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
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 – 3:30 pm | Oct. 9 – 30 and Nov. 13 - 20
Location: Zoom
Instructor: Lisa Melander | Facilitator: Don Melander
G - Philosophy 101
In this iteration of Philosophy 101, we will further examine some of the more...
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...
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
24
2024
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...
May
24
2024
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...
May
22
2024
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...
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...