Chewonki Announces Incoming and Outgoing Trustees and Advisors
Our 2019 Annual Meeting took place at Chewonki on May 17 and 18, and among the items on the agenda ...
Cullen McGough
The Bairn of the Barn
Frisking, frolicking, snoozing, testing the limits of their mother’s patience, entertaining us each day as they grow before our eyes–spring ...
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Chewonki
When Chewonki became a non-profit in 1962, a charitable purpose became an essential piece of our organizational DNA. Since that ...
Join us for Margaret Ellis Day – May 29
Help us shake out the dust, clean out the cabins, and get ready for another summer of fun at our ...
Chewonki’s Newest Maine Guide
After grueling written and oral examinations proving her knowledge of Maine rules governing fishing, trapping, hunting, watercraft, ATVs, and snowmobiles, ...
Finding Fulfillment in Physical Work
Back at home, our friends are lifting their hands only to swipe a metro card or drive to school. How ...
Winter Adventures on the Trail – Semester 62
Last week our students from Maine Coast Semester 62 took to the woods & wilds of Maine for a mid-winter ...
Digging in to Semester 62
It’s 5 degrees under a blue sky and the 41 new students of Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki are digging ...
Beyond Borders: Experiential Education Through the Lens of Equity and Justice.
Many enthusiastic educators, says Chewonki Team Development Coordinator Shelly Gibson, “tend to think of experiential education as synonymous with outdoor ...
Welcome Semester 62!
On Wednesday we welcomed 41 students from 18 states and 36 high schools for Semester 62. We couldn’t be more ...
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 ...
