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Help Us Bring Christmas to Island and Downeast Residents
Christmas in Frenchboro in 1930 and 2019 Right before Christmas in 1905, we delivered our first Christmas presents to residents and lighthouse keepers living on Maine islands. More than a century later, the we still delivers gifts, wrapped in white parchment paper...
Flying High and Learning Leadership Skills
While dangling 10 feet in the air, a student in the Marion Kane Leadership program, worked with her friends on the ground to figure out how to climb up the next obstacle. Looking down at them for support and guidance, they helped and encouraged her as she pulled...
First College Visits for Class of 2027 Davis Maine Scholars
For high school seniors, touring a college campus can be a portal into a potential future. But for students—first-generation college students in particular—these visits also bring them into an unfamiliar world and can lead to questions and worries. What will it be...
Mission Volunteers Rehab 14 Houses
182 volunteers + 6,142 hours of service = patched roofs, new stairs and ramps, reinforced windows, and 14 happy homeowners. Between Memorial Day and the end of August, the Mission welcomed 182 volunteers from across the country to take part in our housing...
Uniting Students from Unbridged Islands
On a rainy day in September, the sound of laughter, cheers, and music coming from the Town Hall could be heard walking up from the mostly quiet harbor on Isle au Haut. The noise of 26 students (six times as many as there are usually on island), meant only one thing,...
Remembering Suzie James
Walk into any EdGE afterschool session and you would see the Mission’s Youth Development Coordinator, Suzie James, tinkering with Legos alongside one of her students or engaged in a raucous, laughter-filled card game. During play, she would look on at a group of...