By Hilary Nangle on September 28, 2010
Last week I wrote about the Moosehead/Katahdin region as a favorite place to view the leaves but leave the crowds. This week, I’m sharing another: Maine’s Schoodic Region, that lovely, rural, magical area just northeast of Ellsworth. It packs a wallop, with not one, but two Scenic Byways, a portion of Acadia National Park, the [...]
Posted in Acadia, Activities, Birding/wildlife viewing, Cabins & Cottages, Food, Hiking, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Sightseeing, Where to go | Tagged Acadia National Park, Albee's Shorehouse, Chase's, Cherryfield, chester pike's gallery, chipper's, crocker house inn, donnell pond public reserve lands, Elsa's.Main Stay Cottages, foliage, Gerrish's Store, Hancock, Le Domaine, Maine Coastal Islands National Wildlife Refuge, Maple Knoll Pizza, Oceanside Meadows, Petit Manan, Schoodic, schoodic section, Steudben, Sullivan, Three Pines, Winter Harbor |
By Hilary Nangle on September 22, 2010
So much happening, I figured I’d give you a quick round-up of some upcoming cool events, some of which require advance planning and reservations. Weekend freebies • Free Admission at Acadia National Park, Sat., Sept. 25 • Free Admission at the Maine State Museum, Augusta, Sat. Sept. 25: download a ticket from Smithsonian Magazine. • [...]
Posted in Activities, Deals, Events, Food, Free Stuff | Tagged Acadia, Augusta, Brunswick, Damariscotta, Gardiner, Parks, Portland, Scarborough |
By Hilary Nangle on September 21, 2010
When it comes to fiddling around, few can compete with Eileen Ivers, winner of nine All-Ireland fiddle championships. Ivers isn’t content with the usual jigs and reels, she’s renowned for her multicultural and genre-bending performances. She makes her fiddle sing unexpected songs. As my Irish friends would say, “Brilliant!” And Ivers is bringing her magic [...]
Posted in Events, Greater Portland, Trip Planning | Tagged Eileen Ivers, Portland symphony orchestra pops |
By Hilary Nangle on September 20, 2010
Considering a fall foliage leaf-peeping trip in Maine? Here’s the first in a series of places where you can escape the crowds. I’ll start where the foliage will peak first, in the Moosehead Lake / Mount Katahdin region of Maine’s North Woods. Yup, woods. That guarantees foliage, and the mix of hard and soft woods [...]
Posted in Activities, Birding/wildlife viewing, Boating, Cabins & Cottages, Food, Hiking, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Maine Highlands, Motels, Resorts, Sightseeing, Sporting Camps, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged fall foliage, Greenville, Millinocket, Moosehead Lake, Mt. Katahdin |
By Hilary Nangle on September 16, 2010
Grab your passport and spend this weekend on the Two Countries, One Bay Studio Tour. The free, self-guided tour this Saturday and Sunday, Sept. 18-19, 2010, visits the working studios of more than 50 of the best visual artists and craftspeople in eastern Maine and southwestern New Brunswick, Canada, including the Fundy Islands of Campobello [...]
Posted in Down East Coast, Events, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged arts tour, Calais, Campobello Island, Canada, Eastport, Lubec, New Brunswick, One Bay Art Studio Tour, Two Countries |
By Hilary Nangle on September 16, 2010
Want to taste your way through Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and environs? Boothbay Harbor Restaurant Week, Sept. 18-24, 2010, makes that easy. Seventeen participating restaurants in Boothbay Harbor, Southport, and Wiscasset are offering a three-course menu (appetizer, entree, and dessert) for $22.10. You’ll find links to all on the website.
Posted in Deals, Events, Food, Mid-Coast, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Boothbay Harbor, Dining, restaurant week |
By Hilary Nangle on September 10, 2010
Recently, I dined with friends at the new incarnation of take-no-prisoners Conte’s Restaurant in Rockland, Maine. Devotees of John Conte’s infamous seafood-and-pasta dive were thrilled to see it reopen on South Main Street, after evacuating its waterfront digs earlier this year (after celebrity chef Anthony Bourdain featured it on his No Reservations show). But could [...]
Posted in Food, Penobscot Bay, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Contes, restaurants, review, Rockland, seafood |
By Hilary Nangle on September 9, 2010
YES! Maine Restaurant Week is now offered twice, with a fall session slated Oct. 24-31, 2010, and a spring session March 1-12, 2011. Yes, now you have two opportunities to dine your way through Maine, returning to favorite restaurants or trying new ones.As usual, participating restaurants statewide will offer three-course meals for $20, $30, or [...]
Posted in Deals, Events, Food | Tagged Dining, fixed price menus, Maine Restaurant Week, restaurants |
By Hilary Nangle on September 7, 2010
Light up your life on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011, with a visit to one of 25 ocean, river, and island lighthouses open for the second annual Maine Open Lighthouse Day. Most will be open from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. And here’s a treat, many light towers and keeper’s houses not usually open to the [...]
Posted in Acadia, Activities, Blue Hill Peninsula & Deer Isle, Down East Coast, Events, Greater Portland, Mid-Coast, Penobscot Bay, Sightseeing, Southern Coast/Beaches, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged lighthouses, Maine Open Lighthouse Day |
By Hilary Nangle on September 2, 2010
Earl, grrrrr. Due to the threat of a major tropical storm, Camden has scaled back its annual Windjammer Days program. Friday night and most of Saturday’s events have been canceled; festivities are now set to kick off at 4 p.m. Saturday, Sept. 4. Still a boatload of fun planned for Sunday, so when the rain [...]
Posted in Events, Penobscot Bay, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Camden, Windjammer Days |
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