Tour Description: The Magnolia Grill is located in downtown Fort Walton Beach and is equal parts museum and restaurant. The home was ordered from a 1910 Sears Catalog. It is filled with pieces of local and military history. Tom and Peggy Rice, the owners, have deep family roots. Tom Rice will lead you through the entire restaurant explaining the significance of many items. He will also walk you around the outside to explain unique construction.

Tour Host Bio: Tom Rice is not only a restaurant owner, but a pillar of the Fort Walton Beach community having won many awards for his civic contributions. To name just a few, he received the Presidential Lifetime Achievement Award by establishing the Fisher House of the Emerald Coast for veterans and their families and serves on the Board of Directors of Veterans Florida raising funds to construct the Veterans Tribute Tower at Beal Memorial Cemetery.

Notes: We will meet at Magnolia Grill at 9:30-11:00, 157 Brooks Street SE, Fort Walton Beach. Following the tour, you are invited and encouraged to stay for lunch (at your expense) and enjoy this unique restaurant and its vast and varied menu.

Course Description: This class will look at our relationship with machines, and some disastrous accidents, and incidents, that have happened over the years in the aviation, maritime fields, and some even some unusual criminal activities.  We will look at what went wrong and what was done to fix the problems. Accidents are normally a series of small incidents that end up causing something to fail. I will provide visual aids and summaries for each class.

Instructor Bio: Robert Huffman retired as an Air Force NCO after 27 years of service.  He was a C-130 Crew Chief and Air Force Instructor.  He also worked for Boeing. He has a bachelor’s degree in political science.

Course Description: Class will study the "Original Intent" of the Framers using writings of the Founders.  A study of The Federalist Papers and other writings by the Framers will be used.  Mr. Brock has developed a system for memorizing parts of the Constitution.  In addition, a Dramatization of the events at the Constitutional Convention will be shown. 

Instructor Bio: Paul Wendel Brock has a B.A. in History and a M.A. in Educational Leadership. He taught Advanced Placement (college level) History at Ft. Walton Beach High School and retired after 30 years. 

Notes: $3.00 for materials for a pocket size Constitution will be collected in class. 

Course Description:  This course includes Anne Frank’s diary and other writings. This is a 6-week class.

Instructor Bio:  Pam is a retired, secondary language arts/history teacher who was a Mandel Teacher Fellow at the US Holocaust Memorial Museum. 

Notes:  This is a 6-week class meeting, September 8, 15, 22, 29 October 6 and 13. The teacher will provide books for the course.

Course Description:  Course will consist of short novels, articles, and short stories including: To Kill a Mockingbird, The Reader, Tuesdays With Morrie, and The Things They Carried.  This is a 6-week class.  Articles and short stories will be provided.  Participants may choose to watch movie/read book/come for discussion. A reading list will be sent within two days of registration.

Instructor Bio:  Pam is a retired, secondary language arts/history teacher. She is also a pianist.

Notes:  This is a 6-week class meeting September 8, 15, 22, 29, October 6 and 13. Articles and short stories will be provided. Participants may choose to watch movie/read book/come for discussion. A reading list will be sent within two days of registration.

Course Description: The Revolutionary War started in the spring of 1775 at Lexington and Concord. In June 1776 the Second Continental Congress appointed a committee to prepare a declaration of independence. This course will examine the history of British America, the French and Indian War, the rise of the revolutionary resistance, the committees of correspondence, Boston Tea Party, the Intolerable Acts, the First and Second Continental Congress, Paine’s Common Sense and the move toward independence, Richard Henry Lee’s resolution, Jefferson’s drafting of the declaration of independence and the changes made by Congress before its adoption on July 4, 1776. The course will look at the early days of the Revolution from the summer to the early winter of 1776.

Instructors Bio: Dr. Marie Hallion is an Adjunct Professor at the Graduate School and the School of Undergraduate Studies of the University of Maryland Global Campus. She worked inside the White House from 1972 to 1978 during the Nixon, Ford and Carter Administrations and experienced two presidential transitions. She then moved to the newly created Energy Department in 1978. Marie specializes in organizational theory and a wide range of courses in government and politics. Awards she has received include the UMUC Teaching Excellence Award, the Graduate School Commitment to Excellence Award and the Professional Achievement Award.

Course Description: Welcome to Justice Potpourri, an engaging sampler of the most fascinating, complex, and misunderstood corners of the modern criminal justice system. We will go far beyond the sensational headlines to explore how changing data, cutting-edge technology, and shifting societal values are completely rewriting the rules of crime and punishment.  

Instructor Bio: Dr. Kathy Johnson received a BS in 1987 and MS in 1989 in Criminal Justice from Illinois State University. Her PhD in Criminology is from Indiana University in Pennsylvania. She has been a faculty member in Criminology and Criminal Justice at UWF since August 2000.

Course Description:  From a Roman backwater to a worldwide maritime empire, with ¼ the world’s people.

Instructor Bio:  Dan received his Ph.D. in history from Auburn and has taught for CLL for 20 years.