20 17 SPRING LLI MISSION STATEMENT COURSE SCHEDULE AND INDEX e mission of the Lifetime Learning Institute at Bard Friday Class Dates: March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 College is to: ■ provide enriching educational and social experiences in course FIRST PERIOD 8:30 a.m. – 9:50 a.m. page a community of mature adults by o ering noncredit and 1A The American West: Perception and Reality 2 noncompetitive courses under the sponsorship of Bard 1B Opera as Politics III 2 College; ■ encourage members to volunteer, according to their 1C Therapeutic Yoga 2 individual skills and interests; SECOND PERIOD 10:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. ■ share ideas and experiences with students of all ages. 2A Jewish Practices of Mindfulness (No class April 14) 2 About LLI 2B Let’s Talk About Economics 2 LLI is affiliated with the Road Scholar Institute Network, 2C Nature Writing Workshop 3 a national organization that facilitates communication 2D Those Great Greeks 3 with similar groups. LLI is an all-volunteer, member- 2E Women in Religion 3 run organization that encourages active participation. Our presenters volunteer from our membership, the THIRD PERIOD 11:50 a.m. – 1:10 p.m. community, and the Bard faculty. LLI organizes two 3A Creating and Playing Music 3 seven-week semesters, a winter intersession series, and 3B Finding Your Voice 3 occasional special events. 3C Inside the Chef’s Studio 4 3D Reliving Historic Kingston and Rondout: A Revival 4 Donations, Grants, and Incentives 3E What Do You Think? 4 ■ Conservatory of Music: In 2012 LLI pledged FOURTH PERIOD 1:30 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. $25,000 to the Bard Conservatory, to be paid out over a 4A Conjunctions Multigenre Workshop (1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m.) 4 five-year period. This donation was matched by a grant 4B Gender Fluidity: Male? Female? Or ??? 5 from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation. 4C Global Crises – Far East 5 ■ Emeritus Dean of the College Stuart Stritzler-Levine 4D Mystery Masters: Hammett and Chandler 5 Seniors-to-Seniors Grant: Five graduating seniors receive grants to help them complete their Senior Projects. A Bard 4E Seeing Differently: Reading to Write 5 College committee chooses the recipients, who may use the 4F Tai Chi 5 grant in any way they deem necessary. Prior to graduation, FIFTH PERIOD 3:10 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. the recipients make a presentation at a high tea hosted by 5A Poetry of Czeslaw Milosz 5 the members of LLI. 5B Psychological Astrology 6 ■ Bard High School Early College Summer Intern Incentive: 5C Shocking Events: The History of Electricity and Magnetism 6 Bard’s Early College in New York offers selected students the opportunity to graduate with two years of college 5D Wine Tasting 6 credit. In the summer before their final year, many of the OFF-FRIDAY students participate in unpaid internships. LLI provides Hudson River School Monday/Tuesday, 10 a.m. – 1 p.m. a small stipend to four students to pay their expenses 6A 6 (3 sessions) May 1, 9, 16 during this time. Nature and Historic Wednesdays, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. ■ Bard Center for Civic Engagement (CCE) Community 6B Rambling in the Hudson April 5, 12, 19, 26; May 3, 10 6 Action Awards: For the fourth year, LLI will award $3,500 Valley (6 sessions) to Bard College CCE to support student internships, Good Vibrations: A Life Wednesdays, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. travel, and other costs associated with student research 6C 7 of Harmony (4 sessions) projects related to civic engagement. April 12, 26; May 10, 24 The Articulate, Wednesdays, 3:10 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. CONTACT: e Lifetime Learning Institute at Bard College, 6D Informed Dance 7 PO Box 22, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY 12504 Audience March 15, 29; April 5, 12, 26; May 3, 10 ■ Phone: 845-758-7314 E-mail: [email protected] Touring Historic Thursdays, 10 a.m. – 12 p.m. 6E 7 Website: bard.edu/lli Kingston (4 sessions) April 6, 13, 27; May 11

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FRIDAY CLASSES at the current state of opera as a political SECOND PERIOD FRIDAY CLASSES vehicle are part of the course. Students will view operatic video performances in class as 2A. AN INTRODUCTION TO JEWISH political themes are developed. PRACTICES OF MINDFULNESS FIRST PERIOD Presenter: Chuck Mishaan (LLI) has been Fridays: 10:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. an opera a cionado since the days of $2.00 1A. THE AMERICAN WEST: March 24, 31; April 7, 28; May 5, 12 tickets at the old Met. He brie y appeared PERCEPTION AND REALITY (no class April 14) in a non-singing role on stage at the new e Torah is the Jewish guidebook to cre- Fridays: 8:30 a.m. – 9:50 a.m. Met and is a regular attendee there. He ating a just and compassionate society in March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 was an adjunct professor at NYU, teaching which each individual becomes a channel about technology and its impact on health “Go West, young man, and grow up with for loving-kindness in the world. Torah care, and consults with health-care provid- the country!”—Horace Greeley says that one can become such a channel ers on automating their clinical practice. e saga of the American West began with through mindfulness practices embedded the Pequot Massacre (1637) and ended at Producer: Chuck Mishaan in an ethical frame. is experiential class Wounded Knee (1890) and Fredrick will explore Jewish mindfulness practices 1C. THERAPEUTIC YOGA Jackson Turner’s “Frontier esis” (1893). in daily life, noting their e ects and their In between, the class encounters Lewis Fridays: 8:30 a.m. – 9:50 a.m. connection to the God named “I AM” at and Clark, Jackson’s “Trail of Tears,” March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 the burning bush. e class is for people of Manifest Destiny, the Oregon Trail, and Yoga can be a valuable addition to the any or no religious persuasion. Transcontinental Railroad (1861 –1869). toolbox for practices of self-care. is class Class Limit: 20 (minimum 8) Students examine the gap between the real will highlight di erent yoga techniques to Presenter: Gail Albert, Ph.D., (LLI) is a clin- West and the West of legend and memory support healing and health. Topics cov- ical psychologist, Jewish meditation teacher, through the lens of such as Owen Wister, ered will be yoga for a better back, yoga to author of Mending the Heart, Tending the Zane Grey, Karl May, Tom Mix, Edna Ferber, relieve stress and anxiety, yoga practices Soul: Directions to the Garden Within (a Larry McMurtry, and Cormac McCarthy. for stronger bones, and yoga for depres- meditative commentary on Torah), and Presenter: Mark D. Isaacs, M.Div.; S.T.M.; sion. Restorative Yoga, Yoga Nidre and nature photographer. She has given classes D.Min.; Ph.D. currently A.B.D. status in Open Focus Meditation will be among the and workshops on Torah, meditation, the D.Litt. program at Drew University. He techniques introduced. and forgiveness at the Woodstock Jewish is pastor of St. Paul’s Lutheran Church of Class Limit: 24 Congregation, Izlind Wellness Center, and Wurtemburg in Rhinebeck and an adjunct Presenter: Susan Blacker (LLI) began yoga a variety of synagogues and churches. Her economics professor at the Culinary teacher training at Kripalu Center for website is galbertphd.com. Institute of America. While engaging in Yoga and Health and was certi ed to Producer: Ellen Foreman postdoctoral work and teaching, he has teach in 2002. She continues to take work- traveled to Europe, India, and Israel. shops in Yoga of Heart®—Cardiac and 2B. LET’S TALK ABOUT ECONOMICS Producer: Dacie Kershaw Cancer, Healing Art of Yoga, Yoga for a Fridays: 10:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Better Back, and Yoga for Students with March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 1B. OPERA AS POLITICS III Health Challenges. She teaches classes in e class will discuss current economic Woodstock and Saugerties, and gentle yoga Fridays: 8:30 a.m. – 9:50 a.m. issues from an economic point of view— classes from home. March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 that is, not from a Democratic or Republican Producer: Jane Diamond Opera has been a major art form in Western point of view. Students will apply the basic society for over 400 years, with much to principles of economics that appear in every say about politics. Part III of this course economics textbook to many of the prob- continues to look at governmental, sexual, lems that confront society today. economic, and religious politics as expressed Presenter: Andy Weintraub is a for- in opera. A close examination of important mer professor of economics at Temple 19th- and 20th-century operas and a look University, a forensic economist who

2 | lifetime learning institute Course Listings 20 SPRING 17 specializes in estimating the value of lost 2E. WOMEN IN RELIGION THIRD PERIOD earnings, a magician, and the founder Fridays: 10:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. and past president of e CENTER for March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 3A. CREATING AND PLAYING MUSIC Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. Multiple presenters will discuss the impact Fridays: 11:50 a.m. – 1:10 p.m. Producer: Joanne Mrstik of women in religion. March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 Under the guidance of Joan Tower, Asher 2C. NATURE WRITING WORKSHOP March 24: How Feminism Is B. Edelman Professor in the Arts at Bard Fridays: 10:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. Transforming Judaism College, each meeting of this class will March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 Presenter: Rabbi Jonathan Kligler, feature live performances with particular Spiritual Leader of Kehillat Lev Shalem, e rich history of American nature writing themes by students from the Bard College Woodstock Jewish Congregation, ranges from the transcendentalist Henry Conservatory of Music. She will introduce Woodstock David oreau and the Catskill Mountains’ the musicians and moderate the discussion John Burroughs to contemporary writers March 31: Women at the Passover Seder and question period to follow. who combine a love for the natural world Presenter: Rabbi David Nelson, Visiting Class limit: 60 with environmental concerns. Students will Associate Professor of Religion, Bard College Presenter: Joan Tower’s compositions have develop their own examples, combining been performed by most major orchestras factual, objective depictions based on direct April 7: Women Priests in Liberation and ensembles in the United States. Reviews observation with such literary techniques as Theology have described her music as colorful, sensory description and  gurative language. Presenter: The Reverend Bruce Chilton, rhythmic, and highly visceral. Her Naxos Class sessions will be devoted to workshops, Bernard Bell Professor of Religion, Senior recording Made in America won three with students presenting their work for dis- Pastor, and Executive Director, Institute of Grammy Awards. She was composer in resi- cussion and commentary. Advanced eology, Bard College dence with the Pittsburgh Symphony and St. Class limit: 20 Louis Symphony and founder of (and pia- April 14: The Divine Feminine in Presenter: Carol Kushner is a writer and nist for) the Da Capo Chamber Players. editor who has taught a variety of writing Hinduism Producer: Bob Blacker , Resident and literature courses at Syracuse University, Presenter: Pravrajika Gitaprana Minister, Vivekananda Retreat, Ridgely, SUNY, Vassar College, and Bard College. 3B. FINDING YOUR VOICE Stone Ridge She is currently an assistant professor in Fridays: 11:50 a.m. – 1:10 p.m. the English and Humanities Department at April 28: Women in Buddhism March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 Dutchess Community College. She has also Presenter: Luke Thompson, Faculty, Students develop the acting skills to designed and facilitated workshops and ; Visiting Assistant perform public readings of essays, short retreats on nature writing. Professor of Religion, Bard College stories, monologues, and poetry. As Producer: Cathy Reinis they practice vocal exercises to enhance May 5: Women in Unitarian Universalism: resonance and create a delivery that is con- 2D. THOSE GREAT GREEKS A Force to Be Reckoned With versational and real, they learn to captivate Presenter: The Reverend Erica Fridays: 10:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. their audience with directness and simplic- Baron, Minister, Unitarian Universalist March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 ity and, so,  nd their voices. Congregation of the Catskills, Kingston e class will read and discuss three plays Class limit: 12 by the original masters: Agamemnon by May 12: Critical Moments When Women Presenter: Alan Lipper (LLI) has per- Aeschylus, Oedipus the King by Sophocles, and Have Changed Religion formed extensively with e CENTER for e Trojan Women by Euripides. Students will Presenter: The Reverend Richard Performing Arts at Rhinebeck, Performing explore how history becomes legend, legend McKeon, Rector, Episcopal Church of the Arts of Woodstock, and Rhinebeck Readers’ becomes myth, and myth becomes drama. Messiah, Rhinebeck eater. He has studied acting with Olympia Presenter: Lou Trapani is the artistic and Dukakis, oral interpretation with Robert managing director of e CENTER for Producer: Dona McLaughlin Silber, and voice in many modalities. Performing Arts at Rhinebeck. Producer: Dona McLaughlin Producer: Claire Luse

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3C. INSIDE THE CHEF’S STUDIO March 31: Growing Up with Kingston’s issues presented in the provided articles Fridays: 11:50 a.m. – 1:10 p.m. History and by reading other media sources. March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 Presenter: John Peter Roberts, past pres- Class limit: 15 ident, Friends of Historic Kingston Facilitator: William Goldman has had a Conversations about cooking, dining, and long-term interest in current events, espe- the emotive power of food will engage April 7: The Development of the cially in international a airs. He worked students with the Hudson River Valley’s Rondout Neighborhood and lived as a Peace Corps volunteer and rich history and thriving contemporary Presenter: Geoff Miller, Ulster County then as a US Agency for International culinary arts. An introduction to food and Historian Development foreign service o cer in dining in the 19th and early 20th centuries seven countries over 30 years, manag- will set the stage for weekly presentations April 14: Immigration Movements in ing assistance for reproductive health, by area chefs and food writers who discuss Kingston child survival, HIV/AIDS, and related their experiences in the culinary world. Presenter: Thomas Hoffay, former mem- public health programs. Students will be encouraged to participate ber, Kingston City Council Producer: Barbara Post actively in the Q&A about the importance April 28: Kingston’s Maritime and of food traditions in everyday life and cul- Canal History tural identity. Presenter: Allynne Lange, Curator, Presenters: Valerie Balint is interim FOURTH PERIOD Hudson River Maritime Museum director of collections and research at 4A. CONJUNCTIONS MULTIGENRE Olana State Historic Site, the home of May 5: Kingston’s Historic Architecture Frederic Church. She attended culinary WORKSHOP: EXPERIMENTS IN READING Presenter: William B. Rhoads, Professor AND WRITING school in San Francisco and is a frequent Emeritus of Art History, SUNY New Paltz lecturer on historical foodways, including Fridays: 1:30 p.m. – 3:30 p.m. cooking demonstrations about adapt- May 12: Kingston’s Chestnut Street (Class extends into Fifth Period.) ing historic recipes. Amanda Massie is Presenter: Lowell Thing (LLI), past presi- March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 curator for the New York State Bureau of dent, Friends of Historic Kingston; former Participants read selected stories, poems, Historic Sites. She uses historic recipes chairman, Kingston Historic Landmarks and essays from Conjunctions:50, Fi y and foodways to enhance interpretation Preservation Commission; author, e Contemporary Writers and explore those at state historic sites with historic periods Street at Built a City through discussion and instructor-led spanning three centuries. writing exercises. Participants must com- Producers: Regina Armstrong, Producer: Dorothy Baran mit to preparing the weekly at-home Lowell Thing assignments, participating in discussions, 3D. RELIVING HISTORIC KINGSTON AND performing writing prompts on the spot, 3E. WHAT DO YOU THINK? RONDOUT: A REVIVAL and sharing the results of those writing Fridays: 11:50 a.m. – 1:10 p.m. Fridays: 11:50 a.m. – 1:10 p.m. experiments with the group. No writing March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 experience required. Conjunctions:50 can be purchased from the instructor in the Brought back by popular demand, this is discussion group on current events  rst session ($5) or from an online retailer course is a comparison of early historical focuses on signi cant international and in print or e-book form. development in Kingston and Rondout, national news. Each week before class the Class limit: 12 with separate o -Friday walking tours. facilitator will e-mail a few key articles or editorials to participants for their reading Presenter: Micaela Morrissette is the March 24: Kingston’s Colonial History and class discussion. Participants must managing editor of Conjunctions and Presenter: Nina Postupack, Ulster have an active Internet address to receive coordinator of Bard College’s Program in County Clerk the materials. e facilitator will manage Written Arts. the discussion to maximize participation Producer: Margaret Shuhala and coverage of issues. Participants should come to class prepared to discuss the

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4B. GENDER FLUIDITY: MALE? FEMALE? 4D. MYSTERY MASTERS: DASHIELL professor in the Art and Design Education OR ??? HAMMETT AND RAYMOND CHANDLER Department at Pratt Institute. She now Fridays: 1:30 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. Fridays: 1:30 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. works on the hotline and as a counselor at March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 Family of Woodstock. Laura Brown holds a master’s degree in  ne arts and is manag- is course will examine current e class will read and discuss works ing director of JSTOR, an online system challenges to traditional binary gender cat- by Dashiell Hammett and Raymond for archiving academic journals. egories (male / female). It will review the Chandler, both  awed geniuses who were, Producer: Ellen Foreman biological / neurological and social under- in many ways, the literary fathers of the pinnings of gender (transgender, intersex, great tradition of American detective mys- 4F. TAI CHI third gender) and examine research on tery  ction. Participants will read about sexual development, socialization, social and thus meet two private detectives: Fridays: 1:30 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. movements (LGBTQI, feminism, etc.), and Hammett’s Sam Spade in e Maltese March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 the construction of gender. Participants Falcon, and Chandler’s Philip Marlowe in Tai Chi is a blood-freshening moving will discuss the social activism and media e Big Sleep (both of which are short nov- meditation and slow-motion martial art. It that have led to legal, language, and other els). Students will also read some classic promotes longevity and increases cognition, cultural changes. e required text is short stories by the authors. strength, con dence, balance, and  exibility. She’s Not ere: A Life in Two Genders by Presenter: Steven Bassin (LLI) has taught ese gentle, stress-lowering exercises allow Jennifer Boylan. at Pratt Institute, the School of Visual Arts, the chi, or life force, to follow the blood in Class limit: 22 New York University, and e New School. the body, rather than stagnate. Tai Chi helps Presenter: Alice Radosh has a doctorate He taught three previous courses at LLI heal from the inside out. in neuropsychology and has taught psy- that focused on mystery  ction: Classic Presenter: Annie LaBarge (LLI) is a poet chology and women’s studies at Brooklyn American Short Mystery Fiction, Charles and a painter who has taught art at the College, CUNY, and health sciences at Dickens’s Bleak House, and Arthur Conan high school and college level. She stud- New York University. She directed New Doyle’s Sherlock Holmes. ied Tai Chi with Joe Mans eld, Margaret York City’s O ce of Adolescent Pregnancy Producer: Joanne Mrstik Cheo, and Michael Porter. Her background and Parenting Services (under Edward includes all three of the yan forms of Tai Koch) and, as senior program o cer at the 4E. SEEING DIFFERENTLY: Chi. She also teaches Tai Chi to the Health Academy for Educational Development, READING TO WRITE Alliance Oncology Support Group. directed an evaluation of New York City’s Fridays: 1:30 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. Producer: Jane Diamond high school condom availability program. March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 Producer: Barbara Sarah is is the   h course in the Seeing Di erently series. e class continues to FIFTH PERIOD 4C. GLOBAL CRISES – FAR EAST read one poem each week, using “noticing” Fridays: 1:30 p.m. – 2:50 p.m. and other strategies to delay the cultural 5A. POETRY OF CZESLAW MILOSZ March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 (or perhaps human) need for instant inter- Fridays: 3:10 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. e Spring 2017 Global Crisis course will pretation. is allows students to explore, March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 focus on the Far East, with emphasis on examine, and play with a poem’s complexity. Milosz (1911–2004) lived through the China. Speci c topics and presenters will at reading will lead to and inform in-class Nazi / Soviet occupation of Warsaw, on be announced prior to class registration. writing. ( is is not a writing class; no prior into the 21st century. Awarded the 1980 Producers: Denise Ryan, Jane Diamond writing experience necessary.) Ultimately, Nobel Prize, he wrote complex, beauti- the class forms a community of readers and ful poetry that is especially attractive writers who share insight and experience. because he translated it into English him- Class limit: 15 self. Students will read the poems aloud Presenters: Barbara Danish was together, developing powers of perception director of the Writing Center at New on great poems that respond to every York University and adjunct associate

bard college | 2017 | 5 20 Course Listings 17 SPRING true observation. Together students  nd experiments with the attractive power they are the world the poet wanted for his of amber and lodestone, through Ben OFF-FRIDAY COURSES poems. Text: New and Collected Poems: Franklin’s life-threatening tinkering with 1931–2001 (Ecco).  ying kites during a thunderstorm, to Class Limit: 20 the modern understanding of electricity 6A. THE HUDSON RIVER SCHOOL: Presenter: Rosemary Deen completed and magnetism as closely related phe- PAINTERS, PAINTINGS, AND PLACES graduate studies at the Universities of nomena. It will also look at invention Monday / Tuesday: 10:00 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Michigan and Chicago. She retired and technology, particularly electrical (3 sessions) from the English Department of Queens power systems, radio communication, and Monday, May 1: Education Center, Olana College CUNY. With poet Marie Ponsot, microelectronics. State Historic Site she developed a new approach to the Presenter: Bill Tuel, Ph.D., (LLI) received Tuesday, May 9: Frances Lehman Loeb teaching of writing in two books, and degrees in electrical engineering from Art Center, Vassar College won a national award. She is poetry editor RPI. He has previously taught several LLI Tuesday, May 16: at Commonweal magazine and the author courses on the history of science, and is Painters of the Hudson River School of an essay collection, Naming the Light. glad to  nally teach a subject in which he brought to the public a uniquely American Producer: Denise Ryan has formal training. style of art with their realistic but roman- Producer: Bill Tuel ticized landscapes of a new nation. In this 5B. PSYCHOLOGICAL ASTROLOGY three-part course (classroom, museum, 5D. WINE TASTING Fridays: 3:10 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. and  eld trip), Skip Doyle will discuss the March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 Fridays: 3:10 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. works and styles of Hudson River School Astrology is many things to many people, March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 painters and their historical and geograph- but at its core it is an ancient and amaz- Wine has been a part of social, religious, ical context with special reference to the ingly comprehensive description of human and commercial activities, and even a Hudson River Valley. behaviors. A psychological exploration of few wars, since the dawn of civilization. Class Limit: 20 this long-enduring system provides insight e course will touch on these in uences Presenter: Skip Doyle is a licensed guide into all types of human energies, pro- while it reviews the vast expansion of wine who leads people into nature where these cesses, and ideas. Students don’t need to culture in the last 50 years. Students will Hudson River School sites are found. He be believers, or have any prior experience, look at all this, and examine the wines lectures throughout the Hudson River just open minds and lots of curiosity about themselves: tasting them and talking about Valley on regional history, culture, and how the human personality works. them. e fee is $15 per person, and each nature. He o ers nature and spiritual pro- Class limit: 20 student should bring two wine glasses to grams at retreat houses along the Hudson Presenter: Patty Kane Horrigan is a each class. River, and writes the “Valley Explorer” writer, teacher, and counselor as well as an Class limit: 35 column for the Sunday Poughkeepsie amateur astrologer. She has been exploring Presenter: Paul McLaughlin (LLI) Journal. the many facets of psychological astrology became interested in wine when he was in Producer: Dorothy Baran for more than 15 years. e insights she Germany in the Army. He holds a Ph.D. has gained have been immensely useful to in chemistry and teaches part-time at 6B. NATURE AND HISTORIC RAMBLING her, in her personal and professional lives. Vassar College. IN THE HUDSON VALLEY Producer: Margaret Shuhala Producer: Dona McLaughlin Wednesdays: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. (6 sessions) 5C. SHOCKING EVENTS – THE HISTORY April 5, 12, 19, 26; May 3, 10 OF ELECTRICITY AND MAGNETISM Residents of the Hudson Valley can thank Fridays: 3:10 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. donors of properties and organizations that March 24, 31; April 7, 14, 28; May 5, 12 purchased estates, farms, and undeveloped is course will trace the discovery and lands for natural open spaces. e group use of electromagnetism, from the Greek will walk these properties, led by a naturalist

6 | lifetime learning institute Course Listings 20 SPRING 17 or historian from each site: Minnewaska 6D. THE ARTICULATE, INFORMED DANCE of 18th- and early 19th-century furnishings State Park, Norrie Point, Top Cottage NHS, AUDIENCE and decorative arts. Montgomery Place, Olana SHS ($12/pp), Wednesdays: 3:10 p.m. - 4:30 p.m. Presenter: Jane Kellar, Friends of Historic Vanderbilt NHS. A “victory” lunch at the Mar 15, 29; Apr 5, 12, 26; May 3, 10 Kingston CIA concludes the last ramble. Each ramble is survey of dance will act as a bridge April 27: Hudson River Maritime Museum will be two to three miles, on hiking trails or between dance appreciation (how to watch A guided tour of the only museum in New paved and unpaved roads, with some ups and and analyze dance) and dance history. York State dedicated to interpreting and downs. Sturdy shoes or boots are required. Students will view dances on video from exhibiting the maritime heritage of the Class limit: 25 di erent time periods and consider how to Hudson River and its tributaries. Presenter: Jay Hochstadt (LLI) has led hikes, assess their artistic merit in their own time Presenter: Allynne Lange, Curator, walks, and rambles for nearly 40 years. He is and for their continued relevance today. Hudson River Maritime Museum a former outings chair for the Sierra Club’s Class limit: 25 Atlantic Chapter (New York State). May 11: Chestnut Street Presenter: Leah Cox, a dancer and cho- Producer: Joanne Mrstik e Chestnut Street Historic District is the reographer, is associate professor of dance subject of the presenter’s book, e Street at Bard College and dean of the American 6C. GOOD VIBRATIONS: A LIFE OF at Built a City. Dance Festival school. She is former educa- HARMONY Presenter: Lowell Thing (LLI), past presi- tion director, dancer, and rehearsal assistant Wednesdays: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. dent, Friends of Historic Kingston; former at the Bill T. Jones / Arnie Zane Dance (4 sessions) chairman, Kingston Historic Landmarks Company (2001– 2015). April 12, 26; May 10, 24 Preservation Commission Producer: Jane Diamond Garry Kvistad’s Studio at Woodstock Producers: Regina Armstrong, Percussion, Inc. 6E. TOURING HISTORIC KINGSTON Lowell Thing 167 DuBois Road, Shokan, NY 12481 Thursdays: 10:00 a.m. – 12:00 p.m. Garry Kvistad is known for interpreting (4 sessions) musical acoustics in fun and understandable ways for general audiences. e four ses- April 6: The Rondout sions of this course are 1) Introducing World April 13: Uptown Percussion: Instrument Demonstration April 27: The Rondout and Drum Circle; 2) History of Percussion May 11: Chestnut Street COMMITTEES Music and Woodstock Chimes; 3) Rhythms Brought back by popular demand, walk- and Musical notes have the same DNA; and ing tours of historic sites and buildings CURRICULUM COMMITTEE 4) Homemade and Antique Mechanical in Kingston and Rondout are scheduled Instruments. Anne Sunners, Chair before their corresponding Friday lectures. Irene Esposito, Secretary Class limit: 50 e charge for entrance fees is $20. Presenter: Garry Kvistad, founder and Regina Armstrong Joanne Mrstik April 6: The Rondout: A National Historic owner of Woodstock Chimes, is a member Dorothy Baran Barbara Post District of the percussion group NEXUS. He holds Bob Blacker Cathy Reinis Kingston’s historic waterfront district, once a B.Mus. from the Oberlin Conservatory Anne Brueckner Denise Ryan and an M.Mus. from Northern Illinois a thriving maritime village with jobs for Jane Diamond Margaret Shuhala University. He won a group Grammy immigrants on the canal and in boatyards Dacie Kershaw Bill Tuel award for the Steve Reich and Musicians and allied industries, is now a destination Claire Luse Leslie Weinstock recording of “Music for 18 Musicians” for art, antiques, food, and culture. Dona McLaughlin and is on the faculty of the Bard College Presenter: Jane Kellar, Friends of Historic Conservatory of Music. Kingston CATALOGUE COMMITTEE Producer: Bob Blacker April 13: The Fred J. Johnston Museum Bill Tuel, Chair e 1812 Federal style house in Uptown Ellen Foreman Tony Herles Kingston displays an outstanding collection Barbara Herles Margaret Shuhala

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Off-Friday Courses

1. CLASS CHOICES: First choices cannot always be accommodated. If possible, please request a second choice. 2. FILL OUT THE FORM COMPLETELY: Filling out the form as requested maximizes the chance that you will get the classes you want. We may not be able to contact you to clarify any ambiguities. 3. CLASS SIZE: e presenters and the capacities of available rooms determine the size of each class. Please do not request class admission from class presenters. 4. LUNCH: ere is no  xed lunch period. Please adjust your class requests to account for your lunch requirements. Please remember that food is not permitted in classrooms. 5. ADD-DROP CLASSES: e registration con rmation correspondence will contain the location, dates, and times for changing classes. 6. QUESTIONS: Questions and feedback may be directed to [email protected] or the LLI phone line, 845-758-7314. 7. ONLINE REGISTRATION is optional for Spring 2017. You may  ll out this registration page and mail it, or you may go to bard.edu/lli to register. In either case, the registration deadline is February 10, 2017. bard college | 2016 | 8