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Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum: Bus Trip to Lynchburg NEW!
- Day of the week: W
- Date: 4/23/2025
- Time: 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM.
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- Fees:
Member: $80.00
Non-Member: $95.00
- *NON-REFUNDABLE
- Details:
*This trip complements the one-day Anne Spencer course and UVA Special Collections member benefit outing. We hope you will join us for all three!
Join OLLI at UVA for a spring day trip to the Anne Spencer Museum and Gardens in historic Lynchburg, Virginia. The Anne Spencer House & Garden Museum is the former home of renowned Harlem Renaissance poet Anne Spencer. The museum is a designated Virginia Landmark and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. With up to 95% of the original house and cottage furnishings still in place today, it is considered one of the most intact house museums in the United States. Anne Spencer’s garden is also the only known restored garden of an African American in the United States. Anne Spencer was a poet, civil rights leader, advocate, and librarian. Her home and garden served as a gathering place for leading African Americans such as W.E.B. Du Bois, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, and Martin Luther King, Jr. The garden served as a private space of reflection and inspiration for the poet as well as a social realm for family and friends. W.E.B. Du Bois, James Weldon Johnson and George Washington Carver were plantsmen.
Charlottesville and Staunton bus pick up and drop off.
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I understand that although OLLI at UVA holds the health and safety of its community as paramount, this does not guarantee that I will not be exposed to injury or illness of any kind. I acknowledge that my physical presence in the local community as well as participation and utilization of facilities, services, and programs at OLLI at UVA is voluntary, and may carry certain risks, such as injury or illness including COVID-19 that cannot be eliminated regardless of the care and reasonable efforts taken to avoid and mitigate those risks. I also understand that I may be at higher risk for injury or illness and take full responsibility for my health and safety. I understand that I have the option to participate in OLLI at UVA activities remotely. Despite these risks, I chose to participate in-person in OLLI at UVA activities.
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Book: The Tenacious Bloom NEW!
- Day of the week: Th
- Date: 3/13/2025
- Time: 2:00 PM
- Member Benefit
- Location: OLLI at UVA Campus,Terrace Level
- Address: 1 Morton Drive, Terrace Level Charlottesville, VA 22903
Information: David J. Hirschman operates Hirschman Water & Environment, a small business in Charlottesville focused on environmental protection. He has spent four decades working to bring understanding to the issues of water pollution and ecosystem protection. Dave has also collaborated extensively with colleagues, endeavoring to restore the Chesapeake Bay watershed and its local waterways. He recently published his first work of fiction, The Tenacious Bloom. In the book, Agent Aliyah Aurea, with the FBI Division of Environmental Crimes, tackles four environmental cases utilizing the science and arts of geology, botany, and hydrology to solve the cases. She must also navigate awkward alliances with a cast of characters, including a geologist rabbi, an imposing small town public works director, and a disgruntled botanist with a vendetta. While this environmental mystery is full of clues, there are also enticing ecological messages embedded in the plot.
Fee: $0, this is complimentary with spring 2025 membership
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Book: Savings and Trust: the Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman's Bank NEW!
- Day of the week: Tu
- Date: 5/6/2025
- Time: 2:00 PM
- Member Benefit
- Location: OLLI at UVA Campus,Terrace Level
- Address: 1 Morton Drive, Terrace Level Charlottesville, VA 22903
Information: Justene Hill Edwards, Associate Professor, Corcoran Department of History, College and Graduate School of Arts & Sciences We are pleased to welcome Professor Hill Edwards back to OLLI to discuss her new book. Justene Hill Edwards’ research explores the intersection of African American history, American economic history, and the history of American slavery. Specifically, she examines slavery’s influence on the evolution of African American economic life. Her new book, Savings and Trust: The Rise and Betrayal of the Freedman’s Bank, chronicles the rise and fall of the Freedman’s Savings and Trust Company. Savings and Trust emphasizes the importance of the Freedman’s Bank and its collapse by connecting its failure to modern issues such as the racial wealth gap. Hill Edwards is also working on A Short History of Inequality, which will interrogate the ways in which inequality has pervaded and structured American life. Her book was recently featured on NPR’s Fresh Air.
Fee: $0, this is complimentary with spring 2025 membership
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Book: Thomas Jefferson & Early American Healthcare NEW!
- Day of the week: Th
- Date: 4/10/2025
- Time: 2:00 PM
- Member Benefit
- Location: OLLI at UVA Campus,Terrace Level
- Address: 1 Morton Drive, Terrace Level Charlottesville, VA 22903
Information: Dr. Gibson is the Lockhart B. McGuire Professor Emeritus and former President of the Clinical Staff at UVA. In this Author Talk, Dr. Robert S. Gibson will discuss Thomas Jefferson’s often overlooked contributions to the origins of science-based medicine and the educational prerequisites needed to foster it. He will argue that many of the revolutionary changes advocated in the 1910 Flexner Report on Medical Education Reform were presaged by Jeffersonian innovations instituted at the University of Virginia nearly a century before. Dr. Gibson will highlight Jefferson’s interest in science, his initial vision for medical education at the University and how that vision played out in the subsequent decades. Especially he will focus on the prescient ideas that Jefferson instituted at University of Virginia that proved remarkably insightful for the time period in American medicine. This talk is particularly timely since 2025 is the 200-year anniversary of the opening of UVA and its Medical School.
Fee: $0, this is complimentary with spring 2025 membership
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- Instructor: Margie Swanson
- Day of the week: Th, Times: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM.
- Dates: 2/27/2025 - 2/27/2025
- Member Benefit
- Course Location:OLLI at UVA Campus - Terrace Level
- Location Address:1 Morton Drive, Terrace Level Charlottesville, VA 22903
Limit (we do monitor enrollment and when possible may add seats): 12
Description:
Reflections from a retired Financial Advisor who used an educational approach with her clients. Join us for a light hearted discussion about becoming more confident with your money and investments, explore your money story which often colors your relationship with money and your finances, learn about topics that mystify you in a safe space, with the goal of leaving the group feeling a bit more empowered about your financial decision making.
Graduating with an Ed.S. in Psychology, Margie worked as a School Psychologist before starting her own Financial practice in the Midwest. She moved to Charlottesville in 1987, driving cross country during the crash of ‘87 and slowly built up a clientele of teachers, nurses and every day individuals who wanted to be involved in the process of growing their hard earned assets. Margie, who retired in 2023, learned early on that her background in psychology was valuable with steering clients into becoming more confident financial decision makers.
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Grace Church, Cismont has reached maximum enrollment.
Please add yourself to the WAIT LIST by clicking the ADD TO WAIT LIST button below.
OLLI staff monitor enrollment and work to open seats before 5/8/2025. We will contact those on the wait list to invite them to enroll when seats become available. Adding your name to wait list is free, if you are invited and choose to enroll the $27.00 fee will be collected at that time.
Grace Church, Cismont with
Day of the week: Th, Times: 1:45 PM - 3:00 PM.
Limit: 25
Sessions: 1
Dates: 5/8/2025 - 5/8/2025
Course Description: * Join us for our May Social at Merrie Mill Farm and Vineyard at 3:30 p.m.
Local Historian and Author Barclay Rives
This excursion complements Richard Guy Wilson’s Gothic Architecture Course (Spring 24). Join us for a visit to one of Virginia’s best examples of Gothic Architecture.
Grace Church has a lively history stretching from colonial times to the present. Parson James Maury was Thomas Jefferson’s schoolmaster. Jefferson served on the vestry 1767-1770. The site has witnessed passage of British raiders and Civil War armies. The stone church, the only building in Virginia designed by William Strickland, was completed in 1855 and replaced a wooden colonial structure. Eccentric philanthropist John Armstrong Chaloner enabled rebuilding of the church following an 1895 fire, which destroyed all but the stone walls and massive bronze bell. In 2019, the church celebrated the completion of a massive remodel, including raising the ceiling above the altar to improve acoustics and installation of a Taylor and Boody organ, specially designed for the space.
Barclay Rives, a Cismont native, is the author of A History of Grace Church and William Cabell Rives: A Country to Serve. His stories have appeared in Albemarle Magazine, In & Around Horse Country, and Virginia Sportsman.
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- Presenter: John Ragosta
- Date: 5/1/2025
- Time: 4:00 PM - 6:00 PM
- Day of the week: Th
- Location: Greencroft Club, 575 Rodes Drive Charlottesville, VA 22903
- Fees:
Member: $35.00
Non-Member: $50.00
- Non-refundable
Presentation Description:
In a democracy, how should citizens disagree with government policy? What is a “loyal opposition”?
In 1798, with partisan battles raging, Thomas Jefferson’s Kentucky Resolutions declared that a state could pronounce federal laws unconstitutional and “nullify” them – secession, state against the federal government, and state against state, threatened. Newspapers warned that “Civil War!” loomed.
George Washington begged Patrick Henry to come forth from retirement, oppose these dangerous policies, and save the union. While Henry had led opposition to ratifying the Constitution, he insisted that since “we the people” adopted the Constitution, anyone contesting federal policy must seek reform “in a constitutional way.”
Tellingly, within eight days of his Virginia Resolutions being adopted – Resolutions that were much milder than Jefferson’s Kentucky Resolutions – James Madison wrote Jefferson that they had gone too far. Jefferson, chastised, recognized the danger of the 1790s’ hyper-partisanship and reconsidered.
This story – recounted in For the People, For the Country: Patrick Henry’s Final Political Battle – is the story of how a democracy must work if it is to survive.
John Ragosta is a fellow at Virginia Humanities and previously was the Acting Director of the Robert H. Smith International Center for Jefferson Studies at Monticello. He has taught law and history at the University of Virginia, George Washington University, and Hamilton, Oberlin, and Randolph Colleges. Dr. Ragosta’s most recent book – For the People, For the Country: Patrick Henry’s Final Political Battle – has received highly favorable reviews in the Wall Street Journal and New York Sun. He is also the author of Religious Freedom: Jefferson’s Legacy, America’s Creed (UVA Press, 2013) and several other works. Ragosta, an award-winning author and frequent commentator, holds both a PhD and a JD from the University of Virginia. Before returning to academia, Dr. Ragosta was a partner at Dewey Ballantine LLP. He is also a beekeeper.
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- Instructor: Rabbi Joel Schwartzman
- Day of the week: Tu, Times: 3:00 PM - 4:30 PM.
- Dates: 4/22/2025 - 5/13/2025 This schedule has been update.
- Member Benefit
- Course Location:OLLI at UVA Campus - Terrace Level
- Location Address:1 Morton Drive, Terrace Level Charlottesville, VA 22903
Limit (we do monitor enrollment and when possible may add seats): 20
Description:
The program will touch upon the following elements crucial to an understanding of the Middle East and Israel’s place in it: issues of water, natural resources, religion, outside influences, regional alliances as well as survey the timeline of Israel’s military conflicts. Given the current wars with Iranian proxies: Hamas, Hezbollah, the Houthis, and Shiite militias in both Syria and western Iraq, Israel finds itself struggling to free itself from the noose Iran has attempted to place around its neck. Strategically, Israel has had to change focus from deterrence to survival. One entire session will be devoted to the War in Gaza: Operation Iron Swords. Finally, we will then examine Israel’s relations with its neighbors, along with threats to, and opportunities for, peaceful coexistence.
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In partnership with The Center.
Presenting a lecture series with Historian Rick Britton.
At first glance, Central Virginia—where Thomas Jefferson completely dominates the history—appears to be a Civil War black hole, a place where nothing happened. With this lecture series, Rick Britton hopes to revise that perception.
The lecture, “Jefferson Country in the Civil War”
Will be held on Th, 4/3/2025 at 3:00 PM
- “Jefferson Country in the Civil War” - Discover how the war erupted across Albemarle County; how the community supported the war effort; and how two U.Va. student companies participated in an extralegal expedition. Also: We’ll not forget our area’s African American soldiers—the United States Colored Troops (or USCTs)—and the UVA men who fought for the Union.
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In partnership with The Center.
Presenting a lecture series with Historian Rick Britton.
At first glance, Central Virginia—where Thomas Jefferson completely dominates the history—appears to be a Civil War black hole, a place where nothing happened. With this lecture series, Rick Britton hopes to revise that perception.
The lecture, “Saving Stonewall’s Bacon”
Will be held on Th, 4/10/2025 at 3:00 PM
- “Saving Stonewall’s Bacon” - On Sunday, June 8, 1862—while Maj. Gen. Thomas J. “Stonewall” Jackson’s army was encamped at Port Republic—an aggressive Union cavalry force stormed into town threatening to capture his wagon train and General Jackson himself. One Southern unit stood in the way of this disaster—the brand-spanking-new Charlottesville Artillery.
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In partnership with The Center.
Presenting a lecture series with Historian Rick Britton.
At first glance, Central Virginia—where Thomas Jefferson completely dominates the history—appears to be a Civil War black hole, a place where nothing happened. With this lecture series, Rick Britton hopes to revise that perception.
The lecture, “Albemarle Boys in Pickett’s Charge”
Will be held on Th, 4/17/2025 at 3:00 PM
- “Albemarle Boys in Pickett’s Charge” - Pickett’s Charge, at the Battle of Gettysburg, is arguably the most famous attack in American history. Smack-dab in the middle of Maj. Gen. George E. Pickett’s Charge, 426 Central Virginians—most of whom hailed from Charlottesville and Albemarle County—traversed that vicious valley of death as the 19th Virginia Infantry.
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In partnership with The Center.
Presenting a lecture series with Historian Rick Britton.
At first glance, Central Virginia—where Thomas Jefferson completely dominates the history—appears to be a Civil War black hole, a place where nothing happened. With this lecture series, Rick Britton hopes to revise that perception.
The lecture, “The Surrender of UVA & Charlottesville”
Will be held on Th, 4/24/2025 at 3:00 PM
- “The Surrender of UVA & Charlottesville” - On March 3, 1865, as Union Maj. Gen. Philip Sheridan’s cavalry army approached Charlottesville, the citizens frantically hid their valuables. Sheridan’s cavalrymen—because of the scorched-earth warfare they’d waged in the Shenandoah—were no less terrifying than the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse. Would they torch Charlottesville and the University of Virginia?
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In partnership with The Center.
Presenting a lecture series with Historian Rick Britton.
At first glance, Central Virginia—where Thomas Jefferson completely dominates the history—appears to be a Civil War black hole, a place where nothing happened. With this lecture series, Rick Britton hopes to revise that perception.
The lecture, Bonus Onsite Tour – “The Skirmish at Rio Hill”
Will be held on Sa, 4/26/2025 at 3:00 PM
- Bonus Onsite Tour – “The Skirmish at Rio Hill” - Class participants are invited to join Rick for an onsite presentation of Albemarle County’s only Civil War combat—Rio Hill. It was February 29, 1864, when Union Brig. Gen. George A. Custer rode into Albemarle County at the head of 1,500 horsemen. What was his purpose? How did it all fall out? Join us to find out!
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- Host: OLLI at UVA
- Day of the week: Th
- Time: 12:30 PM - 1:30 PM
- Date: 2/27/2025
- Location: By and By Coffee , 140 E Beverley St Staunton, VA . By and By Coffee
We’re meeting to enjoy re-connecting again! Join us to meet old friends and make new ones. You buy your drinks, we serve you tasty snacks, and we all benefit from getting to know each other outside of class! Please RSVP here to help us plan for you, but if you forget, come anyway – we want to see you!
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- Host: OLLI at UVA
- Day of the week: F
- Time: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
- Date: 2/28/2025
- Location: Eastwood Farm and Winery, 2531 Scottsville Rd. Charlottesville, VA 22902. Eastwood Farm and Winery
We’re meeting to enjoy re-connecting again! Join us to meet old friends and make new ones. You buy your drinks, we serve you tasty snacks, and we all benefit from getting to know each other outside of class! Please RSVP here to help us plan for you, but if you forget, come anyway – we want to see you!
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Speaker: Rick Britton
- Day of the Week: Th
- Date: 2/20/2025
- Time: 10:30 AM
- Location: Michie Tavern, 683 Thomas Jefferson Parkway Charlottesville, VA 22902
- Non-refundable Fee: $40.00
OLLI at UVA in Partnership with Michie Tavern Presents Central Virginia in the Revolution! with Rick Britton
Join us for this wonderful Charlottesville tradition—at Michie Tavern! OLLI at UVA is pleased to continue this partnership. Together, we’ll learn, dine, and socialize in one of our area’s most beautiful historic settings.
The year 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War’s commencement. Despite the fact that it was mostly contested elsewhere, Central Virginia and her talented and heroic sons played extremely vital roles. It was a Central Virginian, of course, who penned the Declaration of Independence. Another—while serving as a young lieutenant in the 3rd Virginia Regiment—became a hero of the pivotal Battle of Trenton. Central Virginians, too, guarded a huge enemy force of British and Hessian soldiers that had surrendered in upstate New York. Upon their arrival in Albemarle County, they became Central Virginia’s largest assemblage of humanity.
Join us at Michie Tavern as we explore “Central Virginia in the Revolution.”
· Moved to snow date, Feb. 13 – Our Nation’s Birth Certificate – Jefferson, the Declaration, and the Fourth of July
· Jan. 23 – Bona Fide Hero: James Monroe at the Battle of Trenton
· Rescheduled due to inclement weather, from Feb. 6 to Feb. 20 – The Barracks: Albemarle’s Prisoner of War Encampment
The lectures begin at 10:30 a.m. A question-and-answer period follows at 11:15, with lunch at 11:30. NOTE: You must be an OLLI member for the Spring 2025 semester to participate. (Snow date: February 13).
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- Instructor: Tracy Meade
- Day of the week: Tu, Times: 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM.
- Dates: 3/4/2025 - 3/4/2025
- Member Benefit
- Course Location:OLLI at UVA Campus - Terrace Level
- Location Address:1 Morton Drive, Terrace Level Charlottesville, VA 22903
Limit (we do monitor enrollment and when possible may add seats): 35
Description:
Should you need extended care, where will the funds come from to pay for that care? Will you be eligible for Medicare, Medicaid or Veterans Benefits? What will trigger the benefits in your long-term care insurance policy? Will your policy pay for home care or will you be forced to move to a nursing home? Learn the answers to all of the questions by attending this informational seminar.
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- Instructor: Tracy Meade
- Day of the week: M, Times: 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM.
- Dates: 2/17/2025 - 2/17/2025
- Member Benefit
- Course Location:OLLI at UVA Campus - Terrace Level
- Location Address:1 Morton Drive, Terrace Level Charlottesville, VA 22903
Limit (we do monitor enrollment and when possible may add seats): 35
Description:
Learn what you need to know about Social Security while you are still working, about the benefits to you and your family that are available, when to apply for your benefits, the advantage of waiting until full retirement age to claim your benefits, and how your benefits may be taxable to you. You will also learn how to set up a secure online "my Social Security" account to check your earnings and get your benefit estimates, and when to file for Medicare, our country's basic health insurance program for people age 65 or older and for many people with disabilities.
NOTE: This is open to non-members. You are welcome to bring a friend.
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Speaking of Rivers Tour with Horace Scruggs
- Day of the week: Th
- Date: 5/15/2025
- Time: 9:00 AM - 12:30 PM.
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- Fees:
Member: $100.00
Non-Member: $115.00
- *NON-REFUNDABLE
- Details:
Rivers have always been vital to the development and commerce of many civilizations throughout history. And through much of the history of America this has included the labor and invention of both free and enslaved African-Americans. With the personal stories at the forefront, this Rivanna River float will enlighten paddlers of the experiences and contributions African-Americans had on Central Virginia’s rivers. This will include discussions on the American slave trade, local plantations, bateau and watermen, and canal workers. Come learn how African-Americans navigated the river as well as the societal pressures of their times.
This beginner-friendly half-day trip introduces participants to the rural beauty of Fluvanna County. While there are numerous riffles and a few very small Class 1 rapids, the majority of the trip is placid water over pebble, rock and sand bottom. In the summer, the water is low and clear, and inviting for swimming, snorkeling, wading, and fish watching. Numerous pebble beaches and sunny rocks make good places to break, swim and snack.
At typical summer water levels, expect the trip to take from 3-3.5 hours at a leisurely pace. If the Rivanna River level is too low the float will take place on the James River.
In partnership with the Rivanna River Company: kayak, paddle and flotation device included. Multiple guides will be with the group and the option to travel in a canoe with a guide is available, please inquire. Closer to May 15 more details will be shared with those enrolled.
OLLI at UVA Health and Safety Liability Waiver:
I understand that although OLLI at UVA holds the health and safety of its community as paramount, this does not guarantee that I will not be exposed to injury or illness of any kind. I acknowledge that my physical presence in the local community as well as participation and utilization of facilities, services, and programs at OLLI at UVA is voluntary, and may carry certain risks, such as injury or illness including COVID-19 that cannot be eliminated regardless of the care and reasonable efforts taken to avoid and mitigate those risks. I also understand that I may be at higher risk for injury or illness and take full responsibility for my health and safety. I understand that I have the option to participate in OLLI at UVA activities remotely. Despite these risks, I chose to participate in-person in OLLI at UVA activities.
I agree not to attend any in-person sessions if I am experiencing any symptom of illness such as cough, shortness of breath or difficulty breathing, fever, chills, repeated shaking with chills, muscle pain, headache, sore throat, or new loss of taste or smell.
I hereby release and agree to hold OLLI at UVA harmless from, and waive on behalf of myself, my heirs, and any personal representatives any and all causes of action, claims, demands, damages, costs, expenses and compensation for damage or loss to myself and/or property that may be caused by any act, or failure to act of OLLI at UVA, or that may otherwise arise in any way in connection with any services received from OLLI at UVA. I understand that this release discharges OLLI at UVA from any liability or claim that I, my heirs, or any personal representatives may have against OLLI at UVA with respect to any bodily injury, illness, death, medical treatment, or property damage that may arise from, or in connection to, any services received from OLLI at UVA. This liability acknowledgement and release extends to OLLI at UVA together with all venues, volunteers, and employees. Click the add to cart button to accept.
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- Instructor:
- Day of the week: W, Times: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM.
- Dates: 4/9/2025 - 4/9/2025
- Member Benefit
- Course Location: -
- Location Address:
Limit (we do monitor enrollment and when possible may add seats): 25
Description:
What makes an exhibition? How are all the artworks connected? This guided tour will focus on exhibitions in the museum and explore the themes of the exhibitions. OLLI members will be engaged with conversations and discussions about the artwork in the Fralin Museum.
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Tour the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. with Horace and Hannah Scruggs NEW!
- Day of the week: W
- Date: 6/4/2025
- Time: 7:00 AM - 6:30 PM.
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- Fees:
Member: $90.00
Non-Member: $105.00
- *NON-REFUNDABLE
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Join historians Horace and Hannah Scruggs for discussions and insight while visiting The National Museum of African American History and Culture. Based on personal experience and research, pre and post visit conversations will give attendees a more meaningful visit to this museum. NMAAH is a place where all Americans can learn about the richness and diversity of the African American experience, what it means to their lives, and how it helped us shape this nation.
OLLI at UVA Health and Safety Liability Waiver:
I understand that although OLLI at UVA holds the health and safety of its community as paramount, this does not guarantee that I will not be exposed to injury or illness of any kind. I acknowledge that my physical presence in the local community as well as participation and utilization of facilities, services, and programs at OLLI at UVA is voluntary, and may carry certain risks, such as injury or illness including COVID-19 that cannot be eliminated regardless of the care and reasonable efforts taken to avoid and mitigate those risks. I also understand that I may be at higher risk for injury or illness and take full responsibility for my health and safety. I understand that I have the option to participate in OLLI at UVA activities remotely. Despite these risks, I chose to participate in-person in OLLI at UVA activities.
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Understanding AI Scams has reached maximum enrollment.
Please add yourself to the WAIT LIST by clicking the ADD TO WAIT LIST button below.
OLLI staff monitor enrollment and work to open seats before 4/1/2025. We will contact those on the wait list to invite them to enroll when seats become available. Adding your name to wait list is free, if you are invited and choose to enroll the $0.00 fee will be collected at that time.
Understanding AI Scams with Shawn Smith
Day of the week: Tu, Times: 1:00 PM - 2:00 PM.
Limit: 12
Sessions: 1
Dates: 4/1/2025 - 4/1/2025
Course Description: Technology around Artificial Intelligence (AI) is advancing quickly. So are attempts by scammers to use this technology to steal your money, information, and identity. This session will seek to help you better understand how AI is used for good, identify how scammers are utilizing AI, and teach you ways to prevent, detect, and report AI-related scams.
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- Day of the week: W, Times: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM.
- Dates: 3/12/2025 - 3/12/2025
- Member Benefit
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Limit (we do monitor enrollment and when possible may add seats): 25
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Celebrating the life and legacy of Anne Spencer—Harlem Renaissance poet; civil rights activist; librarian and educator; avid reader and prolific writer. Her devotion to her craft, family, community, garden, and home of over seven decades situated on Pierce Street in Lynchburg, Virginia, shines through her archive housed here at the University of Virginia Library. Join OLLI’s private tour of the new exhibit showcasing Spencer’s life and legacy. *This tour complements the Excursion to the Anne Spencer House and Gardens and the one-day Anne Spencer course.
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- Presenter: Rick Britton
- Dates: 2/27/2025 - 2/27/2025
- Times: 10:30 AM - 12:00 PM
- Days: Th
Description: Due to the weather this lecture has moved to the snow date: February 13.
Join us for this wonderful Charlottesville tradition—at Michie Tavern! OLLI at UVA is pleased to continue this partnership. Together, we’ll learn, dine, and socialize in one of our area’s most beautiful historic settings.
The year 2025 marks the 250th anniversary of the Revolutionary War’s commencement. Despite the fact that it was mostly contested elsewhere, Central Virginia and her talented and heroic sons played extremely vital roles. It was a Central Virginian, of course, who penned the Declaration of Independence. Another—while serving as a young lieutenant in the 3rd Virginia Regiment—became a hero of the pivotal Battle of Trenton. Central Virginians, too, guarded a huge enemy force of British and Hessian soldiers that had surrendered in upstate New York. Upon their arrival in Albemarle County, they became Central Virginia’s largest assemblage of humanity.
Join us at Michie Tavern as we explore “Central Virginia in the Revolution.”
· Changed Feb. 27 – Our Nation’s Birth Certificate – Jefferson, the Declaration, and the Fourth of July
· Jan. 23 – Bona Fide Hero: James Monroe at the Battle of Trenton
· Feb. 20 – The Barracks: Albemarle’s Prisoner of War Encampment
The lectures begin at 10:30 a.m. A question-and-answer period follows at 11:15, with lunch at 11:30. The $40 fee (*Non-refundable) for each event includes the lecture and famous Michie Tavern lunch. NOTE: You must be an OLLI member for the Spring 2025 semester to participate. (Snow date: February 13).
Rick Britton is an award-winning journalist and historian who’s written extensively on the history of the Virginia Piedmont. He’s the author of Jefferson: A Monticello Sampler and 2015’s Virginia Vignettes: Famous Characters & Events in Central Virginia History. A much-sought-after speaker, he also teaches classes on central Virginia history, conducts tours, and illustrates maps for history books and websites.
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