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: 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...
Sep
02
2024
Thursdays: 10:15 am – 12:15 pm | Oct. 10 to Nov. 14
Location: Baker Free Library, Bow
Instructor and Facilitator: Suzanne Rude
I - Food and Faith
Faith traditions influence not only how food is prepared and eaten but also when to abstain...
Aug
22
2022
Fridays, 10 AM - Noon | Oct 7, 14, 21, 28, Nov 4, & 11
Leaders: Don Melander, Mary Lee Sargent
This seminar meets round the year every Friday morning from 10 to noon, but folks may join or leave at...
Aug
22
2022
Mondays, 10 AM - Noon | Oct 3, 10, 17, 24, Nov. 7
Leader: Don Melander
Participants who join for LINEC’s fall term may continue or leave at any time after that, as poetry discussions are ongoing throughout the year. We...
Jun
03
2022
Tuesdays, July 5, 12, 19, 26| 10 AM - Noon
Facilitator: Eric Simon
At New England College, Eric Simon has led many educational travel courses that focus on biodiversity to destinations such as Belize, Guatemala, Cuba, the Amazon, Tanzania, the Galapagos, and...
Jun
03
2022
Mondays, July 11, 18, 25 | 10 AM - Noon
Instructor: Don Melander
American Poetry focuses on David Budbill's collection of poems-of-place Judevine, set in the Northeast Kingdom. David used to come to NEC for a few days in July/August to do a...
Jan
29
2022
Fridays, 10 AM - Noon | April 8 - May 13
Leaders: Don Melander and Mary Lee Sargent
According to film historian, Monty Arnold, screwball comedies serve two human needs — escape and enjoyment. Their defining characteristics are farce, slapstick, romance,...
Jan
29
2022
Thursdays, 10 AM - Noon | April 7- May 12
Leaders: Dick Hesse and Mary Lee Sargent
America’s Founding Fathers is the second part of a three-semester Great Courses series exploring the founding of our government. The 12 lectures take us...