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Days: W Date: 3/25/2026 - 4/29/2026
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
This class will teach the basic stitches and techniques of crochet with hands-on practice both in and out of class. The class will culminate with a finished project. A $15 materials fee will be added to your registration to cover the costs of the materials that you will use in class and keep afterwards.
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Days: M Date: 3/23/2026 - 5/4/2026
Times: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
- Learn the game of American Mah Jongg, as well as the game's history and cultural significance. In this interactive class, we will learn about the tiles, the 2026 National Mah Jongg League Card, game play and how Mah Jongg encourages storytelling and shared experiences. Students will need to purchase a 2026 Mah Jongg card; details provided upon registration.
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- Geocaching: A high-tech scavenger hunt
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Geocaching is an any day, any time activity that can take you to amazing and beautiful places. Geocaches are physical containers hidden all around the world you can find from a set of coordinates. Using your smartphone, you can find secret stashes hidden all around you. In this course, we will start by taking a brief look at the history of navigation from using the stars to map reading and on to modern GPS. In the second class, we will learn about the recreational activity of geocaching and go as a group to a nearby cache. The third class will be a self-guided activity, where participants will seek out as many caches as they can find within the class time. During the fourth class, we will reconvene and share our adventures. If time allows, we will work with a map and compass to find our way if/when the battery in our phone might die. Please note: This class requires a fair amount of walking. Students will need their own smartphone capable of installing the Geocaching App. https://www.geocaching.com/play/mobileThis four-week class begins April 16.
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- Hydroponics for beginners
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Join this informative class to learn how to grow your own food indoors, possibly all 365 days a year, by using the correct water nutrients and light, while keeping away pests and disease. It's easy and fun! You will learn about what types of food you can grow, equipment, best practices, care, successful growth and varied hydroponic systems.
This is a three-week class.
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Days: M Date: 3/16/2026 - 5/4/2026
Times: 1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Mah Jongg is a fun, social game to play. Come learn the basics of the American version of this ancient game of the Mandarins. We will begin with a lecture and quickly advance to playing this fascinating game using 152 tiles. Students will be responsible for purchasing a 2026 Mah Jongg Card ($15). Directions on where and how will be included on your registration receipt.
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Days: Th Date: 3/19/2026 - 5/7/2026
Times: 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
- This class will take walks in a variety of different Piedmont woods to explore the wide diversity of plants and animals that call the Upstate home. Our emphasis will be on flowering plants, but we will attempt to identify anything and everything that someone sees, hears or catches. Yes, we will have nets and jars along, but we will practice catch, identify and release. Of course once you have put a name on a critter, the best part of natural history study follows; the instructor and/or the internet can provide the extraordinary details of each critter's life and its natural history. Please note a few of the planned trips are 25-45 minutes away (students can meet at Central UMC on those days and carpool).
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Days: W Date: 3/18/2026 - 5/6/2026
Times: 9:30 AM - 11:00 AM
As the old song goes, let me tell you about the birds and some bees, flowers, some trees (not the moon up above or love), animal signs, but mostly birds. In this class we will meet at local areas, many of them in Croft State Park, and by sight and song learn to identify birds. Birders by tradition are also good naturalists so we won't neglect other fauna and flora. During one class, the instructor's wife, Teresa, will teach you the art of taking bird photos. Join us in a deeper appreciation of spring with outdoor adventures with birds. A good guide to birds, such as "Peterson's Birds of Eastern and Central North America" or "Sibley Field Guide to Birds," as well as a good pair of binoculars would be useful, or you can share the instructor's or those of others in the class. Students must have the physical ability to tromp up hills and along streams for several miles.
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- Principles and foundational skills of drawing
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Remember when you had fun drawing as a child but never got past the fifth grade learning new drawing skills? Perhaps you stopped altogether yet continued to love art. What if you could go back and learn some new drawing skills from a fun, structural approach? We'll cover topics of line, shape, value, perspective and composition and learn how to "see" to draw. Join this opportunity to enjoy creating art again by learning from an award-winning art teacher. This class is for all who want to enjoy art! You will learn by doing and will have fun assignments to discuss in a classroom setting. A simple supply list of materials you will need will be included on your registration receipt. Note: If you took this class in the fall term, you may also register for this term if you would like a refresher.
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- Print the legend: The westerns of John Ford
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Just as Ansel Adams pointed his still camera toward the Tetons and Sangre de Cristo Mountains and captured their raw, stark beauty, so John Ford pointed his motion picture camera at Monument Valley and, with help from John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Mae Marsh and other members of his stock company, put together the most enduring narratives of The American Western. We'll watch Ford's masterpieces from "Stagecoach" (1939) to "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance" (1962) and come to discern the motifs and complexities undergirding these rugged stories. We may even be moved to toast them with two fingers of rotgut.
This is generally a two-hour class and may run over depending on the length of the film each week.
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Days: M Date: 4/13/2026 - 5/4/2026
Times: 9:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Working from photographs, we’ll be painting my “Moo” cow cocktail series, suitable for an intermediate level watercolor student. Attending all four three-hour sessions is expected. A supply list is attached. Students will be responsible for all their materials for the class. Spring 26 LLL Supply List
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