Mondays – Lecture Series: Music History Appreciation
6/1 & 6/15 @1:30 PM /CH 6/1The New Musicals, Broadway since Rock & Roll – Into the 90s 6/15The New Musicals, Broadway since Rock & Roll – Musicals since 2000...
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Mondays – Forts, Furs and Frontier: 1776 in Western America
6/22 & 6/29 @ 11:00 AM/CH Instructor: Professor Judy Okun In 1776, while the 13 colonies were rising up against Britain, the rest of North America was a patchwork of empires competing through a web of conquest, exploration, settlement and trade. From Spanish missions in......
Mondays – On Stage Live, Life & Music of
6/8 & 6/22 @ 7:30 PM/CH 6/8 Vic Damone: Having one of the richest voices of popular music of the 1950s and 60s, Vic Damone was best known for “You’re Breaking My Heart” and his supporting role in the movie “Kismet.” 6/22 Matt Monro: Most......
Tuesdays – Local History Treasures
6/2 & 6/16 @ 11:00 AM/CH Instructor: Mia Johnson Camden, NJ – the birthplace of the Drive-In Theater, The Campbell Soup Company, the origin of RCA Victor’s “Nipper” the dog, home of the USS New Jersey, home of Walt Whitman and home to the Adventure......
Tuesdays – American Operettas of Broadway
6/9 & 6/23 @ 11:00AM/CH Instructor: Dan Pantano Hear and learn about the great musicals of early Broadway which were called operettas. Most were written between 1900 and 1930, and went directly from Broadway to the movies, many starring Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy. Hear......
Tuesdays – Travel & Photography
6/2 & 6/16 @ 2:30 PM/CH Instructor: Pat Worley 6/2: An African Adventure: The Big Five Animals Lions, tigers and bears, Oh My! The Big Five animals of Africa are the lion, leopard, elephant, rhinoceros, and Cape buffalo. The term was coined by big game......
Wednesdays – Critical Thinking: American Exceptionalism
6/3, 6/10, 6/17 & 6/24 @ 10:00 AM/CH Instructor: Steve Pollack American Exceptionalism: is the belief that the United States is inherently unique, distinct, or exemplary compared to other nations. Rooted in the country’s founding on republican ideals rather than a shared heritage, it sug...
Wednesdays – How Did We Get Here?
6/3, 6/10, 6/17 & 6/24 @ 11:00 AM/CH Instructor: Steve Pollack The History of Pop Music and Fashion – How Philadelphia’s Mitchell and Ness became an unlikely fashion leader of the 1990s. ...
Wednesdays – FROM BEHIND BARS TO PASSING THE BAR
6/17 & 6/24 @ 1:00 PM/CH INSTRUCTOR: Harriet Hendel Marty Tankleff and Jeffrey Deskovic were both 17, Seniors in H.S.: one at high school in Port Jefferson, NY; the other in Peekskill, NY. They were arrested and charged with murder after both gave a false confession.......
Wednesday – Cantor’s Class
6/3, 6/10 & 6/25 @ 2:15 PM/CH Hosted by: Cantor Jana Schachter 6/3 This classed is called “What’s a Mezuzah?” We will learn about the significance and laws of the ritual object we attach to our doorposts, the mezuzah. 6/10 In class we will learn......