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Muffy Aldrich
Muffy Aldrich, Editor of Salt Water New England: The Thing Before Preppy, since 2010. And a 12th Generation New Englander.
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Fab photos! I wish we had snow and sunshine instead of the endless rain and dreariness.
ReplyDeleteWhat an idyllic town setting to live in...Volvos, Saabs and Audis - oh my !
ReplyDeleteRaise songs to Bowdoin, praise her fame,
ReplyDeleteAnd sound abroad her glorious name;
To Bowdoin, Bowdoin lift your song,
And may the music echo long
O'er whispering pines and campus fair
With sturdy might filling the air.
Bowdoin, from birth, our nurturer and friend
To thee we pledge our love again, again
Thank you. Pinos loquentes semper habemus.
DeleteIt's 87 in Austin, TX today.
ReplyDeleteWhen I was a student at Bowdoin, long ago, the College used to clear a section of the quad and hose it down every few nights to make an outdoor skating rink for pick up hockey and rec skating. In the 15th photo (which is of the chapel) you can see this in the foreground in front of the chapel. Now it appears that the College has added benches for changing in and out of skates. You can see this in the 18th photo, too. The statue of the polar bear in the 18th photo is by Frederick Roth, who also did the lion outside Columbia's football stadium and the Balto statue in Central Park.
ReplyDeleteThrough those doors in the 34th photo (Hubbard Hall), up the stairs and to the left is the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, free to the public and worth visiting. https://www.bowdoin.edu/arctic-museum/ The art museum, in the 23rd photo but now entered through the glass box in the 26th, is also free to the public, and has too many delights to see in one visit. However, Gilbert Stuart's portrait of Jefferson is a national treasure everyone can enjoy. https://bcma.bowdoin.edu/antiquity/objects/1813-55/
Off campus, the brown house in the 5th photo (and 6th) was Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain's house. He oversaw the surrender of The Army of Northern Virginia's infantry at Appomattox Court House. Across the street (which you can see in the 5th photo) is the Congregationalist church where Harriet Beecher Stowe had her vision of the angel that inspired her to write Uncle Tom's Cabin. (The pew is marked.) As a result the proximity of these two landmarks, one of my professors used to quip that the U.S. Civil War began and ended on one quiet street corner in Brunswick, Maine.
Thank you for the memories!