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A Potpourri of Presentations
Registration is Appreciated



When:  Thursdays: Oct. 22, 29; Nov. 5, 12

Where: San Marcos Public Library, Room 104
Time:    10:00-11:15am
Fee:       FREE… donations appreciated
 

Oct. 22: Traveling to Extremes

Bruce Smith, LifeLong Learning’s resident travel guide, will present his photos and memories of travel to the High Arctic and Antarctica. Photos and stories will be shared about landscapes, ecology, and wildlife such as polar bears, penguins, sea birds, and walrus.

 

The presentation will focus on trips to Svalbard and Antarctica. Svalbard is a group of islands located in the Arctic Ocean between the northern coast of Norway and the North Pole. The most northern parts of the archipelago are above the 80th parallel, referred to as the High Arctic. Participants will then learn about Antarctica and the rough sea, called the Drake Passage, that separates South America from the southern continent.

Presenter: Bruce Smith

Bruce retired from Texas State University in 2015, where he served as Director of the School of Journalism and Mass Communication. He spent 25 years working in media before becoming an academic, leading mass communication programs at three universities. Bruce has visited 77 countries and all seven continents. In 2023 he photographed polar bears on the sea ice in the high Arctic. His travel goal is to learn by experiencing. He reads extensively about destinations both before and after his visits.

"Tom Lea was perhaps the ultimate regionalist.
Tom Lea records a song to this land, this place that is unique to all things Texan.

A region of two countries and three states where the Rockies and Sierra Madres come together,

a land of the senses where you smell the rain on the creosote;

a culture where you hear multiple languages describe the same vista;

a place where mountains, sky, and desert define character."


~ Becky Duval Reese, The Art of Tom Lea, Afterword to the Memorial Edition

Join us as Becky Duval Reese -- LifeLong Learning's resident art historian and director of the El Paso Museum of Art from 1991-2005 -- shares her memories of artist, muralist, writer, war correspondent, Tom Lea.

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