Letter to the Editor: Stay active

Dear Editor,
I read it more and more: The elderly need to stay active-physically and mentally. A few of us elders like coming several hours early to the Perryville Community Center. We enjoy working on jigsaw puzzles before lunch is served.
After 4 weeks, a 1000-piece puzzle of The Last Supper has been completed, framed and now hangs in the Center’s lobby. It’s a memento to Bernie Janin. His Aunt Ruth,recently deceased, supplied the puzzle. Bernie, now retired, worked for many years at the Center as handyman, janitor and custodian.
The puzzle is not a picture of Leonardo daVinci’s famous Last Supper painting. His painting, around 1475, was done, in muted tones, on a convent’s dining room wall, in Milan, Italy. It has undergone numerous restorations.

The puzzle is a picture of The Last Supper painted around 1875 by an artist from Indiana, William Tarney. He painted on canvas and used a more vibrant palatte.
The day before The Last Supper puzzle was finished, a lady stopped by the table, placed her finger on one of the 13 faces and asked if it was Mary Magdalene’s? My friend, Mary Lou, ‘googled’ the Internet for an answer: The Bible and the Churches teach and preach only men gathered around the table with Jesus for his Last Supper.
Jim Maloney
Perryville