For the last full week of September, we celebrated Deaf Awareness Week! We ended it with attending Deaf Culture Festival on Mackworth Island. In 1958, this week was first celebrated for only one day (International Day of the Deaf) by the World Federation of the Deaf, but was later extended to an entire week. In this video, Tim Wilbur, Read More ›
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Cards for a cause
Pine Tree Society’s holiday tradition begins each year in June when our Bath office is flooded with paintings depicting Maine’s beautiful winter landscape. “In the 1960s, Pine Tree Society had the idea that a Maine-themed holiday card would be a perfect fundraiser,” said Noel Sullivan, president and CEO of Pine Tree Society. “More than fifty Read More ›
Adaptive Water Sports Camp sailed into Pine Tree Camp this weekend
The Adaptive Outdoor Education Center and Pine Tree Camp collaborated this weekend to bring all people with varying abilities a weekend full of adaptive water sports, beach fun, and a memorable camp experience. Bruce Albiston, founder of the Adaptive Outdoor Education Center and former Pine Tree Society board member, said this was their biggest Read More ›
New art and a Maine retrospective at Pine Tree Society in Bath
On Friday, September 21, Pine Tree Society will open its doors for the Bath Art Walk to unveil two new paintings created by Maine artists Richard Hasenfus of Georgetown and Marieluise Hutchinson of Cushing. Hasenfus’s “Winter Lighthouse” and Hutchinson’s “The Perfect Snowman” were painted for Pine Tree Society’s 2018 holiday card series. Also Read More ›
“I’m going to big school”
“I’m going to big school” are words Karen McClure-Richard and her team at Pine Tree Society’s Early Learning Center work all year for a child to be able to say with confidence. “When they say those words, they’re showing their maturity and their age and their readiness to move on,” said Karen. In August, the Early Learning Center celebrated Read More ›
“I do all the things others do, I just do them differently.”
When John W. Conner passed away in 2017 at the age of 86, there were two things really important in his life that his family wanted to pay tribute to: the Shriners Hospitals for Children and Pine Tree Camp. “A lot of what he wanted to do, was able to do, and did do was because of Pine Tree Camp and Shriners Hospital,” his son John D. Conner Read More ›
“She needed to trust somebody”
“I didn’t like the path I was going down. I wasn’t making good choices and I wanted a fresh life and people I could count on.” Julie is 42 years old and lives with intellectual disabilities. Since she decided to turn her life around, she’s never looked back. That’s where Pine Tree Society’s Home and Community Support Programs came in to help Read More ›
Pine Tree Camp is never boring
In our lives when you spend time at a place long enough, you realize each place has its own distinct rhythm. Pine Tree Camp has always had a rhythm that you would never call normal. But it’s okay, normal is boring. Camp is a myriad of adjectives, but it’s never boring. Coming to camp for over thirty years, the rhythms have changed dramatically, Read More ›
“I’d go back in a minute”
“I’d go back in a minute,” Joan McDonough just turned 83, and that’s how she feels about Pine Tree Camp. “It was home to me almost every summer.” She starting going in 1946, just one year after camp first opened, and went every year until 1951. “I had curvature of the spine and had been in the hospital for two and half years wearing various Read More ›