Chesapeake Forum - A Sense of Place: Exploring and Expressing our Special Places with Charles Yonkers, JD

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Chesapeake Forum

Charles Yonkers

Chesapeake Forum is offering a popular class with Charles Yonkers, that will explore Place as an idea, exploding with new interpretations and perspectives, almost daily. The subject is as elastic and full of content as our imaginations will permit. The idea of the course is to both enlarge our general appreciation and understanding of places in our lives and to focus in on those ones of special meaning to us individually. In the end, the significance of any place is personal; it is in our unique mind’s-eye senses and our own ways of expressing it. 

  The course is both an Introduction to the broad subject of Place in our lives - geographic, social, phenomenological/subjective, etc., but also a continuing exercise in our ever-changing perceptions and appreciations of new and old places. This course is for both veterans and first-timers. It will review fundamentals and expand our understandings of place - all through instructor presentations, suggested reading, discussion, and students’ personal places. There will be emphasis on shared expression (e.g., writing, photos, projects: all options open). Participant product will be encouraged. Choose between ZOOM classes or RECORDED

3 Sessions, Wednesdays Nov. 3, 10, 17 |from 10:00 to noon, $30.

Charles Edward Yonkers is a former Peace Corps Country Director, lawyer (Harvard, J.D., Yale, B.A.), and adjunct professor in Georgetown’s Graduate Liberal Studies Program (M.A.L.S.). His thesis was “The Creation of a Sense of Place: History, Culture, and Henderson, KY.” He has taught courses on A Sense of Place since 2011. His current place is Pot Pie Farm, Wittman, MD. To register for this class or to find the list of Fall classes visit the website: 

A Sense of Place: Exploring and Expressing our Special Places – Chesapeake Forum