Bergen PickettJAZZING IT UP: Director of Jazz Ensembles Kate Campbell Strauss shared their new album, produced alongside trumpeter and composer Emily Mikesell, with the Bowdoin community at a release event.
Bergen PickettSTORIED SEARLES: The controversial salmon neoclassical facade of Searles Hall has stood on the Main Quad since 1894. Now the subject of ghost encounter tales, the science building was constructed in honor of Mary Frances Sherwood, the wife of interior decorator Edward Searles, despite the fact that neither individual ever stepped foot on Bowdoin's campus.
Look up. Is it a ceiling that presses back down towards your skull? Or perhaps you are greeted by the brisk expanse of blue, speckled with myriad oranges, reds, browns and yellows: that iconic earth tone palette ritually gathering …