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While World War II raged overseas, the people of midcoast Maine responded with remarkable achievements on the homefront. The shipyard at Bath Iron Works launched a new destroyer every seventeen days. Bowdoin College had more military than civilian students and held three commencements per year. Boothbay Harbor, Bailey Island and Damariscotta all had military bases, and anyone who owned or sailed a boat was recruited for coastal defense. Women worked at machine shops, registered their neighbors for rationing and volunteered for the Civil Defense and Red Cross. Author Margaret Shiels Konitzky reveals the stories of local heroes and the relentless spirit of midcoast Maine.

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Offshore fishermen and skillful shipbuilders transformed the quiet shores of the Pemaquid Peninsula beginning in 1815. The maritime economy drove local commerce until enterprising locals turned to ice harvesting, granite quarrying, brick making, lobster canning and pogy oil processing before summer tourism grew and thrived. The descendants of revolutionaries became the faces of a more prosperous generation--men like Albert Thorpe, who ran a popular summer hotel on the grounds where his grandfather had salted and dried his catch decades earlier. Today, summer rusticators discover the enduring natural beauty at the heart of the Pemaquid Peninsula. Journey to the past with Pemaquid native and historian Josh Hanna as he discovers these timeless shores.

Offshore fishermen and skillful shipbuilders transformed the quiet shores of the Pemaquid Peninsula beginning in 1815. The maritime economy drove local commerce until enterprising locals turned to ice harvesting, granite quarrying, brick making, lobster canning and pogy oil processing before summer tourism grew and thrived. The descendants of revolutionaries became the faces of a more prosperous generation--men like Albert Thorpe, who ran a popular summer hotel on the grounds where his grandfather had salted and dried his catch decades earlier. Today, summer rusticators discover the enduring natural beauty at the heart of the Pemaquid Peninsula. Journey to the past with Pemaquid native and historian Josh Hanna as he discovers these timeless shores.

From the Age of Discovery and the earliest settlement of America, Midcoast Maine has played surprising roles in America's history. Europeans might not have survived in the New World without the Kennebec beaver trade, the lessons of the Popham Colony and the friendships Maine's first settlers built. Experience the storied survival of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's military grandfather in precarious Revolutionary Maine and meet resilient, creative, noteworthy and notorious Midcoasters. Pat Higgins recounts Puritan power plays, the sea fight between the Boxer" and the "Enterprise," duels, U-boats and much more. Discover the fascinating and quirky bits of history that have remained hidden along the rocky coast from Portland to Acadia--until now.."

Covers 32 public preserves from Freeport to Searsport-with inland sites in Jefferson, Dresden and Searsmont-that offer a wide range of experiences in a diversity of ecosystems. It is an invitation to the curious traveler to explore this unique environment-to wonder at its many sights and to walk out into the natural landscape. Also represented are several important inland sites. Maps, detailed descriptions and hundreds of color photographs bring alive on the printed page these places of beauty, complemented by sidebar articles by the authors and contributing experts on an array of relevant natural history topics. This volume is the second in a series of guides to the land preserves of Midcoast Maine, published by Waterline Books. It is a worthy companion to travels along the hundreds of miles of Midcoast Maine's extraordinary coastline. Includes more that 238 color photos, maps.Explore the natural boundary between sea and land, where the uplands meet the marine waters of Maine's diversified coast.This guide takes you to many of the best sites, distinctive in what they offer to curious travelers: tidepools, vernal pools, forests, fields, all along MidCoast Maine, among one of the finest coastlines in the world.

From the Age of Discovery and the earliest settlement of America, Midcoast Maine has played surprising roles in America's history. Europeans might not have survived in the New World without the Kennebec beaver trade, the lessons of the Popham Colony and the friendships Maine's first settlers built. Experience the storied survival of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's military grandfather in precarious Revolutionary Maine and meet resilient, creative, noteworthy and notorious Midcoasters. Pat Higgins recounts Puritan power plays, the sea fight between the Boxer" and the "Enterprise," duels, U-boats and much more. Discover the fascinating and quirky bits of history that have remained hidden along the rocky coast from Portland to Acadia--until now.."

From the Age of Discovery and the earliest settlement of America, Midcoast Maine has played surprising roles in America's history. Europeans might not have survived in the New World without the Kennebec beaver trade, the lessons of the Popham Colony and the friendships Maine's first settlers built. Experience the storied survival of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's military grandfather in precarious Revolutionary Maine and meet resilient, creative, noteworthy and notorious Midcoasters. Pat Higgins recounts Puritan power plays, the sea fight between the Boxer" and the "Enterprise," duels, U-boats and much more. Discover the fascinating and quirky bits of history that have remained hidden along the rocky coast from Portland to Acadia--until now.."

Covers 32 public preserves from Freeport to Searsport-with inland sites in Jefferson, Dresden and Searsmont-that offer a wide range of experiences in a diversity of ecosystems. It is an invitation to the curious traveler to explore this unique environment-to wonder at its many sights and to walk out into the natural landscape. Also represented are several important inland sites. Maps, detailed descriptions and hundreds of color photographs bring alive on the printed page these places of beauty, complemented by sidebar articles by the authors and contributing experts on an array of relevant natural history topics. This volume is the second in a series of guides to the land preserves of Midcoast Maine, published by Waterline Books. It is a worthy companion to travels along the hundreds of miles of Midcoast Maine's extraordinary coastline. Includes more that 238 color photos, maps.Explore the natural boundary between sea and land, where the uplands meet the marine waters of Maine's diversified coast.This guide takes you to many of the best sites, distinctive in what they offer to curious travelers: tidepools, vernal pools, forests, fields, all along MidCoast Maine, among one of the finest coastlines in the world.