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RUN FOR HAVEN CHALLENGE | TINSELTOWN TALKS | CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Mark
Barrow
Meet One of the Founders
of the Matheson
History Museum
MARCH 2016
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CONTENTS
MARCH 2016 • VOL. 17 ISSUE 03
ON THE COVER – Collector and retired
cardiologist Dr. Mark Barrow poses inside
the Matheson History Museum. Barrow is
one of the founders of the museum and
proudly declares his passion for preserving
the past. He has donated his personal
collections to the museum and has
encouraged many others to do the same.
PHOTO BY RAY CARSON
departments
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Tapas
Community Page
Calendar of Events
columns
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Charity of the Month
Crossword Puzzle
Theatre Listings
Tinseltown Talks
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by Nick Thomas
Healthy Edge
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by Kendra Siler-Marsiglio
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Robb House
Medical Museum
Paying Tribute to
Alachua County’s
First Female Doctor
BY PEGGY MACDONALD
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by Ellis Amburn
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Community Voice
Run For Haven Challenge
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Veteran June
Whitehurst
A Passion For History
BY RAY CARSON
BY MICHAEL STONE
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Reading Corner
Review by Terri Schlichenmeyer
BY JOAN H. CARTER
One Of Marines’ First
Women Helped Pave Way
For Military Acceptance
Mark Barrow
Enjoying Act Three
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FROM THE EDITOR œ ALBERT ISAAC
Collecting History
Did you know that March is, among
other things, Women’s History Month?
Yep, in 1987, after being petitioned by
the National Women’s History Project,
Congress passed a law that designated
the month of March 1987 as Women’s
History Month.
So with this in mind, we have several
fascinating features about some notable
women (and a couple of stories written
by notable women).
First let me tell you about Sarah Lucretia Robb, Alachua County’s first female
doctor. In the late 19th century women
were certainly not encouraged to become
doctors – nurses, yes, but doctors, well,
not so much. Sarah Robb had to go to
Germany for her medical training.
My, how times have changed.
You can read all about Dr. Robb and the
Gainesville medical museum that bears
her name in this edition of Senior Times.
Secondly, we have a feature contributed to our Community Voice section
by one of our readers. This remarkable
woman decided at the age of 88 that she
would run a 5K.
And she did just that. Twice.
Thirdly, we bring you another installment to our continuing series on World
War II veterans, in this case a Marine by
the name of June Whitehurst. Learn all
about her experiences as one of the first
female U.S. Marines.
Lastly we offer you a profile on Dr.
Mark Barrow, a Gainesville collector of,
well, all kinds of things, ranging from
rare bottles to hand-colored images
from “Harper’s Weekly.” He has also collected some 20,000 vintage postcards.
In 2009, he published “A Penny for
Your Thoughts: An Album of Historic
Postcards of Alachua County,” consisting
of postcard images of Alachua County
in the early 20th century. Read all about
Mark Barrow and how he became a crucial part of the team that helped create
the Matheson History Museum.
From women in history to collectors of
history, I think you’ll enjoy all we have to
offer in this edition of Senior Times! s
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TAPAS œ MARCH
Sunday
Palm
Palm Sunday
commemorates the
triumphal entry of
Jesus into Jerusalem
to celebrate the
Passover. The gospels
record the arrival of
Jesus riding into the
city on a donkey, while
the crowds spread
their cloaks and palm
branches on the street
and shouted “Hosanna
to the Son of David”
and “Blessed is he who
comes in the name of
the Lord” to honor him
as their long-awaited
Messiah and King.
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who rode upon them
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intentions. The laying
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indicated that the king
or dignitary was arriving
in victory or triumph.
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Born March 25, 1934
and regarded as the
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behalf of women's issues.
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Keely Smith (84)
March 6, 1937
March 9, 1932
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March 28, 1955
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WOMEN’S HISTORY
Robb House
Medical Museum
Paying Tribute to Alachua County’s
First Female Doctor
by Peggy Macdonald
T
oday American women have the freedom to pursue
the college and career of their choice. In the late
19th century, however, there was significant resistance to co-education in America. Dr. Edward H. Clarke, the
author of the 1873 book, “Sex in Education; Or, a Fair Chance
for the Girls,” went so far as to claim that higher education
was bad for women’s health and could lead to sterility and
even death. At the time, women interested in a medical career
were funneled into nursing, which was the path Sarah Lucretia Robb pursued until her husband, Dr. Robert Lee Robb, a
homeopathic physician, encouraged her to become a doctor.
When Sarah was unable to gain admission to an American
medical school because she was a woman, she moved to Heidelberg, Germany, where she completed a medical degree in
two years.
After medical school the new husband and wife doctor
team set up practice together in Chicago, Illinois. Dr. Sarah
Robb was not the first female doctor in Florida (Dr. Esther Hill
Hawks served as a doctor and teacher with the Freedmen’s
Bureau in Florida after the Civil War), but she was the first to
practice medicine in Alachua County. Sarah was certified in
allopathic (conventional) medicine, while Robert specialized
in homeopathic (alternative) medicine.
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In 1880 Drs. Sarah and Robert Robb and a third doctor, Dr.
J. V. Bean, published a book, “Robb & Co.’s Family Physician: A
Work On Domestic Medicines, Designed to Show the Causes,
Symptoms and Treatment of Disease,” which embraced a holistic approach to medicine and was dedicated to “The Thinking Masses.” The book opens with Sarah’s “Letter to Mothers,”
which offers frank advice on women’s health and infant care in
a time when open discussion of reproductive health could result
in criminal punishment because of the 1873 Comstock Act.
The Victorian cottage in which the
Robbs lived and practiced medicine
was nearly demolished.
“It is false delicacy that would hide from girls that which,
by all means it belongs to them to know,” Sarah wrote. “Mothers, teachers, it is with you this responsibility rests. The thousands of wretched wives who are thus suffering from a neglect
of proper instruction at this turning point of their lives, warn
you how serious this responsibility is.”
In 1882 Robert moved to Gainesville to recover from tuberculosis. In May of 1884 Sarah and the children joined Robert
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S
arah Lucretia Miller was born in
1852 in Newark, New Jersey. She
graduated with a nursing degree
from Hahnemann College in Philadelphia,
which later merged with Drexel University.
Sarah married Robert Robb in Illinois on
Valentine’s Day in 1872. A member of the
National Society Sons and Daughters of
the Pilgrims, Sarah traced her ancestry back
to the Manhattan Purchase in 1626. Sarah
Robb died in May 1937 at age 84; she and
Robert are buried in Gainesville’s historic
Evergreen Cemetery, where they share a
large tombstone marked with a caduceus.
PHOTO BY PEGGY
MACDONALD
The Robb House
(ca. 1880), located
at 235 Southwest
2nd Avenue, is
home to both
the Robb House
Medical Museum
and the Alachua
County Medical
Society.
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in Gainesville, where they established a medical
practice. The Robb family included two children
from Robert’s previous marriage to Mary Elizabeth Faris, who died in 1869 (a third child, Alice,
died as an infant), and Sarah Emily Robb, born to
Sarah and Robert in 1873, the same year that Robert graduated from the Missouri Homeopathic
College of Medicine.
The Victorian cottage in which the Robbs
lived and practiced medicine was nearly demolished in the late 1970s. According to an August
1982 “Journal of the Florida Medical Association” article written by retired cardiologist and
Matheson History Museum co-founder Mark V.
Barrow, Joseph H. Avera built the house in ap-
proximately 1878. The house changed hands several times after Sarah Robb’s death. Sarah willed
her home to Margaret Gross, a fellow widow
who became her companion after she traveled
from Canada to Gainesville with the belief that
the area’s warm climate and restorative springs
would improve her son’s health. Tragically,
he died in Georgia while en route to Florida.
“Grossie,” as Margaret was affectionately called,
gave the house to Sarah’s children, who promptly
sold it to an attorney.
Over the years the Robb House was used as
a law office, dance studio, karate center and
rental apartment and fell into serious disrepair.
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PHOTO BY PEGGY MACDONALD
Florence Van Arnam and Dr. Mark Barrow, both former Spirit of Gainesville award nominees, have been active in historic preservation for decades.
Van Arnam is the longtime curator of the Robb House Medical Museum. Dr. Barrow helped relocate and restore the Robb House in the early 1980s.
the building from demolition but had to move it to keep the
purchase price down. The Robb House was originally located
at 406 East Liberty Street (which became East University
Avenue after the University of Florida opened in Gainesville),
which would have been an expensive lot to purchase. On April
11, 1981 the building was moved intact to 235 Southwest 2nd
Avenue and was transformed into the Robb House Medical
Museum and the headquarters of the Alachua County Medical Society, which paid $90,000 for its restoration. University
of Florida architecture professor Blair Reeves and other UF
faculty, staff and graduate students prepared an assay to guide
the historic preservation process.
Florence Van Arnam, a retired nurse and Alachua County
native, has served as the museum’s curator since its establishment more than 30 years ago. An honors graduate of Vanderbilt University, Van Arnam (whose maiden name is Rogers)
received the Founder’s Medal in nursing in 1952, a gold medal
that is awarded to the student with first honors in each graduating class.
Van Arnam, a petite 86-year-old with the stamina of an
18-year-old, brings the Robbs’ stories to life in engaging tours
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of the Robb House Medical Museum. During a private tour of
the museum that she offered to the staff of the Matheson History Museum in July, Van Arnam kept going for more than two
hours without sitting down. Among the vast assortment of historic artifacts on display are the remaining original furniture
and medical tools from the Robbs’ home office; an authentic
Civil War-era amputation kit; early X-ray equipment; and
antique forceps. Several rooms are filled with items from Alachua General Hospital, including an operating table that was
used when the hospital opened in 1928, surgical lamps, and
baby scales used to weigh newborns. Alachua General Hospital closed in 2009 when its new owner, Shands Hospital (now
UF Health Shands Hospital), determined that it was no longer
financially viable. Alachua General was demolished in 2010
and the site of the former hospital now houses the Innovation
Hub at the University of Florida.
In keeping with the spirit of innovation, the Robbs were
also entrepreneurs. Local historian Dr. Mark Barrow reports
that Robert owned a furniture factory in east Gainesville,
published one of Gainesville’s early newspapers, and — along
with Sarah — operated one of the first private boarding
Florence Van Arnam, a retired nurse and
Alachua County native, has served as the
museum’s curator since its establishment
more than 30 years ago.
schools in Alachua County. Robert was
instrumental in establishing the Odd
Fellows’ Home and Sanatorium for the
treatment of tuberculosis patients. He
also planned to develop a health spa
and suburb that would be connected
to downtown Gainesville by a street
railway system. However, the 1888 yellow fever epidemic prevented this plan
from being realized.
A 1996 oral history interview Gainesville resident Mary Ann Cofrin conducted with Sarah and Robert Robb’s granddaughter, Lucretia Thomson, provides
fascinating insights into Sarah’s life and
early Gainesville history. Sarah continued to serve as one of a small number
of doctors in Alachua County for approximately 15 years after Robert died
in 1902. Her home office was equipped
with a two-bed clinic for overnight
patients, and she traveled throughout
the area in a buggy pulled by her horse,
Ben, to treat patients and deliver babies.
Lucretia, who often accompanied Sarah
when she treated patients, recalled that
because her grandmother was a heavyset woman, the seat was slanted and
Lucretia had a hard time staying on her
side of the buggy.
In addition to providing medical
care to Alachua County residents and
patients who traveled from neighboring counties, Sarah Robb was an active
member of the community. She was a
founding member of the Gainesville
Garden Club, whose members led a variety of town beautification and conservation initiatives including the establishment of Paynes Prairie Preserve State
Park in 1970. Sarah also sang in the choir
at First Presbyterian Church, which
is now located across the street from
the present-day site of the Robb House
Medical Museum on SW 2nd Avenue.
Sarah Robb died in May 1937 at
age 84; she and Robert are buried in
Gainesville’s historic Evergreen Cemetery, where they share a large tombstone marked with a caduceus. s
Medical
Milestones
• In 1849 Elizabeth Blackwell
is the first woman to
graduate from a US medical
school and become a
physician
• In 1956 the UF College
of Medicine opens with
women faculty members
and classes that included
female students in roughly
the same proportions as
other medical schools at
the time, according to the
2003 book, “Women at the
University of Florida”
• In 1960 Dr. Jean Bennett, a
woman, is a member of the
first class to graduate from
the UF College of Medicine
(classmate Dr. Mark Barrow
was the first student
accepted into the program)
• In 2014 47.5 percent of
medical school graduates
were women, according to
the Association of American
Medical Colleges
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Tinseltown Talks
Audrey Dalton Survived
a Titanic Sinking and a ‘Serpent’
by Nick Thomas
F
our decades before James Cameron’s 1997 blockbuster “Titanic”
made waves at the Academy Awards
with 11 wins, Audrey Dalton signed on
for Hollywood’s 1953 recreation of the
famous 1912 maritime disaster.
“Our version only received one Oscar
for writing,” said Dalton, who turned 82
in January, from her home in Saddleback
Valley, Calif. “But the special effects
were pretty good for 60 years ago.”
The cast included Barbara Stanwyck
and Clifton Webb, who delighted ‘40s
and ‘50s movie audiences with his acerbic, snobbish characters, most notably in
three Mr. Belvedere films.
“He was a little bit like that and
mostly kept to himself,” recalled Dalton.
“But he was very funny with a sharp wit.
“Barbara Stanwyck was a dream —
the ultimate pro, always prepared and
ready to help.”
Dalton recalled the cast welcoming
some special guests during shooting.
“A man and a woman who were Titanic survivors visited the set,” said Dalton, whose film character also escapes
on a lifeboat. “They were children when
the ship sank, but had memories of the
event. I don’t recall hearing them tell us
any specific stories of the sinking other
than the general horror of it.”
Irish born Dalton was 17 when her
family moved to London where she
studied at the Royal Academy of Dra-
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matic Art and was soon noticed by a
film executive.
“Paramount brought me over to the
U.S. on a seven-year contract beginning
with ‘The Girls of Pleasure Island,’” she
explained. Set on a South Pacific Island
towards the end of World War II, the
1953 comedy was released while the
Korean War was still in progress.
“To promote the film, we were sent
to Seoul where it premiered for the
troops,” Dalton said. “It’s dated now,
but the men enjoyed it. We were driven
around in army trucks and dressed up in
beautiful Edith Head gowns doing skits
for the troops.”
Dalton appeared in just 16 films, including a small role in
1958’s “Separate Tables” with David Niven, Burt Lancaster,
Rita Hayworth, Rod Taylor, and Deborah Kerr.
“We rehearsed for three weeks and shot it in sequence
which was very unusual,” she said. “Niven was a wonderful,
funny man, a great raconteur. It was great to just sit quietly in
a chair and listen to his wicked sense of humor.”
Since retiring from acting, Dalton has been a popular guest
at film festivals and is scheduled to appear at this year’s Williamsburg Film Festival, Va., held March 9-12.
“The sci-fi fans always ask about ‘The Monster that Challenged the World,’” laughed Dalton, about the 1957 B-monster
movie classic.
“That monster was enormous!” she added, referring to the
12-ft. pneumatically controlled creature she eluded which was
curiously called a reptile in the original trailer, but was actually a giant mollusk in the film.
Dalton’s movie career lasted until 1965 during which time
she also raised a family.
“I had four children in six years between 1953-1959. What’s
interesting is that many websites today have given me a fifth
child,” she chuckled. “He even has a birth date and a name —
Adrian. Needless to say my children have made great fun of it
and ask why I never told them about their lost brother!”
As for her actual children, none were drawn to acting.
“Just as well,” she said, “it can be a difficult business. I did a
few very good films and some mediocre ones. I enjoyed every
day on the set.” s
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and has written features, columns, and interviews for over 600
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COLLECTIBLES
Mark Barrow
A Passion For History
Story and photography by Ray Carson
D
r. Mark Barrow said he was born with a collector
gene that runs in his family and it has shaped the
direction of his life.
“As a child I began to collect matchbook covers and it
became an obsession, exceeding 1,000 covers and taking up so
much space in the living room that my mother finally demanded they be boxed and put in the attic,” Barrow said. However,
the matchbooks would only be the first of many collections.
Barrow was literally born on the road. His family lived in
Crestview, Florida, and the closest doctor was in Pensacola.
“When my mom went into labor, my father tried to drive
the 43 miles to the hospital but the birth couldn’t wait and I
was born in transit on the road,” he said.
Once at the hospital, the doctor was unsure what to list as
his place of birth since he was not born in the hospital or even
the same county.
The Barrow family had been in Florida since the late 18th
century. Each generation had been farmers until Barrow’s
dad, George William Barrow, decided to go to college in 1914
at the University of Florida. Army service cut short his college
education and upon discharge he returned to Crestview to
study law on his own. He practiced law for 25 years, served in
the state legislature and was elected county school supervisor.
All three of his sons also went to UF. Barrow was the youngest
in the family and was a member of the first class to graduate
from the University of Florida Medical School. He still had
the collecting bug, but now it was ceramic jugs. Barrow would
spend his spare time searching abandoned farmhouses and
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moonshine stills to add to his 60-piece collection.
As a student, he had a blind date with his future wife, Mary
Besalski. The daughter of a Florida minister, Mary was an
education major studying to be a teacher. She had an outgoing personality and a confidence that intrigued Barrow. In the
book “A Partnership with the Past” Barrow writes that his wife
was the only woman he had ever met that could both out talk
and out argue him.
Both had a mutual interest in history and historic preservation. They got married and their first child was born on the day
Barrow graduated from medical school. After receiving his Ph.D.
from UF, he worked in North Carolina and Washington, D.C.,
before returning to Gainesville to accept a position as assistant
professor with UF’s Department of Medicine. In 1972, Barrow
left his teaching position to go into private practice in cardiology.
“I helped found the museum so
I would have a place to store all
my collections,” Barrow said jokingly.
During this time, the Barrows had four more children and
began searching for a suitable large house for their family.
Because of their mutual love of history, they began looking at
houses in the northeast area known as the Duckpond. Many of
the old houses had fallen into disrepair and were considered
investment risks by banks. The couple found the house that
met their needs and appealed to their historical interests. Built
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in a colonial revival style by John Tigert, the third president
of UF, the house was meant to represent a smaller version of
Washington’s house in Mount Vernon. To the Barrows this
was an opportunity to restore the house to its former glory. To
the banks it was a bad risk, even at the low price of $30,000.
The Barrows finally got help from a friend who was a retired
bank president.
“He was retired, but still working at the bank,” Barrow
said. “After being turned down several times, we decided to
try again. We ran into him in the bank and told him about our
situation and he immediately went to the loan officer and told
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him to give us the loan ... We got it.”
As downtown Gainesville expanded it began to encroach
on the neighborhood. A zoning request to allow residences to
be used for business offices united preservationists and area
residents. The Barrows got involved and helped form Historic
Gainesville, Inc. to preserve the residential integrity of the
northeast area. The group helped save the Thomas Hotel and
turn it into a cultural center and also began documenting all
the architecturally and historically significant houses in the
Northeast, which eventually led to the area being designated
as a historic district. The group also fought to save the Kirby
Smith school and get historical designations for several other
neighborhoods.
The Barrows’ love of history and preservation also took
another turn; the restoration of the Tigert house had fueled
their desire to save and restore historically significant houses.
The next move was to buy an old church, restore it and open
an antique shop called Barrow’s Antiques. Mary got into the
house restoration business and they began buying one house a
year. Under the name Victoria’s Restorations, she restored 14
homes in the Gainesville area including the Howard HouseKelley Lodge, which won a Florida Trust award.
Barrow’s medical practice was growing, as was his involvement in historical preservation — and his collections. He had
started collecting antique postcards that dealt with Florida,
especially Gainesville. His collection eventually contained
over 20,000 unique postcards of Florida.
He also collected rare bottles, hand-colored images from
“Harper’s Weekly,” 1,200 books on Florida as well as miscellaneous documents, maps, journals and photographs. Soon,
patients and friends and other collectors were donating to his
collections.
Although his collection of Florida postcards was big, there
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were much bigger collections. These
collections were not strictly Florida
but did include rare Florida cards
that he did not have. Barrow said that
Robert Hughes had 60,000 postcards,
Doug Hendrickson had 40,000 and
Irv Sterling had over 1,000 as well as
an extensive bottle collection. Barrow
would approach them and ask to purchase ones he did not have or convince them to contribute to an archive
he was setting up with the Historical
Society. If they declined, he would
try to photograph them to create a
database of Florida postcards.
For historical collectors, it is often
more about preserving than possessing the objects. And sometimes it is
just luck that helps preservation.
“One day, I was driving in an older
section of town when I noticed a large
number of boxes by the curb for trash
pick-up and saw they contained thousands of photographs,” Barrow said.
Stopping to investigate, Barrow
found that the new owners were
cleaning out the home of professional
photographer E. H. Bone who had
been taking pictures in Gainesville
from the 1920s to the 1960s. The photographs were a life’s worth of work,
creating a unique historical record of
the town and its people. The owners
allowed Barrow to take the boxes.
Without his intervention, this unique
historical record would have been lost
forever in a landfill.
But all his collections created
another problem — storage. The collections were beginning to take over his house and office. He
was involved with several preservation and historical groups
that all felt that a space for a museum was necessary. For the
next decade Barrow would work tirelessly with other collectors, historians and city and state officials to make the dream
a reality. He would convince other collectors to donate their
collections, seek funding and grants, as well as donations from
wealthy citizens. Although many people contributed to the
effort, Barrow was the driving force.
Finally in 1990, the old American Legion building was pur-
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chased and the Matheson History Museum was established.
“I helped found the museum so I would have a place to
store all my collections,” Barrow said jokingly, but it was his
love of history and dedication to preserving the past that made
the museum a reality.
All of his collections, papers and books have been donated
to the Matheson History Museum. Perhaps the greatest donation, though, is Barrow himself, who can be found most days
at the museum organizing artifacts and sharing his knowledge
with anyone interested in learning about the past. s
COLUMN œ KENDRA SILER-MARSIGLIO
Healthy
Edge
The Power of Relaxation
W
e know that we gotta relax. But,
are we succeeding?
Although controlled breathing and
deep relaxation evoke thoughts of yoga
(and perhaps memories of Lemaze classes), it’s a great way to de-stress. Stress
may seem like it’s just an annoying part
of life, yet, more than ever, research
shows that stress can lead to chronic illness, heart problems and death.
For instance, a “Journal of Pain” study
showed that half of participants with
chronic headaches experienced less
pain by learning how to stop the stressproducing habit of “catastrophizing”
(constantly thinking negative thoughts
about their pain). Another study in
“Circulation: Cardiovascular Quality and
Outcomes” showed that cardiac patients
with so-called “Type D” personalities
(characterized by chronic distress) have
a higher risk of poor outcomes.
According to the National Cancer
Institute, research has shown that people
who experience intense or chronic stress
may develop digestive problems, fertility problems, urinary problems and a
weakened immune system. Also, people
who experience chronic stress are also
more prone to viral infections (e.g., flu,
common cold) and may have headaches,
sleep trouble, depression or anxiety.
What does this mean? It means that
you need to know how to effectively RE-
LAX. One way to relax is to start using
the “Relaxation Response” technique
first developed by Harvard Medical
School cardiologist Dr. Herbert Benson
in the 1970s.
Here are the steps to reach Dr.
Benson’s Relaxation Response (www.
relaxationresponse.org/steps/):
1. Get in a comfortable and safe seated
position.
2. Shut your eyes.
3. Think about deeply relaxing your
muscles, one set of muscles at a time.
Start with the muscles in your feet
and keep imagining that you’re relaxing every muscle in your body up to
your face.
4. Keep them relaxed.
5. Start breathing through your nose.
As you do so, become aware of your
breathing in and out. While you’re
breathing out, say the word “ONE”
silently to yourself. Do your best to
breathe easily and naturally.
6. Continue this process for 10-20 minutes. Feel free to open your eyes to
check the time — but skip the alarm!
7. When you finish, sit quietly for several minutes.
8. It’s OK if you don’t feel that you were
successful in achieving a deep level
of relaxation. It’s important to just let
the relaxation occur naturally.
You may experience distracting
thoughts while you’re doing the Relaxation Response technique. However,
acknowledge your thoughts and let them
pass through your mind naturally. When
you’re ready, go back to focusing on your
breathing and return to repeating “one.”
Outside of the comfort of your home?
Consider trying Square breathing (or Box
breathing) to relax. Here’s how you do it:
1. Breathe in slowly through your nose.
Count to four as you inhale.
2. Hold your breath for four seconds.
Concentrate on your belly and notice
how it also moves when you inhale
deeply.
3. Exhale. Count to four as you exhale.
4. Count to four before you inhale again.
5. Try to do this at least three times to
relieve tension or anxiety.
The National Center for Complimentary and Alternative Medicine reports
that in addition to reducing stress,
controlled breathing can be used to help
manage insomnia, anxiety, depression
and pain.
These techniques may feel extremely
unnatural at first. The Harvard Health
“Family Health Guide” claims that some
of the reasons deep breathing can feel
strange for many of us is because a flat
stomach is considered attractive! Holding in the stomach muscles forces us to
do shallow “chest breathing” (instead of
breathing deeply from our diaphragms).
Chest breathing actually makes us feel
anxious.
So, to keep that healthy edge, take
some deep breaths. (For a flat stomach,
do crunches!)
Want to learn more about stress and
health? Check out the American Institute of Stress at www.stress.org. s
Kendra Siler-Marsiglio, Ph.D. is the Director
of the Rural Health Partnership at WellFlorida Council.
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READER SUBMITTED œ JOAN H. CARTER
Community Voice
The Run For Haven Challenge
Joan Carter (not pictured) competed in the Run For Haven St. Patrick’s Day-themed race in 2014 and again last year. Participants were encouraged to
dress in green, and Marcella West (middle) won the costume contest. Held at Tioga Town Center, this year’s race is on March 12, 2016 at 4:30 pm.
E
ighty-eight years old, I wanted to run a 5K race — 3.1
miles. Before World War II, girls were considered too
delicate to compete in sports. Since I usually had to run six
blocks to school or be late, I was good at running. But I never
ran a race.
In June 2013, the month before my 88th birthday, my
husband Jay died. Over the previous two years as Jay wasted
away, I’d become skin and bones, lost a lot of strength and
experienced vertigo. I was scared. Was I going to die too?
I decided I had to eat, even when I wasn’t hungry, and I had
to exercise — I’d walk.
On my first walk, I couldn’t reach the end of the block.
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Exhausted, legs quivering, afraid I would collapse, I headed
home. Boy, I told myself, I need work! The next day I walked
to the corner and back. Very tired, I’d done it. The third day I
rested. On the fourth day I walked a bit farther — progress!
I kept walking a few times a week, sometimes a short walk,
sometimes longer. I joined other walking neighbors — I could
walk farther when I had company.
In December, my still poor strength and balance persuaded
my doctor to prescribe physical therapy, and my therapist
Chagui assigned exercises to add to my walking.
In February 2014, I saw a Run For Haven flyer for the annual 5K/10K race scheduled March 15. The afternoon race
with a St. Patrick’s Day theme included a picnic supper. Entry
fees benefited Haven Hospice — they’d cared compassionately
for my husband Jay. I signed up.
Chagui’s eyes bugged out when I told him. He ramped up
the exercise program and advised me: Go the full distance at
least once before the race, but train with shorter distances.
Run intervals. Look straight ahead to avoid getting dizzy.
Quicker steps beat longer strides. Hold off training two days
before race day. Carbo-load with pasta the night before.
I bought running pants and shoes to look like a runner and
trained in them to be sure they were comfortable.
Race day dawned sunny and pleasant. I’d had fettuccini
Alfredo for supper the night before. I hadn’t walked for two
days, and I’d slogged a grueling 5K the previous week.
I attached my bib number 73, with its timing chip, to the
front of my shirt. A runners’ warm-up began. Accompanied
by energetic music, a young woman led us in a wild dance. I
decided no way I’d waste energy on that.
The start signal! We runners crowded across a little white
bridge by the timers’ tent, into a two-lane street through a
residential area. I kept to the side to let others pass while I
tried to keep pace with those going about my speed. As the
race went on, I struggled to pick up my heavy feet. I pretended
I was mushing with sled dogs from Fairbanks, carrying serum
to that little boy in Nome whom I’d read about in fourth grade.
“One foot in front of the other,” I told myself. “Faster, faster.
Gotta get that serum to Timmy.” Half way through the race,
Chagui appeared to finish beside me!
Exhausted, I crossed the finish line in a daze. I refused to sit
down — I might never get up. But I finished the 5K, 405th of
546 participants. Oldest in the race. Third in the women’s age
group 70 - 98.
Jay would’ve been proud.
I took a vacation then from running and walking, but after
the hot summer, I registered for the 2015 Run For Haven. If I
could shave four minutes and 12 seconds off my time, I’d beat
the 73-year-old who came in second. Having work done on my
house, however, interrupted my training. Race day was hot.
My friend Carol came to cheer me on, but I took three minutes longer to finish. Again I won third place, though, among
women 70 and older.
Today I am 90. I wonder, should I try again? Since last
March, I’ve worked on my computer instead of walking, so I’ve
lost stamina. But I walked two miles yesterday. Maybe… s
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TRIBUTE
Veteran June
Whitehurst
One Of Marines’ First Women Helped
Pave Way For Military Acceptance
by Michael Stone
I
t’s 1942, or maybe early 1943, and in the basement of the
Department of the Treasury in Washington D.C., June
Whitehurst can’t help but stare at an unfashionable
older woman walking toward her.
The hair, the cotton hose, the dress, the flat shoes — all
of it’s “just terribly old-fashioned,” Whitehurst observes. “I
wouldn’t have been caught dead in flat shoes. Even though I
walked to work, I wore heels all the time.
“The only excuse I gave her was: It is wartime.”
As the two get closer to one another, Whitehurst recognizes
the face.
“It’s Eleanor Roosevelt,” Whitehurst realizes, surprised
that the first lady is guard-less but figuring she had traveled
through the underground connection between the treasury
and the White House.
“And I’m still staring at her. I just can’t help it. She looks so
terrible. … So she says hello to me, and I say hello back.”
As a young woman at the epicenter of U.S. military and
politics during World War II — and especially working at the
treasury, which recruited celebrities to help sell war bonds —
Whitehurst had several such famous encounters.
Actor Jimmy Stewart was signing autographs across the
street when she first hopped off the bus, literally, that had carried her from her hometown of St. Joseph, Missouri.
“When [my friend I had traveled with] saw him, she about
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went crazy,” Whitehurst, 92, recalled from her High Springs
home in the woods, a “Marine parking only” sign hanging
from a tree. “And I said, ‘Go ahead and go over there where he
is and get his autograph, and I’ll take care of our luggage ‘cause
I really could care less.’”
One day at the treasury, the comedic duo Abbott and Costello — of “Who’s on First?” fame — was in a pack of celebrities
that also included actresses Elizabeth Taylor and Greer Garson.
“The Marine Corps has opened
its doors to women,” she recalled
the radio announcing. “And I
can remember saying out loud,
‘That’s for me!’”
Costello “was, of course, acting a fool like he does on the
stage,” Whitehurst said. “And so he walks right into one of the
big columns in the hallway there and then pretends to fall.”
And at the Stage Door Canteen, where soldiers would be
entertained before heading off to war, Whitehurst racked
up more star sightings — including singer Al Jolson and
bandleader Xavier Cugat — by working there at night as a
hostess.
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But in a way, not from the stage or big screen but through
patriotic trailblazing, Whitehurst established herself as a
celebrity, at least to the historian’s eye. She is one of the initial
women in the Marines — and one of the very first to go on active duty — during World War II.
Altogether, after enlistment was opened to women, between 23,000 and 24,000 joined the Marines, responding to
the slogan “free a Marine to fight.”
“If people say, ‘Well, what did women in World War II do?
Why were they there?’ They were there to free Marines to
fight,” said Marine veteran Nancy Wilt, a Colorado resident,
the Women Marines Association’s historian and, through the
organization, Whitehurst’s friend.
Wilt noted that the women’s 200-plus assigned positions
were stateside office and training ones — things like clerical
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work, mapmaking, parachute rigging and Whitehurst’s eventual job: “link trainer,” the term for those who practiced flying
planes with aviators in grounded simulators.
When Whitehurst arrived at Atlantic Field on the North
Carolina coast, where she trained Marine pilots during the
war, the link trainer Marine she was replacing showed her and
a few other women around.
“He wasn’t happy with us, by the expression on his face,
and his voice wasn’t cordial, shall we say,” Whitehurst remembered. “They were not happy that they were being taken out of
their really good cushy jobs, safe jobs to be sent overseas.”
More broadly, “men didn’t want women in — the average
American male,” Wilt said.
But infiltrate the U.S. military women did. An estimated
350,000 served during the war: in the Army’s Women’s Army
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(Left)
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rst’s High Springs home.
Corps (WACs)
(WACs), started in May 1942; the Navy’s Women Accepted for Volunteer Emergency Service (WAVES), which followed
in July; the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASPs), launched
under a different name in September; the Coast Guard Women’s
Reserve (SPARs), formalized in November; and the Marine
Corps Women’s Reserve, initiated on Feb. 13, 1943.
“The World War II women got us far farther in business
and the new way of raising families,” Wilt said. “It proved a lot
of things: It proved that women could work and have families,
[and] it opened up fields like crazy.”
Graduating high school in 1940 at age 17, Whitehurst didn’t
start out with such sizable goals for the women’s movement
when she joined the war effort. She just wanted a job.
After Pearl Harbor pushed the U.S. into combat, she set her
eyes on what was known as a “government girl” job in Wash-
D C at her father’s insistence
ington D.C.
insistence.
“Every woman should know how to make a living,” her
father, the owner of a Missouri business college and a veteran
who had his arm nearly shot off at the French-German border
during World War I, told her.
Whitehurst took the civil-service test in Kansas City on a
snowy Saturday. She must’ve done well because three days
after, she was told to be in Washington by Monday, to become
an 18-year-old employee for the Department of the Treasury.
Her memories of wartime Washington include plenty of
soldiers on guard duty; blackouts; the closure of certain places,
such as the 555-foot-tall Washington Monument, possibly
to prevent spying; and undependable public transportation,
which prompted her to walk to the treasury from the nearby
bedroom she was renting.
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A local Missouri newspaper delivers the news that Whitehurst is one of the very first women to go on duty for the Marines. In part, it says: “She
thought she would have time to spend a short vacation here with her parents before being called to duty. But she entered active duty six days (after
joining) and received the rating of private first class her first day on duty.”
“I would wait half an hour or 40 minutes for a streetcar
to go to work,” she said, “and then on the way there, it might
catch on fire. … So I thought, ‘To heck with this.’”
At the treasury, Whitehurst did mostly secretarial work, like
records, filing and dictation. She held a high level of security
clearance, leading to her being given the task of typing an
inventory list of military items being sent to aid Russia under
the Lend-Lease Act.
She enjoyed her work, there and at the Stage Door Canteen,
where she’d talk and dance with soldiers about to ship out.
“But I just seemed to be missing something.”
Whitehurst considered joining a military program for wom-
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en, mainly the SPARs. But her real calling made itself known
one morning in March 1943, a week before her 20th birthday,
when the measles had her confined to home.
“The Marine Corps has opened its doors to women,” she
recalled the radio announcing. “And I can remember saying
out loud, ‘That’s for me!’”
Whitehurst had to wait a few days to meet the age requirement of 20, and right after enlisting during her birthday week,
she bought a beautiful pink camellia she had spotted in a shop
window.
That night, camellia in hair, she sat at a table with five Marines at the Stage Door and told them that she, too, was to be a
Marine.
The plan had been to start boot camp
two months after enlisting, giving her
time to wrap things up at the treasury
and go see her family in St. Joseph. But
one of the five Marines, a corporal who
“knew just the right people,” asked,
“Would you like to go on duty immediately?’
“And I said, ‘Sure!’”
The corporal suggested she go meet
with a certain captain the next day, a
Friday, and she was then told to be at
women Marines headquarters at the
Pentagon the following Monday at 9 a.m.
She and two other women started that
day as privates, beginning their work directly under Maj. Ruth Cheney Streeter,
the first director of the women Marines.
“[Streeter] had the bearing. She had
the look of authority and the actions of
authority,” Whitehurst said. “I was very
impressed with her.”
Wilt noted the uniqueness of Whitehurst’s situation: She and the two other
women went straight into Pentagon
positions thanks to existing security
clearances, and she went on active duty
before the women Marines had even
started their first boot camp.
“She was one of the firsts of the firsts,”
Wilt said.
Whitehurst identifies herself as being
one of the initial 80 women Marines in
the war, and though Wilt has never come
across the number 80 in her research,
she said she believes Whitehurst’s number, especially in terms of active-duty
status, is likely much lower.
Only seven women, including Streeter, started prior to the public announcement to serve in administrative roles for
the women Marines, Wilt said.
So perhaps Whitehurst is in the top
40 or 50, she added, but “really, in my
mind’s eye by what she has said, I truly
feel she was sooner than that.
“She was at the right locale [Washington D.C.], she enlisted at the right time,
ABOVE: Photos show Whitehurst and a friend at a link trainer facility at Atlantic Field in North
Carolina, and below them is a newspaper clipping about “Little Daisy June,” a Red Skelton
character that Whitehurst said is named after her because her mom mailed the name into him.
BELOW: Whitehurst’s mom sent her a picture of a beautiful dress to tease her about the
military’s drab uniforms.
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“The World War II women got
us far farther in business and the
new way of raising families.”
Whitehurst poses in front of the Department of the Treasury, where she worked during part of the war. She’s wearing a Marine armband to identify
herself because uniforms for the newly formed Marine Corps Women’s Reserve hadn’t been delivered yet.
they were just starting, and I think they pulled her right away
[without boot camp] with these other two women.”
They were pioneers in that they were among the first in the
chain of women who have served in the Marines continuously
since 1943, aided by a small number who remained after postwar discharges and, eventually, the Women’s Armed Services
Integration Act in 1948.
But they weren’t the earliest overall. That title belongs to
the 300-plus women who joined the Marines toward the end
of World War I to do what the next Marine women did: take
over stateside roles to free others.
While World War II women helped dispel workforce and
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family gender roles, those in the first war earned women the
right to vote, Wilt said.
“Because of the superior performance of women in all
areas of the war effort in World War I, they had letters telling
them how wonderful they were from the president and everybody,” she said. “And when [the issue of women’s suffrage]
came up, they said, ‘OK, this is what you say we did. Now why
can’t we vote?’”
For Whitehurst, there were some dots of sexism during her
military career.
Two men who also worked at headquarters had set aside
a stack of applications of women they felt weren’t attractive
enough to be Marines. “There was nothing I could do [right
At Atlantic Field, she met Marine Dale Whitehurst, an
then] because they were both sergeants,” Whitehurst rememaerial gunner and Battle of Guadalcanal veteran, and the two
bered.
married exactly eight weeks later, in January 1945.
So she waited until the men left for the day to redistribute
Regulations prevented women from staying in while pregthat stack into others to guarantee that the women would be
nant, so Whitehurst had to leave in April 1945, at the rank of
sent off to boot camp.
sergeant. This gave her the chance to be with her husband
Whitehurst also recalled a day when Streeter came into the
while he was stationed in San Diego for the surrender of both
office angry because she had just eaten a meal with a group of
Germany in May and Japan in August.
people who wanted women in
Following the war, the two
the Marines to have an acroreturned to his hometown of
nym, like the SPARs, WACs and
Miami, where he worked as a
WAVES.
telephone linesman and then
“And I said immediately,
as an aircraft-metal maker for
‘Well, I joined the Marine
Pan-Am airlines. Meanwhile,
Corps!’” Whitehurst recalled,
she cared for their seven chilexplaining that she thought an
dren and eventually became a
acronym would have diminsecretary at Southwest Miami
ished her position.
High School.
But overall, she said,
The first and third chilmilitary men treated their
dren, sons, went on to join the
new colleagues with dignity.
Marines, while the second was a
“The men were wonderful.
lead anti-Vietnam War protestor
They were very courteous, and
at Florida State University.
they seemed happy to have
The Whitehursts retired to
us there. And they were very
Arkansas in 1979 and then to
respectable.”
North Central Florida in the
Whitehurst spent roughly
early 1990s to be closer to their
a month and a half at headchildren still in Miami. Dale
quarters, doing office work
passed away in 2000.
and participating in some of
Reflecting on the evolution
the initial decisions about the
of women’s role in the military,
women Marines, like choosing
Whitehurst does have some
a summer uniform from three
reservations.
Whitehurst and her husband, Dale, pose with their first of
finalists.
“I’m not jealous that they
seven children, Barney, who was born in late 1945. The
Whitehursts married in January of that year, eight weeks after
“I didn’t like any of them
can be on the front lines, shall
meeting at Atlantic Field. Dale passed away in 2000.
— the least of the three evils
we say,” the grandmother to 12
is what I’d consider [the one I
and great-grandmother to 15
chose],” she said. “Maj. Streeter often called the three of us
said. “I’m not jealous of that at all. And basically, I think the
women in there and asked us things about what would hapmen who object to it are right because I don’t really think it’s a
pen, what we should do.”
place for a woman.
Then, in May 1943, the three left for boot camp at New
“I can see some women doing a real good job of it, as far as
York City’s Hunter College. Whitehurst said it never reached
that’s concerned, but just the thought — I just don’t think it
an intense level — sometimes marching, sometimes going to
should be.”
lectures, sometimes disassembling and reassembling an M1
But wearing a large Marine pin on a purple blouse, WhiteGarand rifle but never firing it.
hurst said she’s proud of her service and glad she could fulfill
After finishing boot camp in July, she headed to Atlanta’s
her role to help win the war.
Harris Field to learn how to be link trainer — a job she’d then
“I was very satisfied with my job in the Marine Corps,” she
carry out for a year and a half at Atlantic Field, training new
said. “I’ve led an exciting life — or I did some exciting things
pilots and practicing with experienced ones.
during my life, [I’ll] put it that way.” s
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COLUMN œ ELLIS AMBURN
Enjoying
Act Three
What is Beauty?
W
atching the Oscars show on
TV makes me think of Olivia
de Havilland, who won the 1946 bestactress Oscar for “To Each His Own.” At
30 she was a great beauty, and decades
later when I became her editor at the
Delacorte Press, she was 59 and matronly — but still a stunner.
It made me wonder, what is beauty?
According to Plato, it lies only in the eye
of the beholder. English poet Sir Thomas
Overby said his wife’s beauty was only
skin deep. I live in a retirement community, and I find most of the residents
beautiful. I think it may be less their skin
than something projected from within,
like wisdom, patience, and kindness.
That Olivia possessed many of these
qualities did not make her producer
David O. Selznick’s first choice when
he briefly involved himself in “To Each
His Own.” Though as Melanie Wilkes
she’d helped him make “Gone With
the Wind” the top earner of all time —
$4,401,358,554 — he wanted his latest
find, Ingrid Bergman, for “To Each His
Own.” Ingrid declined it, and when Olivia finally read the script she loved the
story of Jody Norris, an unwed mother
who sleeps with a dashing WWI pilot
destined to be killed in combat.
In the film Jody ages from youth to
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her Senior years, looking progressively
hideous due to Hollywood’s stereotypical notion of age. Mae West once said
old age makes hags of us all, but she also
quipped, “Ten men waiting for me at
the door? Send nine of them home, I’m
tired.” Rex Reed, an author I edited in
the 1970s, moonlighted as an actor and
appeared with Mae in “Myra Breckinridge.” When Rex returned from Hollywood, he told me Mae had received an
endless stream of body builders in her
dressing room throughout the shoot.
She was 77 at the time, and obviously the
van was still rocking.
Olivia’s best-actress Oscar nomination
for “To Each His Own” was won despite
her bad makeup job. She created the illusion of age by altering her voice, making
it by turns ironic, bossy and wise. At the
Academy Awards ceremony, when Ray
Milland, the previous year’s honoree for
“The Lost Weekend,” announced Olivia
as the winner of the 1946 Oscar, Olivia’s
sister Joan Fontaine tried to congratulate
her, but later complained, “I started to
shake hands with her, but she seemed
very occupied and busy. Maybe she
didn’t see me.” Olivia saw her all right
but later told the press, “Our relations
have been strained for some time — I
didn’t change my attitude.”
Just recently, interior designer Richard Ridge told me that Olivia and Joan
had once attended one of his parties,
looking great in cocktail dresses and apparently enjoying themselves.
“Later they went home and had a
fight so terrible they never spoke to each
other again,” he said. “I saw none of that
coming at my party. So the fight must’ve
been terrible… Olivia had arrived only
that afternoon and she didn’t even spend
the night in her sister’s home.”
In 1948 Olivia filmed another Ingrid
Bergman reject, “The Snake Pit,” which
landed her on the cover of “Time.”
Ingrid said, “Olivia de Havilland took
the part and she got an Oscar, which was
marvelous. [Director Anatole Litvak]
said, ‘Look what you turned down!’”
“I know what I turned down,” Ingrid
replied. “It all takes place in an insane
asylum and I couldn’t bear that. It was
a very good part, but if I had played it, I
wouldn’t have got an Oscar for it.’”
Ingrid was mistaken about Olivia
winning an Oscar for “The Snake Pit.”
Jane Wyman won that year, 1948, for
“Johnny Belinda.” Olivia won her second
Oscar in 1949, for “The Heiress,” one of
the few plum roles Ingrid wasn’t offered
in the 1940s, before she fell out of favor
by running off with her Italian lover and
getting pregnant sans wedding band.
Olivia had shrewdly snapped up “The
Heiress” upon seeing the Broadway play
version long before anyone west of the
Rockies heard of it.
In July last year, still beautiful, she
turned 99. As Shakespeare said of
Cleopatra, “Age cannot wither her, nor
custom stale her infinite variety.”
Beauty’s an inside job. s
Ellis Amburn is in the Hall of Excellence at
TCU’s Schieffer School of Journalism. Involved daily in volunteer community service,
the High Springs resident is the author of
biographies of Roy Orbison, Elizabeth Taylor
and others. [email protected].
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CALENDAR
UPCOMING EVENTS IN ALACHUA & MARION
STRETCHING CLASS
Tuesdays
10:00am – 11:00am
OCALA - Forest Community Center, 112 N.
Magnolia Ave. Info: 352-671-8560 or visit
online, www.marioncountyfl.org/parks.
antebellum homes in North Central Florida. For
a reason lost to time, the Haile family wrote on
the walls of their home - over 12,500 words in
almost every room and closet. Docent-led tours
will be offered. www.hailehomestead.org.
LONG ROAD TO FREEDOM
PARKINSON’S EXERCISE CLASS
Through March 18
Tuesday & Friday
9:30am - 3:30pm
GAINESVILLE - Matheson History Museum,
513 E. University Ave. This original exhibition
and related programs examine the hidden
histories of sites on the Florida Black
Heritage Trail in and around Alachua County,
ranging from Union Academy to Rosewood.
Free. www.mathesonmuseum.org.
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. Visit www.
facebook.com/gainesvilleflparkinsonsnetwork.
DAUGHTERS OF THE
AMERICAN REVOLUTION
Wednesdays
11:00am - 1:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Wesley United Methodist
Church, 826 NW 23rd Ave. Gainesville
Chapter of the DAR meet on the second
Wednesday of each month, October through
May. [email protected].
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. Info: Beckie at 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.
IMAGIMATION
Through April 24
Times Vary
OCALA - Appleton Museum of Art, 4333 E. Silver
Springs Blvd. Drawn from the Animation Hall of
Fame archives from the Nancy and Hal Miles
Collection, the “Journey into IMAGIMATION:
100 Years of Animation Art from Around the
World.” exhibition celebrates the ongoing
100-plus year history of this magical art form.
Exhibition visitors can create their own drawings
and simulate the animation experience on a
useable zoetrope. AppletonMuseum.org.
KEEPING SENIORS SAFE
Thursday, March 3
2:30pm – 4:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701
NW 34th Blvd. Presented by PrimeTime Institute.
Eva Rogers, Senior Human Services Program
Specialist, will explain how to identify abuse,
neglect, exploitation, and self-neglect of Seniors.
PLOWING UP THE PAST
Friday, March 4
10:00am
NEWBERRY - Dudley Farm Historic State Park,
18730 W. Newberry Rd. See how fields were
plowed for spring plantings. Observe participants
working the land. Learn about different types
of field plows and antique tractors. School
groups are welcome. 352-472-1142.
THE TIME TRAVELER’S BALL
Friday, March 4
10:00pm - 12:00am
GAINESVILLE - Market Street Pub & Cabaret,
112 SW 1st Ave. Travel back in time and into
the future with the Mischievous Madams,
Gainesville’s first burlesque troupe! This
show is 18+. mischievousmadams.com.
March 4 – 6
Through March 31
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JONESVILLE - Tioga Town Center, W. Newberry
Rd. See works of artists and fine craftsmen
in paintings, mixed media, photography,
fiber, ceramics, jewelry, wood, sculpture,
glass, metal and books. The Festival kicks
off Friday night with a live concert.
Times Vary
GAINESVILLE - Florida Museum of Natural
History, 3215 Hull Road. Learn how butterflies
signify the health of their surrounding ecosystem
in ‘Bellwether Butterflies: Environmental
Indicators.’ Daily butterfly releases are held
at 2 pm with additional weekend releases
at 3 pm and 4 pm, weather permitting.
Admission is $10.50 or free with a valid Gator
1 ID. 352-846-2000; www.flmnh.ufl.edu.
Sundays and Saturdays
1:00pm - 3:30pm
GAINESVILLE - Alachua County Library
Millhopper Branch, 3145 NW 43rd St. The
Millhopper Book Club meets the first Tuesday
of each month. You do not have to read the
book to attend the meeting. 352-334-1272.
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9:30am - Noon
GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center, 5701
NW 34th Blvd. Quilters of Alachua County Day
Guild (QACDG) meets monthly the first Thursday.
Guests are welcome. www.qacdg.org.
TIOGA WINTER FINE ART FAIR
BOOK CLUB
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Thursday, March 3
BELLWETHER BUTTERFLIES
HISTORIC HAILE
HOMESTEAD TOUR
Times Vary
GAINESVILLE - Historic Haile Homestead, 8500
SW Archer Rd. Completed in 1856 by enslaved
craftsmen, the 6,200–square-foot homestead
stands today as one of the few remaining
QUILTING
Tuesday, March 1
RACE THE TORTOISE 5K
Saturday, March 5
7:30am
HIGH SPRINGS - O’Leno State Park, 410 SE
O’Leno Park Rd. This is an out-and-back certified
racecourse with mile markers on the park’s
main road, which is both scenic and paved.
Proceeds will help provide for the creatures in
the Park’s Nature Center and to help expand
its exhibits. Register: www.friendsofoleno.org
or email [email protected].
RUN AMUCK WITH THE DUCK
Saturday, March 5
8:00am
GAINESVILLE - North Florida Regional Medical
Center, 6500 W. Newberry Rd. This 7th Annual
5K walk/run raises funds and awareness
for the Bonnie J. Addario Lung Cancer
Foundation. Registration begins at 8 a.m.
with a shotgun start at 9 a.m. This family- and
pet-friendly event features prizes, snacks
and fun for all. Info: Caren Gorenberg at
[email protected] or 352-256-6263.
WILLIAM BARTRAM
HERITAGE DAY
Saturday, March 5
9:00am – 4:00pm
HAWTHORNE - Little Orange Creek Nature
Park. See William Bartram in costume giving a
fascinating talk for both adults and children. Live
music, native plant sales, storytelling, booths
of handmade crafts, local artists, Earthskills
demonstrators and southern style food will
give visitors a glimpse of what life was like
in William Bartram’s time. 352-494-3790.
GAINESVILLE FOOD TOUR
March 6, 27 & April 17
10:45am – 1:45pm
GAINESVILLE - Downtown Gainesville. This
historic walk food tour is about a 1.5-mile
walk around downtown where you can
try five or more restaurants all in one fun
event. www.gainesvillefoodtour.com.
AUTHOR MEG WAITE CLAYTON
Sunday, March 6
2:30pm
GAINESVILLE - Headquarters Library, Meeting
Room A, 401 E. University Ave. Meg Waite
Clayton is the New York Times and USA
Today bestselling author of five novels,
including the recently published “The Race
for Paris” and “The Wednesday Sisters,”
one of Entertainment Weekly’s 25 Essential
Best Friend Novels of all time. “Race For
Paris” is a story of two journalists hoping to
make history by being the first to report the
liberation of Paris in the summer of 1944.
ASK A SCIENTIST: GEOLOGY
Sunday, March 6
1:00pm – 4:00pm
GAINESVILLE* Florida Museum of Natural
History, 3215 Hull Rd. Talk one-on-one
with researchers from UF’s Department of
Geological Sciences. Bring your specimens
and find answers during an afternoon of
discovery and learning. 352-273-2062.
Run For Haven
Saturday, March 12
4:30pm
JONESVILLE - Tioga Town Center, 105 SW 128th St. 5K and 10K walk/run with a St.
Patrick’s Day theme. Participants are encouraged to wear green and participate in the
St. Patty’s Day costume contest to win prizes. All proceeds benefit the unreimbursed
programs and services provided by Haven Hospice to the patients and families in
Gainesville and the surrounding areas. www.havenhospice.org
SAVION GLOVER AND
JACK DEJOHNETTE
CIVIL WAR ROUNDTABLE
Sunday, March 6
7:30pm – 10:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Phillips Center, 3201
Hull Rd. A tour-de-force of percussion
and rhythm that glorifies the vibrational
power exchanged between two greats,
Savion Glover and Jack DeJohnette.
6:00pm - 8:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Trinity United Methodist Church,
4000 NW 53rd Ave., Edu. Bldg. #232. Held
the second Thursday of each month, open
to the public and will feature guest speakers
at every meeting. Info: 352-378-3726, www.
cwrnf.org or [email protected].
IMPROVE BALANCE AND
REDUCE RISK OF FALLS
THE NEWBERRY SIX:
100 YEARS LATER
Thursday, March 10
Thursday, March 10
2:30pm – 4:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Senior Recreation Center,
5701 NW 34th Blvd. Presented by PrimeTime
Institute. Join PT for this interactive
presentation by Melissa Cere, PT DPT, on
how to improve your mobility, your home
environment, and other factors in order to
significantly reduce your risk of falls.
6:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Matheson History Museum,
513 E. University Ave. Dr. Patricia HilliardNunn will discuss the hidden history of the
Newberry Six lynchings, which took place
on August 19, 1916 at a site now known as
the Hammocks or Lynch Hammock. There
is still no historical marker at the site.
Thursday, March 10
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SCULPTURE COMPETITION
Saturday, March 12
1:00pm – 4:00pm
OCALA - Tuscawilla Park, 829 NE Sanchez
Ave. Celebration of the sculptures with live
entertainment and complimentary public
art activities throughout the park. Info:
Melissa Townsend at 352-629-8447.
SUDSY SOAPS
Saturday, March 12
10:00am – 2:00pm
NEWBERRY - Dudley Farm Historic State Park,
18730 W. Newberry Rd. Learn all about Soap!
Children and adults alike, ages 5 and up can join
in the fun! There are hands-on demonstrations,
crafts, old-fashioned games and even some
education. Learn about history, and a farming
way of life. www.friendsofdudleyfarm.org.
ROCKY’S LADY LEGENDS SHOW
Gatornationals
Saturday, March 12
March 17 – 20
GAINESVILLE - Gainesville Raceway, 11211 N. CR 225. Long considered one of the
fastest tracks on the NHRA circuit, it was from this legendary launch point that
drivers clocked the first 260, 270 and 300mph Top Fuel runs. www.facebook.com/
NHRAGatornationals/.
GATOR GYMNASTICS
Friday, March 11
Times Vary
GAINESVILLE - O’Connell Center. Cheer on
the Gator Gymnastics team at their final
home match of the 2016 season against the
University of North Carolina. Gator seniors
Bianca Dancose-Giambattisto, Bridgette
Caquatto, Morgan Frazier and Bridget Sloan
will be honored during a post-meet ceremony.
FAT TIRE FESTIVAL
everything from trees to raised gardens and
tropical fruit to composting. 352-671-8400.
WIZZBANGZ MAKER BUS
Saturday, March 12
1:00pm
ALACHUA - Branch Library, 14913 NW 140th St.
Stop by to see some real S.T.E.A.M. (Science,
Technology, Engineering, Art, Mathematics)
Power in this maker/hacker bus visit. Many
projects to see and a chance to create some
really neat projects. 386-462-2592.
March 11 - 13
CAR & TRUCK SHOW
9:00am – 2:00pm
OCALA - Santos Trailhead, 3080 SW 80th Ave.
Enjoy over 50 miles of the single track as 10
years of award-winning trails are celebrated.
Fully supported, self guided ride with sag
stops, bathrooms, lunch, safety patrollers and
a custom map. Registration includes the event
shirt and pint glass. www.santosfattire.com.
Saturday, March 12
SPRING FESTIVAL
LITTLE JAKE & THE SOUL
SEARCHERS
Saturday, March 12
8:00am- 5:00pm
OCALA - SELP, 2232 NE Jacksonville Rd.
Featuring vendors selling an array of plants,
garden décor and plant-related accessories,
attendees can find almost everything they need
for gardening and landscaping. Learn about
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GAINESVILLE - NW 39th St., across from
Springhill Publix. Gainesville Street Rods Original
Cruz-in. Judged show open to all cars, trucks and
motorcycles. Proceeds benefit StopChildren’s
Cancer. DJ, food, $500 raffle, 50/50, door prizes.
www.gainesvillestreetrods.com. 352-658-1477.
Saturday, March 12
8:30pm - 1:00am
GAINESVILLE - Market Street Pub & Cabaret, 112
SW 1st Ave. Veteran blues and R&B recording
artist and performer, Little Jake Mitchell plays
monthly at Market Street with his Soul Searchers.
$10 at the door. littlejakemitchell.com.
6:00pm
OCALA - Circle Square Cultural Center, 8395
SW 80th St. Rocky and The Rollers are joined
by musical guests: Barbara Lewis – “Hello
Stranger,” “Baby I’m Yours,” and “Make Me
Your Baby;” Merrilee Rush – “Angel of the
Morning” and others. www.csculturalcenter.
com/rockys-lady-legends-show.
EASTER EGG HUNT
Sunday, March 13
11:00am
GAINESVILLE - Kanapaha Botanical Gardens,
4700 SW 58th Dr. 3,000 candy- and toyfilled eggs will be spread over Kanapaha’s
expansive lawns for the youngsters to hunt.
Bring a picnic basket for collecting the eggs.
Show up promptly as children quickly find the
eggs. Admission is $7. www.kanapaha.org.
BENEFIT GALA
Sunday, March 13
5:00pm – 10:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Nadine McGuire Theatre, 687
McCarty Dr. UF’s Friends of Music and Friends of
Theatre + Dance present Splendor: Enchantment
at Sea benefit gala. Includes dinner, a concert
featuring the UF Jazz Band and one-of-a-kind
student performances, a silent auction and
an after party with dancing and live music by
Jacaré Brazil and Friends. Ticket packages
range from $40-$150 per person. Info: www.
arts.ufl.edu/splendor or call 352-846-1218.
GAWN LUNCHEON
Wednesday, March 16
11:30am – 1:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Sweetwater Branch Inn,
625 E. University Ave. The Gainesville Area
Women’s Network luncheon – third Wednesday
each month. Attend for great networking
and a hot lunch. Register : GAWN.org.
CLASSY & SASSY BURLESQUE
IN THE ROUND
Saturday, March 19
SWALLOWING PROBLEMS IN
OLDER ADULTS
Thursday, March 17
2:30pm – 4:00pm
Institute. Aarthi Madhavan, a Doctoral student
working in the swallowing research lab in the
UF Department of Speech, Language, and
Hearing Sciences, will present this month’s
program from the UF Institute on Aging.
MEET THE ARTIST
Friday, March 18
6:00pm – 8:00pm
FT. WHITE - Rum 138, 2070 SW County Rd
138. Reception with refreshments featuring
Josh Milliken, an Alachua-based nature
photographer who will exhibit his landscape
and river photography of the North Florida
area. His work will be on display March
14th - May 4th at the Rum 138 Gallery.
KIWANIS PANCAKE DAY
Saturday, March 19
7:30am - 11:00am
GAINESVILLE - Gainesville High School Cafeteria,
1990 NW 13th St. Enjoy pancakes, sausage,
orange juice and coffee. $5.00 (Children under 6
are free). 100% of the profits will benefit children.
ST. PADDY’S DAY 5K
Saturday, March 19
8:00am – 10:30am
OCALA - Downtown. United Way’s high school
program Youth United Way hosts their annual
St. Paddy’s Day 5K run/walk through downtown
Ocala. Info: Tina Banner at 352-732-9696.
FAMILY DAY AT THE
DAIRY FARM
Saturday, March 19
9:00am - 2:00pm
HAGUE - UF Dairy Farm, 13515 CR 237. This
free event will take place rain or shine and is
educational and fun for children and adults
alike. Watch cows being milked, tour barn
facilities, pet calves, make butter. www.
facebook.com/FamilyDayattheDairyFarm.
GUITAR QUARTET CONCERT
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 10:00pm. This show
is 18+. For reservations: sallybdash.com.
FLORIDA SPRINGS FESTIVAL
March 19 – 20
Times Vary
OCALA - Silver Springs State Park, 5656 E. Silver
Springs Blvd. The festival promotes preservation
of the springs through awareness and
stewardship, featuring environmental speakers,
educational displays, ranger programs, guided
tours, food, entertainment, a student art show,
silent auction and more. 352-236-7148.
SPRING GARDEN FESTIVAL
March 19 – 20
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GAINESVILLE - Kanapaha Botanical Gardens,
4700 SW 58th Dr. Visit 175 booths offering
plants, landscape displays, garden accessories,
ssories,
arts and crafts, educational exhibits and food,
children’s activities area, live entertainment
ent
and live auctions. Free parking with shuttle
tle
buses service. www.kanapaha.org.
MUSIC IN THE PARK SERIES
S
Sunday, March 20
2:00pm – 4:00pm
HIGH SPRINGS - James Paul Park, 200 N.. Main
St. Performances featuring local musicians/
ns/
talent. BYO blankets, lawn chairs and
refreshments. The music series happens every
third Sunday of the month behind City Hall.
all.
CANCER CONNECTIONS
Wednesday, March 23
Noon – 1:00pm
GAINESVILLE - HealthStreet, 2401 SW Archer
Rd. Monthly meeting for cancer healthcare
professionals, cancer patients/survivors/
caregivers. Anyone involved in the care or
treatment of cancer patients, or provides
a service to them is welcome to come for
networking opportunities. A healthful lunch
is provided for those who RSVP; $4 donation
is requested. Info: Barb Thomas: bnbbarb@
aol.com. www.myhealthstreet.org.
Saturday, March 19
8:30pm – 10:00pm
GAINESVILLE - Hippodrome State Theatre, 25
SE 2nd Pl. The Alachua Guitar Quartet provides
a unique interpretation of Brazilian music
through its adaptations and performances of
diverse musical genres. www.thehipp.org.
HOME FUNERALS
Thursday, March 24
2:30pm – 4:00pm
Institute. Caring for loved ones after death
Run Amuck
with the Duck
Sat., March 5
8:00am
GAINESVILLE - Grounds of North
Florida Regional Medical Center.
This 7th annual 5K walk/run raises
funds and awareness for the Bonnie
J. Addario Lung Cancer Foundation.
Registration begins at 8 a.m. with a
shotgun start at 9 a.m. This family
and pet friendly event features prizes,
snacks and fun for all. Pre-register at
tinyurl.com/RunAmuck16. Info: Caren
Gorenberg at carengorenberg@gmail.
com or 352-256-6263.
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(until a burial or cremation) has historically
been the duty and privilege of friends and
family, but over time families have relinquished
this once profound experience to the funeral
industry. This presentation will cover the
history, advantages, legal aspects, and
practicalities of performing home funerals.
HISTORIC FARM TOUR
Saturday, March 26
10:00am – 11:00am
NEWBERRY - Dudley Farm Historic State
Park, 18730 W. Newberry Rd. Discover an
authentic working farm and follow park staff
or docent in period clothing as they talk about
the homestead consisting of 18 restored
buildings, farm animals, gardens and local
history. www.friendsofdudleyfarm.org.
MOTOWN IN MOTION
Saturday, March 26
6:00pm
OCALA - Circle Square Cultural Center,
8395 SW 80th St. Enjoy songs from Gladys
Night & The Pips, Dionne Warwick, The
Platters, James Brown, Martha & The
Vandellas, The Four Tops, The Marvelettes,
The Temptations and The Supremes. www.
csculturalcenter.com/motown-in-motion.
O’Leno Ole’ Chili Cookoff
Saturday, April 2
9:00am – 3:00pm
HIGH SPRINGS - O’Leno State Park, 410 SE O’Leno Park Rd. Bring your favorite chili
recipe and compete with the best at this Cook-Off & Springs Celebration. Live music,
model train exhibits, children’s activities, environmental exhibits, interactive water
education displays and native plant sales. Info: email [email protected].
MARCH FOR BABIES
Saturday, April 2
8:00am
GAINESVILLE - Westwood Middle School, 3215 NW
15th Ave. March of Dimes’ largest annual fundraising
event. Last year, more than 4,000 people attended.
Sign up at marchforbabies.org/event/alachua and
start a team with co-workers, family and friends.
Registration - 7:00 a.m. and the kick off - 8:00
a.m. Info: marchofdimes.org or nacersano.org.
PLANT EXPO
Saturday, April 2
Advertise Here
for as little as $479 per month!
8:00am – Noon
NEWBERRY - Persimmon Farm, 17010 W.
Newberry Rd. Newberry Garden Club’s
annual fundraiser to support community
projects and scholarship funds. Flowers
of all kinds, bulbs, shrubs, trees and fruit
& vegetable plants. 352-472-3928.
PLANT AND GARDEN SALE
Saturday, April 2
To request more
information and a
copy of the rate card,
please contact us
through our website
or call 352-372-5468.
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9:00am – 4:00pm
MCINTOSH - Van Ness Park/Civic Center, Ave.
G & 7th St. The Seedlings Garden Club of
McIntosh’s annual show offers plants, crafts
and antique sale, local entertainment, food and
drawings and prizes. A play park is available
for the children. Free parking and admission.
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Alachua or Marion counties,
send information by the 13th
day of the month prior.
All submissions will be reviewed and
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CH A RIT Y OF THE MONTH WINNER S
DECEMBER 2015 and JANUARY 2016
TO NOMINATE A CHARITY OF YOUR CHOICE OR TO VOTE FOR YOUR FAVORITE NOMINEES, VISIT:
www.facebook.com/SunStateFCU and click on “Charity of the Month”
DECEMBER WINNER – 1,140 VOTES
JANUARY WINNER - 1,376 VOTES
Project
Makeover
Carson Springs
Wildlife
The December Charity of the Month Project Makeover, a local nonprofit organization. Completely run
by University of Florida students, Project Makeover
has been helping local elementary schools since 2008
by painting interactive murals, landscaping, fulfilling
a Dream Project requested by the school, and participating in a variety of other activities to help better the
facility. This year’s Project Makeover will take place at
Rawlings Elementary from February 19 to 21. Their goal
is to bring the University of Florida campus and the
Alachua County community together to change the face
of public education.
Julie McBee will receive $300 for nominating
them. The winner of the $500 random drawing is
Carson Springs, and the $100 random voter winner is
Susan Pickford.
Congratulations Carson Springs Wildlife Conservation
Foundation, the January Charity of the Month $1,000
winner. The Foundation is primarily a conservation
and educational facility that rescues exotic animals
in need. It is a member of the Zoological Association
of America and the Feline Conservation Federation,
providing educational opportunities and activities
for a wide variety of people, including school groups,
college and vet students, 4H groups, and continuing
education for veterinarians. All donations go directly
to animal care, education and conservation of wild
endangered species. The Foundation also has a rehabilitation license for native wildlife and strict protocols for safety, optimal animal care and its enclosures
exceed the minimum standard.
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THEATRE
Acrosstown Repertory Theatre.....................619 S. Main Street, Gainesville
Curtis M. Phillips Center ........................................... 315 Hull Road, Gainesville
Gainesville Community Playhouse ....... 4039 N.W. 16th Blvd., Gainesville
Hippodrome State Theatre................................. 25 SE 2nd Place, Gainesville
Nadine McGuire Blackbox Theatre ................... Museum Road, Gainesville
Actors’ Warehouse .............................................. 608 N. Main Street, Gainesville
Ocala Civic Theatre ..................................4337 East Silver Springs Blvd., Ocala
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352-236-2274
good mood disappears when he hears
that Tramplemaine has switched his
membership to Crouching Squirrel.
Things are in the rough until, in a stroke
of genius Bingham’s dimwitted assistant
Justin turns out to be an even better
player than the traitorous Tramplemaine.
However, Justin isn’t really on the
ball once his flighty fiancée loses the
priceless engagement ring he just gave
her. And if Quail Valley loses again,
Bingham loses his job. Will all these
hazards prove too much, or will Justin get
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This frantically funny farce blends zany
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March 10 – March 20
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dancer to learn enough dancing to
survive an awards dinner. The dancer,
Senga, however, is recovering from
an injury that may stop her dancing
career permanently. As their relationship
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by the discoveries — both hilarious and
heartwarming — that they make about
each other and about themselves.
PHILLIPS CENTER
Joseph and the Amazing
Technicolor Dreamcoat
March 5
One of the most enduring shows of
all time, Tim Rice and Andrew Lloyd
Webber’s irresistible family musical
is about the trials and triumphs of
Joseph, Israel’s favorite son. Directed
and choreographed by Tony Awardwinner Andy Blankenbuehler, this new
production is a reimagining of the Biblical
story of Joseph, his 11 brothers and the
coat of many colors. The magical musical
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and Close Every Door.
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Jesus Christ Superstar
March 25 – April 17
The first rock opera, created as a concept
album at the end of the turbulent ‘60s,
has Judas questioning the enlightened
motives of this new prophet, resulting
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Blood Brothers
February 11 - March 6
In the gritty inner-city Liverpool slums of
the early 1960s, Mrs. Johnstone, weary
working-class mother of seven children,
makes a meager living by cleaning
houses. Driven by desperation when
her husband walks out on her and she
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the rags-and-riches spectrum: Mickey
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blood brothers – not knowing they
already are. As the years go by, their lives
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shared fate despite seemingly different
destinies. This long-running musical was
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this tragic tale of a shattered family is a
haunting experience.
The Fox on the Fairway
March 24 – April 17
After five straight losses to their bitter
rival, Quail Valley Country Club president
Bingham is in high spirits for this year’s
golf tournament, with excellent golfer
Tramplemaine as his ace in the hole.
But the fiercely competitive Bingham’s
Women In Jeopardy
February 18 - March 13
In this laugh-out-loud flirtatious new
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group of friends trade their wine glasses
for spyglasses to solve a hilariously
madcap mystery.
ACROSSTOWN REPERTORY
THEATRE
Comfort Phone & Do You See
Me?
March 11 – 27
Enjoy two locally written one-act plays
in one night. Comfort Phone looks at
sanity and the supernatural as someone
who recently lost their mother receives
calls from her and explores that subject
with their therapist. In Do You See Me,
at a woman’s funeral, family and racial
issues are explored as authorities try to
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own graves. Adult themes.
NADINE MCGUIRE BLACKBOX
THEATRE
Honky
March 18 – March 26
A black teenager is shot for his “Sky
Max” shoes. Sales triple among white
teens. Are ghetto-glorifying commercials
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racism promises to solve everything and
advertises, “If you don’t think you need
it, you’re probably a racist!” Honky is a
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keeps you laughing from start to finish.”
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BOOK REVIEW BY
TERRI SCHLICHENMEYER
Sharon Tate:
A Life
BY ED SANDERS
ILLUSTRATIONS BY RICK VEITCH
c.2015, Da Capo Press
$25.99 / $32.50 Canada 285 pages
R
ight place. Wrong time.
In your life, you’ve been there
a time or two: missed something by that
much, gone somewhere a minute too late,
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so can make you look foolish, it can save
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Tate: A Life” by Ed Sanders, illustrations
by Rick Veitch, it could be lethal.
Born 73 years ago in Houston, Texas,
50
March 2016
of kids led by a singer-songwriter who
“was determined to record his songs and
to become famous.” Tate thought Charlie Manson was “creepy.”
Some say she wasn’t supposed to be
where she was on the day he ordered his
followers to kill her. Manson still won’t
say why he did it.
Sharon Marie Tate was just six months
“Over four decades later,” says Sandold when she won her first beauty coners, “well into a new century, the reason
test. No one remembers who submitted
or reasons are still a lingering mystery.”
the entry, but it was the beginning of a
Remember the fear and horror of the
26-year career.
Tate-LaBianca Murders? If you’re over
As both Homecoming and Prom
A Certain Age, you do — and even if you
Queen, Tate knew she wanted to be
don’t, you may harbor an enduring truean actress even before she graduated
crime interest in those nights in August
high school. At 17,
1969. “Sharon Tate:
she was noticed
A Life” adds to the
by a director who
intrigue.
was stunned by
Though it
her beauty; besometimes feels
fore she turned 20
a little too casual,
she was officially
there are many
“discovered by a
reasons to like this
producer” and had
book. Author Ed
landed bit parts in
Sanders writes
TV shows. Later,
about more than
she auditioned for a
just Tate here; we
major role in “The
also read about
Sound of Music.”
other people in her
Had she gotten it,
world, and we get
Ed Sanders (photo by Beth Bliss)
says Sanders, her
a good feel for the
life would’ve been
feel-good ‘60s —
vastly different.
drugs, sex, weirdness and all. Sanders
By the time she met Roman Polanski,
then offers new hypotheses to the why
Tate had been engaged at least twice
of the murders and, though we know
and was not-so-innocent anymore. She
what happens, he builds suspense in this
thought he was intelligent; he cast her in story which, too, is “creepy.”
his movies and tried to boost her career.
As books on the subject go, “Sharon
They married in 1968 because he knew
Tate: A Life” isn’t the slickest one but it’s
she wanted a child; she was pregnant
a good companion to all the others. Grab
within a year.
it if you’re fascinated. If you love a good
At some point prior to their marcrime story, you’ve come to the right
riage, “Sharon introduced [Polanski]
place. s
to the joys of Topanga Canyon,” where
Terri Schlichenmeyer has been reading
friends of hers lived. It was a beautiful,
since she was 3 years old and she never goes
carefree playground and, by 1967, they
were joined there by “a converted school 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
the things she knows now might help save your life.
The full story about the people who were there when Betty needed them most is on our website.
The ER and Chest Pain Center at North Florida Regional. Lifesaving care for Life’s Emergencies.
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