Celebrating the Secrets of Becoming a Centenarian
13 Centenarians celebrated their birthdays at Peconic Landing this week.
Among them are a Grumman test pilot and a civil rights activist, doctors of nuclear medicine, psychiatry and education, a survivor of the Dachau concentration camp and a Navy wife who was working the switchboard at the AT&T Long Lines building on Canal Street in New York City when the board lit up with the news of the Japanese bombing of Pearl Harbor.
In the Promise Garden Ceremony that kicks off the walk, participants are asked to hold their flowers high — orange flowers represent people who support the cause of a world without Alzheimer’s, blue flowers are for people who are living with a diagnosis of the disease, yellow flowers are for families and caregivers and purple flowers are for people who have lost loved ones.