A bridge that rivals the beauty of Boston’s Zakim. Strange tales as haunting as anything in Hawthorne. The Great Outdoors, in great quantities. And if you’d like to start a business, you might even be able to get some free land. There’s a lot to like about Bucksport, Maine, but Peter Mehegan says most tourists travel right by it on the way to Bar Harbor. Now, he says, there are 85 million reasons why residents are optimistic their town is about to be discovered.

Show Resources:

Penobscot Narrows Bridge Observatory
Fort Knox State Park
Prospect, Maine
207-469-6553
http://fortknox.maineguide.com/

Bucksport Economic Development Office
207-469-7368
http://www.bucksport.biz/html/allabout/index.html

Bucksport Harbor Tours "Lil Toot"
207-469-7498
http://www.littletoottours.com/index.html

Northeast Historic Film
85 Main Street
Bucksport, Maine
207-469-0924
http://www.oldfilm.org/

Flying Moose Lodge
East Orland, Maine
207-288-3088
http://www.flyingmooselodge.com/

Big Chicken Barn Books and Antiques
Route 1, Ellsworth, Maine
207-667-7308
http://www.bigchickenbarn.com/

Sara Ware Bucksport Murder Mystery
http://mysite.verizon.net/vzeqnk8x/histmurdertwo.html

Great Pond Mountain Conservation Trust
Route 1, Orland, Maine
207-469-7190
http://greatpondtrust.org/Wildlands.htm

Blue Hill Book: "Small Misty Mountain-The Awanadjo Almanack" by Rob McCall
Pushcart Press
PO Box 380, Wainscott, NY 11975

Craig Brook National Fish Hatchery Complex
Hatchery Road
East Orland, ME, 04431
207-469-7300
Recreation.gov