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A long-time instructor of dining etiquette, Sandra Derrick will discuss the proper rules for table setting and dining.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 35
Dates: 8/17/2026 - 8/17/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: M
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Instructor: Sandra Derrick
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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Colleen and Heather will introduce you to the BFK Storytellers’ Program. Learn about this organization that creates open, equal access to books—what the program is, what it does, and how you could make an impact on a local child by helping him or her become a better reader.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 32
Dates: 8/17/2026 - 8/17/2026
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: M
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Instructor: Heather Fletcher, Colleen Craven-Morris
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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UGA's New College, built in 1822 and rebuilt in 1831 after a fire, was "rebuilt," again in 2009-2010. In 2009, workers excavating the 1822 rubble in New College's basement began finding artifacts. Dr. Garrison was called to the site to examine the finds. His Shallow Geophysics class offered that summer was redirected to examine the newly-exposed basement and rear of the building. Wall footers and a brick floor, presumably from the 1822 building, were found and subsequently preserved along with 160+ artifacts. Some of these finds are on display on the first floor of New College. This class will be conducted in two parts: (1) an in-class discussion of the somewhat checkered history of New College over the past 204 years and (2) an on-site visit to New College to examine the remnants of the 1822 structure.
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Fee: $23.00
Capacity Remaining: 14
Dates: 8/18/2026 - 8/20/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Sessions: 2
Days: Tu Th
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Instructor: Ervan Garrison
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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Please note: Session one of this class will take place at River's Crossing. The second session will meet off-site at the New College building on North Campus. Parking is available at the North Campus Parking Deck on Jackson Street (standard parking rates apply). "North Deck" is conveniently across the street from North Campus quad where New College resides.
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Henry David Thoreau—mystic, transcendentalist, sage, ethicist, prophet, seer, ecologist, gardener, economist, citizen, abolitionist, journalist, lecturer, educator, patriot, radical, conservative, artist, saunterer, contrarian, iconoclast, humorist, and bad subject but good neighbor—came into the world in 1817. More than a century and a half after his death, this often misunderstood “dead white male” might well be the voice we need to hear more than any other on the most pressing and troubling issues of our own radically-different age. This multi-session course will involve reading passages from Thoreau and discussing them through the lens of the modern world. “How many a man has dated a new era in his life from the reading of a book.” Henry David Thoreau, Walden
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Fee: $51.00
Capacity Remaining: 15
Dates: 8/18/2026 - 9/15/2026
Times: 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM
Sessions: 5
Days: Tu
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Instructor: Dan Zins
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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This course will give an overview of state and local laws related to animal welfare, with a focus on companion animals but some discussion of wildlife as well. Participants will learn how to spot signs of neglect and abuse, how to report these concerns, and how to best help animals in our community.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 36
Dates: 8/18/2026 - 8/18/2026
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: Tu
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Instructor: Sherrie L. Hines
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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We will taste and learn about five amazing wines from the Sierra Nevada foothills in northern California. We will learn about winemaker Bill Easton, who has been producing wines for over 40 years and has made the Wine and Spirits top 100 wineries in the world list five times. Tapped owner Todd Hurt will present background and stories with you and share five, 2-ounce pours of wine paired with cheese for each selection. Please note: This class requires a separate fee of $40 paid directly to Tapped via an online link in order to cover the costs of wines and snacks. This link will be sent to registered attendees 2 weeks before the class and must be paid in advance in order to secure your spot.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: -1
Dates: 8/18/2026 - 8/18/2026
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: Tu
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Instructor: Todd Hurt
Building: Off Site (opens in new tab)
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Please note: This class requires a separate fee of $40 paid directly to Tapped via an online link in order to cover the costs of wines and snacks. This link will be sent to registered attendees 2 weeks before the class and must be paid in advance in order to secure your spot.
Please see receipt note for address/parking details.
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After the Civil War, White cemeteries didn’t allow Black people to bury their dead on the same land. This meant Black Athenians were left with nowhere to bury and memorialize their loved ones. In response, local Black residents established societies that used community trusts to set property boundaries and name specific stewards responsible for cemetery operations and upkeep, all to care for the community after death. One example of this work in Athens is the Gospel Pilgrim Society that founded its namesake cemetery in 1882. In the 144 years since, approximately 3,500 African Americans have been buried there, and approximately 20-25% of those were formerly enslaved individuals. Among them are William Pledger, Pink Morton, Hariett Powers, and William Henry Heard. In this class, Fred Smith and Chaplain Cole will explain what it is that brings them to this work, share stories of notable Black Athenians buried in Gospel Pilgrim, and discuss why honoring and spreading this historic past is so important for Athens' present and future. Also included is information about how you can get involved and help support Gospel Pilgrim's community preservation work to protect this vital part of Athens history.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 35
Dates: 8/19/2026 - 8/19/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: W
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Instructor: Fred O. Smith, Cole Knapper
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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Begin your tour inside Athens’ oldest surviving residence and learn how this great college town began in the up-country that was once Native American territory. Then board the bus for an overview of magnificent pre-Civil War homes and historic neighborhoods. See our eclectic downtown, the UGA campus, the Double-Barreled Cannon, and the Cobbham and Milledge Avenue historic districts.
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Fee: $34.00
Capacity Remaining: 0
Dates: 8/19/2026 - 8/19/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: W
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Instructor: Caitlin Short
Building: Off Site (opens in new tab)
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Please see receipt note for address/parking details.
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We will explore Warm Springs as it was between 1924 and 1945, the years that Franklin Delano Roosevelt visited this rural Georgia town. During those 21 years, Warm Springs was often in the world's spotlight. The town grew some, especially with the development of Roosevelt Warm Springs, an institute for the care of patients with polio. The town has remained much the same since Roosevelt's death, and landmarks that FDR saw during his visit in 1945 remain much the same today.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 30
Dates: 8/19/2026 - 8/19/2026
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: W
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Instructor: Kaye Minchew
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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As international attention to endangered populations of plants and animals has grown over the past few decades, so too has interest in ‘endangered’ languages. Out of the nearly 7,000 languages spoken around the globe, almost 10% are ‘moribund’—or nearly extinct. In this course, we will explore the phenomenon of language loss, a process that has had a long and complicated history in communities around the world. We will discuss issues such as language policy and linguistic activism, exploring how even in local communities in Georgia, linguistic discrimination continues to be a source of language prejudice among speakers of other languages and dialects. The course materials will include a variety of readings and videos with the objective of exposing students to issues of language preservation. No background in global languages or linguistics is necessary.
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Fee: $32.00
Capacity Remaining: 38
Dates: 8/20/2026 - 10/15/2026
Times: 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM
Sessions: 3
Days: Th
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Instructor: Chad Howe
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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In August 1832, a 13-year-old Greek orphan enrolled at UGA and received an A.B. degree in 1835 as the first international student to graduate from any American university. At the Hargrett Library, among Professor Malthus Ward’s documents (Ward developed the old Botanical Garden in Athens while teaching Natural History from 1832 to 1842), the presenter found ten little strips of paper on which Ward wrote the names of his students. The May 1835 list included the name “Diomatari.”
This illustrated presentation chronicles some of the untold story of John Diomatari’s astounding life. He arrived in Boston aboard “Old Ironsides” on the Fourth of July 1828, became a lawyer, lived in Eatonton, was written about by Joel Chandler Harris, and was appointed U.S. Consul to Greece.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 37
Dates: 8/21/2026 - 8/21/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: F
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Instructor: William Mann
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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This class provides a brief history of wealth distribution in the U.S. as well as some of the founding motivations behind Congress’s passing ERISA in 1974, which included its most successful and least known retirement vehicle: the employee stock ownership plan. Since then, more than 6,500 ESOPs, 1,000 worker co-ops, and around 100 employee ownership trusts have pioneered best practices that distribute wealth more evenly in society. The ESOP's architect, Louis Kelso, envisioned "capital participation" as a remedy for wealth inequality and saw firm ownership as a crucial complement to home ownership in building and maintaining the American middle class. Some three million baby boomers (silvered) are expecting to transition out of their small to medium businesses over the next 10 years, and yet the succession planning in these businesses is often not robust or fully communicated with key stakeholders. These businesses don't have to just close up shop. This class will elucidate concrete actions anyone, including OLLI members, can take today to help keep main street thriving.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 40
Dates: 8/21/2026 - 8/21/2026
Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM
Sessions: 1
Days: F
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Instructor: Marie Davis
Building: River's Crossing (opens in new tab)
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Calling all car and racing enthusiasts! UGA Motorsports is a student-run organization committed to the design, manufacturing, and competition of cars. Operating under the UGA College of Engineering, it proudly hosts our FSAE IC, FSAE EV, and Champcar teams, providing students with professional hands-on experience in the automotive industry. You will learn about the program as well as tour the shop where the cars are fabricated.
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Fee: $14.00
Capacity Remaining: 10
Dates: 8/21/2026 - 8/21/2026
Times: 4:30 PM - 6:00 PM
Sessions: 1
Days: F
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Instructor: Luke Mann
Building: Off Site (opens in new tab)
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