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Newlin Gardens was "established in 1992 by longtime Mount Desert Island resident and COA supporter Elizabeth Battles Newlin to honor her husband, E. Mortimer Newlin. After Elizabeth Newlin’s death in 1995, her children, William V.P. Newlin, a trustee of the college and Lucy Bell Newlin Sellers, who teaches drama at the college, honored their mother by establishing the college’s first endowed chair, the Elizabeth Battles Newlin Chair in Botany. 'Mother was always learning from landscapes. Wherever she lived, she was making or tending gardens. She was an environmentalist long before we had heard of the word,' Lucy Bell Sellers said of her mother" ("COA Gardens" at College of the Atlantic [ https://www.coa.edu/gardens/ : accessed 15 September 2025]).
