The Boomer Magazine

A century-old North side home that relaxes and invigorates – BY DANIEL JONES – – PHOTOGRAPHS BY TONY GIAMMARINO –        “A cottage is meant for relaxing,” says Jennifer Saunders (left), who with her husband owns Twig, a home décor shop in Richmond’s Lakeside shopping district. “But then we like a livelier feel to a [...]

  Catching up with son ‘Mark’ of The Rifleman – BY AUDREY T. HINGLEY –    Johnny Crawford’s busy career began as one of the original Disney Mouseketeers. By the time he snagged the role of Chuck Connors’ son, Mark, on TV’s acclaimed The Rifleman at age 11, he’d already accumulated 60 television credits. Set in [...]

If we know the answers, why do we so often fail the test?  BY RAY McALLISTER   There is a fair chance, I think, that we misread life. Don’t you? Consider that when we figure life out, IF we figure life out, it often comes very late, sometimes at the end of life. (A little [...]

She didn’t ask, but I knew Mom needed me — and I’m glad to be with her When Mom was younger, so much younger than today, she never needed help in any way. Now she’s 94 and recovering (nicely) from surgery. She lives independently in her own home, but with increasing difficulty. She didn’t quite ask, but [...]

Each year, we look for our April-May issue to tear you, our readers, from the frigid claws of Winter. Because we know — God, do we know — how ready you are for the sunshine.  So in town, at Martin’s, Kroger, Wawa or at tons of doctors’ offices and CVS Pharmacies in between, grab your [...]

Editor’s Letter: Too Smart? Phones and constant social media enrich our lives … if by that you mean controlling every minute of them BY RAY McALLISTER Some technological advancements, everyone would agree, are life enhancers. Indoor plumbing. Heating and air conditioning. The telephone. Personal computers and the Internet, I think we could say unequivocally, are [...]

I grew up believing that Richmond was really nothing special. Nothing more than a city still bloodstained from the Civil War. A breeding ground for big businesses like Phillip Morris, or DuPont. At least there’s professional baseball, was always a consoling thought. And lots of free literature, like BOOMER. I wonder if anyone with half [...]

Commercials bombard us … but there’s plenty of the real thing if we look   BY RAY McALLISTER It is only mid-November as I write this, and I’m sick of Christmas. Let me amend that. I’m not at all sick of Christmas. I love Christmas.  I’m sick of Commercial Christmas. It’s funny when someone says [...]

www.theboomermagazine.com Ray McAllister talks with Harvey Newquist, Director of The National Guitar Museum, about the music of the 50s and 60s

www.theboomermagazine.com Ray McAllister and Harvey Newquist talk about the evolution of guitar-based music. The guitar shown here was once owned by Johnny Winter. Gibson Firebird, designed by an Automotive designer…