Amelia Smith, a Hotchkiss senior from Millerton, NY is a dog trainer who has shown and won awards at the Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show in addition to being a certified pet therapist and pet therapy trainer. During her Noble visit last week, she stopped by Agnes Nowicki’s room who eagerly welcomed Amelia and her […]
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Linda Orlowski, LMSW was welcomed as Noble Horizons’ Director of Social Work. Linda not only has vast experience in the field, but her father was a partner in Hartford County’s first purpose-built long-term nursing care community which opened in 1955. Linda is a resident of Connecticut’s northwest corner and has worked in varied settings, including
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Life in North Korea is, in a word, horrific. Kim Jong Un, the third in a line of absolute dictators, controls every aspect of life. Two experts on North Korea, Melanie Kirkpatrick, former opinion editor at the Wall Street Journal, and her husband, Jack David, Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense in the George W. Bush administration,
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Arthur Rosenblatt’s effort to build an American market for the Flymo, a British-made lawnmower that hovered rather than rolled over grass, was not successful. It did, however, land him a guest spot on the popular TV game show, “What’s My Line?” The panel rather improbably guessed that he was the ad man behind the Flymo.
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Salisbury’s Joseph Meehan related his adventures as expedition photographer on several trips to the Arctic and Greenland to study the “Unicorn of the Sea” to an attentive audience in Noble’s Community Room on March 3. The so-called unicorn is, in fact, the narwhal, a small whale distinguished by a pike-like tooth as much as 9’
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Worried about the effects of climate change? We all are, but a leading expert in the field, Dr. Joshua Ginsberg, President of the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, New York, told an audience at Noble Horizons not to lose hope. Dr. Ginsberg presented his program, “Climate Change: Five Reasons To Be Optimistic About
Noble welcomed two distinguished speakers on January 21. Nadine Strossen, president of the ACLU from 1991-2008, now a professor of law at NYU, discussed her new book, HATE: Why We Should Resist It with Free Speech, Not Censorship, and her Harvard Law classmate and longtime friend, the Honorable William Kuntz II, United States District Court Judge
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It was a standing room only crowd who gathered in Noble’s Life Long Learning Center on November 3 for an information-packed lecture on the aftermath of World War I presented by Hamish Lutris, associate professor of history at Capital Community College in Hartford. Among the interesting facts he mentioned was, that as Europe’s great empires
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A daredevil had better be lucky or he won’t last long. Cobble resident Gordon MacKenzie has been a very lucky man. The first daring thing he did wasn’t wholly his choice, but at the tender age of 19 he found himself as an Army Air Force tail gunner flying in a B-32 in the Pacific.
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G.A. Mudge took on quite a project that has taken some years to complete: cataloguing and photographing the dozens of statues, dating from 1859 to the 1990s, scattered about Central Park. He came to Noble on November 11 to share some of the fruits of his labor in an illustrated talk. Among the adornments of
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