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Stay healthy this season! Acton Pharmacy will be coming to the Council on Aging to provide flu shots. Flu shots are available for anyone 9 or older. A parent or guardian is required for those age 17 and younger. Bring your insurance card and ID. Pre-registration is required! Register for your flu shot here or contact the Acton Nursing Service at (978) 929-6650.
Join Dr. Jenn Staples, Clinical Psychologist and Founder of the mental health nonprofit guts to explore the skill of Radical Acceptance. Offered as a follow-up to the Living Well, Staying Connected series, this session will introduce a tool for navigating painful emotions, unexpected changes, and situations outside of our control. Everyone is welcome to join, whether you attended the original series or are learning these skills for the first time. Together we’ll discuss how acceptance does not mean giving up, approving of what happened, or pretending something isn’t painful. Instead, we’ll explore how acknowledging reality as it is can help reduce suffering and
Open to out-of-towners 60+ for $20/series Join Stephen Collins for a seminar on Hawthorne's novel The House of the Seven Gables, published on April 9, 1851, by Boston Publisher Ticknor and Fields, a year after The Scarlet Letter. Initially the sales for Gables tripled the sales for The Scarlet Letter, probably because the book has a happy ending (spoiler alert!) The book is a Gothic Romance, but it is also a sociological look at mid-19th century life in New England. It was his wife Sophia's favorite book. The prose is luscious and poetical, and the ending makes one believe in the goodness of humanity. Participants
Learn about the history of social dancing during the first half of the 20th century & see how it was directly influenced by the rhythms of ragtime, jazz, &swing music. In the aughts Americans began abandoning the formal steps of the Victorian era in favor of livelier dances like the Grizzly Bear and the Turkey Trot. Around 1915 Vernon and Irene Castle became national celebrities, demonstrating that the new dances (including their own Castle Walk) could be performed gracefully rather than wildly and published instructional books that made social dancing accessible to millions of Americans. Beginning in the 1920s the Foxtrot replaced the earlier “animal” dances & was
Open to out-of-towners 60+ for $20/series Join Stephen Collins for a seminar on Hawthorne's novel The House of the Seven Gables, published on April 9, 1851, by Boston Publisher Ticknor and Fields, a year after The Scarlet Letter. Initially the sales for Gables tripled the sales for The Scarlet Letter, probably because the book has a happy ending (spoiler alert!) The book is a Gothic Romance, but it is also a sociological look at mid-19th century life in New England. It was his wife Sophia's favorite book. The prose is luscious and poetical, and the ending makes one believe in the goodness of humanity. Participants
Join Ron Grasso of USB Financial for a seminar on how to build healthy habits by navigating the phases of retirement. After 26 years at Morgan Stanley, Certified Financial Planner Ron Grasso now heads The Grasso Wealth Management Group at USB Financial where the team specializes in helping retirees make informed, confident decisions about their finances. Open to all age 60+/free
Open to out-of-towners 60+ for $20/series Join Stephen Collins for a seminar on Hawthorne's novel The House of the Seven Gables, published on April 9, 1851, by Boston Publisher Ticknor and Fields, a year after The Scarlet Letter. Initially the sales for Gables tripled the sales for The Scarlet Letter, probably because the book has a happy ending (spoiler alert!) The book is a Gothic Romance, but it is also a sociological look at mid-19th century life in New England. It was his wife Sophia's favorite book. The prose is luscious and poetical, and the ending makes one believe in the goodness of humanity. Participants
Open to out-of-towners 60+ for $20/series Join Stephen Collins for a seminar on Hawthorne's novel The House of the Seven Gables, published on April 9, 1851, by Boston Publisher Ticknor and Fields, a year after The Scarlet Letter. Initially the sales for Gables tripled the sales for The Scarlet Letter, probably because the book has a happy ending (spoiler alert!) The book is a Gothic Romance, but it is also a sociological look at mid-19th century life in New England. It was his wife Sophia's favorite book. The prose is luscious and poetical, and the ending makes one believe in the goodness of humanity. Participants