What to do!
Explore Deer Isle and the
Penobscot Bay area!!
Brooksville
Things to do in Brooksville:
Bucks Harbor:more info soon
Bucks Harbor Market:more info soon
Holbrook Island Sanctuary: Scenic natural area of upland forests,
rocky shores, and an offshore island provide opportunities for hiking,
nature appreciation, and cross-country skiing in winter. Picnic tables are
available, along with an area to launch canoes and kayaks. Bordering
Penobscot Bay in Brooksville, Holbrook Island Sanctuary protects many
different ecosystems, which visitors can explore and enjoy. From the
beaches, mud flats, and rocky coast to the tops of steep hills that are
actually old volcanoes, the sanctuary hosts a great diversity of plant and
animal life. Stands of spruce-fir, pine, and mixed hardwoods, together with
wetlands and meadows, encourage a multitude of colorful wildflowers that
bloom from early spring until late fall. Down through these forests and old
fields and around the marshes and ponds, alert visitors can see abundant
signs of deer, fox, muskrat, beavers, otter, porcupine, bobcat and coyote.
Bagaduce Music Lending Library preserves and lends printed music,
and provides music education programs. It is a national resource center for
choral, instrumental, vocal and keyboard music, both popular and classical,
and for teaching and reference materials. The Bagaduce Music Lending Library
is a non-profit organization funded through memberships, small lending fees,
and private fundraising. The heart of the library's existence rests with an
intrepid crew of volunteers.
Oakland House Seaside ResortShore Oaks Seaside Inn (c. 1907) and
15 family-size cottages are sprinkled along a half mile of tree-studded
shorefront. The 1767 family homestead houses dining rooms where 5-course
dinners, fine wines, and breakfast are served daily in season. On-site
features include a sandy lake and ocean beaches, a dock, moorings, rowboats,
trails, lawn games, lobster picnics, and has among the best views
(lighthouse included) Penobscot Bay offers.
Bagaduce River and Restaurant by Bagaduce Falls– watch as tide
changes the river flow direction. Kids will enjoy watching the huge amount
of Horseshoe Crabs. Flows off of Penobscot Bay from Jones Point.
Restaurant a real treat, order at window and sit a picnic table and watch as
fish jump in the reversing falls.
Wescott's Island is a 3-acre gem set in a sheltered cove, ringed
at low tide with an impressive 24 acres of salt marsh and tidal mudflats. It
lies in the Bagaduce River, a scenic tidal estuary that winds through
fields, woods, and salt marshes before emptying into Penobscot Bay. The
collage of habitats along its shores makes the Bagaduce a prime wildlife
corridor, especially for wintering American black ducks. According to
Stewart Fefer, Project Leader of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's Gulf
of Maine Program, "Black ducks that summer in inland Maine and Eastern
Canada depend on the Bagaduce for relatively undisturbed migratory and
winter habitat. Its shallow, open waters and strong tides resist freeze-up,
helping to provide food for migrating and wintering waterfowl, migrating
shorebirds, and bald eagles."
The
Good Life Center
The
Good Life Center is the last hand-built home of Helen and Scott Nearing,
located in Harborside (Brooksville), Maine on five acres of forested land
overlooking Spirit Cove.
Who Were Helen and Scott
Nearing? In 1932, at the height of the Great Depression, Helen and
Scott Nearing moved from their small apartment in New York City to a
dilapidated farmhouse on 65 acres in Vermont. For over 20 years, they
created fertile, organic gardens, hand-crafted stone buildings, and a
practice of living simply and sustainably on the land. In 1952, they moved
to the Maine coast, where they later built their last stone home. Through
their 60 years of living on the land in rural New England, their commitment
to social and economic justice, their numerous books and articles, and the
time they shared with thousands of visitors to their homestead, the Nearings
embodied a philosophy that has come to be recognized as a centerpiece of
America's "Back to the Land" and "Simple Living" movements. Mission
Statement: The mission of The Good Life Center is to perpetuate the
philosophies and lifeways promoted and exemplified by Helen and Scott
Nearing, two of America's most inspirational practitioners of simple, frugal
and purposeful living. Building on the Nearing legacy, The Good Life Center
encourages and supports individual and collective efforts to live
sustainably into the future. Guided by the principles of kindness, respect
and compassion in relationships with natural and human communities, The Good
Life Center promotes active participation in the advancement of social
justice, creative integration of the life of the mind, body and spirit, and
deliberate choice in living responsibly and harmoniously in an increasingly
complicated world. The Good Life Center seeks to attain this mission
through:
Steel Drum Band:more info
soon
Winery, The Sows Ear:more info soon |
Brooksville
is a rural community located on Smith Cove near Little Dear Isle on
Penobscot Bay in Downeast Maine. This is a very pretty area of the state,
where one can photograph the fields of wildflowers in the spring, explore
tidepools in the summer, pick blueberries in the fall and cozy up to a warm
fireplace in the wintertime – each season as picturesque as the next.
Recreational activities in Brooksville include kayaking and canoeing, fresh
water and salt water fishing, boating, sailing, golf and hiking. Brooksville is nearly an island, with just two slim land
bridges to the rest of the mainland. It has 53.75 miles of shoreline.
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