When COVID-19 descended on Maine last spring, Chewonki, like all educational institutions, came to a near standstill. Maine Coast Semester 64 and Chewonki Elementary School students went home. School programs were suddenly wiped off the calendar. Summer programs? What summer programs? Boys Camp, Girls Camp, and Leadership Expeditions were scratched from the docket. An eerie …
We are very pleased to introduce Lise Schickel Goddard, our new Interim Head of Semester School for Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki. Susan Feibelman, our outgoing Vice President of Schools, will be transitioning into retirement at the end of June, and we wish her a fond farewell. We feel quite fortunate that Lise was able …
We recently acquired a fantastic addition to our staff housing: the historic Snow Squall Inn just a few miles up the road in downtown Wiscasset. Staff housing has been a real crunch at Chewonki for several years as our programs have grown, and when we learned Melanie Burns and Paul Harris (the former owners of …
Four students at Chewonki Elementary and Middle school have received honors as part of the 27th annual Junior Duck Stamp Conservation and Design program, a collaborative effort between Maine Audubon and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Zella Morgan from Alna received a 3rd-place award for her duck painting, while Wilton Scott of South …
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During the month of May, my colleagues and I at Chewonki, facilitated by our Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Committee, have been learning together in recognition of both Jewish American Heritage Month and Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month. We are alarmed by the rise in harassment targeting these groups, which has been growing since 2016, according to information from Statista and the Anti-Defamation League. Our mission “challenges people to build thriving, sustainable communities throughout their lives,” and hate has no place in that work on this collective home we share – planet Earth.
Remarks from the Board Chair, Spring 2021 *Editor’s note: the following comments were recently delivered by Board Chair Roseanne Saalfield to our trustees and advisors at our spring board meeting, and again at our weekly staff meeting. Over the last eighteen months, we here at Chewonki have endured much. And we have accomplished much. Our …
It was a great pleasure to welcome the new students of Semester 66 to campus this past Sunday. Hailing from 15 different states, students enjoyed bright sunny weather and spent the day settling in and exploring campus, from Salt Marsh Farm down to the estuaries of Montsweag Bay, before regrouping for dinner and a chance to …
Wiscasset, Maine. Maeve Tholen, an eighth-grade student attending Chewonki Elementary and Middle School has been selected to receive a Scholastic National Gold Medal for her short story A Painted Seashell. Tholen’s story was chosen from among more than 230,000 entries received by the Alliance for Young Artists & Writers as part of the annual Scholastic …
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Our lambing season is off here at the farm with two sets of twins making their debut into the world last night! Ruth Baaader Ginsburg was the first to go around 6 last night, ahead of her time (read: a few days earlier than expected) just like her namesake. She has a boy/girl pair, one …
