The students of the Long Island School attended their first day of college on Feb. 7. The day consisted of a tour of the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and lunch in the dining hall, and finished with a visit to Anne Henshaw’s “Anthropology of the Islands” class. The trip kicked off a semester-long collaborative project between Bowdoin anthropology students and the Long Island School. The Bowdoin students will visit Long Island several times to help the elementary school gather information about the history and culture of the island. The Bowdoin class will produce a website with this information, including recorded interviews with island fishermen, at the end of the semester.
Anna Rubin is an Island Institute Fellow on Long Island.