June
7-11 high schoolers
14-18 high schoolers
21-25 middle schoolers
28- July 2 middle schoolers
July
5-9 high schoolers
12-16 high schoolers
19-23 middle schoolers
26-30 high schoolers
Aug
2-6 high schoolers
9-13 high [...]
Our Place costs $250.00 for five 8:30am-4:00pm, M-F days. Drop-off and pick-up are at the Brushworks classroom in Florence.
Students carry backpacks with reading and writing materials, appropriate clothing, food and a water bottle.
The curriculum for Our Place is also the itinerary:
Day One: Walking Westhampton
- introduction to Thoreau’s essay Walking
- streamwalking
- the colonial roads of Mt. Tob
Day Two: Southern Nonotuck
- the dinosaurs of Holyoke
- the microclimates, and unique ecological communities, of Mt. Tom
- the view from Mt. Nonotuck
Day Three: Into the Western Hills
- visiting the William Cullen Bryant [...]
Longest night of the year—give it a chance…
Tomorrow, winter. No turning back.
Investigate the traditions of animism in the cultures of Egypt, Greece, Judea, India and America.
Our Place is a 5 day intensive that combines reading, hiking and writing in a focused investigation of Nonotuck as a bioregion. For a complete course description, click: