Yes, the Fall semester has begun! Most classes will be at Ridgeview Middle School, on the usual Tuesday nights. Your Board of Directors, particularly Treasurer Diane, has come up with a new registration payment system that takes major credit cards. Very convenient! And the fees have not changed. If you just want to renew your annual membership and not enroll, click here.

Ever-astute member Kathryn G. recommends this course, presented by the Bernard Osher Lifelong Learning Institute:

For a small country with a long, sad history of oppression and repression, Ireland has produced an astonishing number of great writers. In this 12-week course we’ll read and discuss six works of fiction. Four are recent, critically acclaimed novels, but first we’ll consider two classics that are central to the modern Irish tradition - James Joyce’s 1914 short story collection Dubliners and Edna O’Brien’s 1960 novel The Country Girls. The other works for this course are: Love and Summer by William Trevor (2000), Nora Webster by Colm Toibin(2015), The Green Road by Anne Enright (2015), A novel to be selected from works by John Banville, Molly Keane, John McGahern, or Sally Rooney. During class sessions between book discussions, we’ll watch a classic Irish film, drawn from the likes of Man of Aran, The Quiet Man, Young Cassidy, The Commitments, The Dead, Bloody Sunday, Michael Collins, and The Magdalene Sisters.