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Garden Oasis

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October 10, 2024 Just outside Acadia National Park’s Northeast Harbor entrance is the peaceful and beautiful Asticou Azalea Garden. It is part of a Land and Garden Preserve established to conserve and support historical gardens on Mount Desert Island. The Asticou Azalea Garden is a Japanese Garden first started in…
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Northern Lights

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October 10, 2024 While camping near Bar Harbor, we heard about the anticipated visibility of the Northern Lights. Late one night, we were amazed to see ribbons of green and pink light in the sky. It was almost eerie. We took several photos, which actually show the colors much more…
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Bar Harbor, Maine

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October 9, 2024 Main Street in Bar Harbor is charming and fun to explore. The historical town is known as the “Gateway to Acadia National Park.,” The waterfront and historical buildings combine to make a cozy and special town. Our pretty campsite in Bar Harbor Our visit to Bar Harbor…
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Acadia National Park

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October 7, 2024 What a contrast to leave the isolated Maine woods and arrive at busy Acadia National Park. This beautiful park on the rocky Atlantic coast is one of the top-10 most-visited national parks in the country, with 4 million visitors a year. The park is mostly located on…
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Deep in the Maine Woods

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October 4, 2024 We always wanted to experience the wilderness of Maine. Thanks to the generosity and foresight of a man named Percival Baxter, we were able to explore one of the most rugged and untamed landscapes in the country. Percival Baxter was a wealthy philanthropist who served as Governor…
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Mesmerizing Flume Gorge

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October 3, 2024 Imagine being the first to discover this incredible canyon. In 1808, 93-year-old Jess Guernsey was out fishing one day, and stumbled upon the Flume Gorge. According to the story, she had trouble convincing her family of her new discovery, but she finally persuaded them to check it…
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The Kancamagus Highway

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(copyright Dreamstime aerial photo) October 5, 2024 We couldn’t pass up the chance to drive the famous Kancamagus Highway to see the gorgeous colors of fall in New Hampshire. The 35-mile highway is a part of Route 112 spanning east to west from Lincoln to Conway. It goes through the…
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White Mountains of New Hampshire

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October 2, 2024 New Hampshire is crowned by the highest peak in the northeastern United States, Mount Washington. The rugged summit tops the White Mountains of New Hampshire at 6,288 feet. To get to the top of Mount Washington, we drove the 7-mile Mount Washington Auto Road (or as I…
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No Boundaries for Books

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September 30, 2024 A library straddling the international border? A building with two addresses? This one- of-a-kind treasure is the Haskell Free Library and Opera House. The main entrance is in Derby Line, Vermont. It shares the border with Stanstead, Quebec. It was built deliberately on the border to promote…
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The Green Mountains–Waterfalls, a Gorge, and Covered Bridges

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September 29, 2024 Vermont’s Green Mountains are just too pretty to cover in one post. The fall colors are now at their peak in this area, and the “leaf peepers” are out in full force. We have seen many busses full of tourists trying to take the perfect photo. Luckily…
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Marsh – Billings – Rockefeller National Historical Park

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September 29, 2024 Another great place to visit in Woodstock, Vermont, is the Marsh – Billings – Rockefeller National Historic Park. The property was passed down through generations beginning with George Marsh. He wrote Man and Nature about humans’ impact on the environment, and is known today as the father…
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Woodstock, Vermont

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September 28, 2024 Another favorite town–Woodstock, Vermont. Walking around, I felt like I was in a storybook. The charm, history, and quaint atmosphere of the town is unmatched. We are most likely part of a rare (or maybe odd?) subset of people known as “library tourists.” First: we love libraries…
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Robert Frost Interpretive Trail

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Sedptember 27, 2024 My favorite poet, Robert Frost, taught at Middlebury College in Ripton, Vermont, for over 40 years. He lived and wrote in a small cabin called the Homer Noble Farm from 1939-1963. Currently, Middlebury College owns his cabin, which is a National Historic Landmark. To see what inspired…
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Hancock Shaker Village

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September 26, 2024 We didn’t know much about the Shakers before stopping at Hancock Shaker Village in the Berkshires of Massachusetts. The Shakers were a religious group that worked toward creating “heaven on earth” by living communally. They believed in equality of all people, communal hard work, and the pursuit…
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Norman Rockwell Museum

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September 26, 2024 We enjoyed our stop at one of the most popular museums in the Berkshires, the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge, Massachusetts. The artist lived in Stockbridge for the last 25 years of his life, and his studio was located there as well. The museum features nearly 1000…
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