3636 - Our Town and Selected Poems and Stories for Your Enjoyment (Ross Friedman)
Course Description
Instructor: Ross Friedman
While I’ve taught 17 classes at OLLI over the last decade on a variety of works of literature, I realize there are many new scholars to OLLI who have never taken one of my classes. So I’m offering this sampling of works by Frost, Oliver, Keillor, Poe, Shakespeare, Thoreau, songs by recent American songwriters, Wordsworth, Shihab Nye, Bradbury, Cavafy among others I enjoy—including an in-class reading of my favorite play, Thornton Wilder’s Our Town--to those who would like to read and discuss great literature with an entertaining master teacher.
And while I’m looking forward to meeting some new friends in this course, I am not neglecting my old ones: Several of the works I’m teaching I have not taught at OLLI, and most I’m sure you will enjoy revisiting once again. I’d love for you to come take another course with me. I can promise a heartfelt good time will be had by all.
Bio: I taught high school English for 30 years, and from 1991-2006, when I retired, was the AP Literature teacher at Milton High School in Alpharetta. I took OLLI courses in 2007-2009 and, in the last decade have taught 17 literature classes at OLLI. I do this well. Our band has played many hundreds of gigs at retirement homes, church groups, and farmers’ markets over the last 20 years, and my wife Teresa and I can often be found playing our instruments at Chastain Park and City Springs to entertain the children and passersby. It’s all about having fun.