5/7/2010 1:05 pm CDT
Kathy Cusick loves Beethoven but has never been crazy about his Third Symphony, the Eroica. She found more meaning in the piece when she learned what was happening in the composerís life when he wrote it.
5/4/2010 12:11 am CDT
Surrounded by the stunning lake and mountain scenery of the Sierras, those who live in the Lake Tahoe area are particularly attuned to the environment. When ABHOW leaders planned the Kelly Ridge community in South Lake Tahoe, Calif., they took special care to ensure that the campus would complement its surroundings and integrate energy-conserving features.
3/10/2010 9:55 pm CST
Barbara Squire, a resident at The Terraces of Los Gatos, was one of the more than 300 surviving members of the Women Airforce Service Pilots ñ or WASPs ñ honored with the Congressional Gold Medal on March 10.
2/20/2010 10:05 am CST
When she arrived in Kyoto in 1947 as a medical missionary, Dr. Alice Cary knew one word of Japanese: ìohayo,î which means ìgood morning.î
2/8/2010 12:39 pm CST
Eleanor Childers was traveling as a courier, carrying classified information about the Pan-American Highway. World War II was under way, and Childers was working with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers in Costa Rica to build an alternative transportation route in case the Panama Canal was attacked.
1/12/2010 12:43 pm CST
When Portuguese officials started planning the bridge that would be nicknamed the ìmini Golden Gate,î they turned to engineers who had encountered such conditions before. Among them was Stanley H. Froid, who now lives at The Terraces of Los Gatos in Los Gatos, Calif.
