By Hilary Nangle on March 29, 2011
Ready to point and shoot? Maine has 14 sites designated as National Natural Landmarks, and the National Park Service is looking for photos. Winning photos in the 8th annual National Natural Landmarks Photo Contest will appear in the 2012 50th anniversary commemorative national natural landmarks calendar. Cool, eh? We’re not just talking rock-bound coast and [...]
Posted in Acadia, Activities, Aroostook County, Birding/wildlife viewing, Down East Coast, Hiking, Kennebec and Moose River Valleys, Maine Highlands, Mid-Coast, Moon guidebook updates, Penobscot Bay, Sightseeing, Southern Coast/Beaches, Trip Planning, Western Lakes & Mountains, Where to go | Tagged Appleton Bog Atlantic White Cedar Stand, Bigelow Mountain, Carrying Place Cove, Colby-Marston Preserve, crystal bog, Gulf Hagas, Monhegan Island, Mount Katahdin, National Natural landmarks, New Gloucester Black Gum Stand, no. 5 bog and jack pine stand, orono bog, passadumkeat marsh and boglands, Penny Pond-joe pond complex, photo contest, The Hermitage |
By Hilary Nangle on December 20, 2010
Sure, you can go to Times Square and watch the ball drop on New Year’s Eve, but for a real Downeast Maine experience, head to Eastport for the annual Great Sardine and Maple Leaf Drop. Even better, you get to celebrate twice: The12-foot red maple leaf drops at midnight Atlantic time (11 p.m., Eastern time) [...]
Posted in Down East Coast, Events, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Eastport |
By Hilary Nangle on December 3, 2010
So much happening this weekend in Maine, it’s hard to know where to begin. Here are three events that piqued my interest: • Eastport Historic Homes Christmas Tour, Dec. 4-5, 2010 Seven historic homes and the 1893 Romanesque Revival-style Peavey Memorial Library, in way down east Eastport, are opening their doors for a self-guided house [...]
Posted in Activities, Down East Coast, Events, Maine Made, Shopping, Sightseeing, Trip Planning, Western Lakes & Mountains, Where to go | Tagged Brownfield, Eastport, Stone Mountain Arts Center, Sunday River |
By Hilary Nangle on November 22, 2010
Maine has an official art museum trail, a maritime heritage trail, an architecture trail, even a garden and landscape trail. It doesn’t have a chocolate trail, but it should. So I’ve created one based on the must-stop chocolate shops salting the coast from Kittery to Calais. Yes, there are more mainstream chocolate shops–Len Libby’s, in [...]
Posted in Acadia, Blue Hill Peninsula & Deer Isle, Down East Coast, Food, Greater Portland, Mid-Coast, Southern Coast/Beaches, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged artisan chocolate shops, Bar Harbor, ben & bills chocolate, Black Dinah Chocolatiers, Cacao Chocolates, Cape Neddick, chocolate, DeansSweets, Divine Chocolates, Georgetown, Harbor Candy shop, Isle au Haut, katie's on the cove, Kittery, Lubec, Maine Coast, mainssweets, Monica's chocolates, Ogunquit, Orr's Island, portlandisland camdy company, Robbinston |
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 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 August 16, 2010
One of my favorite Maine festivals is happening this weekend, the Machias Wild Blueberry Festival. This one is more than a simple festival, it’s a full weekend event, a pull-out the stops community celebration with such must-attend activities as: • the Blueberry Musical: This year, it’s Rakealot, a blueberry romance based on Camelot. This is [...]
Posted in Activities, Down East Coast, Entertainment, Events, Food, Maine Made, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Machias, Machias Wild Blueberry Festival |
By Hilary Nangle on August 10, 2010
If you’re traveling along the Maine coast, you might want to detour inland a bit to catch this new festival: Tribes of the Dawn Land Cultural and Heritage Days: The first annual Wabanaki cultural arts and heritage days celebration. Well, that’s a mouthful, but here’s the gist of why you might want to mosey inland [...]
Posted in Down East Coast, Events, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged baskets, Maine, Native American made baskets, traditional crafts, Wabanaki |
By Hilary Nangle on August 3, 2010
For the past two years, University of Maine at Machias Professor Gene Nichols (on drums, photo) and the UMM Ukulele Club Band have performed at the Grand Lake Stream Folk Arts Festival. The band, originally formed in 1926, has staged a revival, with the wacky professor (no, really, just watch the UMM Ukulele Club with [...]
Posted in Activities, Down East Coast, Entertainment, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Ukulele Band, University of Maine at Machias |
By Hilary Nangle on August 3, 2010
Once you pass the Acadia region, prices drop significantly, but if you’re seeking true budget lodging on the Maine Coast, accommodations that provide character, are clean, and pass my sniff test, then check into these inexpensive lodgings. Pleasant Bay Bed & Breakfast, Addison How cool is this? Stay at Leon and Joan Yeaton’s rural, waterfront [...]
Posted in Cheap Sleeps, Down East Cheap Sleeps, Down East Coast, Lodging, Trip Planning, Where to go | Tagged Addison, budget lodging, Cheap Sleeps, Down East, Eastport, inexpensive lodging, Maine |
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