From a series of oral histories with residents and employees of the Loomis Village Retirement Community, South Hadley, Mass., regarding their lives and experience in a retirement community. Jewel (Julia) Reed Reed, raised in the Highlands in Holyoke near Home for the Aged, college prep course in high school and then Smith; married Jim Reed, an Amherst College boy; worked at IBM; wartime memories; three groups of residents at Loomis.
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