10 quick tips for updating your kitchen or bathroom
Kitchens and baths are the two areas of a house that can have the most impact on resale value. Why? These rooms are used often and typically cost the most to update. How do you stage your...Read More »
MASSACHUSETTS SELLING SUCCESS STORY:
‘Full speed ahead’
When Marcia Zubretsky arrived at Linden Ponds earlier this year, she dedicated some time to unpacking; but she spent most of her initial weeks immersed in her favorite...Read More »
22 June 2010
Long before Retha Clark first laid eyes on her current home at Brooksby Village, she tried the community’s food.
Clark was living in Ohio but visited a close friend at Oak Crest, an Erickson community in Maryland.
“I knew...
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22 June 2010
Richard Seeley had already made a note to himself to find his way back into music, but shortly after he arrived at Linden Ponds in March 2010, the music found him.
It was during a canonical service in...
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Miss America, Julia Childs come to Brooksby
The line to see the dress rehearsal of the third Brooksby Follies variety show snaked around the corner as audience members eagerly awaited entertainment by their Brooksby Village peers. “It’s wild here tonight,” audience member Esmeralda Brown remarked. Back by popular demand and involving the work of more than 40 people who live at Brooksby, the Follies...Read More »
New photographers embrace the art at Linden Ponds
Rita Dehner had gone her whole life without taking pictures; that included trips to various parts of the world and an African safari. She was convinced that she could not truly enjoy the moment from behind a lens. While she still believes that philosophy, Dehner embraced the art of photography when she received her first camera...Read More »
Mural painter brushes Linden Ponds with color
From his kitchen at Linden Ponds, James (Jim) McGurl has a unique view of the area between Quincy Bay and Hingham Bay. Beyond the colorful potted flowers on the windowsill, he sees waves breaking at the shore, a few boats in the distance, and a bit further, the Boston skyline. That the room is actually...Read More »
Brooksby, then and now
Ruth Clark recalls the early days at Brooksby Village, when furniture was rearranged to turn the Greentree Café into a place of worship and the Fireside Lounge doubled as a “playroom” for entertainment and activities. As a Brooksby pioneer, Clark was one of the first 100 or so people who moved into the community ten years...Read More »
Couple turns to technology for downsizing help
Roberta Gosselin turned to technology when she began downsizing her home of 40 years. With help from the auction and shopping website eBay, she sold everything from her sewing machine to her husband’s gun accessories. Using Craigslist, a classifieds website, she sold cabinets, bookcases, and a clock. “Boy, can you stack stuff away in a seven-room...Read More »
‘Cool Cooking’ piques community’s palate
Creativity runs rampant in the kitchens of those who live at Linden Ponds, though the outcome isn’t always edible. Ovens there have been known to house shoes and double as desks, for resident artists often use their kitchens as art studios. In this setting, a community where one meal a day is included and cooking is...Read More »
Longtime ranger leads Explorers to adventure
With 32 years of experience as a park ranger behind him, it is no wonder Bruce McHenry launched the Linden Ponds National Parks Explorers club just weeks after he moved to the community in 2004. Since then, the group has visited national parks across the country and beyond, including a trip earlier this year to Puerto...Read More »
‘Blizzard’ of photographs tamed by technology
Harriet Blizzard learned to use a camera in her fifties; in her eighties, she turned to the computer. Today, she combines both skills in the “playroom” of her Brooksby Village apartment home. Blizzard typically spends a few hours each day in her second bedroom, working with the 2,000 photos she’s scanned to her Macintosh computer. One...Read More »
