Goldie. Hunter. Rosie. Otis. Necromancer. Alice. Spartacus. Woof Doggy. A seemingly never-ending stream of canines gallivant down Bar Harbor’s Shore Path on Frenchman’s Bay in Maine. Their leashes are long, short, red, chained, leather, canvas, and sometimes non-existent as they sniff their way down the well-groomed gravel path that navigates the spaces between granite boulders and ocean, fences, mansions, and tourists. The waters are cold … Continue reading The Shore Path
Cancer survivors. Octogenarians. Children with shovels. Mothers with drills. Some of the people assembling playground parts had to shuffle across the wood chips, backs bent. “This is going to hurt tomorrow,” joked one Rotarian on a September Saturday back in 2017. But that little bit of pain transformed a playground where children never played, reviving it into a community gathering place. Like a lot of … Continue reading The Park Street Playground Where Community Happens Every Day
It rises about 347 feet, but you mostly don’t notice that until the beginning or the end. Schooner Head Path is a 5.6 mile lightly trafficked out and back trail located near Bar Harbor, Maine that features beautiful wild flowers and is good for all skill levels. The trail offers a number of activity options and is accessible year-round. Dogs are also able to use … Continue reading The Schooner Head Trail
“Does your heart have some sort of emotional attachment to this rug because I’d just as well get rid of it,” the woman in the pop-up camper asks the man. They’re a couple. Everywhere he walks, he walks slowly with his flip-flops dragging across the asphalt, the pine needles, the dirt. He wears a giant rainbow shirt. She wears fleece and jeans. … Continue reading Having a Little Tension With Your Family is Sometimes Part of a Vacation
Goldie. Hunter. Rosie. Otis. Necromancer. Alice. Spartacus. Woof Doggy. There is a seemingly never-ending stream of canines that gallivant down Bar Harbor’s Shore Path on Frenchman’s Bay. Their leashes are long, short, red, chained, leather, canvas and sometimes non-existent as they sniff their way down the well-groomed gravel path past rocks and ocean, fences and tourists. The waters are cold and beautiful but the … Continue reading Bar Harbor’s Shore Path – Top Things to Do and Dog Places
Good art, good community, is all about connections and insight, creating and glimpsing into things a little bit more deeply than might make us normally comfortable. It’s about stained-glass nippers, felted rocks, stack upon stack of unfinished projects, the smell of turpentine and glue, the feel of a chalk pastel against the skin. There is something vulnerable about creating, but there’s also something so joyous … Continue reading ArtWaves Building Community and Connection
Where I live, my friends are weird and tourists visit. A lot. They fly or drive and ramble through our national park hitting the TOP TEN DESTINATIONS OF ACADIA NATIONAL PARK and when we meet them at our comedy club or at a restaurant, they’ll brag about seeing the sunrise on Cadillac Mountain, about having pop-overs at Jordan Pond, about driving the Park Loop Road … Continue reading What Makes a Place Real?
