Healthy Minds & Healthy Bodies – A five-week After School Club for RPCS Girls - especially designed for Grades 3 – 5
Girls meet weekly, for five weeks, to exercise their bodies and their minds through running, movement, laughing and learning to make good choices that will last a lifetime. Program begins Tuesday, April 22, and every Tuesday, through May 20, 3:15 to 4:30. Registration is on a first-come, first-serve basis. Snack will be provided.
Cost: $75
Program will be coordinated by Ms. Lindsay Robin, RPCS Lower School.
Call Kaleidoscope at 410/323-5500, ext. 3045 to register.
RHAPSODY IN BLUE
A Celebration of North American Water Birds
One Session
Tuesday, April 8
7:00 – 8:30 pm
Middleton Evans
A five-year odyssey took acclaimed Maryland photographer Middleton Evans to the North American continent’s wild perimeter. Observing water birds in their natural habitats, he produced stunning images, lavishly displayed in his new book. From the remote Pribilof Islands off the coast of Alaska to wildlife sanctuaries along the Gulf of Mexico, he captured rare and alluring species and captivating behaviors. Nearer home, there were memorable encounters on Maryland’s Eastern Shore or around the “Miracle Pond” in Baltimore’s Patterson Park. His tenacious patience and empathy for the miraculous beauty of God’s creation has resulted in photographs of lyrical beauty. Males strut in mating dances, chicks jostle in the next, and flocks migrate in the endless, interconnected, mysterious cycle of life. The water birds wheel, wade, soar, swoop and skim through the pages of Rhapsody in Blue, fleetingly illumined in poetic captions. Rhapsody in Blue engages the heart, mind and soul with each turn of the page.
NOTE: Books will be available for purchase this evening.
Middleton Evans has spent the majority of his 20-year career documenting the many faces of Maryland. Favorite subjects include Chesapeake Bay watermen, cities and towns, festivals, farm life and equestrian sports. A milestone was reached in 2001 when Maryland Public Television selected Mr. Evans as one of six local photographers to be featured in the documentary film Images of Maryland: 1900-2000 chronicling the State’s most distinguished lensmen of the 20th century. A 1982 graduate of McDonough School, he began his professional career within a week of graduating from Duke University. In 1988 a family business was launched to publish Maryland in Focus; a book on Baltimore followed in 1992. Since then, most of his time has been devoted to nature photography, beginning with the 1996 release of Maryland’s Great Outdoors. In 1998 an extraordinary 10-day Florida bird marathon served as the genesis of Rhapsody in Blue, an epic five-year adventure including 37 trips all over North America in search of miraculous encounters with native water birds.
BACK CREEK
One Session $35
Thursday, April 10
7:00 – 8:30 pm
Leslie Goetsch
Back Creek is the summer of ’75 for Grace Barnett, an eighteen-year-old who should be preparing to graduate from high school and move on to college. But, beginning with a strange accident to which she is the only witness, Grace finds herself caught in a series of comings and goings, only to discover that she is the one who must find ways of restoring her broken family and friend. In her struggle to recover some stability, Grace realizes the redemptive power of story and comes to understand more clearly her mother, father and older sister, Lillian, as well as her friend, Cal. She finds a reservoir of strength and a sense of self as she helps each find his place and learns the need for acceptance. Intertwined with her relationships is Grace’s connection to Back Creek, one of the hundreds of deep creeks in Tidewater, Virginia, the place “where all our stories begin.”
NOTE: Books will be available for purchase this evening.
Back Creek is the first novel by Leslie Goetsch, English Department Chair at Roland Park Country School. Grace’s story should appear to young and “old” adults alike. Ms. Goetsch is currently working on a “coming-of-middle age” novel.