Mundane Magic
Seen through glass
The man wearing a baseball cap approaches our front door. Far from the door he stops and lays the box on our lawn of mostly hot dirt. Intrigued, I pause beside the stairwell. Just visible beyond the window trim is …
Features
common good
What’s in a Name? The McKeen Center
The common good, one of Bowdoin’s core tenets, dates all the way back to the opening of the College in 1802. Today, we see the common good in practice almost daily through the Joseph McKeen Center for the Common Good, …
Faculty
Professor Caylin Carbonell explores New England history in first semester at Bowdoin
For Assistant Professor of History Caylin Carbonell, history is powerful not just in the way it informs the present, but also in its ability to illustrate human agency. In her first semester at Bowdoin, Carbonell hopes to share this approach …
An Amateur Historian’s Problematic Faves
Victor Hugo, who ate lobsters in their shells (and also wrote “Les Miserables”)
Unpopular opinion: We’re too hard on France. I know, I know, what could those baguette-loving, mustache-having colonizers offer us super cool Americans? The answer to that question is the contributions of one Victor Marie Hugo. Of all the mad lads …
This is Health Too
Welcome to America
If you told me a year ago that in my junior fall, I would be studying abroad, I would have probably shaken my head, puzzled. But if you said to me that I would be traveling to three countries across …
Brunswick
The power of portage: Professor Willi Lempert finds community in mapping local Native pathways
Willi Lempert, an assistant professor of anthropology at Bowdoin, is using Google Earth to reimagine the history of Brunswick’s land and people.
Over the past four years, Lempert, alongside a host of community members, Maine Indigenous organizations and Bowdoin students, …
Brunswick
Construction scrambles foot traffic for small businesses on Maine Street
Brunswick’s Maine Street Streetscape Project, a major reconstruction of sidewalks and infrastructure, has been underway since May 2024. The project, managed by the Town of Brunswick and Maine Department of Transportation (DOT), focuses on improving the pedestrian experience by …
Talk of the Quad
Grace in our politics
After spending ten weeks working in the oppressive heat and humidity of D.C., I was more than ready to go back home to New Hampshire, a place with friends, family, beaches, mountains, a “live free or die” attitude and a …
Talk of the Quad
Sem-YES-ter
My distant Irish heritage, bestowed upon me from paternal great-grandparents I’ve never met, has left me with few connections to the Emerald Isle—namely, a love for Irish literature, fair skin that burns at the first touch of sunlight, a vaguely …
Brunswick
A new arrival: Blake Orchard Juicery
Now that the semester is in full swing and everyone is starting to navigate the pressures and difficulties of their upcoming assignments, a nice break from the monotony of studying is well-needed. Here to give you that break is a …