Learning in Retirement
Programs offer special learning opportunities for retirees
Trips:
New Wildlife and Fish Refuge Visitor’s
Center Tour
Join Bob Wingate and Richard Frost to visit the new Upper
Mississippi River National Wildlife and Fish Refuge Visitor’s
Center in Onalaska, Wis. The onsite staff will present a program
for our members in the new visual media room. The wildlife
displays will be viewed, followed by a short guided walk to view
the prairie. We will meet at the Visitor Center, located near
the junction of County Roads Z and ZN on Brice Prairie (N5727
County Road Z). If a ride is needed, please let us know at time
of registration.
June 19 | 10 a.m. | Brice Prairie/Onalaska
Great River Shakespeare Festival Plus
King Henry V
As part of the Great River Shakespeare Festival, we will be
seeing King Henry V. We will begin the day in Winona with a
visit to the Minnesota Marine Art Museum. In addition to their
wonderful standing collections of Hudson River School,
Impressionist, and Post-Impressionist works, our guided tour
will include a temporary exhibit Valor in Marine Art. We’ll have
lunch at LIR favorite, Signatures Restaurant, before attending
our matinee performance of King Henry V at Winona State
University. We’ll be back in La Crosse by dinnertime. About a
week before our trip to Winona a representative of the GRSF will
introduce us to King Henry V at a session at UW-La Crosse.
Pre-trip presentation: July 18, 11
a.m.–12:30 p.m., Room 332, Cartwright Center, UW-La Crosse
$79, includes pre-trip presentation, coach
transportation, museum admittance, lunch and matinee
July 26 | 8:45 a.m.-6:30 p.m. | Winona, Minn.
Taliesin and Loving Frank
Many book groups have read Nancy Horans’s bestseller, Loving
Frank, a novel based on the tragic romance of famed
architect Frank Lloyd Wright and Chicago socialite Mamah
Borthwick. Now the Taliesin Organization has developed a
specialized tour about Taliesin during the years Wright and
Mamah spent there. The tour includes readings from the book by
our professional staff while visitors enjoy Wright’s living
room, with a stop at the Unity Chapel cemetery to see Mamah’s
final resting place. Lunch follows in the Riverview Terrace
Cafe, located within the Frank Lloyd Wright Visitor Center.
Lunch will be the chicken salad sandwich (pulled white chicken
salad with red grapes, walnuts and crumbled blue cheese) with
Mediterranean pasta salad, beverage and brownies — dietary
requests will be accommodated.
Register early — space limited to only 21 people!
$99, includes coach
transportation, tour admission and lunch
June 28 | 8:45 a.m.-6:30 p.m.| Spring Green, Wis.
SOUTH AFRICA: A LAND OF CONTRASTS
October 7-21, 2013
The
plans for our upcoming tour of South Africa are complete. The
itinerary is finalized and the sites selected are Cape Town, Johannesburg, Livingstone (Victoria Falls) and Kruger National Park (Safari).
The tour includes 4 and 5 star hotels, essential tourist
attractions and unique points of interest. The trip focuses on two dimensions:
people and nature. We will learn about the South African
people and understand that they are a multitude of cultures, from European and Asian, to tribal. Victoria Falls and the wild life of Kruger National Park best describe the focus on
the nature facet of the tour.
If you have any questions or concerns please contact Burt/Norma
Altman: 608.788.0424 or
altman3131@aol.com.
Flyer (2 page PDF)
Itinerary (6 page
PDF)
Terms and
Conditions (1 page PDF)
Or
Printable Application
Form (1 page PDF)
Burt and Norma Altman, Tour Directors
For
more information contact:
UW-La Crosse Continuing Education and Extension
1725 State Street, 205 Morris Hall
La Crosse, WI 54601
608.785.6508; toll-free 1.866.895.9233
Fax 608.785.6547
conted@uwlax.edu