Fall 2022 Catalog
Course Dates:
Thursdays on ZOOM: Sept 15, 22, 29; Oct 6, 20, 27; Nov 10, 2022
Fridays in person: Sept 16, 23, 30; Oct 7, 21, 28; Nov 11, 2022
THERE ARE NO CLASSES Oct 13-14 and Nov 3-4, 2022
Fall Registration starts September 1 and ends September 24, 2022Course Enrollment: First-come, first-served. Open to all members
(free with your 2022-2023 membership)
Click on any of the titles below to see expanded information. The complete catalog with all course details (such as course limits, classroom locations, dates, etc.) is in ProClass.
There is a print button on the bottom of the page. Thursday courses will be held via ZOOM; all Friday courses will be held in person on campus and one or more will be hybrid. Off-Friday courses will be held in person at their respective locations.
Go here to access the complete catalog in ProClass. Once there, choose Fall 2022 from the “Select Semester” drop-down and hit the “Search” button. Registration will go live on September 1st at 9:00 a.m. Log in to register for courses.
ZOOM COURSES
THURSDAY, Period 1
9:00 a.m. until 10:30 a.m.
Thursday, First Period: 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
September 15, 22, 29; October 6, 20, 27; November 10, 2022
THIS COURSE MEETS IN ZOOM
Description: This enlightening series of classes led by doctors and health specialists will expand your knowledge about how to stay healthy in older adulthood.
Week 1: What’s New in Getting Older
This course will begin with updates in geriatric medicine that are universally important. Some issues central to geriatrics are physical mobility and stability, memory loss, and neurodegenerative diseases.
Presenter: Rachel Moscicki
Week 2: Help for Painful Knees
The most common causes of knee pain are related to aging, injury, or repeated stress. This class will explore how to know if your knee pain is serious, how to get rid of knee pain, and when to see a doctor.
Presenter: Dr. Michael Schweppe
Week 3: Staying on Your Feet
Your feet are vital to your health, but sometimes their care gets overlooked. Dr. Zboinski, a podiatrist and wound care specialist, will discuss how we can best stay on our feet and avoid pain, as well as common concerns.
Presenter: Dr. John Zboinski
Week 4: Gastrointestinal Cancers: Prevention, Risks, and More
Gastrointestinal cancers are found in the stomach, pancreas, and colon. Dr. Nitzkorski, a surgical oncologist, will discuss how to prevent these common cancers as well as the screenings and symptoms that lead to early detection.
Presenter: Dr. James R. Nitzkorski
Week 5: Recovery from Long COVID
It is estimated that one-third of people who get COVID-19 will develop persistent symptoms lasting months. Learn what neurologists are doing to address common symptoms like headaches, weakness, and loss of smell, so long-haulers can regain their quality of life.
Presenter: Dr. Atif Shaikh
Week 6: Surgery By Robot?!
Robotics has transformed the field of surgery, from prostate removal to hysterectomies, and more. While the intention is to perform the surgery with few external incisions, the idea of robotic surgery can seem like science fiction. Dr. Binetti will demystify this surgical innovation.
Presenter: Dr. Brian Binetti
Week 7: Why Asking For (and Offering) Help Is Good For Your Health
Why is asking for help so hard for many? What are the benefits of getting the help you need and the repercussions when you don’t? This class will explore how help helps everyone.
Presenter: Allison Gould
Class Limit: none
Producer: Emily Michael
Thursday, First Period: 9:00 a.m. – 10:30 a.m.
September 15, 22, 29; October 6, 20, 27; November 10, 2022
THIS COURSE MEETS IN ZOOM
Description: What’s that?? A shortage of baby formula? Why?
The price of gas? Doubled?
Inflation? You mean it’s not the price of gasoline? What about price controls?
And the trade deficit is up again? But we’ve protected our industry with tariffs and quotas. Shouldn’t we have a surplus of exports?
And with all this “the rich get richer and the poor get poorer.”
These and other questions will be discussed. After reviewing some basic principles of economics, using the same basic approach of every college economics textbook, the presenter will apply these to the economic issues of the day.
Class Limit: None
Presenter: Andrew Weintraub, PhD, has taught economics at the university level for 40 years and at LLI for 15 years after that.
Producer: Margaret Moran
ZOOM COURSES
THURSDAY, Period 2
11:00 a.m. until 12:30 p.m.
Thursday, Second Period: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
September 15, 22, 29; October 6, 20, 27; November 10, 2022
THIS COURSE MEETS IN ZOOM
Description: For more than 2,000 years, China has maintained one of the world’s largest and most advanced economies. Emerging from an early river-based agricultural society, the Han majority developed an enduring written language and several schools of practical philosophy. China’s interaction with its nomadic neighbors, as well as Korea, Japan, and the West, shows how some of China’s greatest accomplishments occurred during, or shortly after, periods of great disruption. Join us for a cultural, political, and economic exploration of this oldest, continuous civilization.
Class Limit: none
Presenter: Tom Walker, MS, (LLI) is a graduate of the United States Naval Academy and served in three Navy squadrons as a pilot and legal officer. He has taught at Bard LLI, Vassar LLI, and Dutchess County Community College. He recently retired as a senior counselor in the New York State Division of Veteran Affairs.
Producer: Emily Michael
Thursday, Second Period: 11:00 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
September 15, 22, 29; October 6, 20, 27 (6 sessions)
THIS COURSE MEETS IN ZOOM
Description: In this workshop, participants will read some short plays written by our presenter, Victoria Sullivan, and perform them in class. After a few sessions, participants will move on to writing short scenes, which will be cast and read in class, so expect to do some reading and writing at home between sessions. No prior theater experience is necessary, just a willingness to jump in and participate.
Class Limit: 13
Presenter: Victoria Sullivan, PhD, (LLI) is a poet and playwright and had seven Equity productions of her work produced in NYC. She has been a member of The Hypothetical Theatre Co. and American Renaissance Theater Co. and is in the playwright’s unit of the Woodstock Fringe. During the COVID pandemic, she had two plays performed for a national audience on Zoom to raise money for The Actors Fund. She has published theater and art criticism, and is co-host of Woodstock Roundtable, 100.1 WDST- FM.
Producer: Margaret Shuhala
ZOOM COURSES
THURSDAY, Period 3
1:00 p.m. until 2:30 p.m.
Thursday, Third Period: 1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
September 15, 22, 29; October 6, 20, 27; November 10, 2022
THIS COURSE MEETS IN ZOOM
Description: This course will offer insights into contemporary poetry and offer opportunities to integrate poems into daily life. Each class will feature a different kind of poem: narrative, sonnet, dramatic monologue, experimental-language, translation, and formal poems. Questions for discussion will include: What is the poem about? How do you know? How does the poem work on the page? In the ear? At home, students will have opportunities to find and read poems on one of the many internet poetry sites on their own. Poems in class and internet sources of poems will be provided.
Class Limit: 12
Presenter: Lee Gould, MA, MFA, is a poet, retired English teacher, and translator. She is the editor of La Presa, a bilingual, biannual journal published by Embajadoras Press, Ontario, Canada. Her poems, essays, and translations have appeared in journals and anthologies in the United States, Mexico, Canada, and England. Her chapbook Weeds appeared in 2010. She taught writing at Goucher College, poetry and writing at Bard LLI, and has curated poetry readings in Columbia County, New York. She lives in Guanajuato, Mexico.
Producer: Margaret Shuhala
on-campus courses
Friday - Period 1
8:30 a.m. until 9:50 a.m.
Friday, First Period: 8:30 a.m. – 9:50 a.m.
September 16, 23, 30; October 7, 21, 28; November 11, 2022
Description: Dystopian literature and film are provocative and paradoxical: they illustrate today’s headline issues—social inequality, pandemics, environmental degradation, gender equality—but in the end, they fail to offer any realistic solutions.
As social systems fail to serve basic needs, cinema and literary fiction worldwide turn to apocalyptic and dystopian forms to illustrate these concerns, portraying the world as it is—or is about to become.
Participants will be assigned stories from: Brave New Worlds, (Dystopian Stories) second edition, John Joseph Adams, editor, (2012), available for purchase in paperback or eBooks. Films to stream at home may include Parasite, Squid Games, The Handmaid’s Tale, and Snowpiercer.
Class Limit: 25
Presenter: Peter Scheckner, PhD (LLI), retired professor of literature, Ramapo College of NJ, did his undergraduate work at Bard College. His publications include American War Cinema and Media Since Vietnam: Politics, Ideology, and Class (2013), co-author Patricia Keeton; The Way We Work: Contemporary Writings from the American Workplace (2008) co-editor, M.C. Boyes; An Anthology of Chartist Poetry: Poetry of the British Working Class, 1830s-1850s (1989); and Class, Politics, and the Individual: A Study of the Major Works of D. H. Lawrence (1985).
Producer: Fern Fleckman
Friday, First Period: 8:30 a.m. – 9:50 a.m.
September 16, 23, 30; October 7, 21, 28; November 11, 2022
Description: Even before the Axis collapsed, the United States and the Soviet Union began to lay the basis for their post-war security, which left the future of many areas of the world in doubt. Nuclear weapons made the Cold War that ensued a threat to humankind. A series of crises and proxy wars increased the risk that local conflicts would trigger a nuclear holocaust. We will look at some of these unsettling events to help us better understand why Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, and why the United States and NATO rushed to support the Ukrainian struggle to protect its independence.
Class Limit: 25
Presenter: Mark Lytle, PhD, is the Lyford Paterson Edwards and Mary Gray Edwards Professor Emeritus of Historical Studies at Bard. In addition to his biography of Rachel Carson and America’s Uncivil Wars, a history of the 60s era, he is the author of the recently published The All-Consuming Nation: Pursuing the American Dream Since World War II (Oxford).
Producer: Marge Moran
Friday, First Period: 8:30 a.m. – 9:50 a.m.
September 16, 23, 30; October 7, 21, 28; November 11, 2022
THIS IS THE ZOOM SECTION OF THIS COURSE
Description: Even before the Axis collapsed, the United States and the Soviet Union began to lay the basis for their post-war security, which left the future of many areas of the world in doubt. Nuclear weapons made the Cold War that ensued a threat to humankind. A series of crises and proxy wars increased the risk that local conflicts would trigger a nuclear holocaust. We will look at some of these unsettling events to help us better understand why Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine, and why the United States and NATO rushed to support the Ukrainian struggle to protect its independence.
Class Limit: none for Zoom attendance
Presenter: Mark Lytle, PhD, is the Lyford Paterson Edwards and Mary Gray Edwards Professor Emeritus of Historical Studies at Bard. In addition to his biography of Rachel Carson and America’s Uncivil Wars, a history of the 60s era, he is the author of the recently published The All-Consuming Nation: Pursuing the American Dream Since World War II (Oxford).
Producer: Marge Moran
on-campus courses
Friday - Period 2
10:10 a.m. until 11:30 a.m.
Friday, Second Period: 10:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
September 16, 30; October 7, 21, 28; November 11, 2022. This is a six-week course. No class on Friday, September 23.
Description: This class will provide an introduction to current medical topics, including the latest research and clinical applications. Material will reflect common and unusual medical problems. There will be ample opportunity to discuss topics in general; however, we will avoid exploring individual concerns.
Class limit: 50
Presenter: Michael Weinstock, MD (LLI) is Chair Emeritus of the Department of Emergency Medicine, Lehigh Valley Health Network and professor of Clinical Medicine, Penn State University School of Medicine (retired).
Producer: Leslie Weinstock
Friday, Second Period: 10:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
September 16, 23, 30; October 7, 21, 28; November 11, 2022
Description: This course will examine the evolving role of government in the late 19th century. The Civil War was over, and the nature and extent of government involvement in the lives of its citizens and businesses grew exponentially in a relatively short period of time. In addition, the frontier was closed, and Manifest Destiny was achieved. Our time to enter the world stage had come. The push for expanding American influence overseas built steadily in the 1890s, just in time for the dawn of the so-called American Century.
Class limit: 25
Presenter: Robert Beaury (LLI) is a retired social studies teacher from Germantown Central School and a former adjunct at Columbia-Greene Community College.
Producer: Emily Michael
Friday, Second Period: 10:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
September 16, 23, 30; October 7, 21, 28; November 11, 2022
THIS IS THE ZOOM SECTION OF THIS COURSE
Description: This course will examine the evolving role of government in the late 19th century. The Civil War was over, and the nature and extent of government involvement in the lives of its citizens and businesses grew exponentially in a relatively short period of time. In addition, the frontier was closed, and Manifest Destiny was achieved. Our time to enter the world stage had come. The push for expanding American influence overseas built steadily in the 1890s, just in time for the dawn of the so-called American Century.
Class limit: none for Zoom attendance
Presenter: Robert Beaury (LLI) is a retired social studies teacher from Germantown Central School and a former adjunct at Columbia-Greene Community College.
Producer: Emily Michael
Friday, Second Period: 10:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
September 16, 23, 30; October 7, 21, 28; November 11, 2022
Description: The Roaring 20s saw the production of some of the greatest and most important literature of the 20th century. Writers of the decade set a high standard of imagination and achievement in poetry, fiction, and drama. Although the cornucopia of outstanding work is vast, this course will continue our survey with select in-depth explorations of the literary legacy of this “roaring” decade.
Class limit: 25
Presenter: Chuck Mishaan (LLI) Chuck has been presenting courses at Bard LLI for many years, including his popular Opera as Politics series, the Leonard Bernstein Centenary Lectures, and recently The Roaring 20s. His commentary on the intersection of politics and the arts continues with this course.
Producer: Chuck Mishaan
Friday, Second Period: 10:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
September 16, 23, 30; October 7, 21, 28; November 11, 2022
THIS IS THE ZOOM SECTION OF THIS COURSE
Description: The Roaring 20s saw the production of some of the greatest and most important literature of the 20th century. Writers of the decade set a high standard of imagination and achievement in poetry, fiction, and drama. Although the cornucopia of outstanding work is vast, this course will continue our survey with select in-depth explorations of the literary legacy of this “roaring” decade.
Class limit: none for Zoom attendance
Presenter: Chuck Mishaan (LLI) Chuck has been presenting courses at Bard LLI for many years, including his popular Opera as Politics series, the Leonard Bernstein Centenary Lectures, and recently The Roaring 20s. His commentary on the intersection of politics and the arts continues with this course.
Producer: Chuck Mishaan
Friday, Second Period: 10:10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
September 16, 23, 30; October 7, 21, 28; November 11, 2022
Description: Following the Amherst Writers & Artists method, our writing and reading sessions will focus on self-expression and positive feedback. We’ll write from prompts, both in class and at home between sessions, and respond with encouragement. In this way, a writer—at any level of expertise—develops the skills and habit of writing. Each session might include grammar tips, literary techniques, and specific critiques (when asked for). We’ll direct our comments at the work itself. We uncover our own truths and share them. Join us!
Class limit: 10
Presenter: Ann Hutton, has led writing workshops and taught classes in various situations, including oncology support groups at Health Alliance Hospital and at Circle of Friends for the Dying Death Cafe. As a freelancer, she’s written for local publications and edited other writers’ manuscripts.
Producer: Linda LeGendre
on-campus courses
Friday - Period 3
11:50 a.m. until 1:10 p.m.
Friday, Third Period: 11:50 a.m. – 1:10 p.m.
September 16, 23, 30; October 7, 21, 28; November 11, 2022
Description: Week 1: The Birth, Life, and Death of Stars in One Diagram
Presenter: Simeen Sattar, PhD, Professor of Chemical Physics
Week 2: Birds Use Polarized Light to Find Water and Your Bird Feeder
Presenter: Bruce Robertson, PhD, Associate Professor of Biology
Week 3: Why Gauge?
Presenter: Hal Haggard, PhD, Assistant Professor of Physics
Week 4: TBD
Presenter: TBD
Week 5: Puzzles and Games from the Julia Robinson Mathematics Festival
Presenter: Lauren Rose, PhD, Associate Professor of Mathematics
Week 6: Bard Students Will Discuss Air Quality Research
Presenters: Bard Students in Environmental and Urban Studies
Week 7: Gene Editing: Development of a CRISPR Test Tube System
Presenter: Swapan Jain, PhD, Associate Professor of Chemistry
Class Limit: 50
Producer: Cathy Reinis
Friday, Third Period: 11:50 a.m. – 1:10 p.m.
September 16, 23, 30; October 7, 21, 28; November 11, 2022
Description: This course will focus on the legal and political fallout from the recent U.S. Supreme Court decision overturning the landmark Roe v. Wade ruling. There are many fundamental rights not enumerated in the Constitution or its Bill of Rights. Thus, Justice Samuel Alito and others have raised a key question: How fundamental are fundamental rights, specifically: same-sex marriage, society of parents and children, interracial marriage, and women’s reproductive health?
Class Limit: 25
Presenter: Kris McDaniel-Miccio, JSD (LLI), is professor emerita from the University of Denver Sturm College of Law and founding director of the first legal services program for battered women in the United States. She is a Fulbright Scholar and an advocate for gender equity. McDaniel-Miccio litigated successful cases involving pay equity and gay marriage. She has been recognized for her outstanding teaching in legal advocacy by law schools, legal, political, government agencies, and many nongovernmental organizations.
Producer: Linda LeGendre
Friday, Third Period: 11:50 a.m. – 1:10 p.m.
September 16, 23, 30; October 7, 21, 28; November 11, 2022
Description: Every week there will be a presentation on the history and development of two or three Lindy Hop dance steps. Initially, we’ll focus on solo dance steps, easing into partner dance steps.
The music will either “speak” the step or enhance it, and videos will show dance performances using the steps. The last 15 minutes of class will be a group instruction of the steps.
At the beginning of each class, we’ll do a review of the steps discussed and taught the prior week and discuss how that week’s steps may have been influenced by the previous week’s steps.
Class Limit: 20
Presenter: Susan Simon (LLI) Before 2009, Susan did not know how to dance, nor did she have any desire to dance—that all changed when she started Lindy Hop classes and discovered that the combination of the music and the dance instantly creates soulful joy. She wants to share this with you!
Presenter: Ron Fields, a longtime Ulster County resident, developed an avid interest in swing music and dance, including jazz and swing dance history. He currently participates in two performance groups and helps conduct monthly Zoom presentations of swing music and dance. Ron has been dancing for 20 years.
Producer: Linda LeGendre
Friday, Third Period: 11:50 a.m. – 1:10 p.m.
September 16, 23, 30; October 7, 21, 28; November 11, 2022
Description: This class will explore the concept of the timeless goddess across world cultures, examining her powerful role in human history, art, music, and literature, dating from the Paleolithic era to the current marginalization of the divine feminine in the West. Students will learn about the once-revered crone goddess who is making a comeback. Patriarchal culture presents a limited perspective on spirituality and religion that influences everyone in profound ways. Whatever one’s belief system or gender, this class will encourage students to envision an awakened world where elder women (and all women) are honored, respected change-makers. This is a repeat of the course offered in Spring 2022.
Class Limit: 25
Presenter: P.M. Vincenza Dante, MS, MSW, is a mental health consultant and educator with a lifelong interest in cross-cultural spiritual traditions. She is a presenter for Vassar College’s LLI on the timeless goddess throughout human history. She posits that gender roles and treatment of women are determined by a community’s traditional celebration or suppression of the divine feminine.
Producer: Fern Fleckman
on-campus courses
Friday - Period 4
1:40 p.m. until 3:00 p.m.
Friday, Fourth Period: 1:40 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
September 16, 23, 30; October 7, 21, 28; November 11, 2022
Description: There are those lives that are so unfamiliar (and perhaps fearsome) to us that we risk seeing them as the other, as people who do not have the same hopes and fears that we do. Of course, we are all someone else’s other. Great literature is a way we can bridge those gaps. This class will read one amazing short story each week (downloaded from the internet) that looks through the lens of the other. Authors may include Alice Walker, Lucia Berlin, Jhumpa Lahiri, Philip Roth, Gish Jen, and Katherine Mansfield.
Class limit: 15
Presenter: Laura Brown, MFA, (LLI) has worked in publishing for more than 40 years and is a former president of Oxford University Press.
Presenter: Barbara Danish, PhD, (LLI) was director of the Writing Center at New York University, taught at Pratt Institute, and currently works at Family of Woodstock.
Producer: Barbara Danish
Friday, Fourth Period: 1:40 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
September 16, 23, 30; October 7, 21, 28; November 11, 2022
Description: Learn how to achieve or improve your photographic vision. This class is designed for intermediate photographers with a working knowledge of camera functions. Students will learn and practice via weekly assignments. Topics include composition, focus, color, lighting, perspective, timing, and conveying aesthetic or emotional goals. Each class will include a still/video presentation, sharing and critiquing each other’s work with color or B&W prints. Digital single-lens reflex cameras (DSLRs) or smartphones can be used. Be prepared to share five portfolio samples in the first class.
Class limit: 15
Presenter: Gary Miller (LLI) is a veteran photojournalist, writer, filmmaker, and live television director with more than 40 years of experience working for clients such as Time, Newsweek, Children’s Television Workshop, Fortune 500 companies, museums, and galleries. He has taught freelance photography at The New School for Social Research and is the author of a book on the subject.
Producer: Gary Miller
Friday, Fourth Period: 1:40 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
September 16, 23; October 7, 14, 21, 28; November 11, 2022
Description: This seven-week workshop will focus on the creation of shadow boxes. Designed in phases, and using drawing, collage, cut-outs, and assemblage, shadow boxes are a dynamic vehicle for participants to explore craft and creativity, and to cultivate their own personal and poetic expression. As participants create the shadow boxes, they will incorporate elements of art history, and review contemporary art forms including Bauhaus, Land Art, Constructivism, and installation art. Artists such as Betty Saar, Joseph Cornell, and Louise Nevelson will be discussed. Students will be encouraged to develop personal narratives that will “inhabit” their three-dimensional shadow box sculptures.
Class limit: 12
Presenter: Barbara Westermann is a minimalist and conceptual sculptor and installation artist, with an emphasis on urban planning, geophysical mapping, and music. She holds degrees from GHK Kassel, Germany, the Cologne International School of Design, and was a fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program. She practices art while teaching at Rhode Island School of Design and the New School. Her work has been shown at the Tate Modern, the Whitney Biennial, MOMA PS1, and other venues in the United States and abroad.
Producer: Dorothy Baran
Off-Friday, In Person
Various Dates & Times
Tuesdays: 10:30 a.m. – noon
September 20, 27; October 4, 11, 18, 25; November 1
Description: Each week, we will visit a different Bard facility and listen to a talk about the facility and its uses. We will hear from Bard faculty and from people working at the different locations. This is an opportunity to explore all the Bard campuses and enjoy their beauty and variety.
Week 1: Manor House and the Bard Farm
Week 2: Jim Ottaway Jr. Film Center and the Laszlo Z. Bito Conservatory
Week 3: Hessel Museum of Art and the Center for Curatorial Studies
Week 4: Reem-Kayden Center for Science and Computation
Week 5: Montgomery Place Farm and Orchard
Week 6: Bertelsmann Campus Center and the Bard Trustee, Leader, Scholar Program
Week 7: Fisher Studio Arts Building
Class limit: 25
Presenters:TBD
Producers: Dorothy Baran and Cathy Reinis
Wednesays: 10:00 a.m. – 11:30 a.m.
September 21, 28; October 5, 12, 19, 26; November 2
Description: Participants will visit organs in Dutchess and Ulster counties representing different periods and styles of music, delve into their histories, have a look inside them, and hear music from a representative era.
The presenter was inspired to install an organ in his home after seeing one in a home in Cincinnati when he was in high school. He was able to fulfill his ambition by designing space in his home, and then installing a 1950 Kilgen organ. Participants will see this amazing setup and enjoy hearing the presenter play his own organ.
Class limit: 25
Presenter: Dale Ziegenfelder (LLI) has a master’s degree in electrical engineering from Purdue and an MBA from Marist. He was a design engineer for IBM and later a product planner. He started organ lessons at age nine and carried the interest through college right up to today. He occasionally substitutes as organist at various churches.
Producer: Linda LeGendre
Mondays: 9:45 a.m. – 12:30 p.m.
October 3 and 17
Description: Join Laura Conner, environmental educator, for two rigorous hikes at Minnewaska State Park to see the glorious show of fall foliage. Both hikes will be two-mile-long loops and will feature uneven, rocky, and steep sections of footpath that are only for experienced hikers. These outings will be significantly more challenging than walking carriage roads. One outing will follow footpaths in the Peter’s Kill area to a rocky lookout with great views; it will also follow along the Peter’s Kill stream edge. The second hike will feature the Beacon Hill Footpath, a cliff-edge trail that offers stunning views of the Wallkill Valley.
Class limit: 12
Presenter: Laura Conner began her career with New York State Parks in 2000 as a seasonal environmental educator at Grafton Lakes. Next, she was the assistant park manager at Moreau Lake, while still offering environmental education. In 2007, she became the environmental educator at Minnewaska. Laura originally pursued fine art with a BFA in photography from the School of Visual Arts, but changed careers in 1995, when she received an MS in environmental studies from Antioch New England Graduate School.
Producer: Eleanor Wieder
Tuesdays: 10:00 a.m. – noon (raindate Wednesdays)
September 20; October 4, 11, 18, 25
Description: Participants will be led on five different walks on various footpaths. Sites will be on both sides of the Hudson. Proposed walks will be: Onteora Lake, Sloan Gorge, Black Creek Preserve, Mt. Rutsen Loop, Ferncliff Forest, and Wilderstein. The routes may include some modest hills and footpath sections, which can be muddy if it has been raining.
Class limit: 20
Presenters: Robin Berger (LLI) and Vicki Hoener (LLI) taught for many years at Chancellor Livingston Elementary School in Rhinebeck. Now that they are retired, they are spending their time hiking across the Hudson Valley.
Producer: Marge Moran
Credits
Curriculum Committee
Linda LeGendre, Chair
Irene Esposito, Secretary
Dorothy Baran
Anne Brueckner
Barbara Danish
Fern Fleckman
Ellen Foreman
Carmela Gersbeck
Gary Lachmund
Mary McClellan
Emily Michael
Gary Miller
Chuck Mishaan
Margaret Moran
Cathy Reinis
Margaret Shuhala
Bill Tuel
Leslie Weinstock
Eleanor Wieder
Catalog Team
Deborah Schwartz, Chair
Anne Brueckner
Susan Christoffersen
Deborah Lanser
Margaret Shuhala
Tim Sullivan
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