Amusements

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Book suggestions from the college’s annual Good Reads summer reading list: BOOKS

The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman

Suggested by Elizabeth Durand ’76: Set in World War II Europe, this is one of those books that makes the outside world disappear. The Mike Bowditch series by Paul Doiron

Suggested by Jim Bauer, Director of Network and Infrastructure Services: Written by Down East magazine’s editor emeritus, the series follows Bowditch, a game warden in the wilds of Maine who struggles with a haunted past.

Girl, Woman, Other by Bernadine Evaristo

Suggested by Shoshona Currier, Bates Dance Festival Director: Beautiful and challenging fiction that weaves through characters’ intersecting identities. The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek by Kim Michele Richardson

Suggested by Pamela Baker ’69, Helen A. Papaioanou Professor Emerita of Biological Sciences: Inspired by the true story of the 1930s WPA rural book program and the blue-skinned Fugate family of Kentucky.

LOST & FOUND

Items seen in Ladd Library’s Lost & Found in winter visit:

Quarter-zip hoodie by Toad&Co • Book: Cold Wars: Asia, the Middle East, Europe • Four pens, including a classic Bic Crystal • Scrunchie • Two water bottles • Several chapters of a senior thesis • Book: My Face is Black is True • Pop-up hairbrush • Eyeglasses by Longchamp • One earring • Apple charger • Single glove

Something You Didn’t Know You Needed from the

Bates College Store

Wooden Bobcat Wine Stopper

$5.99

PHYLLIS GRABER JENSEN

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BATES HISTORY QUIZ

Twenty-five years ago, a ad for this item in The Bates Student promised, “It talks. It talks to your Mom. It talks to Moscow.” What was it?

get up and surfing on the Internet. complicated commands needed to could do those things, with “no capabilities, a Macintosh computer

: With advanced multimedia

Answer

A Hard Winter

Its arms made of branches blown down by unrelenting winds, its base the stump of a tree lost to disease, this forlorn snowman created on the Quad in February seemed to capture the mood of a dystopian winter. Here’s to spring and better days!