Quest for Learning

Quest’s Fall 2025 Program Begins September 25th

Quest is pleased to announce our Fall 2025 program — the 98th in our 49-year history! Sessions will begin on Thursday, September 25th, 2025, and continue over the next five Thursdays, ending on October 30th.

Here are the seminars being offered this fall:
9:40 a.m. Sessions

The 19th Annual Richard Keller Memorial Series
Millersville University Department of History and Philosophy Faculty, Presenters
Dr. Marjorie Warmkessel, Coordinator

Classic Film Series: The Making of Film Classics
Dr. Robert J. Bresler, Coordinator

Short Story Discussion Group
Dr. Amy R. Moreno, Coordinator

Lancaster African American History
Tana Woodcock and Dr. M. Ana Borger-Greco, Coordinators

11 a.m. Sessions

Historical Trees of Lancaster County
Len Eiserer. Ph. D., Presenter
Elaine Ugolnik, Coordinator

Animal Behavior and Ecology
Dr. Jean G. Boal and Dr. Robert C. Paul, Presenters
Linda Roscoe, Coordinator

Backstage with the Lancaster Symphony
LSO Staff, Musicians, and Community Partners, Presenters
Judith Davis, Coordinator

An Archaeological Quest to Understand New World Slavery
Dr. James A. Delle, Presenter
Dr. Helena Tuleya-Payne, Coordinator

Complete details on each seminar will be available on this website shortly, as will online registration. Information and registration via mail will be available soon via our traditional mail brochure, set to be sent out around the middle of August.

All sessions are held at:
Holy Trinity Lutheran Church
31 South Duke Street
Lancaster, Pennsylvania

Recordings of Quest’s Fall 2025 Seminars

For those who are unable to attend our fall program in person, Quest will again make available recordings of some of the seminars. Seminars to be recorded this fall will be announced on this website shortly before the program begins.

Those recordings of each week’s presentations will be made available on the Quest website within a few days after the presentations occur and all of the recordings will remain available for 30 days after the fall program ends, that is, until December 1st, 2025. These recordings will be found by selecting the “View Recordings of Quest Seminars” button above. These recordings are offered free of charge, but you can support this effort and the Quest program more generally by selecting the “Donate to Quest” button above.

For more than forty years Quest for Learning has offered people of retirement age in the Lancaster community an opportunity to attend a continuing series of educational and enlightening seminars. Presented in six-week sessions twice a year, the seminars cover a wide range of topics — history, literature, current affairs, art, music, science, mathematics, politics, law and many others — and are presented by leading local experts in their fields — educators, public officials, business and community leaders, writers, artists and musicians. Quest participants encounter a unique adventure in learning, experiencing mental stimulation and growth, the excitement of new knowledge, and the pleasure of gathering with old friends and making new ones.