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Boomer Life

The Struggle for Women’s Suffrage

Sharron Hannon - 0
In 1776, Abigail Adams wrote to her husband John, importuning him to “remember the Ladies” in drafting the...
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Memoir

The meaning of Motown for a white kid

Jim Marshall - 0
Do you remember them? Smoky Robinson and the Miracles, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Drifters, Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, The Chiffons, The Shirelles,...
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Boomer Life

Collecting political history

Kelly Capers - 0
Silks, ribbons, jugates, and campaign torches In this 2020 political season, the landscape abounds with yard signs and bumper stickers, but campaigns from the beginning...
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Boomer Life

UGA professor strives to cross the racial divide

Sharron Hannon - 0
When Dawn Bennett-Alexander agreed to teach an OLLI class this summer the topic was to be “Diversity and Inclusion in a Post-COVID World: Does...
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Aging Well

Isolated, depressed, lonely, homebound?

Doug Monroe - 0
Who ya gonna Zoom? Gloombuster! When older citizens were urged to isolate at home during the COVID-19 pandemic, Licensed Professional Counselor Rita Macari began using...
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Aging Well

Healthy Us: Advice from trusted sources

BoomAthens - 0
Time for a flu shot October is the ideal month to get your flu shot so that it will last through the upcoming flu season...
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19-News

UGA professor uses art to persuade

BoomAthens - 0
Amitabh Verma, associate professor in the University of Georgia College of Environment and Design, recently turned his talents to creating pandemic posters. Instead of...
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Aging Well

FYI: Virtual events, re-openings, Medicare news, CO-AGE proposals

BoomAthens - 0
Need to Know Medicare Open Enrollment The Medicare Rights Center reminds folks over 65 that from Oct. 15 to Dec. 7 each year, you can make...
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Boomer Life

RBG and her five-year-old pen pal

Tracy Coley - 0
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court justice who rose to pop culture icon status as the “Notorious RBG,” was a lifetime champion for equal...
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Food

A chef’s experience: Cooking in the time of Covid

Tim Dondero - 0
During the bizarre period since mid-March, with external activities crimped, I cooked a lot, gardened before the mosquitoes intervened, masked, distanced from most people,...
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Boomers Write

Memoir

The meaning of Motown for a white kid

Jim Marshall - 0
Do you remember them? Smoky Robinson and the Miracles, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Drifters, Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, The Chiffons, The Shirelles,...
Food

A chef’s experience: Cooking in the time of Covid

Tim Dondero - 0
During the bizarre period since mid-March, with external activities crimped, I cooked a lot, gardened before the mosquitoes intervened, masked, distanced from most people,...
Travel

The Woodpecker Trail, Part 2 – The Southern Leg

Rick and Randy Waters - 0
The Fall 2018 issue of BoomAthens carried our piece about the northern part of Georgia’s historic Woodpecker Trail (Highway 121). Now we visit the 140-mile...

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Advocating on behalf of nursing home residents and their families

Debra Tyler-Horton - 0
Checking on our loved ones during COVID-19 is a top priority for many of us. As nursing homes and other long-term care facilities resume...
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Boomer Life

RBG and her five-year-old pen pal

Tracy Coley - 0
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court justice who rose to pop culture icon status as the “Notorious RBG,” was a lifetime champion for equal...
Memoir

Letters from Vietnam, 1968: Love that knows no boundaries.

Myrna Adams West - 5
In January and February 1968 while I was sleeping snug and warm in my dorm at Tift College, my brother Frederick was spending nights...
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Memoir

Letters from Vietnam, 1967

Myrna Adams West - 6
Small flakes of snow prickled against my face and hands and left little wet splotches on the stationery on my lap.  It was 1967,...
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Boomer Life

Will women be the deciders?

Sharron Hannon - 0
2020 is a year like no other—a global pandemic and economic downturn, street protests against racism, hellish wildfires, and drenching hurricanes. Against this chaotic backdrop,...

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Boomer Life

Will women be the deciders?

Sharron Hannon - 0
2020 is a year like no other—a global pandemic and economic downturn, street protests against racism, hellish wildfires, and drenching hurricanes. Against this chaotic backdrop,...
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Opinion

Just a thought: Tap and step

Betsy Bean - 0
We Boomers began our journey during the poliovirus epidemics in the 1940s and ‘50s, and today we’re ending it with the coronavirus pandemic. Polio...
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Sponsored

Advocating on behalf of nursing home residents and their families

Debra Tyler-Horton - 0
Checking on our loved ones during COVID-19 is a top priority for many of us. As nursing homes and other long-term care facilities resume...
Read more
Aging Well

Healthy Us: Advice from trusted sources

BoomAthens - 0
Time for a flu shot October is the ideal month to get your flu shot so that it will last through the upcoming flu season...
Read more
19-News

UGA professor uses art to persuade

BoomAthens - 0
Amitabh Verma, associate professor in the University of Georgia College of Environment and Design, recently turned his talents to creating pandemic posters. Instead of...
Read more
Aging Well

FYI: Virtual events, re-openings, Medicare news, CO-AGE proposals

BoomAthens - 0
Need to Know Medicare Open Enrollment The Medicare Rights Center reminds folks over 65 that from Oct. 15 to Dec. 7 each year, you can make...
Read more
Memoir

The meaning of Motown for a white kid

Jim Marshall - 0
Do you remember them? Smoky Robinson and the Miracles, The Temptations, The Four Tops, The Drifters, Aretha Franklin, The Supremes, The Chiffons, The Shirelles,...
Read more
Boomer Life

RBG and her five-year-old pen pal

Tracy Coley - 0
Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the Supreme Court justice who rose to pop culture icon status as the “Notorious RBG,” was a lifetime champion for equal...
Read more
Food

A chef’s experience: Cooking in the time of Covid

Tim Dondero - 0
During the bizarre period since mid-March, with external activities crimped, I cooked a lot, gardened before the mosquitoes intervened, masked, distanced from most people,...
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Boomer Life

Athens High 1965: Integrating high school athletics in Athens

Walter Allen, Jr. - 7
This article was previously printed in the Winter issue of Zebra Magazine. It has been edited for length.    Alan Morse’s father was skeptical of him...
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Memoir

Letters from Vietnam, 1967

Myrna Adams West - 6
Small flakes of snow prickled against my face and hands and left little wet splotches on the stationery on my lap.  It was 1967,...
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Memoir

Letters from Vietnam, 1968: Love that knows no boundaries.

Myrna Adams West - 5
In January and February 1968 while I was sleeping snug and warm in my dorm at Tift College, my brother Frederick was spending nights...
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Memoir

To everything there is a season. Some thoughts on inner harvesting

Virginia Carver - 3
There’s a small branching plant with clusters of yellow pods that burst open in the fall to reveal intense orange, jewel-like berries. In Indiana...
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Food

The Return of Baxter Street as a Dining Destination, Part 1

Art and Connie Crawley - 3
In just a two-block section of Baxter Street, six, locally owned restaurants have emerged to establish the locale as a dining destination. Easily within...
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Boomers Write

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Humor

I need a new bra

Dan Akins - 1
Caregiving for his 80-year-old mother challenged one writer’s ingenuity when she told him “I Need A Bra.” Enjoy two new submissions to the Boomers Write section.
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Memoir

Letters from Vietnam, 1967

Myrna Adams West - 6
Small flakes of snow prickled against my face and hands and left little wet splotches on the stationery on my lap.  It was 1967,...
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