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A Basque Studies Elderhostel Each summer the Elderhostel program brings senior citizens (55 years of age and older) to the University of Nevada-Reno for a week-long course of study. Last summer the topics varied considerably and each participant took several unrelated courses. One of these was a one hour per day course on Basque culture. This proved to be so popular that during the summer of 1987 there will be an Elderhostel course of study devoted entirely to Basque subjects. It will consist of two hour long sessions daily of an Introduction to the Basque Language and an hour and a half seminar on Basque culture and history. There will also be folk music and at least one evening excursion to a Basque hotel. The one week course will run from June 14 to June 20, 1987. Cost is $205 per person which includes lodging, food and tuition (travel to Reno is not included). Interested persons should contact: Elderhostel Program Division of Continuing Education University of Nevada-Reno Reno, Nevada 89557 Sweet Promised Land The first and, in many respects, the best book about Basques in the American West is Robert Laxalt’s work Sweet Promised Land. First published in 1957 and long out of print, this classic has been reissued as part of the Basque Book Series of the University of Nevada Press. Sweet Promised Land paints an affectionate portrait of Robert’s immigrant father, Dominique Laxalt, who returns to his Basque homeland after living nearly half a century as a sheepherder and rancher in the American West. The nostalgic trip to the Basque Country ends poignantly as Dominique finally realizes that America has become his true home. The new edition contains an illustration by the noted western artist George Carlson and a foreword by William A. Douglass. Sweet Promised Land is available from the University of Nevada Press at a cost of $16.00 per copy (order blank enclosed with this newsletter). At the same time there is a numbered edition with special bindings and paper stock and autographed by the author that is available. This collector’s item edition is limited to 150 copies and will be sold at a cost of $125 each on a first-come basis. If interested in the limited edition, you should contact the University of Nevada Press immediately (phone number 702-784-6573). Basque Country Tour Photographer-writer Robert Fried and his French Basque wife Helene Senhaux will lead a 15-day tour to the Basque Country next May 9-24. The participants will visit Bayonne, San Sebastián, Guernica, La Guardia, Pamplona, St. Jean-Pied- de-Port, Bordeaux and Paris. For further information contact: Travel Associates, Inc. 38 Miller Avenue Mill Valley, CA 94941 |
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