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Article: Work of art - Maine's Acadia National Park is like a scene from a painter's canvas sprung to life.
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- August 7, 1997
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Acadia National Park was created by thousands of years of nature's wear and tear, a couple of American landscape painters and a few far-sighted millionaires.
In the 1840s two artists - Thomas Coles and Frederick Church, both prominent Hudson River School painters - sold so many gorgeous scenes of the wave-lashed, granite Maine coastline that their rich clients headed "Down East" to see those sculpted mountains and vibrant forests for themselves.
By the end of the century Henry Ford, J.P. Morgan and Joseph Pulitzer had built ornate mansions in and around the town of Bar Harbor on the northeast side of Mount Desert Island to ...
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