Adult Learners Institute announces its October 2025 classes, returning to Manchester with The Bob Hope Story
submitted by Mary Spaan, ALI-Publicity
Adult Learners Institute (ALI) Michigan continues its fall 2025 term with six more adult learners’ classes in the 5HealthyTowns area of Chelsea, Dexter, Grass Lake, Manchester, and Stockbridge.
October brings us cool nights and bright sunny days with dazzling fall colors. What better time to spend outdoors, perhaps gardening? Would you like to Attract Amazing Hummingbirds? Carol Brodbeck, a master gardener, will not only tell you why these pollinators like certain shapes and colors, but you will also learn about hummingbird migration, nest building, and chick raising. This in-person and Zoom class is offered in cooperation with WCC on Monday, October 1, at the Chelsea Retirement Community-Crippen Building.
Our modern road system has made us accustomed to traveling long or short distances with ease, but at the end of the 19th century, the U.S. road system was primitive, serving only local communities. By the mid 1920s this had changed dramatically. On Tuesday, October 7, Jim Craft, an historian specializing in 19th-century America, will present Michigan’s Good Roads Movement. He will explain why the early roads were so bad and what brought about the changes we see in today’s road system. This in-person class will be held at the Chelsea State Bank (downtown office).
Do you want to be one of those people who can spin a tale before a rapt audience? Come to The Art of Storytelling, a four-session interactive workshop led by Beverly Black and Laura Lee Hayes. These master storytellers will facilitate the program in which you will give and get feedback, as you try different techniques to find what works best for you. Both beginners and more experienced storytellers are welcome. These in-person classes will meet on four Thursdays, October 9, 16, 23, and 30, at the Chelsea Retirement Community-Crippen Building.
Take a three-week whirlwind tour of the human brain when you come in-person or via Zoom to How Does My Brain Work? Your tour guide is neuroscientist Charlie Taylor, PhD, who will explain the complex workings of our brains, which function only with atoms, chemistry, and biology. These classes will be held on three Tuesdays in October, the 16, 21, and 28, at the Chelsea Retirement Center, Dancey Building.
Learn the story behind the 70-year career of one of America’s most popular comedians at The Bob Hope Story, presented on Monday, October 20, by long-time favorite John Hauger. Famous for his one-liners, America’s King of Comedy’s origins in Vaudeville and Broadway are often overshadowed by his later successes in radio, movies, and TV. This in-person class will be held at the Manchester District Library.
On Monday, October 27, Dr. Henry Aldridge will present Sergei Diaghilev and the Ballets Russes. A native of Russia, this promoter and entrepreneur founded the Ballets Russes in Paris in 1909, and commissioned three groundbreaking scores from Stravinsky: The Firebird, Petrushka, and The Rite of Spring. Discover why some works were so controversial as you watch complete performances of The Firebird and Debussy’s Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun, with Nijinsky’s original choreography. This in-person class will be held at the Chelsea Senior Center.
Online registration is available through ALI-Michigan’s website, www.alimichigan.org. There you will find complete class information and can register and make payment for classes. For further information, email info@alimichigan.org or write to ALI Michigan, PO Box 134, Chelsea, MI 48118.
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