SLIDE SHOW: Trap Day on Monhegan No one goes till everyone goes. That’s the way it’s always been on Trap Day on Monhegan, when the island’s lobstermen first set their traps off the darkened shoreline of one of Maine’s most storied offshore communities. Over the years, Monhegan has maintained very different lobstering traditions from anywhere […]
Photographer Peter Ralston captured Trap Day on Maine’s Monhegan Island last year, when all the lobster boats are loaded with traps at the same time for the start of a new season. Dawn on October 1 means it’s time to go lobstering again. Read more: Trap Day on Monhegan See more works by Peter Ralston
Excerpt from “This New England: Mount Desert Island, Maine,” Yankee Magazine, August 1981. When Samuel De Champlain named Mount Desert Island, he did so because he was so struck by the barren, deserted summits of the stretch of mountains that give the island its soft, rounded profile. Though the mountains’ summits remain deserted, the island […]
Photographer Carl Heilman II captures the beauty of Acadia National Park, Wood Island lighthouse, Monhegan Harbor, and many other locations in his book, The Coast of Maine (Rizzoli Publications, Inc.). See more of his work: carlheilman.com naturepanoramas.com
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My husband and I visited Camden, Maine for our niece’s wedding. It was a weekend event and we took time to visit this lighthouse on a very foggy and misty day.
A view of the harbor in Camden, Maine
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