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 third of these trips took participants to Saint Helena Island, South Carolina in 2000.
Visit the 2000 image gallery to see pictures from the trip.
Participants visited the Historic Penn Center, the first institution designed to educate freed slaves, also called the Port Royal experiment, founded in 1862 by Laura Towne and Ellen Murray and supported by Philadelphia Quakers. They learned about the preservation of the Gullah/Geechee culture, sweet grass basket weaving, and of the former slaves work as skilled builders, carpenters, and artisans.
To view a timeline and map of the newer Long Trips, visit the Bank Street Continuing Professional Studies site.
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Long Trip 2000 Saint Helena Island Schedule
Bank Street Division of Continuing Education
Cultural Services Itinerary for April 2000 Bank Street College Long Trip.
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Long Trip 2000 Saint Helena Island Reflections
Carol Hillman
Reflections from the 2000 Long Trip to Saint Helena Island by Carol Hillman, Division of Continuing Education, Bank Street College.