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PAST COURSES

April – August 2006
1) Facets of Silver City
2) Book Club-Small Wonders by Barbara Kingsolver
3) Cultivating Creativity
Fall 2006
1) Facets of Silver city Walking Tours
2) Writing Your Memoir
3) Books of the Southwest-Ceremony by Leslie Marmon/No Life for a Lady by Agnes Morely Cleaveland
4) The Universe as God: A Discussion on Pantheism
5) Movie Menudo at the U
6) Tuesday Morning Book Club
7) Facets of Silver City – tours
8) Overnight trip to Janos, Mexico
9) Day trip to explore Gila River
10) History lecture at Fort Bayard
11) Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Spring 2007
1) Tuesday Morning Book Club
2) Assemblage Art: Finding your Own Creativity
3) Earth Spirituality
4) Developing a Leadership Program for Southwest New Mexico
5) Beginning French Conversation for the Tourist
6) Memoir: A Gift of self
7) Wildflower Botanical Drawing
8) Reading Out Loud: Adult Story Time
9) Books of the Southwest-Laughing Boy: A Navajo Love Story
10) The Middle East
11) Conscious Dying
12) Southwest Indian Rock Art
13) A Midsummer Night’s Dream
14) Healing, Health and History
Summer 2007
1) Tuesday Morning Book Club: Africa, Middle East, Asia
2) Star Party – star gazing at City of Rocks
3) Growing Native in Silver City:Walking tour of neighborhood, native gardens.

Fall 2007
1) The Natural History of Chocolate
2) Mimbres Pottery: Up Close and Personal
3) A Walk through Black’s Addition
4) Learning Color Through Painting
5) Movie Menudo
6) Storytelling in Digital Video
7) Introduction to Weaving
8) The Mural Project
9) Conversational Spanish I
10) Conversational French II
11) U.S. Foreign Policy and the Middle East
12) World Issues Forum
13) Behind the Scenes in the Petroleum Industry
14) Amateur Ham Radio
15) Building Green in Silver
16) Have No Fear – Basic Computer Literacy
17) Tolstoy’s War and Peace
18) Memoir: A Gift of Self
19) Tuesday Morning Book Club: Russia and Indonesian authors
20) Literature of the Black American Experience
21) Earth Spirituality
22) Buddhism 101
23) Born to Serve: Evolution of the Soul through Service
24) The Historical Jesus
25) Changes and Choices
26) Healing, Health, and History
27) Conscious Dying
28) Hunger: A Closer Look

Spring 2008
1) CPR Training
2) Dowsing
3) Beginning Gourd Crafting
4) Wisdom Painting
5) Anthony Howell's Guide to Favorite, Accessible, Though Seldom Visited, Desert Attractions
6) Mimbres Valley Archaeology Day Trip
7) Gila River Natural and Cultural History Hike
8) Enchiladas: Making The Best
9) Basic Email Usage
10) Basic Web Surfing
11) Using Microsoft Word
12) Using Excel for Intermediate and Advanced Students
13) PowerPoint
14) Two Burro Mountain Hikes
15) Introduction to the Universe
16) Birding For Beginners
17) Trip Down the Copper Road Exploring Camino del Cobre
18) Introduction to Image Processing
19) Movie Menudo
20) Playing the Dulcimer
21) The Artist's Way - Discover Your Inner Artist
22) Printmaking
23) Documenting Vanishing Americana
24) Spanish I
25) Chicano Literature
26) A Celebration of Poetry
27) The WILL Tuesday Morning Book Club
28) Shakespeare's Richard III
29) Haiku
30) Turn on the Radio - Writing and Performing a Radio Play
31) A Great Book Series - Melville Without the Whale
32) Parapsychology
33) Compassionate Communication Video and Discussion Group
34) Meditation
35) Global Warming - Changing Course
36) Facing Iran, Facing Ourselves
37) Borderlands: Immigration, Drugs, Terrorism: What Else Is There?
38) World Issues Forum

Summer 2008
1) Renewing Work in Retirement
2) Introduction to Weaving
3) Cacti - Beauty with Thorns
4) Chess for Beginners and Intermediates
5) The Silver City Culinary Herbal Exploration and Exchange
6) Spicey Knowledge

Fall 2008
1) American Civil War and Southern New Mexico - Lunch & Learn
2) Jalapeño Jelly Bellies and Macadamia Nuts - Lunch & Learn
3) Let's Talk Turquoise - Lunch & Learn
4) Tips for Traveling - Lunch & Learn
5) Introduction to Bead Weaving
6) Bayard Mining District Tour
7) Herbie's Electronic Museum on a Moonlit Night
8) Introduction To The Art Of Blacksmithing
9) How to Become a WILL Facilitator
10) The Basic Tamale
11) Wisdom Painting
12) Women In Art Herstory
13) Mariachi
14) Grant County Ranching and Rabies
15) The Cocoa Connection
16) Introduction to The Enneagram
17) Fly Fishing in Southern New Mexico
18) Minerals, Rocks and Fossils
19) Weather
20) Movie Menudo
21) Artist's Way - Discover your Inner Artist
22) Watercolor for the Beginner
23) Playing the Dulcimer
24) American Quilts of the 19th & 20th Century
25) Introduction to Traditional Irish Music
26) French Conversation for Beginners
27) Pre-Beginning Spanish
28) U.S. Conquest of New Mexico
29) The United States Constitution (Obsolete or Vital?)
30) History of Islam
31) Apacheria and the Apache Wars
32) Burro Mountain Homestead Tour
33) Chicano Literary Sampler
34) The WILL Tuesday Morning Book Club
35) The Great Books Course - The Brothers Karamazov
36) Celebration of Poetry II
37) Poets' Workshop
38) A Sampling of Southwest Literature
39) Feng Shui
40) I'd Love to Turn You On - Art & Psychology Connection
41) Art of Living in the Moment
42) Buddhism 201: Buddhism in Everyday Life
43) Mediation, Putting Theory to Work
44) Aging Gracefully
45) The Ancient Art of Mah Jongg
46) Thinking 101
47) Playful Grandparenting
48) Genealogy 101 - How to get started digging into your roots
49) Who Gets the Cash? - the evil step-daughter or the night nurse and other conundrums of poor estate planning
50) Surf, Search and Send: First Steps to Nerd-dom

Spring 2009
1) Tamales Sabrosisimos
2) Modern Dining: The Art and Science of Hypermodern Cooking
3) One of Our Own: Cece Stanford
4) Composing your Photographs
5) Backstage Musical Theater
6) HeartSaver: CPR
7) Exploring Coffee
8) Do-It-Yourself Travel to Alaska
9) Cold Connections - Hot Pendant
10) Getting the Feel of Mimbres Pottery: Up Close and Personal
11) The Big Read: Personal Stories from Southwestern New Mexico
12) The Big Read: Discussing Bless me, Ultima
13) Photographic Images on Glazed Tile
14) Salt of the Earth: Film and Discussion
15) Exploring the Mimbres: Prehistory & Early History
16) Pond Basics
17) Composting 101
18) Mrs. Elizabeth Warren Walks Old Silver City
19) Walnut Creek Canyon Hike
20) Aldo Leopold and the Environmental History of the Gila Hike
21) The Edible Burros Hike
22) Black Peak to Signal Peak Hike
23) Artist Way - Discover Your Inner Artist
24) Weaving on a Four-Harness Loom
25) Beginnings of the Golden Age of Mexican Film
26) Watercolor for the Beginner
27) Painting Flowers in Watercolor
28) Pirates of Penzance - Sing It Loud and Clear!
29) Introduction to Traditional Irish Music
30) French Conversation for Beginners
31) Creative Movement for Men and Women
32) Fundamentals of Dance for Fitness and Flexibility
33) Indian Gifts: From Corn to the Constitution and Beyond
34) Mayan Moments
35) Tuesday Morning Book Club
36) Four by Hillerman
37) Haiku and You
38) Stephen Crane Way Out West
39) Sex, Lies & Videotape: Shakespeare's Comedies
40) Mexican Wolves in the 21st Century Gila
41) How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?
42) Be at Home in the Outdoors - A Hiker's Guide
43) Erratic Water and Landforms of Grant County
44) My Favorite Universe
45) Birding for Beginners
46) Feng Shui
47) Parapsychology
48) Fix It and Forget It Meals And More!
49) What Will I Do Now? : Talents and Interests After Work
50) Living Clutter-Free
51) Gin Rummy for Fun and ____?
52) Using Microsoft Word

Fall 2009
1) Cooking on All 15 Briquettes: A Dutch oven on embers
2) Wireless Telegraphs, Heliographs, Other 19th Century Marvels
3) Color Our Wool: ancient art of dyeing using natural substances
4) Spirit Doll or Totem Workshop
5) Bead History, Culture, and Art
6) Gila Wildlife Rescue Program: Healing and returning to nature
7) Exploring Ft. Bayard: Walk Into Local History
8) Pancho Villa's raid on Columbus, NM
9) A Course in Miracles: Bring happiness and contentment
10) Ninety-Nine Years of Grant County Copper Mining
11) Early Mining in Grant County Area
12) Waldorf Astoria of the Southwest:Silver City's Murray Hotel
13) Map and Compass: Don't Get Lost
14) Soup's On: Create wonderful soups
15) Japanese Embroidery: Learn about and view lovely examples
16) The Enneagram:ancient system for psychological understanding
17) Exploring Coffee: Learn more about one of life's great pleasures
18) Gourd Masks Fantastical:Create your own Unique Mask
19) Hiking Silver City — Four In-town Hikes
20) Mastering the Art of Leading Hikes
21) Introduction to the Gomez Peak Hiking Trail System
22) Edible Burros: Munch your way through the landscape.
23) Hiking to Hell: Explore Hell's Half Acre
24) Deconstructing Art or Why Your Kindergartner Couldn't Paint That
25) The WILL Band - Join the WILL Band
26) Deadly Thursdays: The Early Hitchcock
27) Beginning Knitting
28) Quilt History: American History captured
29) Colcha Embroidery: Create Your Own Folk Art
30) Four of the Most Outstanding Mexican Films since 1975
31) Pre-Beginning Spanish:For those with NO background in Spanish
32) Spanish 101:Learn conversational Spanish
33) Cycling for Geezers and Geezerettes
34) Yang-style T'ai Chi:Learn the ancient art of t'ai chi
35) Mexican History: Four crucial epochs in Mexican history
36) Gold Rushes versus Civil Society:Josiah Royce and Henry Ailman
37) How Weather Changed History
38) Incas and Their Friends:Genius in high places
39) Western Asia: Crucible of Our Future
40) Great Books — The Iliad by Homer
41) Know Your Rocks: Formation of Minerals, Rocks, Fossils
42) SSSSsnakes! the fascinating world of Snakes
43) Introduction to Buddhism and Buddhist Meditation
44) Who Wrote the Bible? Search out the clues
45) Who Gets the Cash:The Evil Stepdaughter or the Night Nurse?
46) How to Blog - Making the Web Personal
47) Genealogy 101:Get Started Digging into Your Roots
48) The Art of Unconventional Travel:Find the unbeaten path.
49) How to Make Films for Community Access TV
50) Keep 'Em Awake:Making Dynamic Presentations

Spring 2010
1) Japanese Bookbinding
2) Birth of a Dish: From Idea to Digestion
3) HeartSaver: CPR for Non-Medical Professionals
4) Gourd Decoration or Centerpiece
5) Spirit Dolls: Art, healing, ritual, creation
6) The Lordsburg Prisoner of War Camp
7) One of Our Own: Zoe Wolfe
8) Who the Heck Was Richard Hudson? story behind street name
9) Mining District Tour
10) Southwestern Weaving and Dyeing
11) Living with Wildfire in Southwest: Learn to defend your home
12) Moving Your Identity into Retirement
13) Mrs. Warren Walks South of Broadway
14) Creating Pools and Streams: Get help building water features
15) Hike: Four for Nature near Silver City
16) Hike: Tadpole Ridge
17) Favorite Hikes: Classroom course to find best local hikes
18) Learning the Craft of Song Writing
19) Five Classic Foreign Films
20) Coming of Age Films
21) Introduction to Drawing: Nature Has No Straight Lines
22) The Traditional Folk Ballad
23) Drawing: Grasp basic skills or hone skills
24) Contemporary Dance: fitness and flexibility
25) Grooving with Belly Dance Moves
26) Beginning T'ai chi ch'uan
27) Empower Yourself Through Laughter
28) Fundamentals of Dance for Fitness and Flexibility
29) Bones for Life®: improve posture and strengthen bones
30) History of American Quilts
31) Old West: Outlaws, Soldiers & Lawmen
32) Afghanistan from Alexander the Great to the Taliban
33) Ancient Egypt, Part I: Egyptian mysteries fascinate
34) Spanish 102
35) Say It in Sign: American Sign Language and Hearing Loss
36) Homer's Odyssey
37) The Scandinavian Mystery Novel as Social Commentary
38) Off-the-Beaten-Track Travel Book Readers
38) Sun, Stone and Shadows: 20 Mexican Stories
39) Shakespeare's Dynamic Duo: Falstaff and Henry V
40) From the Gila to the World: A Life in Arid Lands
41) Sundials: Nature's way of telling time
42) Look and Listen: Experiencing the Essence of Zen
43) Human Bonding with the Earth
44) Feng Shui: Orientation is everything
45) Basic Sewing Techniques
46) Retrofitting Green in Silver: projects that work
47) Living Well on Little Money
48) Bridge 101
49) The Art of Unconventional Travel
50) Cruise Travel
51) Learn to Play Mah Jongg