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The College is among the top ten largest taxpayers in Brunswick and is the 22nd-largest private employer in the state. These are among the economic impact indicators newly updated on the Treasurer’s website. The compilation also includes the fact that Bowdoin purchased $16.3 million dollars worth of goods and services from Maine vendors, including $2.79 million from Brunswick vendors, and that Bowdoin students provided 38,248 volunteer hours to Maine organizations (of which 7,389 hours were spent tutoring local students).  Photo by Jon Cole. Over L.L. Bean’s 100-year history, the Maine Hunting Shoe has become a larger-than-life symbol of the famous outdoor outfitter. To celebrate the company’s centennial in 2012, L.L. Bean has matched that scale with the Bean Boot Mobile, which a passing motorist recently spotted tromping down Interstate 295.  Abelardo Morell '71 In a new book, Penelope’s Hungry Eyes: Portraits of Photographers, photographer Abe Frajndlich focuses his lens on fellow celebrated photographers, including renowned camera obscura artist Abelardo Morell ’71 (image #10 of the slideshow). The Bowdoin College Museum of Art will feature an exhibition this summer by another of the distinguished subjects from Frajndlich’s book, part-time Maine resident William Wegman (slide #15).  Joan Benoit '79 was a senior at the College when, wearing a Bowdoin singlet and a Red Sox cap, she crossed the finish line, winning the 1979 Boston Marathon in what was then a women's course-record of 2:35:15. Running is on many minds and much in the news with yesterday’s U.S. Olympic Marathon trials in Houston. “Picking the top U.S. women’s marathoner of all time is as easy as it was to pick the top man,” writes the Chicago Tribune‘s Olympic sports columnist Philip Hersh. “It’s Joan Benoit Samuelson, of course.”  Otter Cliff in Maine's Acadia National Park. In honor of Martin Luther King Day, all 397 National Parks are offering free admission this holiday weekend. 
The late John Gould ’31, H’68, novelist and long-time columnist for The Christian Science Monitor, mentor to Stephen King, and widely considered the dean of Maine writers, lived for decades on a farm in Lisbon Falls, Maine, where he wrote much of his work in a small log cabin just a short drive up Route 196 from Brunswick. The current owner of the property recently listed Gould’s original cabin on Craigslist. In true Maine fashion, the crumbling building is “free for the taking,” ostensibly for salvage purposes, though the “person removing cabin must provide excavation work and fill.” 
During the War of 1812, a six-year-old Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Class of 1825, witnessed a sea battle between the British Boxer and the USS Enterprise off of the coast of Portland that he would later immortalize, along with the two young captains who died in the fight, in his poem, “My Lost Youth.” A new book by David Hanna, Knights of the Sea, dives into the history of that famous battle.  © Michele Stapleton The College plays an important role in the life of the Town of Brunswick. Its historical connections and cultural contributions are among the aspects highlighted in the travel piece, “48 Hours in … Brunswick,” in the latest issue of Maine magazine. Read the article.  Image: U.S. Mint As part of its America the Beautiful Quarters Program, the U.S. Mint will feature Bass Harbor Lighthouse in Maine’s Acadia National Park on a new coin to be released this summer. 
In this month’s column, John Cross ’76 reflects on winter break, the ice of a snowless campus, and the cycles of tradition. For me, beginning a new year involves recalibrating internal calendars and cycles, and adjusting goals and priorities to the realities of another year having passed without my having written the definitive word on the archaeology of Northeastern North America, achieved the physical fitness of a 25-year old, or even managed to sort the “stuff” that threatens to engulf me in my office. The holiday break for students lasts until January 23—ample time in which to do some research at Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, establish an exercise routine at the Buck Fitness Center, and eliminate at least some of my office clutter. Winter break is also one of my favorite times to take in Bowdoin sports events, in part because I’ve always felt as though each increment of crowd support matters a little more to the players when there are fewer fans in the stands.
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Whispering Pines: “Go U Bears!”
In this month’s column, John Cross ’76 reflects on winter break, the ice of a snowless campus, and the cycles of tradition.
For me, beginning a new year involves recalibrating internal calendars and cycles, and adjusting goals and priorities to the realities of another year having passed without my having written the definitive word on the archaeology of Northeastern North America, achieved the physical fitness of a 25-year old, or even managed to sort the “stuff” that threatens to engulf me in my office. The holiday break for students lasts until January 23—ample time in which to do some research at Hawthorne-Longfellow Library, establish an exercise routine at the Buck Fitness Center, and eliminate at least some of my office clutter. Winter break is also one of my favorite times to take in Bowdoin sports events, in part because I’ve always felt as though each increment of crowd support matters a little more to the players when there are fewer fans in the stands.
Continue reading Whispering Pines: “Go U Bears!”