The “Friends of Hog Island” completed its sixth annual “work-and-learn” week at the Audubon Camp in Maine in June, drawing participants to Hog Island for a six-day marathon of dormitory painting, trail maintenance, mainland and island gardening, and carpentry.
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Completed activities
Here is a list of the work completed during the 2006 FOHI Work and Learn week.
- Repaired Queen Mary door
- Weeded flower and herb gardens and planters
- Scraped and stained bridge and kitchen
- Painted walk-in kitchen
- Repaired Porthole stairs
- Cleared trails and built bridges
- Painted the Porthole bathroom
- Painted Porthole chairs
- Picked up litter
- Cleaned Porthole, Queen Mary, Crow’s Nest
- Pruned, weeded, trimmed old plants
- Weeded mainland gardens
- Wrote reunion invitations
- Painted Bridge screen door
- Built 80-foot boardwalk
- Sanded Adirondack chair
- Demolished benches around raised bed
- Dug post hole
- Painted and scraped the back of the bridge
- Painted Porthole room 7
- Painted and repaired Fish House steps
- Washed and painted Wash House steps
- Ironed 19 pairs of Porthole curtains
- Repaired Binnacle front steps
- Retreaded ramp on service dock
- Placed tide marker
- Replaced track light bulbs in the Queen Mary
- Completed troubleshooting electrical repairs
- Cleaned bridge walls and windows
