Quest for Learning Lancaster will hold its spring programs on Thursdays, March 27 to May 8, at Trinity Lutheran Church, 31 S. Duke St., Lancaster. There will be no session on April 17.

Each week, 50-minute sessions will be offered at 9:40 and 11 a.m. with a coffee and cookie break in between. All sessions and the refreshments are included in the program cost.

Quest for Learning is a nonprofit program, run entirely by volunteers, that has offered educational programs to people of retirement age in the Lancaster community for more than 40 years. The sessions are presented by local experts in their fields, including educators, public officials, business and community leaders, writers, artists, and musicians.

The 9:40 sessions will be "A Financial Perspective on the Near Future," presented by Gary Leinberger; "Concertos, Requiems, and One-Hit Wonders," presented by Davis Giersch; a Short Story Discussion Group coordinated by Victoria Ehrhardt; and "Frontiers of Physical Science: Big Questions Unveiled" with Richard D. Clark.

The 11:00 sessions will be "Complexity of American Elections," coordinated by Robert J. Bresler; "Architecture in American History," presented by James S. Douglas, Matthew Funk Barley, and Gregory J. Scott; the Elizabethtown College Lecture Series, coordinated by Fletcher McClellan; and "Six Historical Characters with Lancaster Connections," presented by Jack Brubaker.

For more information and to register, visit http://www.questlancaster.org.