Beyond the South End

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By Land or by Sea

 

I came across these two Rockland items today which I thought I would share with you. The first item comes from my friend, Algie Mazzeo, via Facebook. Rockland is often featured in one travel magazine or another. You come across our favorite place quite often this way and it is always a surprise and a delight to see your hometown being featured in a national magazine. The lobster festival is now an international event and this article comes from Motor Home Magazine.

 

 

 

The article was called “Experience the Maine Lobster Festival by RV,” by Bobbie Hasselbring, May 28, 2012. The story describes a motor home trip from Boston and up along the Maine coast. When they get to Rockland they describe the festival, the lobster dinners, and all the activities.

Hasselbring mentions that the festival is an all-volunteer event, boasting the largest lobster cooker in the world, cooking more than 20,000 pounds of lobster.

“It’s the best lobster we’ve ever tasted…the shells are soft and the meat is especially sweet. Visiting Maine is the only way to experience this summer treat.”

Other places to visit in Rockland and the area are also mentioned: the Farnsworth, the Wyeth Museum, the Olson House, and the Maine Lighthouse Museum in Rockland. Docent at the Lighthouse Museum, Marla Rogers, is mentioned. She lived at the Owls Head Lighthouse as a child and will spin tales for you about the hardships the families at Maine’s lighthouses faced. The RVers then visit the Owls Head Lighthouse.

The article gives most of its space to the Festival as well as describing our beautiful Maine coast along the way. After the RVers left Rockland, they headed for Acadia National Park.

 

 

 

The second item I’d like to share with you is this picture of the Victory Chimes, taken by Cindy Hanson MacPherson on July 12, 2012 as it passed the Rockland Breakwater Lighthouse during the Windjammer Parade. Cindy was aboard the Heron out of Rockport. I found this picture on the Rockland, Maine History Facebook Page.

It is so wonderful to see the VC once again plying the waters of Penobscot Bay after many years in other waters and in use as other venues we won’t mention here. My own trip aboard her, as the only Maine, and even the only Rockland, Maine visitor aboard her, was one of my fondest memories, even though we had a bunch of fog that week.

If you have stories from national magazines featuring stories about our area, I would love to see them.