AMESBURY — Two local maritime experts have departed on a two-month journey to the Arctic Circle as part of a crew educating the next generation of sailors.
BRIDGTON, Maine — Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, Senior College at Bridgton will be offering only limited-enrollment Zoom sessions during the month of February.
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BRIDGTON Due to the Covid-19 pandemic, we are offering only limited enrollment ZOOM sessions during the month of February. Classes for the autumn session are free to paid members. Mail-in Registrations are due by January 27.
Eight virtual classes will be offered on Zoom on Tuesdays and Thursdays from 10:00 to 11:30 from February 2 to 25
Tuesday, February 2 – 10:00 a.m.
Maine Turtles and the Turtles of Holt Pond Preserve
The summer of 2020 was like no other, but because of the inability to host public programs, LEA partnered with Maine Inland Fisheries and Wildlife to conduct a twelve day turtle assessment at the Holt Pond Preserve. The data collected was added to a state-wide reptile and amphibian atlas. Learn about Maine turtles and their amazing adaptations in the midst of global change. Instructor Alanna Doughty
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Deadline for Senior College classes approaches
The registration deadline for community members to sign-up to attend the Senior College’s slate of February online winter classes is Jan. 27.
Eight virtual classes will be offered on Zoom from 10 to 11:30 a.m. on Tuesdays and Thursdays from Feb. 2-25.
Classes will include “Maine Turtles and the Turtles of Holt Pond Preserve,” Feb. 2; “Global Economic, Market and Geopolitical Outlook,” Feb. 4; “Poems of Spring” Feb. 9; “Donald Baxter MacMillan, Arctic Explorer,” Feb. 11; “Page Break – Question of Principles,” Feb. 16; “Tennessee Williams Movie Adaptations,” Feb. 18; “Realism to Semi-Abstraction,” Feb. 23; and “Ghosts and Ghost Towns of the White Mountains,” Feb. 5.
January 13, 2021
Hundreds perhaps thousands of people took part in the international race to explore the Arctic and claim the North Pole. Here s a collection of some of the most important and influential figures discussed in Mental Floss s new podcast,
1. Arnaq // Inuit // ?-1577
Arnaq was the name assigned to an Inuit woman from Baffin Island in Nunavut, Canada, who was taken captive by Martin Frobisher in 1577, along with Kalicho and her infant son called Nutaaq.
Arnaq means “woman” or “female” in Inuktitut.
2. William Baffin // English // c. 1584-1622
Baffin was a navigator and ship s pilot who searched for the elusive Northwest Passage. His namesakes are Baffin Island (now part of Nunavut, Canada) and Baffin Bay, which separates the island from Greenland. He found Lancaster Sound, the entrance to the Northwest Passage, but believed ice would always make it impassable. Baffin also sailed within 800 nautical miles of the geographic North Pole, the northernmost point