Making Her Way Downtown.....
Last Thursday, one of our amazing helpers, Sabrina took the girls to a park in Bridgton for an off campus adventure. When I got the...
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Welcome to our website! We are a family of three girls, a mom and dad, and dogs with lots and lots and lots of energy. We are in Maine for a year of learning, adventure and reconnecting with family roots.
We will be sharing our experience here at this website.
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Because we think our kids are the most amazing, miraculous, unruly pieces of work in the whole wide world, the subject matter of this blog will focus mostly on the adventures of Deer Country Kids!
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Class Highlights
A certain loving Grandpa recently asked if, in addition to playing in the woods and starting businesses, does the girls' curriculum also...
Under, Over, Under, Over
After reading Basket Moon and learning about a basket-making family in Columbia County, NY, the girls set out to make their own baskets....
Business is Booming!
We have made a business by making birch bark fire starters for our neighbors in Maine! First my mom helped with what to write and then I...
Biden/Trump Lawn Sign Math Project
Hello Friends! We have lots of updates from Deer Country Kin! We will be posting a bunch of new stories in days ahead - we haven't had...
October 14, 2020 - Salamander Survey
Yesterday, we found a salamander in the basement! It was cold and not moving very much. We warmed it up, fed it some of our composting...
October 10, 2020 - The Wood Arrived, the Stove Arrived, the Cold Arrived
There are many signs around Vinton Camp that the cold is coming! But luckily everything we need to be ready for October arrived in just...
October 1, 2020 - IT'S FALL!!!!!!!
It's been a busy, BEAUTIFUL week. The moon is full and the owls and loons are so loud at night. Today I'm posting a pupu platter of...
September 29, 2020 - Who Cooks For You??
Eleven species of owls live in or visit Maine for all or a portion of the year. The great horned owl and the barred owl are the most...
September 25, 2020: The Educators, The Heroes here at Kezar Lake School
Deanna Deanna is our head teacher. She is with Anna and Mia (and her daughter, Mae) Monday-Thursday from 8:00am-1:30pm. Deanna does...
September 23, 2020 - Mia Explains a Forest Book Project
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September 19, 2020 - Dad Teaches Earth Science
One of the great things we've learned about homeschooling is that you can teach on the weekends! Nate will be teaching Earth Science to...
September 18, 2020 - Women of the Lovell Library
Today the girls joined their great grandmother in becoming women of the Lovell Library. Here's a picture from Nate's Dad's book of the...
September 17, 2020 - Our First Three Days
It's Day three here in Lovell. I'm going to say that we're all thriving here. Today during snack we heard a massive tree fall in the...
Why Are We Called Deer Country Kin?
Nate's grandparents, Bill and Catherine Vinton, bought land on Kezar Lake in 1935. They raised Nate's dad, John, and his three sisters at camp on Kezar Lake. In the fifties, Bill started experimenting with pottery and started a pottery business called Deer Country Kiln. Their signature style was made by imprinting things they found in the nearby woods and streams into clay .
Some of their pieces are very STARTLING !!!
Look at this breathtakingly beautiful plate!
Nate's Dad, John Vinton, wrote a book about growing up on Kezar Lake. In it he writes about his father Bill's technique: "Over several years he developed his distinctive handcraft: freeform dishes made by laying out flowers, leaves or grasses on smooth river stones and draping them with sheets of clay. The clay was then lifted off the stones, dried, sanded, painted, glazed and fired."
We are spending the next three months at the Vinton camp. We are very proud to be Deer Country Kin!!!
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I mean look at these beauties!
NOW THAT'S A STEADY HAND!
Is This cabbage? So cool!
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