July 6, 2018 - Chewonki

Solar Cookies

Leave a Comment / Sustainability / By Cullen McGough

Some of the campers and counselors at Camp Chewonki for Boys tested out the solar ovens this week and produced the ultimate expression of fine-solar-dining: the fabled solar chocolate-chip cookie. Powered completely by the sun, these parabolic solar reflectors (along with some handily-repurposed pizza boxes, sticks and tape) toasted up these treats in just a …

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Week 2 Highlights from Camp Chewonki

Leave a Comment / Foundation / By Anne Leslie

Summer keeps rolling along! Here’s what some of our summer leaders told us were highlights of their week: “What was the highlight of this week?” Jen Adams, Wilderness Trips Coordinator: “I was part of a covert mission to deliver ice cream by canoe to the Puffins [Chewonki’s youngest campers] camping on Pinky Point. We took …

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Beware the Blood-Circle! (…and Other Thrilling Tales from Chewonki Woodcraft)

July 4, Chewonki Campfire Circle. Six Camp Boys, two counselors, and a counselor-in-training spent the morning at Campfire Circle, whittling, building small campfires, concocting “pitch glue,” and fortifying the forest shelters they’d designed and built. Parades, carnivals, and crowded beaches seemed a world away. This is Chewonki Woodcraft, and please don’t make the mistake of confusing …

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Day: July 6, 2018