Membership year is July 1, 2021 thru June 30 2022. The membership fee entitles you to attend free classes and register for classes with South Coast Senior College as well as any of Maine's 17 senior college classes. Benefits of membership also include use of YCCC library

Come and get some social interaction with fellow reading enthusiasts!

York County Senior College and South Coast Senior College is offering

a   free winter course for your enjoyment.  All you have to do is to sign

up with your respective location (South Coast Senior College or York County Community College on Course Storm. 

The three books we will be discussing are:

A Handful of Dust          Evelyn Waugh              Classic          Jan 19th 

Into the Wilderness       Sara Donati                  H Fiction       Feb. 16th 

Windsor Knot                S Bennett                     Mystery        Mar. 16th 

 YOUR LEADER:

Arlene Jackson

 Arlene Jackson is a popular leader for reading classes. 

Get on ZOOM and beat COVID

Remember the Ladies

We’ll read and discuss biographies of the wives of our first two Presidents – Martha Washington (Martha Washington – An American Life by Patricia Brady) and Abigail Adams (Abigail Adams by Woody Holton).

Join us in discussing, comparing and contrasting their lives; their views on colonial America, the Revolution, and the early Republic; and their influence on their husbands’ role as President and how they shaped their own roles as what eventually became known as the First Lady.

Steve is an artist, photographer, graphic designer, historian, teacher, and lifelong learner.

This course meets on Monday mornings via Zoom from 10:00 to 11:30AM on January 24th and February 14th.

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.

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. 

There will be 5 classes running every 2 weeks from January 24 to March 21 as follows:  

Monday 

January 24

February 7, 21

March 7, 21

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, experience writers, all are welcome. 

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.

 Classes will run every two weeks beginning Thursday January 27 as follows;

Jan 27

Feb 10 and 24

March 10 and 24

Friendships are complicated, and the intense and important friendship between Canada and the United States is no different. This three session course will examine the history of this friendship, and how it evolved into the closest relationship between any two countries on the globe. We will examine the political, economic, cultural, sociai, and philosophical differences with the hope of gaining a better understanding of how we can learn from each other. If this friendship is going to be maintained, we need to have a greater appreciation of each other. There is so much to gain from a true understanding of our perspective strengths and weaknesses. How can two countries be so close yet so different?

Class days: Tuesday 2/1, 2/8, 2/15  2-4 pm

Hal Hannaford  (halhannaford.com) has spent his entire professional life in education. In June, 2020 Hal retired after completing his 31st year as a Headmaster in Canadian Accredited Independent Schools (CAIS) schools. He studied at Queen’s University (Economics), Concordia University (B. Comm.), University of Toronto (B. Ed.), and The European Institute of Business Administration (M.B.A.). 

Hal was Director of Kilcoo Camp from 1982 – 1984, and as a teacher; he has had experience at both an elementary and high school level in Canada (Crescent School); and at university where he was a member of the Faculty of International Business at the American University in Paris.   

He has a keen interest in athletics, public speaking, auctioneering (has raised over $30,000,000 for charitable causes), landscaping, drumming, and has a musical passion for The Blues. Hal and his wife Susan (susandohertyhannaford.com), an author, live in Montréal and have two children; Alisse, a medical doctor doing her infectious disease residency at the Hospital of UPenn, and Reid, a graduate from the Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, a filmmaker in New York.

BACK BY POPULAR DEMAND! In this class, we will focus on using proper skincare products for your skin type, maintaining a healthy skincare routine, and tips for easy makeup application on mature skin. Lindsey will explain each important step in a healthy skincare routine and provide affordable product recommendations for different skin types. Following skincare, she will demonstrate simple makeup application tips that will accentuate your facial features. Whether you’re headed out shopping or celebrating a special night out, she will help you achieve a bright, beautiful face for any occasion in just a few steps. 

Lindsey is an aesthetician and manager of Vida  Beauty Lounge, a full service salon and spa in downtown Portsmouth... catering to clients from head to foot.

      Look to challenge your thoughts, values and decisions in your everyday lives. This course, inspired by the popular Harvard University course titled “JUSTICE,” is designed to introduce individuals to a higher-level cognitive/moral experience that will surely challenge your thoughts and beliefs. This mini-course strives to discuss and think about the proverbial question….  ”What is the right thing to do?” As our country splits on the political issues of the day, it is more important than ever to be able to understand why we believe what we do. This course does not promise to make you a better person, but it does promise to get you thinking about where you stand in the debate concerning this important question of political philosophy. 

Your Instructor:

Jeffrey Patten is a native to the York Community and lives in Cape Neddick, Maine. He completed his undergraduate work in history at the University of Maine at Farmington and then after teaching for several years, entered a graduate program in traditional history at Northeastern University. He has taught at the undergraduate level at Northeastern University and tutored history and government at Wellesley College and Simmons College. However, much of his teaching experience (I.e., 35 years) has been at the secondary level teaching juniors and seniors both advanced and survey US History along with a long list of electives including the “Justice” course. 

Time: 4 Class Meetings…90 minutes in length…. Wednesdays…:

Feb 9, Feb 16, Feb 23, Mar 2.