Keywords: Miriam MacMillan
Item 55118
Miriam MacMillan at the wheel, Northwest Greenland, 1948
Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1948 Media: Photo negative
Item 54900
MacMillan with puppy on 'Bowdoin,' 1939
Contributed by: Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum and Arctic Studies Center Date: 1939 Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
The Schooner Bowdoin: Ninety Years of Seagoing History
After traveling to the Arctic with Robert E. Peary, Donald B. MacMillan (1874-1970), an explorer, researcher, and lecturer, helped design his own vessel for Arctic exploration, the schooner <em>Bowdoin,</em> which he named after his alma mater. The schooner remains on the seas.
Exhibit
Scientist, author and explorer Donald B. MacMillan established Wiscasset as his homeport for many of the voyages he made to the Arctic region starting in the early 1920s.