Kenny York and York’s Field Kenny York “Watch for airplanes” reads the sign driving up to Kenny York’s house in Ramseur. It’s good advice since the concrete drive bi-sects a 3000-foot grass airstrip his daddy, Lonnie York, built in 1950. “My daddy worked at a hosiery plant in Greensboro…paid pretty good in those days. Many days he’d ride his motorcycle [...]
A variety of educational programs featuring Russian art, plus a Russian-themed lunch or tea, are major offerings at the North Carolina Museum of History through March 5. The exhibits are titled The Tsars’ Cabinet: Two Hundred Years of Russian Decorative Arts Under the Romanovs, running concurrently with Windows into Heaven: Russian Icons from the Lilly and Francis Robicsek Collection of [...]
Bill and Ann North view “the glory that was Greece and the grandeur that was Rome.” Bill and Ann North traveled extensively in the United States during their 43 years of marriage, but they had never visited Europe. That changed in September when they decided to travel to the Mediterranean, touring five countries and ten cities on a 17-day trip. [...]
Charlie Nelson (left) and Clarence Whitefield “Let’s go again!” That’s all Charlie Nelson said, but Clarence Whitefield knew immediately what his friend of more than 70 years meant. They had a blast when they hopped a military tanker plane to Europe in the 1970s. Nothing unusual about that except today Charlie, a resident of Croasdaile Village in Durham, is 93 [...]
Are you at a point in your life where you are asking, “What’s next?” You have finished one chapter, and you have yet to write the next one. Many seniors face these transitions at midlife, but they can happen to anyone at any stage. It’s a time of great potential, defining a whole new phase of life. It˙s called Life [...]
John F. Kennedy was committed to improving the nation’s fitness even before he took the oath of office. Following the election in 1960, he published “The Soft American” in Sports Illustrated (December 26, 1960). As president, he appointed a National Council on Fitness which launched a nationwide campaign to alert Americans to physical fitness needs and provide them with the [...]
Roger Gore, Public Relations Manager at Springmoor Life Care Retirement Community, has over ten years of experience working with seniors.Jerry Fuller is an Iowa farmer at heart. He and his wife, Beverly Fuller, are corporate vagabonds who followed their careers from Iowa to Raleigh, finally retiring in Springmoor Life Care Retirement Community in 2004. Jerry Fuller’s long history of working [...]
When Jim Hunt burst onto the political scene in North Carolina 40 years ago, his relentless energy and his boundless optimism about North Carolina stood out. The four-term former Governor may be older and grayer as he nears his 76th birthday but the drive, energy and optimism remain. The word “retirement” remains foreign. Yes, 12 years ago he left the [...]
Can speaking multiple languages increase brain power in the elderly? It’s a fact that bilingual children have more brainpower than kids who grow up speaking only one language, and now neuroscientists say “yes.” Bilingualism appears to protect against dementia and Alzheimer’s disease. A recent study at York University found a later onset of dementia in bilingual patients than in monolingual [...]
By Brad Allen, President and Executive Director of Senior Games Though the author of the adage is unknown, it is a fact that “You don’t quit playing because you grow old; you grow old because you stop playing”! In fact, healthy aging is just “par for the course” for over 60,000 year-round participants in the nation’s largest senior Olympic-style program, [...]
