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Lesser-Known Perks of Bard LLI Membership

Posted on September 21, 2025 by Posted in Programs

by Felice Gelman
Introduction

You probably joined Bard LLI for the wide variety of courses and the unique opportunity to meet accomplished and interesting people in your age group. Because Bard LLI is part of the Bard College community, there’s a lot more on offer. Did you know…?

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Thank You Notes from BHSEC Recipients

Posted on September 19, 2025 by Posted in Around Bard, Programs

by Deborah Lanser
Introduction

For years, LLI has provided financial help for students in the Bard High School Early College (BHSEC) in Manhattan for expenses incurred during summer internships. This year, four students in BHSEC’s New York City schools each received a $500 scholarship LLI grant. The thank you letters they wrote to President Robert Beaury show they took full advantage of the learning opportunities the grants afforded.

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Sawkill Trail at Montgomery Place

Posted on September 18, 2025 by Posted in Around Bard, Programs

by Gretchen Lytle
Introduction

Bard College has many walking paths and trails, around cultivated gardens and landscapes, as well as through woodlands and along waterways. Montgomery Place alone offers several areas for walking and is open daily from sunrise to sunset. If you park in the Visitor Center lot,

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Anticipating Fall Classes

Posted on July 24, 2025 by Posted in Programs

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

Posted on July 23, 2025 by Posted in Programs

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

Posted on July 22, 2025 by Posted in Committees, Programs

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!

Posted on May 24, 2025 by Posted in Programs, Special Events

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!

Posted on May 23, 2025 by Posted in Around Bard, Programs

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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