With four miles of trails, Cross-country skiing and snowshoeing are popular ways to enjoy the winter weather here on campus. RiverWoods Exeter residents Steve Swenson, Stu Howkins, Spencer Jackson and Sue Jordan decided to pack down the trails after our recent snow and were kind enough to pause for a group photo at Gooch Park.

The RiverWoods Exeter Resident Poetry Club recently welcomed Ivo Nedyalkov, "Doctor of flow" (fluid mechanics PhD, rapper and faculty member at University of New Hampshire), to host a rap music workshop on campus. If Rap or poetry is not your passion, there are more than 150 different resident committees and interest groups from which to choose.

Once again the Exeter Holiday Parade was a huge success! The theme was Christmas Movies Through the Decades. The movies we chose were Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer (1960s), A Year Without Santa Clause (1970s), A Christmas Story (1980s), Christmas Vacation (1990s) and Elf (2000s). Resident and staff volunteers from RiverWoods Exeter and our 2018 Gala Partner, Seacoast Family Promise, dressed up as the characters! The RiverWoods shuttle followed the float with residents cheering. We look forward to next year!

As recently presented at TEDx Piscataqua River by our own Cathleen Toomey, Vice President of Sales and Marketing at RiverWoods.

A New Generation of Retirees Finds Independence in Unexpected Places

The Silver Tsunami

When wasThe Silver Tsunami When was the last time you considered “60” as old? Today’s 60- and 70-year-olds are running marathons, starting second careers, and generally bashing the traditional idea of “aging.” Yes, it’s finally happening —our youth-focused culture is acknowledging that there is a lot of life in what many call “the third chapter,” or retirement.

What does retirement mean for you ?

For RiverWoods Exeter resident, Pat Wall, it means researching, writing, and promoting her third book. LIVES OF CONSEQUENCES: Blacks in Early Kittery and Berwick in the Massachusetts Province of Maine is being published by the Portsmouth Marine Society Press under the auspices of the Portsmouth Historical Society and the New Hampshire Black Heritage Trail. This book’s premier and meet-the-author will take place at the Discover Portsmouth Center, 10 Middle Street, on Friday, August 4 from 5:30 to 8:00 pm.

About the Author:

For the past forty-eight years, Patricia Quigley Wall has been involved with New England’s colonial history through professional museum work, research, teaching, and writing.