Kendal at Oberlin's Program Committee
Published: April 9, 2021 Kendal at Oberlin has a rich tradition of utilizing its main auditorium to the max. Professors and musicians from Oberlin College lectured or performed in Heiser…
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Voice Assistants Connect Older Adults
Published: January 29, 2021 After Judy Riggle’s stroke in 2018, she moved from her cottage to the Stephens Care Center at Kendal at Oberlin. Her husband Tom and cocker spaniel…
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Why “Tutwiler” ? How the Library Was Named
We are all acquainted with the Tutwiler Library, but not everyone knows who “Tutwiler” was. Carrington Cabell Tutwiler, affectionately known as “Tut,” was a longtime professor of English literature at…
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Lessons in Lifelong Learning
“Intellectual growth should commence at birth and cease only at death,” said Albert Einstein. In Einsten’s day, the word “student” conjured images of young people sitting in rigid rows of…
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Books to Give for the Holidays
Published: November 5, 2020 Books are always a popular gift for young and old, and given this year’s strong book sales as we shelter and school in place, many more…
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Early Rockbridge- Self Guided Trip
Let’s take a ride north on US Rt. 11, six miles to the first settled community in Rockbridge County – Timber Ridge. The first thing you’ll see is the Sam…
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VMI’s Memoir Project Partners with KaLex
The popular Rockbridge Community Memoir Project through VMI will look a little different this year as the popular in-person workshop goes virtual. The collaboration between VMI cadets and English faculty,…
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Lifelong Learning Virtually Abounds!
Published: August 19, 2020 For many of us, learning is lifelong, and today that means mostly virtual and unending. Pick a topic, let’s say birding. Well, you’ll have to be…
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COVID-19 Brings Technology Advances at Kendal
Published: August 5, 2020 A year ago, none of us could have imagined that a global pandemic would drastically change our daily lives. Today, try to envision a pandemic without…
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