Older Americans Month extends far beyond May at Southminster

Resident Life

CHARLOTTE, N.C. (May 16, 2023) – Every May, the Administration for Community Living leads the nation’s observance of Older Americans Month (OAM) through many types of intergenerational programs ranging from mentoring and community service to service learning and...

VIOLETA POWELL – My Life of Travel & Adventure

Women of Southminster

I was born in 1941 in Talca, Chile, a prosperous, temperate farming region.  I was the youngest of three and grew up in a house run by a General, not my father. No, it was my mother.  She was the daughter of a French mining engineer who believed that daughters should...

LIFE ON THE RANGE – by Anna-Louise Fitzgerald

Resident Life, Women of Southminster

Would you believe in 1958-1959, at age 17, I won first place in the SC State Women’s Diving Championship Competitions for the National Swimmers Association on the 3-meter boards?! In public pools, that was the 10’ high dive! I later married my husband who...

PLOWING THE EARTH UNDER MY FEET – Writer Mary Kratt shares the inspiration for her books.

Women of Southminster

During college I worked in Yellowstone Park for two memorable summers whichinalterably changed my life. I had grown up in the wooded rural South butsomething about the West, that sky, the far spaces, vastly expanded my horizons. Nevertheless, since then, I have been...

Young daters looking for love can learn lots from this match made in heaven.

Resident Life

They didn’t go on their first date to a rock-climbing wall or a splatter painting studio at age 28. Lots of life had already happened for Dave Burns and Marilynn Bellmann. Marilynn married in 1972, had children, worked as a church music director, and then married...