Polio plus Rotary International program and Maine.
The World wide efforts to eradicate polio continue. The polio plus push to rid the planet of the crippling disease started in 1985.
In the US, in 1975, almost 6,000 cases of paralyzing polio were reported. By 1994, the US was the first world country to report no new cases of polio.
Pakistan and Afghanistan are currently the only two countries with cases of wild type 1 polio.
In 1952, polio in the US peaked at over 20,000 cases. Hospital wards in this country were full of respirators to help paralyzed people’s breathing. Back in the 1980’s my local Houlton Maine Rotary club stepped up donations to polio plus.
This past week, the Temple Cinema movie theatre splashed a special free showing of the movie “Breathe” on the silver screen.
Free popcorn, soda and with a polio plus donation, movie goers also received a purple pinkie roll in the ink.
All to increase awareness. To show others you care about the polio plus program. and increase awareness.
Do you know anyone in Maine affected by the polio virus? Our past polio chairman felt strongly about polio plus because his brother in law contracted it. More to explore on ending polio.
Are we all clear for polio outbreak cases in the US?
Sadly No. In 2022 in New York’s Rockland County an unvaccinated man contracted the paralyzing polio virus infection. Children under 5 years of age one of polio’s biggest targets. Vaccination is the best way to protect again contracting polio.
Frequent handwashing, especially after bathroom visits and after changing diapers is key too. Children receive does of the polio vaccine by mouth.
More on ending polio and how you can help donate and become better informed about the paralyzing disease.
End Polio, Rotary Polio Plus Prevention Education
What are other countries doing to increase polio plus awareness? Lots. The link.
Are you member of your local Rotary club? I know the clubs in my Rotary district do an awfully lot of good locally, Worldwide too. When I look around the local Northern Maine area I can see so many things that would never have happened without Rotarians joining forces to get it down collectively. One person can do a lot but many people can get even more down working together.
It’s not the Maine potato farmer or organic grower making a killing. Not just inflation. All the middle men is where the extra grocery food costs come into play. Your household family food budget. There is no way anyone pushing the wire cart with the one squeaky wheel in their local Piggly Wiggly has not noticed. Grocery store checkout sticker shock. Higher prices and getting less for more. Not the other way around.
When you live in a built up city landscape, you are beat. No matter which market the wholesale food supplier is pulling from in the country, the cost is higher on both ends. Wholesale to retail to the consumer is concerning. And not just the high cost of food but what you are actually buying.
Where did it come from, what was it sprayed with and food safety.
Lots to consider before preparing a meal to put on your family supper table.
All Ages Picked Maine Potatoes In The Farm Field.
When you are raised in rural Maine, frugal simple meals are the norm.
Easy does it applies. But meat and potatoes simple does not mean the taste needs to be forgotten. The way the food is put together with love and attention and a creative spirit and the seasoning can all transform the simplest of meals. Welcome to the Maine country kitchen. Here’s an apron to tie on.
Fresh produce out of your Maine garden or farm field to can, preserve and stored to be drawn from your root cellar or food pantry.
That is the corner stone of wholesome, healthy and tasty. But what if you have no garden, do not have local farm producers to buy your home grown food to place on the family table? Then eating right when it’s from a grocery store outlet is going to be even more expensive these days.
This image from potato picking in Northern Maine over the weekend.
Picking Maine Potatoes, Using Local Kids To Hand Pick The Spud Crop!
Potato harvesters on Maine farms leave a lot of spuds behind.
I grew up and own the Maine potato farm where my youth was spent. Potato harvesters cover a lot of acreage in a short period of time. But they leave a lot of spuds behind. All the wind rowers and mechanical handling can also ding or dent the delicate skin of a Maine potato. Some potato varieties more susceptible to abrasion than others and tender skinned.
Hand picked potato field workers do the best job leaving nothing behind on the Maine farm.
Maine Potato Farm Field Pickers Do Better Job Than Mechanical Harvesters!
Less handling or bruising or scrapes! It is all about The Maine potato farm fields that are harvest mean let’s go gleaning!
More on that a little later in this blog post. First things first. Back to high food costs and trips in and out of the automatic doors at your local Maine grocery. Convenience items, time saving but they have always been expensive.
Reaching for that five pound lasagna pan in the cooler case does not come cheap. Loaded with sodium but voila, quick and easy. Once warmed up, dinner is served.
So Many Varieties Of Maine Potatoes. Like Pinto Golds Washed, Sliced Up And Ready To Put Into The Meal Plan.
Time.
It seems regardless of grocery store prices high low or in the middle, you have to plan your week’s meals. Searching for simple, delicious, affordable recipes starts with your family members. My mom had lots of cookbooks. Some of the best ones in print were from church groups where many cooks submit their collective piece de resistance.
Early Maine Farm Life At The Homestead, Surrounded With All The Land. Pot Luck Suppers At The Grange Hall.
Enjoying the home cooked meals that you had a hand in creating helps the Maine household meal time creativity.
This blogger does live in Maine and has access to farm to table locally grown produce, Locals can glean farm fields and harvest the bounty of what is left by potato harvesters.
Maine Potato Farm Field Workers Hard At It! Working Around The Weather.
On a Maine farm I own Russian banana, French fingerlings, amarosa, all blue and more potato varieties are free for the taking.
Russian Banana, French Fingerlings, Other Potato Varieties Grown On The Maine Farm!
It’s help yourself but be aware as temperatures dip and exposure to the sun will only lessen the quality of your farm field gleaning.
Being out in the fall air surrounded by tree leaf explosion of colors only adds to the joy of farm vegetable gleaning. Stay tuned because red and golden beets, turnips and rutabaga are next up. Looking up recipes on all the ways to create tasty low cost fresh not heated up frozen meals. Maine potato picking … wonderful experience, totally awesome taste, a lesson in working outdoors doing manual labor.
High grocery store prices have stirred a desire to find healthy alternatives and people are discovering the joy of cooking in Maine.
Kids Learn Work Ethic In The Maine Potato Field! On Your Knees Or Bent Over Standing Up. This Is An Entry Level Job!
Field gleaning these organic vegetables creates a small window of opportunity to help yourself.
Whatever you do glean is served up hot and ready fresh for the family table. But canning, preserving, freezing for future meals has to happen to extend the good tasting food budget savings. No grocery October is practiced by many in Maine agriculture regions. Those lucky enough to live near farms take a break from the automatic doors and Muzak up and down the store aisles.
Instead, gleaning fields, collecting apples, hunting for game. Pheasant, deer, black bear, moose gets to play along in the grocery cost meal planning savings. Making cider, apple sauce, pies and milling grain to weave into baked goods. It’s all around you in rural Maine. And those lucky enough to live close to the sea, hoist up other local, close to home meal time savings.
Fish, clams, mussels, lobster all get to take a turn being the star of the Maine family meal table.
Clams, Seafood, Outdoor Dining At Street & Company, Old Port Maine.
So ho hum about what gets served at your house at meal time?
Want to ease away from $200 plus weekly grocery store bills? Local farm to table in Maine locations offers many advantages. Plus you know what you are eating, where it came from and the peace of mind that no chemicals were used.
Where I live, there is a local dairy too, a vibrant farmers market to shop. We Mainers tackle the high cost of fossil fuels by heading to the woodlot. Heating our homes with hardwood cords of fuel is good exercise. Are these options for simpler living available where you live?
Used to be go in three weeks early. Then three weeks off from school to pick Maine potatoes.
Everyone took part in the Maine potato harvest whether you grew up on a family farm or not. The smallest child just as important as the oldest in the potato picking fall harvest tradition. Getting up early, going to bed early and wearing layers of clothes. Because there might have been a frost this morning. But by noon time, stripped to your t-shirt and the sun hot overhead as you pick baskets of potatoes. To pour into the cedar or plywood barrels.
Maine Youth Working The Maine Potato Harvest. Did Not Hurt Their Work Ethic!
Four baskets per barrel that weigh 165 pounds.
The pickers take a section, a length of potato field that is your job to keep picked up as the digger pulled by a farm tractor squeaks by row by row. You don’t want to be “caught up” and waiting for the digger to unearth more spuds. But you are out here to make some money and stay productive. The trick is to take a section from here to there that you can complete just as the digger makes another pass.
Getting behind, row by row happens in the Maine potato farm field.
Too big a section, or ran out of barrels to fill to stay caught up. No one leaves the field until everyone is picked up, all the potato sections in the field are caught up and ready for the next day.
No one will be left in the field when it’s pitch black still picking.
No one can head for home until every potato picker is caught up. Here’s a video of what happens on the other end… when the potatoes leave the Maine farm field and get deposited in the potato house.
Your lunch prepared in the early morning with lots of energy snacks.
Fresh air, hard physical labor as the leaves change color to red, orange, yellow, brown and a million shades of green. Food takes extra good. Hunger improves the taste. When you do run out of barrels and as you slowly get behind, that’s the time to pivot. To make good use of your time.
Head to the woods to go to the bathroom. Time to have an early or late lunch. Or pick the potato tops off your section so when you do get barrels, you can fill those baskets quicker.
Your full barrel of potatoes marked with a numbered ticket.
Maine Potato Picking. Passing On The Tradition Of Filling Up Potato Barrels.
To show this is my barrel, I earned the money for this one. A Maine potato farm truck with flat staked body on the back cruises the field picking up full barrels. Taking full trucks of 50 or more barrels to the potato storage facility.
Watch the video on Maine potato picking in Sherman.
Work ethic, responsibility to show up, to work around the weather that you can not control. Earning the money to buy school clothes, to save for college, to buy something you really want that Mom and Dad encourage you to go for it. Work hard, save and don’t let the money sift through your fingers. And take better care of whatever you do buy.
Years ago, when you moved out of state, and raised your hand when asked “who is from Maine?”
There is healthy discrimination. The good kind where you hail from Maine, picking potatoes as a kid growing up in rural areas of the state. You are hired because you knew how to work, like to do a good job without complaining. You show up and pitch in, are dependable. Pride in your labor and enjoyment from the outdoor work in the potato field all absorb in your entry level job learning curve.
No matter how old or young, everyone picked in the potato field.
All were needed to get the crop out and into potato house storage. To load up and ship down the road to out of state markets. Skills were learned in the potato field and lazy was not one of them. Work hard, pick them clean and don’t miss any.
The more you pick, the more you make and it becomes a field competition.
My personal best was 88 barrels and was paid 25 cents for each with my ticket slid in the crack on the top.
Those barrels in every other row for the truck to hoist and deliver to the dark potato bin miles away.
My four kids all picked potatoes and it was by far the best experience any of them ever had.
Your first job, your development of work ethic and gotta have a system out in the field was invaluable. My kids learned you don’t buy it if it is not worth it.
They know how hard a dollar is to earn and make sure to get value or wait. Keeping looking until you find some worth four, six or more barrels of potatoes that took to earn it.
Local Maine apples are ripe, ready and all they need is you to pick them.
Beat the high cost of Maine grocery store food items!
Make into apple cider that is freshly squeezed. Instead of reaching for a quart of orange juice from concentrate for $7.99. Make the effort. The fruits of your labor can be fun and tasty and wholesome.
Switch it up from OJ to Johnny Appleseed nutritious Maine wild fruit of all kinds when you are lucky enough to live, work, play in Maine.
This section of Maine has a major pull for instate and out of state residents alike. Over the weekend, headed out Friday night from “The County” to zip to Wells Beach, Maine. Then get up early to beeline to Pease Air Force Base For an airshow.
Love To Fly And It Shows? Thunder Over New Hampshire Air Show This Past Weekend!
Have been to smaller Maine airport fly ins and posted photos, videos, details before on this Maine blog.
Fly Over, Pease Air Force Base New Hampshire B-52H Display. Part Of Food, Fun, Flight, Force At Thunder Over New Hampshire Air Show.
So back to Thunder Over New Hampshire highlights. The Saturday weather was perfect, hot and clear to see the aviation acrobats overhead. I wondered about Sunday being cloudy and cooler if that impacted the overhead oohs and ahhs.
Seeing a B-52H up close and using the 185′ wingspan as shade overhead while munching on cheeseburgers and cheese nachos. My first big airshow and everything unfolded overhead in front of us.
Air Plane Jet 5-52 Specs At Thunder Over New Hampshire Air Show.
Families with connections to the military and lots of younger cadets starting their service careers helping out running the event. It was neat to see all ages, their t-shirts to give you a hint of why they came to the air show event at Pease Air Force Base.
I wondered if the particular B-52H sitting next to the runway might have been stationed years ago at Loring Air Force Base in Limestone Maine.
The placard spelled out the B-52’s entered service of the skies around 1961 while Loring AFB was in full swing as a SAC base. Loring was 9472 acres of military secrets that closed September 1994.This B-52H pictured is stationed in Louisiana and on loan like the helicopters, other aircraft on display. Or put to the test in the air over Pease Air Force Base in New Hampshire this past weekend.
The Loring AFB closure hit the economy of Northern Maine very hard and in some respects, Aroostook County is still recovering for the population loss.
F 35 Jet Fighter Parked At Pease Air Force Base At This Past Weekend’s Air Show.
Food at Street & Company finished off the down and back weekend when lucky enough to live in Maine.
Clams, Seafood, Outdoor Dining At Street & Company, Old Port Maine.
To be able to zip to corners of Vacationland to sample other parts of Maine. Dining outside on the sidewalk and watching party goers ply up and down the narrow cobblestone side streets around the Old Port helps enhance the experience. Maine seafood is always a tasty menu selection when you are in the Old Port region of Portland ME.
Old Port Maine Dining Options, There Are Many To Consider.
Been to Maine for a quick or three day, maybe a week’s vacation?
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In rural Maine, it’s go easy on the host. Everyone brings a covered dish that is known community wide as their piece de resistance that gets rave reviews. Look at that long row of covered dish surprises at a potluck supper in Maine. It’s never take you chances or settle for “potluck”. No no, only the finest from each chef, cook, household prepared with love from the many Maine kitchens.
Early Maine Farm Life At The Homestead, Surrounded With All The Land. Pot Luck Suppers At The Church Or Grange Hall.
At Maine potluck suppers, it’s remarkable how the selection of items is perfectly balanced too.
Not three bake bean pots and no potato salads. From past experiences and because everyone has a signature dish to create and bring, everything rounds out on it’s own. Plus you have several dining variations on a theme. More than one of everything for a true home made hot and ready buffet.
Grange Hall pot luck covered dish suppers also required your BYO silverware and plates.
When done, slide them all in a bag. Return them to your home to wash and put back in the drawer and up in the kitchen cupboard. Nothing lost and way way less wear and tear on the pot luck supper host.
Fresh Farm To Table Locally Sourced Meals Prepared At Home Not A Maine Restaurant. What Dish Would You Bring To The Potluck Covered Dish Supper?
The potluck covered dish come and get it delivered to the venue carried in with pot holders and oven mitts.
Zipped into insulated warmers. Maybe tucked away in a picnic basket. These pot luck suppers not a once a year tradition but held on a regular routine. It’s social too, more than another just meal to brain storm create and put together all by your lonesome.
It is a lot of work to host a party at your home in Maine. House cleaning, grocery shopping, decorating. The tidy up and set the stage, tear down the extra tables and folding chairs is a lot of work.
Maine. Small Word, Big Place, Lots Of Unspoiled Space. Folks Are Neighborly, Friendly, Socialize. Community Pot Luck Suppers Happen Around Small Town Rural Maine .
Attending a potluck supper, toting a covered dish with serving utensils is one efficient buffet variety meal to enjoy.
The lots of people who come together at the pot luck supper makes the meal memorable. Not just a table for two tucked away in the corner of your favorite restaurant haunt experience.
Some cooks excel at pastries, breads, your pasta salad, their artichoke dips. Others are grillers, their skill set is for casseroles, soups and chowder. Crock pot jack pot slowly simmered and ready to serve at the community meal. Who brought the smoked salmon or toasted crab cakes or brook trout?
Small Towns, Food Vendors Working Community Events. MMmmmm Good. Sometimes The Dining Is Pot Luck Covered Dish Home Made!
Maine garden home grown farm to table platters of vegetables, fresh fruit with a floral center piece completes the menu.
Dig in but leave room for the buffet array of desserts of all kinds. Carefully created by many that migrate one by one, two by two and more to land in a small Maine community or family pot luck supper location.
Add a couple local Maine musicians for background music and the setting is complete.
Tap Your Toe, Sing Along. Music Made Locally And Live Is Huge In Maine Communities. Some Potluck Suppers Offer Live Local Background Music.
The lack of shelling out a hundred dollars or more to settle up the bill only improves the take away taste from the potluck supper, covered dish experience. Maine is 450 small town communities and villages, plantations and only a handful of cities.
Small towns in Maine are masters at simple living, keep it friendly and neighborly. “Excuse me, can you pass the sweet potato casserole? Did you make it Marge?”
If you are moving, relocating to Maine, get ready for an invite for the potluck supper in Maine. The more the merrier.
Attending Local Sporting Events, Alumni Games Are Popular. For Fans Of All Ages. Potluck Suppers Happen With Covered Dishes In Small Maine Towns.
Would you be ready for a potluck supper where everyone totes a hot or cold covered dish to your home in Maine?
All take a turn and today, many might say no way. Not at my house.
I’ll contribute something good to eat homemade or store bought and gladly ring you up at your place. Just not mine. My house is a wreck, has been for quite sometime really.
Maybe a potluck supper, opening up your place to take a turn would be just the fire lit under you to make it ship shape. Clean as a whistle and the housework done for the week or spring cleaning now complete. The potluck supper can be a holiday tradition with decorations to make it festive.
Finding Your Way Home In Maine. Is A Victorian House The Goal? Would You Invite People In For Easy Potluck Covered Dish Suppers?
Growing up, my Mom from a family of 11 living on a Northern Maine farm who stayed close for life.
Each Sunday noon after church, each family member took a turn. This week Uncle Frank and Aunt Charlotte hosted the event at their Benn Hill in Hodgdon farm location. Or opened up their Nickerson Lake summer camp for the family meal time tradition. Kids splashing, boats plying by and the folks inside waving. Outdoor fire pits at night for the talks after the potluck covered dish supper time meal. Like group therapy!
The cousins socialize just like the parents.
Every Sunday it was a different family venue and we all stayed in touch growing up in a small Maine town. Each and every one of us in the family got to know each other better. In part due to the pot luck supper covered dish tradition and the variety of food it offered us.
Check The Locally Sourced Maine Farm Produce At Whole Foods Portland ME For Your Potluck Supper Contribution. What’s Your Covered Dish Contribution?
The ease and simplicity of the bring your own plate, cup, silverware and covered dish contribution.
Not a small group, but the best way to handle a large one. So one cook is not overwhelmed with the meal time task.
Public or private, the take away is the same. Too much home cooked food. Lots of people grouping together for a family event meal or a public fund raising supper. We did not go to a restaurant to open up the menu and dine with a few people.
Simpler Living In Maine. Slow Down, Live More Pitching Into The Community Lifestyle. What Can You Bring To The Covered Dish, Pot Luck Supper To Eat?
You opened up the Grange hall and arranged the tables and chairs.
Turned the heat up a little higher in the winter. Or opened up the place in early morning to bring in the cooler air. For lower temperatures that noon or by supper time when we used fans, took a dip in a Maine lake to cool off. Not just cranked up the AC when the weather was hot in our cars, office, homes.
Grange Hall In Maine Repurposed Into A Home. Hosted Lots Of Covered Dish, Potluck Suppers.
Maybe too many cooks in their own familiar kitchens creating what’s for dinner or supper is a good thing.
When they wrap the dish in a towel or slide it in an insulated cozy. Bring it hot out of the oven wearing mitts or chilled to perfection right out of the refrigerator. To beeline to the pot luck supper. Families in Maine had the standing invitation. This week’s pot luck supper is at this Aunt and Uncle’s home. Next week, we trek to Aunt June and Uncle Cecil’s camp or home depending on the season.
Bigger homes, larger families, more people living nearby in small Maine towns.
The pot luck or potluck suppers help families stay in touch. To not just break the bread and dine together. But to exchange what’s new in each and every family members life and to help each other share joys, endure setbacks. You don’t feel alone living in a friendly, neighborly tight knit Maine small town.
Wild Blueberries From Maine. More Delicious Than Bigger Ones Not From Maine. Ideal Potluck Supper Dessert Item To Bring.
These covered dish meals were like group therapy sessions in some ways.
They avoided isolation and created regular contact with family members and anyone else invited to come along. Card tables set up, crock pots plugged, lots of potato, pasta, green, three bean salads.
Coleslaw, fresh from the garden platters, relishes, dips. Home made rolls and breads. Casseroles, trays of finger food. Samplings of small portions to fit on your plate. Better double up that plate if it’s paper to carry the load. Too much good food. Way way too much variety makes it like holiday dining. Large, 2nd and 3rd size helpings expected from the local cooks who “super size” everything.
Do you eat too much at a covered dish, potluck supper?
It’s tempting, hard not to over indulge. Those paper plates are pretty flimsy when overloaded like a Maine trucker’s trailer load of Aroostook County potatoes. Who brought the home made lemonade or iced tea? Is that gluten free? You eat plenty and can say because you don’t want the cook to think it was not the best you ever had. Often it is and you hunt down that same meal selection for the potluck supper because you are addicted to their style of cooking.
Save room for the hand churned ice cream.
I think it’s grape nut and chocolate for choices. To ride high a top that warm, hot out of the oven slices of blueberry, raspberry, strawberry rhubarb pie. Is that cheesecake? Gotta get her recipe and print it out to share on the Maine cooking blog I follow.
The Beauty Of Maine. Some Have Trouble, Can’t Find Their Way Home To Maine So Easily. Get Below Radar In Maine. Unplug, Recharge In Vacationland.
Oh look, are those date crumble squares? Home made pumpkin, chocolate chip cookies, whoopie pies.
Picnics along the road traveling. Had to before the Interstate and those canopied table rest stops to munch on a chicken salad sandwich. Maybe grill a hot dog, burger, some chicken.Marsh mellows on top of the sweet potatoes. More of a Christmas dish but might as well let me try a small scoop.
Jello with carrots suspended inside. Lemon squares. Everyone contributed to the potluck supper. 2nds? Heck 3rds. It’s all cook and makes the covered dish cook smile ear to ear.
Lucky To Live In Small Town Maine! Me In Blog Author Andy Mooers, ME REALTOR.
The pot luck or potluck covered dish tradition applied to weddings, funerals, graduation, reunion, anniversary event too in a small Maine town.
Or maybe to celebrate one of the four seasons, a successful harvest or holiday as a community. When is the last time you brought something home cooked to a potluck supper, covered dish event?
What’s learned living in rural ME that helps later on ?
This blog post is about your approach to living day to day when lucky enough to call home small town “Maine”.
Growing up in rural ME you learn life is a short movie.
That it is not just about you. The natural beauty of the plenty of space around you causes a peace so you can “hear” yourself think. You have an awareness that opportunities come and go so don’t get stuck or bogged down. Resourceful, hardworking small town Mainers don’t give up or look around for someone to blame.
Dozing Off In The Maine Lakeside Hammock. Thinking You Have Next Year’s Firewood All In Place.
Too often today, many are lost and reading self help books, hiring life coaches and struggling to find out what they know is missing.
The Beatle song about look at all the lonely people, where do they all come from. In small town rural Maine you worry about shut ins, elderly, folks that lost a child, the homeless. It’s all about the people themselves. Not me me me or me myself and I.
Helping out, service providing, being a good steward of the environment.
Working hard to do your part to protect your community’s simple easy does it way of living in small Maine towns.
Like the Eagle’s song about locks and not knowing we all possess the key to them. That you and I create some of the locks. But many are just challenges everyone to juggle.
So often times it happens that we live our lives in chains, and we never even know we have the key. (Already Gone)
So lots of room around you helps to unlock the no where to run, no where to hide out until you process what is actually happening in your life at any moment.
And do you see a pattern? We all make mistakes but do we see them, learn from them or make changes. The way we view the events, people around us and interactions is key to not just living life. But squeezing more of the tasty natural juices out of it. In small rural ME towns, it easy to find others who want to make a difference and contribute to the experience living in one. Couple that experience with all the natural unspoiled beauty Maine offers and contentment happens.
In small Maine towns you see lots of prime examples to help you get over yourself.
So much is needed and everyone has talents. To use by pitching in and to doing more for the greater good. Collectively, the members of a small Maine town community can rise above and create success for all to enjoy. To soar like an eagle. Knowing you define yourself, not leaving it to others that might be a tad critical or over the top toxic.
Welcome To Maine, A Place With Many Facets To Visit And Experience To Enrich Your Life.
Taking on roles in small ME rural towns. It helps shift your mind off your problems and think of others. Being industrious together, the spin off is look what we did. And what else can we accomplish collectively? It helps you stay on a roll. To know the small problems are temporary and this too shall pass. That there are bigger, more important “fish to fry”. Get to work.
In small Maine rural towns it is all about “if it is to be, it is up to me” thinking.
Log Cabin, Cheap Maine Vacation. All You Need Is Your Own Place, A Camp.
Nothing is holding you back or maybe it’s easier for some to blame anything and everything for their discontent. In Maine, we have lots of happy places to enjoy peace and quiet. To be deep in nature. There is no shortage of local community volunteering options to accomplish service above self. Not just a Rotary slogan.
The smallest in a family has roles in the household, small business operations or on the farmstead living in rural ME.
You learn the simplest skills like pick up after yourself. Show up on time. What being courteous looks like and how it makes you feel good about yourself. Kindness, consideration for others when returned keeps your spirits up. Energizes and creates a healthy base to build your life on.
Small rural towns in Maine offer plenty of avenues of service and volunteerism is a given.
Maine. Happy Places. Lots Of Them, Way Way More Than A Few ! In Maine We Are Outdoors Everyday. Not Doing The Same Things, Dressed Differently.
No time to be lazy, no excuses used to maneuver around obligations in small rural ME towns.
Do you feel like life is full and rich where you live now? Hard work poured into something outside yourself is a beautiful thing. The earlier that industrious gene is developed growing up, the better life plays out along the way. Start with a small piece of Maine land to use for cheap vacations and then maybe more.
Like this Maine real estate land listings for little money, high return enjoyment.
So glad I live, grew up and continue to enjoy small rural ME community living.
All this drop dead gorgeous four season’s surrounds living in rural ME. Growing up here you learn plenty about happiness, keys to achieving and maintaining it. And vacations in Maine help change it up for you if where you are now is not so healthy. Come to Maine. Unplug and recharge in Maine with simple living easier to achieve.
10 best Maine towns to visit, it’s not what you think.
Maine is loaded with small towns. All unique and special but not all get the press and attention that a small handful do.
You Hear Them, Admire Them And Shoreland Zoning In Maine Protects Them. Maine Lake Loons, Other Wildlife, Fish!
So when you see the headline 10 best Maine towns to visit highlighted in a blog post or splashed across a magazine cover in a grocery check out line, it happens.
You and I are looking for shortcuts, suggestions to save time. Some free or paid advice. Maybe it’s a little bit of FOMO, fear of missing out mixed into the decision making. Watch out for the here it comes, the spin. Or it’s more simple than that. You just have only a short amount of time and traveling to Maine from many hours away to pack it all in. That’s a major component creating all the added vacation planning pressure.
No People, No Man Made Structure Or Noises. Welcome To Baxter State Park’s Mt Katahdin.
Like going to the Moon, you just get there and well, better thing about packing up and returning to far away planet Earth.
Maine is like that to many. Like planning a trip to the moon or a far away galaxy. That little extra drive or flying time away from the hustle bustle is what insulates, not isolates us. So back to the 10 best Maine towns to visit. It’s a list you chisel out for yourself because of personal preferences through life in Vacationland.
Small town charm, Maine has nearly 500 communities that are all top ten, worthwhile to visit in that department.
Technically, you count up 721 cities, towns around the state of Maine. So many are unorganized territories served up in six by six mile squares of woodland. Maine is 91% wooded remember? Some want to homesteading in Maine.
Wide Open Space. More Farms, Wooded Land And Fewer People. That Is What It Is Like In Maine.
So who decides which are the best towns in Maine to visit?
Advertisers do. The publications generating the press about Maine get paid for what and where in Maine gets promoted. You want coverage, you need advertisers to pay for the ads wedged in between the tourist information.
The Maine information promotion rides on a business chassis fueled by advertising.
The thickness of your newsprint edition or four color glossy magazine publication all revolves around advertising. Underwriting, subscriptions, donations, advertising dollars to carry the overhead expenses.
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But why wouldn’t a great community or any area of Maine be kept such a secret?
It isn’t now that everyone is a cub reporter that can share experiences around social media platforms.
Which small Maine towns make the list as the best of the bunch?
Besides advertisers who have enterprises in the top 10 Maine towns panned by the hot bright promotion spotlight, location comes into play. The southernmost coastal towns in Maine get the visits.
You can sample Maine easily with the up and back across the big green bridge in a small manageable amount of time. But the “what’s on the menu” for best Maine towns to visit expands greatly.
Budget a little more time to arrive at and enjoy a new list of top ten Maine towns to experience. The southern most towns and cities in Maine are the low hanging expensive tourism locations close to population center.
I’m happy for the handful of Maine coastal towns that attract tourists to visit and spend money in the state.
Because each new dollar turns over six to seven times to feed the local economy.
But I suggest to you, budget a little more time, venture deeper up into Maine.
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Maine has lots of top 10 experiences, towns to visit.
There are a handful of cities in Maine to enjoy. But small town, quaint and friendly Maine communities. You and I decide what the 10 best Maine towns are and for a slew of reasons.
I service daily a certain set of Maine communities. But there are so many to explore and expose which is what this Maine blog post platform strives to do.
Maine has what you need.
Vacationland is the way life should be but travel up into Maine. Budget some extra time. To experience what is most personal and private and to areas of Maine that don’t make the default list as most worthwhile to visit.
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10 best towns to visit in Maine.
Don’t stop at ten. More than you can count using both hands. Create your own list and never think it’s only 10 or 5 or 3 as the absolute list. We all gravitate to a different list of what we enjoy in Maine. And depending on which of the four seasons the calendar hanging on the kitchen wall reveals, the what to do for fun changes.
