Sep
02
2024
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...
Sep
02
2024
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....
Sep
02
2024
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...
Sep
02
2024
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...
Sep
02
2024
Wednesdays: 1:30 pm – 3:00 pm | Oct. 2 and Nov. 6
Location: Tucker Free Library, Henniker, NH
Leader and Facilitator: John McCausland
H - The Novel Reading Group
LINEC’s popular novel group is currently reading books selected from Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize...
Feb
05
2024
Tuesdays, 1:30 - 3:30 PM | April 2 - May 21
Location: Baker Free Library in Bow
Instructor: Glenn Stuart | Facilitator: Don Melander
Gregory Doran’s casting of Arthur Hughes in the role of Richard III in the Royal...
Aug
13
2023
Leader: Mary Lee Sargent
Fridays, 10 AM - Noon | Oct 6 - Nov 10* @ Baker Free Library, Bow
This seminar has viewed and discussed the films of Alfred Hitchcock, and will screen and discuss the conclusion of the Hitchcock...
Aug
13
2023
Leader: Julie Machen
Thursdays, 1:30 - 3:30 PM | Oct 5 - 19 on ZOOM
This three-week course focuses on one of the most controversial rulers in history, Mary, Queen of Scots. The theme of the first session will be this...
Aug
13
2023
Instructor: Dick Hesse
Thursdays, 10 AM - Noon | NOTE NEW DATES: Oct 5-Nov 2 | Venue NEC Science Building 114 A
A 23-year-old aristocrat was called upon to frame the New York Constitution separating it from England. He then served...
Aug
13
2023
Leaders: Don Melander and Lisa Melander
Wednesdays, 1:30-3:30 PM | Oct 11 - 25 and Nov 8 - 15 on ZOOM
The class will be based on Paul Kleinman’s book Philosophy 101: From Plato and Socrates to Ethics and Metaphysics, an Essential Primer...