Denison: 'When We Left Our Home(stead): Life Choices, Careers, Professions'

The Homestead 40th Anniversary Festival presents “When We Left Our Home(stead): Life Choices, Careers, Professions,” an alumni panel discussion. Homestead alumni from across the decades will talk about how the Homestead shaped their work and life choices. The panel is part of a three day festival to celebrate the Homestead’s 40th anniversary. Other events include “Creation and Evolution: Homestead Stories from 1977 and Today” from 4:30 to 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, April 6, in Knobel Hall in the Burton D. Morgan Center; “Welcome to the Homestead: The Ever-evolving Experiment,” a Denison Museum opening, from 7:30 to 9:30 p.m. on Friday, April 7, at the Denison Museum and “Forty Years and Counting: Festivities at the Homestead” from noon to 5 p.m. on Saturday, April 8, at the Homestead. The Homestead is a student residential option based on sustainable technologies, simplicity in life choices, consciousness about energy consumption and food production, and community decision making. The Homestead is a unique community that exemplifies Denison’s mission as a liberal arts college.