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late July and in August. Towns surrounding Acadia brim with galleries
and shops offering interesting wares from around the world. Bar Harbor
alone boasts more than 100 restaurants.
While many come back year after year to stroll Bar Harbor's shore path,
gazing out at some of the more than 40 ocean liners that visit each year,
others prefer to visit more traditional fishing villages such as Bass Har-
bor.
Elsewhere along the coast in Hancock and Washington Counties you'll
find picturesque fishing villages. To the west sits Castine, home to the
Maine Maritime Academy and several historic sites. Just south is Deer
Isle and Stonington, both home to busy commercial harbors bustling with
lobster and fishing boats. Here, more and more galleries are tucked into
the weathered buildings every year.
Ellsworth is a major commercial center, home to a typical shopping strip
with major grocery stores, clothing and department stores, a Wal-Mart,
fast food and traditional restaurants and some outlet stores such as L.L.
Bean. Still, just a few miles from the inviting Main Street area of down-
town, the waters of Green, Graham and Branch Lakes are popular recre-
ational destinations.
One of the undiscovered gems of this region is Schoodic Point, near Win-
ter Harbor. Schoodic is part of Acadia National Park, and offers spectacu-
lar scenery and rough surf crashing into rocks on stormy days.
Washington County to the east may be the first place in nation to be lit by
dawn's early light, but in many ways it ranks last in economic prosperity.
The friendly, hardworking people here still wrest their living from the
fields, forests and sea. Few tourists venture this far east, making it an
ideal place to explore. There are plenty of preserves, small parks and
wildlife refuges, and no shortage of spectacular scenery.
Lofty radio antenna towers in Cutler form the nucleus of the US Navy's
communications system staying in contact with nuclear submarines.
Machias, which is an Indian name meaning “bad little falls” is a former
sawmill center wedged now between the sea and the flat open barrens of
the blueberry barrens to the north.
Lubec and Eastport, which sit astride the border with Canada, have bus -
tling marine industries and many aquaculture operations growing
salmon for markets to the south. From Lubec, a bridge crosses into Can -
ada to Campobello Island and an international park that preserves
Franklin Roosevelt's summer home there.
Up US 1 in the town of Perry, a stone marker at the roadside demarks the
45th parallel. There is a picnic area nearby. People in Maine may wonder
how to get somewhere or other, but here you'll know precisely where you
are - exactly halfway between the North Pole and the equator.
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