Pine Tree Society Blog
October: National Disability Employment Awareness Month
During October, we celebrated National Disability Awareness month, dedicated to raising awareness about employment issues for disabled individuals, and celebrating the valuable contributions of workers with disabilities. More than 29,000 Maine students, about 16% of...
Sign Tree Camp 2018
Last weekend, Pine Tree Society's Interpreting Services staff traveled to Pine Tree Camp to host Sign Tree Camp. Sign Tree Camp is a unique retreat designed for adults who are deaf and have an intellectual disability. Many of our campers live in communication...
Seeking presenters and exhibitors for the 2019 Southern Maine Autism Conference
The 11th annual Southern Maine Autism Conference will take place on Saturday, March 16, 2019 at the DoubleTree Hilton Hotel in South Portland. We are gearing up for what promises to be another successful conference focused on practical tools, strategies and support...
Deaf Awareness Week 2018
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,...
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,”...
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...
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...
“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...
“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...