And in the near future. AUG 12, 2024 Share THINGS TO DO It’s our weekly round-up, and I may have missed some things, so apologies! If you have something you’d like in here, please let me know. We hope you have some great adventures this week! To see our Acadia Adventures tab of stories and awesome MDI and ANP things and information, click here. We’re still building it, … Continue reading THINGS TO DO ON MDI THIS WEEK
CARRIE JONES JUL 7, 2023 BAR HARBOR—The Friends of Acadia held its annual meeting on Wednesday, July 5, which celebrated the power of friends and connection to make change while also focusing on increased involvement and education of young people and the need for housing. It was also a celebration of the organization’s members, the staff at Acadia National Park and volunteers for both. Staff … Continue reading Girl Scouts, Housing, and Legacy of Friendship Dominate Friends of Acadia Annual Meeting
Flood Damage Currently Unknown Shaun Farrar BAR HARBOR—While many have enjoyed the occasional ice-skating outing in Sieur de Monts or on Great Meadow or even one of its tributaries or nearby flooded areas, the flooding of Great Meadow is currently of an extraordinary duration. This is because of the influence of man and machine, and it will take men and machines to make it more … Continue reading Water Begins To Move In Great Meadow Flood
Acadia National Park’s First Jazz Composer Improvises During Jesup Talk BAR HARBOR—Like any great jazz musician and composer Jack Wilkins proved that he could improvise during his lecture entitled “The Compositional Process: How to Make Mountains Into Music” at the Jesup Memorial Library, Thursday, October 20. The Grammy-nominated jazz saxophonist is an Acadia National Park Artist-In-Residence and he presented a bit of his music and … Continue reading Jack Wilkins Writes The Songs That Bop Hard
Parks and Recreation Committee enthusiastically approves project, talks about Hadley Point boat launch, potential dog park, and Glen Mary Wading Pool BAR HARBOR—A local man is giving approximately $25,000 to help the town and Acadia Youth Sports upgrade the ballfields on Park Street in three major ways. At the Parks and Recreation Committee’s September 19 meeting in Council Chambers at the Bar Harbor Municipal Building, … Continue reading Bar Harbor Man Looks to Upgrade Athletic Fields via Acadia Youth Sports
Elvis, the hiking, kayaking cat, vacations in Bar Harbor BAR HARBOR—Tourists and locals are used to seeing dogs hiking on the trails of Acadia National Park with their owners or hanging out on the patios of local restaurants, but this month, Elvis made an appearance. No, not Elvis the rock and roll legend who died in 1977. This was Elvis, the four and half year … Continue reading To Boldly Go Where No Cat Has Officially Gone Before
Plan creates caps on cruise ships BAR HARBOR—A split council supported the town’s working group’s cruise management plan at the Bar Harbor Town Council’s August 16 meeting, voting 5-2 in favor, with Councilors Val Peacock, Matthew Hochman, Erin Cough, Jeff Dobbs, and Jill Goldthwait voting in favor and Joe Minutolo and Gary Friedmann voting against. That vote was mirrored when it came to instructing the … Continue reading Town’s Cruise Ship Management Plan Floats Forward Past Split Council
News ACADIA NATIONAL PARK – Alex McCall and his family were in Acadia National Park on June 20 and ended up seeing more than Acadia’s gorgeous mountains, forests and crashing surf. They were just hanging out being tourists in the mid afternoon around 3:20 p.m. when they heard some jets in the sky in Acadia National Park just a bit away from Sand Beach. The … Continue reading A UFO CHASED BY JETS IN ACADIA NATIONAL PARK? MAYBE . . .
But the park, its beauty, its stewardship, and the friendship and connections it makes, the stories and art and community it inspires, is something that is meant to move people to tears, to move people to look beyond their individual self, and to create connections that are bigger and full of emotion. Continue reading Friends of Acadia – Annual Meeting of Amazing Volunteers, Staff and Members
According to the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce: Bar Harbor’s Fourth of July has been voted the #1 Fourth of July celebration in America by the Today Show, and recognized by National Geographic as one of the top ten in the U.S. With a full day of events, there are so many ways to enjoy the holiday, it’s no wonder that people love spending the … Continue reading Bar Harbor’s Fourth of July Events!
