BERSI: Washington, D.C.

The Brother Edmund Rice Summer Institute, the founding program in the Brother Edmund Rice Solidarity Initiative, headed this summer to our nation’s capital, Washington, D.C.  View pictures of the trip by clicking here.

This summer, we invited students to apply for one of twenty-eight spots on our fourth summer BERSI experience in Washington, D.C.  As the schedule indicates, this program was not for the faint of heart.  We were looking for students who wished to challenge themselves and discover in themselves their full academic, artistic, and spiritual potential.  

Like all BERSI voyages, this one was an outstanding way to get to know a world-class city.  Below is the schedule the institute followed.

Please stop by riceinstitute.com again for more information on future trips.

BERSI 2006: Washington, D.C.

August 7-12, 2006

Monday, August 7

9:00am departure from CM (vans)

1:00pm lunch en route

6:00pm arrival, hotel check-in (Alexandria, VA)

8:00pm World War II Memorial/Challenge

Tuesday, August 8

9:00am Arlington National Cemetery, walking tour

11:00am The Pentagon 9/11 Site and tour

Lunch at Georgetown University

1:30 Visit Sojourners Mission Site, guest lecture on Columbia Heights Project

3:00pm Folger Shakespeare Library

5:00pm tour, The National Archives

7:00pm The National Zoological Park

Wednesday, August 9

8:00am Visit the Pulitzer Center on Crisis Reporting; guest lecturer Jon Sawyer

9:30am U.S. Capital Tour

11:30am Washington Monument tour

Noon lunch (downtown)

2pm tour, National Portrait Gallery

3pm tour, National Gallery of Art

6pm Dinner in Adams-Morgan

7pm Author reading, Katha Pollitt, Politics and Prose Bookstore

Thursday, August 10

8:30am Visit The Library of Congress

10am Tour, Ford’s Theater (Lincoln Assassination site)

1pm Visit Quantico Marine Corps Base, tour and simulated weapons training

3pm Guest lecture with Marine Captain James Martin

5pm Return to D.C., Union Station + Postal Museum/dinner

8pm Arlington Theater Production: Picasso at the Lapin Agile

Friday, August 11

8am Depart for Mount Vernon

9am Mount Vernon tour and writing workshop

Noon return to D.C., lunch en route

1pm tour, the National Shrine

2pm U.S. Holocaust Museum

6pm historic Alexandria and dinner

7:00pm Washington Nationals Baseball game

Saturday, August 12

8am Check out of hotel, depart for DC

9am the Lincoln Memorial and Vietnam Wall

10am Departure for Boston

6pm Arrival in Boston, closing ceremony (exact time TBA en route)

Holiday Inn Alexandria

2460 EISENHOWER AVE
ALEXANDRIA, VA 22314
UNITED STATES

Above: Teddy answers some questions at the Pentagon.