Things to Do Week of October 31

What adventures will you have this week in Bar Harbor? It’s our weekly round-up and I may have missed some things so apologies! I’m just one person and very imperfect, so some weeks there will be more news than others as I try to fit things around my editing novels, podcasting, and writing my own books and actually making a living, but here you go! … Continue reading Things to Do Week of October 31

MDI Gets A Handworks Festival.

What happens when the creative and the practical meet? TOWN HILL AND SOUTHWEST HARBOR—Southwest Harbor’s Wendell Gilley began his work life as a master plumber, going into the depths of buildings, battling spider webs and probably a few mice traps to thaw a frozen pipe, fix an oil burner. He climbed into boats and made tank parts. And on many a frigid night or early … Continue reading MDI Gets A Handworks Festival.

Farmers’ Market Is a Gathering Place

Eden Farmer’s Market closing for the season soon BAR HARBOR—People wander and stand in lines, feet touching and then planted on the asphalt in the far parking lot of the MDI YMCA on Park Street in Bar Harbor. Some wear masks. Some don’t. Some wear parkas. Some wear shorts. Some are tourists. Some locals. One woman throws a canvas bag over her shoulder and reaches … Continue reading Farmers’ Market Is a Gathering Place

Things to Do and Story Round Up

What adventures will you have this week in Bar Harbor? It’s our weekly roundup of future events and past stories. Every Monday, we’ll have a quick preview of events happening that week in Bar Harbor and you can look for in-depth features later on in the week. And if you’d like something listed, just let us know by commenting or contacting us! Subscribed GET YOUR … Continue reading Things to Do and Story Round Up

The New Vehicles on the Streets

Acadia GEM’s 100% Electric Low-Speed Vehicles Hope to Make a Positive Impact on Local Fun and the Environment Large American cars, sidewalks full of tourists, crowd the Bar Harbor streets some days like the town is actually a medium-sized city. Tourists jaywalk across Main Steet in diagonals as Island Explorer busses and bigger SUVS wedge themselves between the cars parked parallel along the shops. The … Continue reading The New Vehicles on the Streets

ArtWaves Building Community and Connection

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