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Big Jets

Flying the Big Jets

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Lou Thieblemont

Captain TWA and American Airlines (retired)

Fascinated by flight? Retired airline pilot Lou Thieblemont will use a flight simulator to take you on a virtual trip around the skies of central Pennsylvania aboard a Boeing 757. On this trip he will help you experience the flight from the pilot’s seat! You’ll have a “pilot’s eye” view of the friendly skies over south central Pennsylvania.

Lou Thieblemont was a pilot for TWA and American Airlines for 38 years. He is now retired but still loves to travel. Lou is also the former mayor of Camp Hill, PA.

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Food Glorious Food: Satisfaction without the Guilt!

Category: Season 2

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Chef Donna Desfor

Imagine being able to eat whatever you want, whenever you want, without any guilt. Impossible? Chef Donna Desfor says no!

Chef Donna’s presentation will guide you into a new understanding of taste, and how taste is experienced. With a new understanding, you’ll find eating becomes a more pleasurable experience and cooking can easily become a creative endeavor! And, once you know what you like to taste (and how you can create those taste sensations) Chef Donna will treat you to her “Three Bites to Being Full and Satisfied©” rules. The entire program will lead you toward an eating experience that is better, and more satisfying.

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Quilts: Crafting an American Icon

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Dr. Janneken Smucker

West Chester University

Quilts have become quintessentially American objects, but they have not always covered Americans’ beds. Once they got started making them, Americans developed a special relationship with quilts. They have produced them in a multitude of formats and have used them for a variety of purposes, from practical to symbolic. Whole cloth, mosaic, medallion, block style, Crazy, utility,prizewinning, political, crib, bed, wall—Americans have done them all.

In 1997, art critic Robert Hughes called Amish quilts “America’s first abstract art,” due to their strong graphics and visual parallels with abstract paintings. At the same time, these country crafts help attract tourists to “Amish country” eager to take home a souvenir of their visit. Smucker will explore these and other paradoxes of this material manifestation of Amish culture.

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Gardening and Planting

Category: Season 2

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Erica Jo Shaffer

Highland Gardens Nursery Manager

A primer on container gardening. Looking to have those beautiful potted plants? This presentation will provide a primer on container gardening. Which container to use? Is all potting soil the same? What kind of fertilizer should you use? Which plants will do best? Erica will show you the way!

About the Presenter:
Erica Shaffer is the Nursery manager/Head plant geek at Highland Gardens, Camp Hill
PA for 25 years. Landscape designer and consultant. Blogger. Garden
speaker. Avid gardener. Nature lover. Tree Hugger.

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Transforming Alzheimer’s with Art

Category: Season 3

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Barbara C. Warfel

Artist/Art Educator

 

Transforming Alzheimer’s with Art

Art is an amazing way to express yourself. It is also an amazing way to fuel brain activity in those affected by Alzheimer’s disease.

Neuroscientists are exploring evidence that artistic expression stimulates growth of new brain cells and creation of new neuron networks in the cerebral cortex. Experience with seniors affected by Alzheimer’s has been very positive when correlated with art. “I have trouble getting participants to stop when art time is up.” “The fastest hour of the week” is often heard when art class ends. Art activity removes them, if only for a brief time, from an often frustrating and painful world by completely occupying their minds and intellect.

Barbara C. Warfel will guide you through how Alzheimer’s can be positively affected by art. She is a graduate of Rowan University, Glassboro, NJ, with a B.A. in Art Education. She first developed and implemented meaningful art activities for senior adults residing in assisted living facilities in 1998. She has received many awards for her work, including the 2006 Spectrum Award for Excellence in the Arts.

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A Look at the Night Sky

Category: Season 3

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Lou Thieblemont

Captain TWA and American Airlines (retired)

Lou Thieblemont is back to take us on another wonderful adventure. This time we will take “A Look at the Night Sky.” Many times we look up and see the stars and admire their beauty. Lou will take a more in depth look at the stars, constellations, and how we all view what we see. You will learn just how long ago the stars and constellations got their names and how they were viewed in ancient times. So sit back, and take a look at one of the most amazing things we can see each and every day…our beautiful night sky!

Lou Thieblemont was a pilot for TWA and American Airlines for 38 years. He is now retired but still loves to travel. Lou is also the former mayor of Camp Hill, PA.

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The Beginnings of Automobile Culture

Category: Season 4

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Professor Guillaume de Syon

Albright College

Professor Guillaume de Syon hails from France and Switzerland, but has called Lancaster, PA, home since 1994. Specialized in both European history and the history of technology, he teaches courses in almost every historical period at Albright College in Reading, PA.

Nowadays, we could not do without a car, but it was not always so. By examining postcards of the early 1900s, we can document how people really felt about gasoline fumes replacing horse dung, noisy drivers, and all sorts of strange, new road rules.

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Pennsylvania State Parks and Forests Getting Involved!

Category: Season 7

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Marci Mowery, President

Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation

A native of Lancaster County, Marci Mowery spent her youth exploring the natural areas of the county and the mountains near the family camp, which shaped her future as a professional conservation leader. Her 27-year career spans various positions with the National Audubon Society and as President of the Pennsylvania Parks and Forests Foundation. When not ‘speaking for the trees’, Marci enjoys exploring new places, trying new foods, and reading.

Pennsylvania’s state parks and forests provide a myriad of opportunities for engaging in the outdoors. Learn about the many values and benefits of spending time in the outdoors and explore easy ways to get involved in your local state parks and forests.

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Current Color: A Year on the River

Category: Season 7

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Diana Thomas

Pennsylvania artist Diana Thomas studied fashion illustration at the Art Institute of Pittsburgh. She has been self-employed for 35 years as a graphic artist, illustrator, needle craft designer, and designer for craft books and magazines. She is also a greeting card illustrator and drawing instructor for children and adults.

Diana presents the artistic life lessons learned while tackling a personal commitment to paint a scene from the Susquehanna River every week for an entire year. Diana credits this unusual work with being instrumental in helping her navigate troubled waters, including the tragic deaths of her daughter and her daughter’s mate to heroin addiction during that year.

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Art Lessons on Demand

Category: Season 9

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Jamie Dunlap

Chief of Creative Catalysts and Lifelong Learning, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

Catherine Richmond-Cullen, Ed.D

President of neuroLEARN, LLC

The Academy for Creative Aging’s Lessons on Demand track provides individuals and groups with the opportunity to explore and enjoy the web site’s complete video catalog. Lessons on Demand aims to provide users with an entertaining and stimulating creative resource, including videos on Indian classical dance, how to create a still-life self-portrait, storytelling through theatre, and jazz singing fundamentals.

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How Big is Space?

Category: Season 10

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Lou Thieblemont, Viking Resident Astronomer

Lou Thieblemont pursued his interest in astronomy throughout his 30-plus-year airline piloting career and into his retirement, serving as the Astronomical Society of Long Island’s program director, the Astronomical Society of Harrisburg’s vice president, and the Museum of Scientific Discovery’s board member. He now produces astronomy-related educational talks for various organizations.

This is a program on the scale of everything – comparing an atom to the scale of the solar system, our Sun to other suns, our Milky Way galaxy to other galaxies. All will be discussed in a light-hearted and entertaining lecture on the scale of everything!

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Maps – Strange Facts & Stories!

Category: Season 10

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Lou Thieblemont, Viking Resident Astronomer

Lou Thieblemont pursued his interest in astronomy throughout his 30-plus-year airline piloting career and into his retirement, serving as the Astronomical Society of Long Island’s program director, the Astronomical Society of Harrisburg’s vice president, and the Museum of Scientific Discovery’s board member. He now produces astronomy-related educational talks for various organizations.

Chances are good that map hanging in your elementary school classroom was wrong! In this talk we look at how maps often distort landmasses. Plus, we learn strange facts about maps, and hear how two “best of friends” countries, Canada & the United States, continue to have ongoing territorial disputes over maps!

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The Sun!

Category: Season 10

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Lou Thieblemont, Viking Resident Astronomer

Lou Thieblemont pursued his interest in astronomy throughout his 30-plus-year airline piloting career and into his retirement, serving as the Astronomical Society of Long Island’s program director, the Astronomical Society of Harrisburg’s vice president, and the Museum of Scientific Discovery’s board member. He now produces astronomy-related educational talks for various organizations.

This is a light-hearted presentation on how the Sun works. Using everyday terminology, Lou explains how our Sun converts the simplest atom, Hydrogen, into Helium. He also shares how the Sun’s power gives us what we need to sustain life here on earth.

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A Honey Bee’s Life

Category: Season 11

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Denny Gorman, Certified Master Beekeeper & Vice President of the Lancaster County Beekeepers Society

Denny Gorman works to introduce novices to beekeeping and offers opportunities for learning for anyone who has an interest in honey bees and beekeeping. He has retired from a career in sales, marketing, and advertising where he spent many years on the national circuit as a professional speaker, trainer, and presenter. He and his wife Beth are the owners of Indian Marker Hives in Conestoga, Pennsylvania.

This entertaining and educational presentation explores the daily life of a honey bee, Apis mellifera. Follow her as she grows from egg to honey-producing forager. See the world through all 5 of her eyes. Understand her role in the pollination of more than 1/3 of all we eat. Learn why bees are important to humans, and some amazing facts about the intelligence and capability of these vital little insects and the golden liquid they produce.

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