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The Farm

Down on the Farm (2011)

View the slide show He Digs, He Dug, He Has Dug “My garden will never make me famous. I’m a horticultural ignoramus, I can’t tell a string bean from a soybean, Or even a girl bean from a boy bean.” — Ogden Nash Many of us Medford Leas residents are all thumbs when it comes to growing things. But others

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Alex Webb, photo by Margery Rubin

Bird Carvings by Alex Webb

Alex Webb started making decoys and decorative birds in 1982 after he retired. He was not a novice woodworker; he had made furniture and model boats in past years, carving with old scalpels his father had used as a veterinarian.

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Kay Roberts with Fuller

Welcome Fuller, Service Dog

Fuller, our first resident service dog, moved recently to the Lumberton campus with Kay Roberts, who has multiple sclerosis. Fuller has been her companion for the last six years.

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Paul Zelazny's Strata

Paul Zelazny and his Sculptures

In 1995, Paul Zelazny began working on a cross-section of a maple tree which had a wedge-shaped split. He counted the age rings of this wood and found 84 of them. “I am 84 years old, so this tree and I came alive at the same year.”

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2006 photo with his lifelong friend, Lafayette Noda

Thanksgiving – the Ties that Bind

It began on the fringes of a small Japanese farming community near Livingston, CA, in the early 1920s. Takashi Moriuchi and Lafayette Noda were neighbors, and the families helped each other with farming chores when needed.

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