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Wednesday
Jan272010

Positively Ninety - Interviews with Lively Nonagenarians

  

 

Disheartened by her elderly mother's escalating dementia,writer and photographer Connie Springer wondered if we all end up like this if we live long enough.  Springer devoted two years to interviewing and photographing 28 individuals in their 90s including one man who swam across the Ohio River in his 90s, another a Catholic nun, the former president of the University of Cincinnati, among others.  Springer found that her interviewees were lively, goal oriented, caring individuals, as shown in her photographs.  Read more about Springer's work and exhibit.

   

 

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