Afternoon: REGISTRATION: Please register with the Road Scholar program staff at our desk in the lobby beginning at 5:00 pm. You’ll receive your arrival packet containing the most up-to-date schedule and program information that we’ll review during our orientation session after dinner. Dinner is at 6:00 pm in the conference room.

Dinner: Dinner will be in the conference room of the hotel at 6:00 pm.

Evening: ORIENTATION: You'll have an informative overview of the program to come plus an opportunity to meet the program staff and your fellow participants during an introductory get-acquainted session. We’ll review the updated schedule, answer any questions you may have, and cover responsibilities, safety guidelines, and emergency procedures. Please be aware that program activities and scheduled times could change due to local circumstances. In the event of any changes, we will alert you as quickly as possible. Thank you for your understanding!

Lodging: Hyatt Place Buckhead Atlanta

Meals Included: Dinner

Atlanta History Center/Lunch at Swan Coach House/Swan House Mansion/Dinner at hotel/ Entertainment

Breakfast: Breakfast Buffet at hotel.

Morning: You will visit the Atlanta History Center and the historic Swan House and the Tullie Smith Farm. Swan House, an elegant classically styled mansion named for the swan motif found throughout its interior, is listed on the National Register of Historic Places and has become an Atlanta landmark. Built in 1928 for Edward and Emily Inman, heirs to a cotton brokerage fortune, the house was designed by well-known and influential Atlanta architect Philip Trammell Shutze. In Swan House and its gardens, together considered Shutze's finest residential work, he adapted Italian and English classical styles to accommodate twentieth-century living. A plantation-plain house built in the 1840s by the Robert Smith family, Tullie Smith Farm is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Originally located east of Atlanta, outside the city limits, the house survived the near-total destruction of Atlanta in 1864. Robert Smith was a yeoman farmer who owned eleven slaves and about 800 acres of land in present-day DeKalb County, Georgia. The Smith family cultivated approximately 200 acres of their land, while their cattle and hogs ranged freely nearby. Contrary to popular belief, yeoman farms were more common in Georgia than the large plantations many people associate with the "deep south."The farm complex was moved to the Atlanta History Center's campus in 1969 and serves as a tangible reminder of the rural past in a metropolitan area where agriculture has essentially disappeared. Tullie Smith House is surrounded by a separate open-hearth kitchen, blacksmith shop, smokehouse, double corncrib, pioneer log cabin, and barn, as well as traditional vegetable, herb, and flower gardens.

Lunch: Prior to relocating to its current location, the Foundation members had to remodel and enlarge the building that once served as the carriage house of the handsome Philip Schutze designed Swan House to create the charming Restaurant and Gift Shop. In 1985, Mr. and Mrs. O. Ray Moore built the Art Gallery, an integral part of the Swan Coach House. The Swan Coach House continues to be a labor of love for the Forward Arts Foundation members. They continue to strive to create a Southern, hospitable atmosphere.

Afternoon: Field trips of the Swan House allow visitors to explore the many rooms of this beautifully restored historic home including the entrance, Breakfast Room and Hall, Library, Living Room, Dining Room, Kitchen, Butler's Pantry, Mrs. Inman's Bedroom and Bathroom, Grandchildren's Bedroom, Guest Bedroom, and Mr. Inman's Bedroom. Additionally, a stroll around the grounds of the Swan House provides many breathe taking views complete with gardens and fountains.

Dinner: Dinner is at the hotel with meals catered by Copeland Restaurant. The food is excellent.

Evening: A jazz musician will entertain as well as educate you on the history of jazz.

Lodging: Hyatt Place Buckhead Atlanta

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Jimmy Carter Museum and Japanese Gardens/Field trip to CNN/Dinner On Your Own/Free Evening

Breakfast: Full Breakfast Buffet at hotel.

Morning: On a hill overlooking the city of Atlanta, the Carter Library and Museum houses a vast collection of memorabilia from Jimmy Carter's early life in Plains, GA, his term as governor of Georgia, his term as President of the United States, and the years following government service. It was completely renovated in 2009 and is breathtaking. One notable recent addition to the museum is Carter's recently awarded Noble Peace Prize. The Jimmy Carter Library and Museum is part of the Presidential Library system administered by the National Archives and Records Administration, a Federal government agency. The Museum of the Jimmy Carter Library includes photographs and historical memorabilia from the Carter presidency (1976 - 1981). An exact replica of the Oval Office and gifts received by the Carters are also featured. A permanent exhibit of significant events occurring during Jimmy Carter's life and political career includes photographs with interpretative text. Explore the grounds including formal gardens, a cherry orchard, and waterfalls tucked between two small lakes. Visitors can stroll through the Rose Garden, which is home to 40 varieties or view the serene Japanese garden, designed by Master Gardener Kinsaku Nakane.

Lunch: Lunch will be at the Carter Museum and catered by the popular Proof of the Pudding.

Afternoon: Immerse yourself in CNN on a guided field trip offering a dramatic look at the history of the CNN News Group networks, their coverage of the events that shape our world, and the state-of-the-art studios responsible for bringing the news to over one billion people around the globe. The CNN field trip takes approximately one hour to go through the entire studio. You will see news in the making as it is actually happening. The walking tour descends 8 flights of stairs. Elevator assitance is available. CNN Tours offers visitors a unique opportunity to go behind the scenes of CNN's international networks … tracing the growth of CNN as it parallels world events over the past 20 years. Visitors are able to actually 'see' news travel though the newsrooms of CNN and Headline News on its way to the anchor's desk where it is delivered live right before their eyes.

Dinner: Dinner will be own your own. There are many restaurants within walking distance of the hotel. The hotel shuttle will take you to a restaurant of your choice within a 2 mile radius of the hotel. This meal has been excluded from your program cost. Enjoy the evening on your own or with newfound friends. The hotel has a limited menu right in the lobby area if you choose to stay in.

Evening: Free evening to enjoy the area restaurants and shops that surround you.

Lodging: Hyatt Place Buckhead Atlanta

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch

Breakfast: Full Breakfast Buffet at hotel.

Morning: You will visit Bulloch Hall and cross back in time to antebellum Georgia. A time when wealthy coastal slaveholders controlled both the economy and politics of Georgia, and a time when the last expanse of the Cherokee Nation finally fell to the settlers because the state of Georgia forced the Cherokee west on the "Trail of Tears." Starting in 1839, James Bulloch built a Classic Greek Revival mansion west of the Chattahoochee just off the town square. Unlike most of the homes in north Georgia, Bulloch Hall was built by slave labor. Early in 1851 a 19-year-old Theodore Roosevelt (father of the future president) visited Bulloch Hall, where he met young Mittie Bulloch. Bulloch Hall has seen its share of captains and kings come to visit, and not just Theodore Roosevelt and the Union Army. Eleanor Roosevelt visited from time to time, and Margaret Mitchell may have visited the home and used it to inspire Tara, Scarlett O'Hara's plantation in Gone With The Wind.

Lunch: Lunch in Roswell at a popular spot.

Afternoon: Free afternoon to explore on your own. The hotel shuttle will take you anywhere within a two mile radius of the hotel free of charge.

Dinner: Dinner will be at a popular Atlanta restaurant.

Evening: We don't know this far ahead which play you will actually see but we will post it on the Road Scholar Website as soon as we know. www.roadscholar.org/

Lodging: Hyatt Place Buckhead Atlanta

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: Continental Breakfast Buffet held at hotel.

Morning: The High Museum of Art, founded in 1905 as the Atlanta Art Association, is the leading art museum in the Southeastern United States . Located in Atlanta 's Midtown arts and business district, the High has over 11,000 works of art in its permanent collection. The Museum has an extensive anthology of 19th- and 20th-century American art; significant holdings of European paintings and decorative art; a growing collection of African American art; and burgeoning collections of modern and contemporary art, photography and African art. The leading museum in the Southeastern United States, the High is dedicated to supporting and collecting works by Southern artists and is distinguished as the only major general museum in North America to have a curatorial department specifically devoted to the field of folk and self-taught art.

Lunch: Lunch in the conference room at the hotel.

Afternoon: Free afternoon. The coordinator will give suggestions for activities and places to go.

Dinner: Dinner at hotel.

Evening: Enjoy dessert at Dante's Down the Hatch, the most popular jazz club in Atlanta. Follow this landmark's plank walkway into a richly detailed wharf scene centered on a full-scale cutaway of a sailing ship. Below it sits a 1906 Steinway grand piano. Lanterns glow along narrow passageways and crocodiles glide through a lurid pool. You will visit Dante's and experience the lively jazz scene of Atlanta.

Lodging: Hyatt Place Buckhead Atlanta

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Breakfast: Continental breakfast buffet will be served daily.

Morning: Classroom speaker. Program ends at 10:30 am.

Meals Included: Breakfast