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Area Affiliations
If you’re coming to visit Downeast Maine, the websites below offer information about the communities surrounding Cobscook Bay.
Cobscook Bay Chamber of Commerce
 The Annual Down East Spring Birding Festival (Sponsored by the CBACC)
Eastport for Pride
Town of Lubec Maine
Machias Bay Chamber of Commerce
International Quoddy Loop --A Three-Nation Vacation in the Bay of Fundy
Tours of Lubec and Cobscook
Area Nonprofit Partners
Quoddy Regional Land Trust
The Quoddy Regional Land Trust is dedicated to conserving the wildlife, open space and natural resources of eastern Washington County, Maine for the benefit of present and future generations.
Schoodic Arts for All
Schoodic Arts for All is a non-profit organization that brings art and culture to the Schoodic Peninsula area and surrounding communities in Downeast Maine. It provides music, art, dance, theater, writing, crafts, poetry, sculpture, fiber arts, and jazz in performances and workshops at affordable prices.
Tides Institute
The Tides Institute and Museum of Art builds and exhibits cultural collections, creates new cultural works, and strengthens cultural ties within the greater Passamaquoddy region, between New England and the Atlantic Provinces, and to the wider world.
Friedman Field Station of Suffolk University
The R.S. Friedman Field Station of Suffolk University provides a living laboratory for observing and studying marine life in a relatively pristine environment dominated by the dramatic tides of Cobscook Bay on the coast of Eastern Maine.
Maine Sea Coast Mission
The Maine Sea Coast Mission is a non-denominational, nonprofit organization founded in 1905. Through our programs, we serve as a source of hope, encouragement, and strength for individuals, families, and communities in island and coastal communities in Downeast Maine.
Fundy Chapter of the Audubon Society
The mission of the Fundy Audubon Chapter of Maine Audubon is to educate and engage the people of Washington County, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats, for the benefit of local communities and their natural environment. Fundy Audubon holds natural history programs on the third Tuesday of each month (spring – fall) at the CCLC, as well as field trips (birding, plant walks, etc.) and board meetings. Visit our website for current events.
Artists & Educators Who Have Taught at the CCLC
Please note that not all who teach at the CCLC maintain a website. This represents a brief listing of instructors who visit and teach at the Center.
Kevin Thompson, Potter and Computer Technology Instructor
Connie Harter-Bagley, Potter and Dance/Yoga Instructor
Arlene & Mark Wren, Braided Rug / Quilter and Stained Glass Artist
Paula Farrar, Fiber Artist
Barbara Baig, Creative Writing Teacher
Heather Perry, Fine Arts Instructor and Metalsmith
Carol Bryan & Richard Scott, Scythe Supply
Michael Cooney, Folk Musician
Lucille Ann Meltz, Personal Development Facilitator
Gabe Lowery, Music Instructor
Anne Dodson, Folk Musician
Mary Belenky, Educational Psychologist & Author
Groups Who Have Facilitated Discussions & Programs at the CCLC
Downeast Amateur Astronomy Club
Downeast Salmon Federation
Maine Association for Charter Schools
Maine Civil Liberties Union
Maine Solar Energy Association
Pine Tree Chapter – American Red Cross
Women Work and Community
Folks We’re Partnering with to Create Greater Access for Higher Education
Audubon Expedition Institute at Lesley University
Lesley University
Mercy College
Folks We’re Partnering with to Offer Access to Alternative Education Options
Carleton Project
Carleton Project is a Maine, 501 (c) (3) non-profit corporation working in the areas of youth substance abuse prevention, alternative education, community building, online education and wilderness adventure. The corporation conducts summer projects for youth that teach interpersonal skills and environmental awareness. The corporation is also developing unique alternative options for Aroostook County youth who have not found success in traditional school settings.
The Community School – Camden
The CCLC is working to bring the Community School’s Passages Program to Washington County through the CCLC. Passages is a high school diploma program what serves out-of-school 15-to-20-year-old parents via a individualized and self-paces curriculum model.
The following organizations are partners with the CCLC in a USAD Rural Utilities Service Distance Learning & Technology Grant.
Bowdoin College Upward Bound
The Wabanaki Center, University of Maine
New Media Center, University of Maine
School Union 104 – including Shead High School and Edmunds, Perry and Charlotte Elementary Schools
Lee Academy
Wiscassett School System
Tandberg Corporation
CBE Technologies
Folk & Popular Education Links
Appalshop
Appalshop is a multi-disciplinary arts and education center in the heart of Appalachia producing original films, video, theater, music and spoken-word recordings, radio, photography, multimedia, and books.
Association for World Education
The Association for World Education is an international, non-governmental, voluntary organization of individuals and institutions who believe that learning about ourselves and our communities is most effective and satisfying when education reflects an awareness of our intimate relationship to the world as a whole.
Highlander Research and Education Center
The Highlander Center is a residential popular education and research organization based on a 106-acre farm in the foothills of the Great Smoky Mountains. Since 1932, Highlander has gathered workers, grassroots leaders, community organizers, educators, and researchers to address the most pressing social, environmental and economic problems facing the people of the South.
Institute for People’s Education and Action
The Institute for People's Education and Action seeks to identify, support, and facilitate community-based, learner-led education as a strategic tool for community organizing and democratic social change.
John C. Campbell Folk School
Located in the mountains of North Carolina, Campbell Folk School was founded in 1925 with the mission to improve the quality of life of local people through education, and to preserve and share with the rest of the world the wonderful crafts, techniques and tools that the mountain people of the area used in everyday life.
North House Folk School
The mission of the North House Folk School is to enrich lives and build community by teaching traditional northern crafts in a student-centered learning environment that inspires the hands, the heart and the mind. The learning that is emphasized is inspired by the Scandinavian "folkehøjskole" where learning is valued for its own sake. The focus is on traditional methods and technologies and their application in a variety of areas.
Education Articles and Resources
Maine Homeschooling Resources
What is People’s Education?
What is Folk Education?
A History of Peoples Education
What is a study circle?
Supporting Agencies
Downeast RC&D
Eastern Maine Development Corporation
Maine Arts Commission
Maine Humanities Council
Nature Photographer Magazine
USDA Rural Development
Links Overview
The CCLC includes links in order to provide useful information to community members, participants, supporters, partners and online visitors. Our specific goals are to:
* provide information related to the Cobscook Bay region
* link into the electronic web of popular, folk, and community education organizations and resources
* recognize and provide visibility for CCLC instructors
* forward an awareness of area nonprofit organizations with whom the CCLC partners
Organizations that believe they can help the CCLC accomplish these goals through the exchange of web site links are welcome to
contact us.
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