Category Archives: Maine
Forgotten Rails to Bar Harbor
If you travel east out of Ellsworth on Route One, you will eventually reach the small somnolent town of Hancock. This forested tract of land boasts a population of just under 2400 residents, with a large point that is embraced by the emerald waters of the cold Atlantic. With a host of bays, coves, points, and peninsulas, […]
Vacationland: Maine and the Iconic Summer Rental
Maine’s iconic nickname, “Vacationland,” has always conjured images of the mass migration of leisure hungry tourists, mad and ravenous for the pine scented forests and picturesque lakes, quiet in their solitude, a lone loon baying off in the distance, its haunting call echoing off the fir lined shores, silhouetted against the stygian night sky, a velvet curtain […]