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Trip transportation is provided only if so noted in the description. |
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All
bus tours leave promptly from the main parking lot at Cheltenham High
School. Be sure to note the time of departure for your trip. If you miss the bus,
there is no refund. |
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return times are approximate. |
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If
you leave your car in the high school parking area for the day, please park
away from the school, near Route 309 in one of the non-numbered spaces. The bus
will meet you there. |
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No children are permitted on trips. Individuals must be in 9th grade or above to register. |
CTAS makes every effort to honor our commitment to trip participants. However, we reserve the right to alter itineraries due to weather or other events beyond our control.
A MANHATTAN DAY WITH BOOKS
Often referred to
as the “Main Branch,” the magnificent Beaux-Arts landmark building on Fifth
Avenue and 42nd Street that houses the New York Public Library is not a branch
of the library
at all. Rather, it houses the research library's rich and diverse collections
that have evolved
into one of the world's preeminent public resources for the study of human
thought, action,
and experience. After a docent-led tour, we will have lunch at Trattoria Alba, a
nearby restaurant. In the afternoon, we will visit the Morgan Library and Museum
which began as the private library of financier Pierpont Morgan. Guides will
take us through the building and the current exhibit of more than 100 splendid
illuminated miniatures including pages from one of the world's most important
extant Dutch manuscripts, The Hours of Catherine of Cleaves. Please wear
comfortable shoes since many of the floors are marble. Cost includes
transportation, docents, lunch, snacks and gratuities.
550 - $114
Considerable Walking !!!
| Thursday, March 25 | Bus leaves Cheltenham High School |
| 7:30 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. |
promptly at 7:30 a.m. |
A PHILADELPHIA DAY WITH BOOKS
Visit the famed Philadelphia Rosenbach brothersʼ nineteenth century townhouse. Learn of their interest in the Gratz family and early American Judaica. See the exhibit Moore Adventures in Wonderland which focuses on the poet Marianne Moore and the work of mathematician and cleric Charles Dodgson whom we know by the pen name Lewis Carroll. Under the guidance of Rosenbach museum docents see original copies of many classics. We will interrupt our studies for a gourmet lunch with wine at the nearby Branzino Restaurant. Transportation is by school bus. Cost includes transportation, lunch, entrance fees, docents and gratuities.
551
- $93
Moderate walking - !!
| Thursday, April 15 | Bus leaves Cheltenham High School |
| 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. | promptly at 9 a.m. |
MODERN SCULPTURE AND ARCHITECTURE IN PHILADELPHIA
Join us as we visit
the sites of modern sculpture and buildings of cutting edge architecture in
our city. Despite the economic turndown, new projects continue to rise, and new
buildings dot the landscape. Additionally, this city has one of the greatest
public sculpture collections in the world. Our tour will take us to sites from
the Delaware to the Schuylkill, as we admire the
works of sculpture masters such as Leonard Baskin, Calder, Rodin, DiSuvero and
Isamu
Noguchi. We'll visit the tallest building in town and look at how some center
city neighborhoods are filling with new high rise condominiums. We will have
lunch at Amada Restaurant in center city. Cost includes transportation, fees,
tour guide, lunch and gratuities.
552 - $96
Moderate Walking !!
| Thursday, April 22 | Bus leaves Cheltenham High School |
| 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. | promptly at 10 a.m. |
TWO NEW YORK MUSEUMS THE METROLPOLITAN AND THE GUGGENHEIM
Join us for a day
of art in New York City. Our bus will arrive first at the Metropolitan Museum
of Art where we will have a docent-led tour of the museum's landmark exhibition
of their wide ranging Picasso collection. This extensive compilation of 150
works in varied media, such as painting, drawings, sculptures, ceramics and
artist's prints, has never been seen in its entirety and reflects the remarkable
breadth of the artist's long and influential career. After the tour, there will
be time to explore other galleries. Visit the newly renovated American Wing,
which features sculpture, Tiffany stained glass windows, furniture, and much
more. Discover the unusual instruments of the South Pacific or the Victorian
Photo collage. Relax with lunch on your own (a list of restaurants will be
provided), and then it is on to the Guggenheim Museum. There you will enjoy an
audio tour which focuses on the Museum's permanent collection, the special
exhibition and Frank Lloyd Wright's architecture. In celebration of the museum's
50th anniversary, the spiraling rotunda will be filled with visionary projects
by 200 artists, architects and designers which were specially commissioned for
this event. Cost includes transportation, entrance fees, guided tour,
acoustaguide, snacks and gratuities.
553
- $88
Considerable Walking !!!
| Tuesday, April 27 | Bus leaves Cheltenham High School |
| 7 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. | promptly at 7 a.m. |
BROOKLYN II
By popular demand,
Joe will be back to escort us through the “fourth largest city in the USA!”
This trip will take us to several old, diverse Brooklyn neighborhoods including
Sunset Park with
its harbor view and stone houses, Chinatown, Hassidic Borough Park and Italian
Bensonhurst.
Then we'll continue on our way to Coney Island, called “Sodom by the Sea” and
Brighton
Beach dubbed “Little Odessa.” Before we visit other legendary Brooklyn
neighborhoods we
will have lunch at the famous Primorski Russian restaurant. Then it's off to
Sheepshead Bay,
originally a fishing village, Flatbush (think Barbra Streisand and Woody Allen)
and Crown
Heights on our way back to downtown Brooklyn and the road home – all time and
weather permitting. Cost includes transportation, guide, lunch, snacks and
gratuities
554
- $99
Considerable Walking !!!
| Tuesday, May 4 | Bus leaves Cheltenham High School |
| 7:15 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. | promptly at 7:15 a.m. |
NEW JERSEY SURPRISES
Our day will begin
in Princeton, New Jersey, at Morven, the eighteenth century home of
Richard Stockton, a signer of the Declaration of the Independence. In the
twentieth century,
the mansion also served as the former New Jersey governorsʼ home. We will be
treated to a
docent-led tour of the mansion to view the eighteenth and early nineteenth
century portraits,
silver, furniture, and porcelain which fill this fascinating historic home. Our
bus will then take
us to Montclair, New Jersey, where we will have plenty of time for browsing the
antique shops and having lunch at one of the many cafés with outdoor seating on
the busy Church Street. A restaurant list will be distributed. A very short ride
on the bus will take us to the Montclair Art Museum, which is the best kept
secret in New Jersey. A docent will take us through the permanent collection
which houses art of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, modern and
contemporary art as well as an amazing Native American art collection. Come join
us for this very pleasant day which should be educational, fun and relaxing.
Cost includes transportation, entrance fees, docents, snacks and gratuities.
555
- $69
Considerable Walking !!!
| Thursday, May 6 | Bus leaves Cheltenham High School |
| 8:30 a.m. to 6:15 p.m. | promptly at 8:30 a.m. |
CHESTERTOWN, MARYLAND
Founded in 1706 on
the banks of the Chester River, Chestertown, Maryland has been
described as an “architectural tour de force.” Grand homes of wealthy merchants
and more
modest dwellings survive from the eighteenth century along with interesting
nineteenth and
early twentieth century buildings. The town's broad shaded streets, picturesque
waterfront
and unrushed pace of life have also survived. Put on your walking shoes and join
us on a
guided walking tour of the National Register Historic District followed by lunch
at the beautifully restored Victorian Imperial Restaurant. We continue our
walking tour along the waterfront, then stop for an afternoon buffet tea at the
restored colonial White Swan Tavern, said to have served General George
Washington. There will be time to browse in the Historic
District's many art galleries, crafts, antiques and other diverse shops before
we end our day.
Cost includes transportation, guided tours, admission fees, lunch, afternoon
tea, snacks and
gratuities
556
- $115
Considerable Walking !!!
| Tuesday, May 18 | Bus leaves Cheltenham High School |
| 7:45 a.m. to 7 p.m. | promptly at 7:45 a.m. |
THREE CENTURIES OF HISTORIC HARLEM INCLUDING A TOUR OF THE APOLLO THEATER
Our Brooklyn guide,
Joe, knows Harlem well. He will lead a walking/bus tour (depending on
weather and traffic) of America's largest African-American community, taking in
some historic
landmark districts, fine churches, streets of lovely row homes and streets of
stately homes. A
highlight will be a tour of the historic Apollo Theater, “where stars are born
and legends are
made,” led by Billy Mitchell. He will share his insider backstage stories and
the history of the
Apollo where such performers as Duke Ellington, Billy Holiday, Gladys Knight and
the
Temptations took the stage. Enjoy a soul food lunch at the church run by the
United House
of Prayer for All People. We will end our day with a docent-led tour of the 1765
Morris-Jumel
Mansion, once home of Aaron Burr and used as Washington's headquarters during
the Battle
of Harlem. Cost includes transportation, guide, admission fees, lunch, snacks
and gratuities.
557
- $107
Considerable Walking !!!
| Tuesday, May 25 | Bus leaves Cheltenham High School |
| 7 a.m. to 6:30 p.m. | promptly at 7 a.m. |
FRENCH CULINARY INSTITUTE
We begin our trip
at the Green Market at Union Square where everything is grown, produced
or crafted within 100 miles of New York City. The market has a great range of
organic and traditional foods, home-baked pastries and all things wonderful.
Keep your eye out for Mario
Batali and other famous chef-personalities who love to frequent the market.
Bring along a
cooler to stash your purchases. After the market, we head down to SoHo for an
impressive
tour of the French Culinary Institute, home to Jacques Pepin. We will have a
sumptuous
gourmet lunch complete with wine in the International Culinary Theater of the
school. We'll
take some time to explore Shoos artsy neighborhood before heading home.
Cost includes transportation, guided tours, lunch with wine and soft beverages,
snack and
gratuities.
558
- $124
Considerable Walking !!!
| Wednesday, May 26 | Bus leaves Cheltenham High School |
| 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. | promptly at 8 a.m. |
THE BEST OF
MID-CENTURY MODERN ARCHITECTURE
PHILIP JOHNSON'S GLASS HOUSE AND MORE
Enjoy a day in New
Canaan, Connecticut, a quaint 300-year-old village with idyllic scenery,
distinctive stonewalls, and mansions. Phillip Johnson, the wealthy and eccentric
architect, led
the modern movement here that resulted in almost 100 mid-century modern homes in
the
area. Other members of the Harvard Five (Marcel Breuer, Landis Gores, John
Johansen, and
Eliot Noyes) followed him. Johnson's Glass House, built in 1949, is one of the
most important
icons of modern architecture. It is a marriage of challenging architecture and
captivating
landscape. Our day will include a docent-led walking tour on the grounds and
through several
buildings on Johnson's estate. A step-on guide will lead a bus tour of other
selected midcentury modern private home in the New Canaan area. Our day will be
complemented with a leisurely lunch at Gates Restaurant. This is a day for
people who appreciate unique midmodern architecture and modern art. Cost
includes transportation, guided tours, lunch, snacks and gratuities.
559
- $149
Considerable Walking !!!
| Wednesday, June 2 | Bus leaves Cheltenham High School |
| 6:45 a.m. to 7 p.m. | promptly at 6:45 a.m. |
A DAY BY THE SEA WITH THE WIZARD
We will toddle off
to Long Beach Island, New Jersey, where the “Wizard” will show us his
island, with an emphasis on the “Queen City,” Beach Haven. This city was
primarily built by
Philadelphia Quakers and was originally a retreat for asthmatics and hay fever
sufferers. We
will visit two great museums – the Long Beach Island Historic Museum and the
fabulous, nearly
new, Museum of New Jersey Maritime History. Lunch will be at a restaurant
overlooking
Little Egg Harbor Bay. Our guide, Richard E. Plunkett, “The Wizard,” is an
architectural
seashore historian, a preservationist, a teacher and an antiques dealer. It will
be a very full
day of tours, museums and lunch on a magical island, and it will be extremely
difficult not to
have a wonderful time as we follow the Wizard down the yellow brick road. Cost
includes transportation, tours, lunch, snacks and gratuities.
560
- $86
Moderate Walking !!
| Tuesday, June 8 | Bus leaves Cheltenham High School |
| 8 a.m. to 6 p.m. | promptly at 8 a.m. |
MILFORD: GREY TOWERS, FAUCHERE AND LLAMAS
We begin our day in
the Poconos in quaint, artistic Milford at the national historic landmark,
Grey Towers, home of Gifford Pinchot, founder of the USDA Forest Service and
twice governor of Pennsylvania. Pinchot was a pioneer in the field of
conservation. After a guided tour of the house and gardens we will have a
delightful lunch at the beautifully restored Hotel
Fauchere. There will be some time to browse the shops and studios of Milford
before our special tour of a working llama farm. On this former dairy farm,
llamas roam freely in the 150 year old pastures. We will learn how llamas are
bred and lots more about these unusual animals. (Llamas 101!) Cost includes
transportation, entrance fees, guided tours, lunch, snacks and gratuities
561
- $88
Considerable Walking !!!
| Thursday, June 10 | Bus leaves Cheltenham High School |
| 7:30 a.m. to 6 p.m. | promptly at 7:30 a.m. |
TRIPS AND TOURS
Make out a separate card for each
person registering.