December 6, 2019 - Chewonki

Exploring The Lobster Coast with Colin Woodard

Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki / By Anne Leslie

In November, the award-winning author, journalist, and culture critic Colin Woodard joined us at Chewonki to speak to Maine Coast Semester students about Maine history and identity. He’s the perfect person to do it; he dissected Maine in his bestselling book The Lobster Coast: Rebels, Rusticators, and the Struggle for a Forgotten Frontier, exploring his …

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Building Community Bridges With Natural History

Foundation / By Cullen McGough

Chewonki Traveling Natural History Program educator Jessica Woodend recently made an “Owls of Maine” presentation to an enthusiastic audience at Mobius, a nonprofit organization in Damariscotta, Maine, that supports people with intellectual and developmental disabilities. Along with members of the Mobius community were fourth-graders from Mr. Stephen Roy’s class at Damariscotta’s Great Salt Bay Community …

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Ars Longa; Dies Breves

Foundation / By Anne Leslie

Forgive us for playing with Hippocrates’s words, but during these short days in Maine, when sunlit hours are fleeting, art shines far-reaching light on Chewonki Neck. Maine Coast Semester 63’s creative work, from drawings and photographs to ceramics and hand-made brooms, is on exhibit in the Center for Environmental Maine Coast Semester 63. Semester students …

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It Came From the Deep

Foundation / By Anne Leslie

A couple of staff members cleaning out a closet in the Center for Environmental Education (CEE) came across a fascinating relic last week: a small-scale model of the enormous whale skeleton that graces the ceiling of Chapin Hall. “The crew from Quebec made up the model as a way to present their concept to the …

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Day: December 6, 2019