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Summer Programs for 2008 
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. 2008 SeasonLeConte Memorial Lodge is open Wednesday through Sunday 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM *Denotes Programs Especially For Children & Families MAY 2008 *Friday, May 2 8:00 PM Ben Cunningham-Summerfield, Yosemite National Park Interpretive Ranger American Indian Storytelling and Flute Saturday, May 3 8:00 PM Mike Lynch, Acting State Park Superintendent, Auburn State Recreational Area “State Guardians of Yosemite: The First Park Rangers” Sunday, May 4 8:00 PM Tom Bopp, Yosemite Musician & History Buff “John Muir & Teddy Roosevelt in Yosemite: 1903 Friday, May 9 8:00 PM Tom Arfsten, Yosemite Historian “Meet Galen Clark: Guardian of Yosemite” *Saturday, May 10 8:00 PM Rick Deutsch, Author, “Yosemite’s Half Dome” “Hiking Half Dome” *Sunday, May 11 7:00 – 9:00 PM Open House: Meet LeConte Memorial Lodge Curator & Sierra Club Volunteers Friday, May 16 8:00 PM Pete Devine, Educational Program Director, Yosemite Association “Dr. Steller’s Jay: A Visit with Dr. Steller” Saturday, May 17 8:00 PM Stephen J. Joseph, Bay Area Landscape Photographer & Printmaker Co-Author – Nature’s Beloved Son “A Centennial At Muir Wood’s” Panoramic Slide Show Sunday, May 18 8:00 PM Climate Change & “An Inconvenient Truth” Thursday, May 22 4:30 PM Climate Change & “An Inconvenient Truth” *Friday, May 23 2:00 – 2:30 PM Yosemite Valley School Poetry Festival Friday, May 23 8:00 PM Harold Wood, LeConte Memorial Lodge Committee Chair & Muir Historian “John Muir Around the World” *Saturday, May 24 8:00 PM Janet Wood, JPL/NASA Ambassador “View of the Solar System” *Sunday, May 25 7:00 – 9:00 PM Open House: Meet LeConte Memorial Lodge & Sierra Club Volunteers Wednesday, May 28 4:30 PM Climate Change and “An Inconvenient Truth” Thursday, May 29 8:00 PM Alison Colwell, Interdisciplinary Resources Biologist, Resources Management, YNP “Interesting Plants from Yosemite’s Unusual Habitats” Friday, May 30 8:00 PM Chris Olander, Northern California Poet “The Sounds that Nature Makes” Saturday, May 31 10:30 AM -12:30 PM Dr. Dale McNeal, Emeritus Professor of Botany, University of the Pacific “Botany Walk” Limited to 15 people, bring water & insect repellant Saturday, May 31 8:00 PM Dr. Dale McNeal, Emeritus Professor of Botany, University of the Pacific “Flowering Plants of Yosemite” JUNE 2008 Sunday, June 1 8:00 PM Dr. William R. Swagerty, Director, John Muir Center, University of the Pacific “John Muir: Life & Legacy” *Friday, June 6 8:00 PM Ben Cunningham-Summerfield, Yosemite National Park Interpretive Ranger “American Indian Storytelling & Flute” Saturday, June 7 10:30 AM Jim Lynch, Sierra Club Outings Leader, Long Time Hiker & Trail Worker “Yosemite Valley History Walk” Saturday, June 7 8:00 PM Susan Alcorn, Long-Distance Hiker & Author “We’re In the Mountains Not Over the Hill” “Women Back-Packing” Sunday, June 8 8:00 PM Bill Carroll, Yosemite National Park Post Master “The Mail Must Go Through: Postal Delivery in Yosemite” *Friday, June 13 8:00 PM Lee Terkelsen, Nature Photographer & Videographer “Along the John Muir Trail” – Nature Hiking Video *Saturday, June 14 8:00 PM Lee Terkelsen, Nature Photographer & Videographer “Across the Range: Hike from Sequoia to Kings Canyon” – Nature Hiking Video Sunday, June 15 8:00PM Sarah Stock, Yosemite National Park Ornithologist “Birds of Yosemite” *Thursday, June 19 8:00 PM Fred Stoss, Sierra Club Environmental Education Committee “Convenient Solutions to Global Warming” *Friday, June 20 10:30 AM – Nature Workshop Fred Stoss, Sierra Club Environmental Education Committee “It Runs Down Hills: Making Rivers, Streams, & Lakes. Water is Fun” *Friday, June 20 8:00 PM Fred Stoss, Sierra Club Environmental Education Committee “Getting It Right by Writing It. Helping Kids to Write a Nature Journal” *Saturday, June 21 10:30 AM – Nature Workshop Fred Stoss, Sierra Club Environmental Education Committee “How to write a Nature Journal” *Saturday, June 21 8:00 PM Fred Stoss, Sierra Club Environmental Education Committee “Global Warming: What We Can Tell Children” *Sunday, June 22 8:00 PM Rich Deutsch, Author, “Yosemite’s Half Dome” “Hiking Half Dome” *Friday, June 27 8:00 PM Dave Bengston, Director, Yosemite Mountaineering School “Climbing Yosemite Walls: Demonstration & Slide Presentation Saturday, June 28 8:00 PM David Carle, Retired State Park Ranger & Author “Water and the California Dream” “Water and the California Dream” Sunday, June 29 8:00 PM Janet Carle, Retired State Park Ranger, Mono Lake Tufa State Reserve “Mono Lake: Yosemite’s Eastern Neighbor: An Overview of the History & Natural History of Mono Lake” JULY 2008 Friday, July 4 8:00 PM Richard Wiebe, Professor, Fresno Pacific University & LML Committee Member “Henry David Thoreau: In Wildness (not Wilderness) is the preservation of the world. “Walking” Saturday, July 5 8:00 PM Richard Wiebe, Professor, Fresno Pacific University & LML Committee Member “Mary Austin: The Land of Little Rain” Sunday, July 6 8:00 PM Richard Wiebe, Professor, Fresno Pacific University & LML Committee Member “Edward Abbey: Keep it like it was. Desert Solitaire” Friday, July 11 8:00 PM Warren Cederborg, Author “Sacred Ground” “Yosemite in the 1960s” *Saturday, July 12 8:00 PM Lee Terkelsen, Nature Photographer & Videographer “Along the John Muir Trail” Sunday, July 13 8:00 PM Bob Madgic, Author “Shattered Air” “Calamitous Lightning Episode on the Summit of Half Dome” *Friday, July 18 8:00 PM Dave Bengston, Director, Yosemite Mountaineering School “Climbing Yosemite Walls: Demonstration & Slide Presentation”. Saturday, July 19 8:00 PM Jeff Schaefer, Geologist “Geology on Yosemite” Sunday, July 20 8:00 PM Dave Humphrey, YNP Branch Chief, History, Architecture & Landscape Division of Resource Management “Yosemite National Park History Program Update: History, Architecture & Landscapes” *Friday, July 25 10:30 AM Steve Riley, Author, “Little Tycooney and the Big Yosemite Race” “Kids Storytelling: Come Join the Story of Little Tycooney” *Friday, July 25 8:00 PM Steve Riley, Author, “Little Tycooney and the Big Yosemite Race” “Kids Storytelling: Come Join the Story of Little Tycooney” *Saturday, July 26 10:30 AM Lynne Simpson, Sierra Club Outing’s Leader “Let’s Get Talkin: Storytelling for Children” Saturday, July 26 7:00-9:00 PM Open House: Meet LeConte Memorial Lodge & Sierra Club Volunteers Sunday, July 27 8:00 PM Margaret Bloomer, Hiker “Along the Continential Divide: Five Month Hike” Thursday, July 31 4:30 PM “Climate Change & An Inconvenient Truth” AUGUST 2008 *Friday, August 1 8:00 PM Ben Cunningham-Summerfield, Yosemite National Park Interpretive Ranger “American Indian Storytelling & Flute” Saturday, August 2 8:00 PM Amy Racina, Author, “Angels in the Wilderness” “Surviving a 60 foot fall at Kings Canyon National Park” *Sunday, August 3 7:00-9:00 PM Open House: Meet LeConte Memorial Lodge & Sierra Club Volunteers *Friday, August 8 8:00 PM Mike Graf, Professor, Chico State University & Children’s Book Author -- “Harrowing Ascent of Half Dome” “Adventure Writing for Children & Families in Yosemite National Park” *Saturday, August 9 10:30 AM Mike Graf, Professor, Chico State University & Children’s Book Author – “Harrowing Ascent of Half Dome” “Adventure Writing for Children & Families in Yosemite National Park” *Saturday, August 9 8:00 PM Greg Stock, Yosemite National Park Geologist “Meltdown: The Rise & Recent Fall of Sierra Nevada Glaciers” *Sunday, August 10 7:00-9:00 PM Open House: Meet LeConte Memorial Lodge & Sierra Club Volunteers Thursday, August 14 8:00 PM Erik Westerlund, Yosemite National Park Interpretive Ranger “Time Travelers, Shape Shifters & Innovators: Yosemite’s Natural History” Friday, August 15 8:00 PM PROGRAM TO BE ANNOUNCED Saturday, August 16 8:00 PM Carl Zichella, Sierra Club, Regional Staff Director, Sacramento, California “The Challenge of Global Warming: Preserving Nature for Future Generations” Sunday, August 17 8:00 PM PROGRAM TO BE ANNOUNCED *Friday, August 22 8:00 PM Lee Terkelsen, Nature Photographer & Videographer “Along the John Muir Trail” narrated hiking video *Saturday, August 23 8:00 PM Lee Terkelsen, Nature Photographer & Videographer “Across the Range: Hike from Sequoia to Kings Canyon” narrated hiking video Sunday, August 24 8:00 PM Jack Hoeflich, Yosemite National Park Search & Rescue Ranger “Search & Rescue in Yosemite” *Friday, August 29 8:00 PM Janet Wood, JPL/NASA Ambassador “Views of the Solar System” Saturday, August 30 8:00 PM Harold Wood, LML Committee Chair & John Muir Historian “John Muir and the Animal Kingdom” *Sunday, August 31 7:00 – 9:00 PM Open House: Meet LeConte Memorial Lodge & Sierra Club Volunteers SEPTEMBER 2008 *Friday, September 5 8:00 PM Ben Cunningham-Summerfield, Yosemite National Park Interpretive Ranger “American Indian Storytelling & Flute” *Saturday, September 6 2:00 PM Chris Olander, Northern California Poet “The Sounds of Nature: Poetry Workshop for Children & Adults” Saturday, September 6 8:00 PM Chris Olander, Northern California Poet “The Sounds that Nature Makes” Sunday, September 7 8:00 PM Jack Hoeflich, Yosemite Search & Rescue Ranger “Search & Rescue in Yosemite” Thursday, September 11 8:00 PM Erik Westerlund, Yosemite National Park Interpretive Ranger “Time Travelers, Shape Shifters & Innovators: Yosemite’s Natural History Friday, September 12 8:00 PM Richard Wiebe, Professor, Fresno Pacific University & LML Committee Member “Gary Snyder: The Practice of the Wild” Saturday, September 13 8:00 PM Richard Wiebe, Professor, Fresno Pacific University & LML Committee Member “Terry Tempest Williams: Refuge, An Unnatural History of Family & Place” Sunday, September 14 8:00 PM James Downs, Poet & John Peterson, Poet & Publisher: Poetic Matrix Press “Nature & Spirit” – Poetry Reading Friday, September 19 8:00 PM Tom Arfsten, Yosemite Historian “Meet Galen Clark: Guardian of Yosemite” Saturday, September 20 8:00 PM PROGRAM TO BE ANNOUNCED Sunday, September 21 8:00 PM Peter & Donna Thomas, Book Artists & Hikers “Re-Walking John Muir’s Trip from San Francisco to Yosemite” Friday, September 26 8:00 PM Greg Stock, YNP Geologist “Climate Change and Yosemite National Park” *Saturday, September 27 8:00 PM Lee Terkelsen, Nature Photographer & Videographer “Along the John Muir Trail” narrated hiking video END OF SEASON PROGRAMMING
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 |
