Monthly Archives: May 1999

The camp that changes people’s lives

By Pete Salmansohn When I arrived on Hog Island in June of 1980 to begin my first summer teaching adults about weather, geology, and environmental issues, I was an inexperienced environmental educator, fresh out of graduate school. Teaching those classes for the first time was a huge challenge, but with help from Mike Shannon, Steve … | Read more.

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The future: Hog Island needs you

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By Bart Cadbury Over the years the program at Hog Island has undergone changes and modifications, but the essential goal has always been to awaken campers to the richness of habitats and their complex interrelationships. A field trip may visit a fresh water pond and explore the wealth of plant and animal life to be … | Read more.

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