Beer at the Beach
This lecture in beer history and appreciation
features the
country's best summer beers paired with
gourmet
cheeses. Samplings will be offered.
Presented by William “Nick” Nichols, SU Alum
Fee: $5
- Monday,
September 8
CHEER Center, 30637 Cedar Neck Road,
Ocean View, DE • 3 p.m.
Get Moving with HU
Rejuvenate your mind, body and spirit with this low-impact
walking program. Attend all eight sessions
or
those dates that are convenient for you.
Presented by Healthy U of Delmarva -best
of all it’s free!
- Wednesdays, October 1-November 19
Healthy U of Delmarva Office
103 Power Street on SU campus • 10 a.m.
- Thursdays, October 2-November 20
1400 Coastal Highway
(next to Warren’s Station Restaurant)
Fenwick Island, DE • 3 p.m.
Comfort, Creative
Cuisine
Put a twist in your cooking with new ideas for
traditional meals. Enjoy sampling recipes
that you
can create at home.
Demonstrated by Pete Roskovich,
owner of Black Diamond Lodge and SU Alum. Fee: $5
- Wednesday, November 12
Black Diamond Lodge
Fruitland, MD • 2 p.m.
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Planting Spring Bulbs
The Good Earth Market and Organic Farm of
Clarkesville, DE, welcomes you to stop in for an
educational class.
Get tips for beautiful bulbs from gardener Ingrid
Hetfield. Learn how to use bulbs in containers.
- Wednesday, September 24
Good Earth Market
Route 26, Clarksville, DE • 10 a.m.
Interactive Book Club
What You Lose on the
Roundabout, You Gain
on the Swings by local
author Christina G. Weaver.
Enjoy a true story about a woman with a rich life,
shaky
diagnosis and trust lost. The first class
provides an
opportunity
to meet the author and focus on the
generalities of writing a
memoir about one's own family. The
second class, six weeks
later, lets the group come together to
discuss the book.
Lead by Amy Waters, Director of Leadership
Giving &
Stewardship at SU. The $5 fee includes the new book
distributed at the first class.
- Mondays, October 20 & November 24
1120 Camden Avenue, Alumni House Social Room • 3
p.m.
Resistance Training
Get your heart pumping and your muscles moving with
low-resistance exercise using bands. This
three-session
class teaches techniques to do at home.
Presented by Amy Waters.
Fee of $5 includes an exercise band
- Thursdays, November 6-20
CHEER Center, 30637 Cedar Neck Road,
Ocean View, DE • 9:30 a.m.
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Barrier Island Center
Tour
Take a day trip to Virginia’s Eastern Shore tour the
Barrier Island Center and a trio of historical
significant buildings. View the antique artifacts and
learn about the preserved past. Bus leaves SU’s campus
at 9 a.m. from the Foundation Center,
1308 Camden Avenue.
Enjoy a refreshing lunch at the historical Eastville
Inn,
established in 1724. Return back
to SU at 3 p.m. $15 fee includes transportation, tour
and lunch.
Searching for Your
Ancestors
through Local History
Family history is one of the fastest growing leisure
pursuits and the Nabb Research Center is
providing
a workshop to help local folks find out about
their ancestors.
Presented by G. Ray Thompson, Ph.D.
Professor of History and
Co-Founder of the
Nabb Research Center
- Thursday, November 6
Nabb Research Center, Salisbury University
Salisbury, MD • 10 a.m.-Noon
Get Ready for Christmas
Find out how to make beautiful Christmas centerpieces
with
candles, bows, pine cones and greens. It’s easy, fun and
you
can take home your finished arrangement.
Presented by Theresa Pyle, owner of Blossoms Inc.
Fee: $10
- Thursday, November 20
1400 Coastal Highway (next to Warren’s Station
Restaurant)
Fenwick Island, DE • 3 p.m.
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- September 27:
Election 2008 -
Is This Any Way to Choose a President?
With Dr. Harry Basehart
(Political Science Professor Emeritus)
In this election year, the process of nominating and
electing
a president is receiving almost as much attention as the
issues and candidates. Front-loading, caucus states,
winner-take-all,
momentum, super delegates, electoral votes and
other terms are in the news as much as the candidates.
These terms make it easier to understand the process,
but
do they also point to
fundamental problems in how we
choose a president? Seminar discussions reflect on this
question by examining the politics
of the 2008
presidential nominations and election. |
- November 8:
Nature Love and
Loathing in America
With Dr. Michael Lewis
(History/Environmental Studies)
Americans love nature. Our
national parks are the most
widely disseminated governmental practice we have
invented. And this invention, unlike our
separation of
powers or democratic elections, is found
in even the cruelest
dictatorships. Millions of Americans a
year make secular
pilgrimages to see—to be in—nature. Yet, at the same
time, no national population, especially
per capita, uses
more resources, creates more garbage or
spews so much
pollution. We have led the world in
preserving nature; we
are the greatest global force for the destruction of
nature.
Plumb American history and culture in an
attempt to
understand our national schizophrenia |
- January 24:
Literary Magic:
The Seven Harry Potter Novels
With Dr. John Wenke (English)
Explore J. K. Rowling’s seven Harry Potter serial
novels from
an exclusively literary perspective.
Consider Rowling’s possible
sources, her use of point of view, her ingenious plots,
her
delineations of character, her commonplace
and magical
settings, and her lively menagerie of weird,
supernatural
creatures. Examine how a realistic
framework provides the
basis for Rowling’s coextensive world of
wizards and witches.
Each volume will be examined as a discrete
narrative
performance, but also as an integral part of an
unfolding
seven-book sequence.
Prerequisites: a love of reading; an (at
least occasionally) exuberant spirit; and
a taste for questions
that have few, if any, easy answers. |