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![This 1920 photograph shows millworker Elizabeth Gagne amidst the Bates Mill spindles. Photograph courtesy of Museum L-A.](https://www.bates.edu/Images/Bates_Magazine/2008-summer/features/Harward-MuseumLA-1080QMILL.jpg)
This 1920 photograph shows millworker Elizabeth Gagne amidst the Bates Mill spindles. Photograph courtesy of Museum L-A.
“The Harward Center and a fledgling Lewiston museum weave a working partnership. … ‘Responsive and willing’ is how curator Dumas describes faculty interest in Museum L-A projects, while Scobey notes that faculty engages about half of Bates’ 1,700 students in ‘significant community-based learning,’ from internships to research.” [More…]