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...

Wednesdays: 10:15 am – 12:15 pm | Oct. 9 – Nov. 13 Location: Baker Free Library, Bow, NH Instructor: Inez McDermott | Facilitator: Don Melander F - 19th Century American Landscape Painting The Contemplation of Eternal Things: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting In this course,...

Wednesdays: 1:30 pm – 3:30 pm | Oct. 9 – 30 and Nov. 13 - 20 Location: Zoom Instructor: Lisa Melander | Facilitator: Don Melander G - Philosophy 101 In this iteration of Philosophy 101, we will further examine some of the more...