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 well-known web site Google. Following the 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 in recent years by adding subtle new features to allow for faster, easier, and more accurate retrieval. Join the COA at Hildreth House Friday, Oct. 14, from 9:30 a.m. to 11 a.m. to learn simple, yet practical, search techniques. Bring two or three search topics to work on. 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 inquire about a scholarship.

• Tuesday, Oct. 4: Practically across the street from each other, Symphony Hall and Christian Science Library will be the destinations. 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. The trip leaves at 10 a.m. and will be back by 4 p.m. The cost is $15 plus lunch.
• Friday, Oct. 21: Seniors 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.