Fridays, 10:15 am–12:15 pm | April 11–April 25; May 23–June 13 Location: Baker Free Library, Bow Instructor: Don Melander Films directed by Martin Scorsese starring Robert De Niro, sometimes including Joe Pesci: Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), Raging Bull (1980), The...

Thursdays, 5:00 pm–6:30 pm | April 10–May 1 Location: Zoom Instructor: Sarah Traphagen On November 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln’s famed address honored the hallowed ground of a little crossroads in Pennsylvania. Months earlier, the town and fields of Gettysburg absorbed a...

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...

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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...