I Promised You Daisies — Benjamin '66 L.L.Bean Three centuries ago

Three centuries ago

Then Julia discovers she can read his mind and her world expands

and the Europe of World War II

imprinted with mascot medallion and BOWDOIN EST 1794 BRUNSWICK

and the time of the earth – long before the nineteenth century romanticized the polar landscape

I Promised You Daisies — Benjamin '66 L.L.Bean Three centuries agoBy Robert A. Benjamin, Class of 1966 For all of us who came of age during the time of Woodstock, hippies and Vietnam, our paths into adult life were more perilous than they might have been a few innocent years earlier. In 1966, although I had never heard a gun fired in anger, I was among the walking wounded of those days of political, intellectual and moral conflict. I was a fresh faced, eager high school graduate about to embark on my journey of