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Sawkill Trail at Montgomery Place

by Gretchen Lytle
Introduction

The Administration/Infrastructure Standing Committee provides communications and technical support to LLI. 


Towards the Sawkill

The Administration/Infrastructure Standing Committee provides communications and technical support to LLI. 

Downhill Trek

The Administration/Infrastructure Standing Committee provides communications and technical support to LLI. 

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Anticipating Fall Classes

by Deborah Lanser
Introduction

Mark your calendar for August 19, when the fall course catalog will be released. That will give you a week to select your courses before preregistration on August 27 and registration on August 28. Zoom classes begin on September 4, and in-person classes start on September 5.

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LLI Gives Grants to BHSEC Students’ 2025 Summer Work

by Gretchen Lytle
Introduction

Each year LLI provides grants to students in Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) to support them during the summer between their junior and senior years of high school when they volunteer to work and learn in specific areas of interest. There was a bumper crop of applicants this year.

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Introducing Collin Lovas, Our New First Vice President

by Felice Gelman
Introduction

If you meet our new first vice president, Collin Lovas, in the village of Red Hook or walking in the woods at Clermont, you’ll most likely meet his dog Daffy as well. She is a well-trained eight-year-old rescue dog—as sweet as her picture here suggests.

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So That’s What a Curator Does!

by L. Walker
Introduction

How do museum exhibits come to life for the viewer? Twenty-seven LLI members got to find out, first hand, in our Interactive Discovery Day at the Hessel Museum on May 21st. As a backdrop, we used the thesis exhibitions of this year’s CCS graduating class,

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Locavores, Rejoice!

by Deborah Lanser
Introduction

On the northern edge of Bard’s campus lies a 1.24-acre farm that harvests more than 20,000 pounds of organic produce for the Bard community every year. Some of that produce is sold at their farm stand for reasonable prices. The stand is well worth a visit for anyone who relishes local foods.

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Munch and Music Marked Annual Meeting

by Felice Gelman
Introduction

Our annual LLI membership meeting on May 15 this year began with an enjoyable brunch, organized by our Hospitality Chair Betti Steel, giving our members a chance to socialize and enjoy spring weather before filing into Olin Auditorium to begin the day’s events.

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Walking the Bard Cemetery

by Gretchen Lytle
Introduction


Serkin Gravestone
Rosenberg Gravestone


Roth Gravestone
Mekas Gravestone


Hecht Gravestone
Arendt and Blücher



Stokas Headstone Inscription

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Navigating Change and Finding Silver Linings

by Nanci Kryzak, president 2020-2022
Introduction

If you read Felice Gelman’s article about former president Tom Esposito in the May newsletter—and I hope you did!—you now have a concise history of Bard LLI’s impressive development in the decade before COVID.

In March 2020, we were days away from starting our usual in-person spring  semester,

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Reaction to the Priority Preregistration Pilot

by Mary McClellan
Introduction

On February 27, Bard LLI conducted a pilot priority preregistration program. On that day, members were permitted to sign on to ProClass and register for one spring semester course. The decision to run this pilot was made after hearing our members’ frustration with the registration process that favored those with better technical skills and faster fingers.

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