CELL's 'SU on the Road' Series Continues This Spring

SALISBURY, MD---The Salisbury University Center for Extended and Lifelong Learning’s (CELL’s) “SU on the Road” series continues with a selection of bus and boat tours this spring.

Activities begin with two Chesapeake Bay lighthouse tours. From 10 a.m.-3 p.m. Tuesday, April 24 (rain date: Tuesday, May 8), CELL hosts “Northern Lights and a Bridge,” a boat tour of the Baltimore, Bloody Point, Thomas Point, Sandy Point and Baltimore lighthouses, as well as the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. Cost is $160 per person, including lunch.

“Solomons Southern Lights,” from 10 a.m.-5 p.m. Tuesday, May 1 (rain date: Tuesday, May 8), offers an up-close look at the Drum Point Lighthouse at the Calvert Maritime Museum, along with the Hooper Lighthouse and Sharps Island Light, with a stop for lunch and shopping in Solomons Island, MD. Cost is $150 per person.

Both lighthouse tours depart from the Marker 5 restaurant in Tilghman Island, MD.

Bus tours begin on Friday, May 4, with a visit to lower Eastern Shore Virginia from 8 a.m.-5 p.m. Stops include the Barrier Island Center in Machipongo, VA, and an afternoon in Cape Charles, VA. Cost is $75 per person.

On Saturday, May 5, CELL offers a bus trip to Washington, D.C., for that day’s Around the World Embassy Tour. More than 40 embassies are expected to open their doors to visitors, showcasing their countries’ food, art, dance, fashion and music. Once in Washington, participants will be on their own to visit the embassies they please. The bus departs SU at 7:30 a.m. Cost is $50 per person.

A self-guided tour of the Barnes Foundation art institute in Philadelphia is available Wednesday, May 9. The foundation is home to one of the nation’s premier Impressionist art collections. Participants will have the afternoon to spend on their own in the city. The bus departs SU at 7 a.m. Cost is $100 per person.

This spring’s series concludes with “An Island Out of Time,” a walking tour of Smith Island, MD, led by Tom Horton of SU’s Environmental Studies Department, on Thursday, May 17. An environmental reporter for the Baltimore Sun for 35 years and former Smith Island resident, Horton is the award-winning author of several books about the Chesapeake Bay. The tour includes a Smith Island cake-baking demonstration.

Participants meet at the Crisfield City Dock at 9 a.m., returning at 4:30 p.m. Cost is $180 per person, including lunch, ferry transportation and an autographed copy of Horton’s book about Smith Island, An Island Out of Time.

Pre-registration is required for all “SU on the Road” tours. Lunch is not included unless otherwise noted. To RSVP visit the CELL website at www.salisbury.edu/cell.

For more information call Molly Riordan at 410-543-6090 or email mkriordan@salisbury.edu.