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...

Location: Tucker Free Library, Henniker 1st Wednesdays, 1:30 - 3:30 PM | July 3 and August 7 Leader and Facilitator:  John McCausland The Reading Group meets throughout the year on the first Wednesday of each month to discuss books selected from Britain’s...

Zoom Wednesdays, 10 AM-Noon | July 10 – 31     Instructor: Sarah Traphagen Facilitator: Don Melander  One real historical legend. One imagined literary giant. Both lawyers. This interdisciplinary course contemplates the law careers and enduring influence of President Abraham Lincoln and Atticus Finch...

Baker Free Library, Bow  Tuesdays, 1:30 – 3:30 PM | July 9 - 30    Instructor: Glenn Stuart     Facilitator: Don Melander Delightful Romps through film versions of A Midsommer Nights Dreame (as the title is spelled in the First Folio edition). Glenn Stuart is a...

 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...