Pop-up Books: They're Not Just for Kids!

This semester, the Bowdoin College library is hosting an exhibit of more than 150 books from their 1800-volume Harold M. Goralnick Pop-up Book Collection. If you're not lucky enough to live right around the corner like me, you can still get a glimpse of the stunning artwork on display. There's everything from The Little Prince to Andy Warhol to a full pop-up replica of Fenway Park.

Pop-ups! They're Not JUST for Kids


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Grab Bag Friday: My Favorite Holiday Treat, the Bowdoin Log

Merry Christmas everyone!

I hope you have a cozy holiday with family and friends and lots of nice surprises. And I hope you get to have all your favorite holiday treats this year. Here's mine, dripping with homemade hot fudge that tastes almost *exactly* like my dad's!

The Bowdoin Log

Concert Sunday: My Big Band Dreams, Realized

As any of you who know me are well aware of, I grew up on the Andrews Sisters and Bing Crosby. When I was in high school, I was in love with the Glenn Miller Orchestra and Anita O'Day and Doris Day (I was also in love with Pearl Jam and Smashing Pumpkins, but hey, I've always been an eclectic kind of girl.)

While my classmates were out at field parties in the summer, my friends and I were hosting (very small) big band parties, equipped with candles and 1940's style outfits and outdoor dancing to Pennsylvania 6-5000.

So when Bowdoin College's concert band asked me to do a show with them and sing some old Gershwin standards in the *gorgeous* new Studzinski Auditorium, I was an eensy bit excited.

If you're going to be in Maine this weekend, you can come watch me live out my dreams of being a 1940's big band singer:

Sunday, March 1st
2:00pm
Studzinski Auditorium, Bowdoin College
Free and open to the public

Here's one of the songs I'm going to sing: