Session One (January 29–March 11)

Fine and Performing Arts
Nancy Hartman
Sundays, January 29–March 5 (six weeks) 1:30–4:30 pm

Moderated Discussion

All movies in this series have subtitles.

This course offers six movies about espionage. Ranging from 1962 to 1990, the movies include Laurence Harvey’s The Manchurian Candidate, Burt Lancaster’s The Train, and Sean Connery’s The Hunt for Red October. Within a week of each upcoming movie, informational material will be furnished to students by email or regular mail. Additional information about the movies will be provided at the start of each class, and a brief discussion will be held afterward.

NANCY HARTMAN’s insatiable appetite for vintage movies began many years ago. She looks forward to sharing her knowledge of these classic films with WC-ALL members.

Garden, Horticulture, and Environment
Mikaela Boley
Mondays, January 30–February 13 (three weeks)
10:00–11:00 am, Virtual Course via Zoom

Presentation, Discussion, and Demonstration

Healthy ecosystems are comprised of a variety of plant life that supports and provides for all kinds of wildlife; this critical relationship between environment and animals has evolved over the course of history. Modern landscapes often sport invasive or non-native plant life and lack the biodiversity of a healthy environment. Sustainable Landscapes will cover soil health (the base for all plant life), native plants, and other recommendations for creating a balanced ecosystem at home.

SOIL HEALTH: The importance of taking a soil test, using compost and other soil conditioners, as well as consciously using fertilizers when necessary.

NATIVE PLANTS: Native plants are the key to biodiversity and supporting natural insect populations that are critical to healthy environments. Presentation will cover native plants and their role in the ecosystem, as well as using native plant species to support pollinators, birds, and wildlife.

SUSTAINABLE BACKYARDS: By planting layers of native trees, shrubs, and flowering perennials, we can create functional landscapes that are also beautiful. Native plants are adapted for a variety of growing conditions, and can reduce the need for fertilizers, pesticides, and even watering.

MIKAELA BOLEY is the University of Maryland Extension Senior Agent Associate for Home Horticulture in Talbot County and coordinates the local Master Gardener program. Mikaela has a B.S. in Environmental Horticulture from the University of Minnesota—Twin Cities, and a M.P.S. in Applied Entomology from the University of Maryland. She was introduced to the Eastern Shore through an internship at Adkins Arboretum and has been pursuing the love of native plants ever since.

Mikaela is also part of a team that produces monthly episodes of The Garden Thyme Podcast, a podcast that helps people get down and dirty in their gardens ( https://www.buzzsprout.com/687509).

Health and Wellness
Wendy Cronin
Mondays, January 30–February 13 (three weeks)
4:15–5:30 pm

Lecture/Discussion

Infectious diseases continue to get the better of us, despite a marvelous response to the current pandemic by scientists around the globe. This 3-session course will review two “dangerous infections,” Covid-19 (of course!) and the one I continue to find most fascinating, tuberculosis (TB). In the first session, we will review one US university’s very clean epidemiologic approach to searching for sources of new Covid-19 mutations that might lead to another wave of infections, be it more or less severe and more or less infectious than the current Omicron wave. The next two sessions will be devoted to exploring TB global persistence. Prior to Covid-19, TB was the number one infectious disease killer in the world. With the advent of the Covid-19 pandemic and the distraction to public health systems globally, experts predicted that global deaths due to diseases like TB and HIV would increase. That seemed reasonable, given the huge impact of Covid infections on local healthcare. Yet the World Health Organization (WHO) reports that while TB deaths increased in 2021 for the first time in 15 years, HIV deaths continued their slow annual decline. Further, WHO predicts that TB deaths will increase again this year and likely again in 2023. How can that be? How is it that an ancient bacterium, which has plagued humans for a few thousand years, still defeats us? Is it simply a matter of new drug resistance? How can a vaccine for Covid-19 be developed in a year, yet the current vaccine for TB (BCG) was developed 100 years ago and doesn’t work very well? We still don’t have a reasonable vaccine for TB. We will tackle some of these elusive questions.

WENDY CRONIN is a retired epidemiologist who worked for the Maryland Department of Health, where she conducted national TB research in collaboration with Johns Hopkins University and the CDC. Dr. Cronin also worked for many years in least-developed countries in infection control and TB prevention.

Math, Science, and Technology
Roy Potter
Mondays, January 30–March 6 (six weeks)
4:15–5:30 pm

Lecture/Discussion

The first known patent law that granted inventors exclusive rights to their inventions was passed in Venice in 1474. Thereafter, patents became a formal means of granting and restricting monopolies in Europe. The Venice statute had all the basic elements of a modern patent system—a requirement of novelty, proof of usefulness, and a requirement to describe and explain the invention. By 1624, the Statute of Monopolies was passed in England and defined that new inventions could justify the granting of a monopoly only for a limited period of time, in this case 14 years. These ideas would later help shape the United States patent laws.

On September 17, 1787, when a new US Constitution was signed. Article I, Section 8, listed the powers granted to Congress including the power to protect both literary and inventive property:

Congress shall have power… To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries…

This class will examine some of the philosophy and history of patent law and examine several US patents that have been granted over the last two centuries. These will include some inventions or inventors that are now famous, funny, or somehow surprising.

ROY POTTER has a Bachelor of Science degree in Electrical Engineering from NYU and a Juris Doctor (JD) degree from the University of Maryland. He worked at the US Patent and Trademark Office for more than 30 years as a Patent Application Examiner and now lives in Chestertown, MD.

Stephanie Pessin
Mondays, January 30–March 6 (six weeks)
4:15–5:30 pm

Lecture, Demonstration, and Practice

This course is limited to 12 participants.

As we age, we will inevitably start to notice changes in posture, balance, muscle control or strength that limit our ability to move with a sense of safety. Do you feel confident that you know how to manage these changes, maintaining your function and continuing to stay as active as you want? Particularly, do you know how to do what it takes to limit your risk of injury from falls? If you want to maintain or improve your current level of function, how do you know what exercises will safely work for you now to roll back or even prevent some of these changes? This course will help you answer these questions with practical, evidence-based information and supportive exercises.

Class participants will learn the basic elements required to perform functional movement and to exercise safely and effectively, with a particular focus on preventing falls. Class time will be divided between lecture/discussion and time to learn and practice relevant exercises. Course topics include improvable components of balance and equilibrium; postural alignment and core control; efficient use of the four extremities and head; body mechanics and the basics of muscle and joint action; and actionable considerations for a personal fall-prevention plan. Participants will leave class with practical didactic information, simple home exercises to practice, techniques for “snacking” on exercise fundamentals throughout the day using easily obtainable household items, and a better understanding of how to protect themselves from preventable injury.

STEPHANIE PESSIN, BA, BS, MPT has recently retired from practicing licensed physical therapy for 25 years, during which she treated patients and taught individuals in group classes in rehab facilities, hospitals, outpatient clinics and studios in Baltimore and around the bay area in California. As much as she loves to practice healing, she is much more jazzed to help her patients and students prevent becoming rehab patients. Prior to entering this profession, she studied alternative bodywork modalities with practitioners on both USA coasts and at the College of Traditional Chinese Acupuncture in England.

Humanities
Chris Cerino
Tuesdays, January 31–February 28 (five weeks)
4:15–5:15 pm

Lecture/Discussion

This course is limited to 30 participants and will be held at the Sultana Education Foundation’s Holt Education Center, which is fully accessible.

This course uses the 1608 voyages of Captain John Smith and the incredible accounts of the flora, fauna, and Native American cultures he encountered to introduce participants to a Chesapeake that few today can even imagine: a balanced ecosystem inhabited by passenger pigeons, wolves, bear, twelve-foot-long sturgeon, massive schools of spawning shad, herring, and striped bass, and old growth forests spreading out in all directions. Importantly, the seminar focuses heavily on the fascinating Indigenous cultures that called the Chesapeake home for hundreds of generations prior to the arrival of Europeans, introducing students to the tools, trade goods, political systems, arts, and armaments utilized by Native people.

Topics that will be covered during this five-week course include:

• The 1608 voyages of exploration of Captain John Smith
• Captain John Smith’s 1612 map of the Chesapeake Bay
• The 1585 watercolor paintings of John White
• The Indigenous tribes of the Chesapeake region
• Native American artifacts: stone tools, pelts, trade goods, etc.
• The Chesapeake Bay ecosystem: 400 years ago and today

This program will take place at Sultana Education Foundation’s state-of-the-art Holt Education Center, located at 200 South Cross Street in Chestertown. Content will be presented in a variety of ways, including digital projection systems, lectures, and lots of hands-on interactions with historic and reproduction artifacts from the 17th century.

CHRIS CERINO has been the Vice President of Sultana Education Foundation for the past 21 years. In this capacity, he oversees all the organization’s environmental education programs and has personally implemented hands-on programming focusing on the history, culture, and ecosystem of the Chesapeake Bay to tens of thousands of students from throughout the watershed. Chris is a 1991 graduate of the University of Virginia, where he obtained a master’s degree to teach secondary history. On a civic note, he was elected Mayor of Chestertown in November 2013 and served in office for seven years.

Health and Wellness
Sarah Gifford
Tuesdays, January 31–March7 (six weeks)
4:15–5:15 pm

Lecture/Discussion

This course is limited to 15 participants.

If you want a more fulfilling life, better relationships or are tired of doing the same things and getting the same results, this course may be the inspiration you need to make some changes. You will be introduced to the Enneagram, a personality typing system that has been used in the USA for over 50 years with great success in helping people make changes in their lives. We will go over each of the nine types of personalities and learn why you do what you do. How to use more of your gifts. How to recognize your challenges. How to change your focus and energy into more of what you want for your life.

Prior to class you will need to take the RHETI (Riso Hudson Enneagram Typing Inventory) online at www.enneagraminstitute.com. The cost is $12/per inventory. The inventory takes about 40 minutes to complete, and you should follow the directions carefully to get the best results. The report will be comprehensive and useful for this class and in the future for further inquiry. Please also purchase The Wisdom of The Enneagram by Russ Hudson & Don Riso, available at Amazon, prior to the class. You will find this to be an excellent resource.

SARAH GIFFORD has studied The Enneagram for the last 20 years. She has completed training and is certified to teach The Enneagram from The Enneagram Institute in Stone Ridge, NY. Sarah completed an intensive “Year-Long Enneagram Certification Program in Conscious Living” in June 2022. Sarah finds The Enneagram has enriched her life in so many ways. She has a better understanding of herself and others. Working with The Enneagram as a “road map” enables her to learn new ways of responding to people and situations. She feels more aware and free in her life as she studies The Enneagram. Sarah has an MA in Community Counseling from Eastern College in St. Davids, PA and a BA in Sociology/Psychology from The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA. Sarah lives in Rock Hall with her husband David.

Fine and Performing Arts
Diana Golden
Tuesdays, January 31–March 7 (six weeks)
1:00–2:15 pm Virtual Course via Zoom

Lecture/Discussion

This course will introduce participants to the varied and rich repertoires of concert music from across the Caribbean. Using Christine Gangelhoff and Cathleen LeGrand’s Tour de Force: A Musical Journey of the Caribbean, we will listen to and discuss musical examples from the Dutch- and Spanish-speaking Caribbean. We will examine how the cultural and social history of the region has helped to shape musical considerations and styles, and learn about Caribbean composers and performers who offer special significance within the musical traditions of the region.

DIANA GOLDEN is a multidimensional artist who performs with chamber ensembles, symphony orchestras, and musical theater and opera companies. Highlights of recent performances include concerts with the Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Mannheim Steamrollers, Infinity Song, The Irish Tenors, and Michael Bolton, as well as regular engagements with New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players, Distinguished Concerts International New York, Phoenicia International Festival of the Voice, Hudson Valley Philharmonic, and as principal cellist with Parlando chamber orchestra. She is a member of the Golden Williams Duo with violist Gregory Williams, which focuses on collaborations with living composers. She is featured on concept albums for the musicals Goodbye New York, Song of Solomon, and Platinum Girls by Andrew Beall, recorded on Broadway Records. Her new album, Tanbou Kache (Hidden Drum) on the New Focus Recordings label, with pianist Shawn Chang, highlights Haitian cello and piano music.

As an educator, Golden has coached chamber music and taught private lessons for cellists of all levels and ages. She is currently a Lecturer of Music for Washington College, where she teaches Applied Cello and Chamber Music, as well as a faculty member for the National Music Festival. She holds a Doctorate of Musical Arts in Cello Performance from Rutgers University, where she completed her doctoral research on Haitian art music. She also holds a Master of Arts in Cello Performance with Distinction from the Royal Academy of Music in London, a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Cornell University, and a Bachelor of Music degree in Cello Performance from San Francisco Conservatory of Music. Learn more at www.goldencello.com.

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Humanities
Chris Cerino
Wednesdays, February 1–March 1 (five weeks)
4:15–5:15 pm

Lecture/Discussion

This course is limited to 30 participants and will be held at the Sultana Education Foundation’s Holt Education Center, which is fully accessible.

Come join Sultana Education Foundation’s professional staff to learn about the history, modern construction, and current educational mission of the 97-foot topsail schooner Sultana. Originally built in Boston in 1767, the historic vessel was sailed across the Atlantic, purchased by the British Royal Navy in 1768, outfitted with a crew of 25 men, and used to enforce the hated “Tea Taxes” in colonial waters in the years preceding the American Revolution. During the schooner’s four-year tour of duty in the mid-Atlantic, the commanding officers kept daily logs of Sultana’s location, activities, and active crew members — records which have survived intact until the present day. These logs, and additional correspondence kept at the Maritime Museum in Greenwich, England, provide a fascinating glimpse into the daily lives of the sailors charged with enforcing British taxation policies during the emerging conflict that would become the American Revolution. In addition to working with some of these primary documents, participants in this course will learn about the many challenges faced by modern shipwrights in re-creating a full-scale replica of Sultana in the small town of Chestertown from 1998–2001, interact with a wide variety of historic 18th century and reproduction artifacts from the ship, and learn about Sultana’s first twenty years under-sail as a modern school ship.

This program will take place at Sultana Education Foundation’s state-of-the-art Holt Education Center, located at 200 South Cross Street in Chestertown.

CHRIS CERINO has a Master’s Degree in Teaching Secondary History from the University of Virginia. After teaching in the classroom for three years, he embarked on a career in environmental education that now spans over thirty years. Since 2000, he has served as Vice President of Sultana Education Foundation, designing and implementing the organization’s award-winning educational programs that have served over 100,000 area students. In addition to working with Mr. Cerino, this course will feature guest appearances by Sultana Education Foundation President Drew McMullen as well as Sultana’s current commanding officers, Captain Forrest Richards and Captain Kate Dumhart.

Humanities
John Moore
Wednesdays, February 1 to March 8 (six weeks)
4:15–5:30 pm

Moderated Discussion

This class is limited to 15 participants.

Other than reading, the most educational, fastest, and efficient way to grasp more effective ways to write is to expose one’s writing to a sympathetic class of other writers. In this way, we learn from each other. This is an active, hands-on participation course in which members of the group, regardless of their personal levels of experience, present their latest writing to be read and discussed by the group. Thus, those who write with little confidence can benefit from hearing the work and comments of more experienced writers, while experienced writers receive the benefits of open comments on their work. In this way, both publish-worthy as well as beginning efforts receive equal consideration with everyone benefiting.

All writing is welcome: prose, poetry, songs, scripts, memoirs, stand-up comedy routines, plays, greeting cards, screenplays, etc. Whatever subject can be written about, this course aims to improve. Experience teaches that too much early criticism can be as damaging to a writer’s efforts as too much praise, so structuring one’s comments can be equally educational. The only important rule is that comments be supportive and that they encourage clearer and more expressive writing.

JOHN MOORE has run writers groups for multiple types of writing in Los Angeles for more than twenty-five years. A writer himself, he has been published three times. His memoir of experiences in Vietnam became a Pulitzer nominee and won the USA Books Book of the Year award in the memoir division. His latest book is an account of driving his home-built open-frame buggy across the US and back, entitled Crossing Topless.

He enjoys participative instruction and learning with humor.

Fine and Performing Arts
Connie Schroth
Wednesdays, February 15–March 8 (4 weeks)
4:15–5:30 pm

Lecture/Discussion

This course will examine the visual arts from the fall of Rome to the Renaissance in Europe. A major focus will be on understanding how the human experience of their world affected the artists who created work that has transcended the period of its creation. Course activities will include looking at examples of artwork and discussing the time and circumstances of their creation.

CONNIE SCHROTH has been involved in the arts as a student, teacher, and creator for her whole life. Aside from occasionally being gobsmacked by others’ work, she has always been curious about when, how, and why the art she loves came about. She looks forward to sharing her insights with others.

Humanities
Jerry Webster
Wednesdays, February 1– February 22 (four weeks)
4:15–5:30 pm Virtual Course via Zoom

Lecture/Discussion

This course is limited to 25 participants.

This course will focus on a new work by Joan Sutherland: Through Forests of Every Color: Awakening with Koans. Sutherland takes you into a deep dive beyond the Zen mystique to explain how koans, a succinct paradoxical statement or question used as a meditation discipline, work in and with our everyday trials, tribulations, and joys. She takes koan study away from didactic analytical study and embraces koans with fresh eyes, as everyday life experiments. As one of her former mentors, John Tarrant, says of her, “She shows us a gate within the obstacle. A path where there is no path.” The practices involve being open to whatever happens in our lives, to all of our joy and sadness. As an integral part of the class, we will focus both on meditation practices and close Zen koan studies.

JERRY WEBSTER, Ph. D., (Curriculum and Instruction, University of Maryland) has taught numerous courses in literature for the University of Maryland and in multiculturalism for Montgomery County Public Schools. He taught English full-time in public school systems for forty years. He served as the Shastri, or head teacher, for the Shambhala Buddhist Center in Washington, DC for 10 years until he retired in 2020. He teaches regularly for the D. C. Politics & Prose Bookstore, the Johns Hopkins Odyssey Program, and the Frederick Community College ILR Program. This will be his fourth online class for WC-ALL.

Humanities
Mary Alice Ball
Thursdays, February 2–March 9 (6 weeks)
4:15–5:30 pm

Lecture/Discussion

This course is limited to 15 participants. It will be held in Washington College’s Miller Library, which is fully accessible.

Over the past twenty years, technology has transformed teaching and learning in liberal arts colleges. This course will examine the fascinating ways those changes are manifest in Washington College’s Library and Academic Technology (LAT) division. Specific topics include:

• The impact of technological changes on program services for students and faculty and on collections and tools
• A look at WC’s archives and special collections
• A look at WC’s local history and genealogy collections
• A tour of WC’s Virtual and Augmented Reality Digital Imaging Studio (VARDIS)
• A tour of the IDEAWORKS Innovation Suite (MakerSpace, Digital Media, and more)
• Consideration of issues regarding privacy, intellectual freedom, and fake news

MARY ALICE BALL, who will facilitate this course, is Washington College’s Dean of Library and Academic Technology (LAT). She has worked in academic libraries, funded libraries, and a dotcom company, and has taught aspiring librarians at Indiana University in Indianapolis.

Other LAT team members participating in this course include Sharon Sledge, Chief Academic Technology Officer; Nancy Cross, Director of Educational Technology; Alex Baker, Director of Public Services; Cori Lynn Arnold, Electronic Services Librarian; Lindsay Sheldon, College Archivist; Jennifer Nesbitt, Office Manager; Raven Bishop, Assistant Director of Educational Technology; Brian Palmer, Director of IDEAWORKS Innovation Suite; Andrea Boothby Rice, Public Services Librarian; and Kelly Banyas, Research and Instruction Librarian.

Social Sciences
John Guthrie
Thursdays, February 2–March 2 (5 weeks)

4:15–5:30 pm

Lecture/Discussion

This course is limited to 30 participants.

The purpose of the course is to communicate the scientific foundations of an individual’s resilience in the face of adversity. Special attention will be placed on the Covid pandemic, including its impacts on mental health and resilience of children, adolescents, and adults.

The science base will include: 1) epidemiology—populations and their challenges to well-being; 2) pandemic effects on well-being; 3) psychological processes of resilience among individuals; 4) interventions for resilience, emphasizing mindfulness/compassion and Cognitive Behavior Therapy; 5) extended interventions for core beliefs and emotion-regulation.

The principles of effective practice will consist of: 1) positive psychology, its history and relevance; 2) Cognitive-Behavior Therapy: five big ideas, emphasizing thoughts, behaviors and emotions; 3) Cognitive Behavior Therapy: five things to do, emphasizing thought record, activity scheduling, exposure therapy, core belief reconfiguration, emotion detection and self-regulation; 4) case applications to self or other, to be determined.

Class sessions will be of a combination of lecture/discussions and case applications. Within small groups or pairs, students will apply resilience concepts and practices to individual cases. Although no readings are required, resources for the course consist of Doing CBT by David Tolin, Resilience by Rick Hanson, scientific review articles, TED talks, and programs approved by the association of cognitive therapists.

JOHN GUTHRIE has been intrigued by psychology throughout his life. After undergraduate school, he received a doctorate in educational psychology, emphasizing learning and motivation. He served as a faculty member at the University of Maryland College Park for 23 years, specializing in motivation and engagement among children, adolescents, and adults.

Business, Finance, and the Law
Jesse Hammock
Thursdays, February 2–March 2 (five weeks)
4:15–5:15 pm

Lecture/Discussion
This course reviews the legal situations in which issues associated with aging are relevant, including powers of attorney, guardianships, trusts, probate and wills, and advance directives, as well as litigation regarding each circumstance.

JESSE HAMMOCK is a partner with the Easton-based law firm of Parker Counts, which specializes in estate planning, administration, and litigation. His practice includes an emphasis on estate and trust litigation. He grew up on the Eastern Shore and graduated from Washington College in 1994 and the University of Baltimore School of Law (magna cum laude) in 2001, where he was an Editor of the Law Review. Jesse is the past-President of the Board of Directors for Mid-Shore Pro Bono, Inc. where he previously served as Vice-President and Treasurer. He has also served as an adjunct professor at Chesapeake College teaching litigation research and writing to paralegal students. He is a Fellow of the Maryland Bar Foundation and served on the Maryland Judicial Nominating Commission.

Social Sciences
Warren Beaven
Fridays, February 3–March 3 (five weeks)
4:15–5:30 pm

Lecture/Discussion

This course is limited to 25 participants.

More and more people are getting DNA tests either for locating their ancestors or identifying inherited health risks. But how do you use the test results you receive? We will examine the four basic types of tests available and how to use the raw data for either purpose. This is a replacement and an extension for the two classes I was going to teach in April of 2022 before I contracted Covid. Newcomers and past students are invited. I recommend that you buy and take a test before you begin the class: either “23 and Me” if you are looking for health information, or Ancestry.com or one of the other genealogical suppliers if you are searching for your family history. We will also talk about how to build genograms to arrange cousins and ancestors into meaningful patterns, and why you shouldn’t be alarmed when you get a test result that says you are 1.5 % from a remote region no one in your family ever mentioned. Near the end of the course, we will talk about how to share the results from one testing site to another.

WARREN BEAVEN has been doing genealogical research for 40 years and has taken DNA tests from two companies (23andMe and Ancestry). He has helped distant cousins find out how they are related when they receive a message that reads “Warren is your second or third cousin.”

 

Fine and Performing Arts
Michelle Sebastian Aldridge
Saturdays, February 4–March 11 (six weeks)
2:00–3:30 pm

Demonstration and Practice

This course is limited to 24 participants.</p>

Want to learn to dance like George Washington? Want to experience a Miss Bennet/Mr. Darcy moment? Simply want to dance and make new friends? Then English Country Dance is for you! English Country Dance (ECD) is a social, folk-dance form, which has its earliest documented instances in the late 16th century, although today it is probably most closely associated with Jane Austen and the early 19th century. Although “ballroom” dancing took center stage for a number of years, ECD regained popularity in the early 20th century and continues to be enjoyed world-wide in the present day. English country dances come in a variety of formations, but all require working with a group. No special equipment is required—just comfortable shoes and clothing that allow you to move without mishap (think sneakers, not flip-flops) and the desire to dance. You will learn the “figures” (steps in ECD) and formations/positions in ECD sets, a little history and social perspective of ECD, and a variety of English country dances. You will learn that everyone can do English country dances and that you should absolutely… Come Dancing!

MICHELLE SEBASTIAN ALDRICH has been teaching and calling English country dance for 11 years and was the Founder and Director of ECD in DC, a dance performance group that performed at various venues in the Washington, DC/Northern Virginia area, including Folger Theatre and Dumbarton House in Washington, DC; Mount Vernon, and Woodlawn in Alexandria, Virginia; and other private and public events in Maryland, Virginia; and Washington, DC. A native Washingtonian, Michelle recently relocated to Chestertown where she hopes to develop English country dance classes and a new performance group. A life-long dancer, Michelle knows that English country dance is dance everyone can do and that it provides the motion and social interaction that is necessary for physical health and mental well-being. She believes everyone should… Come Dancing!