Sometimes in my job it is difficult to remember that I am at work. Yesterday, for example, after I got all of the various components of lunch service up to the counter, I felt exactly as though I had been getting ready for a dinner party. When I am getting ready for guests, I like …
Sometimes in my job it is difficult to remember that I am at work. Yesterday, for example, after I got all of the various components of lunch service up to the counter, I felt exactly as though I had been getting ready for a dinner party. When I am getting ready for guests, I like …
Wiscasset, Maine. On Saturday, March 3rd, Chewonki and the Morris Farm will play co-hosts to the 4th annual Food Security Forum, a daylong gathering of policy makers, hunger relief agencies, restaurant owners, farmers, neighbors and students engaged in improving Maine’s food systems, and securing healthy nutritious food for everyone. This year’s theme “Food is Medicine: …
Those of you “from away” (the local phrase used to describe anyone who doesn’t live in Maine) have likely never experienced the mid-winter madness that comes with the month of February. The fun and glitz of the winter holidays are long over, the spring thaw is still months away, and everyone is beginning to feel …
On Wednesday, 43 high school juniors from California, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Minnesota, New Jersey, New York, North Carolina, Rhode Island, and Texas arrived at Chewonki with a rush of fresh energy. Fielding questions from students and parents was Maine Coast Semester Head Susan Feibelman, in her element. She and her faculty had been thinking and talking …
Imbolc is the name of the first spring festival in the pagan calendar, representing “the first breath,” stirrings in the earth of growth to come. Here in frigid New England, spring seems such a long way away, yet in “Old” England, lambs will be buzzing around the fields, snowdrops will be poking through any snow …
Chewonki Foundation has announced the start of a new 5-part series of “Animal Adventures,” providing hands-on learning for kids and adults of all ages. The monthly program features live animals, fossils, skeletons and a wide collection of touchable natural history exhibits. “I’m really excited to be offering some of our wildlife presentations here at Chewonki,” …
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