For thirty-one years Marian McPartland hosted “Piano Jazz,” the longest-running arts program on National Public Radio. This past year, guest hosts have taken over for the 93-year-old Ms. McPartland who has stepped down from the job. But the show will go on, as will Ms. McPartland: read more here and here. And for an hour of truly wonderful entertainment, listen to this recording of the Marian McPartland Trio in concert at St. Anselm College, 1956.
Marian McPartland Officially Retires from “Piano Jazz”
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Experience Talks 11/12: Lester Strong and David Bornstein
Tune in to Experience Talks, our “Radio Magazine for the Experienced Listener.” Saturdays 8:00 a.m. Pacific Time on KPFK 90.7 FM Los Angeles, 98.7 FM Santa Barbara, 99.5 China Lake, 93.7 N. San Diego, streaming live online and now syndicated on up to 100 Pacifica Network stations! You can also hear previous shows on the Listen Page of our Experience Talks website.
This week on Experience Talks we focus on experience as a catalyst for social change. Host Tim Carpenter talks with Experience Corps CEO Lester Strong and How to Change the World author David Bornstein.
Lester Strong is the CEO of Experience Corps, an award- winning national program engaging people over 55 in meeting their communities’ greatest challenges. 2,000 Experience Corps members tutor and mentor in 22 cities across the country, providing literacy coaching, homework help, consistent role models and committed, caring attention. He spent 25-years in the television industry as an executive, producer, reporter and anchor. For more information on Lester, go to ExperienceCorps.
David Bornstein is a journalist who specializes in writing about social innovation and is the author of The Price of a Dream and How to Save the World. His articles have appeared in the Atlantic Monthly and the New York Times, and he co-wrote the PBS documentary “To Our Credit.” He will talk about his new book, Social Entrepreneurship. For more information on David, go to his blog.
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The Five Worst Places to Retire
We’ve all seen articles and posts offering lists of the best places to retire, but The Fiscal Times on MSN Money has put together a slide show of the five worst places to retire. From high cost of living to developments that never developed, get the details here.
Posted in Finances, Housing
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News from Burbank Senior Artists Colony: The Boyfriend Live in London
The collaboration between Entelechy Theatre, London, England, and The Burbank (CA) Players blossomed into a live international performance!
Gathering together at 7:30 am because of the time difference, five Burbank Senior Artist Colony residents recently acted to an audience of 200 people in a London Theatre via Skype with assistance from EngAGE team members, Ken Mandel and Maureen Kellen-Taylor.
The production is the latest development of “The Boyfriend,” an improv inspired by visiting director David Slater that started in Burbank and continued in London with Act Two of our story. Act Three will be planned collaboratively this month.
See another photo and read more at David Slater’s blog, Creativity, Arts & Older People.
Will The Boyfriend get his comeuppance?
Will the girlfriends in London and Burbank, aided by their devoted friends, wreak their revenge?
Will the two groups brought together by this drama remain Skype friends after the finale?
Stay tuned to this space!
The Burbank Actors are:
Walter Hurlburt as The Boyfriend
Felecia Saisson-Segal as The Local Girlfriend
Dolly Brittan as The Daughter
Susie Mavro & Suzanne Knode as The Girlfriend’s Girlfriends
Sally Connors as The Sceptical Server
James King as The Suspicious Bartender
Contributed by Maureen Kellen-Taylor
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Native American Senior Housing Options
Here are three new interesting senior housing projects being developed now for Native Americans:
North Carolina: The Tribal District 12 Lumbee Heritage Elders Court includes ten 1,250 square foot single-family homes (handicapped-accessible and energy efficient) for Lumbee Tribe members ages 55 and over, as well as a larger community facility for activities.
Read more here.
Oklahoma: The United Keetoowah Band of Cherokee Indians in Oklahoma broke ground on September 30th for an Elder Living Center which will be made up of thirty units: a mix of one bedroom and two-bedroom homes that will be built into quadplexes, with one duplex. Read more here.
Arizona: In 2012, Native American Connections will open the first affordable senior apartment community on the Metro Light Rail line in Glendale, AZ. The LEED Platinum community will have fifty-two apartments that will serve very low income seniors. Read more here.
America in Color: 1939-1943
Faro and Doris Caudill, homesteaders. Pie Town, New Mexico, October 1940. Reproduction from color slide. Photo by Russell Lee. Prints and Photographs Division, Library of Congress
Click here to see a truly wonderful historical photo blog post from the Denver Post. From the website:
“These images, by photographers of the Farm Security Administration/Office of War Information, are some of the only color photographs taken of the effects of the Depression on America’s rural and small town populations. The photographs are the property of the Library of Congress and were included in a 2006 exhibit Bound for Glory: America in Color.”
Contributed by Robin Hart
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