Much has changed since Brooksby Village opened its doors 17 years ago, including the community’s physical landscape.
Diversity Month at Brooksby Village gets bigger every year.
When Laurie Phillips, personal moving consultant at Brooksby Village, sat down to plan her very first follow-up breakfast with the community’s newest residents, she began to see connections forming on the page.
Helen Keller passed away 49 years ago this month, yet her inspirational legacy lives on. The well-known author, speaker, and activist, whose illness at the age of 19 months left her deaf and blind, was born on June 27, 1880, and died on June 1, 1968.
Helen Keller passed away 49 years ago this month, yet her inspirational legacy lives on. The well-known author, speaker, and activist, whose illness at the age of 19 months left her deaf and blind, was born on June 27, 1880, and died on June 1, 1968.
Joan Santeusanio was keeping an eye toward the future. She just wasn’t sure which way to look.
“I’d lived in my home in North Reading for 44 years,” says Joan. “It was starting to become something of a money sponge, so I made the decision to sell it. I wasn’t sure where I would go, but I knew that I wanted to stay in the same geographical area.”
Daniel and Theresa Conlon’s home of 53 years in Andover, Mass., was the only home they’d ever owned. So when the couple began considering a move to Brooksby Village in Peabody, the notion of selling their home, packing up a lifetime of memories, and unpacking in a new apartment was initially daunting.
Every time Faye Williams pulls new story submissions from the boxes located in Brooksby’s craft rooms, she feels a pulse of excitement.
“It’s like Christmas,” says Faye, editor of The Brooksby Villager, an independent quarterly journal written and published by residents of the Erickson Living community in Peabody, Mass. “Every story is a present, unique and exciting.”
When Betty Roop moved to Brooksby Village in Peabody, Mass., in September 2016 from her home of 48 years in North Andover, she faced the same challenge as everyone who had moved to the Erickson Living community before her: downsizing.