The Alliance, Pictured in March

2026 Youth Climate Summit -- What happens when you combine 180 kids from different high schools, their teachers, Tribal cultural and tech experts, political leaders, and artists? Creativity, inspiration, high energy, curiosity...postcards to their legislators, new friends, and two pages of new signups for Youth Council. Many thanks to our friends at Eastern CT Watershed Network (thanks, Megan and Ashley!), and to our friends at the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center (thanks, Shantal, Phil, Jeremy, Joshua, Maurice, and the whole crew! you are amazing hosts)

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Alliance Pop-Up at The Ditty Bag Cure for Cabin Fever #2--Repair Café

Jess saved her favorite jeans with the perfect place-based button (a three-masted vessel stowed in my Mother's magic button box). Mary McFadden (Alliance Ops Manager), master pattern-maker and seamstress, revamps a pair of split shorts so they look cooler than they did when they were new. We talk my mother into coming for day 3, and she becomes a gathering magnet for distant cousins of my dad's who hadn't seen her in forty years. A Ditty Bag regular, Bob Farwell, met up with my distant cousins and discovered they had also been his schoolmates.

The best antidote for stress and disconnection?? Tending and mending among friends old and new. Thank you, Jason, for being such a wonderful host--everyone loved the Ditty Bag (and they actually know what one IS)...we can't wait to come back!!

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White boards in Whitford ... for the Alewife Count, 2026 -- six adults (some seniors), and eight US Coast Guard Academy cadets (some seniors) joined forces to place the board in Whitford Brook. Without them, it would be very difficult to see the camouflaged river herring streaking by! Thank you, Dr. Karina Mrakovcich for sharing your Fisheries Management class with us!!

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USCGA Coastal Resilience Class

It starts out so easy, this challenge to see how tall your team can build a tower using only index cards...then the pressure builds as the only person who can touch the cards is the one who can't see them...what does this teach us about resilience, risk, and vulnerability?

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