Hundreds of selfless moments make a dynamo of kindness named Penny Read Carrie Jones Dec 02, 2024 Share The Bar Harbor Story is generously sponsored by Side Street Cafe’s New Year’s Eve Party. BAR HARBOR—Back in 2016, during a local podcast, Bar Harbor’s Dean Read announced that he hadn’t given up a thing when he married his wife Penny. Instead, he said, with joy, “Look what … Continue reading “Look What I Got!”
Taking on Rooves and Cord Wood One Act of Kindness at a Time CARRIE JONES OCT 29, 2023 Share BAR HARBOR—Moxie isn’t the only thing that makes Mainers mighty. It’s also community and strength and kindness. That’s shown in hundreds of ways every single day. Whether its friends and family volunteering, dressing up as ghouls to help at a haunted house at a local inn … Continue reading The MDI Help Mob
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!
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
Carlos, 13, hunkered in his father’s arms in the club house of Rotary 2030 in Panama City. His voice came out in a guttural cry as Rotarians from foreign clubs gathered around, taking pictures, making friends, and learning about Carlos’ story. Carlos has cerebral palsy, diagnosed when he was six months old. “He was a normal baby and then ….” The Panamanian Rotarian struggled to … Continue reading Bar Harbor Rotarians Making A Difference at Home and Around the World
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?
