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AARP landmark survey uncovers an epidemic of loneliness.

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It's late on a Wednesday night, and Franklin Crawford, 52, is pushing a shopping cart around a 24-hour grocery store in Ithaca, New York. He's found the bananas and cat food he needs, but as he roams the aisles he adds ice cream and other nonessentials to his basket. "This is the meeting place, the agora," he explains. "It's the abundance, the people, the bright light. It makes me feel…

A Book by Robert D. Putnam

From the publisher: In a groundbreaking book based on vast new data, Putnam shows how we have become increasingly disconnected from family, friends, neighbors, and our democratic structures-- and how we may reconnect.

Putnam warns that our stock of social capital - the very fabric of our connections with each other, has plummeted, impoverishing our lives and communities.

Putnam draws on evidence including nearly 500,000 interviews over the last quarter century to…

In 1883, Homer moved to Prout's Neck, Maine (in Scarborough) and lived at his family’s estate in the remodeled carriage house just seventy-five feet from the ocean.

Excerpt from Ray Carney:

"There is almost always a social, realistic aspect to the work of nineteenth-century American artists, but it can also be as visionary, contemplative, or romantic as the most advanced twentieth-century European modernists. In particular, it is possible to discuss Eakins' or Sargent's portraits as realistic social and psychological studies of particular sitters. It is possible to discuss…