David McDermott Hughes is professor of Anthropology at Rutgers University. The transition away from fossil fuels is not primarily an engineering problem. One does not simply install solar and wind farms and collect profits as corporations are doing now – and provoking local resistance significant enough to slow or stop the energy transition altogether. We will discuss alternatives that are both progressive and necessary, including faster ways to retire oil, gas, and the means of achieving public ownership of wind…

Molly and Dan Watt, the creators of the original World Fellowship Ukelele week, are back. with a long weekend gathering, though with no faculty – and therefore no added program fee. We will all make the program when we get there. Maybe someone will suggest a theme: Beatles, 20s pop, 50s rock-n-roll, folk music, gospel songs, Hawaiian songs and hula? Whatever strikes our fancy. Every evening, singing on the porch after the evening program. Bring your old uke festival resource…

Gina Bilander presents a Nature Photography Workshop: All ages, levels of skill and equipment are welcome as we learn how to translate what we see and respond to into photographs: the art and science of light. Morning sessions which may include field trips. Daily handouts given on the history of photography and nature essays.

Gina Bilander shares about the life and work of the pioneering photographer, Margaret Bourke-White. She pioneered the role of a woman photographer by documenting the Soviet Union, WWII, from the beginnings of the Nazi era, while flying on bombing missions to the liberation of the Concentration Camps, India and South Africa's anti-apartheid movement. The power of bearing witness to racism, war and the daily struggles of people's lives remains relevant today.

Gina Bilander presents a Nature Photography Workshop: All ages, levels of skill and equipment are welcome as we learn how to translate what we see and respond to into photographs: the art and science of light. Morning sessions which may include field trips. Daily handouts given on the history of photography and nature essays.

Every Friday, bring your song, poem, skit, stand-up routine, strange-but-beguiling act, instrument, dance, juggling, etc., to entertain and amuse. All ages, all acts… all love it every Friday!

Tam Willey (they/them) is a certified forest therapy guide, trainer, mentor and teacher with the Association of Nature and Forest Therapy and is the founder of Toadstool Walks, a guiding practice based in Boston, Massachusetts. Slow down and awaken your senses and lean into the sensation of being alive. Inspired by the Japanese practice of Shinrin-yoku, forest bathing is a restorative sensory exploration that supports health and healing for all beings. From increased cerebral blood flow to stronger immune defenses,…

George and Ruth: Songs and Letters of the Spanish Civil War, is a two-hander play about the international struggle against fascism leading up to World War II. Told through George Watt’s letters from the Lincoln Battalion in Spain (read by his son, Dan Lynn Watt) to his wife Ruth and letters to George from Ruth, an organizer in New York (read by Molly Lynn Watt). The letters reveal the human side of the Spanish Civil War, through their passionate love…