SONGS, STORIES AND POETRY ACROSS AMERICA

SONGS, STORIES AND POETRY ACROSS AMERICA
AH 105

We’ll begin in California with San Francisco Beat poets, Calaveras County jumping frogs, songs of the Gold Rush, and the wisdom of John Muir. The next stop will be to Montana for cowboy poetry, then Chicago with Carl Sandburg, Louisiana for jazz and zydeco, and the Appalachians and the South for bluegrass and Country Western music. We will end in New York with poet Billy Collins and New England with Emily Dickinson and Robert Frost.

Presenters: Meredith Cheston, who has developed and presented many OLLI music, art, and humanities courses.
Nancy Brooks Rayl, a frequent lecturer for OLLI, is a retired college teacher, an editor, and above all, a reader.

Developer: Meredith Cheston

Tuesday, October 23
9:30 - 11:30 AM
Tuesday, October 30
10:00 AM - 12 Noon

Facilitators:
Molly White 949-292-9747
shadowsgiraffe@yahoo.com

Wendy Macney 949-559-1760
wmacney@ymail.com