Harold Grundy of Bath, Maine, spent the early 1960s working in Northwest Greenland, where he supervised construction and maintenance of the massive radar installation at the US Air Force Base at Thule, Greenland. At the height of the Cold War, the Ballistic Missile Early Warning System (BMEWS) was designed to give advance warning of missile launches from the Soviet Union. This exhibit features a selection of the photographs recently donated by Mr. Grundy’s, which document his time in Greenland.

Pictured above: An RCA engineer on a cliff overlooking Wolstenholme Fjord, Greenland, ca. 1962. Gift of Harold Grundy.