Worth Repeating: The Oldest Jazz Musician in New Orleans – Lionel Ferbos, 101

WORTH-REPEATING“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 11/28/12:

At 101, trumpeter Lionel Ferbos isn’t ready to retire. He’s still playing gigs and, just last week, he made an appearance on the TV show, “Treme.” More here in the New Orleans Times-Picayune.

Take a look at this video taken at one of his performances two years ago. It’s his band, featuring clarinetist Brian O’Connell, saxophonist Tom Fischer, bassist Art Neville and drummer Ernie Elly, on “I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate.”  It was shot by Ricky Riccardi of the Louis Armstrong blog at dippermouth.blogspot.com at Maison during the Satchmo Club Strut on Frenchman Street. [Email subscribers: click here.]

(A 2013 update: Lionel Ferbos is now 102! He plays weekly at the Palm Court Jazz Cafe, where he leads the Palm Court Jazz Band on Saturday nights. Click here to read more.)

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Worth Repeating: Citizen Archivists

WORTH-REPEATING“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 11/18 /12:

Seniors have lived through some fascinating times and, as a result, usually appreciate the value of historic preservation. There’s one place that keeps track of all the photos and documents that track the history of our country and the people who live in it: The National Archives. Did you know that you can assist them in cataloging the vast quantity of items they preserve on our behalf and make them accessible to everyone online? Become a Citizen Archivist and you can tag photos and records, transcribe documents, even add your own knowledge of our nation’s history by contributing an article. Click here to learn more.

 

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November 22, 1963

FYIJust about everyone beyond toddler age in 1963 — most certainly everyone in this country — felt the shock of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and can, to this day, remember exactly where they were when they heard the news. David Sipress shares his memories here in the New Yorker. If you’d like to share yours, please leave them in the comments.

 

 

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Alternative Living: Elder Cottages

Home-Sweet-HomeElder cottages offer privacy, security, and convenience in multi-generational living. But there could be an expanded use: “Boomers are taking more responsibility and being proactive . . . this type of concept could be used to create senior villages, for lack of a better term. I can see a group of old friends or like-minded people who want to grow old together create clusters of these homes and have a wonderful lifestyle through communal sharing of meals and gardens and fellowship.” Read more here.

 

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Animator Richard Williams at Motion Picture Academy

FILMRichard Williams, 80, is best known for serving as animation director on Disney/Amblin‘s Who Framed Roger Rabbit and for his unfinished feature film The Thief and the Cobbler. He was also a film title sequence designer and animator; his most famous works in this field included the title sequences to What’s New, Pussycat? (1965), and title and linking sequences in The Charge of the Light Brigade (1968). He also animated the eponymous cartoon feline for two of the later Pink Panther films.

Read more about Williams here and see four short YouTube videos of him speaking at The Motion Picture Academy’s Marc Davis Lecture on Animation in October.

Current Exhibition at the Motion Picture Academy:

Richard Williams: Master of Animation

October 4 through December 22, 2013

(The Gallery will be closed November 5, 6, 7, 13, and 20.)

The Academy Grand Lobby Gallery

Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Weekends, noon to 6 p.m.

Free admission.

 

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Worth Repeating: 91 Year Old Navajo Code Talker to Receive Degree

WORTH-REPEATING“Worth Repeating” is a weekly feature on the EngAGE Blog that will bring you previous posts that we think are still timely, interesting, or just plain fun! From 11/9 /12:

From KOAT Channel 7, Albuquerque:

“Chester Nez will receive his University of Kansas degree on Monday. He was one  of the original 29 Code Talkers in an all-Navajo Marine platoon who created a  secret code based on their language used by troops in World War II. Nez had to leave the university in 1952 after three years because his GI Bill  funds ran out. No one at the time knew he was a Code Talker.” Read more here.

Mr. Nez is the author of the book, Code Talker: The First and Only Memoir By One of the Original Navajo Code Talkers of WWII.

 

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What’s Happened to the Fountain Pen?

FYIIf you’re a certain age, you probably remember learning how to write with a fountain pen, a beautiful but potentially messy instrument. But what’s happened to the pen in an age of digital posts and tweets? Read, and listen, here.

 

 

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