BATHERS
By DYLAN HAUSTHOR
“Ten years ago, a mentor of mine told me about the Skowhegan School of Sculpture and Painting.
They described it as an impossible place—a utopic, broken, spicy, melting place. A place where every year there was inconceivable growth, countless tick bites, and deep love.
They also told me that every year there was mud wrestling. In 2024, I spent the summer at Skowhegan. There I heard even more about the faux-tradition of mud wrestling on that property, an unsanctioned but seemingly inevitable event of the summer that dated back decades. I spent a few days shoveling, raking, and lugging buckets of lake water until one night, we bathed.
First in the mud. Then in the lake.
Thank you forever:
gabby, chella, erica, rowan, res, hannah, trae, holly, emary & skowhegan.”
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