Campfire Club is a members-only program that holds quarterly gatherings. By joining Campfire Club at just $15.00 per month, you sustain and ignite our growth as we continue to build a robust statewide community network that supports LGBTQIA+ people through visibility, resource accessibility, and community building outdoors in all 16 counties of Maine.

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We will engage in burning written notes containing what we wish to let go of from 2025 and what we wish to manifest into 2026. Writing materials and s’mores will be provided. The exact location will be shared with Campfire Club members only.

At this campfire club, we welcome Donna Capodelupo for a writing activity to led into our paper burning. Donna is a retired journalist who began her career in the early 1980s as a feature writer for a small weekly newspaper covering the city of Haverhill, Mass. She worked as a news reporter for several weekly and daily newspapers, covering diverse beats including local government, education, and presidential primary politics, finally finding her niche as an editor and writing coach, the role she filled for most of her 35+-year journalism career. She shares a Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Coverage (2003) with a team of colleagues from The Eagle-Tribune newspaper in Massachusetts for coverage of the tragic drowning of four children in the Merrimack River in Lawrence, Mass. In her post-journalism career, Donna wrote and edited for numerous clients. The most rewarding to date? Editing the book, "How to Be Gay and Happy," published in the UK.