Chester 50plus Senior News August 2011

By Megan Joyce

It’s been almost 40 years since renowned quilter Nancy Long first pickedup a needle, her creative mind envisioning a quilt instead of a collection ofold dresses.

Long’s husband’s military career meant the couple lived and worked onthe opposite side of the globe for many years, including stints in Thailand,Korea, and the Netherlands.

“I had all these gorgeous cotton dresses made in Thailand. I brought themall back and decided to make a quilt out of them—and that’s sort of where Igot started, cutting all those dresses up that were no longer in style.”

Long has a career history as interesting and varied as her home addresses.Her résumé ranges from home economist and service corps director tokitchen designer. Long even taught math, science, and social studies to GIsworking toward their GEDs during the Vietnam War.

But it’s her talent for and love of quilting—fiber art—that has been herpassion for nearly four decades. She has seen the art form come and go incycles of popularity since the 1970s, but it’s been only within the last 10 to15 years that the world of quilting has undergone a dramatic transformation.

“It used to be that quilting was more of a craft. There was not a great dealof individualism in quilting, but there were a few artists who sort of came inand chose that as their medium,” Long said. “Now, quilting is probably

The Artin the Craft

Nancy Long, quilt designer and expert on Japanese fiber art, is seated in front of a century-old kimono with hand-painted swan detailing, once worn by an apprentice geisha.

To the right hangs one of her own quilt designs featuring Japanese family crests.

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World Traveler Infuses Asian Designs

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Zen and the Art of Bread Baking

Such Is Life

Saralee Perel

The day before our county fairopens, scores of hopefulcontestants stream through the

gates carrying handmade items likesweaters, quilts, jams, and woodcarvings.The spirit is one of healthy cooperationand competition. Simply being a part ofthis 135-year-old tradition makes thesefair goers shine.

On the other hand, each year myeasygoing husband, Bob, turns into anobsessed combat soldier in a bloodthirstybattle to beat everybody else.

“Bob,” I’ve said, “it’s not aboutwinning.”

“Nobody believes that,” he growled, ashe painstakingly braided the rum raisinchallah. On the counter was a smallclump of the dough wrapped in foil. Heexplained, “This is a traditional Jewishcustom. It’s an offering. You’re supposedto bake it with the bread.”

“You’re notJewish, Bob.Why are youdoing it?”

“So I’llwin!”

Bob hasthe oven onall August.The heatmakes uscranky. Once,when Itiptoedbehind him,he slammeddown the cupof flour. “Youwere a marriage counselor for 22 years,”he hissed at me, while kneading his fifthtrial loaf of challah. “Ever hear ofpersonal space?”

“Bob,” Itook hissticky, butteryhands andheld them,“baking breadis supposed tobe calming,like Zen.”

He lookedat our claspedhands,thought for amoment,gazed into myeyes and said,“You haveexactly four

seconds to tell me what you’ve done withthe raisins.”

“I … ate them.” I backed away,slowly.

“I slave all day in this hot kitchen.And you just waltz right in and takewhat isn’t yours?”

“There’s also a dork contest, Bob. Youwon.”

On cold winter nights, he sits nearour wood stove poring throughcookbooks. His ideas come from howingredients sound together. Peanutbutter, cheddar cheese, butterscotch,chocolate. These foods are “what peoplereally want to eat,” he says.

Oddly, his mother’s cooking, he says,was barely edible. “Everything wascovered in Ragu. We’d place bets afterdinner. Was it chicken or fish?”

Bob has won seven blue ribbons forhis breads, but once he won secondprize, a red ribbon. He was a wreck.“You know what a red ribbon means?” hesaid to me. “It says to the world I’m a bigfat loser.”

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Last year, he won not only three blueribbons, but also the grand prize Best inShow ribbon for his rum raisin challah,which he attributes to the Jewish offeringcustom.

This year, one of his entries isBavarian black bread. Recently, we had aheart-to-heart talk. I communicated mymost intimate feelings. I said, “Youbetter act like something other than arepulsive gargoyle this August or I’llwrite an article on your behavior.”Threats are much more effective andtime efficient than the encouragement ofactual psychological growth.

And so, Bob has straightened up. But

unfortunately this turn-around hasresulted in the following:

1. He’s adopted my Zen idea of breadbaking and does everything agonizinglyslowly. He stares at yeast. The dog and Iroll our eyes. He speaks in parables thatmake no sense. “Without water, the yeastis, above all, alive.”

2. He’s overly polite to me in thekitchen. “Can I make you iced tea?” he’llask.

“No thanks.”“You’re sure? It’s no trouble.”“No. But thanks.”“It’s easy. I’ll just get some ice and …”

“Bob! I don’t want your stinky icedtea!”

Somehow, in spite of an always-turbulent August, the day before the fairis wonderful. Bob does his final bakingat 4 a.m. so the loaves will still be warmfor the judges. I do love watching himcarefully and tenderly wrapping hisbreads. And it’s so exciting in the exhibitbuilding. Everyone, from the needlepointdesigner to the pole bean farmer, is soproud of their wares. And I’m so proudof Bob.

The competition is about people, notproducts. It’s about families and friendscrossing their fingers. It’s about the fear

and courage it takes to risk puttingsomething homemade on display thatwill be judged by others.

But it’s also about what Bob sayswhenever he’s recognized for one of hismany feats, whether it’s winning a blueribbon or a recipe contest or making anappearance on a TV show. When it’s allover he breathes a heavy, grateful sighand says, “I hope my ex-wife saw that.”

Well, Bob’s made some progress, buthe still needs work.

Award-winning columnist Saralee Perelwelcomes emails at [email protected] via her website: www.saraleeperel.com.


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Ellen Finck knew as she grewup in New Jersey that shewanted to be a nurse. She

and her twin sister had a cousinwho was a nurse at the CooperHospital in Camden, N.J., and thetwo of them were often hosted bythe cousin as they toured thehospital and were introduced to thedoctors and nurses.

Her other main interest wasWarren Cassaday, whom she met ona blind date when the young manwho was supposed to be her datewasn’t able to make it. That workedout so well that she was engaged toWarren while she was still a highschool senior.

Early in 1941, Warren wasdrafted and shipped off to theArmy. That’s the last of him thatEllen saw for four years, althoughthey wrote to each other virtuallydaily. As soon as Ellen graduatedfrom high school, she promptlyentered the School of Nursing atWest Jersey Hospital in Camden,N.J.

She smiles as she says, “Threeyears later, when I had earned myRN, I then wrote Warren that I wascoming to get him.” And sheenlisted in the Army. The chancesof her actually joining him, ofcourse, were remote, but sheplunged ahead, always hopeful thatit would actually happen.

When she and other nursesshipped overseas in March 1945,they were told they were headed forJapan. But, after they had been atsea for three days, they learned thatthey were actually headed for CampLucky Strike in Rouen, France,where she was assigned to the 196th

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1945, the day that PresidentRoosevelt died. Camp Lucky Strikewas a tent hospital whose patientswere German prisoners of war andAmerican prisoners of war who werebeing prepared for return tohospitals in the United States.

By that time, Warren had comefrom North Africa to Normandy toBelgium, where he ran an officers

mess that served many of the topgenerals, including Eisenhower,Bradley, Patton, Montgomery, etc.

Having such contacts apparentlyworked out well because, just afterVE-Day, General Hodge loanedWarren his airplane to fly Warren toCamp Lucky Strike where he was tosee Ellen again for the first time infour years.

Within days, they made weddingplans, and Warren “borrowed” ajeep that took them to Paris.Finding a place to stay was aproblem. The American Red Crosshad no space, but the French RedCross got them a suite at a tophotel.

And on May 12, 1945, Ellen andWarren were married in their fulldress uniforms. All marriages had tooccur in the office of the mayor ofParis. Neither Ellen nor Warrenspoke French, and the mayor spokeno English.

“So we had to say ‘oui’ whereverit seemed appropriate,” Ellen says.“So, officially, we were married, butwe immediately went to theAmerican Church in Paris, wherewe were married again by an armychaplain. A wonderful, two-week

honeymoon in Paris followed, andthen it was back to our units.”

Warren was soon sent back to theUnited States and was discharged.But it took Ellen until November toship out for Boston. Halfway acrossthe ocean, they ran into a hurricane,and one of the soldiers hadappendicitis. Ellen was theattending nurse for that operation,and the rest of the trip wasuneventful.

Ellen spent five years as ahomemaker while having twochildren, and then resumed hernursing career, first as a relief nurseat Underwood General Hospital inWoodbury, N.J., and then as schoolnurse in the campus school atGlassboro State College.

She earned her BS degree andtaught high school health andphysical education for three years,followed by three years of highschool nutrition.

In 1995, Ellen and Warrendecided it would be great to bemarried again in the same placethey had been married 50 yearsearlier. So they traveled to Parisagain to do that. This time, Ellenbought a lovely wedding gown, andthey again said their vows at theAmerican Church in Paris.

In retirement, she and Warrenspent 18 years in Fort Myers, Fla.There, good friends spoke soglowingly of Central Pennsylvaniathat she and Warren moved to thearea in 2005. She lost Warren thefollowing year, after 61 years ofmarriage. But she says she has made“an amazing number of newfriends.” She has two children, fivegrandchildren, and nine great-grandchildren.

Ellen feels as if she’s had anespecially blessed life, and she sayswith a grin, “I can’t help wonderinghow many other American brideswere married in a ceremonyconducted entirely in French, whereyou had to simply guess when to say‘oui.’”

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The meringue shells for this light, summery dessert can be baked a dayahead and stored at room temperature, loosely covered, if you only want toserve two at a time. Use summer fruits at their peak of freshness and arrangeover the yogurt. You can also substitute sweetened whipped cream for theyogurt for a special occasion.

I developed this recipe away from home and didn’t have a stand mixer like Iusually use. Using a hand mixer it definitely takes longer for the meringue toform stiff peaks, but this doesn’t affect the tasty outcome.


Creativity Matters

Judith Zausner

Happiness is big business.Hundreds of thousands ofbooks in print, billions of

dollars spent in pills and psychotherapyvisits, and yet it remains temporary and,for some, elusive. Mental health is basedon responding appropriately toexperiences and, with life’s ups anddowns, no sane person can be happy 100percent of the time.

So we fluctuate. We are happy, andthen we are unhappy, and then findhappiness again. We desire euphoria eventhough it does not have the stability ofan inanimate object or the permanenceof a tattoo.

Happiness research provides surprisingdata. Harvard psychologist Dan Gilbertsays a year after a person wins the lotteryand a year after a person becomesparaplegic and loses functions of his/herlegs, their happiness quota is the same.

He says researchhas shown thatmost traumaticevents longer thanthree months pastwill lose theirimpact andduration with aperson. Gilberttheorizes that it isdue to our beingable to synthesizehappiness; weadjust to createhappiness.

For example, inhis article, AgingArtists on theCreativity of TheirOld Age, Dr.Martin Lindauerquotes a female artist in her 60s: “I can

no longer makevery large projects,but making thingscan be rewardingalso. My energy hasdiminishedsomewhat, and alot of time hasbeen lostrecovering fromsurgery, but I havenever stoppedworking. I have acompulsion tomake things of myown design. I amfortunate in thatmy mind seems tobe intact.”

This womanuses her positive

attitude consistently by recognizing the

problem, creating positive acceptance(synthesizing happiness), and movingforward with gratitude. It alsoexemplifies her flexible and resilientapproach to living.

So we have opportunities to be happythrough a genuine experience (e.g.,winning the lottery) or a syntheticallyadjusted experience. However happinesscomes to you, numerous studies haveshown that those who profess to behappy tend to be optimistic,unencumbered by failure or theunknown, more social, and experiencegreater control of their lives.

Psychologist Adam Anderson’s studieshave shown the value of being happy inour approach to processing informationaround us. “With a positive mood, youactually get more access to things youwould normally ignore,” he says. “Insteadof looking through a porthole, you have

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This is excellent fodder for creativity,which requires unique thinking toincorporate sometimes disparateelements for an optimal solution. Whenyou are feeling upbeat, you can embraceyour world and respond positively toelements and are therefore more openand flexible to integrating them. Thecreative experience provides challenge aswell as satisfaction and often a sense ofexhilaration. You are the owner, themaker, the problem solver.

Creativity is an integral part of agingwell; it facilitates wellness throughenhanced self-esteem and socialization.A positive attitude and a happydisposition are important in respondingto the inherent hurdles of healthyaging. It is an active tool to combateveryday stress, which can lead todepression and illness. Instead of seeingproblems, contented people often

perceive them as challenges to approachand overcome.

Creativity is a tool that can fuelhappiness and ward off depression. Astudy co-sponsored by GeorgeWashington University and theNational Endowments for the Artsfound that adults aged 65 and overwho were continuously participating inarts programs were documented to havefewer doctors’ visits, require lessmedication, and were less apt to bedepressed.

We cannot simply turn on and offthe happiness switch inside ourselves,but we can strive to find happiness inour lives as much as possible. It feelsgreat, promotes our creative thinking,and benefits our health. The old adage,“Don’t worry, be happy,” is a greatmantra for us all.

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Traveltizers Travel Appetizers: Stories that Whet the Appetite for Travel

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Booths filled with pottery,paintings, or jewelry. Craftspeopleeager to explain their work.

Shoppers wandering the aisles, somelooking for a “special something,” othersjust browsing and enjoying theatmosphere. I can spend endless hourslooking at the wondrous objects made bycreative people.

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The Country’s Largest Open-Air Craft Fairs – Ann Arbor, Mich.

Note the s at the end of the event’sname: Ann Arbor Art Fairs. Thissprawling art extravaganza, which prettymuch takes over downtown Ann Arborfor four days in late July, is actually aconfederation of four shows. Each is runby a different organization and eachpromises a slightly different focus, yet forthe visitor the shows flow together,creating one immense outdoor gallery.

More than a thousand exhibitors,including emerging artists as well asestablished professionals, put their workon display. The items range from refinedand elegant to hip and quirky, from $10mugs to $1,000 vases. The fairs routinelydraw 500,000 people.

While you’re in Ann Arbor, also checkthe outdoor sculpture on the Universityof Michigan campus. Works include

Wave Field by Maya Lin, who designedthe Vietnam Veterans Memorial inWashington, D.C.www.annarbor.org and www.artfair.org

A Prison Turned Art Center – Lorton, Va.

Unique is a word that’s muchoverused, but it’s safe to say that itcorrectly describes the Workhouse Arts

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Dear Savvy Senior,Do you know of any services or

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Dear Need,Depending on where your dad is

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As a general rule, most cemeteriesonly provide basic grounds maintenance,like mowing the grass and trash pickup.Special gravesite care is almost always upto the family. But for elderly seniors whohave trouble getting around, or for

families who live a distance from theirloved one’s burial place and can’t get backvery often, what optionsare available? Here areseveral to check into.

A good starting pointis to call a friend orfamily member in thearea, or contact yourparent’s church orreligious affiliation tosee if they would bewilling to help you. Ifthat’s not a possibility,contact some localfuneral homes or thecemetery staff whereyour dad is buried to seeif they offer anygravesite services orknow of anyone who does.

If you don’t have any luck there,another option is to hire a gravesite care

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Fear of Falling

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Gloria May, M.S., R.N., CHES

Fall prevention should be a priorityfor all of us, particularly as wegrow older. The CDC (Centers for

Disease and Control) reports that seniorsare treated in an emergency room forfall-related injuries every 18 seconds, andevery 35 minutes an older adult dies as aresult of a fall.

So, it makes perfect sense to be waryof falling and to take reasonable measuresto avoid it, but can we be too cautious?Does this kind of hyper-vigilance workfor or against us?

Recently I read the results of a studythat suggested that exaggeratedapprehension about falling might beassociated with an increase in falls, notthe (anticipated) opposite.

Here are the basics of the study andits conclusions.

Researchers recruited 500 seniorvolunteers in Sydney, Australia. Theaverage age was 78. The subjectsunderwent a series of medical tests thatmeasured their muscle strength, reactiontimes, and ability to both maintain andregain balance, all factors that contributeto the risk for falling. The participantswere also asked to express how worriedthey were about their chances of falling.

The majority of the subjects hadperceptions of their risk in sync with thephysical findings, i.e., if they werephysically at high risk for a fall, theyknew it and rightly expressed anxietyabout it; if they were physically at lowrisk, they too knew it and were moreconfident.

But, surprisingly, more than 30percent of the subjects expressed levels offall anxiety not consistent with thephysical assessments; they were either athigh risk physically and had few or no

worries about falling, or they were at lowrisk physically and were very nervousabout the possibility.

The researchers followed all thesubjects for a year after the exams andfound that the group that incurred thegreatest number of falls in thattimeframe was not the unsteady butoverconfident ones (who you mightthink dash about their lives with recklessabandon) but the sturdy-but-anxiousgroup, those who were not at high risklevel for falling but who had expressedthe greatest fear about falling.

The study’s investigators theorizedthat amplified fears can cause folks to doless, to limit their participation inphysical and social activities, and to evenbecome unwilling to leave the house atall. This social withdrawal can lead tophysical de-conditioning and that, ofcourse, increases the risk of falls.

The message is that while it’simportant to have a realistic picture ofour physical conditions, it’s alsoimportant for us to acknowledge ourfears and to discuss them with ourdoctors. It’s a two-way exchange: Yourdoctor should evaluate and talk to youabout your objective risks of falling, andyou should discuss your worries andanxieties about falling and how they haveinfluenced your life.

Fear of falling, it has been said, is atreatable condition through physicaltherapy that increases strength and givesconfidence and through behavioraltherapy that can help reduce anxiety.

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Nature’s ‘Farm-acy’

Preventive Measures

Wendell Fowler

It’s an old-fashioned yet newfangledconcept: the freshest, seasonal localfruits and vegetables; raw honey;

artisan cheese, wines, brews, and bread;clean, grass-fed meats; and bug-fedchickens straight from family farms tothe kitchen.

I adore going to farmers markets,lively social centers where I always runinto smiling friends and bask in thewarm glow of community. Theseoutdoormarketskeep megroundedto theearthyroots ofnutrition,where freshfood fare is vastly more significant to asenior’s health than the eventuality of ageriatric doctor.

Thirty years ago, eating local was aradical notion, but times are a-changin’.Farmers markets provide sanctuary fromproliferating genetically modifiedgrocery versions of God’s creations.

Community farmers markets solvethe growing problem of food access andthe plight of family farmers. Farmersmarkets remind us that fresh,wholesome food contains maximumheavenly nutrition that sustains bodyand soul. As you know, to remainmentally and physically sturdy, ourmanufacturer expects us to eat balancedmeals containing complex carbs, cleanplant and animal protein, fruits andvegetables, nuts, seeds, healthy fats, andan occasional goodie as a reward forbeing a good steward of his creation.

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Many of our grandparents smokednon-filtered cigarettes, drank hard

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What’sright isoftenforgottenby what isconvenient.In a haze ofsuitability,Americans

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Happily, Americans are transcendingthis mindset and are increasing theirintake of fresh, local produce andbacking off on meat and taters threetimes a day. Whole grains are replacingpotatoes. Folks are returning to thesimple, pre-Industrial Revolutionlifestyle of their forefathers, foraging forfresh food from local farms.

If your great-grandfather wouldn’thave recognized it as food, then it’s notfit for consumption. So, my suggestionis don’t eat anything that comes in abox, tube, or bag..

Breaking pre-Industrial Revolutiontradition has proved catastrophic to thecollective health of a great nation. Thebackbone of America, the family farm,has all but been destroyed by Big Food.Let us all return to the “farm-acy” anddance till the music stops.

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pretty much the reverse—it is more of anart form, and you have a great number ofvery talented artists you work with in thefield. It’s very, very creative.

“As much as quilting in [CentralPennsylvania] is very traditional, such asAmish quilting, the quilting you see at aquilt show is really extraordinarily arty,”she said.

Long’s overseas experience seems tohave combined with an inborn talent forquilting she inherited from her great-grandmother.

“I have a couple of her quilts, like herwedding quilt. I also have mygrandfather’s baby quilt that she wouldhave made,” Long said. “So the quiltinggene must have come from somewhere.”

She has had quilts published inquilting magazines and has createdcopyrighted quilt patterns, but publicspeaking and teaching are where Longfeels she’s most engaged in spreading theword about her art.

Long has been teaching courses onfiber art for more than 20 years, having

taught extensively in other states, and shenow shares her knowledge locally. She hasdone programs for the Lancaster Quilt &Textile Museum, the Lancaster HistoricalSociety, and the Heritage CenterMuseum. In 2008, her piece of Asianfabric art called Lattice was chosen as partof a trunk show that traveled throughCanada for a year.

Long, a Berks County native, is nowliving in a retirement community andfounded its first quilters guild. Sherecently presented a lecture there onJapanese fiber arttechniques, focusingspecifically on theperiod between 1606and 1868.

During this time,Japan’s governmentkept the country incomplete isolationfrom the rest of theworld, forbiddingforeigners entranceinto the country anddenying Japanesecitizens the option toreturn if they left.

“So for 250 years,all of these fiber artsof Japan developed intotal isolation, andthey’re absolutelyamazing techniques,”Long said.

This 250-year incubation periodaffected many aspects of Japanese life andcultural development, including themethods used to create and designgarments suitable for the four classes thatcomprised the country’s very structuredclass system. For example, Long isfascinated by the kasuri weavingtechnique, where all of the thread is resistdyed before the fabric is woven to reveala preplanned design.

In conjunction with her lecture atWillow Valley this summer, Long’s workwas on display in the community’sCultural Center for the month of July.The 19-piece exhibit included some ofher quilts, scrolls, and banners, as well aspieces from her collection of antiqueJapanese kimono and haori (short workjackets), all between 70 and 120 years oldand examples of different Japanese fabric-dyeing techniques.

With the amount of time Long hasspent educating others on the history andmethods of quilting, it is surprising tolearn that she is actually self-taught—ifyou ask her, it was somewhat of a trial-and-error method of skill refinement.

“Once you make a mistake, you’ll

never make the same mistake twice, sothat’s pretty good teaching,” she laughed.

Decades ago, Long graduated fromIndiana University of Pennsylvania with adegree in home economics, but at age 50,she returned to college for graduatestudies in East Asian history andJapanese. The years spent living andtraveling abroad had provided Long withan invaluable firsthand learningexperience, and her college courseworkhelped flesh out the knowledge base sheneeds to educate others about the

historical and culturalsignificance of Asianfiber art.

Long sees quiltsnot only as art, butalso as functionalpieces, using them asbedding, tapestries,and gifts.

“I live in a paddedhouse; my walls arecovered with quilts,”she said.

There is one quilthanging on her wallof which Long isespecially proud: herreplica Dear Jane quilt,which took her almostfour years tocomplete—“threeyears and eightmonths, but who’s

counting?” she joked. The original Dear Jane quilt, now

housed in the Bennington Museum inVermont, was created in 1863 by JaneStickle, a farmer from Shaftsbury, Vt.Sickle’s Civil War-era quilt is constructedfrom 225 squares and triangles, and each4.5- by 4.5-inch piece contains, withinitself, as many as 50 pieces of fabric.

Long knew going in that thereplication of the Dear Jane quilt wasgoing to require a commitment of timeand patience that would be staggering foreven an experienced quilter.

“It’s very easy for a quilter to say, ‘Oh,I’m kind of tired of working on this,’because quilts don’t take a couple ofweeks; some take a couple of years,” shesaid. “I kind of made a deal with myself.I said, ‘If you’re going to start thisproject, you’re going to have to work onit every day except major holidays. Ihonestly did work on that every day forfour years, whether it was 15 minutes ortwo hours.

“I always figure if I ever had to takejust one item besides my cat,” Longchuckled, “I would save that because Icannot make that one again.”

Long’s replica of the Dear Janequilt—which took almost four years

to complete—now hangs in herapartment but has been displayed

in quilting museums on severaloccasions.

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Glory be. This was just a quickmakeover. I suppose if she had had timefor a facelift and tummy tuck, theaudience would have knelt in worship.

This sick obsession with lookingyouthful is planted and perpetuated bythe media. The impossible goal is tonever age, to always feel, act, andespecially look years, even decades,younger then we actually are.

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All of this would be hilarious if itweren’t so dangerous. Because if we digbeneath the glitz, we realize with a joltwhat this obsession with looking youngis actually saying.

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