Nineteen members of the learning community departed from UNCA on Friday, March 31, 2000, for a two-day trip to Nashville, Tennessee. Included were five faculty members and fourteen students. The trip mixed learning, particularly about the ancient world and the visual arts, with fellowship and fun. Below are some images from the trip.

Travel was in two Chevrolet vans, one of them completely undamaged.

Happy travelers.

Our major destination was the Parthenon museum in Centennial Park.

Inside is a 46-foot replica of the statue of Athena in the ancient Parthenon. In her right hand she holds the goddess Nike, who is about to crown her with a laurel wreath.

Two students emulate Athena.

Inside the museum contains plaster models of the Elgin Marbles (that is, the statues which used to be on the frieze of the Parthenon before being removed to England.

And a model of what that frieze would have looked like.

Keith Wyatt as Zeus.

The group outside the Parthenon.

Dinner was at Sitar, an Indian restaurant.

After lunch we viewed, though we could not enter, the Roman Catholic cathedral, which is a classic Roman basilica in design.

The Cathedral is of interest in part because it resembles the classic basilica design studied in Humanities 124.

Next we went to Vanderbilt. Its campus was both beautiful . . . . and relaxing.

There we visited the Fine Arts museum, where there was a show on the representation of the figure through western art.

At Vanderbilt we saw images ranging from Greek kraters to the figure work of Philip Pearlstein.

Afterwards we traveled to Fisk, a historically black university, whose art gallery houses the Carl Van Vechten collection of twentieth-century art.

At Fisk there are paintings by Georgia O'Keefe and photographs by Alfred Stieglitz.