Membership is required before registering for your first class of the year. Membership year is from September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2024. This membership entitles you to take classes at any of the 17 senior colleges in Maine. As a member you will also have an opportunity to participate in occasional free classes and functions throughout the year

 Join a class that is filled with readers that long to give their opinion of  their reading. We will share various genre’s of literature from the classics to best sellers.  Insights into the author’s life and  their writing is  alive and connected to life today.  

BOOK TALK BOOK LIST 2023-2024

  MEETING  SECOND WEDNESDAY OF THE MONTH FROM SEPTEMBER THROUGH JUNE (EXCEPT DECEMBER)

 ZOOM

 COMBINED CLASS:

     YORK COUNTY SENIOR COLLEGE and SOUTH COAST SENIOR COLLEGE

• Wednesday, September 13 The Covenant of Water by Abraham Verghese
• Wednesday, October 11 Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
• Wednesday, November 8 The Ride of Her Life by Elizabeth Letts
• No December Book Talk
• Wednesday, January 10 The Last Kingdom by Steve Berry
• Wednesday, February 14 Unknown Title, to be determined
• Wednesday, March 13 Among the Shadows: A Detective Byron Mystery by Bruce Robert Coffin
• Wednesday, April 10 A Dangerous Business by Jane Smiley
• Wednesday, May 8 Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
• Wednesday, June 14 A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende
• ALL CLASSES ARE ON ZOOM FROM 10:00 – 11:30 a.m.
• We will open the Zoom at 9:30 for socializing.
• Registration will be on Course Storm

Your story matters.  You have experiences and wisdom valuable to others.  This class will help you recall, organize, and write these episodes. Sharing our stories and experiences with others in class often leads to unexpected rewards. Enjoy the encouragement and support of writing and sharing with others in a comfortable and safe atmosphere.  New writers, unsure writers, experienced writers, all are welcome.

Mondays 1-3:30  on ZOOM

March 25

April 8 and 22

May 6 and 20

Your Leader:

Mike Davis believes everyone has a story to tell and wisdom to share.  His goal is to create a safe and welcoming environment for persons to learn together.  Throughout his career he helped lead safe, respectful experiences of listening and sharing. He treasures each story and the opportunity to bring people together in transforming relationships. 

Your story matters.  You have experiences and wisdom valuable to others.  This class will help you recall, organize, and write these episodes. Sharing our stories and experiences with others in class often leads to unexpected rewards. Enjoy the encouragement and support of writing and sharing with others in a comfortable and safe atmosphere.  New writers, unsure writers, experienced writers, all are welcome.

Thursdays 10-12:30  on ZOOM

March 28

April 11 and 25

May 9 and 23

Your Leader:

Mike Davis believes everyone has a story to tell and wisdom to share.  His goal is to create a safe and welcoming environment for persons to learn together.  Throughout his career he helped lead safe, respectful experiences of listening and sharing. He treasures each story and the opportunity to bring people together in transforming relationships. 

The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service estimates more than 45 million Americans are bird watchers. To learn more about birds we look to scientists and artists. Scientists search for facts; artists introduce visual and visceral components; both offer paths for the curious to learn. We will examine birds in nature and artwork including illustrations, murals, photography, sculpture, and music. You will hear directly from artists in videos. Topics will include the Evolution of Field Guides, Nests and Eggs, Portraiture, Extinction and Species Recovery, and the Role of Art in advocacy for birds.

Facilitator: Catherine Hunter was a museum curator, educator, and consultant for over twenty years in New England. She received her Bachelor of Arts in History of Art from Cornell University and began her career in the Department of Textiles at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. Hunter’s courses reflect the connections one can discover while studying art history, science, and culture. Research for this course included programs at Audubon's Hog Island, Bremen, Maine. Hunter lives in Massachusetts.

This course will run on ZOOM 10-11:30  

Thursdays; April4, 11, 18, 25

. We are hearing more and more about the reality, as well as seeing for ourselves the effects, of climate change in our world and in our own lives. We may have also become aware of an ever-growing number of possible responses. In this three-session hybrid course, we will explore how we might respond to the challenge as guided by a range of spiritual teachers and practices ranging from indigenous peoples to the insights of individual wisdom figures through the ages. Our goal ultimately is to tap into those same sources of wisdom, hope, and healing within ourselves. Man did not weave the web of life, he is merely a strand in it. Whatever he does to the web, he does to himself. Chief Seattle In this moment, I am in a mutually-enhancing relationship with all about me. I receive from it beauty, wonder, and intimacy, and I give back to it my loving attention, Thomas Berry We are faced not with two separate crises, one environmental and the other social, but rather with one complex crisis which is both social and environmental…so as to hear both the cry of the earth and the cry of the poor. Pope Francis, Laudato Si

Your instructor:

Paul Doherty is an armchair theologian with experience in music, broadcasting, and ministry. He has also been teaching for several years at two Maine senior colleges, including South Coast. Currently, Paul is active in a statewide senior college committee looking at the ways senior educators and students can contribute to the battle against climate change

 PLEASE NOTE:

This class will be offered in person at the York Chamber of Commerce and on ZOOM at the same time..Link will be sent 24 hours in advance.

Fridays

May 3, 10, and 17   10-12 noon

Learn and practice watercolor techniques by painting four subjects designed to present a variety of painting challenges. This course is intended for persons with little or no previous art experience. Both new and returning students are welcome. The first class will focus on providing an introduction for new students. Returning students are welcome to attend this class either to review introductory information or to work independently on a project I will provide. Following this introductory class there will be four classes of instruction for all students.

Your Instructor: Judy Gaudet

Judy has enjoyed painting, especially watercolors, for many years. She has studied art at Mass. College of Art, Rhode Island School of Design, and U.C. San Diego as well as with several private instructors.

A $ 5.00 material fee payable to the instructor at the first class.

5 weeks: Tuesdays  10-12

May 14 -21-28   June  4 -18 (please note we skipped one week due to room availability