50 things to do in Maine before you die. (2017)

• Record Type: Book
• Other Titles: Fifty things to do in Maine before you die
• Further Information: Note: Nancy Griffin ; photographs by Dan Tobyne.
• Authors: Griffin, Nancy
• Other Names: Tobyne, Dan photographer (expression).
• Contents: <span style="margin-bottom:0;"><li style="line-height:1.5;">Eat an All-Maine Meal: Lobster, fiddleheads, Maine potatoes, whoopie pie for dessert <ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li style="line-height:1.5;">Whoopie pie lore <li style="line-height:1.5;">Catch a lobster <ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li style="line-height:1.5;">Lobster festival, lobster lore <li style="line-height:1.5;">Visit a real lighthouse <ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li style="line-height:1.5;">Small sidebar about Marshall Point being in <span style="font-style:italic;">Forrest Gump <li style="line-height:1.5;">Climb Katahdin <li style="line-height:1.5;">Drink Moxie (if you dare) <ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li style="line-height:1.5;">Sidebar on Moxie Festival <li style="line-height:1.5;">Shop at L.L. Bean <ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li style="line-height:1.5;">Story of ubiquitous Bean Boot, AKA the Maine Hunting Shoe <li style="line-height:1.5;">See a whale <li style="line-height:1.5;">Spot a moose <li style="line-height:1.5;">Get lost in the desert <li style="line-height:1.5;">Go whitewater rafting <ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li style="line-height:1.5;">Kennebec, Dead, and Penobscot Rivers <li style="line-height:1.5;">Canoe the Allagash <ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li style="line-height:1.5;">Side bar about Old Town Canoe <li style="line-height:1.5;">Side bar about Kenduskeag Canoe Race <li style="line-height:1.5;">Learn about the Good Life at the Nearing’s Goodlife Center <li style="line-height:1.5;">Tour the solar system <ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li style="line-height:1.5;">Side bar about Eartha at DeLorme, if it’s still open to the public under Garmin ownership <li style="line-height:1.5;">Watch for puffins <li style="line-height:1.5;">See a whirlpool—Old Sow <li style="line-height:1.5;">Pan for Gold—Swift River <li style="line-height:1.5;">Trek Across Maine <li style="line-height:1.5;">Run the Beach to Beacon <li style="line-height:1.5;">Hike the 100-Mile Wilderness <li style="line-height:1.5;">Mine for gems: Maine Mineral Adventures—Mt Mica, Ryerson Hill, Bennett, and Orchard Pit mines <li style="line-height:1.5;">Rake blueberries, where, etc. <ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li style="line-height:1.5;">Sidebar on biggest blueberry <li style="line-height:1.5;">Visit Monhegan—no cars allowed <li style="line-height:1.5;">Sail on a windjammer <li style="line-height:1.5;">Make maple syrup <li style="line-height:1.5;">Discover America’s first Fort Knox <ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li style="line-height:1.5;">Sidebar listing other Maine forts <li style="line-height:1.5;">Build a boat <li style="line-height:1.5;">Go on a dog-sled ride <li style="line-height:1.5;">Visit the Shakers <li style="line-height:1.5;">Kayak the Maine Island Trail <li style="line-height:1.5;">Ride in a hot air balloon <li style="line-height:1.5;">Drive Route 1 from Kittery to Fort Kent <li style="line-height:1.5;">Discover ancient Maine <ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li style="line-height:1.5;">Shell middens <li style="line-height:1.5;">Petroglyphs <li style="line-height:1.5;">Eat Bean-Hole Beans <li style="line-height:1.5;">Catch a movie of one the last drive-ins <ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li style="line-height:1.5;">Saco, elsewhere? <li style="line-height:1.5;">Dine at DeMillo’s <li style="line-height:1.5;">Stay at a sporting camp <li style="line-height:1.5;">Walk in the garden: Coastal ME Botanical Gardens, Asticou Azalea Gardens <li style="line-height:1.5;">Drink the “Champagne of Maine”: Allen’s Coffee Brandy <li style="line-height:1.5;">Visit the National Park <ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li style="line-height:1.5;">See the sunrise from Cadillac <li style="line-height:1.5;">Thunder Hole <li style="line-height:1.5;">Otter Cliffs <li style="line-height:1.5;">Ride in a Sea plane at the Greenville Fly-In <li style="line-height:1.5;">Learn about the mighty Stanley Steamer <li style="line-height:1.5;">Eat at Moody’s Diner <li style="line-height:1.5;">Stand in the clouds: Penobscot Narrows Observatory <li style="line-height:1.5;">Explore Gulf Hagas <li style="line-height:1.5;">Go to an old-time country fair: Fryeburg, Bangor <ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li style="line-height:1.5;">Sidebar on Common Ground Fair <li style="line-height:1.5;">Listen to a loon <li style="line-height:1.5;">Maine’s Arctic Connection: Peary-MacMillan Museum at Bowdoin <ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li style="line-height:1.5;">Peary’s Eagle Island <li style="line-height:1.5;">Harvest ice from a frozen pond <li style="line-height:1.5;">Watch the ships coming sailing in at Portland Observatory <ol style="margin-top:0;margin-bottom:0;"><li style="line-height:1.5;">Sidebar about shopping in the Old Port??? <li style="line-height:1.5;">See the Milky Way (clearer skies and less light pollution)
• Publisher Details: Camden : Down East
• Publication Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 917.410444; Maine -- Description and travel; Maine -- History; Maine -- Guidebooks
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781608936304
• Related ISBNs: 9781608936298
• Notes: Note: Description based on CIP data; item not viewed.
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