The Life of a Butterfly….as witnessed by Sharon
and Damon Kletzien
Oct. 3, 2021 — Oct. 9, 2021
COMMUNITY LIFE
Sunday, October 3rd Soup: Pumpkin
Salad: Spinach, Strawberry & toasted Pine nuts
Entrée 1: Roast Leg of Lamb w/ Rosemary Au Jus
Entrée 2: Salmon w/ Basil Pesto (V)
Side Dishes: Baked Potato, Steamed Broccoli, and Broiled herbed tomatoes
Dessert: Cherry Crunch Pie
Monday, October 4th Soup: Broccoli roasted Red Pepper
Salad: Lemon Jell-O
Entrée 1: Herbs d’provence roast Pork Loin w/Jus
Entrée 2: Lemon Garlic Roasted Chicken (V)
Side Dishes: Mac & Cheese, Creamed Corn, and Sau-téed Kale
Dessert: Chocolate Cake
Tuesday, October 5th Soup: Chicken Noodle
Salad: Chop Chop
Entrée 1: Kielbasa w/ Apples, Cider and Sauerkraut
Entrée 2: Broiled Cod w/ smoked Paprika, Garlic and Lemon Butter
Side Dishes: Rice Pilaf, Italian Green Beans, and Carrots
Dessert: Flan
Wednesday, October 6th Soup: Sausage & Kale with White Beans
Salad: Wedge
Entrée 1: Jamaican Pork shanks w/ Mango Puree (V)
Entrée 2: Sautéed Shrimp w/ Lemon, Garlic and Fresh Herbs
Side Dishes: Creamy Risotto, Brown sugar & Cider Mashed Butternut Squash, and Peas
Dessert: Lemon Cake
Thursday, October 7th Soup: Coconutty Thai Shrimp
Salad: Broccoli with Craisins & Cheddar Cheese
Entrée 1: Pan Seared Cumin Dusted Scallops w/ Ap-ple Cider glaze (V)
Entrée 2: Grilled Rib eye Steak with black Pepper Gorgonzola sauce
Side Dishes: Penne Pasta, Golden Beets, and Aspara-gus
Dessert: Tiramisu
Friday, October 8th Soup: Manhattan Clam Chowder
Salad: Fruit Cocktail
Entrée 1: Chicken Jambalaya
Entrée 2: Shephard's Pie
Side Dishes: Spinach Casserole
Dessert: Strawberry Trifle
Saturday, October 9th Soup: Tuscan Vegetable (V)
Salad: Caesar
Entrée 1: Vegetable Lasagna
Entrée 2: Flank Steak w/ Tomatillo Sauce
Side Dishes: Roasted Root Vegetables, Wax Beans, and Zucchini
Dessert: Cheesecake
Dining Room Seating Times Mon–Sat. 5:00—6:30pm Sunday 12:00-1:30pm
* * * * * * * Townhome Residents can make reservations
for dinner in the Dining Room. 24 hour notice is required. Those with a meal plan are still receiving delivery unless otherwise specified.
Vegetarian Option Available (V) / Protein: Tofu or Tempeh
DINING DELIGHTS
FROM THE MUSIC COMMITTEE
Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat
Sunday, October 3, 2pm, Outside the Inn
a musical comedy with lyrics by Tim Rice and music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, is based on the “coat of many colors” story in the Book of Genesis. This special presentation features Lath-rop’s own Matt Meers playing every character himself, with costumes and all! Matt has performed across the country as well as on and off-Broadway. He’s thrilled to present this encore production here at
Lathrop.
ANNIE PETERSON & PETER BLOOD Sunday, October 10, 3pm, Outside the Meeting House
As the makers of the two enormously popular songbooks Rise Up Sing-ing and Rise Again, Annie and Peter have played a central role in a quiet revolution of group singing in North America. Annie is a singer-songwriter, old-timey banjo player, and vocalist with several bands. Peter worked closely with Pete Seeger to edit his autobiography Where Have All the Flowers Gone. Peter and Annie have been joined in concerts by scores of
leading folk musicians who have songs in their songbooks.
Please note:
This Music Committee concert is for Northampton Lathrop residents only.
In case of bad weather, the concert will move inside, following COVID rules with seats inside for 36 and 10 on the porch if it’s not too cold.
Reserving bad-weather seats will require signing up in advance. Stay tuned for more details in emails and cubbies.
BOOK CLUB NEWS! The North Campus Book Club on African-American Writers donated copies of the Book When We Say Black Lives Matter by Maxine Beneba Clarke to seven area libraries and elementary schools. If you would like to hear this beautiful book read
to you by the author, click on the following link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9yCDSsXsi08
It is a powerful book. The Book Club hopes that it will help families discuss what Black lives matter
means.
ANNNNND...The North East Book club will be meeting on Tuesday October 12 at
1:30pm via Zoom. The book being discussed will be Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell.
COMMUNITY LIFE
ONLINE LEARNING AT THE INN ~ ONE DAY UNIVERSITY
Don’t miss out on these fascinating talks scheduled weekly. Here's this week's selection:
Tuesday, Oct. 5 @ 10:15: What’s so Amazing about Birds? Thursday, Oct.7 @ 10:15: The Artistic Genius of Michelangelo Friday, Oct. 8 @ 10:15: The Cinematic Genius of Steven Spielberg Friday, Oct. 8 @ 1:00: Mystery Lecture to be Announced Saturday, Oct 9 @ 1:45: The Women that Ruled the World (3500 Years Ago)
Special Note: Fridays at 1:00pm have been added to the schedule for repeats of the “greatest hits”. Open to all residents. Shown in the Life Enrichment Center.
EAST COMMUNITY CHANNEL 901 PROGRAM LINE-UP (Changes Weekly on Tuesday)
7:30am – Documentary, Art of Islam at the MET and Louvre
8:30am - Concert: Pittsburg Symphony Orchestra
10:00am – Healthy Bones and Balance
11:00am – Chair Yoga with Matt
11:30am – Jeanne Robertson: Live from the Back Porch
12:30pm – Concert: Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra
2:00pm – Documentary, Art of Islam at the MET and Louvre
3:00pm – Documentary: Tom Jones
4:00pm – Travel Programming (coinciding with Julie’s weekly program)
5:00pm – Concert: BBC Proms: Leonard Bernstein Mass
7:00pm – Movie of the Week - Soldier of Fortune (1955)
MT. TOM MOVIES
Saturday, 10/2: Steel Magnolias—M'Lynn (Sally Field) is the mother of bride-to-be Shelby Eatenton (Julia Roberts), and as friend Truvy Jones (Dolly Parton) fixes the women's hair for the ceremony, they welcome a helping hand from aspiring beautician Annelle Dupuy Desoto (Daryl Hannah). Diabetic Shelby has a health scare, which is averted but doesn't bode well for her hopes of having children. Time passes, and the women and their friends encounter tragedy and good fortune, growing stronger and closer in the process.
Wednesday, 10/6: Arthur—Wealthy New York City playboy Arthur Bach (Dudley Moore) is per-petually drunk and completely rudderless. Dutifully supported by his sharp-tongued and quick-witted butler, Hobson (John Gielgud), Arthur reluctantly prepares to enter into an arranged mar-riage with heiress Susan Johnson (Jill Eikenberry). When he meets Linda Marolla (Liza Minnelli), a waitress from Queens, he falls head over heels in love, but if he backs out of his engagement with Susan, he may lose his fortune.
COMMUNITY LIFE
EASTHAMPTON ACTIVITIES SCHEDULE:
OCT. 3 — OCT. 9 Sunday, Oct. 3
10:00: Quaker Meeting for Worship (Outside the Inn)
11:30: Movement with Julie (MTR)
2:00: Music Committee Presents: Matt Meers in “Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor
Dreamcoat” (Outside the Inn)
Monday, Oct. 4 (Trash and Recycling)
9:30: Tai Chi w/ Marj (MTR)
10:00: Shopping – Walmart (Sign Up)
11:00: Healthy Bones and Balance with Diana (MTR)
1:00: Shopping – River Valley Market (Sign up)
1:15: Guided Imagery w/ Julie (MTR)
2:00: Brain Games w/ Julie (MTR)
Tuesday, Oct. 5
9:30: Book Bike in the Inn Lobby
10:00: Shopping: Big E’s (Sign up)
10:15: One Day University (LEC)
11:30: Movement with Julie (MTR)
1:00: Shopping: Big Y (Sign up)
2:00: Travel Series w/ Julie (MTR)
3:00: ZOOM event with the head of the SHINE program (MTR)
Wednesday, Oct. 6
10:00: Open Conversation (MTR)
10:00: Knitting and Fabric Arts (LW)
10:00: Driving Tour of Easthampton / Lunch (Sign up - $)
11:30: Chair Yoga w/ Matt (MTR)
1:00: Music Theater Songs and History w/ Matt (MTR)
2:00: Games (LW)
2:30: Fall Nature Walk at Arcadia (Sign up)
7:15: Movie Night (MTR)
EAST HAPPENINGS
EASTHAMPTON ACTIVITIES
CONT.: OCT. 3 — OCT. 9
Thursday, Oct. 7
10:00: Breathe and Stretch w/ Rob (MTR)
10:15: One Day University (LEC)
11:30: Chair Yoga w/ Matt (MTR)
1:00: Fun with Music w/ Matt (MTR)
2:00: Build a Snowman Word Game w/ Matt (MTR)
3:30: Chair Exercise (MTR)
Friday, Oct. 8
9:30: Tai Chi w/ Marj (MTR)
10:00: Healthy Bones and Balance w/ Denise (MTR)
10:15: One Day University (LEC)
11:30: Chair Yoga w/ Matt (MTR)
1:00: One Day University “Greatest Hits Series” (LEC)
2:30: Friday Folkies (Outside)
Saturday, Oct. 9
10:30: Paradise City Arts Festival (Sign up)
11:30: Chair Yoga w/ Matt (MTR)
1:00: News and Trivia w/ Matt (MTR)
1:45: One Day University (LEC)
2:00: BINGO (MTR)
7:15: Movie Night (MTR)
I hope some are already planning to attend the zoom presentation on October 5 at 3:00pm with Lorraine York-Edberg, director of the area SHINE program. For those who missed the first call, SHINE is the volunteer counseling service for those looking to make changes to their Medicare and Medicare Advantage services during the open enrollment period 10/15 – 12/7. Reach out to Rob if you need to access by phone. The event will also be played in the Mt Tom room.
Time: Oct 5, 2021 03:00 PM
Join Zoom https://kendal-org.zoom.us/j/85884651970?
pwd=L0RiRk1uMG81Mjk5M1NzTFdTMjdXQT09 For those eager to get started with a counselor, here are the local numbers: Northampton Senior Center 587-1228 Easthampton COA 527-6151 Cooley Dickinson 582-2248
FLU SHOT REMINDER! A reminder that our Flu vaccine clinics are scheduled for Oct 13 (East) and Oct 20 (North) beginning at 8:30am. Please call the Main desk at 586-0006 to schedule for either clinic. We will provide a written slip with your time as a reminder prior to the day. The vaccine administration record forms (VAR) will be available in the mailrooms for you to have fill out and ready and ease the flow at the clinics.
EAST HAPPENINGS
WELLNESS MATTERS
Visitors on a nature walk at Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary
LATHROP’S MILKWEED PRODUCES
BUTTERFLIES—AND PAPER! By Barbara Walvoord
We know that our Lathrop milkweed plants produce monarch butterflies, because milk-weed is the only plant the monarch caterpillars can eat. Monarchs are declining as farmers use Roundup-Ready crops so they can spray Roundup that destroys milkweed at their field edges. Lathrop’s milkweed has greatly in-creased since we began brush hogging mead-ows only in late fall, so the plants can produce seed. Also, several years ago, resident Roger Herman brought students from Lander-Grinspoon Academy to scatter milkweed seeds on our land.
Imagine my surprise a few months ago when Florence resident Donna Lilborn wrote me that she’d heard that Lathrop was part of the national movement to increase milkweed, and asked if she could collect some of our milkweed seeds to make paper. She did—ten bushels of pods. Then she separated the seeds from their fluff, which yielded two pillowcases full of fluff. She returned the seeds to us for scattering in our meadows, and made paper from the fluff.
She puts the fluff into a weak bleach solution to kill mold, then into a blender. The resulting pulp goes into a big vat of water, to which she may add sizing (starch) and the goo from okra, to make the paper more stable. Then, using a screen, she scoops up a layer of the pulp on top of the screen, getting the layer of pulp nice and even, and then flipping it onto a felt-like cloth--tricky. Then she presses the layer with a heavy-duty press, and dries it. The result is a pearlescent, arti-sanal paper, subtly textured with the milkweed fluff. If you’d like more information, or want to con-tact Donna, go to www.whiteleafpaper.com.
LATHROP LAND
SAVE THE DATE! Would you like to go for a naturalist led walk in Mass Audu-bon’s Arcadia Wildlife Sanctuary? On October 6th at 2:00pm, the Lathrop bus will take a group to Arcadia. There will be two walks: a short, boardwalk walk or a longer walk for those who wish to learn more about the fall landscape in
the sanctuary. Don’t Miss out—Sign up NOW!
Florence resident Donna Lilborn gives members of the Land Conservation Committee a pound of milkweed seeds she gathered on Lathrop land. She has saved the fluff for
her paper making. Photo by Sharon Grace, 9/24/21.
MEETING HOUSE SCHEDULE:
SEPT. 25 — OCT. 2
Sat. Oct. 2 10:00 Guided Meditation—Gathering Room 2:00 Walk Around. Go Right!
Mon. Oct. 4 Trash pick up 2:00 Healthy Bones and Balance Zoom
Tues. Oct. 5 10:30 Program Committee 1:00 Chris Hague Office Hours 10:00—2:00 Fitness with Jen—Call her at 437-5893 to schedule a session.
Wed. Oct. 6 10:00 Council Meeting on ZOOM 1:00 Rob Olmsted Office Hours 1:30 Handicraft group in the Gathering Room
3:30 Walk Around. Go Left! 3:45 Tai Chi Returns!
Thurs. Oct. 7 10:30 Men’s Group— Zoom 10:00-2:00 Fitness with Jen—Call her at 437-5893 to schedule a session. 1:00 Holly Smith-Bove office hours 2:00 Healthy Bones and Balance on ZOOM
Fri. Oct. 8 10:00 Yoga Returns!
12:30 Liz Office Hours—call Sarah 437-5329 to make an appt!
Sat. Oct. 2. 10:00 Guided Meditation—Gathering Room 2:00 Walk Around. Go Right!
TAI CHI AND YOGA RESUME! Starting on Wednesday, Oct. 6 at 3:45 pm, Suzanne Strauss who has led clas-ses here before will give her first set of 6 one-hour classes in Tai Chi. Eight or nine people have signed up for it. Also, Suzanne said it would be ok if people curious about Tai Chi would like to observe the first class from a distance. If the weather is good the class will take place outside. If not, it will take place inside
the Gathering Room. Masks will be mandatory at all times.
On Friday, Oct. 8 at 10am, Paul Menard, director of the Karuna Yoga Studio downtown will begin his first set of six one-hour Restorative Yoga classes. Eight
people have signed up. Masks mandatory at all times whether in doors or out.
For those of you more interested in mental exercise rather than physical ones, Joe Kulin invites you to consider attending the guided meditation sessions offered on Saturdays from 10 to 10:30 in the Gathering Room. Masks mandatory. It is basically the practice of working with our attention in an active, relaxing way enabling us to experience our interior life more fully. Drop ins, ok, and Be-
ginner Minds welcome.
NORTH HAPPENINGS