responses to
them can be valuable in finding further
information about the family.
For example, there is a column headed
“Relation – Relationship of this person
to the head of the family.” This may be
answered “head,” “wife,” “son,” or
“daughter” but also may contain other
descriptions.
The surname of the wife is usually not
shown, or it may be written in as the
same as the husband (or late husband).
However, if the name of a mother-in-law
or other in-law of the male head is given,
that surname could also be the maiden
name of the wife.
If the “Relation” column shows
stepson or stepdaughter, that obviously
indicates that the “head” had been
previously married. If the stepchild’s
surname is different than that of the
head, that’s a clue to the child’s natural
father’s name. A person may be identified
as a “boarder,” meaning the family
augmented their income by renting space
in the home.
Next is a column headed “Home
Data,” containing four sub-columns:
“Home owned or rented,” filled in with
an O or an R; “Value of home, if owned,
or monthly rent, if rented,” filled in with
a dollar amount; “Radio set,” filled in
with an R if the family had a radio, left
blank if they didn’t; and “Does this
family live on a farm?”
The answers not only tell something
about the financial status of the family,
but if the property was owned, it may
also be possible to find land or probate
records that further elucidate the family’s
life or give names of relatives not living
with the family at the time of the census.
As an aside to the “radio set” question:
On the 1930 census page where my
family appears, there were seven
households. Only one (not my parents’)
had a radio. The question was designed
to measure the extent of the nation’s leap
into new home-appliance technology.
According to the 1930 census, the total
U.S. population at the time was
122,775,046, and only 12 million
people, or less than 10 percent, had
access to radios.
Under “Personal Description,” in
addition to “Sex” and “Color or race,”
was the sub-column “Age at last
birthday.” Take this into consideration
when calculating a birth year. For
example, the census was taken on April
12. My father’s age was given as 40, but
his birth year was not necessarily “1930
minus 40 equals 1890.” He may not
have yet reached his 41st birthday on
April 12. Other information confirms
this, as he was born on April 26, 1889.
The remaining two sub-columns under
this category were “Marital condition”
and “Age at first marriage.” The condition
column was marked M for married, S for
single, or W for widowed. The age at first
marriage can be used with other
information on the census to determine
whether the person was married before or
after immigration to the U.S.
Under “Education,” the census asked
whether the person had attended school
or college since September 1929, and
whether he or she was able to read and
write.
The “Place of Birth” columns are
headed “Person,” “Father,” and “Mother,”
with the description “Place of birth of
each person enumerated and of his or her
parents. If born in the United States, give
State or Territory. If of foreign birth, give
country in which birthplace is now
situated. Distinguish Canada-French
from Canada-English, and Irish Free
State from Northern Island.”
Usually, only the country or state is
given; however, sometimes the name of a
city or county is given. Don’t overlook the
part about “country in which birthplace is
now situated.” National boundaries in
Europe were anything but fixed during
this time, so, for example, a place may
have been called Prussia when a person
was born in 1890 but Germany in 1930.
Next time, I’ll discuss the remainder of
the 1930 census questions and explain
how to interpret the information to
uncover other information about
ancestors.
Angelo Coniglio encourages readers to
contact him by writing to 438 Maynard
Drive, Amherst, NY 14226; by email at
[email protected]; or by visiting
www.conigliofamily.com/ConiglioGenealogy
Tips.htm. His new historical fiction novel,
The Lady of the Wheel, is available through
Amazon.com.
The 1930 Census
The Search for Our Ancestry
Angelo Coniglio
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