By Hilary Nangle on August 31, 2012
If it weren’t for Skip Brack, it’s likely the rural town of Liberty, Maine, a dip off Route 3 just inland from coastal Belfast, would be bypassed by all but the handful of folks who call it home. Between 1976 and 1986, Brack purchased and restored Liberty’s downtown buildings (all three of them), and created [...]
Posted in Activities, Mid-Coast, Shopping, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Liberty, Liberty Tool, tools |
By Hilary Nangle on August 30, 2012
More than 20 schooners and other sailing vessels are expected to arrive in Camden this weekend (Aug. 31-Sept. 2, 2012) for the Camden Windjammer Festival, the annual maritime celebration. The jam-packed weekend includes a maritime heritage fair, talent show, fireworks, crate race, pancake breakfast, chowder challenge, demonstrations and contests, controlled boat races, art auction, boat [...]
Posted in Activities, Boating, Events, Penobscot Bay, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Camden, Camden Windjammer Festival, Schooner Mary Day |
By Hilary Nangle on August 17, 2012
A roundup of interesting events this coming week and beyond throughout Maine. Film & Dinner: On Aug. 18, at 5:30 p.m., Eagle Hill Institute, in Steuben, will screen the film Dangers of the Ice Age, presented by Hal Borns, of the Climate Change Institute at the University of Maine. The program is free. A restaurant-style [...]
Posted in Acadia, Activities, Deals, Down East Coast, Entertainment, Events, Free Stuff, Greater Portland, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Penobscot Bay, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Western Lakes & Mountains, Where to go | Tagged Acadia National Park, AMC Maine Wilderness Lodges, Camden, Cape Elizabeth, Eagle Hill Institute, Eastport, Freeport, Inn by the Sea, Lobsterpalooza, Mahoosuc Guide SErvice, Monhegan, Mount Desert Island, Newry, Rockland, Schoodic, SERC, Steuben, Tides Institute and Art Museum, Winter Harbor, Wolfe's Neck Woods State Park |
By Hilary Nangle on August 16, 2012
Watch enough TV, and you have an image embedded in your brain of a Maine seaside village. It’s part Hawkeye Pierce’s Crabapple Cove (M.A.S.H.), part Jessica Fletcher’s Cabot Cove (Murder She Wrote), with a dash of Fox TV’s Murder in Small Town X. Welcome to Eastport, Maine, where local author Sarah Graves sets her Home [...]
Posted in Activities, Birding/wildlife viewing, Boating, Down East Coast, Hiking, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Maine Made, Shopping, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Eastport, Kilby House Inn |
By Hilary Nangle on August 13, 2012
The Kotzaschmar Organ, the first municipal organ in the country to be designated a municipal organ and one of only two still in existance (the other is in San Diego), is celebrating its 100th anniversary this month. Even better, the Friends of the Kotzschmar Organ are throwing it a party. The Kotzschmar Centennial Festival, Aug. [...]
Posted in Activities, Entertainment, Events, Greater Portland, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Kotzschmar Organ Centennial Festival, Portland |
By Hilary Nangle on August 10, 2012
With Maine lobster in the headlines, it seems an appropriate time to share The Maine Lobster Book, by Virginia M. Wright, with you. If you’re looking for the definitive quick study on all-things lobster, this is it. Wright covers everything you want, need, and don’t want to know about Maine’s famous crustacean, and does so [...]
Posted in Food, Recipes, Resources | Tagged The Maine Lobster Book |
By Hilary Nangle on August 8, 2012
Whenever I visit Maine’s Schoodic Peninsula, home to the only mainland section of Acadia National Park, I also detour out to Corea, a lobstering village in the town of Gouldsboro. Corea tips a peninsula that until 2002, was also home to a Navy base. Now it’s a sleepy spot with dreamy views: The boat-filled harbor [...]
Posted in Acadia, Activities, Birding/wildlife viewing, Hiking, Shopping, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Chapter Two, Corea, Corea Heath, Corea Wharf Gallery |
By Hilary Nangle on August 4, 2012
Jonesport is a bona fide, way-way down east Maine lobstering village with a salty disposition and a stunning location. Not too many tourists other than birders and escape artists veer off Route 1 on Route 187, which loops down 11 miles to the village, then back up another 11 miles. Ahhh, but it’s worth it [...]
Posted in Activities, Birding/wildlife viewing, Boating, Cabins & Cottages, Down East Coast, Food, Hiking, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Moon guidebook updates, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged bayview takeout, Beals island, Coastal Cruises, Cranberry Cove Cottages, great wass island, harbor house on Sawyer Cove, Jonesport, Maine Central Model Railroad, Mooseabec Mussels, Sardine Museum |
By Hilary Nangle on August 2, 2012
I’m traveling along the Maine Coast this summer researching a new edition of Moon Coastal Maine. I’ll be posting updates every now and then on where I’ve dined and stayed. Here are a few morsels from recent forays in Greater Portland to whet your appetite. Local 188, Portland: Portland has so many restaurants and with [...]
Posted in Greater Portland, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Caiolas, Cape Elizabeth, Local 188, Portland, restaurant, review, Sea Glass |
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