50 Things to Do in Maine Before You Die

By (author) Nancy Griffin Photographs by Dan Tobyne

Publication date:

15 August 2017

Length of book:

152 pages

Publisher

Down East Books

ISBN-13: 9781608936298

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The ultimate to-do list for Mainers and visitors alike

What better way to celebrate 50 years of book publishing than to celebrate the greatest things Maine has to offer. Following the popular trend in “bucket list” books, this experiential guide will help visitors and residents alike discover everything there is to do here. Taken all together, these experiences are enough to fill a life time.

50 Things to Do in Maine Before You Die

Eat an All-Maine Meal: Lobster, fiddleheads, Maine potatoes, whoopie pie for dessert
1. Whoopie pie lore
Catch a lobster
1. Lobster festival, lobster lore
Visit a real lighthouse
1. Small sidebar about Marshall Point being in Forrest Gump
Climb Katahdin
Drink Moxie (if you dare)
1. Sidebar on Moxie Festival
Shop at L.L. Bean
1. Story of ubiquitous Bean Boot, AKA the Maine Hunting Shoe
See a whale
Spot a moose
Get lost in the desert
Go whitewater rafting
1. Kennebec, Dead, and Penobscot Rivers
Canoe the Allagash
1. Side bar about Old Town Canoe
2. Side bar about Kenduskeag Canoe Race
Learn about the Good Life at the Nearing’s Goodlife Center
Tour the solar system
1. Side bar about Eartha at DeLorme, if it’s still open to the public under Garmin ownership
Watch for puffins
See a whirlpool—Old Sow
Pan for Gold—Swift River
Trek Across Maine
Run the Beach to Beacon
Hike the 100-Mile Wilderness
Mine for gems: Maine Mineral Adventures—Mt Mica, Ryerson Hill, Bennett, and Orchard Pit mines
Rake blueberries, where, etc.
1. Sidebar on biggest blueberry
Visit Monhegan—no cars allowed
Sail on a windjammer
Make maple syrup
Discover America’s first Fort Knox
1. Sidebar listing other Maine forts
Build a boat
Go on a dog-sled ride
Visit the Shakers
Kayak the Maine Island Trail
Ride in a hot air balloon
Drive Route 1 from Kittery to Fort Kent
Discover ancient Maine
1. Shell middens
2. Petroglyphs
Eat Bean-Hole Beans
Catch a movie of one the last drive-ins
1. Saco, elsewhere?
Dine at DeMillo’s
Stay at a sporting camp
Walk in the garden: Coastal ME Botanical Gardens, Asticou Azalea Gardens
Drink the “Champagne of Maine”: Allen’s Coffee Brandy
Visit the National Park
1. See the sunrise from Cadillac
2. Thunder Hole
3. Otter Cliffs
Ride in a Sea plane at the Greenville Fly-In
Learn about the mighty Stanley Steamer
Eat at Moody’s Diner
Stand in the clouds: Penobscot Narrows Observatory
Explore Gulf Hagas
Go to an old-time country fair: Fryeburg, Bangor
1. Sidebar on Common Ground Fair
Listen to a loon
Maine’s Arctic Connection: Peary-MacMillan Museum at Bowdoin
1. Peary’s Eagle Island
Harvest ice from a frozen pond
Watch the ships coming sailing in at Portland Observatory
1. Sidebar about shopping in the Old Port???
See the Milky Way (clearer skies and less light pollution)

50 Things to Do in Maine Before You Die

By (author) Nancy Griffin Photographs by Dan Tobyne

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