- After you have walked the
2015 Walk to fight Alzheimers Benefit, You might want to see if your family heirlooms are worth a bundle of cash or a bundle of nostalgia.(or maybe both)
Antique Road Extravaganza!
- Saturday, Sept 19, 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
- Carillon Assisted Living of Knightdale
- Join Carillon Assisted Living for a nostalgic afternoon. Find out if that prized possession is worth a small fortune to others, or is simply priceless to you. Have your item(s) evaluated by a professional antique appraiser/dealer.
Advance Tickets are $10 per item to be evaluated; $25 at the door. limit two tickets per person. All proceeds to benefit the Rotary Club of Raleigh Midtown. carillonassistedliving.com 919 266-6676
Showing posts with label Carillon Assisted Living Knightdale. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Carillon Assisted Living Knightdale. Show all posts
Wednesday, September 16, 2015
Community Event! Antique Road Extravaganza!
Wednesday, August 20, 2014
Carillon Knightdale ROMEO (Retired Men Eating Out)
It was such a pleasure to be with some wonderful retired seniors at Carillon Knightdale today for their ROMEO activity.
Alice S (Carillon's Activities Director) who grew up in Rocky Mount, NC and has lived in the Knightdale/Wendell area for the past 30 years took some of her retired residents on a joy ride around the area today. She is an amazing lady, helping all the residents with their needs, making sure they were okay and keeping them engaged, while also deftly maneuvering the "bus" along some beautiful farm roads.
We drove by a couple of lush green tobacco patches, a corn field, some horse farms, an old store called the Corner Grocery that has been running for four generations now, an old Church not used anymore but built in the 1800s, some cows, and just to add to the fun a few donkeys. One of the residents Mr R. who grew up on a farm in a nearby town, grew tobacco himself along with raising chicken, and everything you can think of. He recounted an experience from 1924 when he went with his Dad to Raleigh and saw buggies on dirt roads; there was very little pavement then, all dirt roads and people traveled on horse carriages and the like.
Even in those days, they were worried about more people moving in; the population then was 28,000. As a contrast, Wake county is predicted to hit 1 million residents this Friday. I just read in the WALTER magazine how the Capital Area Greenway was designed when the population was 100,000 and they were concerned about the predicted growth to 177,000.
Alice told us how she met someone who was at the burial of Thomas Edison, the famous inventor! I happened to meet someone myself today who is 100 years old, and so very independent.
It is such a blessing to be with our seniors who have been through so much change, and have so much history to share if anyone wants to listen. Here's wishing that a few of our generation (and beyond) will document at least some of this wealth of history.
Alice S (Carillon's Activities Director) who grew up in Rocky Mount, NC and has lived in the Knightdale/Wendell area for the past 30 years took some of her retired residents on a joy ride around the area today. She is an amazing lady, helping all the residents with their needs, making sure they were okay and keeping them engaged, while also deftly maneuvering the "bus" along some beautiful farm roads.
We drove by a couple of lush green tobacco patches, a corn field, some horse farms, an old store called the Corner Grocery that has been running for four generations now, an old Church not used anymore but built in the 1800s, some cows, and just to add to the fun a few donkeys. One of the residents Mr R. who grew up on a farm in a nearby town, grew tobacco himself along with raising chicken, and everything you can think of. He recounted an experience from 1924 when he went with his Dad to Raleigh and saw buggies on dirt roads; there was very little pavement then, all dirt roads and people traveled on horse carriages and the like.
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| Tobacco patch |
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| Corn field |
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| Corner Grocery - 4 generations and counting! |
Alice told us how she met someone who was at the burial of Thomas Edison, the famous inventor! I happened to meet someone myself today who is 100 years old, and so very independent.
It is such a blessing to be with our seniors who have been through so much change, and have so much history to share if anyone wants to listen. Here's wishing that a few of our generation (and beyond) will document at least some of this wealth of history.
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