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...

Date: Wednesdays, 10:15 am–12:15 pm | April 9–April 30 Location: Baker Free Library, Bow Instructor: Paul Brogan From the 1930s until the end of the 1990s, Carol Channing, Ethel Merman, and Mary Martin lit up the stage with thousands of performances. In...

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Mondays: 10:00 am—Noon | Oct. 7—Nov. 11 Location: Zoom Leader and Facilitator: Don Melander A - Epic Poetry: Homer, The Odyssey Where we begin: The decade-long war between the Achaeans (Greeks) and Trojans ended ten years ago, and now, finally, Odysseus starts to...

Mondays: 4:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Oct. 7 to Nov. 11 Location: Zoom Instructor: Ali Reza Jalili | Facilitator: Don Melander B - Economy of the Middle East This course is an overview of Islamic thought. We will briefly cover its emergence...

Tuesdays: 10:15 am – 12:15 pm | Oct. 8 to Nov. 12 Location: Baker Free Library, Bow, NH Instructor and Facilitator: Curtiss Rude C- Artificial Intelligence This course explores the development of artificial intelligence, both machine learning and neural networks, since the 1950’s....

Tuesdays: 1:30 am – 3:30 pm | Oct. 8 to Nov. 12 Location: Baker Free Library, Bow, NH Leader and Facilitator: Glenn Stuart D - Shakespeare, Macbeth Macbeth, otherwise known as the “Scottish Play” or “Mackers” (by the superstitious), has long been considered...

Tuesdays: 5:00 pm – 6:30 pm| Oct. 22 and 29 Location: Zoom Leader: Sarah Traphagen | Facilitator: Don Melander E - Open Heart | Surgery: Walt Whitman and Civil War Medicine The Civil War was a medical disaster. Both the Union and Confederacy...