Famed pianist Michael Boriskin returns to Kendal with a special program, Sounds of the Gilded Age, on Sunday, November 24.
Joining him will be Curtis Macomber and Pala Garcia, violins; Danielle Farina, viola; and Wilhelmina Smith, cello.
The program will include Bruno Walter’s Piano Quintet in F-sharp minor and Johannes Brahms’s Piano Quintet in F minor, Opus 34.
Please note that the concert will begin at 2:30 p.m., one half hour earlier than is usual.
The Education Committee announces the following 2020 KoH Great Decisions Program for the discussion of current foreign policy issues facing the U.S. John Sorice is the Chair of the program.
Feb. 4 - Climate Change and Global Order
Feb. 17 - India and Pakistan
Mar. 2 - Red Sea Security
Mar. 16 - Modern Slavery and Human Trafficking
Mar. 30 - China’s Road into Latin America
Apr. 13 - U. S. Relations with the Northern Triangle
Apr. 27 - The Philippines and the U. S.
May 11 - Artificial Intelligence and Data
All sessions will be held on Mondays from 10:00 a.m.to noon in the Gathering Room.
Sign-up forms have been distributed. Those interested are urged to submit their completed forms, together with a check for the briefing book, by December 8.
Here’s a rare opportunity…
The Tuesday Club and the Friday Morning Club will again be selling their lovely gift bags on Friday evening November 22 from 5:30 pm to 6:30 pm in the Residents Lounge. The bags sell for $5 each and IOUs are acceptable.
All proceeds from the sale of the gift bags go to the two clubs and are used to purchase craft supplies that that are made into decorations for the Bistro, the Adirondack Country Kitchen, the Clearwater dining room, the Sunnyside dining room, and the Meals-on Wheels trays which Kendal supplies to the local community.
Shirley Miller and Sally Costa, who sew the bottle bags, are busy with wonderful fabric and ribbons and you will see the lovely results on Friday. They make great gifts to go when you give a bottle of wine as a present.
Note: The bags sewn by Shirley and Sally are much more decorative and interesting than those in the picture.
Hope to see you there!
Pace University Lienhard School of Nursing students, who have been continuing their practicum at Kendal on Tuesdays since the beginning of Pace’s fall semester, circulated a fall prevention survey here during October.
The students will present the results of their survey on Tuesday, November 19, at 2:30 pm, in the Private Dining Room.
All are welcome. Light refreshments will be served.
On Monday, November 18 Dr. John Delfs MD will deliver a talk on “Facebook, Free Will, And Our Future World: Will We Humans Use Our Brains To Save Ourselves?”
Despite our magnificent scientific and technological advances, we face climate change, terrorism, nuclear threats, immigrant crises, social and economic instability, and tyrants popping up worldwide. What’s going on? Why? Can we humans turn ourselves onto a better path?
Dr. John Delfs, neurologist, neuroscientist, and founder of “Good Wolf,” believes we now know enough about ourselves from neuroscience and related fields to turn ourselves toward a positive future, if we apply that knowledge to public policy, and to how we think, decide, and act as individuals, families, and communities.
On Monday evening Dr. Delfs will take us on a tour of the four major functions of our brains: survival, emotion, knowledge, and higher cognition. He will explain how the cause of our civilization’s problems are decisions and actions that arise from largely unconscious processes in our brains, increasingly driven by the manipulative use of more and more powerful media capabilities. He will then argue that the solution to our problems is to develop and use our capacity to become aware, self-reflective, moral agents, who work together, applying what we know, to chart a better path and make a better world.
This will be a very special presentation that you will not want to miss.
We know that Kendal residents love solving puzzles and playing games. So much so that some of those precious items have been borrowed and not (as yet) returned. If you’ve borrowed one (or more) and have it hanging around in your apartment, now is the time to return it.
The Vision Help Committee requests the return of the following Missing Puzzles and Games from closets in Main Hall:
Active Minds (63 Piece Puzzle)
Monet’s Garden (Large Jigsaw Puzzle)
Rummikub (Large)
Scrabble (Large edition)
Thank you.
Amelia (Amy) Augustus
If you want to change your Medicare Plans effective January 1, 2020, open enrollment is until December 7, 2019. There is expert help available at the Warner Library in Tarrytown on Wednesdays from 10 am to 1 pm.
For Medicare part D (prescriptions), you can contact Jo-Ann Rapaport who will help you find the best plan for your prescriptions. You can also get information from 1-800-medicare or www.medicare.gov.
The Trips Committee announced the following new trip:
Wed., Dec. 11, The Cloisters, New York: The Met Museum branch specializing in the art and architecture of medieval Europe is in Fort Tryon Park overlooking the Hudson in northern Manhattan. Special attractions are holiday decorations and the exhibition “The Colmar Treasure: A Medieval Jewish Legacy.” Hidden for centuries in the wall of a Jewish family’s house were small possessions of gold or silver such as jeweled rings, brooches and coins giving a glimpse of lost Jewish life in medieval Alsace before the Plague of 1348-49. Highlights of the permanent collection are the Unicorn tapestries, French cloisters with medieval gardens and a Romanesque chapel. The art includes sculpture, paintings, tapestries, stained-glass windows, enamels, ivories and metalwork.
Since member cards and other passes are not valid on group trips, all participants must pay the senior group rate of $17 per person; transportation is free. This may be the last Kendal trip to the Cloisters unless the Met Museum changes its group price policy. Not recommended for residents who can’t do stairs and steps.
In addition there is a short wait list for:
Wed., Dec. 4, New York City Do Your Own Thing with drop-off at the Metropolitan Museum of Art; no one-way trips; although residents are free to go wherever they wish in Manhattan, many choose the Met. New exhibitions include: Wangechi Mutu’s four bronze sculptures, “The NewOnes, will free Us” in niches on the Met façade; “The Last Knight: the Art, Armor, and Ambition of Maximilian I” (1459-1519); “The Renaissance of Etching;” Frank Lloyd Wright’s “Textiles: The Taliesin Line, 1955-1960”; and the ongoing “Art of Native America,” “Dutch Masterpieces” and “Epic Abstraction.”
Sign-up for all trips is in the Trips Book located in the Activities Alcove. Please do not sign up for a trip unless you are committed to go on it. If you are unable to attend a trip, draw one line through your name.
Please adhere to the rules.
Kendal will be accepting Thanksgiving reservations beginning on November 7.
The Thanksgiving meal will be served in the Bistro from 11:30 am - 2:30 pm on Thursday, November 28. As in past years, we will not have Formal Dining Service (only Bistro service). The Bistro will be closed for dinner on Thanksgiving evening.
We encourage everyone to make a reservation, especially parties of five or more.
To make a reservation, please write your name (and number of people) in the Binder on the Credenza near the Bistro Entrance. As always, please contact Fred Coppola or Mika Burgos if you have any questions.
On Monday, November 11 (Veterans Day) at 7:30 pm in the Gathering Room, Kendal will be in for a treat - a lecture from one of its true war heroes.
Bill “Tiger” Lyons will share “Some Untold Facts of the WW II Aerial War over Nazi Germany (and the Tiny Airplane that made a crucial difference)”. First Lieutenant Lyons flew 63 combat missions over Europe in his P-51 Mustang fighter plane “Tiger’s Revenge” during WW II.
He was assigned to the 357th Squadron, 355th Fighter Group, Eighth Air Force, and based at Station 122 in Steeple Morden, England. Bill flew his missions protecting B-17 and B-24 bombers over Germany.
In his Veterans Day presentation, Bill will briefly cover the pre-war background of the 1920-30s that motivated him to enlist and become a fighter pilot. He will give a first-hand account of the deep penetration bombing missions which – after significant failures – destroyed the Nazi German war-making infrastructure, ending the war in Europe. He tells the story of courage by ordinary Americans that, to his knowledge, has never been factually told first hand before.
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