24Fa | J – Nature as the Consilience of Science and Art: An Ongoing Exploration

Thursdays: 1:30 – 3:00 | Oct. 17 to Nov. 14 Location: Zoom Instructor: Eric Simon | Facilitator: Amanda Marsh J - Nature as the Consilience of Science and Art: An Ongoing Exploration Consilience is the principle that truth can be found when multiple, independent lines of evidence converge...

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24Su – G – Four Clint Eastwood Movies

Location: Baker Free Library, Bow Fridays, 10 AM-Noon | July 12 – August 2 Leader: Don Melander | Facilitator: Paul Hague High Plains Drifter (1973), Pale Rider (1975), The Unforgiven (1992), Gran Torino (2008) I see these four films as a kind of...

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24Su – E – The Novel Reading Group

Location: Tucker Free Library, Henniker 1st Wednesdays, 1:30 - 3:30 PM | July 3 and August 7 Leader and Facilitator:  John McCausland The Reading Group meets throughout the year on the first Wednesday of each month to discuss books selected from Britain’s...

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24Su – D – Lincoln & Finch: Attorneys at Law

Zoom Wednesdays, 10 AM-Noon | July 10 – 31     Instructor: Sarah Traphagen Facilitator: Don Melander  One real historical legend. One imagined literary giant. Both lawyers. This interdisciplinary course contemplates the law careers and enduring influence of President Abraham Lincoln and Atticus Finch...

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24Su – C – Shakespeare, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

Baker Free Library, Bow  Tuesdays, 1:30 – 3:30 PM | July 9 - 30    Instructor: Glenn Stuart     Facilitator: Don Melander Delightful Romps through film versions of A Midsommer Nights Dreame (as the title is spelled in the First Folio edition). Glenn Stuart is a...

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24Su – B – Culturally Curious? Great Stories from Art History

Zoom Tuesdays, 10 AM - Noon | July 2, 9, 23, 30 Instructor: Jane Oneail Facilitator: Amanda Marsh This course is an introduction to a broad range of fascinating subjects in Art History, from exploring the lesser known aspects of some of the...

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24Su – A – Poets of Place: Edwin Arlington Robinson’s Tilbury Town, Maine

 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...

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24Sp- H In Darwin’s Footsteps

      Thursdays, 4:30 - 6:30 PM | April 4 - 25 | ZOOM        Instructor: Eric Simon  Facilitator: Amanda Marsh This course serves as a companion to a journey to the Galapagos Islands to be led by Eric from May 19...

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24Sp- G Philosophy 101

      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...

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24Sp- F Gouverneur Morris: The Most Interesting Founding Father

      Thursdays, 10 AM - Noon | April 11 - May 9       Location: Hopkinton Town Library, Contoocook       Instructor: Dick Hesse   Facilitator: Don Melander A 23-year-old aristocrat, Gouverneur Morris was called upon to frame the New York Constitution separating it from...

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