Article Archives: Senior Lifestyle

Connecting the Dots

October 10, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

Readers sometimes ask me where my ideas for these essays come from. Heck if I know! Actually, they’re triggered by the ordinary — and sometimes extraordinary — events of living. Often one thing leads to another and one connects the dots. As one ages, one has more “dots” — experiences … Read More

Voices From the Past — Archeology in Our Own Backyard

October 3, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

During my interview with Michele Greenan, the State Museum archeologist, I learned that her family moved from Maine to Charlottesville and that she attended Ball State, my alma mater. I asked her how archeologists come up with the ages that they attribute to bits of pottery or my axe head … Read More

Voices From the Past — Home Places

September 26, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

Regardless of nationality, culture or era, human behavior is universal. I have written about my family’s old home place and the forced relocation — sometimes at gunpoint — of the native Americans who lived in Indiana and elsewhere. Recently there was television coverage about China. “So that the people will … Read More

Shadow and Sunshine

September 19, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

Last week I wrote about the prehistoric stone axe head that was plowed up at my ancestors’ Old Home Place. Because it’s the only thing that I possess from the Kelly side of my family and because it’s so old, it is precious to me. Bill and I are devotees … Read More

Voice From the Past

September 12, 2013 | by Rose Mary Clarke

“One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh.” — The Old Testament, “Ecclesiastes” My Indiana roots run deep. My mother’s people were pioneers who settled near what is now Michigantown, a few miles from Frankfort. I’ve written often about the Kellys’ Old Home Place that was venerated by my grandfather’s … Read More