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The camp has more than 7,300 alumni who have become involved in dozens of peacekeeping initiatives. It has included Americans since 2000, Kapenga said. Officials are carefully monitoring the situation in the Middle East where reports indicate that the violence in Israel and Palestine has claimed dozens of lives, including children. “It’s rough. Our alumni and staff living in the area are highly impacted by the situation,” Kapenga said. Tim Wilson, 80, senior adviser and director of the Maine Seeds program, has been with the program from its inception. He was formerly the director of S...
All Talk This feature appears in our Spring 2021 issue. Subscribe now to receive a copy in your mailbox. IN THE SUMMER OF 2014, as Israeli bombs rained down on Gaza during the military incursion known as Operation Protective Edge, Salma Faysal, a 17-year-old from Ramallah, was at sleepaway camp in rural Maine. Faysal was a second-year camper at Seeds of Peace Camp, a coexistence initiative that brings Israeli and Palestinian teenagers together each summer on the shores of Pleasant Lake, an hour northwest of Portland. Every day for a little under two hours, in facilitated dialogue sessions...