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Cruise #15 - Dressed up in Bar Harbor


Cruise #15 - Dressed up in Bar Harbor
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Copyright: Daniel Ryan (boonie) Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1289 W: 69 N: 1538] (7679)
Genre: Places
Medium: Color
Date Taken: 2007-09-16
Categories: Daily Life, Humorous, Architecture
Camera: NIKON D 70, 18-200mm AF-S DX VR Nikkor, 72mm polarizer
Photo Version: Original Version
Date Submitted: 2007-12-14 10:37
Viewed: 472
Points: 18
[Note Guidelines] Photographer's Note
Bar Harbor, Maine is a beautiful place to visit most any time of the year. At it's height Bar Harbor was the summer home for many of North America's richest families. Today fishing and tourism provide income for the area residence. This harbor resturant displays boyes that were are used to identify a lobsterman's pots.

Wikipedia: First settled in 1763 by Israel Higgins and John Thomas, the community was incorporated in 1796 as Eden, after Sir Richard Eden, an English statesman. Early industries included fishing, lumbering and shipbuilding. With the best soil on Mount Desert Island, it also developed agriculture. In the 1840s, its rugged maritime scenery attracted the Hudson River School and Luminism artists Thomas Cole, Frederick Church, William Hart and Fitz Hugh Lane. Inspired by their paintings, journalists, sportsmen and "rusticators" followed. Agamont House, the first hotel in Eden, was established in 1855 by Tobias Roberts. Birch Point, the first summer estate, was built in 1868 by Alpheus Hardy.

By 1880, there were 30 hotels, with tourists arriving by train and ferry to the Gilded Age resort that would rival Newport, Rhode Island. The rich and famous tried to outdo each other with entertaining and estates, often hiring Beatrix Farrand to design landscaping. A glimpse of their lifestyles was available from the Shore Path, a walkway skirting waterfront lawns. Yachting, garden parties at the Pot & Kettle Club, and carriage rides up Cadillac Mountain were popular diversions. Others enjoyed horse-racing at Robin Hood Park-Morrell Park. President William Howard Taft played golf in 1910 at the Kebo Valley Golf Club. On March 3, 1918, Eden was changed to Bar Harbor, after Bar Island which protects the harbor. The name would become synonymous with elite wealth. It was the birthplace of vice-president Nelson Rockefeller.

In 1947, however, Maine experienced a severe drought. Sparks at a cranberry bog in Hull's Cove ignited a wildfire which would intensify over 10 days. Nearly half the eastern side of Mount Desert Island burned, including 67 palatial summer houses on Millionaires' Row. Five historic grand hotels were destroyed, in addition to 170 permanent homes. Over 10,000 acres (40 km²) of Acadia National Park were destroyed. Fortunately, the town's business district was spared, including Mount Desert Street, where several former summer homes within a historic district listed on the National Register of Historic Places operate as inns.
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  • dareco Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 1717 W: 16 N: 840] (15139)
  • [2007-12-14 11:16]

WOW! Very interesting place, and note! Fantastic colors!! I've always wanted to visit Maine. TFS

Hello Daniel,
Oh yes this is Maine al right!! Makes me crave a Lobster just looking at this photo! Great shot !! I like your angle!
TFS
Donna:o)

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  • k-2 Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 633 W: 13 N: 491] (3539)
  • [2007-12-14 17:16]

Interesting place. Well captured with colours and textures. TFS. K2

Very colorfull and crisp image. Represent well that part of the country.

Well done.

Jean

Hi Daniel,

I love lobster . . Interesting presentation of this restaurant . .
Very well composed . .
Very sharp image . .

Tf,
TJutjut

Many thanks for your kind words on Lili for you .

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  • tibig Gold Star Critiquer/Silver Workshop Editor/Gold Note Writer [C: 657 W: 26 N: 681] (7565)
  • [2007-12-15 7:32]

Beautiful colourful postcard, Dan. An interesting place indeed.
Regards,
Tibi

Hi Daniel,
This must be a very interesting place. Very special with all (what ever they are called) them hanging on the house. Lovely. Nice POV. TFS
Regards
Flemming

Haha Dan, the decorations on this harbour restaurant are -while fitting- very over the top.
Love it - a colourfull sight - hope you had time to enjoy a lobster meal inside.

TFS
Els

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  • ablok Gold Star Critiquer/Gold Star Workshop Editor [C: 188 W: 87 N: 5] (227)
  • [2007-12-15 8:20]

Hé hé hé!C'est l'invasion des bouchons!! ^^
Sympa l'ajustement des couleurs!
Je trouve le cadre un peu trop fantaisiste! ;)
A bientot daniel!

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