Moving Day events include a movement tent with demonstrations on physical therapy techniques, rock steady boxing and Reiki. The mission tent offers information and handouts about Parkinson’s. Children can enjoy the Kid Zone and walk around the Oval with friends and family. ...

Lake Metroparks staff have documented 225 species of birds at Lake Erie Bluffs. We offer bird walks regularly, year round. During the past two years, we have enjoyed a flight of more than 100 turkey vultures, hundreds of gulls, a morning of nearly 100 flickers and mixed blackbird flocks of nearly 1,000 birds. In May, we have watched the arrival of more than 300 blue jays, up to 50 American crows and the return of hundreds of bank swallows to their colony. ...

Chicken keeping, gardening and beekeeping were a way of life. In recent years, however, communities across the country have embraced a homestead revival. Many of these tasks, once considered daily life choirs, have found new roots in our city gardens, local beekeepers and farm to table movements. ...

Euclid Beach Park Grand Carousel Birthday Bash

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Akron's showcase estate, Stan Hywet, is open for the season and art is the focus both inside and outside the manor house and throughout the gardens. Catch a glimpse of the expansive gardens as they come to life throughout the early spring, and mark your calendars for special events throughout the rest of the year. ...

 

Northeast Ohio Boomer and Beyond is in the movie business.
Full disclosure: we don’t know any movie stars and we’ve not actually made any movies. But we like movies and to prove it, we’re media partners for the 43rd Cleveland International Film Festival, which runs March 27-April 7.
Our film is “Very Senior – Attitude is Everything.” Showtimes are Thursday, April 4 at 4:25 p.m., (Tower City), Friday, April 5 at 11:40 a.m. (Tower City) and Saturday, April 6 at 12:40 p.m. (Cleveland Museum of Art).
The film is one of 212 feature films and 237 shorts that will be screened throughout the festival at Tower City Cinemas downtown and at satellite locations.
“Very Senior – Attitude is Everything” is a documentary film about Sun City, Ariz., a 55+ community and the residents who live there. Directed by Susan Gluth, the film is described as “a bright look at the process of aging gracefully and honestly while making one’s own choices.”
See you at the movies – see you at our movie.

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Come See Our CIFF Movie
Well, it’s Not Ours Exactly…

Northeast Ohio Boomer and Beyond is in the movie business.
Full disclosure: we don’t know any movie stars and we’ve not actually made any movies. But we like movies and to prove it, we’re media partners for the 43rd Cleveland International Film Festival, which runs March 27-April 7.
Our film is “Very Senior – Attitude is Everything.” Showtimes are Thursday, April 4 at 4:25 p.m., (Tower City), Friday, April 5 at 11:40 a.m. (Tower City) and Saturday, April 6 at 12:40 p.m. (Cleveland Museum of Art).
The film is one of 212 feature films and 237 shorts that will be screened throughout the festival at Tower City Cinemas downtown and at satellite locations.
“Very Senior – Attitude is Everything” is a documentary film about Sun City, Ariz., a 55+ community and the residents who live there. Directed by Susan Gluth, the film is described as “a bright look at the process of aging gracefully and honestly while making one’s own choices.”
See you at the movies – see you at our movie.




Pentameter Envy
A Month Made for Poetry

If it’s been decades since you’ve worked on your iambic pentameters, or you ’ve forgotten what the heck that is, you’re in luck. April is National Poetry Month and Northeast Ohio is crazy full of poets.

One of them is nationally recognized poet George Bilgere, who describes himself as the poet of aging. Several of his poems have been broadcast on Garrison Keillor’s “The Writer’s Almanac.” His latest poetry collection, “Blood Pages,” was published last year.

We figured he’d be the perfect person to ask about poetry, specifically some of his favorites, for Boomer readers.

“(Some) I’d highly recommend to older readers are, of course, the great Billy Collin, a wonderful poet named Tony Hoagland, (and) everybody loves Mary Oliver.

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With two generations of fishing instruction under his belt, grandparents know to limit expectations when fishing with young ones. There’s fishing and there’s fishing with kids, and they’re not in any way similar. ...