By Hilary Nangle on June 11, 2011
Get your groove on at one of these 10 summer weekend music festivals happening in Maine. We’ve gotcha covered, from rock to folk, bluegrass to blues, classical to out, and taking place in venues ranging from oceanfront to mountaintop, offshore island to city downtown. • Kingfield POPS! The Saturday late afternoon concert featuring the Bangor [...]
Posted in Activities, Entertainment, Events, Trip Planning | Tagged Bangor, bluegrass, blues, Brunswick, Celtic, East Benton, Farmington, folk, Hiram, Kingfield, livermore falls, music, out, Rangeley, Rockland, sea, Swan's Island |
By Hilary Nangle on June 10, 2011
I have a new candidate for the best fish and chips in the Mid-coast/Penobscot Bay region: Hatchet Mountain Publick House. Never heard of it? Neither had I, until I started checking the participants in this year’s Eat for Pete’s Sake, a benefit in which local restaurants donate a percentage from one night’s proceeds to the [...]
Posted in Food, Moon guidebook updates, Penobscot Bay, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Hatchet Mountain Public House, Hope, restaurant review |
By Hilary Nangle on June 5, 2011
Once each year, seven land-accessible lighthouses along the mid-Maine coast open their towers for the Midc0ast Maine Lighthouse Challenge, a two-day self-guided driving tour covering the coastline from Pemaquid Point, tipping the Pemaquid Peninsula dangling south of Damariscotta, to Castine, on the western edge of the Blue Hill peninsula. Included on the tour* are Dyce’s [...]
Posted in Activities, Blue Hill Peninsula & Deer Isle, Events, Mid-Coast, Penobscot Bay, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Castine, Dyce's Head Lighthouse, Fort Point Light, Grindle Point Light, Historic Inns of Rockland, Islesboro, Maine Lighthouse Challenge, Maine Lighthouse Museum, Marshall Point light, Owls Headlight, Pemaquid, Pemaquid Point lighthouse, Penobscot Marine Museum, Port Clyde, Rockland, Rockland Breakwater light, Searsport, Stockton Springs |
By Hilary Nangle on June 4, 2011
Offbeat doesn’t begin to describe the L.C. Bates Museum, in Hinckley, Maine. Displayed inside the Romanesque Revival, National Historic Register building are eccentric and eclectic natural and cultural treasures that are beyond intriguing. I mean, really, where else in Maine, or New England for that matter, can you see a trophy marlin caught by Ernest [...]
Posted in Activities, Kennebec and Moose River Valleys, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Hinckley, L.C. Bates Museum, natural history, oddities, quirky museums, Skowhegan |
By Hilary Nangle on June 3, 2011
Yes, you can find budget lodging in Maine’s Acadia region, encompassing the Blue Hill/Deer Isle Peninsula, Mount Desert Island home to Bar Harbor, and the Schoodic Peninsula, all providing easy access to Acadia National Park. Some of these are waterfront. Some have a bit more, uh, character. If you’re used to five-star lodgings, these won’t [...]
Posted in Acadia, Acadia Cheap Sleeps, Cheap Sleeps, Lodging, Trip Planning, Where to go, Woof | Tagged Albee's Shorehouse cottages, Bar Harbor, belle isle motel, Boyce's Motel, budget lodging, Deer Isle, edenbrook motel, Ellsworth, Harbor View Motel & Cottages, inexpensive hotels, islesview motel & cottages, lighthouse inn & restaurant, Main Stay Cottages, Maine, Maine Coast, Prospect Harbor, robbins motel, Schoodic, Seal Harbor, Southwest Harbor, Stonington, Sunset Motor court, trenton, Winter Harbor |
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