Sep
02
2024
Mondays: 10:00 am—Noon | Oct. 7—Nov. 11
Location: Zoom
Leader and Facilitator: Don Melander
A - Epic Poetry: Homer, The Odyssey
Where we begin: The decade-long war between the Achaeans (Greeks) and Trojans ended ten years ago, and now, finally, Odysseus starts to...
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: 1:30 am – 3:30 pm | Oct. 8 to Nov. 12
Location: Baker Free Library, Bow, NH
Leader and Facilitator: Glenn Stuart
D - Shakespeare, Macbeth
Macbeth, otherwise known as the “Scottish Play” or “Mackers” (by the superstitious), has long been considered...
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: 10:15 am – 12:15 pm | Oct. 9 – Nov. 13
Location: Baker Free Library, Bow, NH
Instructor: Inez McDermott | Facilitator: Don Melander
F - 19th Century American Landscape Painting
The Contemplation of Eternal Things: Nineteenth-Century American Landscape Painting
In this course,...
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...
Sep
02
2024
Fridays: 10:00 am – Noon | Oct. 4 – 18, Nov. 1 – 15
Location: Baker Free Library, Bow
Leader: Don Melander | Facilitator: Paul Hague
K - The Films of Ingmar Bergman, Continued
The great auteur Ingmar Bergman’s films are difficult to watch because of their psychological depth and...
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...
Aug
13
2023
Leader: Mary Lee Sargent
Fridays, 10 AM - Noon | Oct 6 - Nov 10* @ Baker Free Library, Bow
This seminar has viewed and discussed the films of Alfred Hitchcock, and will screen and discuss the conclusion of the Hitchcock...