Top 11. Best Tourist Attractions in Bar Harbor - Travel Maine
Top 11. Best Tourist Attractions and Beautiful Places in Bar Harbor - Travel Maine: Mount Desert Island, Acadia National Park, Shore Path, Ocean Trail, Frenchman Bay, Mount Desert Island Oceanarium, St. Saviour's Church, Abbe Museum, Egg Rock Light, Eagle Lake Acadia National Park, George B. Dorr Museum of Natural History
Bar Harbor Inn and Spa - Bar Harbor Hotels, Maine
Bar Harbor Inn and Spa 3 Stars Hotel in Bar Harbor, Maine Within US Travel Directory One of our top picks in Bar Harbor.
Located on Mount Desert Island, this Bar Harbor hotel is 15 minutes’ drive from the Jordan Pond in Acadia National Park.
This oceanfront hotel offers an on-site restaurant and guests can dine with views of the ocean.
Bar Harbor Inn and Spa provides rooms with a flat-screen cable TV.
Some of the rooms have a balcony with views of Frenchman Bay.
Bar Harbor Inn has an on-site spa facility.
Guests can also enjoy swimming in the outdoor pool or relaxing in the hot tub.
The on-site restaurant Reading Room Restaurant serves breakfast and dinner daily.
A continental breakfast is also available each morning in the lobby.
Abbe Museum is 10 minutes’ walk away.
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Native Voices: Native Concepts of Health and Illness-- Presentations, Discussion, Exhibits
Samantha Shepard (‘17), a nontraditional premedical student at UNE, and Annabel Bradford, MD, MSW, will give presentations focusing on issues in health care for Native people. The backdrop for these presentations are the two exhibits currently on view in the UNE Art Gallery in the Ketchum Library:
Native Voices: Native Concepts of Health and Illness, created in partnership by the National Library of Medicine and the American Library Association. This exhibit consists of interviews with Native people across the United States telling how the wellness of individuals and communities has been affected by epidemics, government policies, and the inhibition of Native culture.
Kikehtahsuwiw: It Heals exhibit was curated by George Neptune, museum educator at the Abbe Museum in Bar Harbor, Maine. It Heals is a story about women in the Passamaquoddy Tribe, residing at both Motahkomikuk (Indian Township) and Sipayik (Pleasant Point). Each of these women shares a common goal: healing their communities.
Seawall - Southwest Harbor, Maine
Coastal Maine and New Brunswick~AHI Travel 2015
( Discover the rustic glamour of Bar Harbor, Campobello Island and St. Andrews-by-the-Sea. In Bar Harbor, Maine, visit Acadia National Park and the Abbe Museum, a Smithsonian affiliate dedicated to the culture and history of the Wabanaki nations. Board a traditional lobster boat and learn about Maine’s lobster industry. Journey to Quoddy Head State Park, the easternmost point in the United States, then discover the history and stunning landscapes of Campobello Island, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “beloved island,” and see his 34-room cottage. Delight in a whale-watching cruise on the Bay of Fundy. Experience the French influences of St. Croix Island, and learn about the history of St. Andrews-by-the-Sea during a tour of its important landmarks. Enjoy first-class accommodations in Bar Harbor and St. Andrews-by-the-Sea and an exclusive experience staying in authentic turn-of-the-century cottages on Campobello Island. This program also includes excursions, educational programs to provide unique insight into the regions and an extensive meal plan featuring wine at dinner.
Coastal Maine and New Brunswick
Discover the rustic glamour of Bar Harbor, Campobello Island and St. Andrews by-the-Sea. In Bar Harbor, Maine, visit Acadia National Park and the Abbe Museum, a Smithsonian affiliate dedicated to the history of the Wabanaki nations. Board a traditional lobster boat and learn about Maine’s lobster industry. Journey to Quoddy Head State Park, the easternmost point in the United States. Then, in Canada, discover the history and stunning landscapes of Campobello Island, Franklin D. Roosevelt’s “beloved island,” and see his 34-room cottage. Delight in a whale-watching cruise on the Bay of Fundy. See renowned St. Croix Island. Learn about the history of St. Andrews, a town settled by Loyalists fleeing the American Revolution, during a tour of its important landmarks, and stroll through lush Kingsbrae Garden. Enjoy first-class accommodations in Bar Harbor and St. Andrews and an exclusive experience staying in authentic turn-of-the-century cottages on Campobello Island. This program also includes excursions, educational programs to provide unique insight into the regions and an extensive meal plan featuring wine at dinner.
Coastal Maine Day 3 Acadia National Park & Lobster Bake Dinner
Yesterday the group started day 3 of the BV Coastal Maine trip with a guided tour of Acadia National Park. The stops included Thunder Hole, Jordan’s Pond and Cadillac Mountain.
Next the group took a tour of the Abbe Museum which is dedicated to exploring the culture of the native people of the Wabanaki Tribe.
The group ended the evening with a good ole fashion Maine Lobstah Bake!
Stay tuned for more updates tomorrow!
Learning from the Wabanaki people
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Acadia National Park | Wikipedia audio article
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Acadia National Park
00:04:35 1 History
00:04:43 1.1 Native people
00:08:08 1.2 Exploration
00:09:43 1.3 Settlement
00:11:14 1.4 Rusticators
00:12:03 1.5 Cottagers
00:12:49 1.6 Park origins
00:16:14 1.7 Fire of 1947
00:17:32 2 Geography
00:19:36 2.1 Features
00:21:52 3 Geology
00:23:02 3.1 Bedrock formation
00:25:01 3.2 Glaciation
00:26:41 3.3 Erosion and weathering
00:27:58 3.4 Mass wasting and slope failure
00:28:52 3.5 Seismic activity
00:29:16 4 Paleontology
00:30:55 5 Climate
00:32:59 6 Ecology
00:34:45 6.1 Flora
00:38:10 6.2 Fauna
00:42:54 7 Recreation
00:45:43 8 Visitor centers
00:46:26 9 Schoodic Education and Research Center
00:47:12 10 Friends of Acadia
00:48:11 11 See also
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- Socrates
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Acadia National Park is an American national park located in the state of Maine, southwest of Bar Harbor. The park preserves about half of Mount Desert Island, many adjacent smaller islands, and part of the Schoodic Peninsula on the coast of Maine. Acadia was initially designated Sieur de Monts National Monument by proclamation of President Woodrow Wilson in 1916. Sieur de Monts was renamed and redesignated Lafayette National Park by Congress in 1919—the first national park in the United States east of the Mississippi River and the only one in the Northeastern United States. The park was renamed Acadia National Park in 1929. More than 3.5 million people visited the park in 2017.
Native Americans of the Algonquian nations have inhabited the area called Acadia for at least 12,000 years. They traded furs for European goods when French, English, and Dutch ships began arriving in the early 17th century. The Wabanaki Confederacy has held an annual Native American Festival in Bar Harbor since 1989. Samuel de Champlain named the island Isle des Monts Deserts (Island of Barren Mountains) in 1604. The island was granted to Antoine de la Mothe Cadillac by Louis XIV of France in 1688, then ceded to England in 1713. Summer visitors, nicknamed rusticators, arrived in 1855, followed by wealthy families, nicknamed cottagers as their large houses were quaintly called cottages. Charles Eliot is credited with the idea for the park. George B. Dorr, the Father of Acadia National Park, along with Eliot's father Charles W. Eliot, supported the idea through donations of land, and advocacy at the state and federal levels. John D. Rockefeller Jr. financed the construction of carriage roads from 1915 to 1940. A wildfire in 1947 burned much of the park and destroyed 237 houses, including 67 of the millionaires’ cottages.
The park includes mountains, an ocean coastline, coniferous and deciduous woodlands, lakes, ponds, and wetlands encompassing a total of 49,075 acres (76.7 sq mi; 198.6 km2) as of 2017. Key sites on Mount Desert Island include Cadillac Mountain—the tallest mountain on the eastern coastline and one of the first places in the United States where one can watch the sunrise—a rocky coast featuring Thunder Hole where waves crash loudly into a crevasse around high tides, a sandy swimming beach called Sand Beach, and numerous lakes and ponds. Jordan Pond features the glacially rounded North and South Bubbles (rôche moutonnées) at its northern end, while Echo Lake has the only freshwater swimming beach in the park. Somes Sound is a five-mile (8 km) long fjard formed during a glacial period that reshaped the entire island to its present form, including the U-shaped valleys containing the many ponds and lakes. The Bass Harbor Head Light is situated above a steep, rocky headland on the southwest coast—the only lighthouse on the island.
The park protects the habitats of 37 mammalian species including black bears, moose and white-tailed deer, seven reptilian species including milk snakes and snapping turtles, eleven amphibian species including wood frogs and spotted salamanders, 33 fish species including rainbow smelt and brook trout, and as many as 331 birds including various species of raptors, songbir ...
We Must Decolonize Our Museums | Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko | TEDxDirigo
As Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko points out, museums are, historically, intimately tied with colonization practices; this persists today. A large part of Catlin-Legutko's work as a museum administrator is focused on giving voice and the power to direct back to the people whose culture and heritage are represented in the museum, advocating, through practice, for “decolonizing” the museum space.
Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko is a passionate advocate for museums and their intersections with social justice and activism, community development, and memory and remembrance. Prior to joining the Abbe Museum as President/CEO in 2009, Cinnamon was the director of the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum in Crawfordsville, Indiana, where she led the organization to the National Medal for Museum Service. Catlin-Legutko serves on the board of the American Alliance of Museums, the Maine Humanities Council, and the Smithsonian Affiliates Advisory Council. She is president of the Bar Harbor Chamber of Commerce board and serves on the Island Housing Trust board. Her most recent publication, “Museum Administration 2.0,” was released by Rowman & Littlefield in 2016. Catlin-Legutko received her BA from Purdue University, and is a graduate of the University of Arkansas MA program in anthropology. She is a 2004 graduate of the Seminar for Historical Administration and joined as a faculty member in 2014.
This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at
Jr Ranger
Vance meets with Ranger Emily at Acadia National Park to receive his Jr. Ranger Bade
CANNON BROOK HIKING TRAIL - ACADIA NATIONAL PARK
Trail begins by the wild gardens and nature center off the one way section of the park loop road or off route 3. To reach the Cannon Brook trail, take the Kane trail behind the Nature Center building, which begins at the base of dorr Mountain trail. The trail exits the woods and follows a body of water for some distance before once again entering the woods. The trail comes to a small water fall before coming out by Cannon Brook. The Cannon Brook trail is steep in some places and follows the brook about two thirds of the way up Cadillac Mountain. At the Featherbed, a small body of water, there is a four way intersection. Turn right and follow the Cadillac Mountain South ridge Trail to the summit of Cadillac Mountain. On a clear day you can almost see forever from the summit. There is also a giftshop that sells some snacks and drinks on the summit, but be prepared to leave with a thinner wallet. They tack on a dollar or more to the price of snacks, a 89 cent candy bar in town will cost you $1.98 at the gift shop.
In my opinion, the best way to experience Cannon Brook trail is by climbing up it, and I like taking either the North Ridge trail or the south Ridge trail back down.
Top 10 Best Places to Visit in Maine
Top 10 Best Places to Visit in Maine
Located in the easternmost part of New England, Maine is bordered by Canada to the north and the Atlantic Ocean on both the east and south. Maine accounts for almost half of New England’s entire land area. Its northern reaches, known as The Great North Woods, are largely pristine wilderness while the coastal regions, supported over the years by fishing and tourism, are more heavily populated.
While the state is most frequently known for its rugged coastline and proliferation of lighthouses, Maine also has much more to offer. Here, visitors will discover national parks with boundless wildlife as the Thunder Hole. Charming historic towns, perfect examples of quaint little fishing villages, as Bass Harbor, located on Mount Desert Island - home of a large portion of Acadia National Park.
#1.Acadia National Park
#2.Monhegan Island
#3.Camden Hills State Park
#4.Bar Harbor
#5.Kennebunkport
#6.Old Orchard Beach
#7.Portland Museum of Art
#8.Nubble Lighthouse(Cape Neddick Light)
#9.Baxter State Park
#10.Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, Boothbay
Museum tells the story of Maine's first Indigenous Peoples Day
Including Maine, seven states now calling this second Monday in October... Indigenous Peoples Day.
Passamaquoddy
The Passamaquoddy are one of the few Algonquin-speaking tribes on the east coast whose language survived European contact. Donald Soctomah, a fluent speaker of his language and a tribal historian, looked through the Frank Speck collection at the APS and identified many people in the photographs whose descendants still live in the community today.
This is part of the larger exhibition Through Indigenous Eyes available through the American Philosophical Society.
Star Gazing in DownEast Acadia
With the darkest night skies on the Eastern seaboard, DownEast Acadia is awe-inspiring!
Provencal cuisine | Wikipedia audio article
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Provencal cuisine
00:01:02 1 Gallery of Provence
00:01:12 2 History
00:01:21 2.1 Prehistoric Provence
00:04:32 2.2 Ligures and Celts in Provence
00:07:23 2.3 Greeks in Provence
00:10:15 2.4 Roman Provence (2nd century BC to 5th century AD)
00:13:02 2.5 Arrival of Christianity (3rd–6th centuries)
00:14:14 2.6 Germanic invasions, Merovingians and Carolingians (5th–9th centuries)
00:15:58 2.7 The Counts of Provence (9th–13th centuries)
00:20:05 2.8 The Popes in Avignon (14th century)
00:22:02 2.9 Good King René, the last ruler of Provence
00:23:24 2.10 1486 to 1789
00:26:46 2.11 During the French Revolution
00:29:47 2.12 Under Napoleon
00:30:26 2.13 19th century
00:32:54 2.14 20th century
00:36:42 3 Extent and geography
00:37:09 3.1 Borders
00:38:15 3.2 Rivers
00:40:30 3.3 The Camargue
00:41:23 3.4 Mountains
00:44:59 3.5 The Calanques
00:46:19 3.6 Landscapes
00:46:59 4 Climate
00:47:40 4.1 Bouches-du-Rhône
00:48:25 4.2 The Var
00:49:24 4.3 Alpes-Maritimes
00:51:04 4.4 Alpes-de-Haute-Provence
00:53:53 4.5 The Vaucluse
00:54:50 5 Language and literature
00:54:59 5.1 Scientists, scholars and prophets
00:56:01 5.2 Occitan literature
00:57:01 5.3 Writers and poets in the Occitan language
00:58:23 5.4 French authors
00:59:55 5.5 Emigrés, exiles, and expatriates
01:01:37 6 Music
01:02:28 7 Painters
01:09:39 8 Film
01:11:00 9 Parks and gardens in Provence
01:11:10 10 Cuisine
01:16:19 11 Wines
01:23:11 12 Pastis
01:23:54 13 Pétanque or boules
01:25:59 14 Genetics
01:26:55 15 See also
01:27:03 16 Sources and references
01:27:13 17 Bibliography
01:27:22 18 External links
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
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Provence (, US: ; French: [pʁɔvɑ̃s]; Provençal: Provença in classical norm or Prouvènço in Mistralian norm, pronounced [pʀuˈvɛnsɔ]) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône River to the west to the Italian border to the east, and is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the south. It largely corresponds with the modern administrative région of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, and includes the départements of Var, Bouches-du-Rhône, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and parts of Alpes-Maritimes and Vaucluse. The largest city of the region is Marseille.
The Romans made the region the first Roman province beyond the Alps and called it Provincia Romana, which evolved into the present name. Until 1481 it was ruled by the Counts of Provence from their capital in Aix-en-Provence, then became a province of the Kings of France. While it has been part of France for more than five hundred years, it still retains a distinct cultural and linguistic identity, particularly in the interior of the region.
¿Puede la disonancia entrar al museo? / Embracing Dissonance in the Museum
Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko, Marília Bonas, Gonzalo Aguilar y Armando Perla.
¿Qué voz tienen las identidades locales y nativas en nuestros museos? ¿Cómo se relacionan las narrativas no hegemónicas con el relato de nación? ¿Ha logrado la institución museo incorporar a las culturas alternativas como participantes activas? Se discutirán estrategias para desarmar obstáculos públicos e internos y promover la acción consensuada.
Do local and native identities have a voice in museums? What are the challenges to including local and indigenous narratives in a nation’s story? How have museums actively engaged diverse cultures in their programs and practices? This discussion will examine strategies to surmount public and organizational obstacles with the goal of developing inclusive practices in museums and advancing consensus-based actions.
Provence | Wikipedia audio article
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Provence
Listening is a more natural way of learning, when compared to reading. Written language only began at around 3200 BC, but spoken language has existed long ago.
Learning by listening is a great way to:
- increases imagination and understanding
- improves your listening skills
- improves your own spoken accent
- learn while on the move
- reduce eye strain
Now learn the vast amount of general knowledge available on Wikipedia through audio (audio article). You could even learn subconsciously by playing the audio while you are sleeping! If you are planning to listen a lot, you could try using a bone conduction headphone, or a standard speaker instead of an earphone.
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The only true wisdom is in knowing you know nothing.
- Socrates
SUMMARY
=======
Provence (, US: ; French: [pʁɔvɑ̃s]; Provençal: Provença in classical norm or Prouvènço in Mistralian norm, pronounced [pʀuˈvɛnsɔ]) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône River to the west to the Italian border to the east, and is bordered by the Mediterranean Sea to the south. It largely corresponds with the modern administrative région of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, and includes the départements of Var, Bouches-du-Rhône, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence and parts of Alpes-Maritimes and Vaucluse. The largest city of the region is Marseille.
The Romans made the region the first Roman province beyond the Alps and called it Provincia Romana, which evolved into the present name. Until 1481 it was ruled by the Counts of Provence from their capital in Aix-en-Provence, then became a province of the Kings of France. While it has been part of France for more than five hundred years, it still retains a distinct cultural and linguistic identity, particularly in the interior of the region.
Dawnland Panel Discussion || Radcliffe Institute
This panel discussion followed a screening of the feature-length documentary Dawnland.
For much of the 20th century, child welfare authorities removed Native American children from their tribal homes, devastating parents and denying children their traditions, culture, and identity. Dawnland chronicles the first official truth and reconciliation commission in the United States for Native Americans and explores the possibilities of healing and reconciliation.
This event was cosponsored by the Harvard University Native American Program and the Program on Negotiation at the Harvard Law School.
SPEAKERS:
Esther Anne, codirector, Maine-Wabanaki REACH
Adam Mazo, codirector, Dawnland, and director, Upstander Project
Ronald Niezen, 2018–2019 William Lyon Mackenzie King Visiting Professor of Canadian Studies, Canada Program, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs, Harvard University; Katharine A. Pearson Chair in Civil Society and Public Policy, Faculties of Law and Arts, and professor, Department of Anthropology, McGill University
Moderated by Robert T. Anderson, 2018–2019 Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School; director of the Native American Law Center and professor, University of Washington School of Law
Introduced by Shelly Lowe, executive director, Harvard University Native American Program
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