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Open Painting Winter 2025
Hobbies & Special Interests

Come to this class and enjoy painting with others.

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Beginning SCUBA Diving (Ages 12 & up)
Hobbies & Special Interests

Are you tired of a two-dimensional life? Do you wish you could be weightless? Have you ever dreamed of breathing underwater? If so, Beginning SCUBA Diving is for you! This six-week class will provide all the technical, safety and skills knowledge to begin you SCUBA journey. Each class will include instruction on the physics, safety, and skills of SCUBA diving as well as time in the pool experiencing weightlessness and breathing underwater. Once this class is completed five open water dives with the instructor are all that stand in your way from full Open Water SCUBA Certification. Once this certification is achieved you can SCUBA dive anywhere in the world. Come experience the wonder of SCUBA diving.

How to Publish Your Book without Going Broke
Writing

So, you’ve written a book. Now what? Whether you've written the great American novel and want to share it with the world, or your memoirs to pass on to family and friends, this class is for you. In these three sessions, you will learn how to prepare your manuscript for publishing, the business of selling your books, and some tips on marketing and promotion. Class includes a guidebook that will be emailed to you prior to class. Zoom link will be sent prior to class. Additional Fees include a $15 guidebook. Fees are payable to the instructor.

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Tracking Dracula
Writing

This is the story of two men—one a writer, the other a warlord, who lived in different countries in different centuries, and how their lives intertwined to create the most memorable villain of all time—Count Dracula. In 1897 Bram Stoker’s novel, Dracula, launched an entire genre of literature and film about vampires. Join him as we track Dracula from a crypt in Dublin to the ruins of Whitby Abbey in England to castles in Romania once frequented by Vlad Tepes, aka “Vlad the Impaler.”

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History and Haunting of Ireland
Writing

Experience History with a Paranormal Twist on an Armchair Tour Through Ireland. Ireland is famous for its “thin places,” a membrane or a thin layer between worlds that cross over each other. From pagan times to present, Ireland’s dark history has been recorded in its abbeys and churches, forts and castles, jails and graveyards by those who lived during those turbulent times and often perished because of them. Their ghosts are eyewitnesses to this history. Sometimes, they are the history.

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