From The Editor
Old-fashioned Fun in a Modern World
I remember lazy summer days picking raspberries in the yard, and my dad taking those red beauties and mixing them with milk and sugar to create one of the best tasting treats known to man: homemade ice cream.
When the electric ice cream makers came on the market my father became one of the first in the neighborhood to convert from grinding to instant gratification. The result ended up the same.This month we take a stroll down memory lane to a real place where folks still make homemade ice cream. At Dudley Farm in Newberry, they even make it the old-fashioned way to demonstrate for visitors how it was done in the dark ages.
I attended the Florida Press Association/Florida Society of Newspaper Editors conference recently and heard many people speak about the fast-paced changes in the ways we receive our information. Even a few years ago, most of us received our news from a couple of sources. Today we receive them in a dozen different ways. So those of us in the print media need to figure out ways to keep pace with this ever-changing world while still remaining connected to our readers.
As a result Senior Times — specifically Web guru Tom Reno — has designed this incredible new Web site for our magazine. I am very excited about the potential for you the reader to become more involved with us through www.seniortimesmagazine.com, which provides not only information from our print edition of Senior Times but also provides a full calendar updated daily, feeds to other sites such as CNN News for breaking health, financial and daily news, and Google Maps so you can access directions to destinations as you read our articles in the Travel Guide section. Have a browse and stay awhile and let us know what you think.
Preparing this issue with an old-fashioned theme may seem ironic to some as we put ourselves out on the Internet in a big way this month. But I believe we can have it all. While still enjoying the pleasures of a slower life — sitting at a soda fountain in an old-fashioned ice cream parlor to visiting a real live barbershop — we can also take advantage of those things in the modern world that make our lives just that much more interesting.
So pull up a root beer float or a dish of homemade ice cream, after having a shave or haircut by a barber, enjoy the Internet world of Senior Times. It is possible to have our ice cream and eat it too, even before it melts.
I’d love to hear your comments on the Web site so please email me at patricia@towerpublications.com.
