Classes

Experience the pressure points in your hands that encourage health and relaxation throughout the entire body. Learn the principles and then apply them to yourself or a classmate.

Alaska has a rich history, incredible scenery and many unique features. We will discuss things like Alaska Native Culture, gold panning, industry, the weather, and wildlife, from the perspective of a 40 + year resident of the state.

This lecture focuses on regulatory strategies for consideration of our nation’s cultural resources under federal laws, and it will provide an understanding of how archaeology is performed. Archaeological sites and historic properties are nonrenewable resources that represent our past and provide insights to the future. Discussion will involve how these resources are addressed in a compliance setting as we continue to design and expand our infrastructure, including natural gas, highways, development, and other forms of undertakings. Specific resource types and their importance will also be discussed with some interesting examples.

An informal art class for artists at all levels of experience. Instruction on the principles of color, design, and perspective. A review and analysis of great works of art.

Join a class full of unexpected photos and wonders of Atlantic Canada’s hidden gems including Quebec City’s Plains of Abraham. Next a stop at two Quebec towns along the Saint Lawrence

River: Baie-Comeau with wondrous fresco paintings and stained glass art and Havre-Saint-Pierre with spectacular monolith rocks. Onto Newfoundland with visits to Corner Brook’s treasured Heritage Tree and Captain Cook’s Memorial. Then later to St. John’s colorful “Jellybean Row” houses and other scenic surprises. Not to be outdone are the up-close views of the Bay of Fundy at both high and low tide in Nova Scotia.

In 1860 Robert Burke led Australia's largest and best funded expedition to explore, map and seek glory in being the first Europeans to cross Australia's undiscovered interior from south to north. It was an epic journey full of twists and turns, triumphs and tragedies.

Many adults in their retirement years have considered living at a retirement community for a variety of reasons. Perhaps the burden of household responsibilities has become a little overwhelming, the winter driving starts to feel more hazardous, the neighborhood doesn’t feel as safe as it once did, or a health scare has made you a little less confident. More often than not, seniors living in retirement communities prefer their new home and the worry-free lifestyle that comes along with it. If you're considering a retirement community, or if you know someone who is, this seminar will help you, or your loved one to make an informed a decision.

Love to read? Here's your chance to discuss a wide variety of books with other bibliophiles. We read fiction, non-fiction, memoirs, biographies, and histories to name a few, and YOU get to choose the selections for the following semester! Fall Semester selections include: September: The Women by Kristin Hannah; October: Night Watch by Jayne Anne Phillips; November: The Book Woman’s Daughter by Kim Michele Richardson.

This "colorful" presentation will introduce some contemporary children's books that contain insightful story lines and/or amazing artwork that can be enjoyed by adults or shared with grandchildren. Among them, the book "What Do You Do With An Idea" by Kobi Yamada, is thought provoking on many levels. This presentation should send you to your local library, or bookstore to seek out many of the titles mentioned during this session to enrich your reading experience with visuals, or refocus your art work.

Politically Incorrect statements are often not based on truth, for example, the Civil War was not truly a "civil war" because the South did not want to control the central government. It wanted to start a new nation. The South felt it had a Constitutional "Right" to secede. The Civil War did not start to free slaves and the Emancipation Proclamation did not really free slaves, etc.

Everyone has a collection of some kind or has photos of one you used to have. Please consider sharing your button collection or photos of your antique car collection. Contact Ruth Leo if you

would like to bring in a collection or part of it. Presently displayed will be a collection of hand hammered aluminum products (some made locally), Easter eggs and egg cups, Christmas Creches, cookie cutters, skulls of animals, magnets used as memorabilia of trips.

How did cookie making come to be? Why is there a Cookie Table at Western Pennsylvania weddings? How does our favorite cookie become so? Join other ILR participants for a discussion of cookie making. Please make a dozen plus 4 cookies of one of your favorite cookie recipes for a Cookie Tasting Event and pack up a total of a dozen of other cookies from other participants to take home. If you know that your cookie recipe might be in demand, please bring a copy to share. Beverages will

be provided.

Do you have a hobby, interest area or activity that you want to share with ILR members, but it might be a short presentation, or maybe you just want to test the waters of teaching for the group? Let’s get together and see if we can create some collaborative classes, such as a share your hobbies, share arts and crafts projects, share wood working projects, share a talent like singing, dancing, playing an instrument, juggling, storytelling, writing examples, share cooking, sewing, gardening tricks and tips, etc. We will practice a 5-slide pre-made Power Point presentation about ILR so participants can see how that process works.

This class can't help you escape death. But when the big day does come, it can help you and your heirs plan to avoid (not evade) paying too much Pennsylvania inheritance tax. Some wills and

estate law included too.

Media coverage of diseases is frequently difficult to understand for the average person. This session will help people gain a deeper understanding of current diseases in the news like HPAI, Plague, Rabies, tick borne diseases or any disease about which the audience has questions.