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Brock Clarke, professor of English and current chair of the English department, talks with new colleague and fellow author Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich; writer and multimedia producer Tom Porter visits the Bowdoin orchestra; local poet Gary Lawless reads a poem by the late Russell Libby ’78; and secretary of the College John Cross ’76 rounds out the episode by reading an updated Whispering Pines column that he wrote for Russ.

Bowdoin President Clayton Rose talks about the College's recent Knowledge, Skills, and Creative Dispositions report and the importance of ethical judgement; professor Abigail Killeen discusses Bowdoin Theater's production of Anton Chekhov’s play, “Three Sisters”; facilities crew members George Hale and Hope Lavigne share secrets of maintaining the ice in Watson Arena; and we wait in line at Thorne Dining Hall to explore what makes a Bowdoin holiday dinner so special.

We dive into the Spring/Summer 2018 issue of Bowdoin Magazine to hear more from Professor Emeritus John Rensenbrink in his interview with Tom Putnam '84; Italian artist Jonathan Calugi talks about his creative process illustrating our feature article, “A New Line of Thinking”; we hear the soulful voice of Nashville singer/songwriter Coretta King '12; and Elise Juska '95 wraps up our pilot episode reading an excerpt from her acclaimed new novel “If We Had Known.”