The weekend program always includes Shabbat services held on the stone patio overlooking the mountains. The combination of nature, study and prayer is unbeatable. Not only were they superb speakers but they were so warm and menschen. Most people who attend the Institutes at Wildacres are awed by the beauty of the facility and surroundings. Wooden rocking chairs on the patios overlook majestic mountains.
Doors are left unlocked, there are no televisions or phones.
Kosher food, brought in from Charlotte, N.C., is served family-style. Elaine Selden from Wilmington, N.C. attended Wildacres for the first time and plans to return. Learning is a lifelong process and this is an opportunity to learn, be with like-minded people and be in the mountains which I love. Maurice Weinstein died two years ago. But the vision that they both imagined lives on.