Interactive performance among 20 artists and natural reversing fall in Sheepscot Maine exploring ways to re-connect to living networks in our local bioregion.
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The Maine Wild Blueberry Museum is one of the main projects that grew out of three years (2017-2020) of community engaged teaching and research in collaboration with Maine Wild Blueberry growers. To address small farmer’s concerns, the Wild Difference Project linked community partners with students from 5 university classes with the following outcomes: Launch of this online Maine Wild Blueberry Museum, Designs for the inaugural issue of Spire: The Maine Journal of Conservation and Sustainability, illustrations by student Colby Fogg Grant writing for NEH, NBRG, NextGen, with funding provided by NextGen A parallel social media/Facebook campaign, including creation of wild blueberry “emoji” in iTunes Funding for and development of a physical museum in Jonesboro, Maine Planning for a National Heritage Area in Downeast Maine Collaboration with local Washington County High schools in a mentor program to teach digital story skills and collect community blueberry raking stories for the museum I presented this material at two national community engagement conferences and planned to present “The Wild Difference: Hearing voices of small farmers and endangered plants in Downeast Maine” at the Compact20 Conference in Seattle, Washington April 2020, until it was cancelled due to COVID19. Democracy, Opportunity, and Voice (conference themes) in the […]
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I am a board member of Megunticook Rowing, and have been a competitive rower since college, competing nationally with Radcliffe Crew, and internationally with the 1981 US Lightweight crew, where I stroked the 4+ to an International Gold Medal. After a few decades away, I returned to Maine and also took up rowing again as a sculler. I have since joined the coaching team for Camden High School Rowers, working especially for the women who now have opportunities I had to create by petitioning to join the boy’s track team, threatening Title IX regulations. The boys jeered, but let me run, so that now at this point in my life, I row, ski, kayak, swim side by side with the men who should always have been my brothers. A few years ago, A Maine Media Workshop colleague created a video about the meditative and healing qualities of rowing based on my rowing experiences on Megunticook Lake.
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What’s the connection between Maine Wild blueberries and Indian Chutney? Meet Molly Sholler, a local Wild Blueberry farmers who makes the connection.
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Want to know more about local wild blueberry farmers? Doug Mott of Continuous Harmony Farm gives his family a taste of wild blueberry harvesting that keeps them coming back.
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Marnie Sinclair’s work tackles the flows of life and the need to make sure they are in balance, This video captures some of her ecologically motivated work.
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