Reading Time: 3 minutesDuring the past few months, students at the Glenn Stratton Learning Center in Hinckley, Maine have taken field trips to see the Congo River, New York City’s Central Park and a bagpipe performance of “Amazing Grace” in Scotland. All they needed was a Google Classroom account (and a few wonderful tour guides). These virtual field… Read more »
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis is the fifth installment in an ongoing series about the unique history of Good Will-Hinckley. To read the previous installments, click on one of the following links: Part I; Part II; Part III; Part IV. On the first weekend of May, with the sun shining bright and temperatures well into sixties, dozens of people—families,… Read more »
Reading Time: 4 minutesThis is the fourth installment in an ongoing series about the unique history of Good Will-Hinckley. To read Part I, click here. For Part II, click here. For Part III, click here. Like much of the world at the time, the Good Will-Hinckley community wasn’t immune to the devastating impacts of the Spanish Flu, which… Read more »
Reading Time: 4 minutesEach month, I’ll be writing a blog about the unique history of Good Will-Hinckley and how George Walter Hinckley’s mission still resonates today. To read Part I, click here. For Part II, click here. During its 131-year history, Good Will-Hinckley has touched the lives of thousands of young people. Most have been from Maine, the… Read more »
Reading Time: 4 minutesEach month, I’ll be writing a blog about the unique history of Good Will-Hinckley, and how George Walter Hinckley’s mission still resonates today. Click here to read Part I of the series. A few years ago, around the time that the Maine Academy of Natural Sciences (MeANS) was considering a new agriculture program, we started… Read more »
Reading Time: 4 minutesIn 2019, 130 years after George Walter Hinckley purchased the 125-acre plot that would become his life’s legacy, Good Will-Hinckley rolled out a new logo. If you look closely, you’ll see silhouettes of a young boy and girl reading beneath a green tree, a small school in the background. What I love about the logo… Read more »