On Wednesday, October 23rd at 1:30 pm the Lamoille Valley Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI) will hold their 7th session of the Fall semester at the Commodores Inn, 823 South Main Street, Rt. 100 Stowe, Vermont. Admission is $5 per lecture and $30. for the 9-lecture series. Join us for coffee and refreshments immediately following the session.

Wednesday's speaker, Bill Morris, is a cartographer and data scientist with Faraday Inc. in Burlington, VT, where his work focuses on finding and leveraging spatial relationships. As a lifelong Vermonter, he has built a sense of place through mapping past, present, and future in the Green Mountains. Cartographic technology has advanced at a startling pace in recent years, and shows no signs of slowing down. Using a set of meaningful maps as a guide, we'll fly backward and forward through cartographic history to give modern developments some context, and take a stab at what the future holds.

Next week on October 30th Kurt Valenta will discuss The Black Bear - Nature's Voracious Omnivore, the smallest of three bear species found in North America.