Popovers, lobster, and pie on Acadia’s Quiet Side
The majority of visitors to Mount Desert Island say on the west side, congregating in Bar Harbor and the sights along the Park Loop...
Maine’s lobsteboat race season kicks off today
Gentlemen, start your engines. Yup. Maine's lobsterboat racing season kicks off with races today, Sat. June 19, in Boothbay Harbor and tomorrow, Sun. June...
Tiptoe through 45,000 tulips and other blooms near Acadia National Park, Maine
Thinking about visiting Acadia National Park in May? Plan a trip around the annual Spring Bulb Tour, when WatersEdge, the oceanfront W. P. Stewart...
Checking in: West Street Hotel, Bar Harbor
The West Street Hotel, one of the newer additions to the Ocean Properties empire, opened in 2012 on the corner of Main and West...
Maine Treasures: Acadia’s Oceanside Meadows
Waves lapping lulled me to sleep, and when I awakened this morning, gauzy curtains framed the ocean view from my third-floor room at Acadia's...
Acadia Birding Festival
Here's something to tweet about: No less an authority than Roger Tory Peterson called Mount Desert Island "the Warbler capital of the world."...
Schoodic Region: Chews News
(NOTE: Wish I could provide links on these, but for all there either aren't any or they weren't active.)
In Winter Harbor, Gerrish's Store has...
Holbrook Island Sanctuary, on Cape Rosier, Maine, offers family programs this summer
Holbrook Island Sanctuary is one of the lesser known gems of Maine's State Park system. When you want to escape crowds, go here. I've...
Island Hopping 4: Isle au Haut
In summer, the daily boat to Isle au Haut is packed with kids and dogs, hikers and freight. Not so in September. As I...
3 reasons to visit sleepy Corea, a village near Acadia National Park’s Schoodic section
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...
Feel the breeze
If wind is the future, College of the Atlantic is feeling the breeze. On Wednesday, COA is hosting a public reception at Beech Hill...
Harlequin romance: great opportunity for birders
Ready to romance a harlequin? Here's a wonderful and rare opportunity to spy threatened harlequin ducks in Maine. On Saturday, March 30, Bob and...
I don’t like spiders or snakes
but the naturalists at the College of the Atlantic sure do, and they'll be using them in Nature of Halloween, a a program celebrating...
Planning ahead: Maine Open Lighthouse Day
Light up your life on Saturday, Sept. 17, 2011, with a visit to one of 25 ocean, river, and island lighthouses open for the...
Plan Ahead: Frenchboro Lobster Festival
If you crave something far simpler than Rockland's big Lobster Festival wingding, with music, parades, vendors, entertainment and crowds, plan ahead to attend the...
