Former Maine Gov. Angus King Jr. visits Bates College to address the theme "Protecting the Environment: Reflections on the Role of Leadership" at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 25, at the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave. (more...)

Joel Goldstein, an expert on the U.S. vice presidency, presents the lecture "Campaigning for America: Edmund S. Muskie's 1968 Vice Presidential Campaign" at 4:30 p.m. Thursday, April 3, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library at Bates College, 70 Campus Ave.

The talk comes during the 40th anniversary year of Muskie's vice-presidential campaign and the 50th anniversary of his election to the U.S. Senate. The event is open to the public at no cost. For more information, please contact 207-786-6272.

Goldstein, the Vincent C. Immel Professor of Law at St. Louis University, is currently a visiting professor at the University of Maine School of Law and the Muskie School of Public Service. He has written books, numerous chapters and journal articles on the U.S. executive branch, constitutional law and admiralty law.

Goldstein may be best-known as an expert on the vice presidency. He has written widely on the topic and is frequently interviewed on it, and has consulted on vice presidential selections.

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The descendants of 19th-century Maine Gov. Alonzo Garcelon, who played a key role in the choice of Lewiston as the home of Bates College, will donate an extensive collection of family papers and other materials to Bates.

David Garcelon, Alonzo Garcelon's great-great-grandson and a surveyor living in Concord, Mass., on March 27 announced his donation to Bates of hundreds of manuscripts, photographs and other artifacts dating back to the 18th century. (more...)

The Harward Center for Community Partnerships at Bates College kicks off its "Civic Forum on Reimagining Maine in the 21st Century" at 7:30 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 28, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave., with a panel titled "Poverty and the Two Maines." (more...)

Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot, a sociologist and professor of education at Harvard University, will give a presentation titled "Balm in Gilead: On Love, Justice and the Word, " at 7 p.m. Monday, Nov. 5, in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave., at Bates College. The public is invited to attend the 2007-08 Bertha May Bell Andrews Lecture, sponsored by the Office of the Chaplain, free of charge. For more information, call 207-786-8272. (more...)

Professor Lee Rybeck Lynd '79, a pioneer in the sustainable production of ethanol fuels from abundant, inexpensive and renewable plant materials, gives two public presentations at Bates College in October.

At 7 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 28, Lynd offers a lecture about ethanol made from cellulosic biomass -- plant resources rich in cellulose -- and its potential role in a more environmentally sustainable U.S. economy. The event takes place in the Edmund S. Muskie Archives, 70 Campus Ave.

Lynd leads a biology seminar at 4:10 p.m. Monday, Oct. 29, in Room 204, Carnegie Science Hall, 44 Campus Ave. (more...)

The exhibition poster for "Portraits and Voices." Below: A photograph by Nels Nelson '07 of an interior of the Bates Mills Complex.

Museum L-A, an institution presenting the story of work and community in Lewiston-Auburn, opens the exhibition Portraits and Voices: Workers of Seven Mills at 5 p.m. Saturday, Aug. 11, in the Bates Mill Complex, 35 Canal St. Supported by a Bates College Harward Center Grant for Publicly Engaged Academic Projects, the museum's first temporary major exhibit remains open through Feb. 28, 2008. The museum's first-floor gallery is open to the public 10 a.m. through 4 p.m., Monday through Saturday. (more...)