Patagonia is a region of South America that includes the far southern sections of both Argentina and Chile. Sam Jamke has traveled and led trips to the area four times, day hiking and hut to hut trekking in both Argentina's Los Glaciares National Park and Chile's Torres del Paine. The scenery and wildlife are unique and stunning. Sam will share her photos and tales of her travels She will have plenty of time for questions.

PART 3 - Cyber Crimes: This is the highly anticipated continuation and follow-up to the CSI classes 1 and 2. Ever wonder how crimes are solved in NH? Ever wanted to be a criminal investigator or a detective for a day? How does Hollywood get it so wrong? What do they have that is right? This presentation will review criminal investigation techniques such as internet crime labs, peering into the criminal mind, surveillance operations, internet spies in your home, privacy, electronic monitoring, encryption, hacking, and non-classified counter terrorism efforts. Learn how police officers solve crimes. During the presentation, short 'who-dun-it's are presented for the class to solve.

There are always new developments in the world of immigration, with implications for the Dreamers, refugees, Temporary Protective Status seekers, children separated at the border, immigration checkpoints on I-93 and progress on building The Wall. Legal immigration is getting much tougher and more expensive. Will the President's merit point based immigration proposal help? Should the census ask citizenship information? Your discussion and questions welcome.

Ancient Israel was one of the more advanced societies, seeing love and sex as rights of women and obligations of men, at least most of the time. Enjoy a look at texts that give us a new and different perspective on "the battle of the sexes."

"On Thursday morning, March 27, 1845, the people of this town were thrown into the most intense excitement by the knowledge of the fact that Mr. Jonas L. Parker had been murdered the previous evening, in a thick grove of pines, just east of the village. This piece of woods was just the place in all the neighborhood for a deed of darkness." So wrote historian C. E. Potter eleven years after the shocking murder of Manchester's tax collector and saloon owner. To this day the crime remains unsolved (at least officially). Learn about the horrible murder, the investigation, and the sensational trial that ensued.

Native Americans occupied the United States long before European colonists arrived. The ensuing relationship between American Indians and the US government is a complex mix of sovereign state interactions, self-rule and protected status, and legal and political disputes extending over the course of more than 200 years. These class sessions explore this history and seek to add a basis for understanding past and current affairs, reviewing some of the important legal decisions affecting the relationship. Suggested reading is "American Indians and the Law," N. Bruce Duthu, ISBN 978-0-670-01857-4.

Steve Duprey will share stories and insights about his travels on the campaign bus as he served as a senior advisor to Senator John McCain, one of our nation's most respected and beloved statesmen, during McCain's 2008 presidential campaign.

Steve McAuliffe will give a basic explanation of the organization and functioning of the federal and state judicial branches of government, including examination of how they relate to one another. Discussion will include common law, statutes, constitutional law, illustrative cases, the nature of the judicial power, how judicial work is done and how conflicts in the law and conflicts among the courts are resolved. Backpacks, packages, and liquids are not allowed in the courthouse. You may be subject to security screening. Limited parking, plan ahead.

Social media and artificial intelligence (AI) are reshaping our political and electoral processes - and not for the better. This technology is contributing to, if not to a significant extent causing, the further political polarization of our population as people increasingly receive only political messages tailored to and reinforcing their own political predispositions to the exclusion of other perspectives and points of view. In this class, we will ask: What are algorithms? Bots? Deep learning? How do they work? How do they shape, influence, manipulate, distort and polarize political discourse? And how have they been used historically to shape political thought and influence the outcome of elections as, for example: by ISIS in Iraq; in the Brexit vote in England; and in our own 2016 presidential election (to mention but a few). And what does the future hold?

Is sending a woman to prison a punishment or rehabilitation or restorative justice? Although women are less likely than men to commit crimes, the number of women incarcerated nationwide rose 700% since 1980, but is now dropping slightly in New Hampshire. Is alternative sentencing making a difference? Has the opening of the new women's state prison resolved the long-term disparity between the programs and services provided to men and women in prison? Explore the impact of incarceration on women (and their families) in NH. Bring a brown-bag lunch for each day.

Tour the brand new Merrimack County Superior Court and learn about the types of cases heard in the building. Please leave your cell phone and all food and liquid behind. Avoid large purses and backpacks.

We all lived through the Vietnam War. Some of us served in uniform; some of us took to the streets in protest; and some of us just tried to get through our lives as best we could. Now, with 50 years of hindsight and access to previously secret files of our government, North Vietnam and the former Soviet Union, we will explore the war from both political and military perspectives, including: when, why and how we got involved; JFK's Green Beret buildup; the Tonkin Gulf incident; LBJ and McNamara's massive but gradual escalation - both on the ground and in the air; our disastrous "search and destroy" "body count" strategy; Tet and and its political consequences; Nixon's "secret plan", i.e. Vietnamization; And finally, our abandonment of the South Vietnamese people under Kissinger's guise of "Peace with Honor".