It's time to head to CWRU's Squire Valleevue Farm for Summer in the Country—the University's Office of Continuing Education summer classes.

To preview this year's offerings, the continuing education office will host an open house from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. April 11 in the Pink Pig on the farm. During the open house, registration for classes will take place. The office also will accept registration by mail.

Some courses begin as early as May 1, and registration and fees are due before class.

The CWRU farm is 389 acres of meadows, woodlands, waterfalls, ponds and ravines. This setting provides the backdrop for summer classes that involve photography, oil or watercolor painting, raku ceramics, silk painting, nature walks, bird watching, conversational French classes. Other courses offered explore styles of writing from journaling, poetry, nonfiction, personal history and even James Joyce's Ulysses.

During the open house, prospective enrollees will have an opportunity to tour the farm and become acquainted with one of CWRU's treasures.

Visitors at the open house also will have the opportunity to meet some of this year's teachers. Teaching this summer are Jenny Clark and Linda Tuthill, published poets; Pam Hume, former director of continuing education at CWRU; Jay Abercrombie, author and field biologist for the Geauga Park District; Timothy Matson, curator of vertebrate zoology at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History; Celeste Gordon, CWRU French language facilitator; Peggy Wertheim, surface and jewelry design artist; Richard Karberg, award-winning photographer; Anita Rogoff, CWRU professor emerita and former director of CWRU Art Studio and Art Education Program; Tim Shuckerow, CWRU director of the art studio program; and Marjorie Johnson, Ph.D., and Continuing Education Off-Campus Studies leader and teacher.

To learn more about the program, visit the farm, located in Hunting Valley or call the continuing education office at 368-2090. For information about the farm's facilities, visit http://www.cwru.edu/farm.