Where the colors are: a fall tour of New England

Binghamton University's Office of Continuing Education and Outreach is offering an Art/History Study Tour of New England Oct. 16-19, 2003. The bus tour will leave from Binghamton and includes stops at historic sites in Vermont and Massachusetts, including museums and historic homes, as well as a 26-mile ride through the scenic Vermont countryside in a fully restored 1930s passenger coach aboard a vintage train, the Green Mountain Flyer.

Highlights of the trip will include a visit to Hildene, the home built by President Lincoln's son Robert in Manchester, Vt.; 18th- and 19th-century houses in Historic Deerfield, Mass., a museum of New England history and art; the Brattleboro Museum and Art Center, housed in a 1915 railway station; and the Botanic Garden and Lyman Plant House at Smith College.

Trip leader Bill McClure, director of continuing education, is an enthusiastic and experienced trip leader who has led numerous art/history study tour trips over the past eight years. The tour series has won awards from the Continuing Education Association of New York and the University Continuing Education Association -- Mid-Atlantic Region.

For more information about this trip, or to register for it, go to this continuing education webpage, then click on the Art/History Tour: Fall in New England link.