Keywords: Summer Population
Item 21192
Building of Arts in Bar Harbor, ca. 1915
Contributed by: Bar Harbor Historical Society Date: circa 1915 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Postcard
Item 21315
Building of Arts, Bar Harbor, ca. 1925
Contributed by: Acadia National Park Date: circa 1925 Location: Bar Harbor Media: Photographic print
Exhibit
Maine is home to dozens of summer-long youth camps and untold numbers of day camps that take advantage of water, woods, and fresh air. While the children, counselors, and other staff come to Maine in the summer, the camps live on throughout the year and throughout the lives of many of the campers.
Exhibit
Summer Folk: The Postcard View
Vacationers, "rusticators," or tourists began flooding into Maine in the last quarter of the 19th century. Many arrived by train or steamer. Eventually, automobiles expanded and changed the tourist trade, and some vacationers bought their own "cottages."
Site Page
Islesboro--An Island in Penobscot Bay - Summer Resorts
"It attracted its first summer population in 1868 when the steam boats made regular trips between Bangor and Ryder Landing."
Site Page
Mount Desert Island: Shaped by Nature - MDI and the Fire of 1947
"… known with its hotels and B&Bs as a tourist spot while Seal Harbor and Northeast Harbor are now home to the summer population and their mansions."
Story
In an Old, Abandoned Island House, I Found my Mentor and my Muse
by Robin Clifford Wood
An aspiring writer finds inspiration and a mentor from the past in an old island home.
Story
A Note from a Maine-American
by William Dow Turner
With 7 generations before statehood, and 5 generations since, Maine DNA carries on.
