Senior Scholars at Queens

Wildacres Spring 2025 Retreat / April 28 - May 1, 2025
2025-04-28 08:00 - 2025-05-01 17:00 (America/New_York) | Wildacres Retreat, 1565 Wildacres Road, Little Switzerland, NC, 28749, United States
Wildacres 2025: April 28 – May 1, 2025

Enjoy 3 nights in a Blue Ridge Parkway Mountaintop Resort with 75 of your Senior Scholar friends!
Speaker Meg Johnson, Music Therapy
Speaker Joe Kendrick, Music Impacts on Society
Waterfalls, hiking paths, fresh air, local entertainers, 8 home-style, all-you-can-eat meals!

All this for only $305/double occupancy.
Reservations now open. Hurry, it will fill up fast!
Details Here

Wildacres 2025 Speaker Meg Johnson: Music Therapy
2025-04-28 10:00 - 11:00
Senior Scholars annual Wildacres retreat is scheduled for April 28-May 1, 2025. For full details and to register for this event, please go to the Wildacres page.
TOPIC: Music Therapy: The science, the singing and everything in between.
SPEAKER: Meg Johnson, Music Therapy Program Director and Clinical Coordinator, Queens University
The presentation will provide an overview of the field of music therapy: the academic foundations, the education of students and therapists, the places we work and how we do what we do.

BIOGRAPHY
Meg Stanley Johnson has extensive clinical experience with a variety of client populations including child, adolescent and adult psychiatric settings, memory care groups, and children and adults with neurodevelopmental disabilities in both individual and group settings. Her current clinical focus is with young adults with autism who have limited verbal skills and a history of aggression.
She is the music therapy program director and clinical coordinator at Queens in addition to teaching in the music therapy and general education programs.
Education

M.M., Neurologic Music Therapy, Colorado State University
B.M., Music Therapy, Queens College, Charlotte, NC
B.A., Psychology, Queens College, Charlotte, NC
Bi www.musictherapy.org
www.ncmusictherapy.org
www.cbmt.org

Wildacres 2025 Speaker Joe Kendrick: How Music Impacts Society
2025-04-29 10:00 - 11:30
Senior Scholars annual Wildacres retreat is scheduled for April 28-May 1, 2025. For full details and to register for this event, please go to the Wildacres page.
TOPIC: Songs of Solidarity, Songs of Protest, Songs of Hope Amidst Struggle: A Brief Survey of the Impact of Music on the Radio for Social Movements
SPEAKER: Joe Kendrick, Director of Programming and Operations Manager, WNCW
An overview of songs, artists, genres and eras of music on radio that reflect and have impacted various social movements in America.

BIOGRAPHY
Public radio programmer, music host, writer, podcaster, college instructor, public speaker, event producer
My role is to envision and develop the sound and image of WNCW, create original programming and manage round the clock operations. I recruit, develop and manage our programming staff. Also I host and produce weekly music shows and a bi-weekly podcast, Southern Songs and Stories. I represent WNCW in person as well as virtually worldwide to donors and industry partners. Additionally, I am part of the team that produces the annual Earl Scruggs Music Festival in Tryon, NC.
Joe Kendrick profile

Wildacres Spring 2026 Retreat / April 27-30, 2026
2026-04-27 08:00 - 2026-04-30 17:00
Wildacres 2026: April 27-30, 2026

Enjoy 3 nights in a Blue Ridge Parkway Mountaintop Resort with 75 of your Senior Scholar friends!
Speaker Kevin Kokomoor, Professor, Coastal Carolina University
Speaker Kassidy Pyler, Catawba Nation
Entertainment by Anya Hinkle
Waterfalls, hiking paths, fresh air, local entertainers, 8 home-style, all-you-can-eat meals!

Reservations now open!
Details Here

Native American Specialist, Kevin Kokomoor
2026-04-28 08:00 - 2026-05-01 17:00
Wildacres 2026 Speaker Kevin Kokomoor
Kevin teaches early America up to the 19th C. He is a Native American specialist, and he focuses on the Southeast, from precontact through the Revolutionary Era and on to Removal. His first book was on Creek history in the 18th and 19th Cs. His second was La Florida, which was a book on the Spanish influence on early American history. His 3rd and most recent is on the American invasion of the Cherokees during the first days of the American Revolution. The book centers heavily on the southern Appalachians, including the Boone/Asheville/Johnson City area.
Topics may include:

The 1776 Cherokee War.
The “Overmountain men.”
The American Revolution in the Region.
Native American cultures in the Southeast generally.
Colonialism and Native American interaction in the Southeast.
Virginian and Carolinian expansion during the Revolutionary Era (Wataugans, etc).

Kevin’s personal website page, click here.
More Wildacres Details Here
Note: exact day and time of Kevin’s talk at Wildacres is not known at this time.
