The Mystery Photo today is a classic southern house. Your job is to identify where this was taken. Send your ideas to elliott@brack.net and include your hometown.
Wow! Many Gwinnettians must have visited Bar Harbor, Maine, as 18 readers got the recent Mystery Photo correct.
Fran Worrall of Lawrenceville wrote: “This is beautiful Bar Harbor, a coastal town on Mount Desert Island in southern Maine. Settled in 1763, the present name was adopted in 1918. Bar Harbor is linked to the mainland by bridge and is the terminus for the ferry service to and from Yarmouth, Nova Scotia. The town’s namesake—a sandbar—reveals itself at low tide and is used by kayakers to launch into the harbor or by hikers who want to explore Bar Island, which is part of Acadia National Park. As an aside, Bar Harbor is one of my favorite places, and I’ve eaten at Testa’s (in the photo)!”
Allan Peel of San Antonio, Tex. sent along other details:
- Vice President Nelson Rockefeller was born in Bar Harbor and during the Gilded Age (1878 – 1889), the town rivaled Newport Beach as the summer resort for wealthy prominent families, including the Rockefellers, Fords, Vanderbilts, Carnegies and Astors.
- “Bar Harbor has only 5,200 year-round residents but receives over 3.3 million visitors each year, making it one of the top ten most popular summer destinations in the USA.
- “Bar Harbor visitors consume roughly 5,316,000 lobsters every year!”
Others getting this spotting correct include Steve Spellman, Dunwoody; Billy Chism, Toccoa; Lindsay Borenstein, Atlanta; Virginia Klaer, Duluth; Dan Mackaben, Lawrenceville; Lou Camerio, Lilburn; Stew Ogilvie, Lawrwenceville: Michael Blackwood, Duluth; Jim Cofer, Snellville; Mikki Dillon, Lilburn: “I know it’s Bar Harbor, Maine and it’s the street that leads down to the harbor and docks. Been there photographing at sunrise twice and sunset once. That lobster sign gave it away;” Mickey Merkle, Berkeley Lake; John Moore, Duluth; George Graf, Palmyra, Va.; Susan McBrayer, Sugar Hill; Kay Montgomery, Duluth; and Jay Altman, Columbia, S.C.
>>> SHARE A MYSTERY PHOTO: If you have a photo that you believe will stump readers, send it along (but make sure to tell us what it is because it may stump us too!) Send to: elliott@brack.net and mark it as a photo submission. Thanks.
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