Additional cost for optional field trip to The Theater at Monmouth for a Shakespeare production is $45 including your ticket, motor coach, and boxed lunch.
The online registration system will be available by early December. Please check back soon.
A week of reading, discussion, fun, and friendship.
And What is a Great Books Discussion?
A group of readers, sharing their understanding of a stimulating work of literature or philosophy in a well-conducted discussion, can reach a level of insight rarely achieved by those who read alone. Great Books is for people who love to think and talk about the world's great ideas, and who derive pleasure from spending time with others who share that joy.
Method or Madness: the Antic Disposition
Readings
- Michel Foucault: Madness and Civilization
- William Shakespeare: Hamlet
- Stephen Greenblatt: Will in the World
- Tom Stoppard: Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
- John Updike: Gertrude and Claudius
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- Don Nigro:"Dead Men's Fingers"
- Laura Bohannan: "Shakespeare in the Bush"
- Margaret Atwood: "Gertrude Talks Back"
- Jorge Luis Borges: "Everything and Nothing"
Junior Great Books Readings
Grades 6 and up
- The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope
- Wolves of the Willowby by Pat Marriott
- Hattie Big Sky by Kirby Larson
- Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
Grades 1-5
- Caddie Woodlawn by Carol Ryrie Brink
- Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien
- Crash by Jerry Spinelli
- Kidnapped by Robert Louis Stevenson
The Registration Fee of $580 covers your accommodations in a dormitory room (single or double), meals, discussions and books, as well as swimming, tennis, a film, group social activities, and a real Maine lobster bake. The cost for commuters (people who participate in group activities but live off-campus) is $290, and includes lunches and the lobster bake. Scholarships are available on a need basis. The registration deadline is July 1st.