Fascinating New Classes Offered at Scarsdale Adult School

The new Scarsdale Adult School Spring/Summer 2011 catalog will arrive in your mailbox momentarily. There are over 50 new offerings, including: England's Royal Weddings: The Glitter and the Glamour; Equal Play: Children and the Struggle for Gender Equality in the 1970s; To Kill a Mockingbird: Now and Then; An Impressionist Bouquet: A Celebration of Spring; Sex Sells: Erotic Art in the Renaissance; Walking the High Line; Edward Hopper, Prelude: The Nyack Years.

Returning favorites include: 11 bridge offerings, canasta, 15 fitness classes, Line Dancing, A Taste of the Argentine Tango, art history and architecture, languages, arts and crafts, cooking and baking, film, music, health, life skills and so much more.

Among the many fascinating offers is a course taught by Professor Emeritus of History at Purchase College, Alfred Hunt, who will present Our Lives: America in the Forties, Fifties and Sixties. The course will explore the events that marked our life in these decades. Post-World War II America underwent great transformations; and as Americans we became a people of plenty and embraced the larger world with optimism and confidence, yet with a lingering sense of trepidation. The class will cover politics, foreign affairs and American popular culture through the thirty-year period. It, like other significant eras, truly was "the best of times and the worst of times," and laid the foundation for the issues we confront now.

In addition, Lorella Brokesby, cultural historian, adjunct professor of humanities at NYU and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts will teach Scotland: History and Heroes through the Ages. This illustrated course, which leads from the Highlands to the Lowlands, examines many famous events, personalities and developments that have shaped that history including - William Wallace's famous victory over England's King Edward I in 1297, Bonnie Prince Charlie and his claim to the English throne, and the return to Scotland of the famous Stone of Scone in 1996. The course also introduces Scotland's unique architectural structures, such as Edinburgh's glorious Georgian New Town, the residence of Mary Queen of Scots at Holyrood Palace, and the exuberant facades of Victorian Glasgow.

Many of the classes in the catalogue are offered both day and evening. To register, for information on all SAS offerings, and to view the full catalog, visit www.ScarsdaleAdultSchool.org . Look for your new spring catalog in the mail. Catalogs also available at Village Hall and the Scarsdale Public Library. Questions? Call 723- 2325.