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In case of inclement weather, the Academy will follow school closing procedures for Talbot County. Listen for information on radio stations such as WCEI 96.7 FM www.wceiradio.com, WSCL FM 89.5, or WTK 107.1 FM www.mtslive.com, TV stations such as WMAR, WBAL, WJZ, and WBOC, or contact the public schools website at www.tcps.k12.md.us. Come to class only when it is safe for you to come and return. The Academy will endeavor to make up any class canceled due to inclement weather.
Summer 2013 Course Catalog
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President's Letter
Our membership never ceases to amaze me. Each term we see new members of our community signing up for courses and new instructors stepping forward to lead us into subjects that enhance our lives. Sometimes the numbers of people who sign up for a given course surprise me. Who would have believed that 19 people would sign up for a course exploring a theoretical particle proposed more than 40 years ago and only seemingly discovered in the summer of 1912? The people who signed up for that course were not just some of the math-science types that would be expected, but included some who described themselves as poets and psychologists who were interested in the possible spiritual dimensions of such a discovery.
We are always looking for more instructors and new courses in areas that remain unexplored by our members. Rest assured that our membership loves to explore subjects that may be unusual and outside our comfort zones. To that end you will see a free offering in May to explore what topics might be of interest along with some assistance regarding how to make these new course offerings a reality. You don’t have to be a professional educator to be a course leader. We need you, many of you, to step forward to share your passionate interests with our eager learners. I hope to see many of you in that May offering and to your future offerings in the Academy of Lifelong Learning.
-Ron Lesher
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
April 2, 2013 Spring Social
April 11, 2013 First Spring Class
August 19, 2013 Last Spring Class
Multi-Session Courses
GREAT DECISIONS DISCUSSION PROGRAM
With Jim Adams
8 Sessions, Tuesdays, April 16-June 4
5:00-6:30pm
Location: Londonderry Retirement Community, Port St., Easton
Enrollment Limited; Register Early
Course Description:
Developed by the Foreign Policy Association (http://www.fpa.org/) in 1954, the Great Decisions Discussion Program is the longest-standing and largest grassroots world affairs educational program of its kind. It is designed to encourage debate and discussion of the important global issues of our time. Any individual with an interest in expanding his/her knowledge of international relations as well as engaging in active discussion of crucial global issues is welcome to attend. Participants are asked to purchase a FPA prepared Briefing Book (Cost $20) to help reach informed opinions on the issues and participate in the foreign policy process (Briefing Book Purchase Deadline thru ALL is April 1, 2013). The Briefing Book and supplemental FPA video materials will provide a common point of departure for further discussions.
Great Decisions 2013 discussion topics are:
• Future of the Euro
• Egypt
• NATO
• Myanmar and Southeast Asia
• Humanitarian intervention
• Iran
• China in Africa
• Threat assessment
Cost: $30 plus $20 Briefing Book
(Briefing Book Purchase Deadline thru ALL is April 1, 2013)
This I Believe
With Don Rush
6 Sessions, Tuesdays, May 7-June 11
1:00-2:30pm
Location: Eagle House Board Room, CBMM Campus
Enrollment Limited; Register Early
Course Description:
This course invites lifelong learners to read and listen to the beliefs of others, and then to write and share one’s own personal philosophy. We also encourage you to attempt this thought-provoking assignment as well, so you can discover first-hand just how challenging – and rewarding – this writing task really is!
Course Materials
This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of Remarkable Men and Women. Editors Jay Allison and Dan Gediman. Paperback, $14.00 (ISBN: 0805086587), available from Amazon or
Barnes & Noble.
Writer’s Notebook – Each participant should provide his or her own notebook for use at each session.
Cost: $30
How it Ends
With Ron Lesher
4 Sessions, Mondays, April 29-May 20
1:00-2:30pm
Location: Van Lennep Aud., Steamboat Gallery, CBMM Campus
Course Description:
Astronomer Chris Impey challenges us to ponder
ending – person ending, species ending, life on earth ending, solar systems ending, stars ending, galaxies ending, and universes ending. What has the intelligent(?) human species learned about these various endings? We know a lot about personal endings, our brief existence, compared to the endings of longer-lived species, stars and solar systems, and galaxies. Join in exploring and discussing the endings of these structures.
Cost: $30
Faces of Our Founding Fathers
With Dick Mattingley
4 Sessions, Thursdays, April 18-May 9
10:45am-12:15pm
Location: Van Lennep Aud., Steamboat Gallery, CBMM Campus
Course Description:
Seventeenth and Eighteenth Century America was often a dangerous world to live in. Lifespans were relatively short due to wars, epidemics, travel, and immature medical technology and treatments. Remembrance of a loved one could not be documented by photography until the 1840s. The only means to capture an individual’s features were the skills of a portrait painter, known as a “Limner.”
This course will examine the portrait artists of early America and their sometimes famous subjects. As many as 30 rare portraits from America’s first two hundred years will be examined and related to significant historical events. “Sitters” include George Washington and his first Cabinet and some colonial subjects from the Middle Class. Methods of evaluating a portrait’s value as an antique will be discussed and applied to each of the portraits.
Members of the class will be invited to bring in portraits for evaluation during the last class meeting.
Cost: $30
Beginning to Come on Dark: The Later Fiction of Mark Twain
With John Ford and Kate Livie
3 Sessions, Tuesdays, April 16-30
1:00-2:30pm
Location: Van Lennep Aud., Steamboat Gallery, CBMM Campus
Course Description
Let us guess that whenever we read a sentence & like it, we unconsciously store it away in our model-chamber; & it goes, with the myriad of its fellows, to the building, brick by brick, of the eventual edifice which we call our style.
– Mark Twain in a letter, 15 Oct. 1888
Join Kate Livie and John Ford in an exploration of three of Mark Twain’s late works of fiction: Pudd’nhead Wilson, Those Extraordinary Twins, and The Man Who Corrupted Hadleyburg. Twain describes the stories as a tragedy, a farce, and a satire respectively; all three are laced with Twain’s humor and human insight yet reflect the darker tone of his more mature writing. Through three sessions, we will discuss Twain’s dramatic shift in style and discover through these stories how age, experience, frustration and loss tempered the prose of one of America’s greatest writers.
The preferred volume for the course (available at Amazon or other sites on-line) is: Pudd’nhead Wilson and Other Tales by Mark Twain, Oxford World’s Classics, Oxford University Press, USA; Reissue edition (April 15, 2009)
ISBN-10: 0199554714, ISBN-13: 978-0199554713
Cost: $30
Personalities of the Civil War
With Robert Lonergan
3 Sessions, Mondays, May 6-20
10:30am-Noon
Location: Van Lennep Aud., Steamboat Gallery, CBMM Campus
Course Description
We know of the battlefield exploits of the military leaders on both sides of the conflict. But what were these men and women really like? What general fought with himself? What general lost his leg in battle, donated it to the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, and regularly paid visits to his severed limb throughout his long life? Who told his commanding general that if that general ever crossed him again, he’d kill him – and got away with it? Who was the only woman to serve as an officer in the Confederate army?
This course is designed to explore the highlights of the careers of some of the more interesting and influential participants on both sides of the Civil War. Although we
will only skim the surface of these characters, it is hoped that it may lead course participants to explore deeper into the endlessly fascinating event that forged the shape of our country over the last 150 years – our Civil War.
Some of the personalities included in the course will be Stonewall Jackson, William Tecumseh Sherman, Sally Tompkins, Nathan Bedford Forrest, as well as others, some better known, some less so, but all fascinating.
Cost: $30
Ghost Towns, Lost Towns, and Forgotten Towns on Delmarva: An Historical Autopsy
With Phillip Hesser
4 Sessions, Tuesdays, May 7-28
11:00am-12:30pm
Location: Van Lennep Aud., Steamboat Gallery, CBMM Campus
Course Description
The map of today’s Delmarva Peninsula is a far cry from the historical maps of centuries past with many old towns vanished and new towns taking their place. The appearance and disappearance of the “lost” towns of the Delmarva reflect a telling story of crossroads – once busy – now quiet – recounting the intersection of sustainable life and livelihood.
This course will look at the economic and environmental forces that fostered and then undercut the development of “lost towns” on the Delmarva. Topics include: 1) Places on the Map – Towns Versus Settlements in the Colonial Period; 2) Left on the Wayside – Towns Off the Beaten Track; 3) Boom (and Bust) Towns – Timber, Tomatoes, and a Tumble; and 4) Washout and Wide Open Spaces – Towns Undermined by the Waves (and Highways). Participants will consider the core question of whether the Delmarva has ever provided a setting for sustainable towns.
Cost: $30
Digital Photography for Beginners With Wilson Wyatt and Robert Lippson
3 Sessions, Fridays, May 10-24
10:30am-1:00pm
(90 minutes in classroom plus 30-60 minutes of photo-shoot, depending on weather)
Location: Van Lennep Aud., Steamboat Gallery, CBMM Campus
Enrollment Limited; Register Early
Course Description
Don’t pixelate over pixels! This course will demystify new technology and show you how to take advantage of the latest in digital photography, from cameras to iPhones, and everything between. We’ll have some fun, shoot lots of images, and you will be able to take better pictures! You’ll get some technical information, but only enough to help you relax behind the lens, to raise your creative expression to a new level.
This “hands-on” course is designed for beginners or anyone who wants to improve their photography. Like any art or craft, we start with the “tools.” Instead of paints and brushes, we use a camera and lens. Once we understand the strengths of our tools, our creativity is free. Photography is about light, how we see it, and how we use it.
Topics will include composition, how to photograph people, objects, and illustrate travel. It will include the basics of great scenes, foregrounds and backgrounds, almost anything you will want to shoot. Part of each session will be in the classroom and part in the field, photographing around the CBMM campus. The instructors will answer your questions and give you tips to shoot your best photographs. In the process, you will learn about your camera, shutter speed, aperture, ISO, resolution, flash and autofocus, as well as how to save and share your photos with relatives, friends… or the world!
Cost: $30
First Mate With Jerry Friedman
4 Sessions, Thursdays, April 18-May 9
9:00-10:30am
Location: Van Lennep Aud., Steamboat Gallery, CBMM Campus
Enrollment Limited; Register Early
Course Description
This short course is intended for the First Mate, NOT THE CAPTAIN of your boat. It is designed to teach the less knowledgeable First Mate the basics of safe boating, so that he/she will be more helpful to the Captain.
Topics which will be covered are: Reading charts – what do all those little symbols mean; Navigation aids – the street signs of the water; rules of the road – who has the right of way; navigation with electronics – what does a GPS do; plotting courses – what compass course do you use to get from here to there; anchoring – the right way and the wrong way; life jackets and other personal flotation devices – what kinds are there and when do you need them; knot tying – knots to know for tying to a dock or another boat; using spring lines – to help in turning the boat; maneuvering around boats and docks; safety around gasoline powered boats – do’s and don’ts; lights – what do those red, green, and white lights mean; the marine band radio – how do you use it; handling emergencies – man overboard, smoke where it shouldn’t be, incoming water; and what should the First Mate do in case the Captain becomes disabled and can not run the boat.
If you have felt that you know too little about operating the boat, then this course is for you.
Cost: $30
You Gotta Have Heart: Becoming Agents of Reconciliation in a Hate and Fear-Filled World
With George Merrill and Esty Collet
6 Sessions, Thursdays, April 11-May 16
10:30am-Noon
Location: Trinity Cathedral, Easton, Conference Room
Enrollment Limited; Register Early
Course Description
Our media sources report acts of hatred and violence daily. They take place locally, nationally and internationally. Violence occurs in families, among religious and ethnic groups and between nations. We respond in a variety of ways: with anger, with horror, with sadness, with fear and perhaps most troubling, in feeling overwhelming powerlessness hoping that someone will do something to stop it. The result is that many of us become inured to violence, thereby passively contributing to it.
George Merrill and Esty Collet invite you to a six-week
forum that attempts to create hope by empowering concerned persons to be agents of gentleness and wisdom in a world dominated by hatred and fear. We will explore the present religious, social and political climate, examine our own personal attitudes toward hatred and violence, and begin considering ways to change the prevailing climate from one of hate and fear to one of compassion. The journey of a thousand miles begins with one step. Take the first step with us.
Required Student Materials
Twelve Steps to a Compassionate Life by Karen Armstrong
Anchor Publishing ISBN-10:0307742881
Available through Amazon
Cost: $30
The Fight for Irish Freedom: 1916
With Brendan Keegan
2 Sessions, Mondays, April 15 and April 22
10:30am-Noon
Location: Van Lennep Aud., Steamboat Gallery, CBMM Campus
Course Description
In 2016 Ireland will commemorate the centennials of two events which had a lasting effect on the course of modern Irish history and indeed, on the history of Great Britain, as well. These two events were the Easter Rebellion of 1916 in Dublin (The Rising) and the Battle of the Somme.
Irish men fought in both encounters, against British soldiers in the streets of Dublin (The Rising) and side-by-side with British soldiers in the trenches in France at the Battle of the Somme.
While independence from Britain was the goal of the rebels, it was also the goal of many (but not all) of those who fought in the trenches.
Who were these rebels? Who were those fighting in the trenches for Irish freedom? And who were those in the trenches who were fighting for “King and Country,” i.e., the British Empire. All were Irish.
These lectures will detail the events relating to the rebellion itself, the motives behind the event, the leaders, the reaction of the populace, the suppression, the immediate aftermath and the lasting implications. It will also explain the Irish involvement in the Great War (the Battle of the Somme) and the links between the rebellion and the events in France.
Cost: $20
Single-Session Courses
Meet the Author
Presenter: Christopher Tilghman: The Right-Hand Shore, Mason’s Retreat
1 Session, Thursday, May 30
1:00-2:30pm
Location: Van Lennep Aud., Steamboat Gallery, CBMM Campus
Course Description
National bestselling author Christopher Tilghman will discuss the local sources and family stories that are the inspiration for his novels set on the Eastern Shore, including the recent The Right-Hand Shore, and his 1996 novel, Mason’s Retreat. These two novels are centered on the fictional Mason family and their farm on the Chester River, and they cover events beginning in 1857 with a slave sale, and ending with the outbreak of the Second World War.
Cost: Free for ALL Members, $10 for non-members.
Tellington TTouch® for Dogs: Change the Body, Change Behavior
With Lisa Benchoff
1 Session, Friday, May 10
1:00-2:30pm
Location: Van Lennep Aud., Steamboat Gallery, CBMM Campus
Course Description
In this class, dog owners will learn how a unique method of touch and movement can help our dogs to become calmer, more focused and connected to us, and better behaved. Improvements are often quick and dramatic. TTouch addresses the underlying reasons for many undesirable animal behaviors, especially fear and lack of confidence.
Currently practiced in over 30 countries, most often with horses, dogs, and cats, TTouch is based on the Feldenkrais method of mind-body integration for people. TTouch uses nonhabitual touch and movement exercises to enhance physical and emotional well-being by releasing tension, changing posture, and improving balance.
When animals experience the benefits of TTouch, they feel more relaxed, grounded, and safe, which in turn promotes calmness. As we all know, when the mind is calm and focused, thinking and making good choices is much easier.
Too often owners misunderstand what their dogs are trying to tell them. And our own body language can be confusing or intimidating to dogs. Fortunately, it’s not difficult to “read” our dogs and to help them calm down and nonverbally understand what we want. Better communication means more trust, less frustration and stress, a closer relationship, and as a result, more cooperation.
You will practice and take home several TTouch techniques, including one that may save your pet’s life. With the information covered in this class, you will be able to help your dogs feel safer, understood, and able to think and choose the right behaviors.
Cost: Free for ALL Members, $10 for non-members
Book Club
With Margot Miller and Esty Collet
1 Session, Wednesday, May 22
2:30-4:00pm
Location: Van Lennep Aud., Steamboat Gallery, CBMM Campus
Course Description
The ALL Book Club is an informal discussion group which explores one book per session. In the Spring Semester we will read and discuss In One Person by John Irving.
A compelling novel of desire, secrecy, and sexual identity, In One Person is a story of unfulfilled love – tormented, funny, and affecting – and an impassioned embrace of our sexual differences. The novel is narrated by a young bisexual man named Billy Abbot. As a teenager at a New England all-boys prep school in the 1950s, he has crushes on “the wrong people,” including the town’s transgendered librarian and the wrestling team’s golden boy. In the 1980s, he witnesses the horror of the AIDS epidemic. Throughout his life, he experiences the loneliness of knowing no one person can fully satisfy him. Irving first introduced the term, “sexual suspect” three decades ago in his National Book Award- winning novel, The World According to Garp.
Cost: Free for ALL Members, $10 for non-members
Day Trips
A Real Field Trip: Easton/Newman Field
With Mike Henry
Thursday, April 18 or Thursday, May 16 or Thursday, June 20
10:00am-Noon
Location: Easton Airport
Enrollment Limited; Register Early
Course Description
On this field trip you will tour Easton Airport and learn
what a local airport can mean to the community. Who uses it? Who works there? How is it funded? You will also learn what has been done to make the airport an environmentally
good neighbor.
The walking tour includes Spitfire LTD, a collection of beautifully restored WWII fighter craft.
The trip includes a tour of the Air Traffic Control tower. Easton’s tower is the first general aviation tower in the U.S. to be equipped with the new technology radar system STARS LITE.
After the tour, you are invited to have lunch at the Hangar Café (Dutch Treat).
Cost: $5
Viewing the Wonders at Benedictine School, Ridgely, MD With Jeff Moran
Thursday, May 16
10:00-11:30am (Meet at Target Parking Lot at 9:00am for
car pooling to the School)
Location: Benedictine School, Ridgely, MD
Course Description
A guided tour of the Benedictine School, Ridgely, MD, where you can experience a sense of this special place for special people; individuals with developmental disabilities from five years of age to senior citizens. Our full range of techniques and treatments work with a team of dedicated, caring professionals in a loving environment. It’s a combination that is unique in the world. If fact, many of our parents like to think of Benedictine as “a prep school for life’s challenges.”
School Address: 14299 Benedictine Lane, Ridgely, MD 21660
Cost: $5
Visit to Chesapeake Center With Donna Harrison
Wednesday, April 10
10:00-11:30am
Location: Meet at Chesapeake Center, 713 Dover St., Easton,
MD 21601
Course Description
Donna Harrison will lead a tour of Chesapeake Center which offers vocational training and life services to disabled residents of Talbot, Dorchester, and Caroline County residents.
We will meet at Chesapeake Center at 10:00am.
Cost: $5
MEBA
With members of the MEBA staff
Wednesday, May 29
10:00am-Noon, Lunch at 12:10pm
Location: Newberry Auditorium, MEBA, St. Michaels Road (Rt. 33)
Enrollment Limited; Register Early
Course Description
We will be provided with a history of Marine Engineers Benevolent Association (MEBA) training facility and will
visit the ship bridge simulator (always a favorite!).
You are invited to have lunch at MEBA but reservations must be paid by Tuesday, May 20 in order for MEBA to prepare your meal.
Cost: $17.50 (Includes lunch at MEBA), payable by May 20 to CBMM.
A Visit to Historic Druid Hill Conservatory
With Alan Stein, Margaret Haviland Stansbury, and Kate Blom
Thursday, June 6
10:30am-2:00pm
Location: Druid Hill Park at McCulloh and Gwynn Falls Parkway, Baltimore, 800-229-2925
Course Description
Druid Hill Conservatory (officially known as the Howard Peter Rawlings Conservatory and Botanic Gardens of Baltimore), a lovely architectural relic from the Victorian era, still blooms in Baltimore today.
Its original structures, The Palm House (the distinctive
arched structure) and Orchid Room, were built in 1888.
Later additions include the three greenhouses that each mimic desert, tropic and Mediterranean habitats. There is also a lobby and another reception area, making the conservatory and its outdoor gardens suitable as an event venue.
The last of its kind, the Druid Hill Conservatory, was once one of several conservatories in Baltimore City parks. Clifton Park, Patterson Park and Carroll Park all had fanciful hothouses at one time, but each crumbled into disrepair and eventually met with the wrecking ball.
Alan Stein is an internationally recognized authority on the history, design and manufacture of traditional glass architecture. He is President and Director of Architecture at Tanglewood Conservatories. Alan will give a short lecture about the Conservatory and its history and significance.
Margaret Haviland Stansbury is founder of the Baltimore Conservatory Association and author of “Glass House of Dreams – Baltimore’s Victorian Glass Palace in the Park. Using original lithographic postcards drawn from her own collection, Margaret will take you back in time to a moment in history when glass houses captured the imaginations of urbanites across the nation and around the world.
Kate Blom is Supervisor at the Howard P. Rawlings Conservatory & Botanic Gardens in Baltimore. She will lead a guided tour of the Conservatory – a virtual trip around the world and through history! The Palm House is a spectacular example of Victorian architecture and culture, built to exhibit plant specimens collected during a time of avid world-wide exploration. Join her for an in-depth look at the extensive collection of plants and experience first-hand their connections and contributions to the food, medicines, and economic vitality of Spaceship Earth.
We will meet at the Acme parking lot in Easton at 8:45am to car pool to Druid Hill Park (about 90 minutes).
Cost: $24 (includes entrance fees and lunch)
Visit to the U.S. Naval Academy Museum
With Grant Walker, Education Director
Wednesday, June 5
9:00am-2:00pm
Location: U.S. Naval Academy, Annapolis, MD
Enrollment Limited; Register Early
Course Description
The U.S. Naval Academy Museum is located in Preble Hall on the grounds of the U.S. Naval Academy. The Museum offers two floors of exhibits about the history of sea power, the development of the U.S. Navy, and the role of the U.S. Naval Academy in producing officers capable of leading America’s sailors and marines.
Displays combine historical artifacts with video and audio technology to bring to life the stories of the men and women who have served their country at sea. Whether you are a casual visitor, a student of naval history, or a member of the Brigade of Midshipmen, the Museum stands ready to make your visit a memorable one.
The Museum houses the Rogers Ship Model Collection, the largest collection of seventeenth- and eighteenth-century ship models on public display in North America. More than seventy models in beautifully crafted display cases illustrate two hundred years of developments in warship design. It also is also home to the Beverly R. Robinson Collection of prints illustrating famous ships and naval scenes from the last 500 years.
Bus Transportation to and from the Museum will be provided.
Cost: $30, Lunch in Annapolis on your own.
Stride and Boogie-Woogie Performed by an Englishman?
Featuring Pianist Neville Dickey
Friday, June 7
8:00pm-? (Leave Easton at 4:00pm)
Location: The Mainstay, 5753 Main Street, Rock Hall, MD
Course Description
Prepare yourself for some great piano artistry played by a man who has mastered the music which was the rage throughout the country in the 20s and 30s.
Pianist Neville Dickey, who hails from Merry Old England, will make a rare appearance on the stage of The Mainstay on June 7 as part of a nationwide tour. His virtuoso playing of the great stride, ragtime, and boogie masterpieces is respected by jazz pianists from London to New Orleans. He has played the great tunes from the tradition of Ammons, Fats Waller and Pinetop Perkins on stages all over the world. His engaging style and sense of humor should add
to your enjoyment of the performance.
We will meet at the Acme Parking Lot in Easton at 4:00pm and car-pool to Rock Hall, arriving in time for dinner on your own and some strolling before the performance which begins at 8:00pm.
Cost: $5 plus Mainstay Entrance Fee. Dinner on your own in Rock Hall.
Visit Poplar Island With Poplar Island Staff
Tuesday, June 25 or Wednesday, July 17 or Monday, August 19
9:00am-Noon
Location: Boat leaves from Tilghman Island (directions below)
Enrollment Limited; Register Early
Course Description
Poplar Island, once on the verge of disappearing, is today a national model for habitat restoration and the beneficial use of dredged material. The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, teamed with the Maryland Port Administration and other State and Federal agencies to restore the island using dredged material from the Baltimore Harbor and Channel Federal navigation projects. Approximately 40 million cubic yards of dredged material will be placed to develop 570 acres of wetlands and 570 acres of uplands.
A guided tour of the island’s 13 miles of dikes will offer views of emerging habitat for a variety of wildlife species including bald eagles, ospreys, herons, and egrets as well
as insight into the challenges of island restoration.
DIRECTIONS: Cross Knapps Narrows Bridge on Rt. 33 to Tilghman Island. Turn left at the first street, Chicken Point Road. The office is the 3rd building on the left, 21548 Chicken Point Road. Parking is available in the adjacent lot. Please park in the marked parking spaces.
Follow the stone path from the parking lot to the pier. Terrapin departs promptly at 9:00am – the boat does not wait for stragglers. Closed toe shoes, dress appropriate to the weather and an outdoor location, and insect repellent are strongly recommended.
Cost: $5
A Tour of Elegance and Beauty With Tom Hollingshead
Tuesday, June 18
9:00am-approx. 5:00pm
Location: Hillwood Estate, Museum & Gardens, 4155 Linnean Avenue NW, Washington, D.C. 20008
Enrollment Limited; Register Early
Course Description
Travel with us through wooded Rock Creek Park, on the outskirts of Washington, D.C., to Hillwood, a magnificent homestead and garden, formerly the home of art collector and philanthropist, Marjorie Merriweather Post. A passionate art collector, she assembled one of the finest private collections of Russian art in the country including paintings, furniture, Fabrege eggs, jewelry and textiles. The 36 room mansion, which was remodeled in 2000, also features an impressive collection of 18th century French furnishings, tapestries and porcelain. Hillwood estate is surrounded by
25 acres of gardens including a Japanese garden and waterfall and an orchid greenhouse.
We will meet at 8:30am and depart by bus at 9:00am from the main Easton Firehouse, 315 Aurora Park Drive, Easton.
Cost: $35 – Includes bus transportation, admission fee and a docent-led mansion and garden tour. Lunch on your own.
Planning and Offering an ALL Course
With Chip Britt and ALL Volunteers
Wednesday, May 8
1:00-4:00pm
Location: Van Lennep Aud., Steamboat Gallery, CBMM Campus
Course Description
Open to ALL Members and Non-Members alike, this workshop will acquaint you with the types of courses ALL offers and the process of planning, proposing, and offering an ALL course. At this workshop you will be able to give your input on what types of courses and formats interest you most. You will also be able to evaluate your potential for presenting a course on your field of expertise, your hobbies, your interests or travels or maybe leading a group to some interesting place.
You will learn about the many different types of course offerings, from multi-session courses, to discussion groups, to lectures and demonstrations, trips, and other possibilities. ALL volunteers who have offered successful courses will offer advice and observations about what works and help you decide if you have something of interest to share with other ALL members in the form of a course.
This workshop is your opportunity to become involved with ALL, a learning cooperative that depends on its members to propose, develop, and offer courses for other members.
Attend this workshop and learn how much you have to offer, even if you don’t know it yet.
Cost: FREE
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