The return of Lobster College | Lobster aficionados can find their fill at a weekend program in Boothbay Harbor
Tourists interested in getting behind the mystique of lobsters — and spending a weekend sampling loads of lobster dishes — should scoot over to Boothbay Harbor and enroll in “Lobster College,” which is back after a five-year hiatus.
The four-day “Lobster College” will be hosted by Dianne Ward, an innkeeper at Kenniston Hill Inn in Boothbay, and led by Robert Bayer, executive director of the Orono-based Lobster Institute at the University of Maine. Ward and Bayer started talking about reviving the Lobster College last winter while discussing Ward’s other project: convincing 2,250 people to stand in the shape of a lobster next summer and break the world record, according to the Chicago Tribune.
Tuition costs $575 and helps support Bayer’s institute, which researches lobsters and promotes the industry. The classes will include “Lobstering as Big Business” and “Lobsters in the Ecosystem,” according to the Tribune. In a press release, Bayer said UMaine faculty — as well as lobstermen and lobster dealers — will teach subjects such as lobster biology, lobster cuisine and stock management, in between teaching students how to haul and bait traps.
One of the instructors is Dan Kaler, who has been lobstering since he was 15 and takes tourists out on his boat, the Hunky Dory. The students evidently don’t demand too much from their teachers. “All they want is for someone to answer their questions without getting smart with them,” Kaler told the Tribune.
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