St. Saviour’s Church
A special attraction for visitors to St. Saviour’s is its outstanding selection of more than thirty memorial stained glass windows dating from 1886, including the dozen that make up Maine’s largest collection of Tiffany windows.
Car Wars on Mount Desert Island
In 1903 a Maine state law was passed allowing the voters in each town to ban cars. The summer people on Mount Desert Island once voted 527 to 27 against them; in 1909 they took the fight back to the state legislature, and got autos banned from all Maine island roads.
Heading “Downeast”
The term comes from the 19th century age of sail, when there were no Interstate highways, and bulk freight traveled by coastal schooner instead of tractor-trailer.