A course on investing for women draws a large crowd in Kingston, said Stephen Nestor, director of Adult Education at Silver Lake Regional High School in Kingston. The economy is good. People have money and they need to figure out what to do with it. And it's a reasonably priced night out, he notes. So they come to the community school.
Attendance is excellent.
I don't know whether it's a baby boomer thing or if the free cookies and coffee is the big reason why people come. Donna Baressi, Sharon Community Education's dance instructor, said that the number of enrollees in her swing dancing class far surpasses her other dance classes. People are making the time to do it. The center offers 12 classes three times a year that change frequently. Beals, at Quincy's Beechwood Center, noticed a trend of adults learning to play musical instruments for the first time.