March 2020 - Page 2 of 2

Meet Clover the Woodchuck

@home / By Cullen McGough

How much wood could a woodchuck chuck? Time to find out with Colleen Moureaux!

Meet Adder the Eastern Milk Snake

@home / By Cullen McGough

Meet Woden the One-Eyed Screech Owl

@home / By Cullen McGough

Learn all about one of our resident owls with Jessica Wooden.

5 Principles of Place-Based Learning You Can Use With Your Child

@home, Chewonki Elementary and Middle School, Foundation / By Willard Morgan

On the first day of COVID-19-induced home-schooling, one Chewonki alumni family with three children under 10 asked me by telephone, “Can Chewonki help me out with some curriculum?” I was happy to say we were already working on it for our students, but I had to be honest and say that it would take us …

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Chewonki Students Named State Winners in Duck Stamp Competition

Chewonki Elementary and Middle School / By Cullen McGough

Two students in Chewonki Elementary & Middle School have been named state winners in the National Junior Duck Stamp Contest, sponsored by U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Julien and Lilly Mae were selected as the Maine state winners for the 5th and 6th-grade categories and will be invited to an awards ceremony hosted by LL …

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Covid-19 Update from Chewonki

Covid-19, President's Office / By Willard Morgan

Throughout our history, our students, staff, and campers have overcome challenges by working together as a group and striving towards a shared community purpose. Today the challenge before us is how to respond to the COVID-19 coronavirus outbreak, which has rapidly evolved into a global health crisis with many local implications. We are all facing …

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Rising in the East

Camp Chewonki for Girls, Campus Updates / By Cullen McGough

New Cabins, New Spaces Open in June 2020 Chewonki Neck has been a bustling hive of activity since last fall and as we launched a major set of upgrades and additions to the Wiscasset campus. “We are expanding with new buildings and facilities on the east side of the peninsula,” explains Nancy Kennedy, vice president …

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What We Eat is Who We Are

Alumni & Friends, Camp Chewonki for Boys, Camp Chewonki Leadership Expeditions, Farm and Food Systems / By Alexis Grillo

“I think Chewonki’s mission is one the whole world ought to share,” says Sam Sifton, Chewonki alumnus and New York Times food editor. Sam has a deep connection to Maine and attended Camp Chewonki in the 1970s and ’80s before beginning his career in journalism. Since moving into his current role as food editor at …

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Empty Hand, Empty Brush

Chewonki Elementary and Middle School, Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki / By Cullen McGough

Chewonki Welcomes Guest Artist Kichung Lee Lizee for an Exploration of Eastern Calligraphy Last Friday we were fortunate to welcome renowned artist and calligrapher Kichung Lee Lizee to campus for a special set of classes with our students. Lizee, a resident of nearby Bath, has been an artist and teacher since the mid-1960’s with an …

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Month: March 2020