Two Bowdoin students — Maya Morduch-Toubman ’18 and Aleksia Silverman ’19 — spent this summer exploring parts of Maine's coast, gathering material for writing projects that aim to capture, in different ways, a bit of what it means to live here. Both received Rusack Coastal Studies Fellowships from Bowdoin to pursue their projects.
In the first of a two-part series, we look at Morduch-Toubman's project, "Stories of Harpswell." Read about Silverman's work here.
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After becoming intrigued with the local people and communities she glimpsed during her semester studying at Bowdoin's Marine Science Semester, which is based in Harpswell, Morduch-Toubman pitched a project to write a nonfiction account about local people who live and work on the long coastal peninsula.
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