Month: November 2026

Julie Andrews was 13 when she first performed in front of royalty. The star of stage and screen was born into a musical family and started singing and acting professionally in 1947, when she was 12. A year later she appeared in a Royal Variety Performance, where she was heard and applauded by the future Queen Elizabeth II. Read Who Cares? about the struggle for dignity at Woodruff Home for the Aged, “a lively place where old people go to die.” Learn more about the book and its characters, aged 9-90, in NOVELS.

Julie Andrews was 13 when she performed for the future Queen Elizabeth II

Woodruff Home for the Aged, where aging with dignity battles corporate greed

Nelson Mandela was nearly 76 when he was elected President of South Africa in the country’s first vote open to all races. The anti-apartheid leader was sentenced to life in prison in 1964, released in 1990, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize jointly with South African President Frederik Willem de Klerk in 1993. Mandela himself was elected President in 1994 with 62% of the vote. Read Who Cares? about the struggle for dignity at Woodruff Home for the Aged, “a lively place where old people go to die.” Learn more about the book and its characters, aged 9-90, in NOVELS.

Nelson Mandela nearly 76 when elected President of South Africa

Woodruff Home for the Aged, a lively place where old people go to die