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Article: Bar Harbor gearing up for tourist season
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- Bangor Daily News Bangor, ME
- Article date:
- May 9, 2005
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BAR HARBOR - Watching another year of seasonal activity come and
go in this coastal tourist town is like witnessing a theatrical
performance.
The production that specifically comes to mind is "Brigadoon," a
Broadway musical about a Scottish village that appears out of the
mist for one day every 100 years.
Bar Harbor's busy period is not so absurdly brief or rare as that
of the mythical Highlands hamlet, but the annual springtime ritual of
preparing for the four-month summer tourist season highlights the
fleeting nature of much of the town's economy.
This time of year, carpenters and caretakers are working
feverishly like stagehands the night before a theatrical premiere.
They can be seen ...