Leslie Brewer
Leslie Brewer, College of the Atlantic (COA) co-founder, discusses the early days of College of the Atlantic and the recruitment of its first president, Ed Kaelber. The conversation touches on the ...
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Leslie Brewer, College of the Atlantic (COA) co-founder, discusses the early days of College of the Atlantic and the recruitment of its first president, Ed Kaelber. The conversation touches on the ...
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Sam Eliot, one of the first College of the Atlantic (COA) staff members, shares his experience at COA. He played many roles throughout the college’s history, also teaching literature and serving...
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Cushman McGiffert, reverend and founding trustee of College of the Atlantic (COA), describes his involvement with COA from the early, formative years, through the present. He describes his first ...
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Elmer Beal, former anthropology faculty member at College of the Atlantic (COA), describes his arrival to COA, including details about his hiring, as well as COA’s founding within the context of...
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John Biderman, College of the Atlantic (COA) alum, shares his experience as a COA student in the college’s early years. He describes the structure of early COA, touching on committee structure, ...
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Interview with Josh Kane, a lobsterman in Bar Harbor fishing from Little Cranberry Island. Kane discusses issues with the process of getting his lobster license, as well as the history of the Bar ...
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On October 25, 2019, Galen Koch interviewed Joanna Fogg, Teagan White, and Mark Pinkham on a boat near Mount Desert Island, Maine. Fogg is an oyster farmer and active member of the Maine Aquaculture ...
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On July 21, 2023, Camden Hunt and Katie Culp interviewed Bill Horner in Bar Harbor, Maine, for the Frenchman Bay Oral History Project. Bill Horner, a lifelong resident of Bar Harbor, was born on ...
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Sean Todd tells about his time on Frenchman Bay as a professor of oceanography at College of the Atlantic. He grew up in London, and only moved here from Newfoundland after finishing graduate school. ...
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Rustin Taylor describes his experiences as an glass eel fisherman and his perception of changes in Frenchman Bay’s seasonal climate. He shares a story about his father fishing for smelt on bay ice ...
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