Tour Guide Bios

Our volunteer local tour guides are not only knowledgeable, but enthusiastic about what they do. This genuine enthusiasm carries forth in their ability to educate and inform people of all ages who attend our tours.

Ruta Jordans

Back when the Boston Museum of Science had an extensive exhibit on bogs, Ruta spent her whole visit there while her family traipsed through the rest of the museum. Recognizing that bogs are seen as eerie and forbidding in Europe, she was surprised to find that Native Americans harvested the bogs for food and medicines, even using sphagnum moss for diapers. On moving to Lubec she was delighted to find two rare arctic bogs with placarded boardwalks here along with Carrying Place Cove Bog, which has been designated a National Natural Landmark. Ruta enjoys sharing her fascination with bogs and other effects of the Ice Age in Lubec and Campobello.