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July 13 Saturday10:00 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Marianne Starr, Naturalist, Locust Grove Nature CenterLocations: TripLevel of Difficulty: 2 out of 5 (This nature walk was previously planned to take place at Rock Creek Trail but due to overcrowding there on weekends, we have changed the location.) We'll walk along the quiet, mostly shady trails in the woods next to the Gardens, looking at the variety of plants, watch for pollinators in the meadow and listen for birds in... read more -
July 20 Thursday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Steven Gimbel, Professor of Philosophy, Gettysburg CollegeLocations: Online ClassThe heart of French existentialism is radical freedom, but for two of its leading figures Simone de Beauvoir and Jean Paul Sartre their hearts were less free, connected to each other. They considered the institution of marriage to be bourgeois construction designed to dehumanize, but love was a different matter. We will examine the life, love, and... read more -
July 12 – July 19 Tuesday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 2Instructor: Steven Friedman, Music HistorianLocations: Oasis at the Macys Home StoreThis two-part class will examine the personalities and true talent that made marquee headliners such as Ethel Merman, Mary Martin, Gwen Verdon, and Angela Lansbury into great legends. Learn about their feuds, their odd choices and their ambitions. From Merman and Martin to Verdon, Lansbury and many others, these grand dames set the tone for an industry.... read more -
July 20 Thursday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Bonita Billman, Art History LecturerLocations: Online Class2023 is the 300th anniversary of the birth of Devonian portrait painter Sir Joshua Reynolds (1723-1792). Reynolds rose in his art world to become a founder of the Royal Academy and its first President. Reynolds was a portrait painter who worked for the highest echelons of British society including the royal family. Admiring the ancients and the Old... read more -
July 12 Tuesday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Peter Bolland, MA, Professor of Philosophy and Humanities at Southwestern CollegeLocations: Online ClassIt is said that all philosophy after Plato is “merely footnotes”—so formative is the work of this fifth century BCE Greek philosopher. Using his dead teacher Socrates as a character in nearly all of his dialogues, Plato (429-347 BCE) essentially invents the philosophic method while laying the foundation for Western philosophy across metaphysics,... read more -
July 13 Wednesday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: John McCarthy, Montgomery County State's AttorneyLocations: Online ClassThe Law of Confession creates challenges for defendants and police alike. Hear an expert review of the Miranda warning and other legal principles that impact the admissibility of confessions. Special emphasis will be given to the use of video to ensure police compliance with protecting the rights of an individual in custody while obtaining a statement.... read more -
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July 13 Wednesday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: John McCarthy, Montgomery County State's AttorneyLocations: Oasis at the Macys Home StoreThe Law of Confession creates challenges for defendants and police alike. Hear an expert review of the Miranda warning and other legal principles that impact the admissibility of confessions. Special emphasis will be given to the use of video to ensure police compliance with protecting the rights of an individual in custody while obtaining a statement.... read more
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July 15 Monday1:00 PM → 2:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Patricia Maclay, Board Member, The American Friends of LafayetteLocations: Hybrid - At Oasis and OnlineIn August 1824, the Marquis de Lafayette, a Frenchman and the last surviving major general of the American Revolution, triumphantly returned to the country he loved. Over the next year, Lafayette covered over 6000 miles by carriage, stagecoach, canal barge, and steamboat, traveling to all 24 exiting states and “Washington City.” This presentation will... read more -
RECORDEDJuly 22 Tuesday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Owen Ullmann, Journalist and AuthorLocations: Hybrid - At Oasis and OnlineEver since the ousted government of China led by Chiang Kai-shek fled to Taiwan following the communist revolution in 1949, the world has seen the tiny separatist island as a powder keg should mainland China seek its reunification through force. Certainly, that could be a trigger for a global war with catastrophic consequences. Yet there are compelling... read more -
July 13 Wednesday1:00 PM → 2:15 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Brian Rose, Professor (ret.), Department of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham UniversityLocations: Online ClassAmerican television was all set to launch in the late 1930s, but its progress was interrupted by the start of World War II. Finally, by the end of the 1940s, NBC and CBS began broadcasting to their east coast affiliates. They offered viewers a wide variety of programs: situation comedies, vaudeville-style revues, and most impressively, live original dramas.... read more -
July 22 Tuesday3:00 PM → 4:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Jonina Duker, Certified Book Discussion LeaderLocations: Online ClassIn 1611 Emilia Bassano was one of the first women to publish a book of poetry in England. She may or may not have been descended from secret Jews. As a few scholars have posited, she may or may not have been William Shakespeare’s “Dark Lady” of sonnets 127 to 154. Controversially, as a couple of scholars have posited, she may or may not have... read more -
July 14 Thursday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Dan Sherman, Musical Theatre InstructorLocations: Online ClassKnown best for his role as “The Little Tramp,” Charlie Chaplin brought laughs and tears to film audiences throughout the world through a brilliant series of films spanning the silent and sound eras. This class will explore Chaplin’s career beginning as a poor boy on the English stage in the 1890s to a beloved but highly controversial actor more than... read more -
July 25 Tuesday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Jennifer Paxton, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of History, The Catholic University of AmericaLocations: Online ClassJoin historian Jennifer Paxton as she examines the evidence for and against the existence of a warrior leader named Arthur, who supposedly stemmed the tide of the Anglo-Saxon advance into Britain in the late 5th century in the chaotic aftermath of the collapse of Roman rule. How much can history tell us about "King" Arthur, and how has his legend developed... read more -
July 25 Tuesday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Jennifer Paxton, Clinical Associate Professor, Department of History, The Catholic University of AmericaLocations: Oasis at the Macys Home StoreJoin historian Jennifer Paxton as she examines the evidence for and against the existence of a warrior leader named Arthur, who supposedly stemmed the tide of the Anglo-Saxon advance into Britain in the late 5th century in the chaotic aftermath of the collapse of Roman rule. How much can history tell us about "King" Arthur, and how has his legend developed... read more
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July 16 Tuesday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Guillermo Warley, Electronics EngineerLocations: Online ClassThis class has been converted to online-only. Examining four technologies that have great potential to play a major role in solving, mitigating or reversing earth’s big challenges: water desalination, carbon capture utilization and storage, and batteries for EV’s and grid energy storage. A discussion of the potential help that the rapidly evolving field... read more -
July 25 Tuesday1:00 PM → 2:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Gary Cahn, Computer InstructorLocations: Online ClassGenerative AI is the new artificial intelligence that can create original content. Millions of people are already using programs like ChatGPT to write books, create art, and develop code. Many believe it’s a once-in-a-lifetime technological breakthrough that could impact virtually every aspect of society and disrupt industries from medicine to law. In... read more -
July 23 Wednesday10:30 AM → 11:30 AMSessions: 1Instructor: Julianne Mangin, Local Historian and AuthorLocations: Hybrid - At Oasis and OnlineFor nearly 160 years, the Almshouse at the Montgomery County Poor Farm was the last resort for poor people who were unable to take care of themselves due to physical, mental, and developmental disabilities. A look at some of their stories, including how they lived and died, sheds a light on conditions there. Despite the oversight of county officials and the... read more -
July 26 Wednesday10:30 AM → 12:00 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Victor Rezmovic and Lisa Friedman, Technology InstructorsLocations: Online Class(At the instructor's request, this class date has been changed from June 21 to July 26.) Wireless technologies like Wi-Fi version 6 have provided home Internet users with incredibly fast speeds to enhance browsing and improve the home streaming experience to replace cable TV. In the past, cellular technologies have been associated primarily with phone... read more -
July 26 Wednesday1:00 PM → 2:30 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Judy Scott Feldman, Ph.D., Art Historian/National Mall CoalitionLocations: Online ClassThe Library of Congress, the most richly decorated public building in Washington, has been called “our national monument of art.” It is more than that. Completed in 1897 on Capitol Hill across from the US Capitol and adjacent to the Supreme Court Building, the Library embodies a late 19th century vision in architecture, painting, sculpture, and mosaic... read more -
July 16 Tuesday1:00 PM → 2:15 PMSessions: 1Instructor: Brian Rose, Professor (ret.), Department of Communication and Media Studies, Fordham UniversityLocations: Online ClassThe movies and dancing are a partnership born in heaven. From its very beginnings, the new medium of motion pictures turned toward dance as one of the best ways to showcase its unique ability to make movement come alive. And through the decades, it’s been dancing on the big screen that has provided some of the most ecstatic moments in film... read more
