1996

The Long Trip was revived in 1996 by Fern Khan, then Dean of Continuing Education, and Carol Hillman, a Bank Street alumna and former Board of Trustees member. Attendees to these "new" Long Trips include students, alumni, faculty, staff, and friends of Bank Street. The first of these took participants to Asheville, North Carolina in 1996.

They attended the renowned festival "Tell It In the Mountains: A Celebration of Storytelling" and experienced a workshop by noted storyteller Connie Regan Blake and Joan Blos, author and former Bank Street faculty. To create the mood, Joan placed a long string of beads, once owned by Lucy Sprague Mitchell, on the table in the center of our group. The next day, participants listened to storytellers from the region as well as from schools and heard the Gaelic language from the 100 year old storyteller, Ray Hicks. They dined with artists from the Qualla Artists Center and were awed by the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountains.

To view a timeline and map of the newer Long Trips, visit the Bank Street Continuing Professional Studies site.