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 – F – Supreme Court Review

Location: Lyons Center, NEC (Room 106) Thursday, 10 AM-Noon | July 11 Instructor: John Graebe | Facilitator: Dick Hesse The review of the Supreme Court’s 2023-24 term will include a discussion of the most significant cases. John Graebe teaches constitutional law at the...

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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 – 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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2024 Summer- Pick Me First

Pick this pass first and then pick as many courses that you would like. Then pay at the end.

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2023-24 Membership Registration (Lifetime & New)

Membership 2023-24 Membership in LINEC is required to take courses. The yearly membership fee is $40.00 per person which starts on September 1 and ends August 31.  This fee allows members to register for courses in the three LINEC terms...

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24Sp- I The Films of Ingmar Bergman

     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,...

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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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