If you are interested, there is a free zoom lecture and slide show about the Audubon Mural Project, presented by the Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct. Scroll down to learn more and find out how to register.
ZOOM MEETING TOUR OF THE AUDUBON MURAL PROJECT, WITH LEIGH HALLINGBY
Wednesday, July 22 - 10:00 am to 11:30 am
Presenter:
Friends of the Old Croton Aqueduct
This event is free and open to the public.
Please join us for this stimulating and engaging online program. The Audubon Mural Project Virtual Tour is one hour, with time for questions and answers at the end. We will see about 40 murals - significantly more than can be seen on an actual walking tour. This virtual tour affords the opportunity for a much broader audience to see and experience this amazing project. Each Zoom Tour can accommodate up to 100 people.
The Audubon Bird Mural Project is an impressive effort to create, in NYC, murals of over 300 North American birds. Most of the murals are in the Harlem neighborhoods of Hamilton Heights and Washington Heights, where John James Audubon lived the last ten years of his life. Since all of the birds painted are threatened by climate change, the Project is designed not only to display the birds’ beauty, but also to make us aware of the challenges that they face. Because the artists have license to represent the birds in any way that they choose, there is tremendous variation in the styles of painting. The 40 murals we will see range from lovely panels that fill in a former window to spectacular murals covering the entire side of a building.
To register, and for more information, please contact: Leigh Hallingby at lhallingby@gmail.com or 551-404-7514 (cell). Leigh will send you the Zoom link for the virtual tour.
Your guide, Leigh Hallingby: HarlemWalks.com
Phelps Vitality Programs for July and August
Click here for the flyer listing programs on osteoporosis, laughter yoga, “Common Conditions in Older Adults,” Alzheimer’s Caregivers Support Group, and a Bereavement Support Group. Contact Ellen Woods (914-366-3937) for more information about any of the programs.
Photographer/Herbs/Squirrels
Attention Photographers! Do you have a really great photo that you would like to submit for possible inclusion in the next issue of Kendal View (September-October)? It should be appropriate for late summer/early fall and be 1 megabyte or larger. In your e-mail, please say when and where the photo was taken; include a brief description if appropriate. Email ONE PHOTO, ASAP. Arthur Brady
Herbs from Kendal’s garden. Help yourself from the herb garden bed, or from the pot near the newspapers in the Residents Lounge. Please take just a sampling only, leaving the rest for others.
Don’t Feed the Squirrels! Squirrels have gotten into at least one Robert Fulton apartment recently and it is likely that someone has been feeding them. Please do not feed the squirrels, or chipmunks for that matter, as it encourages them to be comfortable with people and our apartments.
INDOORS OUTDOORS Virtual Art Show
The curators are asking for submission of photographs of your artworks, that is, works made by Kendal residents. They may include paintings, collage, fiber arts, assemblages, and photographs. Topics may also include pandemic-related activities. ONE SUBMISSION MAXIMUM. E-mail a high resolution photo of your artwork to webmasterkohresweb@gmail.com and please include your name, the work title, and the medium. Deadline: Wednesday, July 22. Questions: Contact Lynn Brady.
Met Pay-per-View Concerts
This series will feature some of opera’s biggest stars singing mainstream operatic repertoire in Europe and the U.S., without audiences. The series of 12 starts July 18 with Jonas Kaufmann in Polling Abbey in Bavaria. Cost is $20 per concert. All live concerts are at 1 pm ET. According to Peter Gelb, general manager of the Met, “This new initiative is intended to create live performance opportunities for our artists and our audiences at a time when they both sorely need it.” Christine Goerke will host the series from a New York control room. Cameras will capture the performance as well as the architectural features of interior venues. The concerts:
July 18 - Jonas Kaufmann, Polling, Bavaria, Germany
Aug. 1 - Renee Fleming, Washington, DC
Aug. 16 - Roberto Alagna and Aleksandra Kurzak, Eze, France
Aug. 29 - Lise Davidsen, Oslo, Norway
Sept. 12 - Joyce DiDonato, Barcelona, Spain
Sept. 26 - Sondra Radvanovsky and Piotr Beczala, Barcelona, Spain
Oct. 10 - Anna Netrebko, Vienna, Austria
Oct. 24 - Diana Damrau and Joseph Calleja, Malta
Nov. 7 - Pretty Yende and Javier Camarena, Zurich, Switzerland
Nov. 21 - Sonya Yoncheva, Berlin, Germany
Dec. 12 - Bryn Terfel, Wales
Dec. 19 - Angel Blue, New York, NY
Internet access needed to buy tickets and to stream concerts via computer, smartphone or tablet. After the initial live performance, each concert will be available online for 12 days. For tickets and additional information go to www.metopera.org
Sapiens by Yuval Harari
Dr. Yoel Magid, who recently lectured on role- playing and deception in Shakespeare, offers a six-session analysis of the importance of fiction in human history as developed by Yuval Harari in Sapiens, an intellectually surprising, witty and well-written history of humankind. Each week Professor Magid will focus on a different chapter: “The Cognitive Revolution”, “The Agricultural Revolution”, “The Unification of Humankind”, and the “Scientific Revolution”. Copies of Sapiens are available in hardcover, paperback and online. This six-session course will be provided via Zoom from 2 pm to 3:15 pm on Wednesdays, August 5, 12, 19, 26, and September 2 and 9.
Accomplishment - A Poem by Sheila Benedis
In a landscape pruned of humans
Sheltering in isolation at home
The magnolia bursts forth radiant
Undeterred by a pandemic or unrest
Oblivious to the plight of its inhabitants
Growth transforms our environment
Magnificent blossoms
Flash soft delicate colors
Tiny moss green leaves unfurl
Smooth organic shapes
Increase in size day by day
Gradually leaf out
Scent of air on the breeze
Sounds of winds movement
Branches hover
Almost embrace
Proud accomplishment
Springs abundance goes
Almost unnoticed in dire times
Contemporary Issues Discussion Group is Back
Gene Dubow announced today that the Contemporary Issues Discussion Group (CIDG) will start meeting again on Zoom next Thursday, July 16 at 10 am. If you are already on Gene’s list, you will get a Zoom invite earlier that morning.
CIDG is open to all residents. To be included on the discussant list, get in touch with Gene.
August and September Zoom Classes
Theater Course with Kate Farrington – Tuesday, August 4, 11, 18 – 2 pm to 3:30 pm
“Exploring Power: Three American Leading Ladies”: The role of the American actress in the 20th century evolved as dramatically as their role in American society: from the “damsels in distress” of melodrama to the indomitable figures of American Realism. This course examines three plays that offer women of great strength—sometimes overt, sometimes hidden—and the impact they have on the world around them.
Plays to be discussed: (1) The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman (1939); (2) Born Yesterday by Garson Kanin (1946); (3) Doubt by John Patrick Shanley (2004).
Climate Change with Prof. Paul Olsen – Fridays in September – 2 pm to 3:30 pm
This course was offered in March but was postponed due to the pandemic.
Lecture I: “The Synergism between Climate & Life”: What is climate and what controls it in the big picture; why are we not like Venus or Mars?
Lecture II: “4.5 Billion Years of Climate”: History of climate and life on Earth; major trends in climate and their origins; the age of dinosaurs; sea-level change; mass extinctions as natural experiments.
Lecture III: “Climate Change in the Anthropocene”: Humans as an agent of climate change; 60,000 years of human intervention; the 6th extinction; how we know what we do.
Lecture IV: “Prognosis: Prediction, Risk Assessment, & Mitigation”: What the future holds; Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change; climate and rising sea level; risks, mitigation and resiliency
If you wish to sign up for either or both courses, please contact Fran Kelly.
Library News
Library News
Three Reminders:
1. Over the past few years, we have purchased more Large Print books for the library, and many are duplicates of books we have in regular print. It is therefore important that borrowers indicate on the sign-out slip which version they have taken. Just check or put a “Y’ on the LP line as appropriate.
2. It would also be most helpful if borrowers could write clearly on the sign-out slips. Trying to interpret titles of books and residents’ names can be quite a challenge!
3. We were surprised and concerned to discover that a borrower had underlined passages in one of our new books. While you are free to do as you wish with your own books, please do not mark up those belonging to the library.
Everyone’s cooperation will be greatly appreciated.