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...
May
24
2024
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...
May
19
2024
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...
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...
Aug
13
2023
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...
Aug
13
2023
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...
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...