Description: As of 2019, the Tom Cat market no longer occupies the second building on the left. The fourth building from the left in 2019 is Fred's Place, which was once the Jackson Market.
Description: Edward Lothrop Rand, the brother of photographer, Henry L. Rand, was born to Edward Sprague (II) and Jane Augusta “Jennie” Lathrop Rand on August 22, 1859 in Dedham, Massachusetts. Edward attended the private school of J.P. Hopkinson in Boston and graduated from Harvard in the class of 1881 (Phi Beta Kappa, cum laude) and Harvard Law School in 1884. He married Annie Matilda Crozier, a school teacher, on June 29, 1893 in Boston, Massachusetts. Edward and Annie lived in Cambridge, Massachusetts. His law office was at 53 State Street, Room 740 in Boston. Edward and Annie Rand lived on the Henry Clay and Henry Seaton Rand estate in the house at 120 Elm Street next door to the main house. He was a member of the Champlain Society. Edward Lothrop Rand died on October 9, 1924. [show more]
Description: "I captured this scene from the end of the Manset Town dock. Though the view appears very wide, it's only about 90° from end to end. It seems wider because I shot it with a 200mm lens to get the detail along the shore with minimal water and sky. I stitched the panorama from 17 separate images taken left to right, each frame rotated 5° to the right of the previous one. Yesterday I saw this same scene while driving around to take the pictures posted here, but when I arrived at this spot the sun was too high and I didn't have my tripod with me. This morning I got up before dawn and set up my tripod on the snow-covered dock at 6:15 AM. Then I waited in the bitter cold for the sun to rise. Fresh snow that fell last night made the scene even better than it was yesterday. Sometimes it just works out that way. " -- George Soules [show more]
Description: With kind permission from the owners, George Soules made this panorama below on the summer solstice at 5:23 AM. He used a Canon 5D Mark III digital SLR camera and a Canon 45mm f/2.8 tilt/shift lens shooting 1/125 sec, f/5.6 at ISO 100. The pano is a combination of 16 images stitched together to capture a view of approximately 270°.
Description: Illuminated by 30 volunteer light painters. Frenchboro's working harbor with Lunt's Dockside Deli in the foreground and the state ferry terminal with the Sunbeam in the background. The silhouette of Mount Desert is seen in the distance.
Description: Illuminated by 34 volunteer light painters. Edgar's tractor was left on the beach as a memorial to Edgar Bunker who was killed in the Korean War.
Description: Illuminated by 53 volunteer light painters. The guzzle at Moore's Harbor is a place to listen to the incoming and outgoing tides move through the scree. The fish house is the old standing structure on the island.
Description: Illuminated by 19 volunteer light painters. The D. T. Sheridan shipwreck, a 110 foot steel tugboat, ran aground in dense fog at Lobster Point on Nov. 5, 1948.
Description: Illuminated by 39 volunteer light painters. A beautiful sandy beach with rocky outcroppings at low tide, Bennett's Cove has been used to launch boats. The land has recently been placed in a land trust and is preserved for public use.
Description: Illuminated by 11 volunteer light painters. The Mullens Family farmed this land for years, before abandoning the family farm and heading west to join the Mormons. This beautiful parcel of coastal is town owned and open to the public.
Description: Illuminated by 32 volunteer light painters. The Fort McKinley Mining Casemate, now a private residence, was used during World War II to deploy mines in Portland Harbor.
Description: Illuminated by 57 volunteer light painters. For many years, Big Tree, served as a landmark for sailors at 90 feet tall. The tree was struck by lightning in 1929, but stood until 1944 when a hurricane brought it down.
Description: Illuminated by 85 volunteer light painters. A favorite local gathering spot with a unique rock formation. One would never know this area was once farmland used by the local soldiers stationed on Peaks Island.
Description: Illuminated by 41 volunteer light painters. This shallow cove is local favorite swimming area. The tidal water is warmed by the exposed mud at low tide baking in the sun and then transferring the heat to the tidal water with the incoming tide.
Description: Illuminated by 24 volunteer light painters. Traditionally, a flake yard is where the fisherman dried the cod they caught. Today the Flake Yard is where many of the Matinicus lobsterman's fish houses are located and their sternmen live.
Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Description: Illuminated by 23 volunteer light painters. For years these boathouses had been used to build, store, and repair boats. Now all but one have been convert to private residences. There is one boathouse protecting a 100 year old 'friendship sloop' and still has the underwater rails intact.
Description: Illuminated by 47 volunteer light painters. The largest quarry on Swan's, Baird's Quarry provided granite for buildings in Boston and New York in the early 1900's.