The Osher Lifelong Learning
Institute (OLLI), headquartered on Widener University’s Exton campus, will
offer a course for the first time this spring at the university’s main campus
in Chester, PA.
“From the Other Side: Delaware
Valley’s Ghosts and Hauntings” will run from 10 to 11:30 a.m. for three
consecutive Saturdays beginning April 27 on Main Campus. The course, taught by
Dr. J. Joseph Edgette, will explore the ghost tales and stories that are part
of oral tradition, with illustrated accounts of actual cases in the Delaware
Valley. Edgette will present the research and analysis that have led scholars
to conclude there are ten specific reasons to explain the cause of a spirit’s
return and its typical manifestations.
Edgette retired from Widener
University in 2008 after completing 29 years of teaching at the undergraduate
and graduate levels in the College of Arts and Sciences, where he also had
administrative responsibilities. He currently holds the academic rank of
professor emeritus and folklorist at the university.
The course, which is open to the
public, is a part of the OLLI program that is otherwise for those aged 50 and
over. The program includes more than 50 courses on a wide variety of subjects
at Widener’s Exton campus as well as several courses at the retirement
communities of Maris Grove in Glen Mills, Kendal-Crosslands in Kennett Square,
and Freedom Village in Coatesville.
A fee of $40 will cover the
three-session course on Delaware Valley’s ghosts for non-OLLI members. OLLI
members, who are enrolled in courses at the Exton campus, may include the ghost
course as part of their membership fee.
For further information and to
register for the course, contact the Exton Campus at 484-713-0088, or visit www.widener.edu/olli.
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