Peter J. Stanley has traveled to Israel, the San Juan islands off the coast of Washington state and Maryland's Eastern Shore with Elderhostel. The quality, variety and organization of the educational ...

Get any of our free daily email newsletters — news headlines, opinion, e-edition, obituaries and more. The history of Southwest Montana is rich and vivid, but the many boom towns that were once ...

A hike in the Canadian Rockies is an example of the excursions offered by Road Scholar, an education-promoting travel service once called Elderhostel. Eileen Knesper Road Scholar She is 84 and, much ...

So you've escaped middle age and are ready for the long calm of retirement. What next? If you spend too much time rocking on the front porch, will your brain droop into autopilot? One antidote for ...

The tag line for Elderhostel(r) is "Adventures in Lifelong Learning," and that's a pretty big hint about the primary difference between this organization for travelers 55 years of age and older and ...

So you've escaped middle age and are ready for the long calm of retirement. What next? If you spend too much time rocking on the front porch, will your brain droop into autopilot? One antidote for ...

Start planning your spring or summer Elderhostel trip soon. The 2005 catalog of international trips is out, and some slots are already filled. Elderhostel remains one of the top travel choices for ...

“It is important for people of my generation to participate. … You sit, you mold. It’s unhealthy.”— Barry Adler More than 50 seniors have come from all over the country to take part in the Elderhostel ...

Keene State College was one of the original five schools to host Elderhostel at its founding back in the early 1970s. After a long hiatus, Elderhostel returned to KSC in the early 1990’s when a former ...

When Montgomery College launched a program for older thinkers about 18 months ago, officials figured that, sure, some retired folks would be interested in signing up. But they had no idea. Retirees ...