RHODE ISLAND LIGHTHOUSE CRUISE
Wednesday, August 3,
1:00PM – 3:00PM  
$38 per person. Max: 50
(You may register yourself and a guest. All guests must be over the age of 50).  
Join your OLLI friends for a narrated cruise past 10 Rhode Island Lighthouses in Narragansett Bay along with a complete Newport Harbor Tour. This 30 mile cruise will be narrated by none other than OLLI instructor Brian Wallin. This tour takes you past 10 beautiful islands, under the breathtaking Jamestown & Newport Bridges, past mansions, historic Fort Adams and many other famous Rhode Island sights. Join your OLLI friends for a day on the Bay!

 
LIVES LESS ORDINARY with Debbie Suggs
1 Session on Thursday, August 4  
10:00AM – 11:30AM  Max: 35 Tuition: $15

This class will introduce the mysterious locales behind some of early American urban legends, unsolved mysteries, and historic happenings. Participants will learn how local volunteers have joined forces with the RI Historical Cemeteries Commission to restore the historical cemeteries and memorial for these almost-forgotten Rhode Islanders.

HISTORY OF RUSSIA with Jim Buxton  
2 Sessions on Thursdays, August 4 & 11, 3:00PM – 5:00PM Max: 25 Tuition: $35

Why does the largest country on Earth feel compelled to invade another country? Putin, it is said, wants to be a Tsar. Why? How has the Tsarist period influenced modern day Russia? Why are there so many Russians in Ukraine? in Latvia? in Kazakhstan? and the rest of the former Soviet Union? What is the long-lasting impact of Lenin and Stalin? of the Cold War? of Mikhail Gorbachev, and the break-up of the USSR? In order to understand the current conflict, one needs to be aware of Russian and Eastern European history, so we will review Russian history chronologically, and we will constantly assess Russia’s effect on Ukraine. We will leave time at the end of both sessions to assess U.S.–NATO policy toward Ukraine and Russia.
Note:  Not recommended for those who have already taken the earlier Russia–Ukraine course, as there is overlap.

BIOMES MARINE BIOLOGY CENTER
Special Tour for OLLI members and a unique opportunity to bring your grandchildren or a friend along to introduce them to OLLI!
Friday, August 19, 10:00AM-11:30AM
Space is limited to 30, so register early! $15 per person.

Spend some time exploring and watching feeding demonstrations at Biomes Center, New England’s only private marine education facility and the most hands-on aquarium in the region. Biomes has been providing interactive marine biology programs for schools and families since 1989 and specializes in teaching children and adults about the marine animals of Narragansett Bay and the Atlantic Ocean.
Biomes now houses the largest collection of local marine life in the world, with over 120 species of animals calling it home. Boasting the original shark-petting tank in New England, providing more hands-on animal interactions than any other facility of its kind, and unique exhibits (such as our fiddler crab colony) found nowhere else, and all of their marine animals have been collected in Narragansett Bay by their staff and volunteers. No animals are purchased or imported.

C.S. LEWIS: THE FOUR LOVES with Teresa Testa ZOOM
1 Session on Monday, August 22, 1:00PM-3:00PM Max: 20 Tuition: $15

In this one-session class, prepare to celebrate the meaningful experience at the heart of our human relations with family, friends, partners, and the Divine, that is, to love and to be loved.
Students will be introduced to an original teaching and interpretation of twentieth-century author Clive Staples Lewis’ The Four Loves while being guided to delve more deeply into the inspiration for the work which originates from classical and spiritual origin. To understand each love–familial or storge, friendship or philia, romantic or eros, and spiritual or agape–is to grasp the foundational aspects of what it means to live with humility and dignity in existence with something greater than oneself. The class objective will become both an intellectual pursuit as well as a personal promise to explore the nature of love in one’s own lived experience. To love!

Recommended (not required) reading: The Four Loves by C.S. Lewis; students will receive emailed web links, handouts, and information from the instructor ahead of the class.

If you think you may have credits to apply and are writing a check, please call the office at 401-874-4197 to confirm before you write a check. If you register online, your credits will automatically apply at check out.