In advance of the Senior Arctic Officials meeting of the Arctic Council in Portland, Maine, Admiral Robert J. Papp Jr., USCG (Ret.), the U.S. State Department’s Special Representative for the Arctic, boarded the Schooner Bowdoin for a first-hand look at the historic vessel and an afternoon on Casco Bay.

Arctic Lessons Aboard the Schooner Bowdoin from Bowdoin College on Vimeo.

Susan Kaplan, director the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum, was aboard sharing historical and anthropologicial perspectives with passengers and media who were along for the outing.