A Flick of Sunshine — Hill '62 Biography Fairfield Porter

Fairfield Porter

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Class of 2007

on view at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art from September 29 through December 20

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A Flick of Sunshine — Hill '62 Biography Fairfield PorterBy Frederic Hill, Bowdoin Class of 1962, and Alexander Jackson Hill The true and remarkable life of Richard Willis (Will) Jackson, an intrepid seaman from one of the leading shipbuilding families in 19th century Maine, whose exploits and adventures in the oceans of the world would rival characters straight out of the lives and imaginations of Joseph Conrad and Jack London. Will Jackson survived a harrowing shipwreck in the Marshall Islands, being