England and Wales:
Highways and Byways
June 6–22, 2008
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Program Leaders: Jonathan Hill, professor of English, and Barbara Hill
This Study Travel program will take us down into the southwest of England, up into Wales, north to the Lake District, across the country to York, down the center to the Cotswolds, and finally back into London. We want you to experience a full range of the natural, cultural and historic sites so richly packed into these two countries. We shall visit the famous and the hidden, the awe-inspiring and the intimate. We shall give frequent talks on all aspects of the experience — the places we visit, the countryside we pass through, the foods we eat, the accents we encounter, and give as much personal direction and attention as will make your journey a memorable one.
We hope you will join us.
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Program Leaders
Jonathan and Barbara Hill were both born and grew up in England, in the town of Rugby, the county of Warwickshire, at the very center of the country. Rugby is best known for having given its name to the famous game, rugby football, first played at the school that Jonathan attended (and where, yes, he played rugby). Barbara went to primary school in Rugby and high school in Oxford. Subsequently she studied art in England and in Sweden. Jonathan went to university at Oxford (Keble College), taught English for two years at University College, Dublin, married Barbara (excellent life decision), and the two of them went off for two years in Gothenburg, Sweden. Jonathan was at the university, Barbara at Valands Konstskola, the city’s noted art college. In 1969 they came to Northfield, where Jonathan joined the St. Olaf Department of English. They like to say they came for a year and stayed for a lifetime.
At St. Olaf, Jonathan’s main teaching areas have been in 18th- and 19th-century British literature, in particular the Romantic period, and in contemporary Caribbean literature. His research has taken him into the history of graphic satire, and more recently into book history and book binding (he collects books). Barbara has been an artist, principally in silk-screen printing; a restaurateur — she owned and operated “Treats” for fourteen years in Northfield’s Archer House Hotel — and is now a student of Hindi, which she studies at the University of Minnesota in between trips to India (which she has visited some seven times). Together they have created a 2¼-acre garden behind their Northfield home, a little bit of England, an example of growing home.
They are used to traveling, and they are used to leading St. Olaf groups in Britain. They took three groups there in the 1980s. Most recently, in January 2006, they led a Study Travel program on Barbados and Saint Lucia in the Eastern Caribbean — a reflection of Jonathan’s interest in the region’s literature and culture. They travel to England, and Wales and Scotland, frequently, to visit friends and family, and just to enjoy their place of birth. It is their delight in their island country, in its layers of history and evolving modernities, its varied and beautiful landscapes, cathedralled cities and cottaged villages, mansions and gardens, highways and byways, its peoples and customs, that they wish to share, and discover anew, on this Study Travel program.
Program Fee
The program fee is $5,850 through Feb. 1, 2008. Based on double occupancy, it includes:
- Seminars by Jonathan Hill
- Assistance by Barbara Hill
- Roundtrip airfare from Minneapolis
- Accommodations
- Breakfast daily and several other group meals
- Group tours
- Admissions for group activities
- Ground transportation
- Gratuities
For single occupancy, add $800. For land only (making your own arrangements to and from London), subtract $1,300.
After Feb. 1, 2008, the program fee is $5,950 and could be subject to additional airfare because space at the group rate cannot be guaranteed after this date. Payment schedule
Continuing Education Units
Approximately 36 hours of continuing education are available.
Register Today
Go “behind the seen” with St. Olaf Study Travel. Register online, call toll free 866-255-6523 or fax 507-646-8232. A deposit of $350 per person guarantees your space.
