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VETERAN BOB GASCHE | CHARITY OF THE MONTH WINNERS | CROSSWORD
Frida
Kahlo
The Harn’s newest exhibition
offers a chance to view
photographs of this iconic
self-portrait painter.
AUGUST 2016
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June 5, 2016
19 million nickels
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18 million nickels
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June 6, 2015
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Have you gotten
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Since 2009, SunState FCU has paid members
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using their checking accounts. SunState Federal Credit Union exists, after all, as a
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CONTENTS
AUGUST 2016 • VOL. 17 ISSUE 08
ON THE COVER – Famous Mexican
painter Frida Kahlo called herself “the
great concealer.” As with her many
painted self-portraits, she knew how
to present herself. Among the many
pleasures in the Harn’s exhibition is the
chance to see something of the “real”
Frida Kahlo, that is, one recorded on film
rather than on canvas.
PHOTO BY NIKOLAS MURAY
departments
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Tapas
Community News
Charity of the Month
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Calendar of Events
Theatre Listings
Crossword Puzzle
Musical Sunshine
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Veteran Bob
Gasche
Injured in Battle of Iwo
Jima in 1945, Marine hops
out of plane in support of
injured soldiers
BY MICHAEL STONE
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August 2016
Embracing Life
by Donna Bonnell
Tinseltown Talks
by Nick Thomas
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Tickling the Ivories and
Brightening Lives
BY MARY W. BRIDGMAN
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features
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columns
Mirror, Mirror …
Portraits of Frida Kahlo
BY ERICKA WINTERROWD
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Reading Corner
Review by Terri Schlichenmeyer
Honoring
Women Leaders
The Friends of
Susan B. Anthony
Celebrate Women’s
Equality Day 2016
BY PEGGY MACDONALD
WINNER!
Congratulations to the winner from our
JULY 2016 issue…
Anna O’Bright
from Old Town, Florida
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“As a 3rd generation farmer, I have
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until a problem with my heart — an
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Dr. Floyd Burke was able to find the problem.
He quickly sent me to Dr. Charles Klodell
for heart surgery that saved my life. I know
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FROM THE EDITOR œ ALBERT ISAAC
now I take photos with my
cell phone. These analogue
drawings live on in the digital world.
And then of course
there’s music. I’ve been
blessed to have a life full of
joyful noise. I began playing
in junior high school, the
beginning of a journey that
brought me tremendous
enjoyment all through my
school years and into college and continues to this
Illustration by Albert Isaac
day. I believe that playing in
the high school band kept
me sane. I made lifelong
Artist Appreciation
You may not know this about me but
friends. I was so very fortunate to have
I’ve always enjoyed drawing. When I
had the opportunity to learn how to play,
was a kid, Dad brought home a bunch
basically for free, through the public
of large tablets of paper. I commenced
school system.
to fill these tablets with all kinds of
So it is with artist appreciation in
drawings. I even began my own original
mind that we bring you stories on art
comic strip: “Cat and Dog.” They had all
and music.
kinds of adventures. I filled tablet after
Learn about the famous Mexican arttablet with their antics.
ist Frida Kahlo and the Harn Museum of
They were hastily drawn, which later
Art’s current exhibit, “Mirror, Mirror …
I deemed to be the reason my talents as
portraits of Frida Kahlo.” Reading about
an artist began to stall. As an adolescent, this remarkable woman makes me want
I threw the lot of them in the garbage.
to head out and see the exhibit.
And while I never became a great artist,
In a more contemporary vein, meet
I still enjoy drawing — and, yes, even
Carole Yokum, a Senior pianist who’s
coloring.
still going strong at 82 years young.
When the kids were little I would
August also happens to mark the
draw characters for them to color.
anniversary of a woman’s right to vote,
Proved to be a great way to keep them
nearly a century ago. Read about Susan
occupied at the restaurants once they’d
B. Anthony and the Gainesville group
finished coloring the single page prothat bears her name.
vided by staff. I’d draw something on
Of course, we continue with our
the back of the sheet and they’d color it
series of World War II veteran profiles,
in. Perhaps a dragon. Or a gator. Maybe
featuring a local force of nature by the
a gorilla. I would take requests and atname of Bob Gasche (who just jumped
tempt to draw whatever they wanted.
out of a perfectly good airplane at 91
Now when the granddaughters visit I
years of age).
continue the tradition, drawing all kinds
Enjoy! s
of silliness so they can color it in. In the
old days I would save these works of art;
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TAPAS œ AUGUST
Summer
Olympic
Facts
DID YOU
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• This will be the first time a SouthAmerican country has hosted the
Olympic games.
• Golf will return to the summer
Olympics after a 112-year absence.
• The 2016 Olympics
will be the first to
feature athletes
born in the year
2000.
• FOR THE FIRST
TIME IN HISTORY, REFUGEES
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UNDER A COMMON TEAM.
The Wizard of Oz
premiered on August 15,
1939. The plot line may
have symbolism. It is said
that the tornado represents
the Free Silver Movement.
During the time the movie
premiered, American
farmers were suffering
from the effects of federal
deflation (the tornado).
They wanted the value of
the dollar to have fixed
ratios of gold and silver.
The yellow brick road is the
representation of the gold
standard, with the road
leading to power (Emerald
City = Washington D.C.).
• 70,000 volunteers are needed
to run the entire event, a group
comprised of Americans,
Brazilians, Russians, British
and Chinese.
• The Rio 2016
Organizing
Committee is
offering Rio’s taxi
drivers, or “taxistas,”
free online English classes.
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August 5, 1956
Sam Elliot (72)
August 9, 1944
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August 30, 1930
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Born on August
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“Rain Man,” to name but
a few. He started out at
age 19 — moving to New
York and living below the
poverty line until age 31. He
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“Finding Neverland” and also
holds a Guinness World Record
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COMMUNITY œ CULTURE
A MONTHLY CELEBRATION OF THE ARTS
Artwalk Gainesville
On the final Friday of each month, downtown Gainesville comes alive with visitors
experiencing a free self-guided tour that combines exciting visual art, live performance and events.
From 7:00 pm until 10:00 pm, many local galleries open their doors for the public
to enjoy all they have to offer, compliments of Artwalk Gainesville.
Eateries and coffee shops also participate and visitors can enjoy live theater, music
venues, local breweries and special events. Attendees can combine a varied art experience with a night of downtown entertainment or dinner at a local establishment.
“Artwalk is an exciting, fun way to experience the wealth of creativity the Gainesville community has to offer,” states the Artwalk website. “It’s a triple win for the
community — a showcase for artists, an attraction for area businesses, and a fun and
accessible way for the people to learn about and experience art firsthand.”
Maps are available, but stumbling upon the art is also possible. Just look for the
lights and groups of people in shops that are not typically open late.
While The Doris is currently closed for renovations, there are still plenty of venues, large and small, to visit and meet the artists and see their work. Galleries and
venues include Lennie Kesl Studios, The Hardback Café, Wild Iris Books, Eleanor
Blair Studio and The Hippodrome Art Gallery, to name but a few.
Artwalk Gainesville is always looking for new artists, musicians and performers to entertain on the evening of the event. Past performers have included spoken
word artists, jugglers, hula hoopers, martial arts demonstrators and more. Artists
who would like to create their art live and musicians — with a group or solo act — are
encouraged to contact the organization.
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• Venue address with phone numbers
• Artist name and/or exhibit title
• Exhibit information
• Two or three high-resolution
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For more information, visit
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to help keep this vital event going.
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PIANO WOMAN
Musical
Sunshine
Tickling the Ivories and Brightening Lives
Story by Mary W. Bridgman
Photography by Ericka Winterrowd
C
arole Yocum spends every day playing — even at age 82.
“I like to tell people the word ‘play’ is a strong,
positive, active social word,” she said in a recent telephone
interview.
For Yocum, the word evokes one of her favorite activities,
playing piano — which she has done for six years in a number
of special Senior venues in the Gainesville area — The Village,
Oak Hammock, The Atrium, and Gainesville/Alachua County
Senior Recreation Center. After her retirement following 35
years as managing editor of a chemical engineering journal at
the University of Florida, Yocum pictured herself spending
the rest of her years playing bridge, working jigsaw, crossword and Sudoku puzzles, and doing needlework — until a
different plan intervened.
“I truly feel none of this is because of me or what I’ve done
— it’s a PLAN — a plan that even in my most creative and enthusiastic times would never have been formulated in my own
mind or by my own hands,” Yocum said.
Seemingly random events put the plan in motion. A friend
asked for a ride to play bridge at a local restaurant. Yocum
obliged and found herself waiting, with nothing to do, while
the friend took care of some personal business after the event.
Spotting a piano in the shadows, she decided to try it out. Unbeknownst to her, the owner of the restaurant had decided to
stay around after lunch to catch up on some bookwork. Hearing the music, he decided to investigate and was pleased to
find Yocum playing. He told her that he had often thought live
music would be valuable for the restaurant, but he hadn’t pur-
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sued it because of the anticipated expense. When he offered a
“tips only” gig, Yocum accepted, launching an unexpected —
and joyfully rewarding —new “career.”
Although she enjoys making “joyful piano noise” around
Gainesville, Yocum finds the response of Alzheimer’s patients
particularly rewarding. According to the Alzheimer’s Foundation of America, music has power that can spark compelling
outcomes even in the very late stages of the disease. Selections
from the individual’s young adult years — ages 18 to 25 — are
most likely to have the strongest responses and the most potential for engagement. Yocum’s experiences have shown this
to be true.
“I was playing at a sing-along one evening when a caregiver
wheeled an old gentleman into the room,” she said. “He was
reclining in the wheelchair, with closed eyes and no expres-
“I call myself a ‘living-room player.’
I don’t embroider the songs with arpeggios
or complicated musical embellishments.”
sion on his face. I glanced his way several times and saw absolutely no change in posture or expression, until all of a sudden
I looked and here’s a small peaceful smile on his face. And it
stayed there, never lessened.”
When the event ended, the caregiver told Yocum that the
gentleman not only had Alzheimer’s, he was also blind. In six
months of caring for him, she had never seen him smile.
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“When I sit down to play at
whatever I’m there for, I tell
them I’m going to play a
warm-up song to
reintroduce my
fingers to the
piano.”
“Now can you imagine how small a world this man was living
in — no memory, no sight?” Yocum asked. She found it incredibly motivating to bring a little sunshine back into the man’s life,
particularly when she learned on her next visit a few weeks later
that he had passed away.
Yocum has a playlist of 900 songs, all written before 1970,
broken into groups of 57 each, which require about three hours
each to play. Her performances frequently turn into sing-alongs,
facilitated by pamphlets she has assembled, which include
the words to each group of songs. She reads music, reporting
that her repertoire includes only four pieces that she plays by
memory. Two of these, “Sentimental Journey” and “Five Foot
Two, Eyes of Blue” are particular favorites.
“When I sit down to play at whatever I’m there for, I tell them
I’m going to play a warm-up song to reintroduce my fingers to
the piano.”
Yocum chooses one of her four memorized pieces.
“They not only give me a sense of confidence in the piano’s
action, they inspire foot-tapping, shoulder-swinging, and grinsinging of those sitting around.”
Yokum said she is not an entertainer.
“I call myself a ‘living-room player,’” she said. “I don’t embroider the songs with arpeggios or complicated musical embellishments. In fact, I sometimes don’t even play every note on the
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page. I let the tune, the song’s melody, be the ruler, the identifier. Pushing the listener’s melodic memory button is my only
intention, my only desire.”
Although Yocum considers herself a native Floridian, she
was born in Illinois, moving to the sunshine state when she
was seven years old. Her parents met while students at the
Art Institute of Chicago. Yocum’s father, Henry Chatman,
launched a successful advertising agency with two partners.
When the Great Depression came and advertising work dried
up, Chatman decided to move his family to Florida. Although
Yocum had plans to attend the University of Miami to study
television writing and production on graduation from Cottondale High, her father’s unexpected illness changed everything.
She put her plans for college aside and went to work to help
support her family, eventually marrying and starting a family
of her own, which included two daughters and a son, and now,
three grandchildren.
When Yocum’s marriage ended after 22 years, she figured
waitressing was the only work she would qualify for because
she had never had the opportunity to go to college. A visit to
the employment service in Gainesville yielded the discouraging news that no waitressing jobs were available. But the
ladies in the office were so impressed with Yocum that they
called her immediately when they learned of a new opening
at UF — editing a journal for chemical engineers. Although
the job requirements included a college degree, Yocum
landed it anyway, continuing with the work until she retired
after 35 years.
Yocum is a self-taught pianist. Neither of her parents were
musical, although her mother owned a grand piano. When
Yocum was seven years old, her mother hired a piano teacher
for Yocum’s 11-year-old brother, Jack. During Jack’s lessons,
Yocum would hang around in the background, soaking up the
musical instruction intended for him. When the lesson was
over, Yocum would go to the piano and do everything brother
Jack was supposed to be learning. Jack hated the lessons, so
Yocum’s mother decided to give her daughter a shot at being
the student instead. But Yocum didn’t like the lessons any
more than Jack had. Although the lessons ended, Yocum’s love
for the piano continued. Building on the instruction she had
overheard and received, she continued playing through high
school, where she accompanied the glee club, played at school
programs and at local churches. Music took a backseat while
she raised her family, but it was there when she needed it later,
when the children left the nest.
And now, music is shining a new light on Yocum’s life and
on the lives of others with whom she feels privileged to share
her gift of musical sunshine. s
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COLUMN œ DONNA BONNELL
Embracing
Life
Is Silence Golden?
“S
ilence Is Golden,” a tune sang
by the Four Seasons, seemed
sacred in my early years. Women were
actively fighting for equal rights and
many men still believed an ancient adage, “Silence is a woman’s best garment.”
In addition, the proverb, “Speech is
silver; silence is golden,” made saying nothing appear devout and heroic.
Those deeply ingrained ideas, coupled
with my own timidities, resulted in
many decades of keeping my mouth shut
and letting things go.
One day the song’s second line began
to haunt me, “Silence is golden; But my
eyes still see.” I began to witness and
recognize injustices being done to others and to myself. Seeing the hurt and
bewilderment in the eyes and body language of friends when unfairly chastised
turned my proverbial light switch on. In
addition, my body and emotions began
retaliating to years of allowing egotistical individuals to take advantage.
Eventually I dismissed the notion
that possessing the ability to tolerate
mistreatment, while maintaining composure, was a virtuous quality. I knew
that the passive pathetic person I had
become must go. My intentional journey
to build self-confidence began.
One of the first stops on my tumultuous trek was to seek assistance from a
professional counselor. With her help,
I worked through my insecurities and
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literally learned how to become angry. I
completed those sessions knowing that
I was worthy and did not deserve to be
used or abused.
Simply having a new positive outlook
on my own self-worth was not enough;
I still hesitated to voice my opinion.
However difficult, in order to move forward required setting boundaries. How
much was I willing to tolerate? Once
city league basketball. Unfortunately,
that sport was only available to boys.
The local commissioners suggested I
become a volunteer coordinator for
the program. Attending all county
and coaches’ meetings was part of the
requirement. I knew nothing about
basketball, so this was way outside of
my comfort zone. However, much to
the surprise of city officials, I followed
through and created a girls’ team. There
has been a league for girls ever since.
I must admit to having made mistakes along the way as my passion for
righting wrongs grew. At times anger
took over and I blurted out my opinion,
without pausing to first calm down. Or,
I responded in haste to a Facebook post
and later regretted the statement.
Like everything else, embracing balance is crucial. Knowing when and how
to speak out or recognizing when silence
is golden are skills that took me years of
practice and many hard knocks to grasp.
My first complicated encounter took place when my
daughter wanted to play city league basketball.
established, the next step was retraining
people not to cross that invisible line.
My extreme passiveness essentially gave
others permission to disrespect me and
only I could initiate a change.
Why was it so easy for some people,
but a nightmare for me? So, I delved
further and finally came to a conclusion. It was fear of the unknown. Since
I lived most of my life in silence, this
new territory was scary. What would
people think? Would I lose my friends or
job? Would I sound stupid? So, I started
slowly. For example, rather than paying
an overpriced bill, I insisted that it be
corrected. Small successes increased
my confidence. So, I began speaking up
about more complex issues.
My first complicated encounter took
place when my daughter wanted to play
Rumi’s quote has been one helpful tool for deciding how to proceed:
“Before you speak, let your words pass
through three gates: At the first gate, ask
yourself “Is is true?” At the second gate
ask, “Is it necessary?” At the third gate
ask, “Is it kind?”
Nowadays, I carefully consider
Rumi’s rules and calmly determine the
necessity to express my opinion. If the
answer is yes, it becomes an obligation. One to pursue with clarity and
confidence. Ignoring the problem with
silence will be considered a complicit
agreement and not golden. s
Donna Bonnell is a freelance writer who
moved to Newberry in 1983. She enjoys living and working in the town she now calls
home. [email protected]
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TRIBUTE
Veteran
Bob Gasche
Hurt in Battle of Iwo Jima in 1945, Marine hops
out of plane in support of injured soldiers
Story and Photography by Michael Stone
A
veteran of the Pacific named George H.W. Bush
jumped out of an airplane on June 12, 2014, for his
90th birthday — just like he had for his 85th, his
80th, and five other times, including when the Japanese shot
down his Avenger torpedo bomber during World War II.
Almost exactly two years after Bush’s last jump, on June 4,
2016, Gainesville got its own Pacific vet jumper when Marine Bob Gasche, perhaps the city’s most well-known soldier,
leaped out at 13,000 feet over Virginia Beach in tandem with a
Navy SEAL.
Bush “jumped, but he was on his 90th birthday. … I jumped
at 91. I got one up on him,” Gasche joked from the living room of
his Gainesville home about a week after the jump, his first-ever.
“I hadn’t anticipated the force of the wind that hits you when
you jump. It did,” described Gasche, who landed on Iwo Jima
on Feb. 19, 1945, the first day of the invasion, and took shrapnel
to the gut about two weeks later. “A younger person can go with
it, so to speak. I’m not that flexible anymore — ya know, I’m 91
— and my body has a rigidity to it.”
Waiting below amid the clear afternoon was the crowd that
had gathered for his jump and the overall event: the annual
Patriot Festival, a weekend-long series of concerts and general
celebration of the military in Virginia Beach.
Gasche was one of 19 wounded veterans who jumped as part
of the festival’s seventh annual Jumping for a Purpose, which
does provide the experience for the veterans but also serves as a
fundraiser for the Combat Wounded Coalition’s Wounded Wear
program. Wounded Wear donates clothing, including with spe-
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cial alterations if needed, to combat-wounded veterans.
Another of the 19 was Gasche’s friend Steve Dodd, a
66-year-old Interlachen resident who received two Purple
Hearts and three Bronze Stars for actions in Vietnam. Both active in area veterans affairs, Gasche and Dodd became friends
in helping form Gainesville’s chapter of the Military Order of
the Purple Heart in 2013, and Dodd’s veteran connections got
the two involved with the jump.
“He’s trying to get up from the beach to this ramp [on
stage], but it’s like trying to get Mick Jagger off the stage at a
concert and through the crowd,” Dodd said of Gasche landing
and then being introduced to the festival-goers.
“Everybody wanted to stop, congratulate him, shake his
hand, get their picture taken with him, do selfies, all this kind
of stuff. … Bob was quite the hero and quite the rock star.”
“All of a sudden, my body was
hit, if you will, like a baseball
bat — just Wham!”
Jumping, freefalling for less than a minute and floating
down via parachute for maybe five more surrounded by a
beautiful panorama was “one of the biggest thrills of my life,”
Gasche said, but “fear was not a factor.”
“If you’ve been through a battle like Iwo Jima and saw the
deaths and all that, things like [ jumping out of a plane] are
very significant in terms of it being different and unique and
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(Left) World War II Marine veteran Bob Gasche, who took part in the first day of the Iwo Jima invasion, poses in his wartime uniform.
(Right) Gasche floats toward Virginia Beach on June 4 as part of the Patriot Festival’s Jumping for a Purpose event. (Right photo
courtesy of Steve Dodd).
a lot of fun and excitement and wonderment,” he said, “but as
far as fear, I did not have it, no. It wasn’t there.”
The story of Gasche participating in perhaps the third most
iconic U.S. battle of the Second World War (after maybe DDay and the Battle of the Bulge) starts in 1924 in Buffalo, New
York, his birth year and place.
But Gasche’s family of four soon transplanted to Bradenton,
Florida, for treatment of his father’s failing health. He died
when Gasche was only 12, and the family proceeded to Fort
Myers then Miami.
Too young to enlist when war broke out, Gasche decided on
building ships as an arc welder in Savannah, Georgia, as a way
to do his part.
Then, in March 1943, three months after his 18th birthday,
he went to the Marine recruitment office in Savannah to join.
“They said, ‘Raise your hand. Say I do,’” Gasche recalled. “I
said, ‘I do.’ ‘Welcome to the Marine Corps.’”
Marines near the East Coast took their basic training at Par-
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ris Island, South Carolina, but upon arrival, Gasche received
a surprise: A disease outbreak had shuttered the iconic base,
meaning the newcomers would train in San Diego and become
West Coast Marines.
“We went down there, and they said, ‘You can’t come in.’
‘Yeah? Here’s our orders. We’re going to boot camp.’ ‘No, you’re
not. You’re going catch a train in Atlanta, Georgia, and you’re
headed for San Diego, California,’” Gasche remembered.
After stateside training and finally setting out for the front,
Pfc. rifleman Gasche’s first chance at action came while in
floating reserves in the Battle of Guam in the summer of 1944.
But “the campaign went so well, they said, ‘Naw, we don’t need
you. We’re sending you back to Hawaii.’”
Gasche didn’t like it. He wanted to fight. “I really was pining,
if you will, for action. I was a young teenager. I wanted to get in.”
Hawaii brought months of more training, including rehearsed amphibious landings on Maui, as well as liberty at
Pearl Harbor, during which soldiers got tattoos of their girlseniortimesmagazine.com
friends’ names and the Marine emblem.
Then it was back out to the Pacific, a voyage toward “Island
X,” complete with examinations of displays and maps in
preparation. “It was all Island X. We had no idea other than
you’re going to Island X.”
When the Marines finally arrived at this Island X (Iwo Jima,
of course), Gasche didn’t take part in the first waves of Feb. 19 but
did land amid the volcanic ash and mayhem by the afternoon.
Instantly, a big problem emerged for Gasche’s 5th Marine
Division and the rest of the Marines’ eventual force of 110,000.
Though maybe 25,000 Japanese were packed into Iwo, they
rarely became visible thanks to the earthworks and tunnels
throughout the island.
“We had excellent weapons: M1 Garand 30-caliber rifles
… we had Browning automatic rifles, we had Browning light
machine guns,” Gasche said, but no targets.
So in what became a battle of inches, they dug in and endured. Surviving in foxholes. Wanting to do but forced to wait.
Gasche encountered murderous situations on a daily basis,
whether it be a grenade fight or being bracketed, when artillery shoots over and then under an area before filling in the
between land to hit the intended target.
Luck sprouted more than once, including when a mortar
shell landed just next to Gasche’s foxhole near Mount Suriba-
chi but was absorbed so far into the ash that its explosion only
dirtied his head.
“The volcanic ash was so soft,” he said. “Otherwise, I’d
have been blown to pieces. But [the sand] peppered my face. I
was covered.”
Associated Press photographer Joe Rosenthal’s picture of
the American flag being raised atop Mount Suribachi emerged
as the most iconic moment of Iwo Jima and perhaps the war
itself for the United States.
(Relatedly, the Marine Corps confirmed in late June that
one of the six men identified in the photo, Navy Pharmacist’s
Mate 2nd Class John Bradley, is rather Marine Pfc. Harold
Schultz, who died in 1995.)
Gasche didn’t catch the raising of the flag, but with everyone
cheering across the island, he turned around to see it right after.
“We were being fired upon from Mount Suribachi … and we
were almost in a killing [field]. We were having terrible casualties,” he said. “But when we saw that flag flying up there, there
was a sense of relief in that we knew that we had control of
that mountain.”
Among Gasche’s duties as the Marines advanced northeast
was popping into cave entrances to check for hidden enemies.
Though he never found any, he did stumble upon six bottles of
sake in one and something quite peculiar in another.
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“There was one occasion where I went in a little deeper,
and I kicked something in the sand. … And I looked down, and
it was children’s crayons, a box of children’s crayons” with
Japanese writing on it, he said, noting the children in the civilian population that were evacuated prior to the invasion.
Though his grenades might have caught an enemy before,
Gasche finally got the chance at a for-sure kill near the end
of his time on the island. Bam — headshot on an officer, well
dressed with visible field glasses and a map case.
“He acted like he was out on a beach or something sunning
himself,” Gasche remembered. “He was on this ridge. … I just
got my sights lined up on him and fired — as quick as I could
before he might move.”
On a day soon after, maybe March 3, something terrible
walloped Gasche’s body.
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“All of a sudden, my body was hit, if you will, like a baseball
bat — just Wham!” he said of a mortar round. “It hit my belt
buckle, and it didn’t go in straight. It went in [at an angle]. And
boom, I was down and helpless.”
If it had gone straight in, he figures, the name Bob Gasche
would add to the 6,821 Americans killed in the battle.
His initial medical attention included morphine and,
because he wasn’t looking good, a critical tag. He made it to
an aid station and then the medical boat USS Hope offshore.
Gasche’s two weeks of playing a 20-year-old soldier were over,
but mementos from the battle — shrapnel and belt-buckle
fragments — travel with him today everywhere he goes.
(The metal used to regularly set off security scanners at
airports, “especially Atlanta,” Gasche joked.)
Sleeping one night during his recovery, a nightmare struck
Gasche holds photos from the Iwo Jima invasion. The top one, the raising of the American flag atop Mount Suribachi, emerged as perhaps the
most iconic moment for the U.S. during the war.
him. All around, Japanese soldiers stabbed their bayonets into
his body, but his dire screams prompted a nurse to act fast and
push more morphine into his system.
This is the only PTSD-type instance Gasche can remember
from the war and beyond.
“I think there’s a certain amount of stoicism in my personality, and I focused on the G.I. Bill after World War II,” he said
of why reoccurring psychological trauma didn’t strike him
like it does so many other veterans. “I wanted to get a college
education badly, which I did.”
Indeed, after the war, he returned to the Miami area and
earned a bachelor’s of business administration from the University of Miami. Meanwhile, he helped support his mother
and sister first as a carpenter and then working for Southern
Bell Telephone Company for 12 years.
Yet teaching surfaced as Gasche’s true calling, so he eventually returned to the university to get a master’s in education.
After teaching for a short while in the area, he received an offer in 1968 from the University of Florida-affiliated P.K. Yonge
Developmental Research School in Gainesville.
“My favorite part [of teaching] is something I’m still doing:
I love interacting with children,” he said of continuing to teach
classes with Gainesville’s Milton Lewis Young Marines. “I try
to give them a glimpse of the right way to live, what patriotism
really is: a love of our country, and a desire to serve as a contributing citizen. I feel very strongly about that.”
Since retiring from P.K. Yonge in 1988, Gasche said he’s gotten busier than ever.
Aside from the Young Marines and the Purple Heart chapter, his involvement includes: leading the monthly meetings
of the Iwo Trio veterans group, which he formed with fellow
local Iwo vets Clif Cormier and Clair Chaffin; collecting used
American flags from area stores, including Publix, to give to
the local Veterans of Foreign Wars chapter for proper disposal;
helping with the installation of veterans memorials in Alachua
County; assisting in Memorial Day and Veterans Day events;
and going to services at Gainesville’s Faith Presbyterian
Church (he’s the church’s only founder still attending).
“Bob is tireless. He’s going to work me into the ground,” his
friend Dodd joked. “He’s an amazing guy. He’s in every veterans organization there is.”
On retirement, Gasche said, “I can’t do that. That ain’t me.
No, I can’t. I’m going down swinging.”
And on what has kept Carol Gasche’s husband of 63 years, the
father of three, grandfather of three, and great-grandfather of one
going for nine decades, Gasche said he gives “God the credit.”
“I am so blessed,” he said, “that the good Lord has allowed
me to serve in this capacity that I just wake up and [say],
‘Thank you, Lord, for the blessings you’ve given me.’” s
If you know a WWII veteran in North Central Florida who would
like to tell his or her story to Senior Times, please email Michael
Stone at [email protected].
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Tinseltown Talks
Lindsay Wagner’s One (Bionic) Woman Show
by Nick Thomas
ne of the hottest actresses to
emerge from the 1970s has been
appearing around the country in recent
years presenting her stage show, “More
than a Bionic Woman: An Evening with
Lindsay Wagner.” In August, Lindsay
will be in Ft. Walton Beach, Florida. (See
www.lindsaywagnerinternational.com
for details.)
“I’ll be sharing anecdotes and stories
from behind the scenes in my career, and
showing clips and photos from my personal collection,” said Wagner from her
California home. “So it should be a lot of
fun and, hopefully, fond memories.”
Wagner began appearing in primetime network television series in the
early 1970s, with her breakout film role
coming in 1973’s “The Paper Chase.”
But it was her Emmy award-winning
role as TV’s favorite female semi-cyborg
in “The Bionic Woman” that brought
her great acclaim, although her Jaime
Sommers character was only planned
as a two-part guest-starring role when
introduced as a love interest for Lee
Majors in “The Six Million Dollar Man.”
“The story ended by killing Jaime
off and the response from the audience
was huge,” Wagner said. “They were so
appalled that the studio had killed off a
character that had resonated so deeply
with them and especially their children.
Even a children’s hospital in Boston wrote
a letter of protest. So the studio had to
bring me back for another two-parter to
bring Jaime back to life and the network
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decided to do the spin-off series.”
Wagner retired her bionic implants
after three seasons and three reunion
movies to tackle dozens of TV movies
throughout the ’80s and ’90s. Those roles
often focused on social issues such as domestic violence, adoption, mental health,
terrorism, and capital punishment.
“I have always felt that TV could be
used not only to entertain, but also to
highlight important issues and help
people embrace their higher potential,”
she explained.
But Wagner almost never got to enjoy
her post-Bionic Woman success. In May,
1979, almost exactly a year after the last
episode aired, she was scheduled to fly
on the ill-fated American Airlines Flight
191 from Chicago to Los Angeles which
crashed after takeoff, and today remains
the deadliest single-aircraft aviation
disaster in the U.S.
“I took a flight to Portland instead to
meet up with my sister and didn’t hear
about the crash until after I had landed
and called my secretary to tell her of my
change of plans. Everybody thought I
had been on the flight so there was a lot
of relief, and of course I was shocked and
saddened to hear what had happened.”
Wagner went on to become an author,
acting teacher, motivational speaker, and
she continues to act. She also actively
promotes a holistic approach to health
— a lifestyle she
adopted after suffering gallbladder
issues and stomach
ulcers in her teens
when she was able
to avoid surgery
after receiving
counseling from a
doctor and minister
who shared a common philosophy to
healing.
Lee Majors, Lindsay Wagner, Richard Anderson and
Alan Oppenheimer in The Six Million Dollar Man - ABC
And while her
famous TV character from the past relied on artificial physical strength to survive, Wagner continues
to advocate the potential of one’s inner strength.
“We all have the ability to grow through our difficult circumstances in life
rather than just survive them,” she said. “You have much more potential than
you realize.” s
Nick Thomas teaches at Auburn University at Montgomery, Ala., and has written features, columns, and interviews for over 600 magazines and newspapers.
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by Ericka Winterrowd
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orn in 1907, Mexican painter Frida Kahlo is known
for her self-portrait painting and is among the most
photographed women of her generation. And now
until November 27, the Harn Museum of Art will feature the
exhibition “Mirror, Mirror … portraits of Frida Kahlo.” Photographs by 27 photographers, including family and friends as
well as nationally renowned photographers, portray the many
sides of the famous Mexican painter.
According to a recent press release, the photographs span
the life of Kahlo, portraying both her carefully crafted façade
and rare candid moments of a strong woman who endured numerous hardships throughout her life. As Kahlo stated, “When
my father took my picture in 1932 after my accident, I knew
that a battlefield of suffering was in my eyes. From then on,
I started looking straight at the lens, unflinching, unsmiling,
determined to show that I was a good fighter to the end.”
According to biography.com, Kahlo contracted polio around
the age of six, which caused her to be bedridden for nine
months. This would only be the beginning of her many physical hardships to come. While she did recover from the illness,
she walked with a limp because the disease had damaged her
right leg and foot.
Despite her early illness, Kahlo was known for her jovial
spirit and love of traditional colorful clothes and jewelry.
In 1922 she enrolled at the renowned National Preparatory
School and was one of the few female students to attend the
institution. According to biography.com, while traveling on
a bus at 18 years of age, the vehicle collided with a streetcar.
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Kahlo was impaled by a steel handrail, which went into her
hip and came out the other side. She suffered several serious
injuries, including fractures of her spine and pelvis.
Carol McCusker is the curator of photography at the Harn
Museum. In a recent telephone interview she described
Kahlo’s understanding of the power of a camera lens.
“Because her father was a photographer, she understood
what the camera could reveal, and she was determined to be a
strong, forthright woman who would not reveal the pain and
suffering that she was in,” McCusker said. “So you just see
from image to image this carefully crafted, beautiful woman
who did not smile … but she also wanted to portray herself in a
very particular way.”
“She had over 37 operations in her
life, and this was happening back
in the ‘30s when they didn’t really
know a lot about medicine.”
McCusker said the exhibition is very much about Kahlo’s
control and determination, as well as her spirit that just kept on
going. The photographs are held in the Rubin photo gallery at
the Harn and are arranged so that they more or less fall chronologically, or according to what was happening in her life.
“One of the walls has many pictures of when she was recuperating from the many operations that she had to have,” Mcseniortimesmagazine.com
Frida Kahlo at 18, Mexico.
Photo by Guillermo Kahlo (Mexican, born Germany, 1872-1941).
1926 - Gelatin silver print.
6 1/2 x 4 1/2 in.
On loan from Throckmorton Fine Art.
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Frida Painting “The Wounded Table.”
Photo by Bernard Silberstein (American, 1905-1999).
1940 - Gelatin silver print, printed later.
13 3/4 x 16 1/2 in.
Cusker said. “She had over 37 operations in her life, and this
was happening back in the ‘30s when they didn’t really know a
lot about medicine.”
It was during her three-month-long recuperation in a fullbody cast that Kahlo began to paint. According to frida-kahlofoundation.com, her mother had a special easel made for her
so she could paint in bed, and her father lent her his box of oil
paints and some brushes.
Once recovered, the famous Mexican muralist Diego Rivera
encouraged Kahlo’s artwork and took her under his wing. The
two married in 1929, but the relationship was tumultuous and
plagued by Rivera’s constant infidelity. Later, Kahlo would
have her own sexual exploits outside of the union as well, with
both men and women.
Because of her injuries sustained in the trolley/bus accident, Kahlo was unable to have children. In 1932, she incorporated more graphic and surrealistic elements in her work.
And according to biography.com, “In her painting, ‘Henry
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Ford Hospital’ (1932), a naked Kahlo appears on a hospital bed
with several items —a fetus, a snail, a flower, a pelvis and others — floating around her and connected to her by red, veinlike
strings. As with her earlier self-portraits, the work was deeply
personal, telling the story of her second miscarriage.”
“In her paintings she will show you what her body is going
through,” McCusker said. “I mean, some of it is very graphic.
She had to have two medical abortions, she had miscarriages,
and she painted all of that.”
McCusker said there is an 80-minute-long documentary
called, “The Life and Times of Frida Kahlo,” which plays in
the gallery as well. Discretion is advised before watching the
film because of the mature content, such as the sexual exploits
and miscarriages both Kahlo and Rivera experienced.
The two were also communists, but did not share the same
religious beliefs. Rivera was an atheist, and Kahlo a pantheist.
McCusker said they were very liberated and creative people,
especially for their time. Kahlo and Rivera eventually divorced
Museum
History
The Harn Museum of Art is an integral
part of the University of Florida. Since
the museum opened in September
22, 1990, it has served a wide and
diverse audience with a broad
range of programming, made easily
accessible through free admission.
Diego and His Bride, Frida, Mexico.
Photo by Victor Reyes.
1929 - Gelatin silver print.
5 3/4 x 3 3/4 in.
only to remarry a year later. Kahlo died in 1954 at age 47.
McCusker believes Kahlo’s painting may have been inspired by the traditional Mexican painting style called ex votos or retablo — a traditional folk
art painting on tin. She explained that most of the time this kind of painting is
devoted to a person, usually someone who’s poor, and they paint in honor of
a saint who has saved their life. On the ex votos or retablo they inscribe what
happened to them and how they’ve been saved.
“And it’s very much what Frida did with her paintings,” McCusker said. “To
mimic that [style,] but it was such an innovative use of the retablo … and you can
still see the tradition, but it’s all about a contemporary woman’s life. It’s amazing.”
McCusker said the exhibition has been so popular that she doesn’t even
have to wait for the weekend for crowds to descend upon the gallery. The
interest in seeing photographs of this unique artist is very apparent.
“I think to focus on a woman who was actually broken,” she said, “literally
her body was broken, and in many instances her spirit was too … the fact that
she put herself out there and gave us a view into what it means to be a woman,
to be a Mexican, to be part of a revolutionary moment, to overcome adversity.
It was a real gift that she gave us — living a full life.” s
The 112,800-square-foot facility
includes 40,400 square feet of
exhibition space, five garden spaces,
a 250-seat auditorium, study center,
museum store, café and classroom
spaces. The Harn’s collection
totals more than 9,000 objects
including African, Asian, modern and
contemporary art, and photography
with significant representations of
Ancient American and oceanic art,
as well as a growing collection of
natural history works on paper.
The Harn Museum was named in
honor of Samuel Peebles Harn
(1893 – 1957), whose widow, three
daughters and their husbands and
grandchildren made the founding
gift for the museum’s construction.
The three generations pledged more
than $3 million for the construction
of a fine arts museum in 1983. At that
time, it was the largest private gift
ever given to the University of Florida.
SOURCE: HARN.UFL.EDU
IF YOU GO…
Harn Museum of Art
3259 Hull Road, Gainesville
Free Admission Hours:
Tues. – Fri., 11 am – 5 pm
Sat., 10 am – 5 pm
Sun., 1 – 5 pm
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EQUAL RIGHTS
Honoring
Women Leaders
The Friends of Susan B. Anthony
Celebrate Women’s Equality Day 2016
by Peggy Macdonald
T
he Declaration of Independence upholds the promise of equal rights for all, a promise that remained
unfulfilled for generations of American women.
Before the 19th Amendment was ratified on August 26, 1920,
women were barred from exercising the most fundamental
right of citizens in a democracy: the right to vote. Susan B.
Anthony devoted her life to the cause of woman suffrage. A
prominent suffragist, abolitionist, author and speaker, Anthony worked to expand women’s access to higher education,
property rights and economic independence.
The Gainesville-based group Friends of Susan B. Anthony
commemorates the anniversary of the ratification of the 19th
Amendment — a day that was designated as Women’s Equality
Day in 1971 — with an annual luncheon and awards ceremony.
The Susan B. Anthony Award recognizes a local woman who has
demonstrated concern for the full enfranchisement of women
and minorities and has worked for equal rights for all citizens.
The winners of this year’s Susan B. Anthony Award, Nancy
Griffin and JoAnn Wilkes, have transformed countless women’s lives through their leadership of the Displaced Homemakers Program at Santa Fe College. The program empowers
women who have lost their source of financial support because
of divorce, the death of a spouse, or other means and offers free
classes, job counseling and computer training to help displaced
homemakers with the transition to the job market.
“We choose someone each year who is in the spirit of
Susan B. Anthony, who worked tirelessly for both women’s
rights and civil rights,” explained June Littler, who is the
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co-coordinator of the Women’s Equality Day 2016 luncheon
along with Barbara Oberlander, a retired Santa Fe College
professor whose research has focused on women’s history.
Oberlander — a Wellesley alumna with a doctorate in the
History of American Civilization from Brandeis University
— has served on the Gainesville Commission on the Status of
Women. Today she teaches at the Institute for Learning and
Retirement at Oak Hammock, focusing on the history of the
First Ladies of the United States.
Oberlander and Littler, a retired librarian, were colleagues at
Santa Fe College, where they once made waves by setting up an
Equal Rights Amendment (ERA) table in front of the library.
“We were chastised for it,” Littler recalled.
The two women have been active with the Friends of Susan
B. Anthony for years. Oberlander is a prior recipient of the Susan B. Anthony Award. Littler was a 2015 recipient of the Rosa
Parks Quiet Courage Award.
A Pennsylvania native, Littler’s activism began soon after
she moved to Florida.
“When I came to Gainesville there were fountains that
said ‘white’ and ‘colored,’” Littler said during a July 1 interview at the Matheson History Museum. “I thought that was
terrible, so I let my children drink out of the water fountains
that said ‘colored.’”
A nontraditional student, Littler became involved with a civil rights group at the University of Florida. In December 1963,
she asked a friend to babysit her children so that she could join
what she said was the first integrated picket line in Ocala.
Male and female
UF students
protest segregated dining at
the College Inn
in 1961, which
later became the
Purple Porpoise.
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“When I got to
church the next
day, nobody
wanted to talk
to me.”
“I was arrested for disturbing the peace by means of
disorderly conduct,” she said.
Littler called her friend
from jail to say she would
come home later than she had
expected. While incarcerated
she was served a dinner that
included a meat patty, baked
beans, collard greens and
instant coffee. After Littler
was bailed out, she went to an
African American church that
was a staging ground for the
Speaker Patricia Hilliard-Nunn with Susan B. Anthony Award winner Billie Staff at the 2014 Women’s Equality
protest. The picketing had
Day luncheon.
continued all afternoon.
Volunteers at the church served Littler a second dinner of
school. Her areas of expertise include family law and the social
fried chicken, corn on the cob and beans. She asked the server
construction of gender.
to hold the beans, and the woman asked if she had been to jail.
Before the luncheon starts, guests are invited to peruse
When Littler asked how she knew, the woman replied, “Anysponsoring organizations’ tables, where women’s history
body who has been to jail never wants beans.”
bookmarks, propaganda, and the National Women’s History
At the time, Littler was a Cub Scout den mother and taught
Project Gazette will be distributed.
Sunday school.
“It’s very patriotic and festive,” Oberlander said. Over 200
“When I got to church the next day, nobody wanted to talk
movers and shakers in the community typically attend, includto me,” she said.
ing elected officials and political candidates.
This did not deter Littler from continuing in civil rights
“When you come to the luncheon you will feel the energy in
campaigns, however. She worked with Beverly Jones and Vivthe room,” Oberlander said. “It’s a happening.”
ian Filer’s husband on voter registration and protested against
The Women’s Equality Day 2016 luncheon will be held from
the College Inn’s segregated dining policy. Littler later helped
11:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Saturday, August 27 at the Best Western
fellow civil rights and women’s rights activist Jean Chalmers
Gateway Grand, located at 4200 NW 97th Blvd. in Gainesville.
with her City Commission campaign.
Tickets cost $20 per person. For further information and resThe connections between the campaigns for civil rights
ervations, please contact June Littler at [email protected] or
and women’s rights have been a common theme in previous
go to www.fosba.com. The reservation deadline is August 24th
speeches at the Friends of Susan B. Anthony luncheon. Shirley
and no tickets will be sold at the door.
Chisolm, the first African American woman elected to the
All surplus monies from ticket sales and donations will
United States Congress, spoke in 2000. In 2008, University
go toward sponsorships for two Florida girls to attend the
of Florida history professor Jack Davis — Marjory Stoneman
American Legion Auxiliary Girls Nation, where aspiring young
Douglas’ biographer — was the first and only man to deliver
women leaders participate in a mock legislature and meet
the keynote address. This year’s speaker, UF Law Dean Laura
with senators and representatives on Capitol Hill. Surely SuRosenbury, is the first permanent female dean at the law
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COMMUNITY œ CULTURE
“I Enjoy Living”
CENTENARIAN TILDEN COUNTS BOOTH
REMEMBERS OLD GAINESVILLE
Story and Photography by Peggy Macdonald
A
pproaching his 100th birthday,
World War II veteran Tilden
Counts Booth still has a gleam in his eye
and a wicked sense of humor. Born in
Rockledge, Florida on Aug. 11, 1916, the
longtime Gainesville resident remembers when a train ran on Main Street.
“Everything moved around the old
courthouse, which was in the middle of
town,” Booth recalled. “You saw mostly
horse and wagons, and after a while the
cars came in, and of course the train
was there.”
His mother died in childbirth and his
grandparents raised him. Booth attended Gainesville High School when it was
located on University Avenue and Fritz
W. Buchholz was president. Booth’s
father, Mitchell, owned a small farm and
grew corn and velvet beans for cattle
and horse feed.
Booth worked for the University of
Florida when Dr. John J. Tigert was
president.
“He was one of the swellest guys I’ve
ever met,” Booth said. “Every time he’d
come by on campus he’d come over and
speak to me.”
Among the projects Booth worked
on was the expansion of the football
stadium and installing the first air conditioning unit on campus.
“President Tigert’s office was the first
office we ever put air conditioning in,”
Booth said.
During World War II, Booth served
in the US Navy Seabees Construction
Battalion in Efate, New Hebrides and
the Philippines. He arrived at Efate in
1942, during the Battle of the
Coral Sea.
“We were too late to go to
Iwo Jima,” Booth said. “We
got in a storm and we were
on those flat boats. We made
it to the Philippines and
missed going with the group
that was going to the island.”
About four months after
Booth arrived in the Philippines, the war ended and he returned
to Gainesville to take care of his grandmother. Before enlisting, Booth had
attended revivals with a friend at a
Gainesville church. One time when he
arrived at his friend’s place to pick him
up for church, he met a young woman,
Shelly Alma Murrhee, who worked at
the former Florida Farm Colony (now
Tacachale). They attended church
“I don’t like to sit down and do
nothing,” he said. “I try to stay as busy
as I can.”
Booth’s daughters have big birthday
plans for their father. On August 13,
there will be a celebration at the Family
Life Center with an old fashioned picnic
theme. Yvonne said the family turned
to Facebook to invite all of his friends.
Booth said he’s not a Facebook user.
“I don’t like to sit down and do nothing.
I try to stay as busy as I can.”
together for a couple of weeks and soon
things got serious.
On Feb. 20, 1946, Alma and Counts
Booth were married and Booth has lived
in Gainesville ever since. After Alma’s
death in 2008, two of his daughters, JoAn
Mills and Yvonne Booth, have taken turns
looking after their father in his home.
One of the secrets to Booth’s longevity may be his positive outlook on life.
He also likes to stay active and enjoys
gardening.
“My face never got on the book,” he
joked.
Booth has witnessed many changes
over the years. He has watched Gainesville grow from a small town where he
could leave his house without locking
the door, to a city that he says has gotten too big. Still, he said Gainesville has
been a great place to spend the past nine
decades.
“I enjoy living,” he said. “The Lord’s
been good to me.” s
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CALENDAR
UPCOMING EVENTS IN ALACHUA & MARION
TIOGA MONDAY MARKET
WIC FARMERS MARKET
Mondays
Fridays
4:00pm - 7:00pm
JONESVILLE - Tioga Center, 13005 W. Newberry
Rd. Market features a selection of vegetables,
crafts, organic food, fruits and local specialties.
10:00am – 2:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Alachua County Health
Department, 224 SE 24th St. Through
October, stop by and support local farmers
and choose from a variety of seasonal
fruits and vegetables. 800-494-2543.
ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCING
Mondays
6:45pm – 9:00pm
GAINESVILLE - United Church of Gainesville.
1624 NW 5th Ave. Come dance to jigs,
reels and waltzes. No partner, experience
or special dress required. Live music also
begins at 7:00 by Hoggetowne Fancy.
PARKINSON’S EXERCISE CLASS
Tuesday & Friday
9:30am
GAINESVILLE - Alachua County Senior
Recreation Center, 5701 NW 34th St. A fun and
effective exercise class to help those living
with Parkinson’s Disease and other balancerelated health issues. Exercise is the only
way to slow progression of PD. Free. www.
facebook.com/gainesvilleflparkinsonsnetwork.
GAINESVILLE HARMONY SHOW
CHORUS
Thursdays
7:00pm – 9:30pm
GAINESVILLE - Grace Presbyterian Church, 3146
NW 13th St. For all who are interested in learning
and singing Women’s A Cappella Barbershop
Harmony Music. Beckie: 352-318-1281.
LADY GAMERS
Fridays
1:00pm
HIGH SPRINGS - New Century Woman’s Club,
40 NW 1st Ave. The Lady Gamers meet for
fun, friendship and food. Everyone is invited.
Meet old friends and make some new ones.
FARMSTEAD WEEKEND
FARMERS MARKET
Saturdays and Sundays
9:00am – 3:00pm
CITRA - Crones’ Cradle Conserve, 6411 NE
217th Pl. Tour a working vegetable and herb
farm. Plants, fresh produce, books, farm and
fine crafts are available. 352-595-3377.
Thursdays
12:00pm – 4:00pm
HIGH SPRINGS - Downtown Farmers
Market, 115 NE Railroad Ave.
ENCORE DANCE WORKSHOP
Thursdays
4:00pm – 5:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center,
5701 NW 34th St. This dance workshop
provides mature dancers with an opportunity
to continue their practice in an adultfriendly environment. 352-733-0880.
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August 1 - 4
Times Vary
GAINESVILLE - P.K. Yonge Dev. Research
School, 1080 SW 11th St. Immersion in Writing,
Craft and Skill Summer Institute, designed to
increase understanding of writer’s voice and
to support the development of personal voices
in writing. 352-392-1554; [email protected].
edu; summerinstitutes. pkyonge.ufl.edu.
GATOR SUMMER ORCHESTRA
Thursday, August 4
7:30pm
GAINESVILLE - University Auditorium, 333
Newell Dr. The completely student-run event
features a full symphony orchestra comprised
of UF students, local high school and middle
school students, and Gainesville community
members. Enjoy selections by Beethoven,
Strauss, and Brahms among others. Free
and open to the public. www.arts.ufl.edu.
HARD LUCK SOCIETY
Friday, August 5
8:00pm – 10:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Bo Diddley Plaza, 111 E. University
Ave. Gainesville’s “Free Fridays” Concert
Series presents Hard Luck Society: Country,
Blues, Jazz. www.gvlculturalaffairs.org.
ZUMBA
YOGA
Saturday, August 6
Sundays
5:00pm – 6:00pm
Ave. Free Zumba class every first Saturday
of the month with Cristiane Machado.
1:00pm – 2:00pm
GAINESVILLE - First Magnitude Brewery, 1220
SE Veitch St. Brewery Yoga in the warehouse.
All experience levels welcome; suggested
donation of $5 (donations go to Forage Farms
through August) www.fmbrewing.com/calendar.
BLUE STAR MUSEUMS
Now thru September 5
HIGH SPRINGS FARMERS
MARKET
IMMERSION IN WRITING, CRAFT
AND SKILL
Times Vary
GAINESVILLE - Florida Museums. Free admission
to all fee-based exhibits for active duty U.S.
military personnel and their families. For a
list of participating museums: www.flmnh.
ufl.edu/calendar/grid/blue-star-museums.
CALL TO ARTISTS AND EXHIBIT
August 11 - 31
Times Vary
OCALA - Marion Cultural Alliance, 23 SW
Broadway St. Theme: Ocala’s Backyard Galleries.
Accepting art August 9 thru 11. Opening reception
August 12. All mediums accepted. Open TuesdayFriday: 11:00am-5:00pm, Saturday: 11:00am–
4:00pm. Paulette Millhorn: 352-369-1500
A BURLESQUE TRIBUTE TO THE
WIZARD OF OZ
Saturday, August 6
9:00pm - 12:00am
GAINESVILLE - Market Street Pub &
Cabaret, 112 SW 1st Ave. Lions and Tigers
and Burlesque dancers, Oh My! Featuring
live music before and after the show.
$8 Adv, $10 Door. This show is 18+.
WRITING SONGS, WRITING
STORIES
Sunday, August 7
2:30pm - 4:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Millhopper Branch Library,
3145 NW 43rd St. Gainesville musician, poet,
and novelist Arthur Crummer will describe the
essential elements common to both successful
songs and stories at the monthly meeting of the
Writers Alliance of Gainesville. writersalliance.org.
PAINT BY NUMBER
Tuesdays through August 23
6:00PM – 8:00pm
HIGH SPRINGS - Adventure Outpost, 18238
NW US HWAY 441. Every Tuesday from 6pm8pm at the Adventure Outpost, they will be
doing a night of “paint by numbers” on their
wall and the public is invited. In conjunction
with the Smithsonian Institute event and the
goal to educate and promote the importance
of how finite and precious water is. www.
facebook.com/events/243668402692607/.
RAG DOLLS
Wednesday, August 10
9:00am – 11:00am
GAINESVILLE - Friends of Dudley Farm,
18730 W. Newberry Road. A demonstration
of rag doll making. 352-472-1142 or
www.friendsofdudleyfarm.org.
THE SAVANTS OF SOUL
Friday, August 12
8:00pm – 10:00pm
Ave. Gainesville’s “Free Fridays” Concert Series
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Rock, Punk and Ska. www.gvlculturalaffairs.org.
MOVIE NIGHT
Friday, August 12
7:00pm – 10:00pm
JONESVILLE - Town of Tioga, 105 SW 128th
St. The second Friday of every month. Free
admission. Bring lawn chairs and blankets.
MURDER MYSTERY DINNER
Saturday, August 13
6:00pm
ALACHUA - Alachua Woman’s Club, 14565 Main
St. Presented by the Kiwanis Club of Santa Fe
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6pm; dinner at 6:30 and mystery starts 7. Dinner
tickets: $40. Contact Tom Weller: 386-454-3163.
VARIETY SHOW
Saturday, August 13
3:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Oak Hall School Theatre.
Destination Vegas! The Gainesville Harmony
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attending The Sweet Adeline’s International
Competition in Las Vegas. Tickets: $12
each or two for $20. 352-392-494-4124.
LITTLE JAKE & THE SOUL
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Saturday, August 13
8:30pm - 1:00am
GAINESVILLE - Market Street Pub & Cabaret, 112
SW 1st Ave. Veteran blues and R&B recording
John Raimondi,
Drawing To Sculpture
August 6 – October 30
OCALA - Appleton Museum, 4333 E. Silver Springs Blvd. Raimondi creates towering
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selection of his drawings in ink, graphite, pastel and oil stick. AppletonMuseum.org,
352-291-4455.
artist and performer, Little Jake Mitchell plays
monthly at Market Street with his Soul Searchers.
$10 at the door. littlejakemitchell.com.
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6:00pm — 7:30pm
OCALA - First Baptist Church of Ocala,
2801 SE Maricamp Rd. Free ESL classes
resume August 17. Classes meet on
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floor, room 202/204. 352-629-5683.
BONNIE RAITT TRIBUTE
Friday, August 19
8:00pm – 10:00pm
Ave. Gainesville’s “Free Fridays” Concert
Series presents: “Bonnie Raitt - Road Tested.”
Tribute by Jana Horton-Kowitz & Friends.
Classic Rock. www.gvlculturalaffairs.org.
BURLESQUE & JAZZ
Saturday, August 20
8:00pm - 1:00am
GAINESVILLE - Market Street Pub & Cabaret,
112 SW 1st Ave. An intimate burlesque &
variety show featuring a rotating cast of
local and visiting performers. Live jazz with
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10:00pm. $10 Adv, $12 door. This show is
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12:00pm – 1:00pm
GAINESVILLE - HealthStreet, 2401 SW Archer Rd.
“Update in GI Cancer Therapies.” The speaker will
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service to them. Lunch provided for those who
RSVP; $4 donation is requested. Barb Thomas:
[email protected] or www.myhealthstreet.org.
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CONCERT SERIES
Friday, August 26
7:00pm – 10:00pm
JONESVILLE - Town of Tioga, 105 S.W. 128th St.
Every last Friday of the month. Free admission.
Bring your lawn chairs and blankets.
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9:00am – 3:00pm
OCALA - Christ’s Church Of Marion County,
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pm. Donations of non-perishable food items
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OCALA - Country Club of Ocala, 6823 SE 12th
Circle. Men’s & Women’s Doubles. First match
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includes guarantee of two matches, boxed
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entry to Friday Night Gala. Troy Leonard: 352207-2347 or Barbara Leonard: 352-804-3777.
ELECTRO AERIAL SHOW
Saturday, August 27
8:00pm - 12:00am
GAINESVILLE - Market Street Pub &
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Friday, August 26
OCALA - Country Club of Ocala, 6823 SE 12th Circle. Registration begins at 11:30am.
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BREAKAWAY BURLESQUE
Friday, August 26
Friday, August 26
7:00pm - 10:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Downtown. Artwalk is a free
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participating. www.artwalkgainesville.com.
10:00pm – 12:00am
GAINESVILLE - Market Street Pub & Cabaret,
112 SW 1st Ave. A night of burlesque
inspired by our favorite food and drinks!
This show is 18+. $7 at the door.
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FIRST FRIDAY ART WALK
6:00pm – 9:00pm
OCALA - Downtown Square, SE 1st Ave. First
Friday of the month. Live entertainment.
Website: ocalafl.org/recpark.
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THEATRE
Acrosstown Repertory Theatre.....................619 S. Main Street, Gainesville
Curtis M. Phillips Center ........................................... 315 Hull Road, Gainesville
Fine Arts Hall Theatre - SFC ........................... 3000 NW 83rd St., Gainesville
Gainesville Community Playhouse ....... 4039 N.W. 16th Blvd., Gainesville
Hippodrome State Theatre................................. 25 SE 2nd Place, Gainesville
UF Constans Theatre ................................................. Museum Road, Gainesville
McGuire Pavilion Black Box Theatre................ Museum Road, Gainesville
Actors’ Warehouse .............................................. 608 N. Main Street, Gainesville
Ocala Civic Theatre ..................................4337 East Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala
High Springs Playhouse ................................ 130 NE 1st Avenue, High Springs
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BOOK REVIEW BY
TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER
Famous Nathan
LLOYD HANDWERKER
with GIL REAVILL
c.2016, Flatiron Books
$26.99 / $37.99 Canada
320 pages
M
om always loved you best.
I can beat you at that. You got
more than me, more from Santa and a
bigger birthday cake. I was Dad’s favorite, I’m better than you, and sibling rivalry can linger long past childhood. It’s
not pretty and, as you’ll see in “Famous
Nathan” by Lloyd Handwerker (with Gil
Reavill), it can bring down an empire.
Born in 1892 in Austria-occupied
Poland, Nathan Handwerker was a gogetter, even as a boy: his family was poor
and had many small mouths to feed so
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must end. Coney Island changed quite
a bit in 1966, thanks to a man named
Trump; Nathan’s began to struggle,
partly because of “small-is-beautiful
versus big-is-better debate” and good
old-fashioned sibling rivalry.
As business biographies go, I thought
“Famous Nathan” was one of the tastier.
Author Lloyd Handwerker, grandson
of Nathan, starts his sweeping story with
a Coney Island tradition, then moves in
directions that truly couldn’t be more
opposite. We travel from a competitive
eating stage to the sleeping-pallet of
an illiterate, dirt-poor immigrant who
stumbled into his life’s work to avoid
starvation, the irony of which is never
allowed to be lost on readers. Handwerker’s storytelling (with Gil Reavill) is
he, as the third-oldest son, begged his
father to let him leave home to work.
Eleven-year-old Handwerker found a series of jobs that paid little but he settled
on one in a bakery, reasoning that he
would never go hungry there.
Living in Poland at the turn of the
last century could be dangerous for a
young Jewish man — gangs and military recruiters were on the hunt — so
Handwerker began saving to move to
America. He left the Netherlands
in March, 1912 and upon his arrival
in New York a month later, he
quickly found a job, then another,
and another. Remembering his life
back home, he found employment
in restaurants and worked his way
up, toiling seven days a week while
he learned English.
While at his part-time job in
Coney Island, Handwerker noticed
a counter location that would make
a perfect place to start a business.
It took awhile for Nathan’s (later,
Nathan’s Famous) to be successful;
Nathan Handwerker, who built a hot dog empire,
Handwerker was initially charging
and his wife, Ida, in the documentary “Famous
Nathan.” (credit: Film Movement)
too much for his hot dogs but once
he settled on a nickel apiece, two
cents for a drink, “the store” started to
clear, lively, and filled with such twists. I
take off. Coney Island was the place to
thoroughly enjoyed it.
be, for New Yorkers escaping the city;
From the first page, this is an easy
Nathan’s was open year ‘round and
book to like: it’s interesting, has a
became famous for speed and spectacle
smooth timeline, and sometimes reads
of service. Handwerker was at the store
like a novel. If you’re hungry for that,
every day, sometimes for 20 hours a day
“Famous Nathan” is a wiener. s
but he still managed to marry and have
Terri Schlichenmeyer has been reading
three children — the younger two, both
since she was 3 years old and she never goes
sons he hoped would someday take over
anywhere without a book. She lives with her
the family business.
two dogs and 11,000 books.
As they say, though, all good things
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