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Schoodic
Area Family Activities
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Winter
Harbor Farmer's Market
Open: Mid June-Mid
September
Time: Tuesdays 9am-12
Location: Mama's Boy
Bistro parking lot, Winter Harbor
Vendors from Gouldsboro,
Steuben and Milbridge offer
locally grown or hand made
products, some certified
organic: mixed
vegetables, fresh chicken, maple syrup,
homemade preserves,
baked goods, hand-spun wool,
cashmere, goat cheese,
and more!
Contact: Margaret
Young
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Annual
Trade Day and Benefit Auction
May
17th, 2008 Third Saturday in May
Come
Downeast in May and tour the area while shopping at the
peninsula-wide yard sales. The day ends with a benefit auction
at Hammond Hall.
Schoodic
Arts for All Annual Summer Festival
July 28-August 10, 2008
44th
Annual Winter Harbor Lobster Festival, August 9th
August 9th, the Winter Harbor Lobster Festival draws a large crowd
of spectators. It is a fun filled day with many scheduled
events. Start off the day with a blueberry pancake breakfast,
then watch the ever popular lobster boat races, with 13
classes rated by size and power, shop at the craft fair with
80+ exhibitors, eat a Maine lobster dinner and stay for the
evening parade. www.acadia-schoodic.org/lobsterfestival.html
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Accessibility
The Schoodic Area is
located in Downeast Maine. Traveling north, you have two
options: take I-95 (Maine Turnpike) to Bangor, ME and take
Rt. 1A to Ellsworth, ME; or take the Rt. 3 exit in Augusta
to Belfast, then north on Rt. 1 all the way along the coast into
Ellsworth. Follow Rt. 1 North for approximately 18 miles,
turning right onto Rt. 186, a loop-road that will take you
around the entire Peninsula and back to Rt. 1.
Traveling south from the
Canadian border, take Rt. 1 Soon after entering Hancock County,
turn left onto Rt. 186.
The area is serviced by two
airports: Bangor International Airport and Bar Harbor
Airport.
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money earned by the Chamber at its special activities provides
college scholarships for area students and promotes some of the
most beautiful coastline the state has to offer. We hope
you will come and join us this year. For dates and further
information, call 1-207-963-7658 |
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