More Maine travels

These postings are a little late, as we are now in Quebec and Internet is not readily available.

I mentioned in my last posting that we were having blueberry muffins almost every night, while camping near Bar Harbor, thanks to a low-bush blueberry patch right next to the campground. (Madeline said she had never picked blueberries before.) Please see the picture of the blueberries, just to get an idea how thick they were. I think low-bush wild blueberries are the most flavorful of all blueberries.







We left Mount Desert Island several days ago and started our journey north and east toward Quebec. We changed our plans and decided to go all the way east to Eastport. We reached that area with an easy days driving and stopped to visit the area for a day. We went down to the harbor in Eastport, and were greeted by a statue of and tough looking cod fisherman – see the attached picture. As I said in an earlier post there were a number of people fishing, with the youngster seeming to be catching the most. The catch of the day was mackerel.
















The next day we drove to Lubec, a small fishing town, where my father taught school. He and my mother lived in a rented house there. There is an old brick building that looks as if might have once been a small school. When I have time, I will research this.

Then we dove a short distance over a short bridge over to Franklin Roosevelt’s summer “cottage” on Campobello Island. Campobello Island is actually in New Brunswick, Canada, but is only several hundred yards from the United States. Roosevelt’s summer home is now an international park, on about 2800 acres, mostly a natural area with trails. The house is open to visitors. A picture of the “cottage” is attached. The building itself is quite large, and could only be termed a “cottage” as a term used by the rich and super-rich in the early twentieth century to describe their summer mansions. The Roosevelt cottage, although large, was furnished rather sparsely, and while tastefully furnished, certainly not lavishly. In 1929, while vacationing there Roosevelt came down with polio and left the island on a stretcher, his life changed forever. His recovery and subsequent submission into politics, prevented him from returning for nearly twelve years, and then for only three brief visits.

While in the area,, we drove to West Quoddy Head Light – a handsome red-and-white striped light house in South Lubec and also the eastern most point in the United States ( Of course, we will be travelling up to the Gaspe Peninsular, much further east – so we were only minimally impressed!) See the accompanying picture of this very handsome light house and also a picture of a plate announcing its extreme eastern geographical location