Sep
02
2024
Fridays: 10:00 am – Noon | Oct. 4 – 18, Nov. 1 – 15
Location: Baker Free Library, Bow
Leader: Don Melander | Facilitator: Paul Hague
K - The Films of Ingmar Bergman, Continued
The great auteur Ingmar Bergman’s films are difficult to watch because of their psychological depth and...
May
19
2024
Location: Lyons Center, NEC
Mondays, 10 AM-Noon | July 8 - 29
Leader: Don Melander
Facilitator: Alice Nye
In the late 19th/early 20th centuries, Robinson wrote several series of poems, many of which are sonnets featuring fictional characters such as Richard Cory, Luke...
Feb
06
2024
Fridays, 10 - noonish or so | April 5 - May 24 & Beyond
Location: Baker Free Library in Bow
Leader: Don Melander Facilitator: Paul Hague
Like Akira Kurosawa, the great auteur Ingmar Bergman’s films are difficult to watch,...
Feb
06
2024
Thursdays, 1:30 - 3:30 PM | April 4 - May 23 | ZOOM
Leader: Lisa Melander Facilitator: Don Melander
We will continue to respond to philosophers and the philosophies we encounter in our ongoing reading of Paul Kleinman’s book...
Feb
05
2024
Mondays, 10 AM - Noon | April 1 - May 20 | ZOOM
Leader: Don Melander | Facilitator: Alice Nye
Because Glenn Stuart is doing The History of Troilus and Cressida in his Shakespeare course this term, we are...
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...
Aug
13
2023
Leader: Don Melander
Mondays, 10 AM - Noon | October 2 - November 6 on ZOOM
We are currently reading and discussing poems by Muriel Rukeyser, Delmore Schwartz, Karl Shapiro, and May Swenson in Library of America’s American Poetry: The Twentieth...