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Learn how to make authentic Neapolitan pizza using a backyard pizza oven while enjoying an Italian antipasto and sparkling water in Frank Bosketti’s backyard. In this hands-on class, you will make your own dough, knead it, shape it, and prepare toppings to make the Neapolitan classics - Pizza Marinara, Pizza Margherita, and Pizza Soppresatta, or create your own masterpiece from a variety of toppings for you to choose from. Bake your pizza in wood-fired or gas-fired pizza ovens and learn proper oven management and temperature control to achieve that signature charred crust and perfectly melted toppings. You will learn how to launch, bake, rotate, and extract the pizza from the oven for a perfectly cooked pizza (in less than 2 minutes). Relax and enjoy your own pizza masterpiece, then take home the recipes and some pizza dough to continue your pizza-making adventure at home. Bring your apron, appetite, and some wine if you like. No backyard oven? No problem, Frank also covers how to convert your home oven into an impressive pizza oven.

Learn how to make your own glycerin-based soap. Local soap artisan Jill Staffin will teach you how simple it is to make soap using a natural base. Students will learn about the different forms of soapmaking (melt and pour, cold process, and hot process) and then craft two bars of glycerin-based soap with their choice of color, scent, and embeds/exfoliants. No experience necessary.

Take a look at some pictures from Jill's past classes here.

This lecture traces the meteoric rise and lasting legacy of the "King of Rock and Roll." We explore how Elvis blended diverse musical styles to spark a global cultural revolution, inspiring a generation of legends like John Lennon, David Bowie, and Bruce Springsteen. The journey follows Elvis from his humble beginnings in poverty to his dual stardom in music and film, through the lean years of the British Invasion, and into his triumphant 1968 "Comeback Special." We conclude with his final era as a Las Vegas headliner—a period marked by massive success, personal struggles, and his untimely death at 42—to understand his permanent impact on popular culture.

Before Central Park, New Yorkers escaped the city to the Green-Wood Cemetery, not just a resting place for some of New York City’s notable residents, but an oasis tucked away in Brooklyn. On this tour, we’ll start at the high Victorian Gothic Revival Brownstone gates designed by the distinguished American architect Richard Upjohn. We’ll visit the historic chapel designed by Warren & Wetmore (architects of Grand Central Terminal), as well as explore the grounds of Beaux Arts mausoleums, some featuring Tiffany glass windows, while listening to the stories of some of New York City’s prominent families that eternally reside on the grounds.