• Identify and promote a multi-days or week-long three-nation loop route between Lubec , Campobello and Grand Manan islands ( Canada ), St . Andrews and St . Stephen ( Canada ), Calais , Sipyak , and Eastport .
• Develop a regional self-guided revolutionary war historic driving tour , including sites and events such as Fort Knox , Castine , Bastille Day , Machias , Margaretta Days , and Eastport .
• Utilize smaller historic sites that are open spaces , such as Fort O ’ brien , as a public gathering space for community events , like outdoor concerts .
• Middle River Park & Machias River Preserve are good spots for historic interpretation of logging industry , Battle of the Margaretta , and Battle of the Rim , and Atusville , a historic black community , although very little documentation on Atusville exists .
• Conduct more community events in restored historic buildings .
• Create new collections of famous artists , petroglyphs , photographers , musicians , etc .
Education
• The region needs outdoor recreation outfitters and more and younger guides . Work with Washington County Community College , Cobscook Institute , and College of the Atlantic to recruit and retain guiding entrepreneurs .
• Get youth involved in community planning , advocacy at local and state levels .
• Heritage stories told by youth – create a method for youth to express what they want to tell those who come after them , their peers , and visitors about this place and what is important for heritage preservation .
• Conduct a community-assets and needs assessment from a youth perspective .
• Multi-generational learning or intergenerational exchange ; family learning ; mentor-based learning – youth to youth , adult to youth .
• Work with schools to develop heritage-based graduate student projects and college or high school paid internships .
• Engage new residents in volunteer or learning experiences to help them connect with their new place , take advantage of new resident curiosity and desire to build community
• Heritage education about the Revolutionary War / Machias / Wabanaki assistance ; raising sheep and hogs on islands and living on islands ; lighthouse keepers ; ship builders , captains , cargo sea shanties ; and genealogy .
• Develop more outdoor classrooms to learn and build community through nature .
• Open space education - science based collaborations with Schoodic Institute and trails , and Ice Age Trail include archaeological and geological resource areas , and Fisheries related Beals Institute , Darling Marine Center , Franklin Aquaculture , Schoodic Heath and bogs , Salmon
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