Chewonki Foundation
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| Formation | 1915 |
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| Type | Non-profit |
| Headquarters | Wiscasset, Maine, United States |
| Coordinates | 43°57′0″N 70°42′10″W / 43.95000°N 70.70278°W |
| Services | Educational programs |
| Website | www |
The Chewonki Foundation is a non-profit institution in Wiscasset, Maine, that runs educational programs with an environmental focus.
Background
Founded in 1915 as a summer camp for boys, the Foundation now runs a four-month high school program—Maine Coast Semester at Chewonki, boys and girls summer camp programs, wilderness trips for teenagers and families, an organic farm, traveling natural history programs where non-releasable wildlife are brought to schools and libraries, as well as week-long environmental education programs for school groups around New England.
The Chewonki Foundation is located on a 400-acre (1.6 km2) peninsula between Westport Island and the town of Woolwich. The peninsula protrudes into Montsweag Bay. The foundation is also a steward of the former Debsconeag Lake camps on Fourth Debsconeag lake, and the owners of the public Big Eddy Campground off the Golden Road. With their off site program specific properties, Chewonki took possession of several islands in Mid-Coast Maine to keep them available for public access.[1]
References
- ^ "MLTN: Chewonki Foundation". www.mltn.org. Archived from the original on 2014-01-11. Retrieved 2013-03-19.
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