A fascinating article on “The Australian” website explains the efforts one community to ensure that the education of their children includes teaching traditional skills: hunting, painting, kinship ties and the clan totems of the indigenous culture. The key has been to involve community elders in the process. Click here to read more.
We’re always looking for creative ways to be engaged, so this post from the Oakdale Patch in Oakdale, Minnesota, caught our eye. A local artist is leading Oak Meadows Senior Living residents in a three-day workshop that includes memory sharing, creating clay tiles and writing a book about their experience. Should be fun!
June 15th is Elder Abuse Prevention Day. Click here to get information from the National Center on Elder Abuse. Click here to read an AARP post about Mickey Rooney’s unfortunate situation and his testimony before Congress about elder abuse.
“A Place to Live: The Story of Triangle Square” is a documentary about the nation’s first affordable housing facility for LGBT seniors. The film premiered on television in Los Angeles on Sunday, June 12, 2011 at 8:00pm on KCET Channel 28. An encore presentation will air on KCET Tuesday, June 14, 2011 at 8:00pm. Click here to read an interview and see a video Q&A with film director Carolyn Coal. EngAGE is pleased to include Triangle Square in the list of senior apartment communities we serve with innovative, creative classes and workshops.
A store with live fish for sale, vicinity of Natchitoches, LA, July 1940. Photographer: Marion Post Wolcott
Most photographs from the ’30s and ’40s are in black and white, so when Life published a series of color photographs called “Before and After D-Day” by Frank Scherschel, it was considered quite a treasure. Take a look here.
The Library of Congress has a large collection of color photographs and transparencies (image above) from the Great Depression and World War II. They depict life in the United States, including Puerto Rico and the Virgin Islands, with a focus on rural areas and farm labor, as well as aspects of WW II mobilization, including factories, railroads, aviation training, and women working. Click here to see and help identify the locations and people!
Shawn Ryan
Join host Tim Carpenter next Monday, June 20th, 7:30 p.m., at Barnsdall Gallery Theater, 4800 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, for a live radio show recording session with guest Shawn Ryan, currently the Executive Producer of “The Chicago Code” on FOX. Mr. Ryan also has an overall production deal with Twentieth Century Fox Television, where he is developing multiple projects. His past work includes creating and Executive Producing “The Shield” for FX, Executive Producing “The Unit” with David Mamet for CBS, and Executive Producing “Terriers” with Ted Griffin for
David Garfield
FX. Shawn is also currently writing a movie for famed writer/producer James L. Brooks. His other television credits include “Lie To Me,” “Angel,” “Nash Bridges” and “Life with Louie.”
This special event also will include a live house band: David Garfield & The Cats!
Don’t miss the fun!
The late Mr. Bernstein was published in 2007 at the age of 96. In his memoir, The Invisible Wall: A Love Story That Broke Barriers, “Mr. Bernstein described a childhood [in a northern English mill town] defined by grinding poverty and the unspoken divide separating Jews and Christians living on opposite sides of the same working-class street.” Several more volumes followed and were published, too. Mr. Bernstein passed away on June 3rd in New York at the age of 101. Click here to read more about his inspiring, very-senior literary career.
Contributed by Suzanne Knode
