Historical May 1978 notice or report. Original dates, prices, services and contacts describe the period; current availability has not been established.
The Washington University School of Continuing Education is sponsoring a series of spring and summer tours that range from a weekend to New Harmony, Ind., to a bicycle camping trip across Iowa.
One tour is to Giant City State Park in [place and time missing in source] to 5 p.m. on Saturday, May 20. The $17.50 fee includes chartered bus and box lunch.
A walking tour of historic Elsah, Ill., on Sunday, May 31, also is featured. The chartered bus will take its passengers along the river road with its magnificent views to Elsah on the bluffs of the Mississippi.
The treasurers of early Irish Art are at the Museum of Art, Carnegie Institute in Pittsburgh, Penn. The exhibit, spanning 3000 years of Irish history, includes the Book of Kells, the Book of Durrow, the Tara Brooch, the Ardagh Chalice, the shrine of St. Patrick’s bell and other subjects. The tour departs on Friday, July 7, and returns on Sunday, July 9. The $195 fee includes round trip airfare from St. Louis to Pittsburgh, two nights of lodging and admission to the museum.
The bicycle camping trip across Iowa will be led by an experienced leader, Lloyd N. Jacquot. The tour will begin on Saturday, July 29, and end on Saturday, Aug. 5. The fee is about $100. Food is not included but may be purchased en route.
The final tour is “Westward-Ho” with Dean Richard Batt of the Washington University School of Continuing Education. The tour, from Aug. 6 through 14, will go to Seattle to view the King Tut treasures, tour the Oregon and California coasts to San Francisco, take a jet boat ride on the Rogue River and visit wineries. The fee of $850 includes round trip airfare, lodging, eight meals and admission to the museum.
For more information or a flier, call 889-6744.
Originally published in The Paper, May 1978.
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Archival transcription note: One Giant City State Park sentence is incomplete; the source also prints Sunday May 31. Markers retained, no invented itinerary.
Original source: SD_Times1978_05.pdf, printed page(s) 11; PDF page(s) 11.
