Courses - Fall / Winter 2018

Recent Presentations at:

Meramec Bluffs, Ballwin

Villa at Riverwood, Florissant

Bethesda Barclay House, Clayton

Laclede Groves, Webster 

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The History of Christmas (3 sessions)

• Christmas in Medieval England

• Winter Solstice and Stonehenge: Dark and Light at the Turn of the Year

• Christmas Eve 1914 and 1968


Money in Society: from Ancient Babylon to Bitcoin and Beyond (4 sessions)

• Coins and Currency in the Ancient World

• “The Pope’s Moneylender” – Banking in the The Renaissance 

• Boom and Bust — The Tulip Craze of 1632 and the Great Depression 

• Obscure and Future Currencies, Life in a Post-Money Era


Landscapes 1: The Alps in History, Song and Image (4 sessions)

• The Alps on High: Geography and History of the Mountain Chain

• Ötzi the IceMan, A Prehistoric Discovery

• The Hills are Alive: Music in The Alps

• Alpenfilm: The Cinematic History of Mountain Conquest


Halloween and the Popular Imagination (3 sessions)

• The Celtic Festival of Samhein

• Frankenstein, Dracula, and the Monsters of Modernity

• Witches: Then, Now, and Always


The Sacred Geometry of Holy Spaces: Cathedrals and Mosques (4 sessions)

• The Savafid Mosque of Isfahan: The Triumph of Ornament

• Hagia Sofia: Byzantine Glory

• Duomo: The Cathedral of Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence

• Chartres Cathedral: A Pinnacle of Faith