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Summer Programs for 2009 
The Sierra Club sponsors regular evening and daytime programs at LeConte Memorial Lodge during the summer. Stay tuned for changes and additional programs. Programs held at the LeConte Memorial Lodge are indicated as "Bus Stop #12." Other programs held elsewhere in Yosemite Valley are indicated by appropriate bus stops. PLEASE NOTE: Specific programs are subject to change or rescheduling. Please call ahead if you wish to attend a specific program. Summer Program Schedule 2009LeConte Memorial Lodge is open Wednesday through Sunday 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM *Programs for Children and Families MAY *Friday May 1 – Ben Cunningham-Summerfield, YNP Interpretive Ranger 8:00 PM “Indian Storytelling and Flute” *Saturday May 2 – Jason Fareira 8:00 PM “Bears in Yosemite: Myths, Reality & Mythology” Sunday May 3 - Tom Bopp, Historian & Yosemite Musician 8:00 PM “John Muir and Teddy Roosevelt in Yosemite: 1903” Friday May 8 – Tom Arfsten, Yosemite Historian 8:00 PM “Meet Galen Clark: Guardian of Yosemite” Saturday May 9 – Bonnie Gisel, Muir Historian & Stephen Joseph, Landscape Photographer 8:00 PM “John Muir’s Plant Collecting” Sunday May 10 NO PROGRAM *Thursday May 14 – Yosemite Elementary School Students 1:30 PM “My Grandmother’s Stories with Miwok Brushes, Musical Numbers & Puppets” *Friday May 15 - Lee Terkelsen, Videographer 8:00 PM “Along the John Muir Trail” – narrated hiking video *Saturday May 16 – Lee Terkelsen, Videographer 8:00 PM “Across the Range: Hike from Sequoia to Mt. Whitney” – narrated hiking video Sunday May 17 NO PROGRAM Friday May 22 – Alison Colwell, NPS Resource Biologist 8:00 PM “Underground Botany: Surprising Connections” Saturday May 23 – 7:30 – 9:00 PM OPEN HOUSE Sunday May 24 – Bonnie Gisel, LeConte Memorial Lodge Curator 8:00 PM “John Muir’s Plant Collecting” Friday May 29 – Amy Racina, Author “Angels in the Wilderness” 8:00 PM “Surviving a 60 ft. fall at Kings Canyon National Park” Saturday May 30 – Chris Olander, Northern California Poet 8:00 PM “Sounds Nature Makes” *Sunday May 31 – Dick Shore, Environmentalist & John Muir Dramatist 8:00 PM “An Evening with John Muir & Wilderness Survival” ---------------------------------------------------------------------- JUNE *Thursday June 4 – Kathy Jarrett, LML Volunteer & Expert Birder 8:30 AM “Birding Beyond Mirror Lake” – 4 mile hike, 3 hours Bring binoculars, water, snack Limited to 15, anyone over 12 years of age *Friday June 5 – Ben Cunningham-Summerfield, Yosemite National Park Interpretive Ranger 8:00 PM “American Indian Storytelling & Flute” Saturday June 6 – Susan Snyder, Author Past Tents 8:00 PM “Past Tents: The Way We Camped” *Sunday June 7 – Sarah Stock, YNP Ornithologist 8:00 PM “What’s Up (or Down) with Yosemite’s Birds” *Friday June 12 – Lee Terkelsen, Videographer 8:00 PM “Along the John Muir Trail” – narrated hiking video *Saturday June 13 – Lee Terkelsen, Videographer 8:00 PM “Across the Range: Hike from Sequoia to Mt. Whitney” – narrated hiking video Sunday June 14 – Bill Carroll, Yosemite National Park Post Master 8:00 PM “The Mail Must Go Through: Postal Delivery in Yosemite” *Friday June 19 – Dave Bengston, Director Yosemite Mountaineering School 8:00 PM “Climbing Yosemite Walls” – demonstration & slide presentation *Saturday June 20 – Rick Deutsch, Author, “Yosemite’s Half-Dome” 8:00 PM “Hiking Half Dome” Sunday June 21 Janet Carle, Retired State Park Ranger, Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve 8:00 PM “Mono Lake: Yosemite’s Eastern Neighbor: An Overview of the History & Natural History of Mono Lake” *Friday June 26 – Tyler Nordgren, Professor of Astronomy, College of the Redlands 8:00 PM “Ways Visitors Experience Astronomy in Yosemite” Saturday June 27 – David Carle, Retired State Park Ranger & Author “Water and the California Dream” 8:00 PM “Water and the California Dream” Sunday June 28 – Richard Wiebe, Professor, Fresno Pacific University & LML Committee Member 8:00 PM Readings: “Two Nature Writers: Henry David Thoreau & Mary Austin” --------------------------------------------------------------------------- JULY Friday July 3 – Richard Wiebe, Professor, Fresno Pacific University & LML Committee Member 8:00 PM Readings: “The Thoreau of the American West: Edward Abbey” Saturday July 4 - 7:30-9:00 PM OPEN HOUSE Sunday July 5 – Bonnie Gisel, Curator, LML 8:00 PM “John Muir’s Botany” THURSDAY JULY 9 – Pete Devine, Education Programs Coordinator, Yosemite Association 8:00 PM “Yosemite’s Sister Parks in China” *Friday July 10 – David Bengston, Director Yosemite Mountaineering School 8:00 PM “Climbing Yosemite’s Walls” – demonstration & slide presentation *Saturday July 11 – Jason Fareira 8:00 PM Bears in Yosemite: Myths, Reality & Mythology *Sunday July 12 – Bob Madgic, Author “Shattered Air” 8:00 PM “Calamitous Lightning Episode on the Summit of Half Dome” Friday July 17 – Dave Humphrey, YNP Branch Chief, History, Architecture and Landscape Division of Resource Management 8:00 PM “Yosemite National Park History Program Update: History, Architecture & Landscape” *Saturday July 18 John McClary, Artist 8:00 PM Sketching with a Sharpi I: Bears, Butterflies & Trees of Yosemite *Sunday July 19 John McClary, Artist 8:00 PM Sketching with a Sharpi II: Mountains, Valleys & Landscapes *Friday July 24 – Steve Riley, Author “Little Tycooney & the Big Yosemite Race” 10:30 AM “Kids Storytelling: Come Join the Story of Little Tycooney” *Friday July 24 – Steve Riley, Author “Little Tycooney & the Big Yosemite Race” 8:00 PM “Kids Storytelling: Come Join the Story of Little Tycooney” *Saturday July 25 – Jason Fareir 8:00 PM “Bears in Yosemite: Myths, Reality & Mythology” Sunday July 26 – Donna & Peter Thomas, Book Artists 8:00 PM “Re-walking John Muir’s First Trip to Yosemite” Thursday July 30 – John Dill, YNP Search & Rescue Ranger 8:00 PM “Search and Rescue in Yosemite” *Friday July 31 – Ben Cunningham-Summerfield, YNP Interpretive Ranger 8:00 PM “American Indian Storytelling & Flute” ------------------------------------------------------------------ AUGUST *Saturday August 1 – Mike Graf, Author “Adventures with the Parkers: Yosemite” 8:00 PM “Kids Storytelling: Come Join the Story of the Parkers Harrowing Ascent of Half Dome” *Sunday August 2 – Mike Graf, Author “Adventures with the Parkers” Yosemite” 10:30 AM “Kids Storytelling: Come Join the Story of the Parkers Harrowing Ascent of Half Dome” *Sunday August 2 – Frank Helling, Sequoia/Kings Canyon National Park Interpretive Ranger 8:00 PM “”In the Tree Tops with Douglas Squirrel & John Muir” Friday August 7 – Dr.Greg Stock, YNP Geologist 8:00 PM “New Tools for understanding and mitigating rock fall hazards in Yosemite Valley” Saturday August 8 – Dr. Barbara Mossberg, Professor of American Studies, CSU Monterey Bay 8:00 PM “Poetry & Music of Trees that Changed the World: Inspired & Inspiring Responses to Wilderness” Sunday August 9 – Dr. Barbara Mossberg, Professor of American Studies, CSU Monterey Bay 8:00 PM “Behold! Purple Prose Plot, or How Yosemite Park Came to Be. Tree-mendous Vision of John Muir” *Friday August 14 – Rick Deutsch, Author “Yosemite’s Half-Dome” 8:00 PM “Hiking Half Dome” Saturday, August 15 – John Dill, YNP Search & Rescue Ranger 8:00 PM Search and Rescue in Yosemite Sunday August 16 – Pete Devine, Education Program Coordinator, Yosemite Association 8:00 PM “Dr. Steller and His Jay” *Friday August 21 – Lee Terkelsen, Videographer 8:00 PM “Along the John Muir Trail” – narrated hiking video *Saturday August 22 – Lee Terkelsen, Videographer 8:00 PM “Across the Range: Hike from Sequoia to Mt. Whitney” – narrated hiking video Sunday August 23 – Jack Hoeflich, YNP Search & Rescue Ranger 8:00 PM “Search & Rescue in Yosemite” *Friday August 28 – Dr. Greg Stock, YNP Geologist 8:00 PM “Meltdown: Rise & Recent Fall of Sierra Nevada Glaciers” *Saturday August 29 – Jason Fareir 8:00 PM “Bears in Yosemite: Myths, Reality & Mythology” Sunday August 30 – Jack Hoeflich, YNP Search & Rescue Ranger 8:00 PM “Search & Rescue in Yosemite” ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------- SEPTEMBER *Friday September 4 – Janet Wood, JPL/NASA Ambassador 8:00 PM “Views of the Solar System” Saturday September 5 – Harold Wood, LML Committee Chair & Muir Historian 8:00 PM “John Muir & The Animal Kingdom” Sunday September 6 – John Dill, YNP Search & Rescue Ranger 8:00 PM “Search and Rescue in Yosemite” *Friday September 11 – Ben Cunningham-Summerfield, NPS Interpretive Ranger 8:00 PM “American Indian Storytelling & Flute” *Saturday September 12 – Jonathan Bayless, YNP Chief 8:00 PM “Yosemite Museum: It’s In There Somewhere” Sunday September 13 James Downs, Yosemite Poet & John Peterson, Poet & Publisher, Poetic Matrix Press 8:00 PM “Nature & Spirit” Poetry Reading END OF SEASON
For more information, during the summer contact Sierra Club LeConte Memorial Lodge Curator, P.O. Box 755, Yosemite, CA 95389, 1-209-372-4542; e-mail: leconte.curator@sierraclub.org. During the winter, contact LeConte Lodge Committee Chair, Harold Wood, P.O. Box 3543, Visalia, CA 93278; phone: (559) 739-8527; e-mail: harold.wood@sierraclub.org Tax deductible donations to support the new exhibits and renovation efforts of the LeConte Memorial can be made to "Sierra Club Foundation," marked for the LeConte Lodge Fund. Up to Top |
