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  • Bear Hollow Ed-ZOO-cation

  • Bear Hollow Zoo is home to 40+ non-releasable animals that are native to Georgia. This program will allow a rare close-up experience that stimulates and nurtures the curiosity in the heart of every child and adult. Bear Hollow is primarily an outdoor facility, and participants should dress appropriately for the weather and wear comfortable shoes for walking.

     

  • Fee: $19.00

    Capacity Remaining: 30

    Dates: 9/11/2025 - 9/11/2025

    Times: 10:30 AM - 11:30 AM

    Sessions: 1

    Days: Th

  • Instructor: Megan Hong

    Building: Off Site

  • Please see receipt note for address/additional details.

 

  • Beginning Bridge III: Defense

  • This eight-week course focuses on the defensive aspect of bridge and follows the OLLI courses Bidding and Play of the Hand. The basic material covered is in the student textbook which is included. It is presented in a structured manner which is easy to follow. Participants will learn how to formulate and plan and how to execute the plan. Each class is designed to last approximately two hours in which students take an active role in learning, thereby giving them a chance to play and defend. Location details will be provided to the participants.

     

  • Fee: $78.00

    Capacity Remaining: 32

    Dates: 9/11/2025 - 10/30/2025

    Times: 10:30 AM - 12:30 PM

    Sessions: 8

    Days: Th

  • Instructor: Debbie Wagner

    Building: Off Site

  • Please see receipt note for address/additional details.

 

  • Bludwine to Budwine: An Athens Soft Drink's History

  • Developed out of the temperance movement of the 1890s, Bludwine was a soft drink intended to move people away from alcohol to a more wholesome beverage. During Bludwine's 90-year existence, it went from a small-town product to a national and multinational, renowned soft drink. The class will cover Bludwine from its creation through its demise. Participants will use hands-on learning with genuine items as Mark shares knowledge gained through researching and collecting Bludwine and Budwine items over the past 30 years.

     

  • Fee: $14.00

    Capacity Remaining: 40

    Dates: 9/10/2025 - 9/10/2025

    Times: 10:00 AM - 11:30 AM

    Sessions: 1

    Days: W

  • Instructor: Mark Williams

    Building: River's Crossing

 

  • Growing Up in Birmingham During the Civil Rights Era

  • Ian Hardin grew up in the fifties and early sixties while Birmingham was embroiled in the Civil Rights Movement. Bull Connor, the notorious Birmingham Police Commissioner, was in Hardin's Dad's Sunday School class, and the events of the 50's and early 60's were part of Ian's vivid growing-up experiences. This will be the story of coming from Scotland to a different and sometimes turbulent world.

     

  • Fee: $14.00

    Capacity Remaining: 40

    Dates: 11/10/2025 - 11/10/2025

    Times: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

    Sessions: 1

    Days: M

  • Instructor: Ian Hardin

    Building: River's Crossing

 

  • Joseph Jacobs and the Robert Burns Club of Atlanta: A Story from the Archives

  • Jewish pharmacist Joseph Jacobs is familiar to Georgians as the owner of the drugstore at which Coca-Cola was invented. He is also the founder of the Burns Club of Atlanta. A major collector of Burnsiana (he had a library of 794 volumes of Burns material), Jacobs began the club in 1896 - and it still meets today in a replica of Burns's birthplace in Atlanta (a building Jacobs funded in 1911). This class will provide some of the history of the club and ponder the significance of Robert Burns not only to Jacobs but also to Atlanta and the South in general.

     

  • Fee: $14.00

    Capacity Remaining: 40

    Dates: 12/8/2025 - 12/8/2025

    Times: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

    Sessions: 1

    Days: M

  • Instructor: Elizabeth Kraft

    Building: River's Crossing

 

  • Joseph Jacobs and the Robert Burns Club of Atlanta: A Story from the Archives

  • Jewish pharmacist Joseph Jacobs is familiar to Georgians as the owner of the drugstore at which Coca-Cola was invented. He is also the founder of the Burns Club of Atlanta. A major collector of Burnsiana (he had a library of 794 volumes of Burns material), Jacobs began the club in 1896 - and it still meets today in a replica of Burns's birthplace in Atlanta (a building Jacobs funded in 1911). This class will provide some of the history of the club and ponder the significance of Robert Burns not only to Jacobs but also to Atlanta and the South in general.

     

  • Fee: $14.00

    Capacity Remaining: 100

    Dates: 12/8/2025 - 12/8/2025

    Times: 2:00 PM - 3:15 PM

    Sessions: 1

    Days: M

  • Instructor: Elizabeth Kraft

    Building: Online via Zoom

 

  • Keeping in Balance: Maintaining Strength to Avoid Falls

  • We'll look ahead to changes with age that can affect balance and review recommendations for retaining strength and minimizing fall risk. We'll practice together some gentle mindful movement with tai chi exercises. Wear comfortable clothes and stable shoes for moving.

     

  • Fee: $14.00

    Capacity Remaining: 40

    Dates: 9/25/2025 - 9/25/2025

    Times: 2:00 PM - 3:00 PM

    Sessions: 1

    Days: Th

  • Instructor: Katie Calkin

    Building: River's Crossing

 

  • The 280th Anniversary of Bonnie Prince Charlie Landing in Scotland to Start the Last Jacobite Rebellion

  • James II of England was overthrown in the "Glorious Revolution" of 1689. Attempts to bring back the Stuarts failed. A third began on August 19, 1745, when Charles Edward Stuart, the grandson of James II, landed at Glenfinnan on the Scottish west coast to lead the Jacobites south to retake the British throne. This rebellion ended tragically at Culloden, near Inverness, in April, 1746. The "Highland Culture" was destroyed and Scotland was never the same afterward. We will discuss all of this and speculate on how UK history, and ours, would have been changed drastically had Bonnie Charlie been successful.

     

  • Fee: $40.00

    Capacity Remaining: 96

    Dates: 8/19/2025 - 8/19/2025

    Times: 11:30 AM - 1:30 PM

    Sessions: 1

    Days: Tu

  • Instructor: Ian Hardin

    Building: Trumps Catering

  • Please see receipt note for address/additional details.

 

  • The Baha'i Faith

  • This class will present an overview of the Baha'i faith and its teachings. Throughout history, God has sent to humanity a series of divine educators whose teachings have provided the basis for advancement of civilization. These divine educators include Abraham, Krishna, Zoroaster, Moses, Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad. Bahà’ullah, the latest of these educators, explained that the religions of the world come from the same source and are in essence successive chapters of one religion from God. Humanity, having passed through the age of infancy and childhood, now stands at the threshold of its collective maturity for the unification of the human race in global civilization, both materially and spiritually.

     

  • Fee: $23.00

    Capacity Remaining: 40

    Dates: 9/5/2025 - 10/3/2025

    Times: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

    Sessions: 2

    Days: F

  • Instructor: Nasrin Rouhani

    Building: River's Crossing

 

  • The Baha'i Faith

  • This class will present an overview of the Baha'i faith and its teachings. Throughout history, God has sent to humanity a series of divine educators whose teachings have provided the basis for advancement of civilization. These divine educators include Abraham, Krishna, Zoroaster, Moses, Buddha, Jesus and Muhammad. Bahà’ullah, the latest of these educators, explained that the religions of the world come from the same source and are in essence successive chapters of one religion from God. Humanity, having passed through the age of infancy and childhood, now stands at the threshold of its collective maturity for the unification of the human race in global civilization, both materially and spiritually.

     

  • Fee: $23.00

    Capacity Remaining: 100

    Dates: 9/5/2025 - 10/3/2025

    Times: 10:00 AM - 11:00 AM

    Sessions: 2

    Days: F

  • Instructor: Nasrin Rouhani

    Building: Online via Zoom

 

 

  • The Healthy Aging Series Pt. 3 - This is Your Brain on Sleep: Sleep, Cognition, and Aging

  • This series contains four, stand-alone, one-hour presentations on the topics of health and aging. Faculty and students from the Institute of Gerontology and the CARE Center will discuss current trends, research, and advice on topics related to brain health, sleep, health communication, and dementia.

     

  • Fee: $14.00

    Capacity Remaining: 100

    Dates: 10/23/2025 - 10/23/2025

    Times: 10:00 AM - 11:15 AM

    Sessions: 1

    Days: Th

  • Instructor: Steve Correia

    Building: Online via Zoom

 

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