The Chewonki Foundation is a non-profit institution in Wiscasset, Maine, which runs educational programs with an environmental focus.
 Foundation logo showing the osprey mascot | |
| 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 |
Background
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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
edit- ^ "MLTN: Chewonki Foundation". www.mltn.org. Archived from the original on 2014-01-11. Retrieved 2013-03-19.
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