Sep
02
2024
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...
May
24
2024
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...
May
24
2024
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...
May
24
2024
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...
May
22
2024
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...
May
20
2024
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...
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
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...
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
06
2024
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...