The Long Trip was revived in 1998 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 seventh of these trips took participants to Knoxville & Nashville, Tennessee in 2005.
Visit the 2005 image gallery to see pictures from the trip.
The 2005 trip focused on Civil Rights, Social and Environmental justice. Participants visited Maryville College founded in 1819 on the premise that ALL people could and should be educated. This ended in 1901 when state laws forbade mixing the races. They also visited the Highlander Center known for its focus on popular education, labor, civil rights, environmental justice and immigration issues and empowering people for action, and sang with Guy and Candie Carawan! The next stop was the Black Cultural Center at the University of Tennessee, its Law School, the Norris Dam providing cheap electricity for the region and flood control, and Alex Haley farm where its ark-shaped chapel was designed by Maya Lin. On to Clinton, site of the first (peaceful) march in school desegregation and then to Nashville, and then the Belle Meade Plantation famous for breeding thoroughbred horses; learned much about the 60’s civil rights activities and key individuals like Septima Clark, and sat at the recreated lunch counter in the Civil Rights Room, an impressive space in the Nashville Public Library where participants also watched a powerful film on the civil rights movement.
To view a timeline and map of the newer Long Trips, visit the Bank Street Continuing Professional Studies site.
