I’ve written often about the physical feats of many of our Village residents, ie dragon boaters, pickleball players, archers\u00a0and the many records broken and medals won. Another achievement that is prevalent here, is the intelligence of many of our residents. I am continually being blown away with their superior knowledge, whether it be in literature, history, current events, psychology, law you name it or their artistic talents;\u00a0 drawing, painting, sculpturing, writing poems, books etc. \u00a0I come from a family that has some very smart and highly educated members, but you know in those families there is always one who thinks outside the box, years ago I was probably considered the black sheep. I think I got much more attention from not being so smart, so you see I was the one having all the fun. Homework? Talk on the Telephone? I don’t have to tell you what I was doing. Also, because I was dodging a lot of questions about what was I doing, I developed great sales skills which is the direction my career took. It is only now in my later years that I regret that I did not pay more attention, if only to be better at trivia and the New York Times crossword puzzles. Anyway, I get really really impressed with\u00a0many\u00a0Villager’s knowledge. For\u00a0example, \u00a0the other day at the Civil Discourse Club’s meeting the discussion was Freedom of the Press in the Internet Age.\u00a0 The presenter took us back to the early 1600 and named the first press\u00a0that ran off printed material for people to read, he then took us through the different eras and how the politicians and the Countries reacted to the written word.\u00a0 Iknow I\u00a0over simplified it but it was really interesting.\u00a0 After the presentation\u00a0was over the members are open to discussion and one very, very knowledgeable individual got up and said that actually the Chinese had printed words 1000 years before.\u00a0 There was some discussion about what was the name of the press and he didn’t know that, which is understandable, but the fact he knew about the 1000 years before was impressive enough for me. \u00a0 A woman got up and because it\u00a0was \u00a0her\u00a0first meeting she introduced herself\u00a0\u00a0and\u00a0said \u00a0she was considered a ridge runner\u00a0 raised in a coal mining\u00a0town in Kentucky.\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0Visions of the Coal Miner’s Daughter flashed through my mind, and yet as she spoke her intelligence shone through and \u00a0everyone listened intently,\u00a0 She was a wealth of information.\u00a0 At the end of her discussion, she\u00a0off handedly\u00a0mentioned the name of the press in the 1500s that no one\u00a0the prior member did not know. \u00a0\u00a0What, you really\u00a0knew that?\u00a0I am \u00a0just so impressed and\u00a0think it is wonderful that the Villages attracts such a versatile group of people from all over the world and that they\u00a0are willing to share their years of study with us.\u00a0\u00a0Did Einstein come from Kentucky?\u00a0 Could this be his Daughter?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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