Lifetime Learning

Greetings to all our Lifetime Learning Participants & Friends of Snow Library Members!

The 2026 Spring Lifetime Learning Session will begin on Monday, March 16.

We are always so grateful for your support and it inspires us to keep trying to bring you the best courses that we can find. This upcoming session is once again packed with possibilities!

There are 25 courses … engaging presentations and live performances. We will discuss the American “dream”; join conservationists saving wildlife in Africa and Borneo; consider life in the universe; be thoroughly entertained pairing music and humor, and Tchaikovsky and Hamlet; look at religion and art as our country was founded; learn about Anna Marie Rosenberg, Robert Frost, and John Williams; consider the traditions behind Asian photography; and be delighted by the show-stoppers of Broadway. We will also look at the status of politics, religion, gender-affirming care, and the vital resource of water in our world today. There’s a forum course discussing immigration on the Cape; and the 2026-2027 Cape Symphony season will be presented. Your favorite presenters are back along with some fantastic new ones.

Open registration begins on Monday, February 9. Most of our courses will be presented using a hybrid approach. A hybrid means that courses will be presented simultaneously in person in the classroom (Snow Library’s Craine Room) and via Zoom. Courses are from one to five classes in length and are presented Mondays to Thursdays. The session runs for 8 weeks and ends May 7.

On February 9, course descriptions and registration information will be conveniently available online at www.friendsofsnowlibrary.org/lifetime-learning-program. You can register online or pick up brochures and registration forms at Snow Library (67 Main Street, Orleans). Your paper registration and donation can be mailed in or dropped off at the library.

Here is the list of courses:

• What Makes The Three Stooges Schtick Stick?

• Dreaming of America

• Thoughts on the Republican Party as the 2026 Midterms Approach

• Searching for Life on Mars — and Beyond!

• Out of the Darkness

• The Local Value of Immigration

• The Health of Our Democracy and the Rule of Law in 2026

• Jewish Christian Muslim Dialogue

• The Confidante: The Untold Story of Anna Marie Rosenberg

• The Road to the Revolutionary War: Did Religion Play a Role?

• Cosmology: The Large and Small of It

• Arts for Animals: Connecting Creativity & Conservation

• Hamlet and Tchaikovsky

• A Baker’s Dozen: Selections from the Provincetown

Art Association Museum Collection

• Novels & Ideas: Americana

• Show-Stoppers of Broadway

• Cape Symphony: The 2026 – 2027 Season

• Painting the Revolution

• John Williams

• The Fraught Relationship — From Allies to Ideological Enemies:

The Cold War and the “Red Scare”

• Music and Humor

• Robert Frost: The Road Not Taken … & More

• Photography in Asia

• Fresh Water: A Vital Resource

• Fact and Fiction in Gender-Affirming Care for Young People

Thank you so much for supporting Lifetime Learning and the Snow Library. We look forward to seeing you at the upcoming Spring Session.

Ellen Burleigh, Director of Lifetime Learning/Orleans

WE ARE SORRY FOR THE INCONVENIENCE BUT THE ONLINE REGISTRATION HAS BEEN TEMPORARILY SHUT DOWN UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE.

WE ARE WORKING TO GET IT BACK UP AND RUNNING SOON. PLEASE CHECK BACK DAILY.

Welcome to the Lifetime Learning Program sponsored by the Friends of Snow Library.

For over 30 years, our mission has been to provide continuing education and cultural enrichment for residents of the Outer Cape community. Lifetime Learning provides a Fall Session and a Winter/Spring Session each year with a diverse range of courses designed to appeal to a wide variety of interests. Classes are generally held at Snow Library.

Our presenters are acknowledged experts in their field. Each course is like taking a college tutorial for a small, suggested donation. We suggest a voluntary donation of $10 per course. Courses run from one to four classes in length and most are held during the day from 10:30 to noon or 1:30 to 3:00. Most classes are presented in person, via zoom, and also recorded for your convenience. In addition to hearing loop technology in the Craine Room, all Zoom classes provide on-screen Closed Captioning of the sound. The Closed Captioning of the program will also be viewable when watching the recording (and a full transcript of the audio can be downloaded and saved).

The Lifetime Learning Committee

Our Volunteers, Your Neighbors, Who Make Lifetime Learning Possible • Your Lifetime Learning Committee Spring 2026

Jean Arnold, Mal Bornemeier, JeanAnn Bostwick, Ellen Burleigh (Director), Loretta Butehorn, Ruth Carwile, Carol Counihan, Tim Counihan, Elizabeth DeLima, Fred Di Maggio, Sharon Gleason, Mary Griffin, Karen Kishpaugh, Janice Lawrence, Winnie Long, Susan Miller, Andy O’Neill, Don Ouellette, Judy Ryon, Patti Sandri, Philip Schmidt, Debbie Setterlund, Lauren Spengler, Rudy Stalzer, Marc Strauss, R. Gordon Talley, Mary Utt, Judi Weil, Bev White, Vera Yanovskaya

2026 LTL Winter/Spring Brochure

2026 LTL Winter/Spring Registration Form