I live Downeast and find the Ellsworth American newspaper usually does a decent job of announcing and covering local events.

No just Wells to Bar Harbor. Once you hit Ellsworth it will come to a crawl. There is only one bridge onto the island and all roads to that bridge go through Ellsworth and Trenton so all of the cars and campers trying to get on the island make it a slow go.

As someone who has worked in Bar Harbor and lives close by-it’s a tourist trap. But if you enjoy hiking then it might be worth the 3+hour trip if the congested traffic once you hit Ellsworth doesn’t bother you. I’m not as familiar with the southern Maine area but in the summer I prefer to head north toward the county. The areas around the Golden Road are some of my favorite spots. Plenty of water, hiking trails, unique historical sites, and the tourist traffic is usually less than that around Bar Harbor. It would be a long drive but plenty of mom and pop restaurants and places to see.

Well nothing south of Augusta would be worth watching. Would be cool to watch a group of women talk shit about who was at Bingo, stack 3 cord of fire wood, have a few glasses of Allens and still have a home cooked meal on the table.

When my boy (also homeschooled) was 10 he just wanted ice fishing traps so I got him 5 from heritage which was 5 years ago.

Haha when I told my buddies it was “The wind was blowin like a son of a whore and it knocked my shed into the woods and stove it all to hell bud.”

No I live downeast in Washington county within a few miles of the coast and some fishermen claim we saw 50mph gusts.

My metal storage shed blew over into the woods like a tin can. Whatever I can salvage from it is going to be my new ice fishing shack.

Needhams are a definite as are maple leaf candies and local salt water taffy. Not really a candy but I’ve always been surprised when people from the south don’t know what a whoopie pie is.