Lunch: Registration opens at 11 am in the lobby. Lunch in the dining room is served at 12:30 pm. Lunch buffet includes a salad bar daily in addition to featured entres.

Afternoon: We will introduce the site, staff, program details and group members to each other. Woods walk in the old growth forest on Watson Homestead property with Michael DeMunn, Seneca Indian forester and conservationist. Swimming pool available from 4:30 - 5:30 pm.

Dinner: Dinner is served at 6 pm in the dining room. We feature all-you-can-eat country-style buffet entrees with at least one vegetarian option and a salad bar with dinner.

Evening: Lecture at 7 pm will be a storytelling format of the Iroquois creation story by Jenny Monroe, our Road Scholar coordinator and Iroquois specialist.

Lodging: Watson Homestead Conference & Retreat Center

Meals Included: Lunch, Dinner

Day program with Seneca artist, faith keeper and teacher, Bill Crouse, plus session on Iroquois beadwork and the Indian Boarding school movement.

Breakfast: Breakfast entrees, hot and cold, are served at 8 am in the dining room. Coffee, tea and decaf are available 24/7. In addition to three meals, three snacks will be offered each day for Road Scholarlers.

Morning: Our lead instructor, Bill Crouse, Seneca Hawk Clan, will give two cultural presentations including storytelling, dance, music and historical information about his people. Bill is an artist, faith keeper and cultural teacher at the Salamanca School district, where he has taught for over 20 years.

Lunch: Lunch will be at the Homestead.

Afternoon: We will finish up with Bill's presentation and hear from Dolores Elliott on Iroquois beadwork. The pool will be open from 4:30 to 5:30 pm.

Dinner: Dinner is served at 6 pm in the dining room. We feature all-you-can-eat country-style buffet entrees with at least one vegetarian option and a salad bar with dinner.

Evening: Our evening speaker, Rita Pope, will share a multi-media presentation on the Indian boarding school movement.

Lodging: Watson Homestead Conference & Retreat Center

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Motorcoach excursion to Victor, NY for the Ganondagan State Historic Site and to Seneca Falls, NY.

Breakfast: Breakfast entrees, hot and cold, are served at 8 am in the dining room. Coffee, tea and decaf are available 24/7. In addition to three meals, three snacks will be offered each day for Road Scholars.

Morning: Depart on day-long field trip to Seneca Falls and Ganondagan. In Seneca Falls we'll have a ranger tour of the place where the American women's movement began at the Women's Rights National Historic Park, plus visits to Elizabeth Cady Stanton's home and the Women's Hall of Fame. On the coach, we'll have a lecture providing links between the Iroquois Clan Mothers and the Seneca Falls Convention of 1848.

Lunch: We will eat the bag lunches we prepared at breakfast at the Women's Rights National Historical Park.

Afternoon: Then we travel alongside the Erie Canal to Victor, NY, home of Ganondagan State Historic Site with its full scale furnished Iroquois longhouse and other exhibits. Native staff will instruct. Our return trip will be through Canandaigua and alongside Canandaigua Lake to Naples, through wine country.

Dinner: Dinner is served at 6 pm in the dining room. We feature all-you-can-eat country-style buffet entrees with at least one vegetarian option and a salad bar with dinner.

Evening: This evening's activity, a Watson Homestead tradition, is for everyone to help crank the ice cream, then it's your choice of toppings or home-made maple syrup!

Lodging: Watson Homestead Conference & Retreat Center

Meals Included: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

Final presentation on Iroquois culture, guided tour at the Rockwell Museum of Western Art and optional visit to the Corning Museum of Glass.

Breakfast: Breakfast entrees, hot and cold, are served at 8 AM in the dining room. Coffee, tea and decaf are available 24/7.

Morning: Check out of rooms after breakfast. We will have a final segment of Q&A about the Iroquois culture, then group will depart in their own cars for a curatorial tour at the Rockwell Museum of Western Art in downtown Corning. In addition, admission vouchers for the Corning Museum of Glass will be distributed.

Lunch: Participants will depart from the Rockwell Museum. It's always hard to go our separate ways - maybe we'll meet again at another Road Scholar!

Afternoon:

Meals Included: Breakfast