Former U.S. Senator George J. Mitchell

Richard Lindemann spoke about Maine’s former Senator George J. Mitchell’s political career and his life before and after public office. He also talked about the use of documents and facilities at the Bowdoin College Special Collections where the papers are housed.

C-SPAN’s Local Content Vehicles (LCVs) made a stop in their “2012 LCV Cities Tour” in Augusta, Maine, on September 10-13 to feature the history and literary life of the community. Working with the Time Warner Cable local affiliate, they visited literary and historic sites where local historians, authors, and civic leaders were interviewed. The history segments air on American History TV (AHTV) on C-SPAN3 and the literary events/non-fiction author segments air on BookTV on C-SPAN2. close