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Amid this week’s Senior Arctic Officials meeting of the Arctic Council in Portland, Maine, Bowdoin’s Susan Kaplan, director of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center as well as a member of Maine’s Arctic Council Host Committee, has been serving as an ambassador for the state’s connection to the Arctic.
Kaplan, aboard the Schooner Bowdoin with Admiral Robert J. Papp Jr., USCG (Ret.), the U.S. State Department’s Special Representative for the Arctic, offered a historical perspective on the significance of the vessel and its mission through the years.
And Kaplan—along with Genevieve LeMoine, the Arctic Museum’s curator, and Anne Henshaw of the Oak Foundation—write of the need to keep the region’s indigenous people top of mind amid the other more commercial concerns in a letter published in the Portland Press Herald , in which they suggest building “a a future that does not limit our relationships to business, but takes advantage of all that northern communities and Maine have to offer.”
Arctic Lessons Aboard the Schooner Bowdoin from Bowdoin College on Vimeo.