This repeat class (with updates) will view Sub-Saharan Africa since the first Colony gained independence in 1957, and focus on Ghana, South Africa, and the DRC. We will analyze trends, and discuss how the past 70 years are impacting the continent today.

Discover and explore your own inner resources for successful living. Each session in this nine-week, repeat course features insightful talks and meaningful interaction about inner resources such as peace, appreciation, inner strength, self-awareness, understanding, dignity, choice, hope, and contentment.

Escape from "busy" and give yourself a two-hour block of time to work on your art, at your own pace, in a relaxed environment. Fellow artists share ideas, encouragement, and support. Pack your materials and come paint! NOTE: if you are using oils, please plan to use water-based paints only.

We will explore the constellations of the spring and summer skies and some of the deep-sky objects they contain. Learn the causes and appearance of events viewed with the unaided eye, including auroras, sun dogs and halos, comets, meteor showers, and the lunar cycle of phases that causes lunar and solar eclipses.

Despite the belief that Maine is one of the whitest states in the nation, the area has had a Black presence since before the Pilgrims arrived at Plymouth Rock, and that presence continues.

This repeat course will review stock, bond, mutual fund, and ETF selection for individual investment portfolios. Whether you purchase your own securities or hire an investment manager, ultimately you must review the security selections that are made to assure that they meet your asset-allocation and risk needs.

Long-Term-Care planning is one of the most important, and too often overlooked, parts of one's retirement and estate plans. This repeat workshop will present the topic of long-term-care planning in a clear, compassionate, and comprehensive manner. We will discuss the various options that can help us manage our long-term-care risks and will compare and contrast these different solutions.

Haveyou ever wondered what the fuss is about when a major literary award isannounced? What do these prizes suggest about our contemporaryculture? How does their success teach us about what we expect literatureto do? Join us in reading four recent prize winners.

In six weeks we'll read The Gene, a large but approachable book detailing the history of genetics from Aristotle to today's CRISPR/Cas9 gene manipulation. Key discoveries and the sometimes-complicated science will be explained through video and class discussions. .

This two-semester course will cover Maine from pre-historic times to the recent past. Each semester is independent but will complement the other. Presenters are a collaboration of noted scholars of Maine history. Though this is a repeat of Part 1 from fall 2016, there will be some new topics and lecturers.

This repeat workshop will be an introduction to the family of religions we call Buddhism. We will begin by discussing the development of Buddhism in India, focusing on the life and teachings of its founder, and will then briefly follow its spread across time and space through Asia and the West. Along the way, we will focus on enduring Buddhist ideas and practices.

Maine has officially advertised itself as "Vacationland" since 1927. Before then it was touted as "The Nation's Playground" and "Sportsmen's Paradise."

A continuation of French language study, with emphasis on expanding vocabulary and listening and speaking ability as well as grammar. 

Did you study French many long years ago, have French-speaking family members, or grow up in a New England mill town? Here is your chance to step back into le bain de la langue.

Ever wonder why Botswana, a small land-locked country in southern Africa, is so strong, while Chad, a large land-locked country in north-central Africa is destitute? Why do some countries flourish while next-door neighbors flounder?

We will read and discuss the 100-plus poems in the second anthology of verse from the weekly poetry column edited by Wesley McNair, which is featured in publications across Maine. Participants will be encouraged to share other poems by the poets in the text, as well as poems by Maine poets who are not represented.

Daniel Ellsberg's new book, The Doomsday Machine, rouses far more than Dr. Strangelove's toothy grin picturing a male paradise surviving nuclear desolation. Ellsberg has warned American leaders since the '50s about the devastating consequences of accidental confrontations and bad assumptions.

Great artists have discovered the neurological antecedents of our perception, each in a manner unique to their method. J.S. Sargent's work seems to have great sensuality. Ellsworth Kelly's work is simple and intellectual.

This continuation of "Putting Art in YourDigital Photography" will take a fun, new approach. The class will explore howto build a story with photographs while observing the principles of writing -but using images instead of words. 

This repeat course is an introduction to, and discussion of, a range of retirement issues. Topics include estate planning practices, insurance issues (Medicare Advantage plans, long-term care, life insurance, annuities, etc.), trends in recreation and travel, and retirement financial planning and practices.

Do you know about "alkaline hydrolysis"? What are the rules about scattering ashes? Can you be buried on your own land? Which is greener, burial or cremation?

Frances Perkins, FDR's secretary of labor, was the first woman to serve in a presidential cabinet. Learn how this self-made woman, with roots in Maine, became America's leading advocate for industrial safety and workers' rights.

This new course will unpack a toolbox of skills you might wish you had learned in school. Transformative communication can help turn difficult conversations into opportunities for healing, greater understanding, and finding solutions to seemingly irreconcilable differences.

Oscar Hammerstein II was the teenage Stephen Sondheim's idol and mentor, yet the two men wrought revolutions (Hammerstein with the composer Richard Rodgers) that changed the American musical dramatically, and in dramatically different ways. 

This course is your opportunity to learn to play one of the easiest and happiest of instruments. In just a few weeks, you will learn the chords and strumming techniques needed to play hundreds of songs; no need to read music.

This ongoing workshop is a supportive peer group of 10 fiction writers working to improve their short-story writing skills. Each month, members send their work to one another in advance of the meeting. Each is responsible for constructive feedback of the work to be shared and discussed at the next session. The workshop will evolve in response to the interests of its members. New members are welcome.

This ongoing workshop is not a class but a supportive group of memoir writers who share and respond constructively to each other's work. New members are welcome, to a limit of 12.