ORIENTATION: Begins before dinner. We'll have an overview of the program ahead and review the up-to-date schedule, responsibilities, safety guidelines, emergency procedures, any other administrative issues, and answer your questions. Please be aware that local circumstances may require adjusting program elements. In the event of changes, we will notify you as quickly as possible. We appreciate your understanding.

Dinner: Dinner in hotel

Menus are contracted for the program and are designed to offer balanced, healthy meals for the participants. In addition to the regular Road Scholar meal plan, this hotel offers a vegetarian meal option. Unfortunately, there are no other special meal options. Participants with special dietary needs should be prepared to avoid certain foods or supplement the regular meal plan as needed.

Evening: INTRODUCTIONS: Participants introduce themselves to the rest of the group.

Enjoy the remainder of the evening getting to know your fellow participants and discovering what you share beyond a love of lifelong learning.

Lodging: The Lodge at Tiburon

Meals Included: Dinner

Soak in the Disney legacy, from spearheading the art of animation through the making of movies loved by millions. Disney was the first studio to have its own show on national TV, out of which came an amusement park known to millions as Disneyland.

Lunch: Lunch in hotel

Afternoon: EXCURSION: Docent-led visit of the Tiburon Railroad & Ferry Depot Museum

In 1884, Peter Donahue completed the extension of the San Francisco and North Pacific Railroad to Point Tiburon transforming it into a major railroad & ferry terminus and maintenance yard. After the last train ran in 1967, the shoreline and the depot building were deeded to the Town of Tiburon for use as open space and a museum. On the ground floor is a railroad & ferry museum featuring a working scale model of the Point Tiburon yard circa 1900-1910. Upstairs is the restored stationmaster’s residence, 1913-1940. The Depot is the only surviving dual use terminal west of the Hudson River and was placed on the National Register of Historic Places. (Courtesy of the Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society)

Docent-led visit of the China Cabin: The China Cabin is the Social Saloon from the S.S. China, a side-wheeled steamer built in 1866 by the William H. Webb shipyard in New York. Commissioned by the Pacific Mail Steamship Company, the China carried mail and passengers from its home port of San Francisco to Asia. The elegant room was salvaged when the ship became obsolete in 1879 and was burned for scrap metal in Tiburon Cove. The Landmarks Society has restored the interior with 22k gold leaf, walnut woodwork, cut-glass floral window panes, and brass chandeliers. The China Cabin was designated a National Maritime Monument in 1978. (Courtesy of the Belvedere-Tiburon Landmarks Society)

Dinner: Dinner in hotel

Evening: CLASS: American Master: George Gershwin

Explore the life and music of one of America’s greatest composers: George Gershwin. Join us as we listen and learn about Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue, An American in Paris, Porgy and Bess and selected Broadway shows. It’s true Americana!

Lodging: The Lodge at Tiburon

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Global art treasures have been taken from their original settings for centuries. This course focuses on noted stolen cultural artifacts such as the Elgin Marbles, the Rosetta Stone, the Mona Lisa, and examines in detail the systemic looting of European cultural artifacts during World War II and the efforts to return recovered items to their rightful owners.

Lunch: Lunch in hotel

Afternoon: CLASS: Classic Cinema

From Birth of a Nation to The Artist, going to the movies has been a treasured and shared experience for over a hundred years. We'll sample clips from some of the most famous films from then and now, and re-live those golden moments of the silver screen.

Dinner: Dinner in hotel

Evening: CLASS: TV or Not TV? The Tube and Popular Culture

From talk shows to reality shows, educational to MTV, sitcoms to soap operas, the box has engaged, enraged, enlightened, and delighted us for 60 plus years. We'll see and discuss clips from shows over the decades that have entertained us and influenced our societal values as well.

Lodging: The Lodge at Tiburon

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

The program is concluded after lunch; hotel checkout is by noon.

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch