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Sessions: 3Class Date(s): 11-30-2021 to 12-14-2021Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Gideon Amir, Hebrew ScholarTerm: 2021-3Location: Online ClassThere are many disasters mentioned in the Bible, from the Flood through the Tower of Babel to the destruction of Jerusalem and the 1st Temple and even after. In this class we will read some of the stories of disaster, will see if there is a common thread connecting all of them and what is also unique about each... read more -
Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 12-06-2021 to 12-06-2021Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Michael Bevel, Facilitator, Classics in ContextTerm: 2021-3Location: Online ClassWe'll explore the Book of Genesis in several ways: as literature, as history, and as a spiritual text within its context. Explore the very "beginning" as we all discuss how we read this text, why we read it, and what... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 12-06-2021 to 12-06-2021Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 1:30 PM → 3:00 PMInstructor: Bonita Billman, Art History LecturerTerm: 2021-3Location: Online ClassScenes of everyday life as a subject for painting has a long history in Western art, but was not so highly prized as a subject as mythology or religious subjects might be. That will slowly change. By the 19th century, genre painting was a well-established subject for artists to choose. In the young United States, having little taste for mythology or... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 12-07-2021 to 12-07-2021Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 10:30 AM → 11:30 AMInstructor: Joseph Snyder, International LecturerTerm: 2021-3Location: Online ClassNew Zealand was the last substantial land mass on earth with human habitation. The country’s earliest settlers were participants in the great Polynesian migration. They still make up a substantial share of the country’s... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 12-07-2021 to 12-07-2021Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 1:30 PM → 2:30 PMInstructor: Nick Glakas, International LecturerTerm: 2021-3Location: Online ClassThe extraordinary partnership and epic friendship of Franklin Roosevelt and Winston Churchill, the two greatest wartime leaders of the 20th century, was played out over the course of nine meetings totaling 113 days over a six-year period, from September 1939 until FDR's death in April 1945. Their meetings took them around the world, no easy task for one of... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 12-08-2021 to 12-08-2021Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 10:30 AM → 11:45 AMInstructor: Steve Roberts, Journalist and AuthorTerm: 2021-3Location: Online ClassSteve Roberts will discuss his newest book, a loving tribute to his wife of 53 years. Through her visibility and celebrity, journalist Cokie Roberts was an inspiration and a role model for innumerable women and girls. She had many roles in her lifetime: Daughter. Wife. Mother. Journalist. Advocate. Historian. Steve will share stories of her many... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 12-08-2021 to 12-08-2021Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 1:30 PM → 3:00 PMInstructor: Robert Watson, PhD, Distinguished Professor of American History, Lynn UniversityTerm: 2021-3Location: Online ClassLincoln is one of the most famous and iconic Americans in history, but he was vastly more complex than as he is presented in textbooks and in pop culture. This talk peels back the onion to reveal some fun sides of Lincoln - his humor, strength, love affairs, and friendships. In so doing, we'll laugh along with Honest Abe, better appreciate his political... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 12-09-2021 to 12-09-2021Day(s) of the week: ThursdayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Dan Sherman, Musical Theatre InstructorTerm: 2021-3Location: Oasis at the Macy's Home StoreAlthough conceived as a standard studio film, Casablanca was quickly recognized as a great romantic film, full of memorable characters and iconic lines, all supported by one of Hollywood’s greatest scores. This course will provide the backstory to the film, place it within the studio production system, and tell how it developed from an unfinished script... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 12-09-2021 to 12-09-2021Day(s) of the week: ThursdayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Dan Sherman, Musical Theatre InstructorTerm: 2021-3Location: Online ClassAlthough conceived as a standard studio film, Casablanca was quickly recognized as a great romantic film, full of memorable characters and iconic lines, all supported by one of Hollywood’s greatest scores. This course will provide the backstory to the film, place it within the studio production system, and tell how it developed from an unfinished script... read more
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Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 12-09-2021 to 12-10-2021Day(s) of the week: Thursday, FridayTime: 1:30 PM → 3:00 PMInstructor: Ernest Liotti, Faculty, Peabody InstituteTerm: 2021-3Location: Online ClassThese lectures will be a survey of the music of Mozart. Whatever genre Mozart touched, he perfected. We will look at examples of sonatas, concertos, symphony, choral music and opera, and we’ll present many recorded and video... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 12-10-2021 to 12-10-2021Day(s) of the week: FridayTime: 10:30 AM → 11:30 AMInstructor: Kim Brooks, Holistic Health InstructorTerm: 2021-3Location: Online ClassAge strong and gracefully with changes you can implement into your everyday lifestyle to improve your balance and flexibility. We will learn several different routines of 10 minutes or less so you may enjoy choices throughout your week. Please wear comfortable clothes. This class is sponsored by CarePlus Home... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 12-13-2021 to 12-13-2021Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Owen Ullmann, Journalist and AuthorTerm: 2021-3Location: Oasis at the Macy's Home StoreA decade ago, Bitcoin seemed like a crazy idea embraced by criminals and geeks. Now, there are hundreds of digital currencies and they are emerging as a new system of money exchange embraced by Wall Street and the world's central banks. Here's a primer on the pros and cons of cryptocurrency and how it will affect our future financial... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 12-13-2021 to 12-13-2021Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Owen Ullmann, Journalist and AuthorTerm: 2021-3Location: Online ClassA decade ago, Bitcoin seemed like a crazy idea embraced by criminals and geeks. Now, there are hundreds of digital currencies and they are emerging as a new system of money exchange embraced by Wall Street and the world's central banks. Here's a primer on the pros and cons of cryptocurrency and how it will affect our future financial... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 12-13-2021 to 12-13-2021Day(s) of the week: MondayTime: 1:30 PM → 3:00 PMInstructor: Daryl Davis, MusicianTerm: 2021-3Location: Online ClassFrom Harper Valley to Choctaw Ridge, from a town with no pity to El Paso, we'll explore the musical landscape of some of the singers whose songs resonated with us in the 1950s and '60s. They regaled us with heartfelt stories absent in much of today's... read more
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Sessions: 2Class Date(s): 12-13-2021 to 12-14-2021Day(s) of the week: Monday, TuesdayTime: 4:00 PM → 5:30 PMInstructor: Henry George, Engineer, Archaeologist and GeologistTerm: 2021-3Location: Online ClassGenetics is the science of heredity. This science seeks to explain how the characteristics of living things are passed down from parent to offspring. Humans have had a sense of genetics for millennia, first as hunter gatherers who knew how their food was propagated, then as Neolithic farmers who were able to selectively breed plants and animals and... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 12-14-2021 to 12-14-2021Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Michael Ross, Professor of History, University of Maryland at College ParkTerm: 2021-3Location: Oasis at the Macy's Home StoreIn June 1870, two African American women kidnapped a toddler from in front of her New Orleans home. It was the height of Radical Reconstruction, and the old racial order had been turned upside down. Nervous white residents pointed to the Digby abduction as proof that no white child was safe. Louisiana's twenty-eight-year old Reconstruction governor, Henry... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 12-14-2021 to 12-14-2021Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Michael Ross, Professor of History, University of Maryland at College ParkTerm: 2021-3Location: Online ClassIn June 1870, two African American women kidnapped a toddler from in front of her New Orleans home. It was the height of Radical Reconstruction, and the old racial order had been turned upside down. Nervous white residents pointed to the Digby abduction as proof that no white child was safe. Louisiana's twenty-eight-year old Reconstruction governor, Henry... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 12-14-2021 to 12-14-2021Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 1:30 PM → 2:45 PMInstructor: Brian Rose, Professor (ret.), Department of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham Universitys College at Lincoln CenterTerm: 2021-3Location: Online ClassOver the last nine decades, the Walt Disney Company has transformed every facet of the entertainment business—from the creation of feature length cartoons to television programming; from theme parks that span the globe to Broadway musicals, to ownership of the greatest collection of franchise movies under the control of a single studio in Hollywood... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 12-14-2021 to 12-14-2021Day(s) of the week: TuesdayTime: 3:00 PM → 4:00 PMInstructor: Denver Brunsman, Associate Chair, Department of History, George Washington UniversityTerm: 2021-3Location: Online ClassProfessor Brunsman will discuss the film Mary Silliman’s War (1993). Based on actual events and the book The Way of Duty by Joy Day Buel and Richard Buel, Jr., the film depicts the efforts of Mary Silliman, a Connecticut farmwife, to get her husband released from British imprisonment during the Revolutionary War. Prior to the session, we will email you... read more
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Sessions: 1Class Date(s): 12-15-2021 to 12-15-2021Day(s) of the week: WednesdayTime: 10:30 AM → 12:00 PMInstructor: Richard Bell, Professor of History, University of MarylandTerm: 2021-3Location: Oasis at the Macy's Home StoreThe hard winter of 1777, when the Continental Army was camped at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, was a turning point in the Revolution, the moment when new drills and regulations turned a ragtag collection of ill-supplied amateurs into a professional fighting force capable of winning a war. This program tells this important story from the perspective of Baron... read more
