April 2010
Marine Program News
The Muscongus Bay Atlas Exhibit concludes its tour of the region this month, stopping for one last opening Saturday, April 10, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm in the Warren Community School.
During the exhibit opening, Warren residents will speak briefly about Warren’s eagles and alewives and highlight some of the current work of local groups. Also Jennifer Atkinson, Director of the Quebec-Labrador Foundation’s Marine Program will give an overview of the atlas project. There will be light refreshments on hand and ample opportunity to view and discuss the maps.
The exhibit opening represents a collaborative planning effort among the QLF’s Marine Program in Waldoboro and a number of local groups and residents who joined in to make this event possible. They include: Georges River Land Trust, Warren Community School, Warren Free Public Library, Warren True Value, Damariscotta Bank & Trust, Warren Historical Society, University of Maine Cooperative Extension in Knox & Lincoln Counties, Mid-Coast Audubon Society, Trout Unlimited, and local business owners.
Following the opening, the maps will be displayed in various public sites around town for the remainder of April – Warren True Value, Warren Community School, Warren Free Public Library, and the Warren branch of Damariscotta Bank & Trust – to allow residents more opportunities to view the maps during their daily rounds and weekend errands.
For more information about the exhibit, contact Amanda LaBelle (alabelle@qlf.org).
February 2010
Marine Program News
The Muscongus Bay Atlas Exhibit opens in Cushing, Maine Friday, February 26, from 6:00pm to 8:00pm in the public library and the community center multipurpose room.
In addition to a brief presentation by QLF’s Marine Program Director Jennifer Atkinson, the opening night will showcase photography and written reflections by Cushing Community School students inspired by the Town House Loop Trail, presentations of new and vintage maps of the area, and updates about the Pleasant Point Nature Preserve as well as efforts currently underway to open more of the town’s clam flats to harvesting.
The exhibit opening represents a collaborative planning effort among the QLF’s Marine Program in Waldoboro and a number of other local groups and residents who joined in to make this event possible. They include: Cushing Post Office, Cushing Public Library, Cushing Community School, Georges River Land Trust, Town of Cushing, A.S. Fales & Son, representatives from the Joint Board of Selectmen and the Georges River Shellfish Management Committee, and local residents.
In the days following the opening, the maps will be displayed in various public sites around town – Cushing Public Library, Cushing Community School, A.S. Fales & Son, and the Cushing Post Office - to allow residents more opportunities to view the maps during their daily rounds and weekend errands.
For more information about the exhibit, contact Amanda LaBelle (alabelle@qlf.org).
January 2010
Adrienne Blattel returned to work at QLF in December 2009 after a productive and inspiring mini-sabbatical in Montenegro during the fall with QLF-partners Expeditio. Expeditio is a Montenegrin NGO that focuses on sustainable spatial development, including green architecture, cultural heritage, planning and building civil society. During her sabbatical, Adrienne helped Expeditio with the development of the South East European (SEE) Heritage Network, an NGO of heritage organizations using culture and religious diversity as a springboard for mutual understanding and sustainable development. She presented QLF’s work in landscape preservation and heritage rivers at a SEE conference in Serbia in October.
Hilary Young, QLF’s Montreal Office Coordinator in the summer and fall of 2009, is now starting a six-month long Eco-Internship with QLF that is funded by the YWCA. As QLF’s new Sustainability Program Assistant, Hilary will be involved with coordination and research, in the following programs: QLF’s Leadership program, our Chevery Arts and Sustainability Initiative, the Richelieu Online Heritage Map Project, Rivers Canada Foundation development and the day-to-day operations of the Montreal office.
In mid-December, Stephen Engle and Adrienne Blattel traveled to the Richelieu Valley and Missisquoi Bay in southern Quebec to meet with project partners to launch a new heritage mapping initiative. Through a participatory process, QLF will create an online interactive map of the English-speaking and ‘bicultural’ heritage of this waterway which connects to Lake Champlain on the American side of the border. The project is funded through Canadian Heritage's Culture and Heritage Fund for official language minority communities.
Marine Program News
The Muscongus Bay Atlas Exhibit, nearing the end of its tour of the region, kicks off 2010 in South Thomaston, Maine. The exhibit opens Friday, January 8th from 6:00pm to 8:00pm in the Wessaweskeag Historical Society meeting room in the red schoolhouse at Dublin Road and Elm Street.
The exhibit opening represents a collaborative planning effort among the
QLF’s Marine Program in Waldoboro and a number of other local groups and residents who joined in to make this event possible. They include: Friends of the Weskeag, Georges River Land Trust, Georges River Tidewater Association, Hoggy’s, South Thomaston Public Library, Spruce Head Post Office, Town of South Thomaston, and the Wessaweskeag Historical Society.
In the days following the opening, the maps will be displayed various public areas around town - Hoggy’s, South Thomaston Public Library, South Thomaston Town Office, and the Spruce Head Post Office - to allow residents more opportunities to view the maps during their daily rounds and weekend errands.
For more information about the exhibit, contact Amanda LaBelle:
alabelle@qlf.org.