Rangeley Friends of the Arts (RFA) is a nonprofit arts organization in Rangeley, a town of 1,200 souls in the rural western mountains of Maine. Working with existing facilities and a largely volunteer workforce, the article explains how this group established Creative After School Arts, or CASA--a program that provides a safe home away from home and enriching programming to local students five days a week. CASA focuses on preteens and teens in grades 5-12. These young people are too old for day care; most participants are too young for work, but old enough for responsibility. Most are latchkey kids, entering adolescence with all its potential dangers but with little supervision. The after school program creates space for a bright creative community through the long, dark Maine winter, and exposes children to the arts, broadens their horizons and gives them opportunities to shine. The example provided by Rangeley Friends of the Arts shows that communities can build arts programming for youth with few resources, as long as they have the will to accomplish this goal.