Village Honor Flight Challenge Coins

Village Honor Flight Challenge Coins

I attended a Village Honor Flight Lunch, where each veteran received a unique challenge coin. Along with the coin, the story told about its history, bestowed tribute upon these brave warriors. Like all heroes, their faces showed wonder they deserved such a reward....
Butterfly Garden

Butterfly Garden

Six members and one guest of the Laureate Zeta Omicron Chapter of Beta Sigma Phi met with Alycyn Culbertson at the Fred Funk Butterfly Garden on the grounds of the Seventh-Day Adventist Church on Lake Griffin Road in Lady Lake, just outside The Villages, on Friday,...
Visiting the Sites in Salt Lake City

Visiting the Sites in Salt Lake City

My husband, grandson, and I visited Salt Lake City, Utah to attend a Model Railroad Convention. While there, I spent my days walking to Temple Square, where I marveled at the many Latter Day Saints buildings and monuments. Only four days after Brigham Young lead his...
A Sloth To Love?

A Sloth To Love?

A Sloth To Love Ancient sloths, as large as an elephant, roamed North America and became extinct around 10,000 years ago. The sloth I am holding lives in a cage and is used as a pet in the jungle of Honduras. The sloth is the slowest animal of the forest and rarely...
Votes For Women

Votes For Women

Peggy wears her pioneer outfit for a DAR sponsored rally commemorating our right to vote. Women did not always have the right to vote. Our U.S. Constitution gave white property owning men the privilege of voting. Over time each state gave white men regardless or...
The Howey Mansion

The Howey Mansion

I joined a group from the American Association of University women for a tour of The Howey Mansion at Howey-in-the-Hills, Florida about an hour drive from The Villages, where I live. We gathered at the Eisenhower Recreation Center, joined together in a caravan and met...