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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

LINEC Membership for the 2024-2025 Academic Year. The annual membership fee is $40.00 per person (no household memberships). Membership Benefits: Learning with and from peers Reasonably priced classes Access to course catalogs Opportunities to volunteer Reduced fee for per-credit NEC courses ...

Mondays: 10:00 am—Noon | Oct. 7—Nov. 11 Location: Zoom Leader and Facilitator: Don Melander A - Epic Poetry: Homer, The Odyssey Where we begin: The decade-long war between the Achaeans (Greeks) and Trojans ended ten years ago, and now, finally, Odysseus starts to...

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....

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,...