BDN reports on efforts to find remains of former ‘Bear’s Den’
Bangor Daily News reported on efforts by researchers at the University of Maine to find remains of the building where fraternity brothers kept live bears who played UMaine mascot Bananas T. Bear until 1966. Professor of anthropology and climate change Daniel Sandweiss and director of the Hudson Museum Gretchen Faulkner led a ten-person team to excavate the “Bear’s Den” along Stillwater River in late August.