Sunday, February 28, 2010

Where in Maine?

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Submitted by Lucy Stackpole Cushing, Maine.

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Check the comments later in the week for the answer.

Friday, February 26, 2010

Where in Maine? – Cape Elizabeth

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Jamie and Leila Weir were in Cape Elizabeth. 

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Wednesday, February 24, 2010

Winter Carnival, Old Orchard Beach

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Photos from Old Orchard Beach’s Winter Carnival last weekend courtesy of Gary Curtis. 

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And you thought the water was cold last summer.

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The recent mild weather made for fun and comfortable outdoor festivities.  The lack of snow didn’t stop the sledding either – it got trucked in!

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We are on a mission to find the coolest places in Maine.  We would like your help!  Send us your favorite places in Maine at info@meanderingmaine.com.

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Monday, February 22, 2010

Where in Maine?

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Jamie and Leila Weir enjoy sunny 50 degree weather last Saturday on what famous beach in Southern Maine?

Bill Weir/President & CEO Bar Harbor Savings and Loan

Sunday, February 21, 2010

Ice Fishing on Stevens Pond, Liberty

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How many of us who grew up in Maine have great memories of ice fishing as a kid?  I certainly do.  I don’t even think it had anything to do with fishing at all.  In fact I know it didn’t.  It was being out on the ice in fresh, Maine winter air.  Maybe roasting a hot dog over an open fire (and a marshmallow or two).  And, of course, riding around on a snowmobile or ATV.  Ice fishing meant adventure.  We Mainers love adventure.  Here’s a few Mainers loving adventure today on Steven’s Pond in Liberty.

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Photos by Jana Galkowski

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Top of Cadillac Mountain, Mount Desert Island

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Where in Maine is Bill Weir last Saturday morning?

Top of Cadillac Mountain, Mount Desert Island.

Bill Weir

Saturday, February 20, 2010

Indian Island Lighthouse from Beech Hill, Rockport

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Located in the Penobscot Bay at the head of the Rockport Harbor, Indian Island Lighthouse is privately owned and is not open to the public. It is best seen from Rockport Marine Park, from sightseeing cruises in the area and from Beech Hill in Rockport.

Station established: 1850; Present lighthouse built: 1875; Discontinued: 1934.  http://lighthouse.cc/indianisland/

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Friday, February 19, 2010

Photos from Sebago Lakes Region

By Sue Bonior for Sebago Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce

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Snowshoeing, Limington

Apple harvest, Limington

Springtime at 19th Century Willowbrook Village, Newfield

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Sebago Lake at St. Joseph’s College, Standish

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Winter afternoon, Limington

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Canoe on Lake Kezar, Lovell

Photos and text by Sue Bonior

for Sebago Lakes Region Chamber of Commerce

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Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Happening Upon an Art Festival, Vinalhaven – Only in Maine

By Carol Latta of Amazing Maine

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Amazing Maine collects its photographic and painting resources mainly in the summer and from the bow of our sailboat "The Carol Lyn". My husband put my name on the back of the boat to make certain that I would indeed sail with him. He's an excellent sailor. I, on the other hand, just do as I'm told and take lots of photographs.

Once on board, I let the coast of Maine whisk me away to beautiful vistas and unusual experiences. While it's still snowy and cold outside, I'd like to take you to Vinalhaven Island last August via my camera.

We'd heard that there was going to be a day long "site specific" art event....meaning, if you took the site away, the remaining art would not have significance.

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We arrived late, just as the galleries were getting ready to close. After checking out a few locations we saw a large crowd lining the main street in front of Robert Indiana's home and across from a huge granite eagle monument. Strangely, there were blue vinyl tarps frayed and duct-taped to the monument.

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Once the street could hold no more, a parade of painted and feathered dancers emerged from the crowd gyrating to the sounds of a Free style jazz quartet stationed at the base of the monument. A lovely young woman with a feathered headress blowing in the breeze, disappeared under the eagle's blue  vinyl coat and emerged seconds later, straddling the eagle's head to maintain a prominent position.

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The blue vinyl "coat" unfolded to reveal wing spans the length of the adjacent parking lot. The princess atop the eagle and her colorful entourage, swayed and danced and waved those huge wings against the warm blue August sky.

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A site specific art form in its truest sense! And where, may I ask you, would you ever see this but in Maine?!

Text and photos by Carol Latta of Amazing Maine or www.AmazingMaine.com.

We are on a mission to find the coolest places in Maine.  We would like your help!  Send us your favorite places in Maine at info@meanderingmaine.com.

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Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Where in Maine?

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Submitted by Bill Weir/President & CEO of Bar Harbor Savings and Loan

Monday, February 15, 2010

Come Spring Tour, Union

The Come Spring tour is a self-guided ten mile tour to homesites and history of Union’s first settlers.  Also know as the Come Spring Heritage Trail.

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This map is available through the Union Historical Society at http://www.midcoast.com/comespring/Heritage.html or on Meandering Maine by clicking HERE.

All sites listed are located on private property. Please respect the owners' privacy and property rights.

Picture from the Union Historical Society.

A history tour is a great, FREE educational outing you can do during school vacation or any time of year.  If you don’t live near Union, make it a day trip or go to your local, Maine Historical Society and make your own self-guided historical tour.

Here are some photos of our little trip around Union today.

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A glimpse of Seven Tree Pond can be seen between the pine trees on the right.

Robbins House, 343 Common Rd. - (circa 1840), home of the Union Historical Society, chartered in 1972, and of the Vose Library.

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Old Common Cemetery – “The First Burial Place”, part of Josiah Robbins' land, became the “Old Burying Ground'' in 1791. Many original settlers and their descendants are buried there. It is worth walking up the hill for the view and to find the graves of Philip Robbins, Mima and Joel Adams and other early settlers.

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The St George River - the river was the highway of the early settlers and was traveled by canoe in summer and by foot on the ice in winter. The St George River watershed, fed by a tributary from Quantabacook Lake, flows from Lake St George to the sea beyond Thomaston; the road you are traveling is a designated Scenic Byway.

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Hawes Farm – one of the oldest homesteads in Union, still farmed by the descendants of Moses Hawes.

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Come Spring Farm – on the site of Jessa Robbins home. The son of Philip Robbins, Jessa married Jemima Adams, who became Union’s first schoolteacher and was the sister of Joel Adams.

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View across Round Pound from Come Spring Farm.

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View of the Hawes Farm from Come Spring Farm.

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The core of this house is David and Bess Robbins home – (1776) son and daughter-in-law of Philip and Jemima Robbins, parents of stillborn Silence and of the first-born son and first-born daughter in Union.

Seven Tree Pond can be seen behind the house.

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Ezra W. Bowen home - (1777) the last cabin before the Warren line, built on land purchased from Philip Robbins. Bowen's wife “Prance'' (Experience) died in 1803 on the birth of her 11th child.

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At the top of the hill at Millay Corner (1.1 miles) the road turns left at the Old Millay Hill Farm, home of poet Edna St Vincent Millay's grandparents.

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Elisha Partridge home – Partridge and his wife Sally bought land from Col. Wheaton. Later the house was a stagecoach stop on the route from Wiscasset to Belfast. 

Information was quoted from the Union Historical Society.

All sites listed are located on private property. Please respect the owners' privacy and property rights.

Please send us your Maine, self-guided history tours.  We will post your pictures to our blog.  Send pictures and/ or text to info@meanderingmaine.com

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Union's early history comes alive through this well-written and thoroughly researched historical novel about the pioneers Mima Robbins and Joel Adams. Author Ben Ames Williams based his work on the material and anecdotes in Sibley's History of Union, and on his own research. He claimed to have walked all the paths covered in Come Spring. A prolific writer of fiction, Williams published this work in 1940. In 1990 Union Historical Society celebrated the anniversary of publication with a symposium which was attended by Williams' family members. A young maple tree was planted on the Common with a memorial plaque and commemorative mugs with the Come Spring logo of flying geese were made by Union Stoneware. (Quoted from Union Historical Society).