Searching with Google

In a class offered by the COA last winter, Mike Peters and Adam Miller shared their expertise using the free online services that are available to Internet users at the extremely well-known and ubiquitous web site Google. Following the huge success and popularity of that session, the COA is now offering a new class on using Google with an emphasis on search.

Google has improved its search engine in recent years by adding subtle new features to allow for faster, easier, and more accurate retrieval of information in any subject area. Join the class at the Hildreth House PC lab to learn a multitude of extremely simple, yet very practical, search tricks and techniques. Bring two or three search topics to work on in class.

The class will be doing many real-world, practical Google searches as examples. We have scheduled this course for Friday, Oct. 14, from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. Call the COA office at 978-456-4120 to sign up. Class size is limited to ten.

On the road with COA

Call the COA office at 978-456-4120 for more details or to sign up for trips. Anyone who cannot afford a trip can contact the office about a scholarship.

• Tuesday, Sept. 20: Situated on a hilltop with a panoramic view of Grand Monadnock, the Cathedral of the Pines is a breathtaking open-air cathedral and meeting space on 236 acres. Seniors will have a guided tour plus a description of the cathedral’s mission. Prior to the tour, the group will have lunch at J. P. Stephens Restaurant and Tavern in Rindge, N.H. All this on Tuesday, Sept. 20, leaving Hildreth House at 11 a.m, returning 3 p.m. Cost is $10 plus lunch.
• Tuesday, Oct. 4: Practically across the street from each other, Symphony Hall and Christian Science Library will be the destination on Tuesday, Oct. 4.  The group will have lunch at the Cheesecake Factory in between the tours. You may have been to Symphony Hall before, but what goes on behind the scenes? And the Mary Baker Eddy Library tour will include the Mapparium, the world famous three-story globe you can walk inside. The trip leaves at 10 a.m. and will be back by 4 p.m. The cost is $15 plus lunch.
• Friday, Oct. 21: What would October be without witches and goblins? We will travel to Salem to follow the history of witches, witchcraft, and witch hunts throughout the ages and especially the Salem Witch Trials of 1692. Don’t believe in witches? Don’t answer until you visit the museum. Lunch will be at a favorite waterside spot, and the cost is $12.50. The trip will leave at 9 a.m. and return by 3 p.m.