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detailed at the Maine Maritime A DAY’S DRIVE IN WYETH COUNTRY
Museum (see p46). Nearby Brunswick
is better known for making scholars 1 Farnsworth Museum
Rockland,
than ships. Bowdoin College edu­ Waldoboro Thomaston 1
cated authors Nathaniel Hawthorne Maine
and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lighthouse
Museum
as well as intrepid Arctic explorers 220 Cushing 131
Robert Peary and Donald MacMillan. 97 73
The college’s Peary­MacMillan Arctic
Museum (see p42) displays artifacts Friendship
and images from their expeditions. Olson House Tenants
Harbor
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Port Clyde
Moosehead Lake
9 Marshall Point
Lighthouse Museum
MAP P1 • Visitor center: 480
Moosehead Lake Rd, Greenville; 207 MORNING
695 2702; open late May–mid-Oct:
10am–4pm daily (closed Sun & Mon in The rocky Maine coast has
off-season; www.mooseheadlake.org entranced many painters, but
The largest body of water contained Andrew Wyeth (1917–2009) was
among the few to chart the quiet
within a single New England state, country life of the saltwater
from the air, the lake resembles the farms. This drive shows you
antlers of a moose, and if you take a Maine through Wyeth’s eyes.
seaplane tour, you’ll almost certainly From Rte 1 in Waldoboro, turn
see some of these impressive ani mals south toward the village of
out for a swim. The lake is known for Friendship, famed for its name­
hunting, fishing, and win ter snow­ sake sloop. You’ll see lots of them
mobiling, but photo graphic moose in the harbor before continuing
north toward Cushing. The Olson
safaris are increasingly popular. House was made famous in
Inquire at Greenville’s visitor center. Wyeth’s “Christina’s World”
(1948), and it looks little changed
Kennebunk
0 since Wyeth painted it. Continue
north to Rte 1, passing through
MAP N5 • Brick Store Museum:
117 Main St, Kennebunk; 207 985 handsome Thomaston, and turn
4802; open 10am–4:30pm Tue–Fri, right at High St (Rte 131). Enjoy
stunning vistas as you drive to
10am–1pm Sat; adm; www.brick Port Clyde at the tip of the penin­
storemuseum.org sula, where the Monhegan Island
The town of Kennebunk developed (see p50) ferry departs.
two distinct villages: Kennebunk on
the river, and Kennebunkport where AFTERNOON
the river meets the ocean. Once a
shipbuilding center, Kennebunk has North of the harbor, look for signs
to Marshall Point Light house
now become principally a community Museum. The light was auto­
of summer vacation homes. Visit the mated in 1971; the former
Brick Store Museum for exhibits on keeper’s house is a local history
the town’s cultural and historic heri­ museum (see p51). Head north
tage. Then head to Dock Square in again toward Tenants Harbor for
Kennebunkport to peruse the dockside lobster at Cod End
boutiques and galleries. (Commercial St). Continue north
to Rockland, to visit the Maine
Lighthouse Museum (see p47),
Beach at Kennebunk and spend time at the Farnsworth
Art Museum (see p45) enjoying
art by three generations of Wyeth
painters along with the work of
modernist Louise Nevelson, who
grew up in Rockland.
See map on pp122–3
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