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Chesapeake's Perry Cabin Offers Sailing School

by Michael B. Dougherty (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Yachts & Sailing

The Inn at Perry Cabin, a luxurious manor house and spa on the Chesapeake Bay, is now offering access to an off-shore sailing school.

Built in 1816, The Inn at Perry Cabin was converted to a 25-acre, luxury country house hotel in 1980. Located in the Victorian resort town of St. Michael's, Maryland, the inn offers 80 rooms-most with a deck or patio-that feature a mix of modern and period furniture, fireplaces and Italian marble bathrooms stocked with Molton Brown products. A club-like lounge and the modern British fare of Sherwood's Landing, the inn's dining establishment, all lend a classic, yachting atmosphere to the property. That is bound only to increase with the addition of off-shore sailing lessons, through Steve and Doris Colgate's school. Choose either a three-day "Learn to Sail" course, a more leisurely paced half-day session (spread out over five days), or for those who have the basics down, a five-day "Bareboat Cruising" course. For those with limited time, or patience, there's also an intensive two-day course that keeps students on a Colgate 26 sailing boat for 48 hours and then offers five half-days on a 43'-49' cruiser. Perhaps best of all, you can avoid landlubbers and their wobbly sea legs by booking private lessons for two.

Tags: hotels, maryland, sailing, school, st. michaels, the inn at perry cabin

Learn To Fly Fish In Florida

by Deidre Woollard (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Luxury Travel & Hotels, Sports

Fly fishing and warmth await attendees of WaterColor Inn & Resort's Orvis Fly Fishing School in northwest Florida. A two-day course offers instruction in everything from learning to set up fly rods to perfecting new casting techniques. The course is offered year-round on select Tuesdays/Wednesdays and Saturdays/Sundays.

The two-day course kicks off with an overview of the program and classroom presentation on lines, rods and reels. Students receive tutorials on the basic casting stroke, shooting line, false casting and roll cast and test what they have learned with some outdoor practice. Day one concludes with a knot tying seminar and discussion on fly fishing equipment and accessories.

The next morning begins with a lesson on fly selection, as well as tips on how to handle, photograph and release fish properly. Students then embark on an afternoon fishing excursion to local lakes or the Gulf (depending on the time of year and weather conditions), where they will hook fresh and saltwater fish.

The WaterColor Resort Fly Fishing School is offered year-round on select dates in 2010 for $470 per person. The price includes professional instruction, use of Orvis fly rods and reels, leaders, flies, waders, vests and fishing licenses, as well as lunch both afternoons. Lodging at the resort is additional.

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Tags: florida, fly fishing, fly fishing school, FlyFishing, FlyFishingSchool, orvis, school, watercolor resort, WatercolorResort

What Oprah & Obama Will Be Watching This Weekend

by Jared Paul Stern (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Events, Charity, Children, Big Givers

No, not the latest bloated-budget Hollywood thriller, but something much closer to home: The Providence Effect, an award-winning documentary about Providence-St. Mel, a small school in Chicago's gritty East Garfield Park that has achieved an incredible 100% college acceptance rate against all odds.

Oprah deserves at least some of the credit; she gave the school $1 million to help fund the educational juggernaut that has been called the future of education. Obama meanwhile visited the school in 1998 and gave an incredible inspirational speech that showed he was destined for the highest office in the land.

The movie centers on the equally inspiring journey of the school's principal Paul J. Adams III, who has challenged the Chicago school system for 30 years with his revolutionary approaches to teaching, and also founded the Providence Englewood Charter School. Of course the Obamas and Oprah have been sent copies to view in their personal screening rooms, but the film opens in select theaters nationwide this Friday.

Tags: Barack Obama, BarackObama, Chicago, education, Obama, Oprah, Oprah Winfrey, OprahWinfrey, school

Year Up, Charity of the Day

by Rigel Celeste (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Charity, Charity of the Day

Although opportunities abound in this country, many of them depend on having a decent education and a basic skill set that isn't always available to many of young people -- especially those living in urban areas. Year Up is a year long program for urban young adults age 18-24 aimed at filling in the educational cracks and giving them the tools and skills they need to move on to higher education and full-time jobs. Originally founded in Boston 5 years ago, Year Up now also has locations in New York, Providence, and Washington D.C.

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Tags: charities, charity, charity of the day, CharityOfTheDay, children, education, school, urban, year up, YearUp, youth

Lacoste Canvas Messenger Bag, Handbag of the Day

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Handbags

It is only the middle of September and already it seems as though the "back to school season" has long since passed. Given that it started in June, perhaps it's not all that surprising. In any case, there are still many great bags that are suitable for toting around campus or back and forth to the office, if you're out of school but still have a lot to carry. The Lacoste Canvas Messenger Bag is from the designer's new casual line. It is made of durable canvas and comes in both blue and red. The clean lines of the bag, which is very roomy, are actually highlighted by the front zippered pocket and the extended snap tabs on the front flap. Price: $125..

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Tags: bag, handbag, handbag of the day, messenger, school, tote

Little Luxuries for Dorms

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Decor

Dorm rooms, even the nicest ones, are not luxury accommodations by any stretch of the imagination. If you fill them with luxury furniture, install some wall panels and have all the latest gadgets, it's a good start. Unfortunately, this isn't really an option for most college students. Forbes has put together a guide to some affordable luxuries that are appropriate for a dorm room. The music-lover (or the heavy sleeper) can try the Portable iPod Travel Alarm Clock ($99) and a gadget-loving student might enjoy a miniature drink vending machine ($150), with a built in refrigeration system. And, to make the communal bathroom experience a little more bearable, try a monogrammed Horchow robe ($190).

Check out the whole list for a few more ideas.

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Tags: college, college student, dorm, dorm room, gadget, gift, gifts, ipod, robe, school, university

John Lennon's Schoolbook Auctioned

by Nicole Weston (RSS feed) —

Filed under: Auctions

One of John Lennon's schoolbooks was sold for $226,150 in a London auction of rock memorabilia. The auction house, Cooper Owen, had set a reserve price of more than $175,000 for the book, which was a copybook titled "My Anthology" and contained 10 pages of full color drawings done by the 12-year old Lennon to illustrate the lyrics of poems that were part of his literature curriculum, including The Walrus and the Carpenter and Agincourt.

If only I had known that used schoolbooks could go for so much, I wouldn't have spent so much time trying to unload my old textbooks at the end of every semester at university. Needless to say, the illustration quality in a calculus textbook would have to be fairly high to compete with Lennon's sketches, even as a child.

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Tags: anthology, auction, beatles, book, copybook, drawings, john lennon, lennon, music, school, schoolbook, textbook