Fridays, 10:15 am–12:15 pm | April 11–April 25; May 23–June 13 Location: Baker Free Library, Bow Instructor: Don Melander Films directed by Martin Scorsese starring Robert De Niro, sometimes including Joe Pesci: Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), The...

Thursdays, 5:00 pm–6:30 pm | April 10–May 1 Location: Zoom Instructor: Sarah Traphagen On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln’s famed address honored the hallowed ground of a little crossroads in Pennsylvania. Months earlier, the town and fields of Gettysburg absorbed a...

Thursdays, 1:30 pm–3:30 pm | April 10–May 22 Location: 1st Congregational Church, Hopkinton Instructor: Don Melander We will screen episodes of The Great Courses The Story of Human Language and read Steven Pinker’s The Language Instinct: How The Mind Creates Language. We will study how...

Thursdays, 10:15 am–12:15 pm | May 1–June 5 Location: Baker Free Library, Bow Instructor: Curtiss Rude Are we alone in the cosmos? How are scientists seeking signs of life beyond our home planet? This course will explain our past, current, and future...

Thursdays, 10:15 am–12:15 pm | April 10–April 24 Location: Baker Free Library, Bow Instructor: Inez McDermott In the latter years of the 19th century, New Hampshire became a summer haven and an escape from urban centers for artists, writers, composers, and other...

Wednesdays, 4:00–6:00 pm | April 9–May 14 Location: Zoom Instructor: Ali Reza Jalili This course will address how the US domestic economy and the global economy will interact with US domestic politics under a second Trump administration. Topics we will discuss include how...

Wednesdays, 1:30 pm–3:00 pm | April 2 and May 7 (2 sessions) Location: Tucker Free Library, Henniker Leader: John McCausland LINEC’s popular novel group is currently reading books selected from Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize lists. The group meets on the first Wednesday...

Tuesdays, 1:30 pm–3:30 pm | April 8–May 13 Location: 1st Congregational Church, Hopkinton Instructor: Glenn Stuart Helena, the orphaned daughter of a doctor, is under the protection of the widowed Countess of Rossillion and in love with Bertram, the countess’s son. Bertram...

Dates: Tuesdays, 10 am–11:30 am | April 8–May 6 Location: Zoom Instructor: Eric J. Simon Alexander von Humboldt was the most famous scientist of the 19th century, influencing generations of scientists and artists, including Charles Darwin, John James Audubon, and Ralph Waldo...

Dates: Wednesdays, 1:30 pm–3:00 pm | April 9–April 30, May 14–May 21 Location: Zoom Instructor: Lisa M. Melander This course continues our discussion of Bertrand Russell’s A History of Western Thought. We will focus on Book Three, Part II, From Rousseau to the Present...