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GAINESVILLE SENIOR GAMES | VETERAN MO
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Portal to
the Past
Dudley Farm’s Annual Quilt
Day & Antique Show Offers
a Taste of Old Florida
SEPTEMBER 2016
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CONTENTS
SEPTEMBER 2016 • VOL. 17 ISSUE 09
departments
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Tapas
Community Page
Charity of the Month
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Calendar of Events
Theatre Listings
Crossword Puzzle
ON THE COVER – Gayle Ambrose
poses with two rag dolls, which were
made at Friend’s of Dudley Farm’s rag
doll making demo. Ambrose has been a
volunteer with the group for 11 1⁄2 years.
Born and raised in Gainesville, she said
on her first visit to the historic farm she
planned to leave after learning just one
thing. “And now they can’t run me off with
a stick,” Ambrose said.
PHOTO BY ERICKA WINTERROWD
columns
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Healthy Edge
by Kendra Siler-Marsiglio
features
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Portal to the Past
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Dudley Farm’s Annual
Quilt Day & Antique
Show Offers a
Taste of Old Florida
Longtime Backbone of
UF Chemistry Department
had Role in Defeat of
Japan
BY PEGGY MACDONALD
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Growing up Crom
The Legacy of a Unique
Gainesville Family of
Artists and Artisans
BY PEGGY MACDONALD
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September 2016
Veteran
Morris Mixson
BY MICHAEL STONE
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Patchworking
Sew Much to Quilt,
Sew Little Time
BY HAYLI ZUCCOLA
Enjoying Act Three
by Ellis Amburn
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Reading Corner
Review by Terri Schlichenmeyer
WINNER!
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AUGUST 2016 issue…
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“Working with my
hands is a labor
of the heart…
That’s why I decided to
put my heart in the hands
of UF Health. “ — Victor Hahn
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“As a 3rd generation farmer, I have
dedicated 75 years to working the land …
until a problem with my heart — an
irregular heartbeat — slowed me down.
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
that UF Health has the brightest medical
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thankful to everyone there for getting me
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At UF Health, we’re here for you, from the
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FROM THE EDITOR œ ALBERT ISAAC
Sew Talented
My grandmother could sew and
crochet and make quilts and afghans
that were absolutely beautiful. I was
always surprised at how these afghans
could keep me so warm in the winter
despite all the spaces in the weave. My
wife and I still have a magnificent quilt
Grandma gave us when we got married. She continued to knit and crochet
well into her 90s, even after she’d had a
stroke; even after she was nearly blind.
She was a remarkable woman in many
ways, but particularly impressive with a
needle and thread, and with latch hook
and yarn.
My mom has inherited this talent
as well. Now in her 80s, Mom recently
began crocheting, creating a spectacular
blanket for our grown daughter — her
granddaughter.
I, on the other hand, have no such
skills. Recently I had to sew a button
on my shirt. I managed to do it, but it
looked pretty weird and it was slightly
lower than it needed to be, causing an
unwelcome gap between the buttons on
the front of my shirt. (I still wear it. If I
pull on the material between the buttons
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real hard I can make it look presentable.) Back in the ‘70s we used a neat
little invention called the Buttoneer that
would reattach a button in a jiffy. I no
longer have this device, so I went at it
with a needle and thread. Just threading
that needle was a chore in itself.
The only other sewing experience I
can remember is when I was in college
and my motorcycle seat was pulling
apart at the seams. I got my hands on
some surgical suture, complete with the
needle, and stitched that bad boy back
together. I was rather impressed, and it
held up until I sold the bike. (Fortunately it wasn’t suture that dissolves.)
So, with sewing in mind, we bring you
a couple of pieces about the craft. Care
to join a quilting organization? In this
issue you can learn about a few of the
local quilting guilds.
We also visit Dudley Farm in Newberry for a bit of quilting history — which
has an upcoming Annual Quilt Day & Antique Show in early October. You can also
learn about making quilts and rag dolls.
Additionally, we have a story about
a local family that was instrumental in
repairing and installing the old Alachua
County Courthouse clock in downtown
Gainesville back in the mid-80s. Theodore Crom rescued the 1885 tower clock
from a junkyard.
Lastly, we continue with our series
of World War II Veteran profiles, this
month featuring Morris Mixson, who
retired from the UF Chemistry Department in 1989.
Enjoy! s
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COMMUNITY œ SENIOR ATHLETICS
PARTICIPATE IN THE LIVELY SERIES OF EVENTS FOR ADULTS 50 & UP
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Lace up those tennis shoes and clean those golf clubs – the
Senior Games are right around the corner! The 16th Annual UF
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that enjoys some friendly, active competition.
The Senior Games is a three-level event (local, state and
national) that begins in Alachua County from Sept. 23 to Oct.
1 of this year. Seniors will be able to participate in roughly 50
events, ranging from swimming to pickleball. They are eligible
to enter as many sporting events as they desire (with a few
exceptions), as long as the event times do not conflict.
People from all over the U.S. and the world, no matter their
skill level, flock to Florida to participate in these games and
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place in. The top five winners in each group for each sport will
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year. Around 700 athletes compete in the 19-sport event, with
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The Senior Games originated in Sanford, Fla. with the
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FROM RAGS TO RICHES
Portal to
the Past
Dudley Farm’s Annual Quilt
Day & Antique Show Offers
a Taste of Old Florida
by Peggy Macdonald
photography by Ericka Winterrowd
J
ust as the Historic Haile Homestead in Gainesville is
known for its “talking walls,” Dudley Farm Historic State
Park is associated with its “talking quilts.”
Throughout American history, quilts have been used not only
to keep warm, but also to communicate. According to oral tradition, quilts contained secret codes that helped runaway slaves find
their way to freedom on the Underground Railroad.
Quilts have also been used for social causes ranging from AIDS
awareness and memorials to protests against the devastating
effects of the use of DDT and other pesticides on Lake Apopka
farmworkers and the environment.
At Dudley Farm, located in Newberry, historic quilts from the
Dudley collection are on display in the visitor center and inside
the Dudleys’ farmhouse. Each quilt tells a unique story about what
life was like in the past.
Quilting is an art form born out of necessity. Just as the European settlers who first came to America could not afford to discard
scraps of clothing or other materials, homesteaders who came to
Florida before the Civil War made use of every piece of cloth they
owned in order to conserve resources. This led to the creation of
pieced or patchwork quilts that blended cut pieces of cloth from a
variety of sources. The pieces were cut into strips that were sewn
together to form a variety of patterns.
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Quilts and rag dolls were a huge part of the Dudley’s
lives. Strips of fabric were never wasted and became the base from which each rag doll was made.
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“The Dudley girls used to make rag dolls out of old clothes,they would
get strips of old clothes and rags and tie them together.”
The rag doll-making event took place in the summer and attracted lots of families. The activity proved to be very popular for children still waiting for
the school year to begin. Grandparents attended the event with grandchildren, and not one of the participants had a smart phone or tablet in hand.
Quilting enabled families who could not afford expensive
whole cloth to create beautiful patchwork quilts that were
both practical and decorative. They also served as a pictorial
record of a family’s history.
On Oct. 1, Dudley Farm’s annual Quilt Day & Antique Show
shares the stories of the Dudley family through its extensive
quilt collection. Novices can learn how to make their own
quilts and purchase supplies from a variety of local vendors.
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Quilt Day features a bed turning with popular quilts representative of the Dudley era. During the bed turning, volunteers
will share stories about the history or style of a variety of quilts
on display. Traditionally, layers of quilts are placed on top of
each other, and as each quilt is lifted off the stack its story is
shared with comments on the pattern or how it was made.
Quilt Day also includes demonstrations of historical skills
such as quilting, pine needle basket weaving, palm weaving,
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Cindy Frost leads a rag doll demo at Dudley Farm. She has been a volunteer there for five years. Most
of the participants at the event used materials that were provided for them at the demonstration.
tatting, spinning, inkle loom and cornhusk brooms. The Levy County Quilt
Museum and Quilters of Alachua County Day Guild are partnering with Dudley
Farm for this special event. Quilts and
quilt-related products will be available
for purchase, along with a selection of
antiques from several vendors.
As young girls, one of the first skills
Myrtle Dudley and her seven sisters
learned was how to quilt. According to
park services specialist Sandra Cashes,
each of the Dudley girls were required
to complete eight quilts before they
were permitted to marry.
“We needed them, with all that family to keep warm in the winter,” Myrtle
Dudley told “The Older American” in
March 1990. “The wind really swept
through their old houses in those days.”
Cashes joked that the quilt-making
requirement might be one of the reasons Myrtle Dudley — the youngest of
Phillip Benjamin Harvey Dudley Jr.’s 12
children — never married. In fact, three
of Myrtle’s sisters also remained unwed.
“There was too much work on the
farm to do courting,” Myrtle Dudley
once told her niece, Sue Dees, who
spent a great deal of time on the farm
as a child. At the time of Dudley’s death
in 1996 at age 94, Dees told The Gainesville Sun she often watched her aunt
making quilts and doing woodwork.
On December 1, 1901, Myrtle Dudley was born in her parents’ bedroom
at her family’s rustic farmhouse. In a
1992 interview with the Samuel Proctor
Oral History Program, Dudley said her
grandfather, Phillip Benjamin Harvey
Dudley, moved from South Carolina to
Alachua County in the 1850s to grow
cotton with the assistance of enslaved
laborers. Three generations of Dudleys
operated the farm, which is now one of
the oldest working Cracker style farms
in the state.
In 1983, Myrtle Dudley — who had
no children — donated 24 acres of the
farm she inherited to the state, with the
condition that she could remain there
until her death. Today, volunteers teach
domestic skills to park visitors on most
Wednesday mornings. These workshops
usually focus on quilting, although
other popular topics include how to
make cornhusk brooms or rag dolls.
“Everything is done by hand, so it’s
really cool,” Cashes said.
Dudley offers a variety of hands-on
programs to help visitors appreciate
what life was like in Old Florida. Living
history re-enactors in period dress offer
tours and manage a sprawling farm and
historic state park. On August 10, volunteers led a rag doll workshop, educating
families about clothing and toy making
in the late 1800s and early 1900s.
“The Dudley girls used to make
rag dolls out of old clothes,” Cashes
explained. “They would get strips of old
clothes and rags and tie them together.”
Strips of cloth are used to make the
doll’s body. Yarn, string or lace can be
used to make the hair. A face can be
painted on or embroidered, or it can be
left blank.
Rag dolls were used not only to comfort and amuse young girls, but also as
a fun way for children to learn valuable
sewing skills. The oldest surviving rag
doll in North America was made in 1770.
Named Bangwell Putt, this well-loved
doll was made for Clarissa Field, who
was born blind and kept the doll until
she died in her 80s, according to Memorial Hall Museum Online’s “American
Centuries” exhibit.
Learn how to make a rag doll, quilt,
cornhusk broom and more at the annual
Quilt Day & Antique Show Saturday,
Oct. 1 from 9:30 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. Park
staff and volunteers encourage visitors
to bring their own quilts to the event
and share their family stories with fellow quilters. s
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A DV E RT I S E M E N T
Treatment of rare disease gives
UF Health patient her life back
For two years starting in October 2011,
Lori Gilstrap knew something was
very wrong with her health. She was
experiencing large amounts of blood
loss, as well as constant exhaustion.
“I’m on my feet all day, and people said they could not believe
that I was even up and walking,” Lori recalled. “On the weekends,
I crashed. I sat in my chair and didn’t do anything. I was just so
weak, and oh — the fatigue — it was horrible.”
Lori’s husband, Tommy, provided all the moral support he
could, but says that didn’t help with her physical problem. “I personally don’t know how she got through,” Tommy recalls.
After seeing many different doctors in her hometown of
Orange Park, Florida, Lori eventually received a diagnosis: nutcracker syndrome. This rarely diagnosed condition occurs when
the renal vein, which drains blood from the kidney, is compressed
between the aorta and the artery that supplies the intestines with
blood. In severe cases, the vein collapses. Blood that should flow
out of the kidney and back to the heart instead backs up into the
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kidney and comes out in the urine.
“All of my life, these two arteries have pounded on this vein and
eventually it just collapsed,” Lori explained.
As a very slender person, she does not have much fat in her
abdomen to help cushion the vein.
Lori was relieved to finally have a diagnosis, but began to feel
lost again when she saw several vascular surgeons who said they
would not operate on her for one reason or another. Finally UF
Health said yes.
“When UF Health told me they could fix me, it was like 1,000
pounds got lifted off my shoulders.” Lori recalled. “I could breathe
again. I knew I was going to be OK.”
Lori initially met with Thomas Huber, MD, PhD, chief of vascular
surgery and endovascular therapy at UF Health, who brought the
case to his team for review. During a weekly meeting, Dr. Huber
and his team decided that an associate professor in the division,
Robert Feezor, MD, would be best to perform her surgery, as he
had treated nutcracker syndrome previously.
Dr. Feezor opted for a minimally invasive approach first, which
works for some patients. Ultimately, because of the severity of Lori’s
condition, she required a renal vein bypass. He took a portion of
vein from Lori’s leg and attached both ends of it to the renal vein,
creating a path for blood to flow around the problem area between the two
arteries. The surgery took place in October 2013, more than two years after
her symptoms began.
Since surgery, Lori has returned to horseback riding, a favorite activity
made difficult by the fatigue accompanying her illness, and one she gave
up temporarily after surgery. She is also back to spending more time with
Tommy and their family dog, Elkie, at the beach and local parks.
Lori is glad to have moved past nutcracker syndrome and on with her life,
and says she is grateful for the very personal, high-quality care she received
at UF Health. “I can’t say enough good things about Dr. Feezor, the ICU staff,
the clinic.” she said. “UF Health gave me my life back.”
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HEART AND VASCULAR CARE
September 2016
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COLUMN œ KENDRA SILER-MARSIGLIO
Healthy
Edge
What’s Up, Doc? For a Healthy
Edge, Try a Carrot a Day
D
id you know that Marilyn Monroe
ate a carrot a day for health reasons? Here’s why you should, too…
Carrots may be “different” today than
they were centuries ago, but they still
pack a healthy punch. According to the
National Carrot Museum, early carrots
were first cultivated thousands of years
ago, where Afghanistan is today. They
were bitter tasting, multi-pronged roots.
Carrots weren’t “orange” until the 16th
century. Over time, farmers have developed them into the sweet and crunchy
super foods they are today.
What are the benefits of eating carrots?
Research shows that carrots and
other antioxidant- and fiber-rich fruits
and vegetables reduce the risk of cancer
and cardiovascular disease. Carrots also
help with blood sugar regulation, in
part because carrots contain chromium.
Carrots also aid in the removal of toxins
and liver metabolites that are no longer
useful by binding the waste material in
your digestive track.
Carrots have been shown to prevent
cancers such as lung, colorectal, and
prostate cancers. For instance, an “International Journal of Epidemiology”
study entitled “Carrots, green vegetables and lung cancer: a case-control
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study” showed that smokers who ate
carrots more than once a week had a
substantially lower risk of developing
lung cancer than those who didn’t eat
carrots.
Another case-control study by the
Harvard School of Public Health’s
Department of Nutrition showed that
diets rich in beta-carotene (like carrots)
are protective against prostate cancer.
Lastly, a 2011 “Journal of Medicinal
Food” study showed that carrot juice
extract could kill leukemia cells.
Although carrots have some vision
benefits, it’s probably not exactly what
your parents told you. Carrots help
vision if you are lacking vitamin A. Vitamin A deficiency can deteriorate portions of the eyes’ photoreceptors. Duke
ophthalmologist Jill Koury, M.D. said
that eating carrots repairs the damaged
photoreceptors, restoring vision.
Many believe that the rumor that is
still repeated today (about carrots helping vision) started with a World War II
British Royal Air Force campaign. The
campaign claimed that British fighter
pilots had greater accuracy because they
ate carrots. Actually, the fighter pilots’
“perfect vision” was due to their new
radar system that they wanted to keep
hidden from the Germans.
What nutrients are in carrots?
Based on United States Department
of Agriculture estimates, a serving of
carrots is 25 calories, 3 grams of sugar,
and a gram of protein.
Carrots provide 210 percent of the
vitamin A that an adult would need in a
day. (Your intestines turn the beta-carotene of carrots into vitamin A.) Carrots
also have fiber, vitamins C, E, and K,
calcium, potassium, folate, manganese,
phosphorous, magnesium and zinc.
What are the best ways to eat carrots?
Baby cut carrots are a great snack.
Many people also enjoy shredded carrots in coleslaw and on salads. Raw
and steamed carrots provide the most
nutritional value. Juiced carrots are
also tasty.
To keep your carrots fresher for
longer, store them in the refrigerator in
a sealed plastic bag. Remove the green
carrot top before storing; the green tops
can draw out moisture and nutrients
from the carrot. Make sure you peel and
wash your carrots before consuming.
Carrots can pick up dangerous bacteria
when they are shipped and handled. E.
coli, Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella species are some of the bacteria
that can contaminate carrots.
Remember that you can eat TOO
many carrots! Overconsumption of
carotene may give your skin a yellow or
orange tinge (it’s called carotenemia).
It won’t likely affect your health and
usually just discolors your knees, palms,
soles, and nasal areas. To reverse carotenemia, just cut back on your carrot
consumption. Vitamin A overconsumption usually only happens when people
take vitamin A supplements.
So, for that healthy edge, make like
Bugs Bunny and have a carrot a day. s
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Director of Rural Health Partnership at
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DOES ANYBODY KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS?
Growing
Up Crom
The Legacy of a Unique Gainesville
Family of Artists and Artisans
by Peggy Macdonald
T
he name Theodore Crom is
synonymous with the 1885
Alachua County Courthouse
tower clock, which he rescued from the
junkyard, restored and later installed in
a new location at the corner of Northeast 1st Street and University Avenue.
However, few people are aware that the
tower clock’s restoration was actually a
family affair.
Before the tower clock was installed in
its new home in downtown Gainesville
in 1983, it was gradually nursed back to
life at the Crom residence, said Theodore
R. Crom’s son, Theodore P. “Ted” Crom.
Ted’s father, Theodore, was an internationally known horologist who published
several books on horology — the study of
time and the art of making timepieces.
Crom was also the founding president of
the Crom Corporation, which produces
pre-stressed concrete tanks for water
and wastewater treatment and storage.
Each of the Crom children played a
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role in restoring the 1885 Seth Thomas
tower clock.
“We all contributed something,” said
Theodore’s son, Frank “Gary” Crom, in a
May 25 interview at his house. Theodore
put the clock in the bedroom and hung the
bell in the backyard. Ted and Gary — the
last surviving children of Theodore and
Wynona Crom — remember their mother
ringing the bell to call them back inside
when they played in Rattlesnake Creek.
The bell could be heard from their home
on NE 10th Avenue, all the way to J. J. Finley Elementary School on NW 5th Avenue.
“That’s how Mom called us when she
wanted us to come home,” Ted said in
a June 1 interview at his Cross Creek
workshop.
Ted recalled that before the Alachua
County Courthouse was demolished
in 1961, the tower clock could be heard
from downtown Gainesville all the way
to their home.
“Gainesville was much smaller and
Ted Crom peeks through the eye of the Luna
statue as it is assembled. The completed
statue is located in downtown Gainesville.
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PHOTO BY PEGGY MACDONALD
Top left: Gary Crom holds a rattrap art piece. Bottom left: Artie Beckham sandblasts Luna, a 13-foot-tall moon sculpture. At right: The entire Crom family restored the tower clock from the 1885 Alachua County Courthouse, which was demolished in 1961.
quieter then,” he said.
When Theodore brought the pile of tower clock parts
home from the scrapyard, his wife, Wynona thought it
looked like a piece of junk, she told The Sun in a 2013
interview (she died in 2014; Theodore died in 2008).
Theodore did the brunt of the mechanical work to restore
the tower clock.
On a trip through Georgia, Theodore and Gary found two
missing pieces needed to fully restore the clock. These rare
parts were necessary to regulate the time before the tower
clock was electrified, Gary said.
The family had the weights cast at the Maddox Foundry
and Machine Works in Archer.
“It was a community project,” Ted recalled.
Ted and Gary’s brother, Brady — who died in 2015 — painted the clock. Ted helped with the machine work, repairing or
replacing missing pieces.
“Daddy restored it all,” Ted said.
When the tower clock broke down last summer, Ted helped
Fred North — a carpenter with the City of Gainesville — bring
it back to life.
Beyond their father’s passion for clocks, the Crom children
had an unusual upbringing. According to Ted, the family kept
a mule in the backyard. Ted and his brothers sometimes rode
the mule to J. J. Finley.
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In the summers, the Crom boys practically lived at Glen
Springs.
“The smell of Clorox takes me back to the Glen Springs
dressing room,” Ted said.
The Glen Springs Pool was where Theodore Crom and his
wife, Wynona (“Nonie”), met.
“My dad was a diving clown there,” Ted said. “Mom was a
mermaid in a tank at the pool.”
Gary lives in his childhood home, which his father designed.
It is a miniature museum of sorts; the rooms are filled with
paintings by his mother and brother, Duff, along with furniture
and eccentric creations made by Gary. Some pieces feature the
bones of dead fish or a rat caught in a trap. Other zany items
include a sword made from the rostral bone of a swordfish, and
an end table decorated with sharks’ teeth from Hogtown Creek.
“Some people don’t know what to make of my work,” Gary said.
Facemasks made with Gary’s beard hair and his mother’s
teeth line the entry way. Handsome oak tables adorned with
coquina shells fill the living room. Some of Gary’s work fittingly features a clock motif.
Gary has also dabbled with performance art. In a 2011
YouTube video, “Tossin’ Daddy Over The Falls,” Gary is seen
tossing a cork filled with some of Theodore Crom’s ashes over
the Canadian Horseshoe Falls. He had cut a hole in the cork to
accommodate the cremains.
“My dad was a diving clown there,”
Ted said. “Mom was a mermaid in a
tank at the pool.”
Ted Crom with a fire pit and other pieces he created at his Cross
Creek workshop. The manticore (bottom) — a legendary Persian
creature — emits fire.
“I had to drink a bottle of wine to get it,” Gary said about the
cork in an interview before he launched his father’s ashes over
Niagara Falls.
Gary also keeps his father’s memory alive in more conventional
ways. Anyone who has driven west along Northwest 10th Avenue
from 13th Street has likely spotted the tall, white clock in Gary’s
yard. His father installed it there 50 years ago, and Gary ensures
that it keeps accurate time. The clock used to stand in front of an
Ocala jewelry store, Gary said.
In addition to this highly visible testament to the Crom family legacy, Ted Crom’s public art adds spice to the streets of
downtown Gainesville. “Luna,” the popular man-in-the-moon
sculpture is located at the corner of Southeast 2nd Avenue and
1st Street. The piece has become so beloved that people have
absconded with tokens from the statue — strange tokens. For instance, someone stole the mole hair off the moon statue (the mole
is still there). Ted said he took the barbed orb that used to hang
from the moon home so that it would not be stolen.
“Art does somewhat run in the family,” Ted said humbly. His
brother, Duff (who died in 2007), was also an artist. His portrait
of a local artist, the late Lennie Kesl, is on display at Hector Framing and Gallery. Kesl was the father of Duff’s longtime love and
companion, Diana.
Ted’s work has been featured in three major Hollywood films.
He said he was a prop maker for “Forrest Gump” and made the
iconic bench Forrest sat on while he told his life story. He made
a version of the experimental weather pod, “Dorothy” for the
“Twister” attraction at the Universal Studios Orlando theme
park. Ted also built sets, walls, art and props for the films “Under
Siege” and “The Truman Show.”
“Then I got married and didn’t want to travel anymore,” Ted
said. “They really work you hard.”
Today Ted is working with engineering students at UF to build a
plasma torch table that would allow artists to cut anything without
having to worry about warping, because the metal is underwater. It
will be the first in Gainesville, Ted said. In addition, he continues to
crank out massive pieces of public art that strike his fancy.
“I’ll do any art anyone wants,” he said.
In 2013, thanks to the efforts of Brady Crom, the City of
Gainesville declared August 10th Ted Crom Day. That date was
chosen to pay tribute not only to the Crom children’s father, but
also to their mother, Wynona, whose birthday is August 10th.
Today, brothers Gary and Ted are keeping the Crom family legacy
alive. s
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COLUMN œ ELLIS AMBURN
Enjoying
Act Three
Ginger Rogers
G
inger Rogers and I lunched at
Manhattan’s La Grenouille,
known as The Frog Pond by its clientele — made up principally of fashion
designers and socialites — after she’d
flown down from her ranch in Oregon to
talk about the autobiography we’d been
discussing for months on the telephone.
Specializing in celebrity memoirs, I
was editorial director of G.P. Putnam’s
Sons in the 1980s and hopeful of adding
Ginger to my list of such stars as June Allyson, Shelley Winters, Stewart Granger,
and Ms. Elvis (Priscilla) Presley.
In her early seventies, Ginger had put
on weight. Her secretary and I supported
her between us as we strolled down Sixth
Avenue from her modest hotel to the
restaurant at 3 East 52nd Street. She still
looked glamorous in her peroxided, teased,
and sprayed shoulder-length blond hair.
Stardom had not warped her. Though
no longer the vivacious gold digger of
1933, she was amiable in a warm but
low-keyed way as she spoke of learning
to operate her word processor.
I’d once lived at 440 Riverside Drive
and inquired whether she’d ever been
to George Gershwin’s apartment at 55
Riverside when they worked together in
Girl Crazy.
“Yes, mother and I were up there at a
party one night,” she said. “Ginger, come
sit here beside me,” Gershwin had called
out from his seat at the concert grand.
“I’ve written a special song for you. I
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hope you like it.”
He sang/talked the lyrics, beginning
with, “They’re writing songs of love but
not for me.”
A “forlorn little love song” was the
way he told her to sing “But Not for Me.”
Another of the tunes Ginger had in
the 1930 musical “Girl Crazy” was “Embraceable You,” which Gershwin sang to
her next.
I waited in vain for her to say what I’d
come to hear — what Gershwin was like,
in and out of bed.
Instead, we discussed Oscar night
1941, when she’d been nominated for
“Kitty Foyle.” On February 27 in the
Biltmore Hotel banquet room, Ginger
was resplendent in black lace and gray
peau-de-soie by Irene.
She didn’t expect to win. Smart money was on Joan Fontaine for “Rebecca,”
directed by Alfred Hitchcock. “Rebecca”
producer David O. Selznick took home
two Academy Awards that night, one for
best picture, the other, the Irving Thalberg, for lifetime achievement. Joan’s
chances looked good.
Seated next to Ginger was her mother
Lela. Ginger didn’t even hear Lynn Fontanne, first lady of the American theatre,
call her name, and it took a nudge from a
tablemate to get her out of her chair.
She reciprocated her mother’s smile,
stood up, and sobbed her way to the
presentation table.
“The first thing that came to my lips was
what a wonderful mother I had to guide
me … I was deeply grateful for God’s love
being with me at this momentous hour.”
Jimmy Stewart won the Oscar for
“The Philadelphia Story.”
“I jumped with joy to think my sweet
friend Jimmy and I were in the same
bivouac together,” she recalled.
Years later Joan Fontaine and I were
involved at William Morrow and Company when we published her memoir
“No Bed of Roses,” and she explained
how she’d blown off her loss, but it
sounded like a rationalization to me.
“The voters might well have thought
Hitch was my Svengali, that after so
many undistinguished performances in
the past, surely it was Hitchcock who
had mesmerized me into the performance I was nominated for.”
I wanted to buy Ginger’s book,
but HarperCollins bought it out from
under me.
“Revelations about her personal life
are guarded,” one critic complained, adding the nature of her romances with Gershwin, Stewart, Lew Ayres, Rudy Vallee,
Fred Astaire, New Yorker editor Harold
Ross, Mervyn LeRoy, Howard Hughes,
Cary Grant, and Alfred Vanderbilt were
insufficiently documented because of her
concern about “discretion and taste.”
I have never stopped thinking about
Ginger and the pleasure of her company, nor regretting that my situation at
Putnam made it difficult for me to cut a
check for deals without a manuscript or
at least a written proposal. I know it’s a
big gamble — Betty Hutton and Yvonne
De Carlo between them stiffed me for
$100,000 — but a rigid policy means losing out on some important books. s
Ellis Amburn is in the Hall of Excellence at
TCU’s Schieffer School of Journalism. His
2000 biography of Elizabeth Taylor, “The
Most Beautiful Woman in the World,” has
recently been reissued by HarperCollins.
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TRIBUTE
Veteran
Morris Mixson
Longtime Backbone of UF Chemistry
Department had Role in Defeat of Japan
Story and Photography by Michael Stone
W
hen Morris Mixson started working as a
stockroom clerk in the University of Florida’s
chemistry department in 1948, he did so under
chemistry curator Burton Otte.
Glad to have work after his time in the war and a few odds
and ends after, Mixson became a protégé to Otte. He learned
all the intricacies of the job, a behind-the-scenes role that
keeps the chemistry department afloat.
Managing the purchases and shipments of hundreds of
different chemicals. Storing them. Dispensing them to faculty
and students. Keeping up with increasing regulations on them.
Also managing beakers, flasks and all the other equipment.
But a noticeable difference emerged between the styles of
mentor and protégé, who became the curator himself in the
mid-‘60s upon Otte’s retirement.
Otte ran the stockroom “like a tyrant,” said William Dolbier,
who’s been with the department since 1966 and today serves
as its chair. Otte kept chemicals — especially the regularly
used solvent ethyl alcohol during the Prohibition era — under
lock and key, with multiple signatures needed and only professors allowed to check them out, never students.
“He ran that stockroom with an iron fist,” Dolbier said, “and
then Morris was brought up and taught by Otte how to run
the stockroom. But when Morris took it over, he had a much
lighter hand.”
“What you remember about Morris is that he was one of the
most cooperative people in the world,” he added. “He would
never say something couldn’t be done; he would find a way to
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do it. And he always had a smile.
“Whether it was a faculty member or a graduate student or
a staff member or an undergraduate, he always treated them
with respect, and everybody loved Morris.”
Mixson approaches his time at UF a little differently, remembering the craziness of lab accidents and chemicals ending
up down the drain pre-regulations, as well as him holding the
position for four decades despite not graduating from college.
“They all thought I had a degree, but I didn’t have any college degree,” said the Gainesville resident and Navy veteran,
who retired from the job in 1989 and turned 90 in August.
“I’ve helped many a graduate student get started and get going with his research. I knew enough to stay out of trouble. I
didn’t get blown up, anyway.”
And shortly before UF, during his time in the Pacific aboard
LST-1041, Mixson avoided disaster, too, today being able to
recall that time as one of the roughly 700,000 World War II
veterans still living from the original 16 million. But their stories, he said, seem to be falling from the mind of America.
“Most people don’t realize what happened back then now.
World War II, people are beginning to forget all about it,” he
said, adding jokingly, “All you hear now is Vietnam.”
Mixson grew up on a vegetable farm in the rural community of Flemington in northwest Marion County. Being told the
draft would come for him anyway, he volunteered for the Navy
in the fall of 1944 after his junior year at Reddick High School.
(He was 18 then because a school transfer as a child forced
him to repeat first grade.)
World War II veteran Morris Mixson, a retired University of
Florida chemistry employee and Gator fan, sits in the living
room of his Gainesville home with his dachshund, Lucky.
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At his dining-room table, Mixson goes through his logbook from his service aboard LST (Landing Ship, Tank) 1041. The list of to-and-from destinations (left) shows the frequent movement among Guam, Saipan, Okinawa and other Pacific islands as the ship transported troops, supplies, vehicles
and mail. Mixson transcribed his Thanksgiving 1945 menu (bottom right), which included ham, turkey, mashed potatoes, other staples of the holiday,
cigarettes and candy.
“I decided I wasn’t getting anywhere there,” Mixson said of
leaving his hometown and joining the military, “and out in the
country where I lived, I couldn’t get to Reddick hardly for the
football and basketball practices because my folks didn’t have
no way to get me back and forth.”
Though Mixson didn’t know it at the time, his cousin,
Ralph Mixson, had likely already been killed in the war. The
family later found out that he survived the brutal Bataan
Death March, which saw the Japanese forcing maybe 75,000
American and Filipino prisoners 65 miles across Luzon Island
in the Philippines.
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But the Ocala native died afterward in a prison camp, a
survivor of the camp later said. Veterans of Foreign Wars Post
4209 in Ocala is named after Ralph Mixson and J.T. McCullough, the first Ocala casualties from the war.
Morris Mixson went through boot camp at the Great Lakes
Naval Training Center in Illinois and received further naval
training at Camp Bradford in Virginia.
It was then off to Pittsburg to board his newly made
ship — LST (Landing Ship, Tank) 1041 — which launched on
Jan. 20, 1945.
The 328-foot-long ship would serve primarily for troop, supseniortimesmagazine.com
ply, vehicle and even mail transport, though it did carry 20mm
and 40mm guns topside for defense. The flat-bottom design
allowed such ships to beach themselves for direct unloading.
Mixson and the rest of the 226-person crew started from the
Ohio River in Pittsburg to get to the Mississippi and then to the
Gulf of Mexico. His topside job proved rough on the Mississippi amid winter, so he requested a different assignment.
“It was cold, man, it was cold, and ice [was] in the river,” he
remembered. “I was just a deckhand, and I got tired of handling them lines. So I volunteered for mess duty.”
(The mess work, which came with extra monthly pay because of the long hours, was on a rotational basis, so Mixson
eventually returned to the deck.)
In the gulf, the ship had its shakedown cruise, the term for
testing seaworthiness.
The shakedown ended with docking in New Orleans, where
some nice-looking women charged Mixson and other servicemen to pose together in photographs.
There, four PT (Patrol Torpedo) boats — made famous by
the heroism on PT-109, the one commanded by John F. Kennedy pre-presidency — were loaded onto the ship and were
carried through the Panama Canal, along the West Coast and
to Seattle.
Already fitted with Russian equipment, the PT boats were
taken by the Russian crews awaiting them in Seattle across the
Northern Pacific to the allied country — a transfer allowed by
the Lend-Lease Act.
LST-1041’s crew knew all along the eventual destination
was the Pacific front, and on May 12, 1945, just a few days
after Victory in Europe Day, the ship set out for Pearl Harbor
loaded with amphibious DUKW (popularly “duck”) vehicles.
The details of the specifics after Pearl — transporting soldiers and supplies from island to island to island — get somewhat hazy for Mixson these decades later, but his well-organized logbook and scrapbook greatly aid in the recollections.
From Pearl, the ship went to Eniwetak Atoll in the Marshall
Islands, then to Guam, then to Saipan, then to Okinawa, the
site of the last great battle of the Pacific and its bloodiest.
LST-1041 arrived on the Okinawa shoreline on July 4, about
two weeks after the battle’s declared conclusion, to drop off
DUKWs. Mixson was surprised to see the vehicles staffed by
black Americans, a rarity amid the highly segregated military.
He also recalled seeing Japanese pillbox emplacements and
religious tombs built by the natives of the island.
Kamikaze attacks — Mixson called them “suicide planes”
in his logbook — frequently befell the waters around Okinawa,
but in LST-1041’s six days there, it didn’t see an attack, nor did
it encounter enemies in its full tenure in the Pacific. Mixson did
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think once, though, that it had taken a shell while off Okinawa.
“We had a big explosion, and we thought, ‘Oh heck, we’ve
been hit,’” he said. “And everybody run to the top deck. They
didn’t want to be down below” in case of sinking.
But it turned out to be a malfunction from the smoke
generator. These machines were equipped to ships to create
a dense fog overhead from water and the output from oil that
would disguise the activity below — be it ships or beach landing parties emerging from them — from enemy airplanes.
The malfunction wasn’t uncommon. These machines
“were known to flare up and burst into flames at times,” according to the 2016 book “The U.S. Navy’s ‘Interim’ LSM(R)s
in World War II.”
“It would get so thick with that smoke,” Mixson recalled of
when the machine worked, “you could reach out and grab it.”
LST-1041 traveled frequently after Okinawa and made
several journeys between Guam, Saipan and Okinawa again
but also to Agrihan — which is, like Guam and Saipan, in the
Mariana Islands chain.
Though the ship traveled in the heart of convoys of up to 88
ships, including those much more equipped for combat, its crew
was often ordered to general quarters, meaning be prepared at
battle stations. Mixson’s post: one of the 12 20mm guns.
But things never turned fearfully dicey.
At Agrihan, Mixson wrote in his logbook that he “had
lot[s] of fun. Ate coconuts and bananas and brought some
aboard. Natives wanted to go back to Saipan with us, and I
don’t blame them.”
The inhabitants of the small island, who got a tour of LST1041, perhaps wanted to immigrate to Saipan because of the
larger landmass, Mixson said.
The time on board often included tedious tasks, like
painting the deck under the hot sun, as Mixson noted in his
logbook. Meanwhile, with nothing much else to do, poker
ruled the night.
“We played a lot of poker,” he said, noting that he was
by no means a shark and today still owes money to a fellow
sailor from Georgia.
Among the more eventful duties of the ship was transporting
Marines between islands who brought their combat dogs along.
“They had them under control real good,” Mixson said.
“When they told them to do something, them dogs would do
it. But you walk by there and you’re a stranger to them, they
just act like they’re going to eat you up. The trainer would
have to calm them down.”
Starting with the Bougainville Campaign in November
1943 and through the battles on Guam, Peleliu, Iwo Jima
and Okinawa, the dogs, mainly Doberman pinschers, led
patrols to alert the Marines of enemies hidden in the island
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A map (middle) shows islands in the Mariana archipelago, some of
which LST-1041 (top and bottom) made transport runs to and from. The
Marianas saw significant fighting during the war as part of the U.S.
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jungles, stood on guard at night, and detected mines and other
“That storm, you could hardly stand up on the main deck,”
hazards. In recognition of the 25 dogs that lost their lives on
he remembered, describing damage to his ship’s propellers
Guam, a memorial was erected in 1994 on the island and is
when it collided with another ship. “It was really blowing.”
topped by a Doberman statue.
As part of its post-war duties, LST-1041 transferred B-29
The atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagabomber parts to ally Chinese Nationalists in their conflict
saki on Aug. 6 and Aug. 9, 1945, respectively, and Japan relayed against the Communists in the country’s civil war. But the
its acceptance of surrender on Aug. 10 — on the condition that
time on board didn’t return to the intensity of wartime.
Emperor Hirohito be allowed to stay in power.
“Last day of old 1945,” Mixson wrote for his Jan. 1, 1946,
The U.S. replied on Aug. 12 that this stipulation would be
entry. “Had a pretty good time seeing the old year out and new
determined by the “Supreme Commander of the Allied Powyear in. New Year’s Day. Don’t feel very good. G.P.D.D.L.N.”
ers,” not Japan, and this led to
The acronym’s meaning:
a further delay until Hirohito
got pretty damn drunk last
finally announced the surrender
night. “I guess they let us have
over the radio at noon on Aug.
a beer party or something,”
15, according to the History
Mixson said.
channel.
When Mixson left the
This back-and-forth might
service that June, he held the
explain the confusion aboard
rank of seaman and was still a
LST-1041. Mixson’s Aug. 10
teenager.
logbook entry says that Japan
He returned to Reddick
had surrendered, but the Aug.
High School, finished up his
12 one says, “Blowing whistles
degree there, helped some
and raising all kinds of hell only
back on the farm, attended
to hear that it wasn’t over.”
Massey Business College in
But then on Aug. 15, while
Jacksonville only to find out he
the ship was at Agrihan, Mixson
didn’t want to be a bookkeeper
noted in his logbook that things
and quit, and ended up at UF’s
were official.
chemistry department in 1948
“We just really hollered and
through a jobs program.
hooped,” he said of the celebraAs for the explosions in the
tion. “I do remember one thing:
department, Mixson rememI remember after the war ended,
bered students once experithe poker games slowed down.”
menting with what’s called a
(This was because the upcoming
pressure reactor and putting it
discharges would mean no more
on machine that was meant to
military paychecks.)
shake the device.
It wouldn’t be until June ’46,
“Well, about the time they
After its shakedown cruise in the Gulf of Mexico, LST-1041
though, that Mixson would be
got
it in there and started to
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other
sailors
paid
to
pose
with
women.
discharged, and he spent several
rocking it — Boom! It went off,
more months in the Pacific,
and it blew half-inch metal
including during the typhoon of Sept. 16, 1945, which wreaked
through the side of the wall,” he said. “I don’t know why it
havoc on the ships docked in Bucker Bay at Okinawa and
didn’t hit somebody.”
killed six aboard an LCI (Landing Craft, Infantry) ship.
He met his wife, Barbara Rose, while attending church in
The heavier ships docked there — the battleships CaliforFlemington, and the two married in 1950. Also a long-time UF
nia, Nevada, Tennessee and Texas and the cruiser Alaska,
employee, she passed away in 2013.
Mixson’s logbook says — made it out OK. But more than a
Mixson has four children, “about eight” grandchildren and
dozen lighter ships, according to a news report from the time,
three great-grandchildren. He’s held Gator football season
didn’t come out unscathed, including an LCT that sank and
tickets every year since 1964, so naturally, his retirement hobMixson’s LST.
bies include going the games.
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On reflecting on his participation in the greatest armed
conflict in human history, Mixson described it like this: “The
time in the service was quite a learning experience to me, but
it wasn’t anything beneficial to me, I think, in my life. It was a
country boy went and served some. I did learn a lot.” s
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New Teeth…
Implant Dentistry
by Dr. Art Mowery
Written by Laura Holloway
Photo of the doctor by Kristin Kozelsky
Well known as an accomplished cosmetic dentist and former University of Florida
adjunct professor, Dr. Arthur Mowery, places hundreds of dental implants each year.
Dr. Mowery recently was one of 12 doctors worldwide invited to Harvard School of
Dental Medicine to discuss leading trends in dentistry. A new technique discussed
was utilizing just four to six dental implants to permanently secure dentures. It has
been described as life-changing with the benefit of being less expensive.
Attaching dentures on implants not only firmly secures
and supports the denture, it helps maintain bone that
would normally deteriorate under traditional dentures
(without implants). The implant-secured denture also
functions much better, is more easily maintained, and
can be argued to be better than real teeth since they do
not get cavities and never need a root canal. Oftentimes,
our dentures can be secured to the implants on the same
day!
With twenty years as a dentist in the Gainesville area,
Dr. Art Mowery admits experience matters. “I have
never stopped learning,” says Dr. Mowery. “I have taken
continued education courses with new certifications
and additional credentials my entire career. That will
not change. However, what has become obvious is how
much experience has taught me. “ Dr. Mowery was
recently Awarded Affiliate Associate Fellowship in the
American Academy of Implant Dentistry.
“Not a day goes by that I haven’t looked into someone’s
mouth with an understanding of what not to do because
of my experience. I love learning new techniques and
procedures to do things better and faster with more
comfort; however, experience has taught me valuable
lessons. In the long run, experience helps me to assess
the person, the procedure, the materials and the
situation to create the optimal outcome.”
When looking for the right dentist to do your implant
dentistry, one of the things to you should ask to see are
before and after photos of the dentist’s actual work and
patients. You should ask to see specific examples of the
procedure being recommended to you so you can see
the level of experience (how many case photos do they
have), and do the end results look natural?
A new trend in dentistry is
part-time doctors. These
doctors are usually trying to
figure out their career path
or how to open their own
practice. It’s not unusual for
these practice-associates
to leave the office they are
part-timers in for a fulltime position, leaving their
patients behind, sometimes
in the middle of treatment.
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how long an associate or
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in the practice and whether
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“My dental implants are awesome. I can feel hot and
cold again as well as eat anything I want. Dr. Mowery is
incredibility attentive and has the best chairside manner
I’ve ever experienced. I can’t thank him and his team
enough for restoring my smile. I use it every day!” - Lisa
Lisa Before
Lisa less than 24
hours later, enjoying
her new smile
they can guarantee they will be there for you in the long
run. Again, implant dentistry is complex. It could be
very important months or years down the road to see the
same doctor in case you have complications.
The next best advice is to ask what name-brand
of implants the doctor uses so you can do a little
research about them. Is it a generic copy of a name
brand implant? I suggest implants made by a large
experienced company so that in the case of an implant
failure (less likely with an established company), they
are guaranteed and improved replacement parts are
easily found. Dr. Mowery currently uses Strauman and
Biohorizons dental implants.
The advantages to having one comprehensive doctor, is
that doctor knows you and your dental past. You go to
one office and one doctor for all your dentistry needs.
You won’t need to see multiple doctors in multiple
locations. This can reduce your number of visits and
speed up treatment time.
Lisa After
Whether you have a fear of the dentist or want to be
more relaxed during surgery, sedation is a wonderful
option. Not all dental practices offer sedation and very
few offer IV sedation. Again, the experience of the
doctor will help determine your experience in the chair.
A qualified IV sedation dentist could actually make your
dental implant surgery the best dental visit you’ve ever
had. IV sedation helps the patient relax and recover
to alertness more quickly with less memory of the
procedure than other forms of sedation. You may want to
choose a dentist that can offer this option based on your
dental experience. Dr. Mowery utilizes IV sedation for
most implant cases.
When it comes to choosing an implant dentist remember
to consider—Experience, Photos, Part-timers, Materials,
and Sedation options. Please do not hesitate to call us at
Exceptional Dentistry to answer any questions about this
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PIECE BY PIECE
Patchworking
Sew Much to Quilt, Sew Little Time
by Hayli Zuccola
R
ows of shelves are filled to capacity with stacks of
fabric draped with nearly every color imaginable
and etched with dozens of patterns and textures.
Although a sight of beauty, the addition of a yard or two more
could send the whole collection tumbling down — and it
wouldn’t be the first time. Clusters of empty spools and bobbins wait to be hugged by strands of thread while forgotten
pins scattered around the floor anticipate the prick of a bare
foot. The rest of the room is filled with mismatched scraps of
fabric, a seemingly never-ending supply of sewing magazines
and let’s not forget the piles of quilts ready to be displayed.
No, this cluttered wonderland is not the inside of a Jo-Ann’s
warehouse or the contents of a fabric store closeout sale — this
is the home of a quilter.
The best way to live the life of a quilter is to surround yourself with those who share your passion while making life-long
friends in the process, which is what a quilt guild is all about.
Tree City Quilters Guild of Gainesville
Established in 1993, the Tree City Quilters Guild has grown
to a membership of almost 100 people. Sandy Pozzetta is the
current president of the guild who began sewing when she
was just four years old. Getting her start by sewing clothes out
of necessity, she was later drawn to the artistic elements of
quilting.
“I enjoy art in general and just the graphics of quilts and the
idea that I can put pieces of fabric together that [make] some
kind of artistic statement,” she said.
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Despite being around sewing almost her entire life, Pozzetta enjoys attending guild meetings because it provides an environment that allows everyone to bounce ideas off each other.
Guild meetings also offer the chance to attend workshops
and retreats as well as the opportunity to participate in a large
amount of charity work.
“We just feel that need to give back to the community,”
Pozzetta said.
From July 2015 to May 2016, the Tree City Quilters Guild
has given an estimated $42,030 worth of quilt-related donations to various charities. Just some of their yearly donations
include creating flannel hearts for the families of babies in the
Intensive Care Unit at Shands, donating pillowcases to pa-
“I enjoy art in general and just the
graphics of quilts and the idea that
I can put pieces of fabric together
that [make] some kind of artistic
statement.”
tients at Haven Hospice, or making other donations — quilts,
tote bags and pillow cases — to Ronald McDonald House,
Camp Blanding Military Base, Peaceful Paths, Catholic Charities and many others.
Besides making beautiful creations for others, the quilters
of Tree City still like to show off the work they do for themselves. During every odd year, the guild hosts a quilt show for
A display of quilts designed by members
of the Tree City Quilt Guild for Trenton’s
Suwannee Valley Quilt Festival held every
March on National Quilt Day. (Photo Courtesy of Tree City Guild)
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PHOTO COURTESY OF TREE CITY GUILD
Members of the Tree City Quilt Guild attending a workshop
to learn a new quilt called French Roses. Below is just one of
the veterans who received a donated Tree City quilt.
PHOTO COURTESY OF COUNTRY ROAD QUILTERS
“If you show an interest in quilting or
learning more about it, we have brand
new beginners and we’ve had people
who’ve been quilters for decades.”
members and the public to see the work they have put into
their unique creations for the past two years.
For those interested in joining a local guild, the Tree City
Quilters Guild meets the second Monday of every month at
the Westside Baptist Church Family Life Center located at
10000 Newberry Road in Gainesville. Doors open at 6:30 p.m.
and meetings start at 7. People can become members of the
Tree City Quilters Guild at any time of the year with a $25 fee
for dues.
The Quilters of Alachua County Day Guild
For those who prefer to meet earlier in the day, the Quilters of
Alachua County Day Guild is a great place to start. The day guild
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was originally started as a branch of Tree City Quilters Guild but
has continued to grow in popularity on its own. Similar to Tree
City, the day guild is also involved in charitable work by making
various donations to organizations like Fisher House, Shands
Hospital, Alachua County Fire Rescue, Art Initiative, Waldo Fire
Department, among many others. From 2003 to 2015, the day
guild donated over 1,000 service quilts, 850 pillow cases, 576
teddy bears and 600 totes, just to name a few.
The Quilters of Alachua County Day Guild meets on the
first Thursday of every month at the Senior Recreation Center
at 5701 NW 34th St. in Gainesville. Doors open at 9:30 a.m.
and meetings start at 10. To become a member, dues are $25
from January 1 to June 30 and $13 after July 1.
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Gainesville, FL
Country Road Quilters’ “Down a
Sunny Country Road of Quilts” Quilt
Show
Friday and Saturday November 4
and 5
9 a.m. – 4 p.m.
College of Central Florida
Ewers Century Center
Country Road Quilters of Ocala
Established in 1986 with just 10 members to their name, the
Country Road Quilters became Ocala’s first official quilt guild.
Now in its 30th year, Country Road Quilters has around 80 to
90 active members.
One such member is JoEllen Oppliger, the current president of the guild. Oppliger comes from a long line of quilters
and learned to sew from her mom as early as age seven, but it
wasn’t until she created a quilt with the women’s group she
belonged to in 1975 that she became interested in quilting.
“It is an art form that allows you to express yourself,” she said.
Like other guilds, meetings at the Country Road Quilters guild consist of show and tell, workshops, retreats and
charitable donations including making pet beds to donate to
the humane society, sewing pillowcases for patients at Shands
and, of course, creating their beloved quilts.
Besides celebrating turning 30 this year, the guild also has
its biannual quilt show coming up in November to look forward to. With their first show in 1988 housing 100 quilts, that
number has grown to an expected 150 to 200 quilt entries at
this year’s event.
This year members of the guild created a king-size op-
portunity quilt and matching pillowcases made out of Batik
fabric, which is fabric created by applying wax-resistant dye
to cloth, to showcase at this year’s event.
Besides sharing a love of quilting, what brings members
of the guild closer together is the obsession every quilter has
with fabric.
“We like to refer to ourselves as curators of a fabric archive,” Oppliger said.
Despite having a common interest in fabric, the guild prides
itself on being inclusive of members who enjoy different areas
of quilting, whether that means providing a place for traditional quilters, artistic quilters, or even quilters who prefer
hand sewing and applique, everyone is welcome.
“If you show an interest in quilting or learning more about
it, we have brand new beginners and we’ve had people who’ve
been quilters for decades,” she said.
The Country Road Quilters Guild meets on the first and
third Thursdays of every month at St. Mark’s Methodist
Church located at 1839 Northeast 8th Road in Ocala. Doors
open at 6 p.m. and meetings start at 7. To become a member of
the guild, dues are $24 for the year or, as Oppliger puts it, $2 a
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victims of cruelty and dog fighting, and then places them
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CALENDAR
UPCOMING EVENTS IN ALACHUA & MARION
YOGA
Sundays
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.
ENGLISH COUNTRY DANCING
ESL CLASSES
Mondays
YOGA FOR MEN
Wednesdays
Sundays
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.
6:00pm - 7:30pm
OCALA - First Baptist Church of Ocala,
2801 SE Maricamp Rd. English as a Second
Language classes resume August 17.
Room 202/204, on the 2nd floor of the
education building. 352-629-5683.
9:00am – 10:15am
OCALA - Blissful Life Corporation, 725
E. Silver Springs Blvd. It is specifically
designed to address and challenge men
physically, mentally and spiritually. All yoga
classes at Blissful Life are donation-based.
Sundays through end of December.
ZUMBA
GAINESVILLE HARMONY SHOW
CHORUS
LABOR DAZE FEST
Thursdays
Sunday, September 4
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.
4:00pm -10:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Bo Diddley Plaza. A FREE festival,
with five local bands, free rock wall, services,
and activities for the kids! LaborDazeFest.
org & Facebook.com/LaborDazeFest.
Mondays, Wednesdays, Thursdays
Times Vary
OCALA - Silver Springs Shores Community
Center, 590 Silver Rd. Monday & Wednesday
evening at 6:00pm and on Thursday
morning at 9:00am. Cost is $3 per class.
SQUARE DANCE CLASS
Tuesdays
ENCORE DANCE WORKSHOP
6:15pm – 7:15pm
GAINESVILLE - Westside Park Recreation
Building, 1001 NW 34th St. Non-profit community
organization that teaches square dancing
classes for singles, couples and families with
children age 10 and up. September 6th &
13th are free, after that $5 per class. Contact
Susie 352-283-1296 or [email protected].
Thursdays
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.
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.
WIC FARMERS MARKET
Fridays
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.
LADY GAMERS
Fridays
COMPUTER CLASSES
Wednesdays
10:00am – 12:00pm
OCALA - Silver Springs Shores Community
Center, 590 Silver Rd. Free program that
helps people learn how to use a computer
as well as computer set-up and repair.
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
CIVIL WAR ROUNDTABLE
Thursday, September 8
6:00pm - 8:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Trinity United Methodist Church,
4000 NW 53rd Ave., Education Bldg. #232. This
monthly meeting is held the second Thursday of
each month, is open to the public, and features
guest speakers every meeting. 352-378-3726,
www.cwrnf.org or [email protected].
ASPECTS OF EARLY US
PRESIDENTS
2:30pm – 4:00pm
5701 NW 34th Blvd. Presented by PrimeTime
Institute. Presentation by UF’s Lee R. McDowell,
Professor Emeritus, University of Florida, www.
primetimeinstitute.org or 352-367-8169.
LOVE WINS
6:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Pugh Hall, UF Campus. “Love
Wins,” authored by Washington Post reporter
Debbie Cenziper and Jim Obergefell is
about the legalization of same-sex marriage.
Free and open to the public and streamed
live at www.bobgrahamcenter.ufl.edu.
FUN & FITNESS
Saturdays & Sundays
LEMON BALL
Wednesdays
9:00am – 3:00pm
CITRA - Crones’ Cradle Conserve, 6411 NW
217th Place. Tour a working vegetable and
herb farm. Plants, fresh produce, books, farm
and fine crafts are available. 352-595-3377.
6:00pm – 8:00pm
SILVER SPRINGS - Forest Community Center
at Sandhill Park, 777 S. CR 314A. Beginner/
improver instruction. 352-438-2840.
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GAINESVILLE - The Florida Museum of
Natural History, 3215 Hull Rd. A fun evening
of music, food and drinks including signature
lemon cocktails! All proceeds benefit
Alex’s Lemonade Stand Foundation and its
efforts to fund childhood cancer research
projects. Attire is cocktail casual.
CCOA MEETING
Friday, September 9
9:30am – 11:00am
5701 NW 34th St. This month’s speaker:
Samuel Verghese, Secretary of Elder Affairs.
The Community Coalition for Older Adults
(CCOA) is committed to providing Gainesville
and Alachua County elders respect and
dignity. Meets second Friday each month.
ARTIST MEET & GREET
RECEPTION
Friday, September 9
6:00pm -8:00pm
NEWBERRY - Fire House Gallery, 25435
W. Newberry Rd. Light refreshments
and raffle. 352-472-2112.
FLATLAND
Friday, September 9
8:00pm – 10:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Bo Diddley Plaza, 111 E.
University Ave. Gainesville’s “Free Fridays”
Concert Series presents: Flatland. Funk,
Blues. www.gvlculturalaffairs.org.
FOOD TRUCK - N - FLICK NIGHT
WITH CLASSIC CAR CRUISE IN
Saturday, September 10
5:00pm
LEESBURG - Towne Square. Food Trucks
assemble at Towne Square and Classic Cars line
up on Main Street. Gourmet fare and culinary
wonders with live music and a cash bar. Enjoy
“Pokemon – Heroes” on a 24-foot outdoor
movie screen. This evening’s movie feature
begins around dusk. Extra Pokemon lures will
be dropped in Towne Square during the event.
Remember to bring your blankets and lawn
chairs. foodtrucknflick.leesburgpartnership.
com; Facebook.com/LeesburgEvents.
PAINT OUT
September 9 – 11
Times Vary
GAINESVILLE - Kanapaha Botanical Gardens,
4700 SW 58th Dr. Local landscape artists will
create live paintings at Kanapaha Botanical
Gardens. The 3-day event is part of the 13th
Worldwide Artist Paint Out, linking artists and
locations all over the world and promoting art
as a universal language that has no borders.
WRITING A MEMOIR
Sunday, September 11
2:30pm - 4:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Millhopper Branch Library, 3145
NW 43rd St. Nancy Rankie Shelton - professor,
Dorrance Dance
Friday, September 9
7:30pm
GAINESVILLE - Phillips Center, 3201 Hull Rd. Michelle Dorrance is a MacArthur “Genius”
Grant Winner, Bessie Award winner and Alpert Award winner. Tap dance doesn’t just
break out of the box. It leaps off the floor. It soars to the ceiling. Dorrance Dance is one
of the few dance groups that travels with their own floor. performingarts.ufl.edu.
researcher and writer - will show how her
memoir, “5-13: Memoir of Love, Loss and
Survival,” adapts for any writer’s personal story
of surviving a love lost. www.writersalliance.org.
NARFE MEETING
Monday, September 12
10:00am
GAINESVILLE - Trinity United Methodist Church,
4000 NW 53rd Ave. National active and retired
Federal Employee Association is a non-profit
group dedicated to improve knowledge of the
benefits for federal employees. Meets the second
Monday of the month September thru May.
OPEN HOUSE & LUNCHEON
11:00am – 1:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Gainesville Garden Club, 1350
NW 75th St. Speaker Wendy Wilber, the Florida
Statewide Master Gardener Coordinator, will
present a program on gardening, the use of
native plants, plants that attract pollinators,
and more. Stay for lunch and learn about the
GGC, a not-for-profit organization. RSVP: 352332-6342 or email [email protected].
AGING AND MOBILITY
AFTER ORLANDO PANEL
DISCUSSION
Tuesday, September 13
6:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Pugh Hall, UF Campus.
The discussion will address how we move
forward in unity by taking the fear out of
diversity and focusing instead on the many
benefits of our diverse population.
2:30pm – 4:00pm
5701 NW 34th Blvd. Presented by PrimeTime
Institute. Each month, UF’s Institute on Aging
provides a speaker describing research they
are conducting. Dr. Todd Manini, Ph.D., of the
Division of Clinical Research will present “Do You
Miss the Pep in Your Step? Aging and Mobility.”
www.primetimeinstitute.org or 352-367-8169.
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TRAFFIC SAFETY TEAM
Thursday September 15
10:00am – 12:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Gainesville Technology
Entrepreneurship Center, 2153 SE Hawthorne
Rd. The CTST is a volunteer organization with
the mission of helping to reduce crashes and
improve safety on area roadways through events,
information, ongoing programs and education.
Held on third Thursday. trafficsafetyteam.com.
BEATLES TRIBUTE
Friday, September 16
8:00pm – 10:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Bo Diddley Plaza, 111
E. University Ave. Gainesville’s “Free
Fridays” Concert Series presents: The
Imposters. www.gvlculturalaffairs.org.
NEXT GENERATION FLAPJACK
BREAKFAST
8:00am – 10:00am
GAINESVILLE - Applebee’s, 1005 NW 13th St. This
flapjack fundraiser helps to raise funds to present
educational programming throughout the year.
Costs $7. 352-373-1166 or [email protected].
CLASSY & SASSY BURLESQUE
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
Swing Theory begins after the show at 10:00
pm. $10 Advance, $12 Door. This show is
18+. For reservations: sallybdash.com.
SUNDAY ASSEMBLY
GAINESVILLE
11:00am
GAINESVILLE - Santa Fe College, downtown,
530 W. University Ave. “Who Is this Notorious
Ruth Bader Ginsburg?” presented by Barbara
Oberlander. A retired professor from Santa Fe
College, Oberlander will focus on the justice’s
early life. There will be music, poetry, inspiration,
and discussion, followed by potluck lunch.
352-376-7074. sagainesville.weebly.com.
Heavy Petty/Hedges
GAINESVILLE - Bo Diddley Plaza, 111 E. University Ave. Gainesville’s “Free Fridays”
Concert Series presents: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers Tribute and originals.
www.gvlculturalaffairs.org.
HOW PRESIDENTIAL ELECTIONS
ARE STRUCTURED
SUNDAY JAM
3:00pm – 5:00pm
OCALA - Guitar Center, 3920 SW 42nd Ave.
Last Sunday each month, the stage is open
for all musicians and all instruments.
2:30pm – 4:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701
NW 34th Blvd. Presented by PrimeTime Institute.
Donna Waller, retired (mostly) professor of
Political Science at Santa Fe College, presents
this country’s process of electing a President.
BRUCE NESWICK ORGAN
CONCERT
7:30pm – 9:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Holy Trinity Episcopal Church,
100 NW 1st St. This international concert
artist performs a concert of organ literature
and improvisation. Free. holytrinitygnv.org or
[email protected] or 352-372-4721.
8:00pm – 10:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Bo Diddley Plaza, 111 E. University
Ave. Gainesville’s “Free Fridays” Concert
Series presents: Gilberto De Paz & Tropix.
Latin Fusion. www.gvlculturalaffairs.org.
FASHION SHOW
Monday, September 19
11:00am - 1:00pm.
HIGH SPRINGS - The High Springs New Century
Woman’s Club, 23674 W. U.S. Highway 27. “A Better
World for Every Girl” fashion show presented by
Belk’s Department store. The proceeds will help
support domestic violence awareness. Tickets are
$10.00, seating is limited. [email protected].
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CANCER CONNECTIONS
Wednesday, September 28
12:00pm – 1:00pm
GAINESVILLE - HealthStreet, 2401 SW Archer
Rd. Dr. Jon Licht of UF Health will speak about
blood cancers. Monthly meeting and networking
opportunities for anyone involved in the care
or treatment of cancer patients, or provides a
service to them. Lunch provided for those who
RSVP; $4 donation is requested. Barb Thomas:
[email protected] or www.myhealthstreet.org.
PUTTING YOUR (LEGAL) HOUSE
IN ORDER
GILBERTO DE PAZ & TROPIX
GAINESVILLE PHOTOGRAPHY
CLUB
7:00pm – 9:00pm
GAINESVILLE - LifeSouth Community
Blood Center, 4039 Newberry Rd. Meet,
share photographs and improve your
skills. Located in the rear conference
room. www.gainesvillephotoclub.com.
8:00pm – 10:00pm
2:30pm – 4:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701
NW 34th Blvd. Presented by PrimeTime Institute.
Jane Hendricks, local elder law attorney, will
discuss estate-planning documents (living wills,
health care surrogate designations, durable
powers of attorney, pre-need guardian, last
wills and testament, living trusts) and address
frequently asked questions.
GFAA GALLERY ART WALK
6:00pm – 9:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Gainesville Fine Arts Association,
1314 S. Main St. Enjoy a variety of themed
work by many talented artists. Last Friday of
every month. [email protected].
QUILT SHOW
Saturday, October 1
10:00am - 3:00pm
NEWBERRY - Dudley Farm Historical State
Park, 18730 W. Newberry Rd. At 11:00am,
“Bed Turning” quilt experts will look at each
quilt and discuss age, condition, colors and
patterns. $5 per vehicle. 352-472-1142.
ARTS & CRAFTS FESTIVAL
Saturday, October 1
9:00am – 2:00pm
OCALA - First Baptist Church of Ocala, 2801 SE
Maricamp Rd. Shop early for Christmas gifts in
Air Conditioned comfort. Food, drinks, unique
gifts and great door prizes. 352-629-5683.
CRAFT SHOW
Saturday, October 1
9:00am - 4:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Gainesville Senior Recreation
Center, 5701 NW 34th St. The show will
feature over 60 crafters selling a variety of
handmade merchandise. Free parking and
admission. Joy Flowers: 352-335-7797.
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
THE HIPPODROME
Stage Kiss
THE PINK PUMPKIN PEDAL-OFF
September 2 – September 25
Saturday, October 1
The Hippodrome collaborates with
the UF School of Theatre & Dance
7:00am
GAINESVILLE - Cancer & Genetics Research
Complex at UF, 2033 Mowry Rd. A charity bicycle
ride to raise funds to support local research on
treatment-resistant breast cancers. Ride distances
are 22, 40, or 62.5 miles. Registration, packet
pickup, and breakfast at 7:00am. Ride begins at
8:30am. Register at pinkpumpkinpedaloff.org.
Moby Dick
September 23 & September 25
Saturday, October 1
9:00am – 2:00pm
OCALA - First Baptist Church, 2801 SE
Maricamp Rd. Door prizes, sweets, Christmas
gifts. 352-629-5683, fbcocala.org.
October 1 – 2
10:00am – 5:00pm
LEESBURG - Main Street. The DLBA will host the
inaugural Howard Allen Fine Craft Show downtown,
a two-day juried craft show. Downtown merchants
and restaurants will be open during event hours.
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then, after an extra-productive coffee
break, devise a plan. Based on the
1980 hit movie, this outrageously
funny ode to female friendship and
empowerment is now a hilarious,
high-energy musical.
SQUITIERI STUDIO THEATRE
ARTS & CRAFTS
HOWARD ALLEN FINE CRAFT
SHOW
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to create a romantic comedy with
plenty of drama. This New York Times
Critic’s Pick is a charming and clever
tale about what happens when lovers
share a stage kiss — or when actors
share a real one.
Gare St. Lazare Ireland presents
theater without props, special effects
or elaborate stage sets. By stripping
away these elements, the focus is on
the language, the characters and the
story. Accompanied by live music,
this one-man adaptation of Herman
Melville’s classic tells the story of
Ahab’s relentless pursuit of the great
white whale that took both his ship
and his leg.
HIGH SPRINGS PLAYHOUSE
OCALA CIVIC THEATRE
Blithe Spirit
9 to 5: The Musical
September 30 – October 23
September 8 – October 2
The smash comedy hit of the London
and Broadway stages, this muchrevived classic offers up fussy,
cantankerous novelist Charles
Condomine, re-married but haunted
by the ghost of his late first wife, the
clever and insistent Elvira.
In the era of Rolodexes and rotary
phones, every day feels like Monday
for the three secretaries under
boss Franklin Hart. United by their
contempt, the three women share
gleeful fantasies about his demise —
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BOOK REVIEW BY
TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER
Trials of the Earth:
The True Story of a
Pioneer Woman
MARY MANN HAMILTON
c.2016, Little, Brown
$27.00 / $32.50 Canada 319 pages
Y
our toast was burnt this morning.
It was the first in a tsunami of
irritation you had to endure today: the
house WiFi was down, your shirt got
wrinkled, the cat threw up on the carpet, humid weather, your coffee got cold.
What next? Read “Trials of the Earth”
by Mary Mann Hamilton, and review
your day again.
The “wild country of Arkansas … was
just beginning to settle up” when Mary
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Mann’s father brought his family down
from Missouri to buy a home. He didn’t
live long enough to enjoy it, however
— he died 10 days after they arrived,
leaving Mary’s mother with six children
to feed.
There was work in Arkansas, though,
so Mary’s brothers got jobs at the
sawmill, while Mary and her sisters
took in boarders. One of them, a roguish Englishman named Frank Hamilton
convinced Mary’s brothers that he had
romantic intentions for the
17-year-old, though marriage wasn’t what
Mary wanted. Still,
she agreed to it
as her mother
and eldest
brother lay
dying.
Married
life was a
challenge.
Unbeknownst
to Mary before
the wedding, Frank
was quite the drinker,
which greatly embarrassed
her. He couldn’t seem to hold a job for
long, or jobs didn’t last for him, either.
She hoped her first child would help
glue their marriage, but the baby died
and Frank drank harder.
She was in a different country, in a different home when her second baby died.
And then, despite a lot of moves
that uprooted their growing family, life
smoothed. Mary became a mother again,
a dressmaker and a county-renowned
cook, learned how to keep house in a
tent (though she always dreamed of a
real home), how to feed a crowd, and
what signs to heed when a storm or
flood was imminent. She was brave. She
was a good wife but a lousy widow. Life
was “an adventure.” And at some point,
she “quit looking back in my mind and
looked forward.”
Wait. Did I say this is all true? — because it is. Author Mary Mann Hamilton
was a real person who really homesteaded in the south from roughly 1882 to the
early part of the last century, and “Trials
of the Earth” is her tale.
Here, the word “pioneer” takes on
new meaning: covered wagons and prairies tend to come to mind, but Hamilton
makes it clear that, a mere hundred
years ago, there were still wild parts to
this country and settling them was no
picnic. Life was tough for our
forebears, really tough:
as quick deaths rack
up, readers will
be shocked;
likewise,
over the
casual racism. Overall,
you’ll never
whine about
your cold coffee again.
Be aware that
this “direct and
simple autobiography”
can be confusing: the Hamilton family moved often, and that’s hard
to follow. We meet many, many scamps
and even more kind folks and neighbors,
and it’s hard to keep track of them, too.
The trick is not to try too hard, enjoy the
journey, and “Trials of the Earth” is a
book you’ll toast. s
Terri Schlichenmeyer has been reading
since she was 3 years old and she never goes
anywhere without a book. She lives with her
two dogs and 11,000 books.
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Betty’s Story
Heart attack survivor Betty McMahon returned to North Florida Regional to thank a special group of people.
From the moment she arrived in our ER and Chest Pain Center, Betty received a level of care she says made it possible
for her to come back strong. Betty has returned to her work and her hiking and wants to share her story because
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The full story about the people who were there when Betty needed them most is on our website.
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