Discovering Old Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park: An Unconventional History and Guide

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Bar Harbor has undergone dramatic changes up to now two centuries, growing from a small frontier settlement to probably the most world’s most prestigious summer resorts, and, now, to the preferred home of Acadia National Park.

If you have ever wondered what it was once like to attend a fancy dress ball on the Vanderbilts’, spend the night on Cadillac Mountain in the middle of a tumultuous thunderstorm or paddle over thousands of fish in the old Bar Island Weir, the writers of the stories on this new collection are here to tell you.

This historical guide is organized geographically, and accommodates more than eighty period accounts and historic photos and drawings, with background remark and maps by the creator. Whether you pan to head out to investigate Bar Harbor’s history firsthand, or peruse the past from a comfortable armchair. Discovering Old Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park is a worthy and engaging companion.

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