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Southwest
Harbor Anchors Not-So-Quiet Side of Island
Ken Minier, Southwest
Harbor’s
town manager for the last 10 years, doesn’t agree with the
“Quiet Side” marketing moniker that someone tagged to the town
12 or 15 years ago.
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Southwest Harbor |
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Community |
Harbor House:
38 Years of Caring
The older generation in Southwest Harbor knows the Harbor House
as “the Old Yellow Schoolhouse.” The younger generation knows
Harbor House as the place to play, learn and catch up with
friends.
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Smiles at Sawyer’s
Three of the employees at Sawyer’s Market watch the till at the
only surviving grocery on Main Street. From left, Amanda Crafts,
Amy Farley and Carl Butler Jr. work at the place that has served
Southwest
Harbor
since 1946.
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Yesterday |
A Place for
Fishing And Rusticators
Geography has shaped each community on
Mount Desert
Island.
With their backs to the mountains and a distinct geographical
separation from the mainland, these communities faced the sea
and grew up around harbors small and large, connected by the
great ribbon of blue at their doorsteps.
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Neighbors |
An
Octogenarian Rife with Opinions
Dorothy Lauriet wears a button that tells it all: “This is no
ordinary person you are dealing with.”
The 80-year-old (“almost 81!”) would qualify as Southwest
Harbor’s gadfly, if she still went to meetings as she used to.
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Traditions |
Stettner’s
Family Is Game for Croquet
Larry Stettner proudly points
to the Claremont Hotel’s croquet board, where he and three other
family members were listed as winners each year since 1997. To
many in Southwest Harbor, one week a year is sufficient to
fulfill their croquet fancy. That’s in early August, when the
lawn at the Claremont Hotel fills for its tournament as it has
each year since 1977.
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Library |
Tea Parties
Are the Library’s Newest Twist
Tea, anyone? Tea parties for the public once a month are the newest
addition to all that takes place at the Southwest Harbor
Library.
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Memories |
Les King’s
View from the Moorings
Leslie King, a Southwest
Harbor
native and innkeeper, proudly says his father was “the second
baby ever born in
Southwest Harbor.”
Technically, he is correct, for the town of Southwest Harbor
became a municipality in January 1905. Stanwood King was born
soon after.
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| Written and
photographed by Katherine Williams. She can be contacted at
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Go
Figure |
THE
FACTS
Acreage: 8,884
Population, 2000: 1,966
Population, 1990: 1,952
Population, 19 years and younger,
2000: 446
Median age: 42.4
School: Pemetic
Elementary School
Library: Southwest
Harbor Public Library
Churches: Episcopal 1,
Catholic 1, United Church of Christ 1
Town meeting: First
Tuesday in May
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They
Said It |
We are a very big library for a small town.
 The
summertime is unbelievable … foot traffic is extreme. We are just now
beginning to mellow.”
—Candy Emlen, Southwest
Harbor librarian
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Milestones |
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The early years
1761:
Abraham Somes and James Richardson settle
at Somes Sound.
1789:
Mount Desert is organized into a town.
1796:
Eden separates from Mount Desert.
1848:
Tremont, first called Mansel, separates
from Mount Desert. Mansel eventually is altered to Manset.
1848:
Tremont is derived from the three mountain
landmarks.
1905:
Southwest Harbor separates from Tremont.
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