by Nicole Ouellette | Jul 2, 2021 | Generally Useful Stuff
As we pull out of the pandemic (ourselves included) some new businesses have emerged! This post we’ll be talking about new businesses outside of Bar Harbor (our last post was about Bar Harbor specifically). In the meantime, we’ve heard from our business...
by Nicole Ouellette | Jun 25, 2021 | Generally Useful Stuff
As we pull out of the pandemic (ourselves included) some new businesses have emerged on Mount Desert Island. This post we’ll be talking Bar Harbor and next post will be greater MDI so stay tuned. (You can subscribe via email to get all our updates.) In the...
by Jane Holland | Jun 14, 2020 | Generally Useful Stuff
Along with the rest of the country Maine and MDI are re-opening cautiously as COVID-19 continues. Guess what? Things are different! This is probably not a surprise as a trip to your local grocery store is probably already different too, but here’s some helpful...
by Nicole Ouellette | Jan 31, 2020 | Good Stuff
This post is sponsored by Red Cloak Tours. This tour company operates seasonally and they offer kid friendly, dog friendly, accessible, and really unique tours of Bar Harbor’s haunted places. Besides ghostly tours, they have lighthouse and other tours… so...
by Nicole Ouellette | Jan 3, 2020 | Good Stuff
If you love Maine, you probably love reading stories that take place in Maine. Unlike other Maine book lists, we’ve tried to include the specific Maine locations in each book, in addition to dividing it by genre. If you have other books we are missing,...
by Nicole Ouellette | Dec 27, 2019 | Day Trips
While exploring MDI can take a lifetime, it is also fun to find adventures that take you off our little island. We love to feature day trips on this blog, giving our readers ideas for other great places to explore while still being based on MDI. Our Belfast day...
by Nicole Ouellette | Nov 15, 2019 | Day Trips
While exploring MDI can take a lifetime, it is also fun to find adventures that take you off our little island. We love to feature day trips on this blog, giving our readers ideas for other great places to explore while still being based on MDI. Our Lubec day trip is...
by Nicole Ouellette | Oct 18, 2019 | Good Stuff
Making Music = Making Community Once upon a time, making music with the people in your community was a common occurrence. Ordinary people were members of the town band, church choir, legion hall chorus, or holiday caroling group. Before we could carry the...
by Nicole Ouellette | Sep 20, 2019 | Day Trips
Author Kassie Strout is a native of coastal Maine, currently living on the island with her family where she enjoys running, hiking, and exploring Acadia National Park (and all kinds of places, really). In the cooler months, she’s avid reader and binge-watcher of...
by Nicole Ouellette | Sep 13, 2019 | Good Stuff
Healing traditions are alive and well on and around Mount Desert Island. Whether you also lovingly refer to them as “woo-woo,” or prefer terms like alternative therapies, healing arts, or mystical practices, here is where to find practitioners on MDI....
