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Article: Mount Desert is rich experience.(Travel)
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- The Boston Herald
- Article date:
- June 24, 2001
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When early European seafarers made their tentative way along the rocky shores of what is now called coastal Maine, their concerns focused on potentially hostile natives, and the definitely dangerous islands, submerged ledges and shoal waters that protect northernmost New England.
One of those geologic barriers was Mount Desert Island, one of the thousands that dot the coast and home of Acadia National Park, Cadillac Mountain and the resort community of Bar Harbor.
Named by Samuel de Champlain for its exposed granite peaks and outcroppings - desert-like in his estimation - the island and its pristine villages comprise one of the nation's most popular ...