PORTLAND, MAINE | Travel Diary
The second part of our Maine trip! After exploring Acadia National Park, we headed down south to Portland and visited its surrounding areas!
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Sights Visited:
1. Farnsworth Art Museum (Rockland)
2. Rockland Breakwater Light (Rockland)
3. Portland Head Light (Cape Elizabeth)
4. Old Port (Portland)
5. Portland Museum of Art (Portland)
6. Victoria Mansion (Portland)
7. L.L. Bean Flagship Store (Freeport)
8. Bowdoin College Museum of Art (Brunswick)
9. Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum (Brunswick)
10. Nubble Light (York)
11. Ogunquit Museum of American Art (Ogunquit)
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Staff writer Bob Keyes talks about Katherine Bradford's new exhibit at Bowdoin College Museum of Art.
Behind the Scenes of a Bowdoin Thanksgiving
In the days leading up to Bowdoin's famously anticipated Thanksgiving meal, which is always held the Thursday before students leave for Thanksgiving break, Bowdoin's dining staff begins to prepare.
For the more than 1,100 guests expected to dine at Thorne, and the more than 450 expected to eat at Moulton for the Thanksgiving meal, Bowdoin Dining prepares roughly 1,500 pounds of turkey, 36 gallons of gravy, 540 pounds of butternut squash, 360 pounds of sweet potatoes, 206 pies, 55 loaves of pumpkin bread, 600 oatmeal molasses rolls, 10 sheets of cornbread, 500 vegan biscuits, and six sheets of vegan apple crisp. Plus lots of other dishes. Around 64 employees work at the dining halls to greet, cook, serve and clean up.
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Acadia National Park is a stunning national treasure on the coast of Maine in the USA. This “insider's” vacation guide covers all of the best places to see and the towns and villages in the Acadia Region from Bar Harbor on Mount Desert Island to Winter Harbor on the Schoodic Peninsula. Wherever you choose, the views are spectacular and nature abounds. No wonder this is one of the most visited parks in the United States and in all of North America.
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The Bowdoin College Museum of Art is an art museum located in Brunswick, Maine. Included on the National Register of Historic Places, the museum is located in a building on the campus of Bowdoin College designed by the architectural firm McKim, Mead, and White.
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Kennebunkport is a town in York County, Maine, United States. The population was 3,474 people at the 2010 census.[4] It is part of the Portland–South Portland–Biddeford metropolitan statistical area.
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Monhegan is a plantation in Lincoln County, Maine, United States, about 12 nautical miles (22 km) off the mainland. The population was 75 at the 2000 census. The plantation comprises its namesake island and the uninhabited neighboring island of Manana. The island is accessible by mailboat ferry (no automobiles) from Boothbay Harbor, New Harbor and Port Clyde. It was designated a National Natural Landmark for its coastal and island flora in 1966.[1]
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Boothbay Harbor is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,165 at the 2010 census. During summer months, the entire Boothbay Harbor region is a popular yachting and tourist destination.
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Whispering Pines’ proximity to many shopping, dining and entertainment opportunities make it unique. It’s less than 10 minutes from interstate 295, LL Bean, and the Freeport shopping district. Once there, head south on I-295, and in under 20 minutes you’re in Portland.
Enjoy nearby recreation and art and cultural opportunities at Bradbury Mountain State Park, Wolf Neck Woods State Park, Brunswick Golf Club, Maine State Music Theatre, Bowdoin College Museum of Art and many others.
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African Art and 'Earth Matters'
Johnnetta Cole, director, National Museum of African Art, Smithsonian Institution and artist and educator David Driskell H'89 discuss the Bowdoin Museum of Art exhibition Earth Matters: Land as Material and Metaphor in the Arts of Africa and the impact of African art in the United States.
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Student Curators Use Digital Know-How to Highlight Prestigious Medal Collection
Three student curators launched their first exhibition over the summer, highlighting the Bowdoin College Museum of Art's prestigious Molinari medal collection. The collection comprises almost 1500 items spanning five centuries of history. The students, Amber Orosco ’19, Stephen Pastoriza ’19, and Benjamin Wu ’18, collaborated with staff at the museum and in the College's Academic Computing division to develop an innovative, web-based interface to help visitors to the museum get the most out of the exhibition, which runs until Januar, 2019.
Bowdoin College writer and producer Tom Porter recently caught up with the curators to talk about the challenges of putting on an art show—especially one displaying artifacts that weren't originally designed to be shown in a museum.
Perspectives from Postwar Hiroshima
Symposium: Perspectives from Postwar Hiroshima: Chuzo Tamotzu, Children's Drawings, and the Art of Resolution
In conjunction with the exhibition Perspectives from Postwar Hiroshima: Chuzo Tamotzu, Children's Drawings, and the Art of Resolution, leading artists, historians, and art historians offer their perspectives on the cultural implications of World War II - particularly the atomic explosion in Hiroshima - for Japan and for Americans of Japanese descent in the United States.
The event explores the important role that art can play in expressing and responding to political and social conflict.
Speakers include Yukiyo Kawano, artist, Portland, Oregon; Roger Shimomura, University Distinguished Professor of Art Emeritus, The University of Kansas; Mark Selden, professor emeritus of sociology and history, State University of New York at Binghamton; John K.W. Tchen, founding director, Asia/Pacific/American Institute; Aiko Izumisawa, independent scholar, Kagoshima, Japan; Michael Amano, Bowdoin Class of 2017; and Virginia Crow, Class of 2018.
Stephen Perkinson: Lessons for Living: The Macabre in Renaissance Art
Stephen Perkinson, Bowdoin's Peter M. Small Associate Professor of Art History and guest curator, delivers the keynote address, Lessons for Living: The Macabre in Renaissance Art to open the Bowdoin Museum of Art exhibition The Ivory Mirror: The Art of Mortality in Renaissance Europe.
The Ivory Mirror explores the rich visual culture of mortality in Renaissance Europe. Exquisite artworks — from ivory prayer beads to gem-encrusted jewelry — evoke life's preciousness and the tension between pleasure and responsibility, then and now.
Sponsored by the Bowdoin College Museum of Art. Free and open to the public.
The 21st-century Museum: Challenges and Opportunities
Ford W. Bell, current president of the American Alliance of Museums, spoke at Bowdoin on the state and role of museums in contemporary American society. He reflected upon his experiences and observations as the leader of AAM, including a re-branding and comprehensive overhaul of its programs and membership structure; a complete organizational re-structuring; and a new, intense focus on advocacy.
The American Alliance of Museums (AAM) has been bringing museums together since 1906, helping to develop standards and best practices, gathering and sharing knowledge, and providing advocacy on issues of concern to the entire museum community. With more than 18,000 individual, 3,000 institutional and 300 corporate members, the Alliance is dedicated to ensuring that museums remain a vital part of the American landscape, connecting people with the greatest achievements of the human experience — past, present and future.
Bell became AAM president in June 2007, following a career as a veterinarian and nonprofit executive. Bell had also served as chair of the board of the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, and was a longtime board member of the Bell Museum of Natural History at the University of Minnesota. He will retire as AAM's president on May 31, 2015
Curtis Memorial Library: In One Day
A day at Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick, Maine. Created by Rip Swan and Jasper Lowe
Harriet Beecher Stowe - Sam Lawson's Oldtown Fireside Stories: The Ghost In The Cap'n Brown House
Harriet Beecher Stowe (June 14, 1811 – July 1, 1896) was an American abolitionist and author. Her novel Uncle Tom's Cabin (1852) was a depiction of life for African Americans under slavery; it reached millions as a novel and play, and became influential in the United States and United Kingdom. It energized anti-slavery forces in the American North, while provoking widespread anger in the South. She wrote more than 20 books, including novels, three travel memoirs, and collections of articles and letters.
She was influential both for her writings and her public stands on social issues of the day. Harriet Elisabeth Beecher was born in Litchfield, Connecticut, on June 14, 1811. She was the seventh of 13 children, born to outspoken religious leader Lyman Beecher and Roxana (Foote), a deeply religious woman who died when Stowe was only five years old. Her notable siblings included a sister, Catharine Beecher, who was an educator and author, as well brothers who became ministers: including Henry Ward Beecher, Charles Beecher, and Edward Beecher.
Harriet enrolled in the seminary (girls' school) run by her sister Catharine, where she received a traditionally male education in the classics, including study of languages and mathematics. Among her classmates there was Sarah P. Willis, who later wrote under the pseudonym Fanny Fern. At the age of 21, she moved to Cincinnati, Ohio to join her father, who had become the president of Lane Theological Seminary.
There, she also joined the Semi-Colon Club, a literary salon and social club whose members included the Beecher sisters, Caroline Lee Hentz, Salmon P. Chase, Emily Blackwell, and others. It was in that group that she met Calvin Ellis Stowe, a widower and professor at the seminary. The two married on January 6, 1836. He was an ardent critic of slavery, and the Stowes supported the Underground Railroad, temporarily housing several fugitive slaves in their home. They had seven children together, including twin daughters.
In 1850, Congress passed the Fugitive Slave Law, prohibiting assistance to fugitives. At the time, Stowe had moved with her family into a home near the campus of Bowdoin College in Brunswick, Maine, where her husband was now teaching. Stowe found it difficult to concentrate and write in their home and so rented a room in a home owned by Mrs. Lamb on 183 Park Row. On March 9, 1850, Stowe wrote to Gamaliel Bailey, editor of the weekly antislavery journal National Era, that she planned to write a story about the problem of slavery: I feel now that the time is come when even a woman or a child who can speak a word for freedom and humanity is bound to speak... I hope every woman who can write will not be silent. Shortly after, In June 1851, when she was 40, the first installment of her Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in the National Era.
She originally used the subtitle The Man That Was A Thing, but it was soon changed to Life Among the Lowly. Installments were published weekly from June 5, 1851, to April 1, 1852. For the newspaper serialization of her novel, Stowe was paid only $400. Uncle Tom's Cabin was published in book form on March 20, 1852, by John P. Jewett with an initial print run of 5,000 copies. Each of its two volumes included three illustrations and a title-page designed by Hammatt Billings. In less than a year, the book sold an unprecedented three hundred thousand copies. By December, as sales began to wane, Jewett issued an inexpensive edition at 37 1/2 cents each to further inspire sales.
In 1833, during Stowe's time in Cincinnati, the city was afflicted with a serious cholera epidemic. To avoid illness, Stowe made a visit to Washington, Kentucky, a major community of the era just south of Maysville. She stayed with the Marshall Key family, one of whose daughters was a student at Lane Seminary. It is recorded that Mr. Key took her to see a slave auction, as they were frequently held in Maysville.
Scholars believe she was strongly moved by the experience. The Marshall Key home still stands in Washington. Key was a prominent Kentuckian; his visitors also included Henry Clay and Daniel Webster. The Uncle Tom's Cabin Historic Site is part of the restored Dawn Settlement at Dresden, Ontario, which is 20 miles east of Algonac, Michigan. The community for freed slaves founded by the Rev. Josiah Henson and other abolitionists in the 1830s has been restored. There's also a museum. Henson and the Dawn Settlement provided Stowe with the inspiration for Uncle Tom's Cabin.
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Photographer Abelardo Morell: A Mind of Winter
Abelardo Morell ’71, H'97 spoke at Bowdoin on May 5 about his latest photographic project, completed in Maine during the winter of 2015. Morell is a celebrated photographer whose recent retrospective toured throughout the United States.
Bowdoin Profile: First-Generation College Student Kathryn McGinnis ’21
In her first months at Bowdoin, Kathryn McGinnis ’21 had an experience that is not uncommon for first-year students at a liberal arts college. She arrived at college this fall thinking she would be pre-med. But after taking a microeconomics class, she found a new academic passion.
I was finally introduced to this world of economics, and I had never had that in high school, she said in a recent interview. She's now thinking she would prefer to major in economics and history, and perhaps minor in math or a science.
McGinnis went to a high school in a cornfield, she jokes, in a rural town outside of Columbus, Ohio. Neither of her parents has a four-year college degree. Her mother works for Central Ohio Technical College's fees and deposits center, and her father is a hospital pharmacy technician.
As part of the QuestBridge Scholars Network at her high school, McGinnis received information from Bowdoin's admissions department, encouraging her to apply. But, she had already heard about the school from some not entirely positive media coverage on a class once offered here that looked at prostitution in American history. There were news articles about how Bowdoin had gotten a lot of flak for offering it, she said. But she actually was impressed. I was like, that is a great college that can offer this class and look at something so controversial with an academic edge. I said, I want to go to Bowdoin!
So far, she's been impressed by the richness of offerings here. Last week, I was walking around and stumbled into a lecture on US-China relations, she noted. And she's taken advantage of the availability of resources here to do what you want to do, by joining the equestrian team and writing for the campus newspaper. She is also applying for a funded internship grant from Bowdoin Career Planning to work at the Gettysburg National Battlefield this summer.
Though she's appreciative of all the resources and funding available, particularly for first-generation students like her, McGinnis said she first tries to tackle challenges on her own before seeking help.
There's not enough time in the day to go to the writing center or see all the tutors! she said. If I need help usually I'll hunker down first myself before I'm like, 'Okay, I've hit the bottom, now I've got to go get help.' I think we [first-generation students] are still trying to prove to ourselves that we belong here.
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Thomas Laqueur: What is the Work of the Dead?
Diogenes the Cynic, the dog philosopher, told his disciples that he wanted his dead body thrown over the walls of the city. They objected that he would be eaten by beasts and picked at by birds. True, he said, and agreed to be left unburied with a stick in his hands to keep away predators. But you will be dead and won't know that they are molesting your corpse, they replied. True, he said, and that is why it makes no difference what happens to my body.
Over the millennia many people have thought that Diogenes had a point but no culture has ever acted on his argument. Antigone's voice is the one we - or in any case we humans when we are not trying to dehumanize others - hear. Care for the dead is among the unwavering, unwritten customs of the gods...not some trifle of now or yesterday, but for all eternity. In this talk, Thomas Laqueur explores why Antigone is right, and what work the unfeeling dead body does for the living.
Laqueur is the Fawcett Distinguished Professor of History at University of California, Berkeley. He specializes in the cultural history of the body, and in the history of humanitarianism and of popular religion and literacy. His books include Work of the Dead; Solitary Sex; Making Sex; Religion and Respectability; and, in progress, a short history of humanitarianism and a book about dogs in Western art. He writes for the London Review of Books and was a founding editor of the journal Representations. He received a Mellon Foundation Distinguished Achievement Award, which he used to commission and write a libretto for an opera based on Jose Saramago's novel Death with Interruptions; as well as to support projects on human rights, religion, and science studies. He is a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and a member of the American Philosophical Society.
Michael Kolster: Take Me to the River: Photographs of Atlantic Rivers
Panel discussion of the book, Take Me to the River, a collection of photographs by Michael Kolster. Moderated by Frank Goodyear, the panel discusses the history and current state of the rivers depicted in the book: the Androscoggin (ME/NH), the Schuylkill (PA), the James (VA) and the Savannah (SC/GA). It also addresses the ways that photography might contribute to the larger conversation about the future of these waterways and the landscape in general.
Panelists include editor and publisher George Thompson of Staunton, Virginia; book designer David Skolkin, of Santa Fe, New Mexico; Alison Nordstrom, contributor of an essay to the book, former senior curator of photographs at Eastman House Museum of Photography, and independent writer and curator living in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Matthew Klingle, contributor of another essay to the book, Associate Professor of History and Environmental Studies at Bowdoin College; and Michael Kolster, photographer and Associate Professor of Art at Bowdoin College.
'Bowdoin Votes' Launches Big Effort to Register Students
Bowdoin Votes, a nonpartisan get-out-the-vote effort on campus, didn't waste any time getting started this year.
As first-year students were arriving on campus Tuesday morning, Archer Thomas ’21 and Will Parker ’20 were parked at a table outside, wearing an Uncle Sam top hat and a Statue of Liberty visor, respectively, to help first-years — most of them first-time voters — register to vote.
We're prepared to register students in any of the fifty states, and set them up with absentee ballot requests so they can get the ballots here. And we can help them with information on how to send them in, Thomas explained.
Thomas is helping to organize Bowdoin Votes this year with Andrew Lardie, the McKeen Center for the Common Good's associate director for service and leadership.
Lardie launched Bowdoin Votes in 2016, and is ramping up outreach this year in advance of the midterm elections. He's teaching volunteer students to register new voters in any state, as well as be able to direct their peers to information about candidates and ballot questions.
Bowdoin Votes volunteers will regularly roll out the votemobile, as their information table is nicknamed, to campus events throughout the fall, including Greenstock Festival, campus talks, and Common Good Day, which is a campus-wide day of volunteering in the local community. On election day, the College will run vans every fifteen minutes to the Brunswick polls, leaving from the Moulton Union circle.
Right now there is a national awakening that colleges have a responsibility to do more about civic engagement and voting, Lardie said. This summer, he attended the third annual Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement conference, offered by the American Association of State College and Universities, to gather and share ideas and resources with other college administrators.
These efforts are an attempt to address low voter turnout among college and university students. Data indicates that only 18 percent of college students voted in 2014. Those numbers do tend to increase during presidential elections; 45.1 percent of students voted in 2012, and 48.3 percent cast a vote in 2016. Bowdoin's voting rates increased from 38.5 percent in 2012 to 52.6 percent in 2016.
Inspiring Bowdoin students to become committed voters fits in well with the mission of Bowdoin's McKeen Center, according to Lardie. I think it's a fundamental aspect of a healthy life, and an important part of our job as educators, he said. And I happen to work in a department where our mandate is to help people understand how they fit into the common good, and if we don't have a responsibility for providing this kind of support, then who does?
Students who would like to volunteer with Bowdoin Votes are invited to fill out this quick interest form.