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VOL. 105, NO. 28
MHS announces Book IV in ‘Memories’ series
By Monica Wooton Magnolia Historical Society consultant
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brought the mind-body connection into the spotlight. After a battery of assessments including vision, muscle strength and cognition, she brought eight male subjects in their 70s to a secluded monastery for a five-day retreat in the woods. When they entered, they went into a “time warp,” said the New York Times Magazine in an article. Everything inside, from the music, television, books and magazines, was selected to evoke 1959. Langer was testing her premise, Erica Browne Grivas contrary to the model of the day that Your Best Life sickness only comes from external factors like viruses, that the body also EXAMINE YOUR BELIEFS responds to mental “primers” that could make it sick Belief, or at least mindset, may be an important – or well. component to succeeding in having a longer, The men were asked to embody their younger healthier life. Dr. Ellen Langer, a Harvard psychiatry GRIVAS Page 4Æ professor, conducted a fascinating study in 1981 that PRSRT STD U.S. POSTAGE
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The Magnolia Historical Society (MHS) needs you. Magnolia Historical Society (MHS), a 501c3 non-profit working on local history for nearly 25 years, is announcing BOOK IV: MAGNOLIA: MORE Memories & Milestones, due in October. We are looking for new topics, willing writers/researchers and new board members to help us make this collection our best ever. We also have a list from which you can choose a topic that interests you. This will be a dedicated online, continually growing collection of Magnolia history written by Magnolians, the fourth in a series of awardwinning/nominated books. This project is part of our ongoing MHS mission: • Initiate interest in Magnolia history protecting it for future generations. • Inspire the Magnolia community to help us gather acquisitions for our photo and document archives at UW Special Collections. • Invest in community historical research and writing of Magnolia history that facilitates historic projects and events. • Encourage a more accurate “sense of place” through our work preserving the stories and images of Magnolia. This new online book will be formally launched in mid-October. THE SERIES The publication follows a nearly quartercentury tradition of history telling by Magnolians, present and past residents/ workers of the neighborhood. This newly designed ongoing, online collection will serve as the place Magnolians can still bring to life their first-person narratives, the eras they lived through, memories of the neighborhood they love, and the milestones—people, places, and things of Magnolia. The print books MAGNOLIA: Memories & Milestones, MAGNOLIA: Making More Memories, and MAGNOLIA: Midcentury Memories will be available in Kindle BOOK Page 5Æ