Welcome Semester 62!
On Wednesday we welcomed 41 students from 18 states and 36 high schools for Semester 62. We couldn’t be more ...
Cullen McGough
Welcome Wodin, the One-Eyed Screech Owl
On Thursday, Traveling Natural History Program Educator Colleen Moureaux introduced Wodin, a full-grown Eastern screech owl (Megascops asio), to an ...
Super Wolf Blood Moon
If you are in North or South America on the night of January 20-21, look out for a total lunar ...
Snapshot: Stephanie Schmiege (Maine Coast Semester 34)
Among the interesting people on campus last week for the Wilderness First Responders recertification course taught by Wilderness Medical Associates (WMA) ...
Slapshot
For those of us who love gliding across a frozen pond, Maine winters deliver a special treat. The best conditions ...
Art and the Natural World
Floating is one of the first things art teacher Sue West asked her students to do when they arrived for ...
A Grove of Mouse-ear Hawkweed
“Put away that umbrella,” chides Kary. “We don’t need umbrellas here!” The students laugh. “It was hard in the beginning,” ...
Globicephala Algebra
Globicephala Algebra -or- Precalculus Is A Whale of a Good Time! -or- Cetacean Creation Yields Curve Verve Maine Coast Semester ...
ACCEPTISSI SITIS AD CENAM ROMANAM!
Each semester, there are typically a small handful of Latin students at Maine Coast Semester. What they lack in numbers, ...
Are You Checking My Math?
“Are you checking my math?” asks Maine Coast Semester teacher Liz Burroughs, turning from a whiteboard, where she’s solving a ...
Of Elves and Economics
The snow-dusted forests of Chewonki Neck are especially quiet this week, but the classrooms of the Elementary School at Chewonki ...
C’est élégant. C’est élastique. C’est fantastique.
C’est élégant. C’est élastique. C’est fantastique. C’est la langue française! And it pours from Esther Kary, Maine Coast Semester at ...
Holiday Craft Fair & Online Auction
11th Annual Chewonki Holiday Craft Fair Vendor Hall, Online Auction & Hayrides Tuesday, December 11, 2018 Join us to celebrate and ...
Sawing Off the Limb on Which It Perches
In the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Biodiversity, there is a sign bearing the words of biologist Paul ...
A Rock Star of the Written Word
Maine Coast Semester 61 students and their teachers from the Literature and the Land class had the honor of hearing ...
In the Hoofprints of Giants
We are sad to announce that Sal, our beloved American Belgian chestnut mare, passed away last Friday, on a brilliant ...
O Pioneers!
Eleven high school juniors are attached to a plow, substituting their human-power for the horse-power normally provided by Bob, our ...
Living History
“Those taxes were completely unfair!” “It wouldn’t have happened without the French and Indian War.” “Oh, no, no, no!” “That ...
Notable Promotions and Hires
Chewonki has always succeeded because of the talent and dedication of our faculty and staff, and the effort they put ...
Registration Open for Camp Chewonki
Registration is now open for Summer ’19! For the next two weeks we’re offering our annual “early-bird” special: Register for ...
A Harrowing Update from the East Side Pasture Project
With the dog days of summer behind us, it’s time to check in on our east-side pasture restoration project! At ...
Maine Coast Semester Welcomes New Faculty to Campus
For the past two weeks new and returning Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki faculty have been a-buzz about campus, planning ...
What About Bob?
There’s a new horse in town. Our chestnut mare, Sal, now shares Salt Marsh Farm with Bob, a Suffolk Punch ...