Located in the Peter J. Gomes chapel, the organ has been around for 100 years and is a monumental part of Bates College history and everyday life. It holds great symbolic, economic, and spiritual value to the institution. Here we ananlyze this magnificent instrument through a material culture lens. We examine the object's historical, critical, and evocative significance in three distinct essays. "Organ playing is the manifestation of a will filled with the vision of eternity." - Charles Marie Widor
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Devon Brown, Courtney Doyle, Dylan Lopez, & Ansel Tessitore