24Fa | K – The Films of Ingmar Bergman, Continued

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...

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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 – 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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23F-J Movies: The Films of Alfred Hitchcock, Final Series

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...

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23F-H Mary, Queen of Scots

Leader: Julie Machen Thursdays, 1:30 - 3:30 PM | Oct 5 - 19 on ZOOM This three-week course focuses on one of the most controversial rulers in history, Mary, Queen of Scots. The theme of the first session will be this...

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23F-I Gouverneur Morris: The Most Interesting Founding Father

Instructor: Dick Hesse Thursdays, 10 AM - Noon | NOTE NEW DATES: Oct 5-Nov 2 | Venue NEC Science Building 114 A A 23-year-old aristocrat was called upon to frame the New York Constitution separating it from England. He then served...

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23F-G Philosophy 101

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...

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23F-F The Novel Reading Group

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...

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23F-E Comparative Religion: Sacred Places

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...

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