Having a Little Tension With Your Family is Sometimes Part of a Vacation

“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

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Bar Harbor’s Shore Path – Top Things to Do and Dog Places

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

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The Bar Harbor Clock That Ticks On

Above the hustle of Bar Harbor’s Main Street is a green chime clock that once cost $3,350, but now is considered priceless to many. It wasn’t always like this. The clock at First National Bank of Bar Harbor almost didn’t survive past 1969. That was when a crew from A.B. & J.R. Hodgkins hauled a crane up Main Street and prepared to take … Continue reading The Bar Harbor Clock That Ticks On

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