...about retirees and others who are activists in some form or another. Even though I am not exactly "retired"; Villages Daily Sun reporter Gary Corsair had done a feature on me a few years about my efforts in the local areas to get materials useful for victims of various types of crimes into local public libraries. Specifically at the time this was a link to the Victim Services Directory at the Lake, Sumter, and Marion County public libraries. http://myfloridalegal.com/directory

Lake County Library did have one for a few years but someone removed it. http://www.mylakelibrary.org/interne...ew=links&id=19

I had had 24 nominations to various Marquis Who's Who publications http://www.marquiswhoswho.com/products/WAprodinfo.asp from 1992 through 2002 and I assume that these many nominations were for my work in regard to improving the playing cards of survivors of violent crimes in the criminal justice system. I was not in the Villages then but I have continued this work on and off since moving from Palm Harbor Florida to the Villages in the Summer of 2005.

Palm Harbor Public Library as well as other libraries in the Tampa Bay area had also put in links to this Victim Services Directory at my insistance. Unfortunately, many of these links have since disappeared. Here is one that is still present at one of the Tampa Bay area public libraries. http://tarponspringslibrary.org/govlinks.html It seems to me this public library has had this link since 2000 or so.

Anyway, my point is that despite what the author of Leisureville asserts there are many people here in the Villages very much involved with advocacy of some type and/or volunteering. They are still very much involved with their community and the welfare of their kids and grandkids.

It is not all Sex and the City type behavior here in TV. That series is set in New York City, isn't it? I have had a devil of a time getting any headway in New York City with their victim service directory and links to it from their public libraries.

If anyone wants to help with my efforts please contact the public library system in your county and request them to get a link to the Florida Victim Services Directory. http://myfloridalegal.com/directory Public librarians often ignore a single voice requesting something but when many people make an inquiry they will do something.

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Originally Posted by RichieLion

It all come down to the fact that you can't really explain this place to anyone else. You have to see and experience it for yourself. When your "Doubting Thomas" friends visit they'll find out for themselves the true nature of TV. With anything, it what you make of it, but it's hard not to be happy here unless you're an incurable "Gloomy Gus".

You really can't explain it. I tell my family and friends about it, then they come visit and they are "shocked and awed".

...I tried to tell 'em.