This rewarding hike in Shenandoah National Park will follow a trail originally constructed by the CCC featuring waterfalls along Doyles River and Jones Run.  We will go through Browns Gap, which Stonewall Jackson's troops used during the Civil War to make raids into Shenandoah Valley, and we'll pass the grave of William H. Howard of the 44th Virginia Infantry.  Sponsored by Wild Virginia.  http://www.wildvirginia.org/

It is a moderately difficult, 3 to 4 hour hike.  Meet at the Jones Run Parking Area just south of milepost 84 on Skyline Drive at 11:30 a.m.  Please bring lunch and water. 
RSVP to Jennifer Johnson at jenn276@gmail.com.

"Camino de Santiago," new paintings from Spain and France by Walter Cumming. Sept. 25-Nov. 30, 2009 in Williams Gallery, Huntley Hall.

Gallery Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Open to the public without charge.

See http://williams.wlu.edu/gallery

"Portraits from Life," paintings by Michael Ananian, Sept. 1-Dec. 11, 2009--McCarthy Gallery, Holekamp Hall.

Gallery Hours are Monday through Friday, 8:30 a.m. to 5 p.m. Open to the public without charge.

See http://williams.wlu.edu/gallery

Kamen Gallery Hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.

Artist Shirley Irons is a painter and photographer who has been exhibiting, teaching, lecturing, and curating for over 25 years. She uses her paintings to “slow down, edit out, [and] look for the permanence in the transitory.” In her current series, Irons paints empty institutional spaces, such as airports, office buildings, and hospitals, along with other fragments of daily life.  The works evoke an ephemeral transcendence suspended in environments that we experience indirectly. Irons teaches at the School of Visual Arts in New York City and is represented by the Luisotti Gallery in Santa Monica, California.

Staniar Gallery is open Monday - Friday, 9am-5pm

Introduced in 14th-century Japan, the netsuke would hang from a kimono's obi or sash by a cord to attach the container in which Japanese men would store their personal belongings. These soon became elaborately sculpted from ivory, lacquer, wood and other exotic materials.

The netsuke in the Washington and Lee Collection come from alumnus Joseph M. Glickstein.

Kamen Gallery hours are 8:30 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday.