Home Bill Schaefer, sculptor from East Machias, Maine, and creator of the Great Sardine holds it overhead before the Great Sardine and Maple Leaf Drop of 2009 at the Tides Institute and Museum of Art in Eastport, Maine. Bill Schaefer, sculptor from East Machias, Maine, and creator of the Great Sardine holds it overhead before the Great Sardine and Maple Leaf Drop of 2009 at the Tides Institute and Museum of Art in Eastport, Maine.

Bill Schaefer, sculptor from East Machias, Maine, and creator of the Great Sardine holds it overhead before the Great Sardine and Maple Leaf Drop of 2009 at the Tides Institute and Museum of Art in Eastport, Maine.

On New Year’s Eve, Eastport, Maine, drops a sardine at midnight.
The newly renovated Captain Daniel Stone Inn, in Brunswick, Maine. Courtesy photo.