I Promised You Daisies — Benjamin '66 L.L.Bean and the Europe of World

and the Europe of World War II

prompting audiences to reflect upon the significance of what we cannot see

The volume accompanies an exhibition of the same title at the Bowdoin College Museum of Art on view from December 8

and often personal angles

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I Promised You Daisies — Benjamin '66 L.L.Bean and the Europe of WorldBy 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