FALL 2022 Class Schedule August 23 - November 29 - ONLINE REGISTRATION - Acadia Senior College
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FALL 2022
Class Schedule
August 23 - November 29
ONLINE REGISTRATION
Opens – 9:00 a.m. on July 27, 2022
Closes – midnight on August 5, 2022
www.acadiaseniorcollege.org/courses
FALL 2022 TERM
AUGUST 23 – NOVEMBER 29, 2022
1 | ACADIA SENIOR COLLEGE 2022 FALL COURSE OFFERINGS
Courses at a glance
MONDAY WEDNESDAY CONTINUED
The Living Constitution: The Supreme Court Exploring Yoga
Deals with Today’s Urgent Problems Instructor: Andrea Lepcio
Instructor: Richard Cohen 10:00 –11:00 a.m.
9:30 –11:30 a.m. Neighborhood House, Northeast Harbor
MD365, Northeast Harbor; also on Zoom
Design and Fabricate Your Own
Are You Ready For Some Football? Unique Cards
Instructors: Joanne Harris and Ellie Pancoe Instructors: Pat Pugh and Mary Vekasi
3:00 – 5:00 p.m. 9:30 –11:30 a.m.
MD365, Northeast Harbor ArtWaves MDI, Town Hill
TUESDAY How I Got That Story
Instructor: Lincoln Millstein
Geology of MDI - Session 1 1:00 – 2:30 p.m.
Instructors: Duane and Ruth Braun Online Zoom class
9:30 –11:30 a.m.
Meets outdoors at selected sites on MDI The Delights of Museum-Going: Swiss
Collections
The Twentieth Century from Versailles Instructor: Mollie McNickle (Wheeler)
to the Present 7:00 – 9:00 p.m.
Instructor: Harald Paumgarten Harbor House, Southwest Harbor
9:30 –11:30 a.m.
Northeast Harbor Library, Northeast Harbor THURSDAY
A New Paradigm for Human Evolution The 2022 Midterm Elections in Perspective
Instructor: Peggy deWolf Instructor: Jack Russell
1:00 – 3:00 p.m. 9:30 –11:30 a.m.
Southwest Harbor Library, Southwest Harbor Online Zoom class
Shakespeare in Opera Major Poetry of W.B. Yeats
Instructor: Robert Gallon Instructor: Bill Dohmen
1:00 – 3:00 p.m. 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Birch Bay Village Library, Hulls Cove; also on Zoom Online Zoom class
Scandinavian Christmas Cookies Hollywood UK: Part One
Instructor: Meile Rockefeller Instructor: Steve Powell
4:30 – 7:00 p.m. 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Home of Meile Rockefeller, Seal Cove Birch Bay Village Library, Hulls Cove
WEDNESDAY FRIDAY
Geology of MDI - Session 2 What is Woodlawn and Why Should I Care?
Instructors: Duane and Ruth Braun Instructor: Rosamond Rea
9:30 –11:30 a.m. 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
Meets outdoors at selected sites on MDI Sound School House & Museum, Mount Desert
2 | ACADIA SENIOR COLLEGE 2022 FALL COURSE OFFERINGS
Acadia Senior College offers intellectual stimulation, practical knowledge,
social interaction, and fun for adults o
ver 50.
Please note:
• All students enrolled in non-Zoom classes must be fully vaccinated.
• At this time, masks are required for all in-person classes while indoors.
• Practice social distancing - spread out in the classroom as much as practicable.
• We will continue to remain flexible and make adjustments as needed.
How Do Online Zoom Classes Work?
• Prior to the start of your class, you will receive an email with the Zoom link to join the class.
• Instructors will start each class session a few minutes before class begins.
• To join the class, click the Zoom link in the email.
• The link will be the same for each class session.
• You may wish to save the link on your calendar or in a safe place where you can find it easily.
A NOTE ABOUT RECORDING: Zoom classes may be recorded so that registered students may review a class
or catch up if they must miss a class. Recordings will not be shared with others or posted publicly.
Many of you will be familiar with Zoom by now. If you are not, but want to take a Zoom class, we can help.
Please contact Janice at learn@acadiaseniorcollege.org or (207) 288-9500.
Sharing a Zoom Screen for a Class?
When two members wish to share a Zoom screen for the same class, the second member can register for 1/2
price. Here’s how it works:
1. Contact ASC before registration so the discount can be applied before registering.
2. Both members who plan to share a screen must register for, and get into, the same class.
3. The first member pays the $60 course fee and can pay by credit card or send a check.
4. The second member MUST register for the same class.
• If you contacted ASC before registering, the discount should display on the checkout page. Go ahead
and pay by credit card or choose to pay by check.
• If you have not contacted ASC before registering, choose pay by check. Then contact ASC to pay
$30 either a) by credit card over the phone, or b) send a check for $30.
5. The two members will share any books or other materials.
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Monday Classes The Living Constitution: The Supreme Court Deals with Today’s Urgent Problems Mondays, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m. 6 weeks: August 29, September 12, 19, 26, October 3, 10 Note: there will be no class on September 5th 10 – 35 students Site: MD365, 6 Old Firehouse Lane, 2nd floor, Northeast Harbor; also on Zoom Many of today’s national problems play out in constitutional litigation that reaches the Supreme Court. This course will study current and pending decisions of the Court, their historical backgrounds, and their consequences for our future. Links will be provided to readings, which will not be onerous. NOTE: This class is offered in-person and on Zoom at the same time. Please register for one or the other. Even though the total room capacity is 22, the current maximum in-person registration number is set to 18 so we may have a little flexibility. We won’t know until registration is complete whether students will be able to attend in person or remotely on a class by class basis. Instructor: Richard Cohen is a New Jersey native. He graduated cum laude from the School of Public and International Affairs of Princeton University, and cum laude from the Yale Law School. After twelve years of law practice, he was a trial judge of the New Jersey Superior Court for ten years and a judge of the Appellate Division of the New Jersey Superior Court for eleven years. After retiring from the bench, he conducted an arbitration and mediation practice, and served as special master for various courts. He has summered on MDI since 1977, and retired here in 2017. He has taught five ASC courses on constitutional law, its historical development, and the effects of Supreme Court decisions. 4 | ACADIA SENIOR COLLEGE 2022 FALL COURSE OFFERINGS
Monday Classes Continued Are You Ready for Some Football? Mondays, 3:00 – 5:00 p.m. 5 weeks: October 3, 10, 24, 31, November 7 Note: there will be no class on October 17th 7 – 12 students Site: MD365, 6 Old Firehouse Lane, 2nd floor, Northeast Harbor FOOTBALL - Ever wonder what all the fuss was about on Sunday afternoons, Monday nights & Thursday nights? Ever wonder why your favorite person stays glued to the TV, speaks wildly & gestures frantically when it just looks like a bunch of guys piled up on the field to you? Ever wish you knew a little more about the sport so that you could join your special fan in his or her football madness? Then this course is for you. We will teach you the basics: how football is organized, how the game is played, what that guy in the black & white striped shirt is doing on the field, & all kinds of weird stuff that you never knew. Dazzle your favorite fan with your new understanding of the game! Fun, beer & popcorn guaranteed. Instructors: Joanne Harris has had football fever ever since she was a little kid. She learned at the knee of her dad & brother, watching the Baltimore Colts & her beloved Johnny Unitas. Football was the family passion & Joanne was all in. Over the years, and wherever she lived, Joanne adopted the local team. You might call her a serial fan: The Colts, The Dolphins, Florida State, and, for the past five decades, the New England Patriots. If football had a PhD, she would have earned one. Ellie Pancoe came to football late, motivated to keep her husband Michael company on those Sunday afternoons in autumn. He patiently answered the question “What just happened?” maybe a million times. She has a pretty good grasp of the game after years of watching. If Joanne has a PhD, then Ellie has finished football high school. She remembers what it is like to be a football neophyte & is happy to help you learn. 5 | ACADIA SENIOR COLLEGE 2022 FALL COURSE OFFERINGS
Tuesday Classes Geology of MDI - Session 1 Tuesdays, 9:30 - 11:30 a.m. 7 weeks: September 6, 13, 20, 27, October 4, 11, 18 5 – 18 students Site: Classes will meet at selected sites on MDI Explore the geology of MDI from when MDI was part of the Gander terrane attached to another continent, through the development of MDI as a large volcano, to when glaciers sculpted the present landscape. Each class session will be a field trip by car caravan to a location on Mount Desert Island to examine the earth material and landform evidence of the geologic evolution of MDI. Before each class, the instructors will send a map and instructions specifying where to meet for each class. Carpooling will be encouraged due to limited parking at some sites. Each class will start with a roadside introduction, followed by various degrees of clambering over outcrops. Those with more limited mobility can explore more accessible parts of each site, while more mobile folks can choose more difficult scrambles to examine the geologic features. Note: the Tuesday and Wednesday sessions are the same - choose one or the other. Instructors: Duane Braun holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins University and was a Geosciences Professor at Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania from 1975 - 2008, where he taught Environmental and Physical Geology, Geomorphology, Hydrogeology, and Field Geology. He also mapped the glacial deposits of a 9000 sq. mi. area of northeastern Pennsylvania for the state Geologic Survey, taught Geology for Acadia Senior College, and revised the geologic maps of MDI for the Maine Geologic Survey. Ruth Braun holds a MSc Degree from Johns Hopkins University. She taught junior and senior high school science. Ruth was also a professor at Bloomsburg University where she taught environmental geology, physical geology, and historical geology, and map skills. She has taught a number of Geology classes for Acadia Senior College. Duane and Ruth Braun are coauthors of Guide to the Geology of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park. 6 | ACADIA SENIOR COLLEGE 2022 FALL COURSE OFFERINGS
Tuesday Classes Continued
The Twentieth Century from Versailles to the Present
Tuesdays, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
4 weeks: August 23, 30, September 6, 13
12 – 18 students
Site: Northeast Harbor Library, Mellon Room, 1 Joy Rd, Northeast Harbor
This course will be divided into four parts:
• The Second World War and the Cold War, covering the lead-up to the hostilities, the military
component, and the subsequent 45 years of the Cold War.
• Which regions have emerged well and which have not? The Anglo-Saxon World, Asia, and the
European Community have done well. South America, Africa, the Islamic World, and Russia have not.
• Who are the “Bad Guys?” Can we say “Evil”? What is the emerging outlook?
• STEMM, an acronym that stands for science, technology, engineering, and mathematics, plus the
second M for medicine. STEMM, including wealth creation, has produced incredible advancement as
well as vast inequality. Is there an alternative?
Other instructors have been invited to lead discussions about segments of the subject matter, but are not yet
confirmed.
Instructor: Harald Paumgarten received a BA degree from the University of Pennsylvania and a MBA from
The University of California, Berkeley. He has been an adjunct professor of finance at Columbia University,
Baruch College, St. John’s College, and Howard University. Harald’s business career includes senior positions at
Deutsche Bank, HSBC Funds, WP Carey, UBS, and Florida Capital Corporation, among others.
Scholarships are available.
Interested in a class, but need some financial help?
Easy and confidential - please contact ASC for more information!
7 | ACADIA SENIOR COLLEGE 2022 FALL COURSE OFFERINGSTuesday Classes Continued A New Paradigm for Human Evolution Tuesdays, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. 6 weeks: August 30, September 6, 13, 20, 27, October 4 5 – 14 students Site: Clark Room, Southwest Harbor Public Library, 338 Main Street, Southwest Harbor This course is designed to review the most current information available on the topic of human evolution. Given recent developments, this course now integrates information from paleontology, paleogenetics, long-term climate change and its relationship to key evolutionary events. New to the course this year are observations on prehistoric human social organization and ways in which this might introduce insights into social conflicts we face today. Instructor: Peggy deWolf has a master’s degree in Biological Anthropology and a PhD in Sociology. Most of her career has been at Virginia Tech where she taught Sociology. In her retirement, Peggy has taught several Acadia Senior College courses in Human Evolution, and through a similar program, the Evergreen Forum, in Princeton, NJ. Shakespeare in Opera Tuesdays, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. 6 weeks: September 6, 13, 20, 27, October 4, 11 8 – 25 students Site: Birch Bay Village Inn Library, off Crooked Road, Hulls Cove; also on Zoom. There are surprisingly few operas based on Shakespeare’s plays. Some are well-known such as three by Giuseppe Verdi (Otello, Macbeth and Falstaff), one each by Gioachino Rossini (Otello), Hector Berlioz (Béatrice et Bénédict) and Charles Gounod (Romeo and Juliet). Some lesser-known oddities include an early Richard Wagner (Das Liebesverbot) and an Antonio Salieri (Falstaff). Only two were written in English and both in the 20th century by Benjamin Britten (A Midsummer Night’s Dream) and Thomas Adès (The Tempest). Mozart never wrote one although he planned to write a singspiel, a form of German light opera, on The Tempest. Instead, he wrote The Magic Flute which is similar to The Tempest. This course will investigate and explore these operas with a combi- nation of DVDs and discussion. NOTE: This class is offered in-person and on Zoom at the same time - you may attend in person or on Zoom.. Instructor: Bob Gallon has a BS from Columbia University and a PhD in Psychology from CUNY. Bob is a retired tuba player in the Bangor Symphony Orchestra and continues to work as a Zoom Forensic Psychologist. He has taught many Acadia Senior College courses including classes on Opera and Classical Music. 8 | ACADIA SENIOR COLLEGE 2022 FALL COURSE OFFERINGS
Tuesday Classes Continued
Scandinavian Christmas Cookies
Tuesdays, 4:30 – 7:00 p.m.
3 weeks: November 15, 22, 29
4 – 5 students
Site: Home of Meile Rockefeller, Seal Cove
Cookie baking is a big part of traditional
Scandinavian Christmas celebrations. This
course, in the weeks leading up to Christmas,
will feature several different cookie recipes in
each of the three, 2½ hour classes held in the
instructor’s kitchen. Hands-on preparation
of these holiday gems will include krumkaga,
sandkaga, fatteman (poor man’s cookies), and
more. Take the cookies home for friends and
family to enjoy.
Instructor: Meile Rockefeller’s Norwegian
grandmother taught her the recipes handed
down through generations. She has made
Christmas cookies for her family and friends for
over thirty years.
ONLINE REGISTRATION
Opens – 9:00 a.m. on July 27, 2022
Closes – midnight on August 5, 2022
www.acadiaseniorcollege.org/courses
FALL 2022 TERM
AUGUST 23 – NOVEMBER 29, 2022
9 | ACADIA SENIOR COLLEGE 2022 FALL COURSE OFFERINGSWednesday Classes
Geology of MDI - Session 2
Wednesdays, 9:30 - 11:30 a.m.
7 weeks: September 7, 14, 21, 28, October 5, 12, 19
5 – 18 students
Site: Classes will meet at selected sites on MDI
Explore the geology of MDI from when MDI was
part of the Gander terrane attached to another
continent, through the development of MDI as a
large volcano, to when glaciers sculpted the present
landscape. Each class session will be a field trip
by car caravan to a location on Mount Desert
Island to examine the earth material and landform
evidence of the geologic evolution of MDI.
Before each class, the instructors will send a map
and instructions specifying where to meet for
each class. Carpooling will be encouraged due to
limited parking at some sites. Each class will start with a roadside introduction, followed by various degrees of
clambering over outcrops. Those with more limited mobility can explore more accessible parts of each site,
while more mobile folks can choose more difficult scrambles to examine the geologic features.
Note: the Tuesday and Wednesday sessions are the same - choose one or the other.
Instructors: Duane Braun holds a PhD from Johns Hopkins University and was a Geosciences Professor at
Bloomsburg University, Pennsylvania from 1975 - 2008, where he taught Environmental and Physical Geology,
Geomorphology, Hydrogeology, and Field Geology. He also mapped the glacial deposits of a 9000 sq. mi. area
of northeastern Pennsylvania for the state Geologic Survey, taught Geology for Acadia Senior College, and
revised the geologic maps of MDI for the Maine Geologic Survey.
Ruth Braun holds a MSc Degree from Johns Hopkins University. She taught junior and senior high school
science. Ruth was also a professor at Bloomsburg University where she taught environmental geology, physical
geology, and historical geology, and map skills. She has taught a number of Geology classes for Acadia Senior
College.
Duane and Ruth Braun are coauthors of Guide to the Geology of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park.
10 | ACADIA SENIOR COLLEGE 2022 FALL COURSE OFFERINGSWednesday Classes Continued
Design and Fabricate Your Own Unique Cards
Wednesdays, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
4 weeks: October 19, 26, November 2, 9
3 – 6 students
Site: ArtWaves MDI, 1345-A State Highway 102 (just north of Town Hill Market, Bar Harbor)
Participants in this course will learn to use various media to create their own, personalized greeting cards. In each
of the four two-hour classes we will employ different techniques, including cut-outs, embossing, inks, and pencils
for coloring. At the end of the course, each student will have at least two examples of each card technique.
High-quality card stock, double-sided tape, a folder, distress ink pads, and colored pencils will be
provided. Students may wish to provide their own small sharp scissors, though there will be some to share.
Instructors: Pat Pugh began creating art when she moved to Mount Desert Island in 1981, when she and her
husband, Charlie, designed and built their family home in Pretty Marsh. She finds meaning in creating cards
using all types of media, providing an outlet to one’s creative spirit that single media art forms do not provide.
Mary Vekasi dabbles in drawing and loves to create with fabric. She will co-teach with Pat and assist
participants with their creations of distinctive, individualized cards.
Exploring Yoga
Wednesdays, 10:00 – 11:00 a.m.
8 weeks: October 5, 12, 19, 26, November 2, 9, 16, 23
5 – 12 students
Site: Neighborhood House, 1 Kimball Rd, Northeast Harbor
Yoga is asanas (body postures) and so much more. It increases flexibility, muscle strength, and body tone and
helps to manage stress and anxiety. In this class, we will explore the eight limbs of yoga and experience different
forms and types of yoga, including Hatha, Power, Iyengar, Yin, and Restorative. We will also explore yoga
philosophy, pranayama, or breath control, and meditation.
Instructor: Andrea Lepcio is a Yoga Medicine® Certified Therapeutic Specialist - RYT® (registered yoga
teacher) and a registered American Council on Exercise Yoga Teacher.
Acadia Senior College offers intellectual stimulation, practical knowledge,
social interaction, and fun for adults o
ver 50.
11 | ACADIA SENIOR COLLEGE 2022 FALL COURSE OFFERINGSWednesday Classes Continued How I Got That Story Wednesdays, 1:00 – 2:30 p.m. 5 weeks: September 7, 14, 21, 28, October 5 10 – 20 students Site: Offered on Zoom Each week, the class will deconstruct a story from The Quietside Journal, and in the process, students will learn how to get information, conduct interviews, and write a coherent article. Ethics, legal boundaries, freedom of the press, and the state of journalism will be discussed. During this course, students will also get a full view of MDI’s recent history and its challenges from the perspective of an investigative reporter. Instructor: Lincoln Millstein is a retired media executive who writes The Quietside Journal, a news blog about MDI. He is a graduate of the University of Connecticut and attended Stanford Business School. He worked for 13 years at Hearst Corporation, five years at the New York Times, 17 years at the Boston Globe and 10 years at the Hartford Courant. The Delights of Museum-Going: Swiss Collections Wednesdays, 7:00 – 9:00 p.m. 4 weeks: September 7, 14, 21, 28 8 – 20 students Site: Harbor House, 329 Main Street, Southwest Harbor This course will present a selection of art museum “discoveries,” primarily modern, that impressed the instructor with exceptional force during a recent sojourn in Switzerland. Although the presentations will have some aspects of a travelogue, sessions will focus mainly on approaches and strategies that will deepen the pleasures of visiting an unfamiliar museum. After a brief introduction to each collection and a discussion of the instructor’s encoun- ters with particular paintings, the class will open up for students to develop questions about additional holdings in that collection. The purpose of the course is to expand students’ skills in examining individual paintings in a manner that allows the beholder to experience a profound connection with the work of art and its creator. Instructor: Mollie McNickle (Wheeler) holds a PhD in the History of Art from the University of Pennsylvania. She taught courses for twenty-five years at the college level on a range of subjects from the time of the French Revolution to the advent of Minimalist art. Her previous Acadia Senior College courses have treated the landscapes of Paul Cezanne and the Cubism of Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque. She began her career, however, teaching all ages in a museum, where she still believes the most vivid, compelling experiences of art await the curious, engaged visitor. 12 | ACADIA SENIOR COLLEGE 2022 FALL COURSE OFFERINGS
Thursday Classes
The 2022 Midterm Elections in Perspective
Thursdays, 9:30 – 11:30 a.m.
5 weeks: October 13, 20, 27, November 3, 10
5 – 25 students
Site: Offered on Zoom
The upcoming 2022 elections are broadly regarded as among the most consequential midterms in our history.
Polarized parties contending for control of Congress offer deeply divergent visions and national agendas. Many
believe democracy is at serious risk. This five-class course will give Acadia Senior College co-learners a big-picture
framework and historical context in which to understand the pending midterms. On election eve, we will assess
the possibilities. The final class will convene after the general elections on 11/8/2022 to envision futures. Classes
will combine PowerPoint presentations and open discussions.
Subjects of the five classes will be: I. What Forces Shape Modern American Politics? II. Could the Trumpified
GOP Engineer a Coup in 2024? III. Can the 2020’s Democratic Party Win Majorities and Govern? IV. What Will
Happen in the 2022 Midterm Elections and Why? V. What Did Happen in the 2022 Midterm Elections and Why?
The following are broad questions the instructor hopes to pursue in this course:
• Can the Democratic Party coalesce its center-moderate and progressive wings to bring an energizing vision
and program to its Big Tent of minorities, women, professionals, youth, and enough white working-class folks
to move America forward?
• Is the Trumpified Republican Party the precursor to a fascist movement with electoral trimmings or can it be
recaptured and revived as a center-right force contending for national leadership through democratic means?
Instructor: Jack Russell was born and raised on Mount Desert Island and educated in its schools, and at
Exeter, Marlboro College, and Brown University. Aspiring to become a literary historian, he was redirected by
the 1960s into a four-decade career as a political activist, consultant, and brain-truster helping governments at
the city, state, and federal levels understand and support the American industrial base of small and medium-
sized firms. Home on MDI with his wife Sandy Wilcox since 2006, he has served conservation through Friends
of Acadia. He has offered Acadia Senior College courses on local history, American politics, Walden, and
Moby-Dick.
13 | ACADIA SENIOR COLLEGE 2022 FALL COURSE OFFERINGSThursday Classes Continued
Major Poetry of W.B.Yeats
Thursdays, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
6 weeks: September 8, 15, 22, 29, October 6, 13
6 – 18 students
Site: Offered on Zoom
William Butler Yeats published over a dozen volumes of poetry, composed over five decades, expressing his cease-
less process of self-invention and quest for self-realization, at times through communion with the transcendental,
the mysteries beyond the veil. These elusive aspirations drove his remarkable evolution both of subjects and style.
Yeats’ writings also include plays in verse and prose, stories and folk tales, literary reviews, political essays, and
autobiography.
Yeats was active in literary and mystical societies, a founder of Dublin’s Abbey Theatre, a Senator of the new Irish
Republic, an international lecturer, and a winner of a Nobel Prize. As T.S. Eliot wrote, Yeats “was one of those
few whose history is the history of their own time, who are a part of the consciousness of an age which cannot be
understood without them.”
Instructor: Bill Dohmen resumed his early identity as a college teacher upon retiring to Maine from a commer-
cial banking career in Philadelphia. This is his sixteenth class offering for Acadia Senior College. Bill earned his
doctorate in modern British literature at the University of Virginia and was a tenured associate professor at East-
ern Kentucky University. In Maine he has chaired the Bar Harbor Warrant Committee, the Downeast chapter of
SCORE (small-business counseling), and served as Treasurer and President of Acadia Senior College.
Scholarships are available.
Interested in a class, but need some financial help?
Easy and confidential - please contact ASC for more information!
14 | ACADIA SENIOR COLLEGE 2022 FALL COURSE OFFERINGSThursday Classes Continued Hollywood UK: Part One Thursdays, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. 7 weeks: September 8, 15, 22, 29, October 6, 13, 20 10 – 16 students Site: Birch Bay Village Inn Library, off Crooked Road, Hulls Cove French critic/director Francois Truffaut, during a long 1962 interview with Alfred Hitchcock, infamously sug- gested that there is “a certain incompatibility between the terms ‘cinema’ and ‘Britain.’” This was, he went on, the result of “national characteristics - among them, the English countryside, the subdued way of life, the stolid routine - that are anti-dramatic in a sense.” He added that “the weather itself is anti-cinematic.” Well, we’ll have a chance to find out for ourselves. During this seven-week course, we’ll view and discuss films created by certain stalwarts of British cinema in the thirties and forties including Hitchcock, Alexander Korda, Noel Coward, Laurence Olivier, Michael Powell & Emeric Pressburger, and David Lean. I assure you that you’ll find it to be quite cinematic. Instructor: Steve Powell adopted Mount Desert Island in 1982 and remains pleased with that decision after 40 years. He is the owner and proprietor of Bar Harbor Book Shop and has conducted a number of cinema and literary classes for Acadia Senior College in the last 15 years. He is convinced that, next to the printing press, the movie camera is the most important human invention of all time. 15 | ACADIA SENIOR COLLEGE 2022 FALL COURSE OFFERINGS
Friday Class What is Woodlawn and Why Should I Care? Fridays, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m. 4 weeks: September 30, October 7, 14, 21 6 – 12 students Site: Sound School House & Museum, 373 Sound Drive (Route 198), Mount Desert Final class will meet at Woodlawn in Ellsworth. Class participants will be introduced to Woodlawn, one of Maine’s most intact historic houses, and to the John Black family, who occupied it for 100 years. Through a combination of presentation, discussion and speculation, we will explore the Black family collections, extensive archives, and family influence in Maine and Massachusetts. We will put the Blacks in the context of 19th-century Ellsworth and learn about their logging, lumber, shipping, and other business interests. While never politicians, the Blacks held great influence in Maine and were known from Machias to Boston. The class will meet on Mount Desert Island for three weeks, and one session will be held at Woodlawn Mu- seum in Ellsworth. It will include a tour of the museum, the grounds, and the carriage exhibit that opened in 2021. By the end of the course, you will wonder why you haven’t heard about the Blacks before and you will leave the class wanting to know more! The museum tour requires walking on uneven ground and the ability to climb stairs. Instructor: Rosamond Rea received an MA in History Museum Studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program. She was the Collections Manager of Woodlawn Museum from 2000-2011. The subject of her thesis was George Nixon Black (1814-1880) of Woodlawn. Other museum experience includes work at MDI Historical Society and project managing exhibitions for a private client in Acadia National Park’s Islesford Museum. Rosamond is now a Trustee of Woodlawn Museum and enjoys sharing her knowledge of the Black family and the museum with others. 16 | ACADIA SENIOR COLLEGE 2022 FALL COURSE OFFERINGS
MORE INFORMATION
• You must be an ASC member (or a member of another senior college) to register for courses.
• Your membership must be active through the end of the term (November 29, 2022).
• Registration is first come, first served.
• You may register for more than one course.
• Tuition for the first course is $60; additional courses are $35 each.
• When registering online, you may pay with a credit card or choose to send a check.
• We strongly encourage online registration, but if you want to register by postal mail, please print and mail
the form on the last page.
• Registration forms sent by postal mail and received prior to registration will be processed beginning at
10:00 a.m. on July 27th.
• When registering by mail, please fill out the registration form completely. You may list alternate classes in
case your first choice(s) is/are filled.
• Registration requests received after August 5, 2022, will be honored with instructor approval. In these
cases, students must purchase their own books, if applicable.
• If a class has an assigned book, they will be available for pick up at Sherman’s in Bar Harbor one to two
weeks before the start of the term. Books are included in your course fee.
Member of another senior college? Please call or email to register.
Instructor using a course credit? Contact ASC before registration so we can give you a credit. When you
register, the credit will be applied automatically on the checkout page. If you haven’t contacted us before
registration, go ahead and register online as usual and choose “Pay by check.” Then contact the office to
confirm your registration.
Sharing a Zoom screen? See the instructions on page 3.
ONLINE REGISTRATION
Opens – 9:00 a.m. on July 27, 2022
Closes – midnight on August 5, 2022
www.acadiaseniorcollege.org/courses
Scholarships are available. Please contact ASC for more information!
17 | ACADIA SENIOR COLLEGE 2022 FALL COURSE OFFERINGSHOW TO REGISTER ONLINE
Registration opens at 9:00 a.m. on July 27th
and closes at midnight on August 5th
www.acadiaseniorcollege.org/courses
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2. Go to acadiaseniorcollege.org/courses.
3. Review the class offerings.
4. Click below the course description. Please note that the Enroll link does not display until regis-
tration opens at 9:00 a.m.
5. Once you have enrolled in the class(es) you want, click the “Go to your cart” link in the upper right of
the screen. This will take you to the Enrollments screen where you can choose to pay by credit card or by
check.
IMPORTANT
You must know your username and password to log in and register for courses online.
Please take a moment to log in to the website before registration starts.
If you need help please call or email.
The Enroll link does not display until registration opens at 9:00 a.m.
Acadia Senior College offers intellectual stimulation, practical
knowledge, social interaction, and fun for adults o
ver 50.
Acadia Senior College
PO Box 475
Southwest Harbor, ME 04679
207-288-9500
learn@acadiaseniorcollege.org
www.acadiaseniorcollege.org
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Please use one form per member - make a copy if needed.
Name:_________________________________________________________
Address:_______________________________________________________
City:______________________________State: _______ Zip:______________
Telephone:___________________________
Email:_______________________________
Online registration opens
at 9:00 a.m. on July 27th
Registration forms sent by postal mail and received prior to registration
will be processed starting at 10:00 a.m. on July 27th.
Course One:_____________________________________________________
Alternate Course:________________________________________________
Course Two:____________________________________________________
Alternate Course:________________________________________________
Course Three:___________________________________________________
Alternate Course:________________________________________________
Number of courses you are taking:
___ 1 Course: $60 ___ 2 Courses: $95 Please contact us about
scholarships
___ 3 Courses: $130 ___ 4 Courses: $165
Total Course Fees:_____________________
Annual Membership Fee:_______________ ($35 per year, or $90 for 3 years)
Additional donation:____________________
TOTAL DUE:_________________________
___ Credit Card ___ Check
Card Number: ________________________
Expiration Date:_________ CVC Code:_________
Name on Card:_______________________
Please make checks payable to Acadia Senior College and mail to:
ASC, PO Box 475, Southwest Harbor, ME 04679
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