Did you know that 75% of chronic disease in this country could be eliminated by addressing straightforward things – like the food we eat, exercise, sleep, managing stress, avoiding tobacco, and building healthy relationships? Lifestyle medicine is a new field of medicine that works with patients to help them make and sustain changes, in order to reduce chronic illness and achieve their best health. Dr. Susan Friedman, Professor of Medicine at the University of Rochester, who is a geriatrician and lifestyle medicine physician, will discuss the principles of lifestyle medicine, and review some of the evidence of how it can lead to a healthier you! Please register for this class if you plan to access the class via Zoom. You must have a laptop/phone/tablet with audio or video capability.

How to get the writing done, and how to make it fun? It’s easy! Join a group of hopeful writers, meet each week, write together in class, share your work if you choose, and be supported by appreciative listeners. Our course will work for you whether you write nonfiction or fiction, prose or poetry or drama, family history or memoir, or, well, anything! If the writing urge is strong in you, don’t delay. Now is the time!

Battle of Hastings. When Roman military forces left Britannia, the local lords were left to defend the island. First, it was invaded by the Saxons, the Angles (where we get the word English), and the Jutes. Next, it was invaded by the Vikings. Then, when the Anglo-Saxons sent them packing, they were invaded by the Vikings again. Yet, despite all this, they built a nation-state where even the king was subject to the laws of the realm. Only in 1066, the Normans invaded… and no one would successfully invade England ever again. Please register for this class if you are interested in participating via Zoom only. You must have access to a computer/tablet/phone with audio and video capability.

Nazi Germany vs. Soviet Russia – 1941-1945: This course will cover the titanic struggle between Nazi Germany and the Soviet Union during World War II. The first session will cover the events leading up to the war tracing all the way back to traditional German views of “drang nach osten” and to Hitler’s racialist policies and geo-political ambitions. The strategies and preparations of both sides will be considered along with the context of this event to the totality of World War II. Then the initial clash of the armies to the fall of 1941 will be discussed. The second session will cover the balance of the 1941 campaign up to the German reversal before Moscow in December. The second part of the session will show how the Germans recovered and resumed the offensive in 1942 and reached Stalingrad and the Caucasus and conclude with the German defeat at Stalingrad. The third session will deal with the strategies employed for 1943 by both the Germans and Soviets including the Battle of Kursk and subsequent German retreats to the spring of 1944. The final session of the course will cover the Soviet summer offensive of 1944 and the 1945 drive on Berlin leading to the German surrender. A review of the total campaign will include the reasons for the Soviet victory and German defeat and the implications for the postwar world. Please register for this class if you plan to join us in person. Please register for this for Zoom only access. You must have a tablet/phone/computer with audio and video capability.