MID-COAST MAINE
PENOBSCOT bay ROCKLAND BREAKWATER LIGHTHOUSE BARRY GUTRADT
Text FRANCES J. FOLSOM
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ENOBSCOT BAY IS MADE UP OF EIGHT VILLAGES; Brunswick, Bath, Wiscasset, Damariscotta, Rockland, Rockport, Camden and Belfast. Make Rockland your home base for exploring the region and you will discover that this special
area is easy to fall in love with.
Stay
church and the Farnsworth
Hawk NC. The collection also
The Historic Inns of Rockland is
Homestead for N.C. and
includes a 1910 Henri Farman
comprised of three elegant
Jamie, an addition to the
III Biplane, a 1917 Curtiss JN-
inns, the Berry Manor Inn,
original museum for Andrew.
4D Jenny used in World War
Limerock Inn and the Granite
The Maine Lighthouse
I and three gliders, an 1804
Inn. Each offers an array of
Museum is a treasure trove
Cayley, an 1893 Lilienthal and
specials during the summer.
of lighthouse artifacts
an 1896 Chanute.
Do
and memorabilia. Exhibits
At the Project Puffin Audubon
showcase antique fog horns
Center learn about the
The Farnsworth Art Museum
and two rare second and
project’s purpose – bringing
houses the largest collection
fourth order Fresnel lenses.
puffins, hunted to extinction,
in New England of works by
One wing of the Owls Head
back to Maine. Of the 954
the Wyeth family, N.C., his
Transportation Museum holds a
puffins brought to Eastern Egg
son Andrew and grandson
reproduction of the plane the
Rock in Muscongus Bay by
Jamie. The collection is in
Wright brothers flew in 1903
the Audubon Society in 1973
three buildings; a restored
on their first flight at Kitty
914 survived, were banded,
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