If you ask a George River Expedition alumnus how the canoe trip went, they’ll probably respond with something like, “Terrific!” Don’t believe it. What that person is really saying is that the five-week experience–like the river and landscape where it happens–was too vast to sum up in chit-chat. “When people ask you how it was, […]
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Opening Day of Chewonki’s 2018 summer was bright and warm, which also describes the faces of the campers and trippers who arrived ready for an adventure. Of course there were some nerves–more evident in parents than participants, who quickly got swept up in the summer spirit. What did program leaders notice about Opening Day? Nancy
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Congratulations to Chewonki educator Jessica Woodend, one of our Traveling Natural History Program staff, who has been honored by the National Association for Interpretation (NAI), a not-for-profit organization for professionals “involved in the interpretation of natural and cultural heritage resources in settings such as parks, zoos, museums, nature centers, aquaria, botanical gardens, and historical sites,”
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Next week, campers and trippers will arrive at Chewonki for the start of our first session. We’ve been waiting all year for this–we can hardly wait! We asked the summer leadership team to tell us just one thing they are really looking forward to this summer. Here’s what they had to say: Nancy Kennedy, Vice President
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When Camp Chewonki summer staff arrived this week, everyone lined up on the Quad in chronological order based on when they first came to Chewonki. Jeff Wells, head of the sailing program, was the very last person in line. He first stepped onto Chewonki Neck in 1968, a few months after Martin Luther King’s assassination
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Thanks to generous Chewonki friends, our beloved American Belgian chestnut mare, Sal, now has a run-in at one of her favorite pasture hangouts. The new structure gives Sal, who will turn 22 on July 19, the option of shelter from wind, rain, snow, and sun. Howard and Nancy Alter, whose daughter, Dina, is an alumna
The only people possibly more excited about this summer’s Chewonki Wilderness Trips than the trippers themselves are the trip leaders. A gang of them arrived this week to begin preparing and their energy’s rocking the Neck. Most are equally fanatic about backpacking and paddling, but a few just can’t get enough time on the water.
“This is it!” says Nancy Kennedy beaming. She’s standing at the upper edge of a gentle slope facing east, below the forest glade known among Chewonki-ites as the “Pineapple Forest.” An old stone wall, a relic of 19th-century sheep farming, stretches toward the shore. Chewonki Creek sparkles through the trees, opening into the light of
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On Monday we welcomed Carl Young, the new director of finance, to Chewonki Neck and his office in the Farmhouse. He has spent the week getting settled, meeting people around campus, and learning about our systems and projects. Carl Young fell in love with Maine during a canoe trip as a teenager. “The opportunity to
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The arrival of JR Jennings and Angus Fake on Chewonki Neck this week was a sure sign that Chewonki’s 2018 summer season has begun. Jennings, who will lead this summer’s counselor-in-training program for Camp Chewonki for Boys, and Fake, who as “Papa Osprey” will lead the oldest campers, are here early to prepare for a
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August 21-23, 2026. Join us at Chewonki for a fun-fulled weekend of connection and activities. Cabins and camping available.
