The 2009 brochure is now available.
To request a full brochure, please contact us at (828) 526-8811 or clehighlands@yahoo.com.
To become a CLE member click on "Contact Us" or stop by our office in the
Peggy Crosby Center, Monday through Friday 10:00am - 3:00pm.
Center for Life Enrichment

    * Course Offerings for 2009*
      


      
    
                               
DATE
CLASS/PRESENTER
TIME
COST
Member/
Non- Member
VENUE
Fri, May 29  
Darwin and Steinbeck
James Costa and Brian Railsback     
3:00-5:30     
$25/$35
Biological Station
Wed, June 3
Joy of Baking 101/Martha Porter
10:00-2:30
$50/$60
Private Home
Fri, June 5
REPEAT - Joy of Baking 101/Martha
Porter
10:00-2:30
$50/$60
Private Home
Thu, June 4
Journey of 1820's Farmhouse
Mose and Teri Bond
10:00-12:00
$20/$30
Farmhouse
Tue, Jun 9
Season Preview Party and
Highlands Male Chorus
4:00-??
FREE
PAC
Wed, Jun 10
Cooking with Nicholas Figel - Indian
12:00-2:30
$40/$50
Cyprus Rest.
Thu. Jun 11
Dementia/Virginia Templeton
10:00-12:00
$20/$30
PAC upstairs
Mon, Jun 15
Pre-101 Computing/Anne Porter
10:00-12:00
$25/$35
Highlands School
Mon, Jun 15
Hiking the Carolina Mtns
Danny Bernstein                  Lecture
           
                Lecture and Hike

10:00-12:00
10:00-3:30

$25-$35
$40-$50
Peggy Crosby Ctr
Tue, Jun 16
Microsoft Word 2003/Anne Porter
10:00-12:00
$25-$35
Highlands School
Tue, Jun 16
The World 100 Years from Now
William Hartman
10:00-12:00
$25-$35
PAC downstairs
Wed, Jun 17,
July 29,
Aug 12
Reading with Writers - A Three Part
Series/Linda Anderson, Marda
Burton, Sandra Brown
12:00-2:30
$50-$60
Private Homes
Thu, Jun 18
Digital Darkroom with Photoshop
elements 6.0/Hether Pierce
10:00-12:00
$25-$35
PAC downstairs
Thu, Jun 18
The Dog Diaries: Stories and
Lessons from Dogs/Heidi Coppotelli
10:00-2:00
$25-$35
Highlands Community Bldg.
Fri, Jun 19
Picasso: The Man and His Art
Matthew D. McLendon
10:00-12:00
$20-$30
PAC downstairs
Mon, Jun 22,
29, Jul 6, 13
Bridge: Polishing the Basics
Duane Meeter
9:30-11:30
$50-$70
Highlands Civic Center
Mon, Jun 22
The Nature of Human Nature
James Costa
10:00-2:00
$35-$45
Highlands Biological Station
Tue, Jun 23
Common Birds of Highlands
Curtis Smalling
9:30-12:00
$25-$35
PAC downstairs
Wed, Jun 24
Sacred Spaces: Shaker Architecture
and its Meaning/Susan Lyons Hughes
10:00-12:00
$25-$35
PAC downstairs
Thu, Jun 25
The Early Greeks and Their
Influence on Western Thought and
Culture/Hoyt Edge
10:00-12:00
$20-$30
PAC downstairs
Thu, Jun 25
The Future of Western Culture:
From Athens to Beijing/Hoyt Edge
2:00-4:00
$20-$30
PAC downstairs
Fri, Jun 26
Date Change
American Foreign Policy: What do
we do now?/Sandra Mackey
10:00-12:00
$20-$30
PAC upstairs
Wed, Jul 1
The Joy of Baking-201
Martha Porter
10:00-2:30
$50-$60
Private Home
Wed, July 8
Stage Directing as an Art Form
10:00-3:00
$35-$45
PAC upstairs
Wed, July 8
Cooking with Tim Lundy
Rosewood Market
11:00-2:00
$40-$50
Private Home
Thu, Jul 9 and
16
Stenciling - Art for the Drawing
Impaired/Martha Porter
9:30-12:00 Ses1
10:00-2:00 Ses2
$50-$60
Private Homes
Fri, Jul 10
Felix Mendelssohn: The Second
Mozart/Richard Prior and William
Ransom
10:00-12:00
$20-$30
PAC upstairs
Tue, Jul 13
REPEAT of class below
From Digital Camera to Computer
Anne Porter
1:00-3:00
$25-$35
Highlands School
Tue, Jul 14
From Digital Camera to Computer
Anne Porter
1:00-3:00
$25-$35
Highlands School
Wed, Jul 15
Keeping Your Brain Young
Ed Hamlin
10:00-12:00
$20-$30
PAC downstairs
Mon, Jul 20
Macular Degeneration-Update 2009
New Treatments and New Hope
David Snyder
10:00-12:00
FREE
Jane Woodruff Bldg at
Highlands-Cashiers Hospital
Tue, Jul 21
... The Art of Dining
Katherine Lemay Brown
10:00-12:00
$20-$30
PAC downstairs
Wed, Jul 22
Terrence Mann: My Life on and Off
Broadway
10:00-12:00
$20-$30
PAC downstairs
Thu, Jul 23
Early Cherokee Habits: Evidence for
Foodways at Spikebuck Town
Jane Eastman
10:00-12:00
$20-$30
PAC downstairs
Thu, Jul 23
Financial Topics for Today's World
Reps of A. Montag and Assoc.
2:00-4:00
$20-$30
Episcopal Church of the
Incarnation-Jones Hall
Mon, Jul 27,
Aug 3, 10, 17
Bridge: Play of the Hand
(Intermediate)/Duane Meeter
9:30-11:30
$50-$70
Highlands Civic Center
Mon, Jul 27
The Rising Seas: the Science and
Politics of Sea Level Rise
Rob Young
1:00-3:00
$20-$30
PAC downstairs
Tue, Jul 28  
Forensic DNA Typing/Mark Wilson
10:00-12:00
$20-$30
PAC upstairs
Wed, Jul 29
China Today/Clifton Pannell
10:00-12:00
$20-$30
PAC downstairs
Fri, Jul 31
A Compositional Perspective on the
art of Electronic Music
Ferdinando DeSena
10:00-12:00
$20-$25
PAC upstairs
Mon, Aug 3
Classicism and Today's House
Norman D. Askins
2:00-4:00
$20-$30
PAC downstairs
Tue, Aug 4
Film Technique and the Meanings of
Film/Terry Nienhuis
10:00-2:30
$35-$45
PAC downstairs
Tue-Fri,
Aug 4-7
Artful Strokes from Different Folks
Jackie Meena
9:30-3:30
$175-$200
plus supplies
Highlands Civic Center
Wed, Aug 5
John Milton: A Discussion and
Reading of
Samson Agonistes
Mimi Fenton
10:00-2:00
$30-$40
PAC downstairs
Thu, Aug 6
Egypt: Mirror of the Middle East
Akram Khater
10:00-12:00
$20-$30
PAC upstairs
Thu, Aug 6,
13, 20, 27
A Shakespeare Workshop-Hamlet
Terry Nienhuis
1:00-3:00
$75-$85
PAC downstairs
Fri, Aug 7
A Garden in Progress
Barry and Paula Jones
10:00-2:00
$25-$35
Frog Pond Farm
Tue, Aug 11
Cooking with Andrew Figel
11:00-1:30
$40-$50
...On the Verandah
Wed, Aug 12
The Joy of Cooking-201 (repeat of
July 1 class)/Martha Porter
10:00-2:30
$50-$60
Private Home
Tue, Aug 13
Architecture as Art/Jim Fox
1:00-4:00
$30-$40
Highlands Civic Center
Mon, Aug 17
Glass Painting for the Beginner
Peggy Boruchow
9:30-3:30
$75-$85
Highlands Civic Center
Wed, Aug 19
Scalia and Kennedy 2007-2008: A
Swing and A Legacy/Malcolm Abel
10:00-12:00
$20-$30
Highlands Community Bldg.
Mon, Aug 24,
31, Tues, Sept
8, Mon, Sept
14
Bridge: Useful Bids (Intermediate)
Duane Meeter
9:30-11:30
$50-$70
Highlands Civic Center
Tue, Aug 25,
Sept 1, 8, 15
A Literary Trek from Fear to Humor:
Nature, Biography, and Memoir
Brian Railsback
5:30-8:30
$80-$95
TBA
Tue-Wed,
Aug 25-26
Two Day Workshop: Gyotaku-The
Art of the Fish Print and Letting
Nature Flow-Creating Images of the
Natural World/Heather Fortner
9:30-4:00
$125-$150
plus $30
materials fee
Highlands Civic Center
Wed, Sep 2
Elderhood: A Second Look at Aging
Rex Toothman and Nell Martin
10:00-2:00
$20-$30
PAC downstairs
Wed, Sep 9
Cooking with Nicholas Figel-Italian
12:00-2:30
$40-$50
Cyprus Restaurant
Wed, Sep 9,
16, 23, 30
Creative Journaling-Journal to the
Self/Betty Holt
2:00-5:00
$75-$85
Episcopal Church of the
Incarnation-Library
Thu, Sep 10
The Story Behind the Story
Ron Rash
10:00-12:00
$20-$30
Highlands Community
Building
Mon, Sep 14,
21, 28, Oct 5
Pencil Drawing/David Knott
10:00-12:30
$75-$85
PAC downstairs
Fri, Sep 18
Gastrointestinal Problems and Aging
Richard Carter
10:00-12:00
FREE
Jane Woodruff Bldg at
Highlands-Cashiers Hospital
Tue-Thu, Sept
22-24
Winston-Salem Tour 2009
  $650 pp