during the last friday afternoon in december, i visited tel hai retirement community in honey brook, chester county, and and hosted a poetry reading for this project with a good handful of particularly smile-constant faces in the audience. and they were lovely to glimpse each time i'd finish reading a poem or sharing a detail about the people and the poetic usage in the lines.
many thanks go to barbara colacioppo and nancy salzman who assited with photography for the day.
i handed out copies of betty kunkel's poem for residents to read along with in large print font, and barbara also helped by making extra copies to ensure that there were enough for everyone. talk of the reminders of farm life ways, from the poem, are always a good point of nostalgia for audiences.
manufacturing and literally making a shoe or a shirt are often tied to seniors, whether directly or through family, neighbors, or friends. and audiences like these certainly know how to appreciate conversational storytelling of old times, when they were the young ones running the world through their plentiful numbers across this region and the nation.
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