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Tag: Acadia

Art Meets Science on Mount Desert Island

As part of the Mount Desert Island Biological Laboratory’s Art Meets Science Cafe series, I presented a history of artists … More

Acadia, history, history of science, Maine, Mount Desert Island
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The Champlain Society Transcriptions

In the Spring 2015 issue of Friends of Acadia Journal, Maureen Fournier, a seasonal ranger for Acadia, and I describe … More

Acadia, conservation, Harvard, history, Maine, Mount Desert Island

Students as conservation catalysts

This third and final (for now) article on the Champlain Society explores how students can be effective agents of change, … More

Acadia, conservation, Maine, Mount Desert Island

Visionary science of the “Harvard Barbarians”

The Mount Desert Island Historical Society asked me to write an article about The Champlain Society for the 2014 issue … More

Acadia, conservation, Harvard, history of science, Maine, Mount Desert Island

Influenced by Nature

In May 1871, Charles William Eliot had been president of Harvard College barely two years, and a widower just as … More

Acadia, conservation, Harvard, history, history of science, Maine, Mount Desert Island

The Champlain Society

The origins of conservation on Mount Desert Island can be traced to a clear, cold night in March 1880, when … More

Acadia, conservation, Harvard, history of science, Mount Desert Island

The Snowy Owls of Acadia

This article  appeared in the Winter 2012 issue of Friends of Acadia Journal. Winter in Acadia: bare limbs of beech … More

Acadia, Maine, Mount Desert Island, snowy owls, winter
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