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MAY PROGRAM

May 10
9:30 – 11:30
Cost:  $20
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AAUW
P.O. Box 884
Winter Park, FL  32790
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AAUW-Orlando/Winter Park

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GUEST SPEAKER

 

 

Dr. Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés

Most of us know of classic examples of extraordinarily creative older women:  Anna Mary Robertson Moses (“Grandma Moses”) starts painting at 78; Laura Ingalls Wilder starts a successful writing career with Little House on the Prairie at 64; and there are many, many women who continue to produce the best works of lifetime careers in their older years.

This incredible creativity is the topic of today’s presentation based on the collected contributions of 21 women in Old Enough:  Southern Women Artists and Writers On Creativity and Aging.  The contributors, including our speaker, come from diverse ethnic, lifestyle, and educational backgrounds, offering insights into their creative works in the light of challenges of ageism, ill-health and loss.  For each contributor, a photographic portrait accompanies her essay.

Dr. Cecilia Rodríguez Milanés is a Professor in the Department of English at UCF.  Her Cuban American heritage informs her writing—fiction, non-fiction, and poetry—and her research and teaching interests in Latinx literature, women writers of color, emergent American Literature and women’s studies.  Her writing has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies such as The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature.  Her short story collections, Oye What I’m Gonna Tell You  and Marielitos, Balseros, and Other Exiles were #4 and #5 on the Guardian’s list of ten best books about Cuba.

 

 

 

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How International Fraud Rings Target Older Americans

Hanna Kruczek summarized a wonderful article (from AARP bulletin) about Fraud Rings and how to protect ourselves from them.

Hanna’s summary of the article can be found here:

The entire article can be found at:

https://www.aarp.org/money/scams-fraud/info-2020/international-fraud.html

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