25SP | I – The History of Language, Especially English

Thursdays, 1:30 pm–3:30 pm | April 10–May 22 Location: 1st Congregational Church, Hopkinton Instructor: Don Melander We will screen episodes of The Great Courses The Story of Human Language and read Steven Pinker’s The Language Instinct: How The Mind Creates Language. We will study how...

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25SP | H – Astrobiology

Thursdays, 10:15 am–12:15 pm | May 1–June 5 Location: Baker Free Library, Bow Instructor: Curtiss Rude Are we alone in the cosmos? How are scientists seeking signs of life beyond our home planet? This course will explain our past, current, and future...

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25SP | G – Art Colonies of New Hampshire

Thursdays, 10:15 am–12:15 pm | April 10–April 24 Location: Baker Free Library, Bow Instructor: Inez McDermott In the latter years of the 19th century, New Hampshire became a summer haven and an escape from urban centers for artists, writers, composers, and other...

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25SP | F – The Economy and Politics in 2025

Wednesdays, 4:00–6:00 pm | April 9–May 14 Location: Zoom Instructor: Ali Reza Jalili This course will address how the US domestic economy and the global economy will interact with US domestic politics under a second Trump administration. Topics we will discuss include how...

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25SP | E – The Novel Reading Group

Wednesdays, 1:30 pm–3:00 pm | April 2 and May 7 (2 sessions) Location: Tucker Free Library, Henniker Leader: John McCausland LINEC’s popular novel group is currently reading books selected from Britain’s prestigious Booker Prize lists. The group meets on the first Wednesday...

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25Sp | B – All’s Well That Ends Well

Tuesdays, 1:30 pm–3:30 pm | April 8–May 13 Location: 1st Congregational Church, Hopkinton Instructor: Glenn Stuart Helena, the orphaned daughter of a doctor, is under the protection of the widowed Countess of Rossillion and in love with Bertram, the countess’s son. Bertram...

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25SP | D – Philosophy Talks

Dates: Wednesdays, 1:30 pm–3:00 pm | April 9–April 30, May 14–May 21 Location: Zoom Instructor: Lisa M. Melander This course continues our discussion of Bertrand Russell’s A History of Western Thought. We will focus on Book Three, Part II, From Rousseau to the Present...

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24Fa | D – Shakespeare, Macbeth

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...

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24Fa | E – Open Heart | Surgery: Walt Whitman and Civil War Medicine

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...

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24Fa | F – 19th Century American Landscape Painting

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,...

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