By Hilary Nangle on November 15, 2011
Open the door to Maine’s South Solon Meeting House and Wow! Neither the classically influenced colonial, white-clapboard architecture nor the serene location on a rural crossroads in a don’t-blink-or-you’ll-miss-it town hint about what’s inside. Built in 1842, and now listed on the National Register of Historic Places, the South Solon Meeting House retains its original [...]
Posted in Activities, Kennebec and Moose River Valleys, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Skowhegan, South Solon, South Solon Meeting House |
By Hilary Nangle on October 10, 2011
Maine’s Blue Hill Peninsula exudes the essence of what what many people picture when they dream about the Maine coast. It’s off the beaten track, a rolling landscape carved in granite, fringed with spruce, splashed with ponds, sprinkled with galleries, salted with farmsteads, and peppered with those classic big house-little house-back house-barn houses that art [...]
Posted in Activities, Blue Hill Peninsula & Deer Isle, Maine Made, Moon guidebook updates, Shopping, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged bagaduce forge, Bagaduce Lunch, bakeries, bets's sunflower, blossom studio, Blue Hill Peninsula, Brooklin, brooklin inn, Brooksville, buck's harbor market, bucks restaurant, Eggemoggin Textile STudio, fourseason farm, galleries, good life center, Handmade papers, Hiram Blake Camps, holbrook island sanctuary, mainehooked rugs, Mermaid woolens, Oakland House, paul heroux, Puschart Press Bookstore, Reach Road Gallery, restaurants, scott goldberg, sedgewick antiques, Sedgwick, sow's ear winery, the cave, tinder hearth bakery, Wooden Boat |
By Hilary Nangle on September 21, 2011
Most of my friends who live beyond Maine’s borders think I live in the most ideal place. And they’re right, to a point. But I think there’s an even better place, and that’s one of the islands off the Maine coast. Especially in autumn, when the crowds are gone, the light is soft, the air [...]
Posted in Food, Inns & B&Bs, Lodging, Moon guidebook updates, Penobscot Bay, Resources, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Adam Campbell, Nebo Lodge, North Haven Island, organic farm, oysters, Turner Farm |
By Hilary Nangle on August 14, 2011
Rockland rocks. Named a Distinctive Destination by the National Trust for Historic Preservation, the small Maine coastal city edging Penobscot Bay retains the heart and spirit of a working town, buzzes with the added pizazz of excellent museums, a vigorous arts scene, surprising restaurants, eclectic shops, and delivers a more than generous serving of lobster, [...]
Posted in Activities, Boating, Entertainment, Events, Penobscot Bay, Sightseeing, Transportation, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Berry Manor Inn, Brass Compass., Cafe Miranda, Capt. Lindsey House, Farnsworth Museum, First Friday Art WAllk, Granite Inn, Historic Inns of Rockland, in good company, Lily bistro, Limerock Inn, Maine eastern railroad, Maine Lighthouse Museum, Maine Lobster Festival, Marshall Point light, Miller's Lobster, Owls Head Light, Owls Head Transportation Museum, Project Puffin Visitor Center, Rockland, Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse, sail power & steam museum, Shell's Southwest Grille, Strand, Sunfire Mexican Grill, Suzuki's Sushi Bar, Sweets & Meats Market, The Brown Bag, WAterman's Beach Lobster |
By Hilary Nangle on July 31, 2011
If you get a sample of what it really was like during the hey day of Maine’s Great Age of Logging, make plans to visit the Ambejejus Boom House, on Ambejejus Lake, near Millinocket and Baxter State Park. It’s been 35 years since Maine’s last logging drive, 35 years since trees felled in the northern [...]
Posted in Activities, Boating, Maine Highlands, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go |
By Hilary Nangle on July 21, 2011
We’re looking at a few days of scorching heat, at least by Maine standards. Keep that in mind: It IS worse elsewhere. And many of those those other places aren’t rich with nature’s natural coolers: mountains, lakes, ponds, rivers, streams, and miles upon miles of oceanfront. 1. Hit the beach Hint: If you’re going to [...]
Posted in Activities, Boating, Food, Maine Made, Sightseeing | Tagged beaches, boat trips, Ice cream, islands, museums, rafting, watervalls |
By Hilary Nangle on July 3, 2011
On Golden Pond, that dreamy sunset-of-life film starring Katharine Hepburn, Henry Fonda, and Jane Fonda, may have been filmed in New Hampshire, but playwright Ernest Thompson took his inspiration from Great Pond, the largest of Maine’s Belgrade Lakes. A mailboat—not the lovely wooden launch of the film, but a modern pontoon boat—still plies Great Pond’s [...]
Posted in Activities, Birding/wildlife viewing, Boating, Cabins & Cottages, Kennebec and Moose River Valleys, Lodging, Sightseeing, Sporting Camps, Trip Planning | Tagged Alden Camps, Bear Springs Camps, Belgrade Lakes, Castle Island Camps, D.E.W. Animal Kingdom, French's Mountain, Hutton Studios, Maine Bone Carving, maine lake vacation, Maine Sporting Camps, Whisperwood Lodge |
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 April 2, 2011
I’m a sucker for small, focused, and quirky museums, and this gem, in Jonesport, Maine, sure fits the bill. Ronnie Peabody, executive director and co-founder of the Maine Coast Sardine History Museum, in Jonesport, reels off statistics about Maine’s sardine processing heyday. In the early 20th century, more than 400 factories salted the Maine coastline [...]
Posted in Activities, Down East Coast, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Jonesport, Maine Coast Sardine Museum, Ronnie Peabody |
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