Children's Museum and Theatre of Maine Welcomes Bissell Brothers Brewing Company's Support for Watershed Aquarium Educational Programming
The Museum & Theatre is pleased to announce that Bissell Brothers Brewing Company is generously sponsoring Watershed Exploration programming in the Mountains to the Sea exhibit for the Thanksgiving holiday week. In addition to encouraging exploration of several different habitats and the creatures that live in them, this exhibit encourages children and their families to discover a “watershed” system. A watershed is the interconnected system of water - above ground and below - from headwaters in mountain lakes through streams, rivers, and aquifers into ponds and eventually into the ocean.
Another central concept of the Mountains to the Sea educational programming is the water cycle. Water evaporates into the air from the water’s surface and is breathed out by all plants and animals. Water in the air collects into clouds, then falls back to Earth’s surface as rain or snow, replenishing both surface and underground water sources.
Residents and businesses of more than a dozen southern Maine towns, including Portland, enjoy some of the purest drinking water in the entire country, water that comes from Sebago Lake, just 20 miles upstream of Portland.
Bissell Brother’s philanthropy supports a number of areas, including fisheries and wildlife conservation, clean water protection, animal stewardship, and community development. Bissell Brothers is a founding member of the Maine Brewshed® Alliance, a coalition of Maine brewers committed to helping protect clean water in the state’s rivers, lakes, streams, and ocean. In partnership with Maine’s leading environmental advocacy group, the Natural Resources Council of Maine, Maine Brewshed® Alliance members pledge to educate their customers and the public about the critical role of clean water.
“Our dependence on Maine’s clean water extends far beyond its primary and incredibly important role in the beers we produce, but is also a number one resource we all rely on in our day to day,” said Hester Bissell of Bissell Brothers Brewing. “This industry has a lot of strength, we need to use that to uphold and encourage what’s best for our beautiful state and its natural resources. We all need to be a voice for clean water.”
“We feel incredibly fortunate to have moved to Libbytown and onto Thompson’s Point where the sense of neighborliness is so valued and the partnerships between businesses is so strong. We are grateful for Bissell Brothers’ support of our environmental stewardship programming,” said Executive Director Julie Butcher Pezzino.