Article: Acadia Night Sky Festivalto feature art, talks and stars

ACADIA NATIONAL PARK - The park and much of the surrounding terrain on Mount Desert Island are known worldwide for their beauty, which attracts people from all over the world to look at the island's majestic cliffs, rocky mountains, ocean shoreline and natural wooded setting.

But lately Acadia also has been getting attention for something else that is disappearing in more developed areas: the pristine night sky.

To draw attention to and to celebrate the visibility of stars in eastern and northern Maine, officials with the park and on MDI have organized the Acadia Night Sky Festival, which is set to get under way in the park and in Bar Harbor next week. The festival begins Thursday, Sept. 17, ...

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