by Nicole Ouellette | Feb 22, 2019 | Top Five
One thing Mount Desert Island is known for is its strong sense of community. While there is no soup kitchen, there are plenty of community meals open to everyone. You can see a nice slice of life, people of all ages from all kinds of backgrounds, at these...
by Jane Holland | Feb 15, 2019 | Day Trips
Whether you live on MDI or just visit us a lot, it can be sometimes nice to have an adventure in the form of a day trip. Day trips mean you can keep your home base and maybe see a little something you weren’t planning on. We are going to feature regular day trip...
by Nicole Ouellette | Feb 15, 2019 | Top Five
We know that those who are attracted to MDI are inherently an intelligent group–after all, they are smart enough to come to this beautiful island. Here we want to help stimulate that intellect by offering you the top five museums on this island. Yes MDI has...
by Nicole Ouellette | Feb 8, 2019 | Maine Advice
Maine Advice is a semi-regular column where we find Mainers to answer your Maine questions (and we weigh in ourselves). This week’s guests are experienced and respected vacation renters from MDI. Jennifer Booher is an artist and photographer in Bar Harbor. You...
by Nicole Ouellette | Jan 25, 2019 | Generally Useful Stuff
In the winter time, many locals come out of the woodwork, put on their snowshoes, etc., and enjoy winter sports, like ice fishing. For most of the country, January 1st is the time to start New Year’s Resolutions, but for many on MDI, it marks the start of ice fishing...
by Jane Holland | Jan 18, 2019 | Day Trips
A few years ago, a post of “local” place names on MDI showed up on Facebook – the one that stumped most people was the “Algerine Coast”. Since then I’ve stumbled across mentions of it around the web from time to time, but...
by Nicole Ouellette | Jan 11, 2019 | Maine Advice
Maine Advice is a semi regular column where we find Mainers to answer your Maine questions (and we weight in ourselves). This week’s guest is Carrie Jones. Carrie Jones is a New York Times and Internationally bestselling novelist, writing coach, and podcaster....
by Jane Holland | Dec 14, 2018 | Day Trips
We all drive through Seal Harbor at some point, but have you ever stopped to really look around? As with most places on MDI, Seal Harbor was first a native American domain and then settled as a fishing village which developed into a resort area with the requisite...
by Jane Holland | Dec 7, 2018 | Day Trips
In Part 2 of our Exploring Seal Harbor trip (Part 1 is here in case you missed it), we’re taking a look at Eastern side of Seal Harbor and Cooksey Drive area. This more of a drive around day trip so bring your car and get ready for some pretty views. We’ll...
by Nicole Ouellette | Dec 7, 2018 | Top Five
Netflix might be convenient but nothing can beat watching a movie on the real big screen, in particular in a historic theater. We’re lucky to have five very special theaters within a one hour drive of MDI. They have great architecture, varied programming (not...
