Feb. 23, 2011

GETTYSBURG – Satisfy your thirst for knowledge and meet new friends at the “Living & Learning” seminars presented by the Gettysburg Campus of HACC, Central Pennsylvania’s Community College.

More than two dozen seminars will be offered during the daylong event from 8 a.m.-2 p.m., Tuesday, March 8, at the campus, 731 Old Harrisburg Road, Gettysburg.

“Living & Learning” includes continental breakfast, buffet luncheon and three 90-minute courses, ranging from history and art to personal enrichment topics.

The cost is $49 with a registration deadline of March 1. After reviewing the courses, participants should select one course for each of the three sessions, listing a second choice as well. For more detailed information or to register with your first and second choices, call 717-338-1010.

The lineup of sessions includes:

Session I (8:30-10 a.m.) – “Well-behaved Women Rarely Make History,” “Songs and Stories of the Civil War,” “Learn How to Make a Beaded Bracelet/Necklace,” “The Gift of Louis Armstrong,” “Colors and Scents,” “The First Americans,” “Samuel Wallis: Expert Spy of the Susquehanna,” and “Word Histories, Myths and Mysteries.”

Session II (10:15-11:45 a.m.) – “A Man of Courage, Conviction and Principle: Thomas Becket,” “The Joller Story: Life in a Company Coal Mine and Village,” “Songs and Stories of the Civil War,” “Learn How to Make a Beaded Bracelet/Necklace,” “Billie Holiday: God Bless the Child,” “The Archaeology of Jamestown,” “Aaron Burr: Master of Duplicity,” “Cultural Literacy,” and “Why are You Wearing Those Colors?”

Session III (12:30-2 p.m.) – “Well-behaved Women Rarely Make History,” “Canals and Canal Life Around the Susquehanna River Basin,” “Songs and Stories of the Civil War,” “Learn How to Make a Beaded Bracelet/Necklace,” “Duke Ellington: Blessed,” “Technological Advances in Battlefield Archaeology,” “James Wilkinson: Connoisseur of Treason,” “The 1960s,” and “Why are You Wearing Those Colors?”