Volume XVII
Number 7
July 16, 2012
July 17, 1954
© MMXII by Bob Dean
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Circulation Last Issue:
142
year
2012: 798
FOLLOW-UP ON OUR 65TH HS REUNION
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Emily McFaul
Click Emily's picture or
the Issue's cover to see her entire article
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On Saturday
we enjoyed a stroll around the streets of Naples, observing changes
since we grew up there:
The old Dean Homestead, with a
collection of Adirondack chairs welcoming visitors.
The old Post Office where Harry
Dean sorted his mail before embarking on Route #3
(It's now a Chinese Restaurant)
The new publishing house of our
Hometown Competitor
(It was a Jewelry store in the 30s and 40s.)
We're don't
plan any more trips to the olde Home Town any time soon. But
this was one of the best yet.
CELEBRATING A 95TH BIRTHDAY
On June 24 we celebrated
Bill Chaney's 95th birthday at his home Morningside of Raleigh. Our best photo
captured his proud celebration with great-granddaughter Molly
We were privileged to join
Bill's entire Raleigh family: Isaac Kauffman, Emma Davis,
Molly Davis, Wendy Davis, Andy Kauffman and Karen Kauffman
as Bill tipped his hat to all of them.
A
POLAND PLACE NEWS BOOK REVIEW
Non-Fiction
  THIS
TRUTH NEVER FAILS: A Zen Memoir in Four Seasons by David Rynick (Wisdom Publications,
Sommerville MA 2012, 198 pp.)
David Rynick
is a Zen teacher, a leadership coach, president of his Unitarian
Universalist church, a loving husband and father--and the son
of our good friend and subscriber, Sylvia Bingham
Every morning while
writing this book he got up at 5:30 or so and wrote five or six paragraphs
of two or three sentences each about his life, his garden, his vocation,
his family, the Zen temple he lived in--and the splendors of each of the
seasons that outlined his efforts. After a couple seasons, the
reader realizes that he's using free-verse poetry--allusions and all.
The result is a
charming book as David gently leads us towards an appreciation of
everyday life. We enjoyed--and appreciated it-- it a lot.
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An additional note:
 In
our continuing efforts to provide depth coverage to
Poland Place News
subscribers, we assigned this story to our Seattle reporter,
Lloyd Trafton,. attended a book reading by David
at the East and West Book Store
in the University district of Seattle. He met David,
photographed him, bought his book, and participated as the group
of about 20 people enjoyed the readings. Lloyd sent these
and other
comments the very next day:
--David
brought warmth and sunshine to a city that rarely experiences
these phenomena.
--David
said he felt like a time share salesman who offered you a free
dinner if you listen to the sales pitch. He was very friendly
and low key (as one would expect from a Buddhists monk)
--David
was dressed in sandals, beige pants, a black three quarter
length sleeved shirt with a blue vest-like garment, giving him
a monkish look while incorporating some 60's hippy style.
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THE POLAND PLACE CHALLENGE
Last Month's Challenges
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Arithmetic Exam.
What two numbers will give you a
result of 36 if the smaller is subtracted from the larger but 1,440
when one is multiplied by the other? |
General
Knowledge Exam
Take the number of Ali Baba’s
thieves and add the year
Columbus
discovered
America.
Divide by the number of eyes a cat has and add the missing number in
the quote, “The night has a ________ eyes, and the day but one,” plus
the number represented by the Roman numeral X. What significant date
do you have? |
This Month's winners were
Proofreader Liz,
Al Friedrich, Rick Fox, Grace Gagliardi
 
Here are two logic puzzles
:
From
Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?,
an examination of today's
interviewing techniques.
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1
You're given a cube of cheese
and a knife. How many straight cuts of the knife do you need to
divide the cheese into twenty-seven little cubes? |
2
Write down
these numbers: 10, 9, 60, 90, 70, and 66. What number comes next
in that series? |
Send us your
answers by
Clicking Here
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A
PIECE OF THE
POLAND PLACE PAST
This Appeared in our May 20, 1996 Issue
16 YEARS
AGO
GRANDMA
BURDEN'S COTTAGE--AMELIA EARHART'S LAST FLIGHT
 This is the cottage on
Third Street in Sodus Point, New York, where
Betty Lou (10) and Rosie (9) and Mil (5) and
Skippy (7) spent their summer vacations in the thirties.
Lake Ontario is a few hundred yards on the left;
Sodus Bay and "overtown"
on the right.
The front porch was
screened at the time and there these four little kids amused
themselves by cutting product pictures from the Montgomery Ward
catalog, setting up paper "stores", and selling things to each
other.
In July of 1937, however,
a much larger project presented itself: through the miracle of
radio, we followed Amelia Earhart's round-the- world (almost)
flight. For five days, we listened while the world searched the
Pacific for her plane. And then we went home to
Naples and to
Williamson and, with the rest of the world, never heard from her
again.
Now Grandma Burden's gone
for good and Amelia probably won't be back. But Betty Lou and
Rosie and Mil and Skippy are doing just fine.
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Update: 2012
We visited Mil and
checked out Grandma Burden's cottage in June.. On July 2, we
thought of Amelia on the 75th birthday of her disappearance
A new and expensive exploration is underway; we don't
expect they'll find her alive. But it would be nice.
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LICENSE PLATE OF THE MONTH
A Black
Lincoln MKS on Falls-of-Neuse Road
Liz's Classmate? A Misspelled Bible Verse? An Aging Sports
Fan?
SOCIAL
NOTES
Caroline Lowder
spent the first week of July recovering from the insertion of a
Pacemaker near her heart. during
her hospitalization and recuperation, she was comforted by the presence of
Jim Dean, Cynthia Dean, Nick Dean...
...and her new
dog, Bo.
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Residents of our Poland Place estate
stayed home on Independence Day,
celebrating while outdoor thermometers recorded 102
degrees and a sudden squall brought us 3.5
inches of rain. Among the festivities: a hotdog eating
contest, won by Our Editor.
He's pictured, above, as he finished his
final morsel.
We won the contest, as it turned out, by
eating a total of two hotdogs in only
ten minutes.
Our proofreader, who prepared the delicious hotdogs and photographed the
contest itself, came in second. We haven't enjoyed another hotdog since.
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MAIL FROM READERS
AND FRIENDS
From: Mil Brothers
Subject: Re: Vacation
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From: Bruce Widger (to Betty Reed)
Subject: Your Vacation Attire
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From: David Wilkinson
Subject: Prairie Home Companion
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THE
COMIC SECTION
Geoff Armstrong sent us
this, thru his connections with
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