{"id":142286,"date":"2021-10-20T15:09:40","date_gmt":"2021-10-20T19:09:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/?p=142286"},"modified":"2021-11-16T08:23:50","modified_gmt":"2021-11-16T13:23:50","slug":"from-a-distance-12-things-we-spied-from-the-sky-looking-north-from-campus","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2021\/10\/20\/from-a-distance-12-things-we-spied-from-the-sky-looking-north-from-campus\/","title":{"rendered":"From a Distance: 12 things we spied from the sky looking north from campus"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Looking northward from the Bates campus, this photograph was taken from a plane six years ago this week, on Oct. 18, 2015.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Below, we enumerate and share some facts about 12 features of this area, from Lake Auburn to the Cutten smokestack. If you see others you’d like to know more about, feel free to ask<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Looking northward, an aerial view of the Bates campus and environs, taken on Oct. 18, 2015. (Josh Kuckens\/Bates College)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
1. Lake Auburn<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Lake Auburn is the source of drinking water for Lewiston and Auburn. It’s one of only eight surface municipal water sources in Maine, out of more than 75, to have an EPA filtration waiver, which allows it to treat the water with ultraviolet light and other means without having to pay to filter it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

For years, Bates scientists have helped the water district monitor lake conditions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2. The Appalachians<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Appalachian Mountains still have \u201cimpressive topography after 400 million years of erosion,\u201d says Dyk Eusden \u201980, who retires this year as Whitehouse Professor of Earth and Climate Sciences. Peaks seen here include Mount Blue, Bald Mountain, and Speckled Mountain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

3. Deer Rips dam<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Deer Rips hydroelectric dam was constructed between April 1902 and November 1904. Extensive blasting through ledge was required to creating the canal that\u2019s part of the dam.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A state report in 1905 noted that canal construction included \u201cthe greatest dynamite blast ever fired in the state.\u201d Three hundred and fifty drilled holes, each 16 feet in depth, \u201cwere charged with 3,000 pounds of dynamite and fired simultaneously with an electric battery.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The blast broke up 200 feet of ledge along the line of the canal, \u201creleasing a mass of stone, the removal of which required the work of 40 men for nearly three months.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4. David Rancourt River Preserve<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The 14-acre David Rancourt River Preserve is owned by the Androscoggin Land Trust. The property comprises a one-mile loop walking trail, a hand-carry boat launch, two sand beaches, and a scenic overlook. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The property is named for the late David Rancourt, an Androscoggin County deputy sheriff who died while diving in the Androscoggin River in search of evidence in a criminal case.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

5. Olin Arts, Museum, Adams<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Now occupied by the Olin Arts Center, the Bates Museum of Art, and Adams Hall, this corner of campus was the site of \u201cSampsonville\u201d: three somewhat ramshackle apartment buildings<\/a> \u2014 former military barracks, in fact \u2014 where married Bates students, most of them veterans, lived following World War II.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The apartment complex known as Sampsonville is at middle left, at the corner of Russell Street and Bardwell Street, in this circa 1957 aerial photograph of the Bates campus. (Muskie Archives and Special Collections Library)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n
6. Carnegie Science Hall greenhouse<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Carnegie’s rooftop greenhouse grows seedlings for the Plot, the student-run Bates vegetable garden.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

7. Chu and Kalperis halls<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

When this photo was taken, in 2015, Chu and Kalperis halls were under construction, their blue weatherproof film not yet covered by locally fired bricks from Morin Brick Co. of Auburn.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

8. Lewiston Memorial Armory<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Home of Lewiston\u2019s recreation department, the Lewiston Memorial Armory is the voting location for Bates students who are registered to vote in Maine.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The armory used to host rock concerts. Jimi Hendrix performed there in 1968, with the Bates rock band, The Hanseatic League, opening.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

On Feb. 19, 1975, the Armory hosted Queen; the opening acts were Mahogany Rush and Kansas. Tickets were $5.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The audience at the Queen concert was raucous, reported the Associated Press. \u201cSome spectators at a concert by the rock group Queens [sic] engaged in vandalism, littering, drinking, and harassment of officials.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Afterward, city officials decided that future concerts would require city approval, effectively ending the armory\u2019s heyday as a rock concert venue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

9. Lewiston Middle School<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

At Lewiston Middle School, Bates students spend hundreds of hours volunteering each year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Last spring, Bates students helped the Lewiston students craft a proposal to change the current district-wide policy forbidding hats and hoods inside. The proposed change is before the local school committee.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

10. Bobcat Statue<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The Bobcat statue was installed on this walkway in 2009<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

11. Cutten Maintenance Center smokestack<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The college’s maintenance center, heating plant, and massive smokestack used to be located in the center of campus, on Andrews Road. With construction of Pettengill Hall in the 1990s, Bates built Cutten Maintenance Center, including a new heating plant and smokestack, on the campus periphery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With two of the three boilers that provide steam heat for the central campus already burning a product called Renewable Fuel Oil, the college converted the third unit for a different climate-friendly fuel: vegetable oil recovered from the food-service industry.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Switching to renewable energy sources played a major role in Bates becoming climate neutral<\/a> in 2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

12. St. Mary’s first building<\/h5>\n\n\n\n

The original Gothic-style building (1902) of St. Mary\u2019s Health System is on the National Register of Historic Places. It was designed by William R. Miller and amateur architect Father Paul Charland. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This aerial photograph was taken six years ago this week, showing features like Lake Auburn and the campus smokestack. Join us for the tour!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":142355,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[12263],"class_list":["post-142286","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lewiston-auburn","tag-from-a-distance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=142286"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142286\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":142371,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/142286\/revisions\/142371"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/142355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=142286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=142286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=142286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}