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: John McCausland
Wednesdays, 1:30 – 3:30 PM | Oct 4 and Nov 1 @ Henniker Tucker Free Library
This discussion group meets throughout the year, on the first Wednesday of each month. We are discussing books selected from Britain’s prestigious...
Aug
13
2023
Instructor: Rev. Suzanne Rude
Wednesdays, 10 AM - Noon | Oct 4 - Nov 8 on ZOOM
Why do religious believers find certain places especially sacred to them, with particular sites found worthy of visitation by as many as 25...
Aug
13
2023
Instructor: Glenn Stuart
Tuesdays, 1:30 - 3:30 PM | Oct 10 – 31 @ Baker Free Library, Bow
This is a play about people searching…for home, community, love, and self. Often funny but rooted in tragedy; it is joyous and life-affirming…full...
Aug
13
2023
Instructor: Eric Simon
Tuesdays, *4:30 - 5:30 PM | Oct 24 - Nov 14 on ZOOM
*Note evening course offering
We live in a golden age of biology. The scientific study of life affects each of us, our loved ones, and society...
Aug
13
2023
Leader: Curtiss Rude
Mondays, 4 - 6 PM | Oct 2-Nov 6 | New England College Lyons Building Room 103
The class is based on a 2008 book, The Ascent of Money, by Niall Ferguson, adapted for an Emmy winning...
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...
Aug
13
2023
Pick Membership First
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...
May
29
2023
In-Person: NEC Science Building Rm 113E
(right across from the new Lyon's Building)
Fridays, 10 AM – 1 PM | July 7 – Aug 4
Leader: Don Melander
We will view the life and music of:
July 7 | Paris Blues (1961; Martin...
May
29
2023
In-Person: NEC Lyons Building Rm 107
Thursday, 10 – Noon | July 6 & 20
Documentary Film Maker: John Gfroerer
Facilitator: Dick Hesse
Each session will be a presentation and discussion of a documentary film:
Powerful As Truth: William Loeb & 25 Years...