Greetings to our broad circle of friends, neighbors, and partners:
We write this note to you on the first full day of spring, as we delight in the sounds of spring and the vernal symphony they create. As a Down East Spring Birding Festival committee member just shared, “I’m just in from a walk, where I heard birds singing their territorial song.” We are so grateful for this beautiful place we call home and for the dynamism of the changing seasons here.
Leslie Bowman
Board Member
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Leslie first came to Cobscook Institute to attend workshops and meetings at the facility and has also documented with photographs several projects including the high school program. Since the mid 1990’s she has been an adjunct professor at University of Maine at Machias. Leslie has an ongoing interest in alternative energy and community development.
Colby Soctomah Lewey
Board Member
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Colby was introduced to Cobscook Institute by his Uncle, Jimmy Soctomah and took a pottery class in 2004 with family members. Colby is completing a Masters in Counselor Education program with an area of expertise in Family Systems. Colby intends on engaging in clinical practice which focuses on expressive arts to foster a deeper connection within and outside of one’s self.
Stephanie Francis Soctomah
Board Member
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Stephanie is an Art Instructor and Ed Tech at Motahkomiqewi Skulhawossol (Indian Township School), looks forward to contributing and learning about the alternative learning environment that is offered through Cobscook Experiential Programs. She graduated from the University of Maine in Machias and worked on Passamaquoddy historic preservation projects. Stephanie and her family enjoy hiking and photography on the weekends.
Brian Altvater Sr.
Board Member
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Brian is inspired by Cobscook Institute’s unique way of teaching. He served as Director of the Pleasant Point Health Center and is currently a community organizer for Maine Wabanaki Reach. He is President of the Passamaquoddy Blueberry Company, Co-Founder, and chair of the Schoodic River-keepers and serves on the advisory board for the Maine Commissioner of Corrections.
Anne Shields Hopkins
Programs Coordinator
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Anne/Annie lives along Kapskuk with their husband and 3 young children. They will be realizing our visions for programming at Cobscook Center in their new role as Programs Coordinator. Annie enjoys eating with the seasons, laughing, creating art and relaxing deeply. They believe in community healing through ancestral truth telling and deep reckoning.
Maria McMorrow
Teacher, Cobscook Experiential Programs
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Maria became acquainted with Cobscook Institute when she first moved to Washington County in 2012. Over the past decade she has been a regular in the kitchen at Pizza Night and co-leading field trips for Cobscook Experiential Program. When she isn’t leading camping trips, Maria can be found playing on the water for fun! She also loves fixing and creating things, especially with yarn and fabric.
Melissa Rodrick
Custodian
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Melissa currently lives in Perry, where she grew up after migrating from Canada at the age of 2. She is excited by the culture and the social awareness that Cobscook Institute brings to the area. Melissa attended University of Maine and is the founder of the Detainee Advocacy Project, focused on assisting immigrants in custody/detention in advocating for themselves.
In March 2022 we participated in the Machias Savings Bank YES! Grants competition; a bold online campaign to highlight social initiatives around the region, resulting in $25,000 in donations. People were able to vote daily for their organization of choice.
Your passionate response led to a $5,000 grant which we will use to bring to life the “Somedays” that we have been dreaming up since last November. We are inspired, fired up, and looking forward to more in person interaction as the heat rises.
Susan Abt
Steve Albright
Allen Equine Associates
Amazon Smile
Nancy Asante
Bill and Kathy Attick
Mehnaz Aziz
Jim and Jeanne Backhaus
Stephanie Bailey and Family
Bar Harbor Bank and Trust
Louise Barteau
Lydia and Tim Beal
Susanne Bear
Ron Beard
Mark and Kathleen Beaudouin
Annie Beckham
Constance Beckwith
Ron Beckwith
Nancy Begley
Skip and Michaela Beitzel
Bob Belenky
Jane and Bob Bell
Ben's Dive Shack
Nancy and Warren Berkowitz
Betty and Norman Kranzdorf
Viv and Greg Blatt
Victoria Bourne and Standish Bourne III
Suzanne Bowles
Leslie Bowman
Margaret Boyle
Gary Bridgham
Ed and Betty-Jo Brine
Alan Brooks
Colin and Laura Brown
Jan Brown
Joseph Van Eaton and Patricia Brown
Lynn Brown and Russell Warne
Bruce Stahnke and Erlynne Kitigawa
Florence Brunner
Pamela Bruno
Cheryl Brush
Kathie and Jack Burnett
Sue Bushman
Anne Butter
Carol Carew
Brian and Sue Carroll Duffy
Marcia and Rob Chaffee
Erin Chalmers and Julia Drees
Donald Charters
Christ Episcopal Church, New to You Thrift Store
Jill Christianson
Cobscook Shores, Inc.
Catherine Cochrane
Charles Coe
Judith Beth Cohen and Mark Schneider
Michelle Cousineau and Bob Spencer
Jennifer Craig
Suzanne Crawford
Charlotte Cushman
Jennifer Plaut and LeRoy Danielson
Davis Conservation Foundation
Davis Family Foundation
William and Catherine Daye
Carly DelSignore and Aaron Bell
Maurice DeMille
Susan and Andrew Dewey
mark dickerson
Danielle DiMartino Booth
Maxene Doty
David and Carol Dowley
Eastern Maine Conservation Initiative
Ecological Aquaculture Foundation, LLC, Barry Costa Pierce
Elmina B. Sewall Foundation
Gabriela Eyerman
First National Bank
Kathleen Fitzgerald
Karen Flagg
Fleck Family Gift Fund
Martha Floyd
Harold Fogelson
Margery Forbes
George and Pat Fowler
Cyril and Dute Francis
Erin Frazier
Joanna Frescoln
Pat Fry and Gary Howard
Bill and Heungboc Fulton
Elizabeth Fulton
Alan Furth and Katie MacGregor
Alex Furth and Josh Rosenberg
Eileen Furth
Judy Futch and Paul Smith
Sarah and Jeremy Gabrielson
Gary Gagner
Diane and Lloyd Getchell
Cate and Dick Gilbane
Geoff and Abby Gilchrist
Donald and Susan Gipe
Pat Godin
Good Shepherd Food Bank of Maine
Leslie and Prentiss Gray
Deborah Green
Ginny Green and Larry Lutz
Charles and Elizabeth Greenland
Peter Grua and Mary O'Connell
Jeanne and Gary Guisinger
Petra Hall and Rhonda Feiman
Diana and Robert Harding
Hans Holznagel and Kathryn Harlow
Lois Harold
Harris Point Cabins and Motel
Thomas and Emily Haslett
Sam and Jan Hayward
John Heald
Healthy Acadia Partnerships for Success
Helen and George Ladd Charitable Corporation
Mark Hoffman
Holly Garner-Jackson
Christine Holton
Anne and Rafi Hopkins of Hopkins 5!
Dick Hoyt and Jean Bookman
Gabe Hrynick
Sepp Huber and Sheila Unvala
Paul Francis and Titia Hulst
Nancy Hume and Jim Merlihan
Nick and Joan Hurd
Duane Ingalls
J. M. Huber Corporation
James and Kathleen Sparaga
Donna and Rickey Jamieson
Kate and Tony Jans
John Sage Foundation
Jeff and Gretchen Johnson
Bill and Judith Jones
Gwendolyn Jones
Jennifer Kane and Bernie Trilling
Molly Kealy
Kendall Farm Cottages & Event Barn
Georgie Kendall, Realtor, Realty of Maine
Jim Perkins and Theresa Kerchner
Pat Wyeth and Jim Kesel
Alvion Kimball
Mary Herman and Angus King
Stephen and Becky King
Peter & Carol Kirn
Peter Kirn
Elinor Klivans
Anne and Tim Knight
Shannon Knight
Pam Koenig
Elizabeth Koopman
Kara Kralik
Doug and Alice Kraus
Steve and Stephanie Lavigne
Valerie Lawson and Michael Brown
Megan LeBoutillier
Melissa Lee and Eric Lookabaugh
Joe Lelyveld
Mary Lemmon Fund, SVCF
Eben Lenfest
Rich and Darcy Lettieri
Newell Lewey and Jamie Bissonette Lewey
M C Lewis
Spencer Lewis
Jill Linzee
Lisa Llorente
Maureen Lord
John Lorence
Daphne Loring and Iggy Brimmer
Peter and Babette Loring
Duane and Carol Lowenstein
Ann Luginbuhl
Priscilla Lynch
Lyons IGA
Arnie Macdonald and Liza Moore
John and Sue MacGregor
Paul and Barb MacGregor
Machias Dental, P.A.
Maine Arts Commission
Maine Blackfly Breeders Association
Maine Community Foundation
Maine Community Foundation Belvedere Fund
Cynthia Major
Pat Mallar
Patrick and Kristine Maloney
Margaret E. Burnham Charitable Trust
Joanne Marian
Robin Mason
Viselli Masonry
Jane Furth & August Matzdorf
Sally Mayer
Michael McCabe
Kara McCrimmon and Penny Guisinger
Susan and Mike McCrimmon
Jill and Ed McGrath
Kim McKeage
Lars McKim
Marianna McKim
Sanna McKim and Alan Gibson
Meadow Fund of SVCF
Amy Meller
George and Rose Mellors
Lyn Mikel Brown and Mark Tappan
Dale Miller
Howard Seth Miller
Leslie Miller
Renee and Leonard Minsky
Ken and Nancy Mirman
Elizabeth and Richard Mistler
Molly Mithoefer
Asher Molyneaux
Moon Hill Farm
Lexie Morrill
William and Beth Morrill
Cindy and Joe Morrison
Morton-Kelly Charitable Trust
Alex Naar
Network For Good
John Newell and Linda Courtney
Northern Maine Development Commission, Inc.
Stephen and Cynthia O'Brien
Mary Kate O'Neill
Onion Foundation
Dayle Owen
Jane and Glenn Page
Ken and Stephanie Page
Kris and Ally Paprocki
Dylan Pardue
Audrey Patterson
Logan Perkins
The Perloff Foundation
Pam Person
Peter and Debby
Gail and Wayne Peters
Fred Pierce
Suzanne Plaut
Judith Podell
Janice Poehlman
Frances Pollitt
Joann Portalupi and Ralph Fletcher
Katie Porter
Calais Press
Jesse and Laura Pyles
Andy Radin
David Ray and Kay Loftus-Ray
Howard Reed and Judith Ashley
Ala and Bill Reid
Gerald Reis
Dana and Roger Reitman
Lew and Bunny Richards
Howard Rolls
Ruth Rohde and Sigmund Roos
Ann and Nate Rosebrooks
Greg and Caroline Sample
Fred Morrison and Laurie Sanders
Sallie and Bill Satterthwaite
Nickey Dubey
Lisa Dellwo and William Schlesinger
Alan Schroepfer and Susan Smith
Julia Schulz
Brian and Alice Schuth
Kristine Schwartz
Deborah Seavey
Annie Seegmiller and James McGrath
Dwight and Melinda Seegmiller
Lindsay Seward
Mary Dunn and Stuart Shotwell
Ann Skriletz
Alison Smith
Michael and Suzanne Smith
Madonna Soctomah
James and Ruby Sosa
David and Ruth Sousa
Jack and Denise Spaulding
Eleanor Spiegel
Don and Sherrie Sprangers
Joe Stacey
Richard and Janice Stanhope
Andrew Staroscik and Kerri Warren
Glenn and Sally Stephenson
Stone Family Foundation Of New Jersey
Strypemonde Foundation
Paul Sullivan and Jill Knowles
Ransom and Barbara Taggart
Elizabeth and Isabel Tappan-Defrees
The Boston Foundation, Anonymous
Margaret and William Thickstun
Ben Thompson and Tatiana Green
Lisa and Kevin Thompson
Frank Trocco
Karma-Ratna Trust
Hans and Rosemary Underdahl
United Way of Eastern Maine
Geri Valentine
Ross Varin
John and Terry Viselli
Lisa and Jeff Wahlstrom
Pat Warner Geer Morton
Katherine Warren
Val Watson
Diane Weinstein
Damon Weston and Molly McDonald
Heron and Lindy Weston
Janet and Paul Weston
Christopher Whalen
Margaret Whalen
William Whitacre
Jean and Jerry White
Deirdre Whitehead
Debbie and David Wilder
Samantha Williams and Kyle Winslow
Betsy Brown and Herb Wilson
Danielle Woerner
Elisabeth Wolfe
Mark and Arlene Wren
Tess Wright and Joyce Kilmer
Marjorie and Scott Withers
Sharon Yates
Pam Ziolko and Philip Akins
Kirstin Hotelling Zona
Every gift to Cobscook Institute is essential and much appreciated. We have carefully reviewed this list to include everyone who supported our work in 2021.
If your name has been omitted in error, please let us know.
Even before the foundation was poured or the first wall went up, Heartwood Lodge was imagined as a sanctuary, a physical space to inspire, support, and sustain inquiry and engagement. The Lodge has hosted both large groups engaged in shared learning as well as individuals engaged in independent retreat and residency. The Lodge best meets its mission when it creates space for cross-pollination between those seeking retreat and our campus learning community. As an example, last December Cobscook Institute welcomed René Goddess Johnson, founder of Embodied Equity, LLC, for a month-long retreat.
Last October, Cobscook Experiential Program (CEP) traveled through the lower Penobscot River Watershed, from Orono to Belfast, for a learning expedition on regional history and culture through the lens of the river. As part of that learning journey our students visited Linda G. and Donald N. Zillman Art Museum University of Maine (ZAM) and enjoyed a tour with executive director and curator George Kinghorn.
