Summer 2019 Volume 24 No

Summer 2019 Volume 24 No. 2

A Magazine about Acadia National Park and Surrounding Communities Purchase Your Park Pass! Whether driving, walking, bicycling, or riding the Island Explorer through the park, we all must pay the entrance fee. Eighty percent of all fees paid in Acadia stay in Acadia, to be used for projects that directly benefit park visitors and resources.

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MANY CHOICES, MANY VOICES ENHANCE ACADIA

ometimes when I am planning was struck by their view that the extent a hike in Acadia, I feel almost of public involvement in the process was Sembarrassed by the quantity and every bit as important to them as the quality of choices before me. Do I want specific result. to do a loop or out-and-back? Am I in And in a recent public presentation on search of an open summit or the deep FOA’s work with partners to understand woods? Am I looking for solitude or the how climate change and a history of chance to see and interact with others human manipulation is affecting the on the trail? Am I up for a scramble health and natural communities of over rocks and roots, or will my bones Cromwell Brook and the Great Meadow, and muscles be happier on the gradual, our Wild Acadia Project Coordinator level carriage roads? Should I include a Brian Henkel heard perspectives from swimming hole in my route? many in the overflow crowd on their My mind scrolls through dozens of history of involvement there and goals options, sifting through these and other and ideas for its future. criteria before settling on a routeand Back here at the FOA office, I am in I’m usually on the trail within about ten receipt of regular phone calls, emails, minutes. and letters as folks weigh in on subjects

Having choices in one’s hike, one’s FOA such as a trail that might be in need of day, or week, or year, adds greatly to Over the winter, FOA reached out repair, or perhaps an idea for how to our quality of life and richness of our to our friends and members with a improve an Island Explorer bus route, experience. I also find that my decision- constituent survey, asking for feedback or asking FOA to explain changes in making often benefits from hearing and ideas for our work, and we were NPS park entrance fee pricing or park different perspectives and ideas from blown away when 1,097 of you took time pass sale locations. While the answer is others.My wife or kids or friends might to fill out the on-line questionnaire or to rarely cut and dried—and sometimes suggest a trail that was not even on call or write us. Your thoughtful input not what the caller wants to hear—the my mind and inspire me to branch out will help us do our job betterthank you! opportunity for discussion and learning beyond some of my favorites. always deepens my appreciation for the Here at Friends of Acadia, we too Thank you for lending a variety of perspectives out there among must make a lot of choices about our the many audiences the park serves. work and how to best allocate our time hand, or a voice, in helping At a time when Acadia faces great and resources in the course of a day or FOA make the best possible challenges with insufficient federal week or year. The needs of our park are resources, an active and engaged FOA even more numerous than the number choices in supporting a constituency is an invaluable asset. of trails in its system. And, the views thriving and sustainable Thank you for lending a hand, or a voice, on where to work and invest are nearly in helping FOA make the best possible as diverse and wide-ranging as FOA’s Acadia National Park. choices in supporting a thriving and 5,000-strong members. sustainable Acadia National Park. Similarly, the Acadia National Park Although FOA staff and board Transportation Planning process would members have worked closely with the not have come to a successful conclusion Acadia National Park leadership team this spring without the thousands of to identify four strategic programmatic park users and neighbors who attended areas where the majority of our work will —David MacDonald meetings, read the draft documents, be focused—Wild Acadia, Tomorrow’s followed on-line discussions, and Stewards, the Acadia Experience and weighed in with opinions. In meeting Trails & Carriage Roads—we still benefit with members of Congress in Washington greatly from the input we constantly last month to brief them on the plan, I receive from the broader community.

Friends of Acadia Journal Summer 2019 1 20 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Anne Green, Chair Bill Eacho, Treasurer Hank Schmelzer, Vice Chair Jack Kelley, Secretary Mark Amstutz C. Boyden Gray Summer 2019 Julie Banzhaf-Stone Margaret Jeffery Volume 24 No. 2 Emily Beck David Katona Gail Clark Story Litchﬁeld Hannah Sistare Clark Paul Mayewski Sam Coplon Lili Pew Andrew Davis Edward L. Samek Dave Edson Nonie Sullivan John Fassak Christiaan van Heerden Elsie Flemings Bill Zoellick

HONORARY TRUSTEES Noni Ames Debby Lash Robert and Anne Bass Linda Lewis Fred Benson Liz Martinez Curtis Blake* Phoebe Milliken Sylvia Blake George J. and Heather Mitchell 5 14 7 Frederic A. Bourke Jr. Joseph Murphy Tristram and Ruth Colket Nancy Nimick Gail Cook Jack Perkins Shelby and Gale Davis Nancy Pyne* FEATURES Dianna Emory Ann R. Roberts Nathaniel Fenton Jeannine Ross 7 Acadia’s Power to Heal Frances Fitzgerald Jack Russell Nature’s magic elixir holds great power Sheldon Goldthwait Howard Solomon Neva Goodwin Erwin Soule By Dianna Emory Paul and Eileen Growald Diana Davis Spencer Paul Haertel Julia Merck Utsch 8 Capturing Acadia in Full Moon Shadow Cookie Horner Dick Wolf Photographer lets nature light the way Lee Judd By Lisa Horsch Clark EMERITUS TRUSTEES 10 Trail Crew Stuck Between Rock and Hard Place W. Kent Olsen Charles R. Tyson Jr. Shutdown, hiring woes limit scope of work FRIENDS OF ACADIA STAFF By Earl Brechlin Mary Boëchat David R. MacDonald Development Offi cer President & CEO 14 The ‘Other Side’ of George B. Dorr Earl D. Brechlin Amy Magill Father of Acadia explored interest in paranormal Communications Director Administrative Assistant By Ronald H. Epp Sharon Broom Dana Petersen Development Offi cer Stewardship Volunteer 20 Liddy Hubbell Draws Inspiration from Acadia Coordinator Stephanie Clement Park’s elegant motifs infuse artist’s work Conservation Director Mike Staggs By Carl Little Office Manager Lisa Horsch Clark Director of Development Paige Steele & Donor Relations Conservation Projects PERSPECTIVES Manager Sarah Curts 1 President’s Message Many Choices, Many Voices Enhance Acadia Accounting & Administrative Julia Walker Thomas Associate Digital Media Manager 3 Acadia Questers Mom, Daughter Connect Via App Jason Irwin Lisa Williams 6 Benefi t Outlook 30th Benefi t Is A Bridge To Future Vice President for Finance Communications 9 Superintendent’s View Investing In The Future & Administration Web & Design Associate Shawn Keeley JoAnne Wood 13 Donor Profi le Quiet Conservationist, Visionary Philanthropist Senior Development Offi cer Development Assistant 31 Chair’s Letter Summer Swings Into High Season 32 Special People Couple’s Love Grows With Acadia

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Friends of Acadia 43 Cottage Street PO Box 45 Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 207-288-3340 800-625-0321 MOTHER-DAUGHTER TEAM ARE TRUE ‘QUESTERS’ By Lynn Fantom

ore area residents should take newborn, and Acadia has become a prime “We’ve moved up from novice and we’re advantage of Acadia Quest— site for their adventures year after year. now a little more adventurous, but we do it Mnot just visitors to Acadia On the carriage roads, Cate has just for fun,” Jody says. National Park. progressed from stroller to bicycle. The “We take our time,” she affirms, quickly That’s the advice offered by Jody and nine-year-old loves swimming in Echo adding, “but we’re not slowpokes either.” Cate Brown, a mother-daughter team Lake and seeing wildlife—snowshoe hares, That may be an understatement since Cate from Trenton who have been dedicated deer crossing the sandbar to Bar Island, or plays softball, soccer, and basketball. And participants in Friends of Acadia’s Acadia a porcupine (ironically on Bald Mountain, don’t forget gymnastics. Quest program for several years. Acadia according to Jody). In fact, she appears to be a girl as Quest includes a series of outdoor But it is the Acadia Quest program that comfortable in a math class (her favorite experiences in the park that encourage has given structure to this exploration and subject) as on the softball field. She wants youth to explore, learn, and protect resultant discoveries. There’s a “really fun” to be a biomedical engineer when she grows national parks and other conserved lands app, Jody notes. “That is another way it up and readily explains what that entails. and waters. is like a scavenger hunt, because you can Acadia has provided lessons of another “The park was always there right in my check in and get badges and other things.” type, too: about the environment, peoples’ backyard, but I just didn’t know where to Every year the quest changes. In 2019, impact on it, and the principles of “Leave No start,” says Jody, who grew up in Aroostook one “must-see” on Cate’s list of where a Trace.” In the end, however, it’s not so much County and now works as the vice first-time Acadia visitor should go is the about outside activities as it is personal president of credit administration at the Ship Harbor Trail. She also recommends connections between the participants. First National Bank in Bar Harbor. “This Bubble Rock. Although she could be talking about the provided a little blueprint.” With her hydration system for water and beauty of Acadia, when asked what time Jody coined “Brown Party of Two” for her a bag of snacks (preferably gummies and spent exploring Acadia means to her family, family’s registered team name. As a single granola bars), the rising fifth grader has Jody is thinking about her daughter. “We’re woman, she adopted her daughter as a advanced to higher peaks over the years. trying to soak it all in for as long as we can.” � COURTESY BROWN FAMILY COURTESY The mother-daughter team of Jody and Cate Brown are experienced participants in Friends of Acadia’s Acadia Quest program. Right: Cate Brown takes in the view from atop a mountain in Acadia National Park Friends of Acadia Journal Summer 2019 3 Where in Acadia?

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The Journal is published three times a year. Submissions and letters are welcome. See http://friendsofacadia.org/news-publications/ Where in Acadia? You won’t be far from the madding crowd, but you do have to get a bit friends-of-acadia-journal/submissions/ off the beaten track to be familiar with the trail from which this iconic view can be seen. While its trusty iron rungs pale in comparison with their more numerous cousins not far to Opinions expressed are the authors’. the north, the opportunity for height-averse hikers to grip tight and gasp remains the same. Still, there’s no faster way to the top of this granite ediﬁ ce named for a symbol of agrarian EDITOR Earl D. Brechlin industry. Extra credit if you can name the small pond below. DESIGN If you think you can identify this scene email us at [email protected] and feel Z Studio free to include a personal story or memory about your answer. We’ll print our favorite PRINTING responses in the next issue of the Friends of Acadia Journal, and we’ll send a Friends of Penmor Lithographers Acadia cap to the writers. PUBLISHER David R. MacDonald

Spring 2019 Where in Acadia?

Summer 2019 I can’t count how many times we have vis- Volume 24 No. 2 ited Acadia. First, when I was dating my husband, then after we were married, and now it’s a tradition with our two sons. The Spring “Where is it?” photo must be the top of Cadillac Mountain. This location is a must see—ﬁ rst when we arrive—and once again as we are leaving the park. The last time was most exciting as we awoke to A Magazine about Acadia National Park and Surrounding Communities catch the sunrise; a most memorable visit to Cadillac. —Wendy Brown-Reilly and Family, East Hanover, NJ Sunset over Bass Harbor Marsh. Cover photo by Nathaniel X. Boëchat FOA/ADMT

The “Where in Acadia?” picture in the Spring 2019 FOA Journal appears to be on the top of Cadillac Mountain. In our younger days we regularly hiked a loop from Jordan Pond to Bubble Pond, up the West Face Trail, down the ridge past the Featherbed, down the Canon Brook Trail to catch the path around Pemetic Mountain back to Jordan Pond. Now we drive This Journal is printed on paper made with 100% to the top and hike the down the ridge to the overlook above the Featherbed. recycled ﬁ ber and 60% post-consumer waste, processed chlorine free, and manufactured in the USA with 100% We did this in May and encountered winds more ferocious than we have ever Green-e certiﬁ ed renewable energy. experienced before. Printed with soy-based ink. —Sherrill Primo, Lewiston, NY

4 Summer 2019 Friends of Acadia Journal Island Explorer Marks Twenty Ye a r s

he Island Explorer shuttle bus system celebrated its 20th TAnniversary in style on June 14, with an event showcasing the addition of 21 new, propane-powered buses to the fleet. The service, which is slated to carry its 8 millionth passenger this summer, was praised at a gathering at the Jordan Pond House. Representatives of Acadia National Park, Maine Department of Transportation, Downeast Transportation, grant funder L.L.Bean, Friends of Acadia, area towns, congressional offices, the Propane Education and Research Council, and bus maker Hometown Manufacturing participated. Over the last 20 years, the Island Explorer FOA/JOE PHILIPSON has grown from a ﬂeet size of eight buses to One of 21 new Island Explorer buses crosses over the Paradise Hill Bridge along the Park Loop Road in 31 buses in operation, plus six spare buses, Acadia National Park. along with four vans and two bicycle trailers. Nearly $5 million in funding for the Annual operating funding for the fees from businesses that receive front door new buses was supported by the National Island Explorer is a partnership through service, and passenger donations. A portion Park Service and the State of Maine. The Acadia National Park, the U.S. and of every weekly and annual Acadia National acquisition was managed by the Maine Maine Departments of Transportation, Park entrance fee is dedicated to funding the Department of Transportation in conjunction contributions from L.L.Bean and Friends Island Explorer’s operations. � with Downeast Transportation. of Acadia, local municipal appropriations,

MEMBERSHIP VOLUNTEERS 2019 Friends of Acadia’s Membership Table Volunteers staff a table at Jordan Pond House every summer to help increase awareness of, participation in, the organization. Left are, front row, from left: Kerri Sands, Kirsten Hardy, Diane Zito, Sandy Smallidge, Mary Galperin; back row: Barbara Loveland, Susie Hokansson, Joan Kleinman, Judi Lyles, Pam Bowie, Rick Lyles, Peg Emple, Josh Yarbrough, Susan Hayward, Georgia Munsell, Phil Galperin, and Ingrid Sunzenauer. Other table volunteers include: Amy Baron, Ann Caswell, Steve Clement, Peter Collier, Tish Davis, Adam Epstein, Ashley Epstein, Nancy Gable, Donna Gaines, Kirsten Hardy, Pamela Hattem, John Holt, Holly Hosmer, Jackie Jacobs, Chris Kirk, Ann Kruger, Joan Mansﬁeld, Cora Olgyay, Alan Rosenquist, Barbara Roth, Leroy Tabb, Marsha Tabb, Linda Tschoepe, Tiffany Yarbrough, Sara Yeterian, and Frank Zito. FOA/JULIA WALKER THOMAS FOA/JULIA WALKER

Friends of Acadia Journal Summer 2019 5 30TH BENEFIT A BRIDGE TO THE FUTURE By Shawn Keeley

riends of Acadia’s 30th Annual were locally sourced. While they are first effort to restore the carriage road bridges to Benefit is upon us. Each year the and foremost functional elements that perfect condition. While Friends of Acadia’s Fevent’s live auction culminates in a allow park users to safely pass through the Carriage Road Endowment provides grants Paddle Raise to fund a specific project in terrain, their aesthetic character is timeless. for maintenance and improvement of the Acadia National Park. During the Paddle The bridges have become an iconic and road surface, there is no dedicated funding Raise, the auctioneer invites bidders to raise inspirational part of Acadia’s natural and source for structures such as bridges. This their paddle at specific dollar levels and all cultural landscape. project is a perfect opportunity for Friends of the money raised supports the project. Acadia donors to provide support to ensure As referenced in the Paddle Raise Acadia is several years these cultural treasures are preserved. Timeline on pages 16 and 17, projects have If you would like to learn more about ranged from funding youth programs like behind in its effort to restore this year’s paddle raise, contribute to the the Acadia Teacher Fellows in 2013, to the carriage road bridges restoration of the carriage road bridges, or protecting land in Acadia by acquiring the have questions about the Annual Benefit, western shore of Lower Hadlock Pond in to perfect condition. please contact Shawn Keeley, shawn@ 2011, to last year’s paddle raise to help the friendsofacadia.org. park acquire and repurpose Bass Harbor Like any structures exposed to the Thanks to all the generous donors who Head Lighthouse. elements, the bridges must be maintained have supported FOA’s paddle raise projects This year’s Paddle Raise will help the for safety and aesthetics over time. Planned over the past 10 years and thanks to this park restore Acadia’s beloved carriage restoration work entails re-pointing, re- year’s Benefit Chair, Lydia Kimball, and the road bridges. bedding, replacing granite where stones Benefit Host Committee for all their work Beginning in 1917 with the Cobblestone and masonry have been dislodged, repairing to create a wonderful 30th anniversary Bridge, John D. Rockefeller Jr. commissioned, concrete in the arches where spalling has event. � and local craftsmen constructed, a series occurred, and removing efflorescence of 17 bridges that feature gothic arches, (calcium buildup on the stones as lime is SHAWN KEELEY is Senior Development textured masonry surfaces, and protruding leached out of the mortar by rain water). Ofﬁ cer for Friends of Acadia scupper drains. Stone and other materials Acadia is several years behind in its

ANNUAL BENEFIT HOST COMMITTEE Beneﬁ t Chair, Lydia Kimball Gail Clark Malinda Crain Kate Davis Donna Eacho Betsy Mills Laura Pierce FOA /JULIA WALKER THOMAS FOA /JULIA WALKER Maureen Stewart For 15 years, artist Rosemary Levin has donated a hooked rug inspired by one of Acadia’s carriage Lynne Wheat road bridges to Friends of Acadia’s Annual Benefit Auction. This year’s hand-hooked, hand-dyed wool Anna Woodward rug is Jordan Pond Road Bridge, number 15 in the series of the 17 carriage road bridges. Rosemary’s work can be seen at her gallery, Chapter Two, in Corea, ME on the Schoodic Peninsula.

6 Summer 2019 Friends of Acadia Journal ACADIA’S POWER TO HEAL By Dianna Emory

obalt sky and sea, brilliant white endorphin-releasing highs or quiet snowfields, and white-etched contemplation in the park. Cevergreens abound in every Nearly thirty-five years ago, Ben direction, but I am focused on a fat, brown and I galloped our horses along the porcupine as he edges farther and farther Amphitheatre carriage road, immersed in out onto a spindly branch. He is clearly thoughts of non-medical challenges, while out on a limb, as was I only a few short we simultaneously reveled in the thrill of weeks ago. If he tumbles, he will land in the gallop. Pitching suddenly forward and deep, soft snow. I was headed for a harder airborne toward a coping stone, I realized fall, with a diagnosis of stage 4 metastatic that Chiclet’s hoof had gone through the lung cancer. carriage road’s imperfect surface. He did Then, even a small rise on Acadia’s trails not break his leg, but my head has never was daunting, but now I have skied to the been quite the same. Not long after, Friends top of the Sargent Mountain carriage road of Acadia and thoughtful donors restored with not a hint of gasping and panting. the carriage roads, likely preventing other Only three months ago, I labored up the near-tragedies, and giving multitudes the icy Hadlock trail to the top of Sargent opportunity to contemplate life while three times, trying not to show how hard enjoying Acadia’s carriage road network. it was. If I did not keep going, fear cried Several years later, after I became FOA COURTESY EMORY FAMILY EMORY COURTESY out that I might never again see Sargent Author, conservationist Dianna Emory savors board chair, Acadia Trails Forever took Mountain’s summit, the snowy owls, or so the healing power of nature. me to a project where I could make a many other Acadian treasures. difference, during a time when I was eiders, loons, and seals, as I looked at One dusky afternoon, we found 13 owls. powerless to change my 33-year-old the park that I love, everything came into Another day saw eight. On the third trip, daughter’s stage 3 breast cancer diagnosis. perspective. At whatever level I could, I we were skunked—bathed in such thick Melissa soldiered on, as did I, grabbing pledged to continue to engage with the fog that we could hardly see each other, every opportunity for restoration in Acadia park and her creatures. Sometimes that much less a snowy owl. Every trip up National Park and other preserved places. meant screeching to a halt, reflecting on was well worth the coughing, struggling Did those engagements play a part in her times past, examining recalled details, and for breath, and exhaustion. I reflected recovery? I think so. Many years later, she giving thanks for each person and each on a year earlier, when I was able to run returns when possible to immerse herself experience from a life well-lived. these trails with joyful ease. So much had in the lands and the waters of the Acadia changed, and I prayed that times in Acadia region, each time feeling revived. would continue. If they didn’t, and I was “Like so many of you, thanks Time in the park was a routine needed elsewhere, solace came in thoughts to Acadia National Park and prescription during my 30 years on of dear friends who moved on too soon— Mount Desert as a mental health clinician. Cody, Clare, Beth, Don, and others—each FOA, I have been buoyed up The benefits of activity outdoors were of whom championed Friends of Acadia through life’s events by the coupled with other cognitive behavioral and Acadia National Park. strategies that helped patients gain more As things progressed with the lung beauty and wealth of recreation control over mind and body. Visual cancer and I awaited treatment, I was that surrounds us…” imagery of favorite spots in Acadia was unable to comfortably get up even a small a part of treatment for oncology, MS, hill, so I turned to Acadian adventures Like so many of you, thanks to Acadia and other patients, assisting them in on the flat. Paddle boarding in 13-degree National Park and FOA, I have been moving more easily through surgeries and temperatures on Frenchman Bay offered buoyed up through life’s events by the overwhelming circumstances. panoramic views of the mountains of beauty and wealth of recreation that One year, several troubled children MDI and the Schoodic district, bordered surrounds us, reaching toward them at climbed Dorr mountain eight times in a by stalactite-like icicles flowing from every opportunity. Each time, puzzles group counseling experience aimed at ledges. Out there on the bay with the of existence are sorted out through continued on page 22

Friends of Acadia Journal Summer 2019 7 COURTESY OF HOWIE MOTENKO COURTESY A time exposure by moonlight gives this view, above, of Little Hunters Beach in Acadia National Park an ethereal quality. Below, center, photographer Howie Motenko sets up his equipment to capture a moonlight image of a grove of trees.

A MARVELOUS PARK FOR A ‘MOON DANCE’ By Lisa Horsch Clark

look above my desk and see a familiar Beckett, ﬁrst came to Friends of Acadia to A resident of Seal Harbor, Howie is the view—a photograph of the Bass Harbor offer the proceeds of his photography sales to recipient of a Maine Arts Commission grant for IMarsh with Acadia National Park’s support FOA’s conservation work. his “Painting Islands” project and was honored Bernard and Mansell mountains in the with the Friends of Acadia Community distance. It is a favorite vista of mine. I drive Don’t Miss “Moon Dance” Volunteer Award for “Painting Bridges.” He past it once a day and have seen it in its fall leads photography tours and workshops foliage glory, in ice and snow, and beneath through his business, Acadia Photo Safari. He summer’s blue skies. But this photograph holds a Master of Liberal Arts degree from has an eerie moodiness to it. When I ask the Harvard University. photographer—longtime Friends of Acadia After his summer AIR residency and member and 2019 Acadia Artist in Residence photography this year, Howie will have (AIR) Howie Motenko—he explains it was amassed a portfolio of nighttime images from taken at night. Mount Desert Island, Schoodic, and Isle au But how? He proudly reveals that he uses Haut that he will show in the Mellon Room

the light of the full moon to illuminate his BOECHAT NATHANIEL FOA/EMMA FORTHOFER, at the Northeast Harbor Library during the landscape and involves carefully calculated Please join Friends of Acadia at month of October. The “Moon Dance” exhibit time exposures. The result is a starkness that is the “Moon Dance” exhibit opening opening will take place on Friday, October 4. otherworldly, while still obviously recognizable reception in the Mellon Room of the Once again, the Motenko-Beckett family has as Acadia. A unique result for sure. Northeast Harbor Library on Friday, pledged to give proceeds from “Moon Dance” Howie has been capturing nighttime images October 4 at 5:30 p.m. Proceeds from sales to Friends of Acadia to preserve and of Acadia for many years. He ﬁrst manipulated the exhibit will support Friends of protect Acadia. � light using a team of volunteers with handheld Acadia’s conservation work in Acadia. ﬂashlights for his “Painting Bridges” series Visit www.friendsofacadia.org LISA HORSCH CLARK is FOA’s Director of done on the carriage roads. It was during or www.moondanceacadia.com for Development. this project that Howie and his wife, Brenda more details.

8 Summer 2019 Friends of Acadia Journal Superintendent’s View

INVESTING IN THE FUTURE

riving around Mount Desert Island envision realigning the carriage road that on a Saturday in mid-May feels accesses Witch Hole to eliminate the steep Dlike someone suddenly fl ipped a grade that has contributed to numerous switch. Where just the prior weekend an accidents over the years. out-of-state license plate was the exception, We are also investing in our back-of- now suddenly they are in abundance. The the-house infrastructure. We have received sidewalks in Bar Harbor are brimming with funding from our Washington Offi ce to do visitors, restaurants and retail stores have pre-design work to rebuild our maintenance re-opened, and I know that Acadia’s visitor building and headquarters at McFarland Hill. season has begun once again. The maintenance building was constructed The cycle of the busy and off seasons is in 1963, is structurally unsound, and does a great reminder that in just six months, not meet modern requirements for code, Acadia National Park will play host to 3.4 accessibility, or space needs. Best illustrating million visits. this is the fact that the building has one We are taking critical steps to be better shared men’s and women’s restroom for equipped to welcome those visitors in the more than 65 employees! future. This past spring, Acadia National Park Similarly, our headquarters facility at long last completed our Transportation CONTI FOA /AYTT/ASHLEY contains signifi cant deferred maintenance, Plan with the fi nal decision signed in May. into the park. Those who work on MDI but is energy ineffi cient, and is drastically While the planning may be completed, it live off-island could also park there and ride undersized for our modern needs. Both the will take a signifi cant amount of time and the buses to work. Critical to making both maintenance and headquarters buildings effort to implement including working with of these possible is express Island Explorer form the backbone of our operations. By our communities and partners like Friends service to key destinations. replacing them we also will achieve benefi ts of Acadia. Finally, the Gateway Center will to environmental protection by mitigating This Transportation Plan provides also provide a place for motor coaches the risk of hazardous materials entering a blueprint for how we address rising operating tours of the region to the Eagle Lake watershed (Bar Harbor’s visitation to the park, maintain our natural transfer their passengers to smaller size, water supply) and mitigating the area’s and cultural resources in an unimpaired concessioner-operated touring buses for visual impact from Cadillac Mountain vistas. condition, and improve the quality of their Acadia experience. Our ability to serve our visitors – from visitors’ experiences. At Hulls Cove, the Transportation picking up trash to maintaining trails and The plan includes signifi cant investment Plan envisions expanding the parking carriage roads, to managing invasive plants – in infrastructure. Providing additional lot, constructing a new visitor center at depends on these assets. parking at Hulls Cove Visitor Center the same elevation as the lot, and better Addressing deferred maintenance and and at the Gateway Center are two of the integrating the Island Explorer to improve improving our infrastructure is a high largest investments. These two areas will its function as a transit hub. The Hulls Cove priority for Acadia National Park. Each of complement one another nicely by serving Visitor Center would include inspirational these projects will play a key role in making different roles. exhibits that help visitors understand why sure we are prepared to serve every one of The Gateway Center, located along Route Acadia was made a national park and what the park’s visitors. I look forward to breaking 3 in Trenton, will be operated in partnership makes our ecology unique. The visitor ground on all of these important projects! with the State of Maine. It will serve as center could also include a multi-purpose a transit hub and provide visitors with room for ranger-led programs for visiting orientation to all there is to do in Acadia and school groups or community meetings, an throughout Downeast Maine. It will allow outdoor amphitheater, and an accessible visitors staying overnight off MDI (a rapidly interpretive boardwalk trail, so that visitors growing demographic) a place to leave could stretch their legs after a long-day’s —Kevin Schneider vehicles behind and ride the Island Explorer drive and learn about our forests. And we

Friends of Acadia Journal Summer 2019 9 TRAIL CREW TRIBULATIONS Trapped Between A Rock And A Hard Place By Earl Brechlin cadia’s trail crews pride themselves workers begins in October of the previous up to full staff made that a moot point in on being an irresistible force when year. “By the end of December, you are most cases this year. A it comes to dealing with the near- into it full swing,” he explains, adding that According to Stellpflug, many seasonal immovable obstacles they encounter notices need to be sent out and applications workers who wanted to return to Acadia while working on the park’s historic processed in January and February. were lured away when larger parks out west hiking trails. The shutdown ran from December resumed hiring earlier. “I had two who told But this summer they are wrestling with 22, 2018 to January 25, 2019. That’s me they couldn’t wait any longer to take a more than just stubborn granite boulders, peak time for Acadia managers to hire job,” he says. Others took positions in the downed trees, rain, heat, and biting insects. up to 75 workers for all departments private sector. Due to the partial federal government including interpretation, maintenance, law The end result of fewer workers is a less shutdown last winter that called a halt to the enforcement, and resource protection. ambitious schedule of projects among the seasonal hiring process, the crew finds itself “It didn’t just affect us in trails, but the park’s 155 miles of trail. “We can get out there at only half its usual strength. While in the entire park,” Stellpflug adds. Once the and clear blowdowns and take care of any past, the crew has had as many as 34 people, government reopened, top priority went to safety issues, but we just can’t get to some of this summer, there are only 17— even bringing on seasonal staff necessary to get the these big rebuilding projects without enough though funding was available for many more. park open on time such as law enforcement, crew,” Stellpflug says. Among the items That has forced postponement of several maintenance, and interpretive personnel. delayed by the staff shortage are installing major rehabilitation projects. Usually one of the major impediments to gravel on some rough and rooted sections and According to Acadia Trail Foreman Gary filling seasonal slots is a lack of housing, he completing the rebuilding of the Jordan Cliffs Stellpflug, the process of hiring seasonal continues, adding that the inability to get Trail on the east face of Penobscot Mountain. FOA/ASHLEY L. CONTI Acadia National Park trail crew member Isabella Connelly adjusts chains used to maneuver a rock into position while working to repair Kurt Diederich’s Climb on Dorr Mountain in Acadia National Park. 10 Summer 2019 Friends of Acadia Journal FOA/ASHLEY L. CONTI FOA Acadia National Park trail crew member Max Wither works to ease a boulder into place while replacing Acadia National Park Trails Crew Foreman part of Kurt Diederich’s Climb on Dorr Mountain in Acadia National Park. Gary Stellpflug. A wet spring didn’t help, although much of Even with reduced staffing, crews are approximately two dozen volunteers who the rain fell on weekends when crews aren’t already working hard on several ongoing conduct regular trail patrols in the spring and in the field anyway. “There’s no question it projects including the Seaside Path in fall to fix historic Bates Cairns and report any slows us down and forces us to shift what we Seal Harbor and the rehabilitation of Kurt major maintenance problems to Stellpflug. planned to do,” he says. Diederich’s Climb on Dorr Mountain (See Still, as someone who has constantly Work also has to be scheduled around related photos). Final touches on the Valley had to adjust his crew schedules due to trail closures made to protect nesting Cove Trail should be finished this year as well. unpredictable eventsboth natural and man- peregrine falcons. The most visible spot is Since the 2000 completion of the Acadia madeover the past 20 years, Stellpflug takes along the Precipice, which is closed until Trails Forever campaign, a public/private the obstacles he encounters in stride. “We late July each year that the birds return. endowment spearheaded by Friends of adapt, we keep working,” he says. “We’re Even once the baby birds fledge, members Acadia, considerable resources have been always looking for ways to do it better, to of the crew have to check every foot of the brought to bear to rehabilitate, maintain, and become more efficient.” trail, its bridges and iron ladder rungs to improve the park’s trail network. And, Stellpflug notes, all is not gloom and make sure it is safe before reopening. And Along with the park’s paid trail crews, FOA doom. Included in his latest budget is the sometimes, Mother Nature has other ideas. also fields 16 members of the Acadia Youth conversion of one of his seasonal positions to For example, crews rebuilt a key wooden Conservation Corps to work on trails. The a semi-permanent arrangement. “That means bridge on that trail in 2017. In winter 2018, nine members of FOA’s Summit Stewards they can start earlier and work longer into a major ice fall smashed the bridge to pieces. also routinely repair damaged cairns on the season and they gain more experience,” It had to be replaced last summer before the hiking trails and remove illegal ones. he says. trail could open. “And, I have at least 10 volunteers that Fortunately, with federal funding and Along with delaying hiring, the shutdown are out brushing out trails all summer,” financial support from Friends of Acadia, also threw a monkey wrench into the early Stellpflug adds. along with consistent volunteer efforts, the spring planning processes. “We were hoping FOA’s volunteer stewardship crew leaders park’s trail network is in pretty good shape. A to get a lot of bog walk projects done this take volunteers out into the park several one-year reduction in effort, while certainly season,” Stellpflug reports. “We checked into times each week to work on trail maintenance disappointing, shouldn’t cause any lasting getting a helicopter to ferry loads of planks such as brushing and replacing bog walk harm to overall momentum, he stresses. into remote areas.” Because of the shutdown, planks around Jordan Pond. Volunteers from “We’ve got good people, they’re out there, and there was no one available to coordinate the FOA recently replaced steps on the shore at it’s getting better every day,” Stellpflug says. ordering of the planks from a local sawmill the Bass Harbor Head Lighthouse. “The volunteers have been great,” he adds. or to draft a schedule and reserve a helicopter In addition, FOA supports other volunteer “What would we do without them?” � for the transport. “We have been up against a efforts such as the park’s sign shop. Work lot of that sort of thing.” is also done by Waldron’s Warriors, Friends of Acadia Journal Summer 2019 11 FRIENDS OF ACADIA

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Advocacy Intern 2 Summit Stewards Acadia Digital Media1 Team members Recreation Technician 9Stream Monitoring Intern 1 1 Acadia Youth Conservation Corps members 16 Wild Gardens of Acadia Intern FOA GRAPHIC BY LISA WILLAMS 12 Summer 2019 Friends of Acadia Journal Donor Proﬁle

T.A. “TOM” COX Quiet Conservationist, Visionary Philanthropist By Lisa Horsch Clark ne of my favorite memories of T.A. “Tom” Cox goes back many Oyears when Friends of Acadia was purchasing the Crippens Creek property in Trenton as the site of the future Acadia Gateway Center. Tom called to make an appointment so he could hand-deliver his gift of support. As we sat in the FOA conference room in Bar Harbor, he pulled from his belongings two items—his checkbook and a pen. He looked me in the eye and said, “I use this pen to sign all my important documents.” I was honored to be with him that pivotal day. He could have mailed the check, but Tom wanted to make sure we knew he was 100 percent behind the project. He hand- COURTESY OF ARTHUR KELLER OF ARTHUR COURTESY delivered the donation to us—the FOA Friends of Acadia supporter T.A. “Tom” Cox was an early champion of efforts to reduce traffic and congestion staff, fellow defenders of the island and in Acadia. our peaceful way of life. He wanted to help project is for the greater good, people should part of his estate. Tom had carefully planned protect Mount Desert Island by investing support it. several steps to advance his philanthropic in our earliest transportation goals and “I hope that there is a groundswell of support goals beyond his lifetime, and had considered supporting the Island Explorer bus system. and enthusiasm for the concept and spirit of the how his estate could provide much needed As a young person just joining the project as it relates to Acadia National Park and funds for the good conservation work he conservation business, I learned one of the Mount Desert Island as a whole.” had come to rely upon at FOA. first lessons Tom taught me that day. If you He believed in providing a robust After receiving Tom’s gift, FOA President believe in something, make it known. He bus system for Acadia and surrounding David MacDonald said, “FOA is so grateful didn’t do it for public recognition. In fact, communities with frequent stops so that and honored to be part of Tom’s ongoing many of Tom’s gifts were anonymous. That visitors and residents had options other legacy; he loved Maine and Acadia deeply was Tom’s style: to quietly do good for the than personal vehicles to navigate around and was ahead of his time in recognizing park, our island, and our community. And the park and the island. He believed it threats and solutions. I know that he would much good did he accomplish! was better for the environment and the be pleased to see the Island Explorer carry its As an early member of Friends of Acadia, people of MDI. Without Tom, the Island 8 millionth rider this summer, and Acadia’s Tom supported our membership, annual Explorer maintenance facility would never new Transportation Plan move toward fund, and annual benefit programs with have been built and our work toward the implementation in the coming months. unrestricted gifts to assist in our operations. Acadia Gateway Center would never have His generosity will ensure efforts like this Tom also supported land protection, trail happened. We are eternally grateful for his continue.” building, vista restoration, natural resource early support. An island friend recently described Tom as protection, and, earlier this year, relief for When Tom died in February of this year, a “generous yet understated philanthropist.” the park during the federal shutdown. it was a shock. Though he had slowed down I couldn’t agree more. � But Tom’s great passion was restoring in life as he celebrated his 85 years, he was tranquility to our island by helping with still a vibrant thinker, caring friend, and LISA HORSCH CLARK is FOA’s Director of transportation initiatives. In an interview involved citizen. What wasn’t a surprise was Development. in 2007, Tom shared, “Even if it is not an Tom’s continued generosity throughout our individual’s primary interest, or might be community. Friends of Acadia was fortunate a slight inconvenience or change, if the to receive an unrestricted planned gift as a

Friends of Acadia Journal Summer 2019 13 THE ‘OTHER SIDE’ OF GEORGE B. DORR By Ronald H. Epp FOA Acadia co-founder George B. Dorr, is silhouetted by the view of Frenchman Bay from the veranda of his home Old Farm in Bar Harbor. t is 75 years since the Father of Acadia developed out of his relationship with today still celebrate about Acadia National died at Old Farm in Bar Harbor on Harvard University’s William James, a Park, the “endless vistas,” of the island, the IAugust 5, 1944. From that family physician, philosopher, and psychologist. “fragrant worlds of steadfast land and sea,” home, George B. Dorr also planned the His revolutionary “Principles of Psychology” “the mountains … their silent promises establishment of the Mount Desert Island (1890) substituted the methods of of eternal peace,” many wishing that “this Biological Laboratory, the Jackson Lab, laboratory science for faith-based belief in desert was my dwelling place.” and Mount Desert Nurseries. In addition an immortal soul. James attracted Dorr to During the fi rst three decades of Old to these scientifi c pursuits, the emerging his studies because neither dismissed nor Farm, Mary and her husband, Charles, paranormal science developed at Old Farm accepted paranormal claims. entertained academics with paranormal has received little notice. Yet ultimately, it interests. Harvard philosopher Josiah too would play a role in the evolution of the James and Dorr stood apart Royce dedicated his infl uential book on national park. the religious aspects of philosophy to Mrs. In the late 1870s, his mother, Mary Gray in their commitment to be Dorr. The stature of physiologist Henry Ward Dorr, enlisted the Boston spiritualist strictly scientific—cautiously P. Bowditch prompted author Margaret community in her efforts to contact her perched on the fence of Deland to write in “Golden Yesterdays,” “if eldest son William following his death from a man like Dr. Bowditch is interested in this typhus. This was not the fi rst instance of uncertainty. In his memoirs, ‘psychic stuff,’ perhaps there is something her reliance on the occult, for the death of Dorr expresses the Jamesian in it?” From abroad, English philologist her brother John in 1856 initiated a similar view that such phenomena Frederick W.H. Myers and Australian effort. Consequently, George Dorr matured “are not impossible,” attorney Richard Hodgson entered into in a spiritualistic family. When Old Farm their heady dialogues. was completed in 1880, some guests that reminding us that “the realms These were not just maverick scholars, his mother invited were investigators of explored by science are for they formed the core of a new the spirit realm. “extraordinarily complex.” professional organization. The Society for These researchers used existing Psychical Research had been established in scientifi c methods and developed new The James family were frequent guests London and immediately formed in 1884 experiments to analyze premonitions, at the Dorr residence. Their signatures an American branch which Hodgson led apparitions, clairvoyance, psychokinesis, are contained in the “Old Farm House after its establishment by James. At the telepathy, automatic writing, and Book,” displayed at the Bar Harbor same time, G. Stanley Hall received the fi rst other paranormal practices. Mary Dorr Historical Society Museum. This historic American doctorate in psychology under favored mediums who “fell asleep” only document contains scores of signatures, the mentorship of James, quickly rising to to awake later apparently as another poems, musical passages, and photographs the presidency of Clark University—where person—a disincarnate spirit control who documenting the positive feelings associated there is a collection of Dorr-Hall letters on manipulated the body of the medium. with the property and the island. More parapsychology. Her surviving son’s interest, however, than a dozen poems revel in what people James’ argued that the ideal of every

14 Summer 2019 Friends of Acadia Journal COURTESY OF BAR HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY COURTESY Among the many luminaries who visited the Dorr family home, Old Farm, in Bar Harbor, and made entries in its guest book were, from left, President Chester Arthur, author of the “Battle Hymn of the Republic” Julia Ward Howe, and Beatrix Jones (Farrand). Behind those photos is an image of a note and autograph by physician and poet Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. science—that of a coherent and closed lost interest in paranormal research. Perhaps associated with the supernatural beliefs system of truths—necessitates that it was because Clark and Harvard became implicit in psychical research with the phenomena unverifi able within the system the fi rst American academic institutions to satisfactions implicit in efforts begun to must be untrue. Consequently, belief that receive endowments for parapsychology protect the natural world celebrated in all crows are black is not defensible if one studies. The New York Times emphasized poetry by many Old Farm guests and other witnesses the appearance of a white crow. that “the acceptance of [Harvard University] island visitors. Hodgson, James, and Dorr were the funding makes it impossible for any other Julia Ward Howe, her daughter and principle investigators in America of a institution in this country to disregard or to author Laura E. Richards, and others did “white crow,” Mrs. Leonora Piper—an Old disrespect this work.” not document an awareness of the need Farm guest in 1907. A Boston housewife Dorr contrasted the recurring frustration continued on page 18 with exceptional powers that appeared fi rst in childhood, she had never been to Bar Harbor. Nonetheless, Piper “recalled” the pansies Mary Dorr spread loosely over the Old Farm table as well her delight in riding the bicycle path that her son built at Beaver Pond at the north end of today’s Champlain Mountain. Careful scrutiny led James and others to conclude that Piper was not telepathic, and that the source of her claims could not be explained. The “Old Farm Series” of experiments were published by James and to this day are referenced in the psychological literature. James and Dorr stood apart in their commitment to be strictly scientifi c— cautiously perched on the fence of uncertainty. In his memoirs, Dorr expresses the Jamesian view that such phenomena “are not impossible,” reminding us that “the realms explored by science are

“extraordinarily complex.” FOA/EARL BRECHLIN In 1905 Hodgson died; ﬁ ve years later Dorr biographer Ronald H. Epp displays the guest book of the Dorr family home Old Farm James, and six years later Josiah Royce. Dorr which is in the collection of the Bar Harbor Historical Society.

Friends of Acadia Journal Summer 2019 15 1 TEST YOUR ACADIA BRIDGE IQ Acadia National Park’s Carriage Roads include some of the ﬁ nest examples of granite arch bridges in the country. Each one was individually designed to take maximum advantage of the landscape and views. All were built by 2 Mount Desert Island craftsmen with local stone. Detailed drawings of each bridge were done as part of the National Park Service’s Historic American Engineering Record (HAER) program in the early 3 1990s. Match your skill at identifying the bridges on these pages by writing the number associated with each next to the appropriate name in the list. The correct answers appear on page 22. 4 The paddle raise at this year’s Friends of Acadia Annual Beneﬁ t on August 10, will provide funds for restoration and maintenance of the 17 carriage road bridges. To support that effort, email: [email protected]. 5 At the bottom of the page is a timeline of previous years’ FOA paddle raise successes.

No Child Eagle Lake Lower Hadlock Acadia Youth Teacher Ranger Paddle 2009 Left Inside 2010 Loop 2 011 Pond 2012Technology Team 2013 Teacher Program Funds raised helped Friends of Acadia The six-mile Eagle Lake loop is the most Funds raised enabled Friends of Acadia Funds raised help launch the AYTT (now The teachers involved in this program reach hundreds of youth through family heavily used section of the carriage road and Maine Coast Heritage Trust to named the Acadia Digital Media Team), (now called Acadia Teacher Fellows) programs and events, such as Acadia system. Funds raised helped Acadia execute a complex, multi-stage process a program comprised of 5 young adults spend 6-8 weeks in Acadia, work side- Raise Quest, volunteerism at Take Pride in National Park replace and up-size four to protect 37 acres along Hadlock Pond’s working to determine how technology by-side with education and interpretive Acadia Day, Earth Day Roadside Clean-up critically needed culverts to prevent western shore. can improve visitor experiences and rangers, share field teaching methods, and internships such as the Acadia Youth erosion and improve fish passage. connect young people to the park. and develop curricula to share with their Timeline Conservation Corps and Ridge Runners. students. Cadillac Historic Vista Seaside Path Historic Structures Bass Harbor Head 2014 Restoration 2015 Restoration 2 016 and Village 2017 of Acadia 2 018 Lighthouse Funds helped launch Cadillac Mountain Funds raised helped restore vistas on the Connector Trails Funds raised have enabled Acadia Acadia National Park is in the process of restoration, a comprehensive program carriage roads and the Park Loop Road. For more than 100 years, the Seaside National Park to begin the restoration of acquiring, restoring, and re-purposing to improve the visitor experience at the While there are still vistas that need Path has been an important connector some of the park’s most iconic structures: Bass Harbor Head Light. Funds raised summit by reducing traffic congestion, to be cleared, visitors now enjoy more trail linking two iconic places on MDI: the Brown Mountain and Jordan Pond have already been used to initiate this educating visitors, and restoring natural of the stunning scenery of Acadia as Jordan Pond and Seal Harbor Beach. gatehouses and the keeper’s House and process, which will continue for the next resources. intended by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. when This multi-year trail restoration is nearly Gilley family house on Baker Island. several years. the roads were constructed. complete.

16 Summer 2019 Friends of Acadia Journal 6 ______Cobblestone Bridge

______Deer Brook Bridge

______Stanley Brook Bridge 7

______Kebo Brook Bridge

______Little Hunters Brook Bridge 8 ______Little Harbor Brook Bridge

______Blackwoods Bridge 9 ______Jordan Pond Dam Bridge

______Amphitheater Bridge 10 ______Eagle Lake Bridge COURTESY LIBRARY OF CONGRESS LIBRARY COURTESY

No Child Eagle Lake Lower Hadlock Acadia Youth Teacher Ranger Paddle 2009 Left Inside 2010 Loop 2 011 Pond 2012 Technology Team 2013 Teacher Program Funds raised helped Friends of Acadia The six-mile Eagle Lake loop is the most Funds raised enabled Friends of Acadia Funds raised help launch the AYTT (now The teachers involved in this program reach hundreds of youth through family heavily used section of the carriage road and Maine Coast Heritage Trust to named the Acadia Digital Media Team), (now called Acadia Teacher Fellows) programs and events, such as Acadia system. Funds raised helped Acadia execute a complex, multi-stage process a program comprised of 5 young adults spend 6-8 weeks in Acadia, work side- Raise Quest, volunteerism at Take Pride in National Park replace and up-size four to protect 37 acres along Hadlock Pond’s working to determine how technology by-side with education and interpretive Acadia Day, Earth Day Roadside Clean-up critically needed culverts to prevent western shore. can improve visitor experiences and rangers, share field teaching methods, and internships such as the Acadia Youth erosion and improve fish passage. connect young people to the park. and develop curricula to share with their Timeline Conservation Corps and Ridge Runners. students. Cadillac Historic Vista Seaside Path Historic Structures Bass Harbor Head 2014 Restoration 2015 Restoration 2 016 and Village 2017 of Acadia 2 018 Lighthouse Funds helped launch Cadillac Mountain Funds raised helped restore vistas on the Connector Trails Funds raised have enabled Acadia Acadia National Park is in the process of restoration, a comprehensive program carriage roads and the Park Loop Road. For more than 100 years, the Seaside National Park to begin the restoration of acquiring, restoring, and re-purposing to improve the visitor experience at the While there are still vistas that need Path has been an important connector some of the park’s most iconic structures: Bass Harbor Head Light. Funds raised summit by reducing traffic congestion, to be cleared, visitors now enjoy more trail linking two iconic places on MDI: the Brown Mountain and Jordan Pond have already been used to initiate this educating visitors, and restoring natural of the stunning scenery of Acadia as Jordan Pond and Seal Harbor Beach. gatehouses and the keeper’s House and process, which will continue for the next resources. intended by John D. Rockefeller, Jr. when This multi-year trail restoration is nearly Gilley family house on Baker Island. several years. the roads were constructed. complete. FOA GRAPHIC BY LISA WILLIAMS Friends of Acadia Journal Summer 2019 17 Dorr, continued from page 15

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to protect Nature from degradation. It was century away from the otherworldliness - BAR HARBOR - their host, George Dorr, who understood of spiritualism to the pragmatic yet THE CAT CAME BACK the growing threats and allied himself with still spiritually-inspiring national park- MAINE - NOVA SCOTIA Harvard President Charles W. Eliot to building goal: conserve for the public the establish in 1901 the Hancock County natural splendors of Mount Desert. � Trustees of Public Reservations, the organization that eventually acquired RONALD EPP is the author of “Creating the lands that became Sieur de Monts Acadia National Park, The Biography of

FERRIES.CA National Monument, the core of George Bucknam Dorr,” published in 2016 today’s Acadia National Park. by Friends of Acadia. It is available locally In effect, Dorr’s priorities shifted and online at Sherman’s Book Store and the during the ﬁ rst decade of the 20th- Bar Harbor Bookshop.

BOOK PROFILES ACADIA FOUNDER Copies of Creating Acadia National Park, The Biography of George Bucknam Dorr by Ronald Epp can be picked up at Sherman’s Bookstore in Bar Harbor, the Bar Harbor Book Shop in Hulls Cove, the Eastern National gift shop at the Acadia National Park Visitor Center (seasonal), and at the Friends of Acadia Office on Cottage Street in Bar Harbor. For links to order a copy online please visit friendsofacadia.org/epp. THOMAS BLAGDEN

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n a late May day in her studio and Echo Lakes; Otter Cliff, the Ladder off the Blacks Woods Road in Trail on Dorr Mountain; and spots along OCherryfield, Liddy Hubbell is the carriage roads, especially Aunt Betty considering some changes to a painting she Pond, Gilmore Meadow, and the cliffs above has been working on. It’s a night view of Wildwood Stables. She loves the shape of Little Long Pond in Seal Harbor. Hubbell the hills—“those curves”—but also the had long avoided this iconic vista, favorite sight of lights on Cadillac as cars descend of artists dating back at least to Frederick after sunset: “They look like fireflies.” Church in the mid-1800s, but she had The carriage roads are “elegant,” Hubbell finally decided to give it a go, spurred on by says, and she also loves the built paths. a dream of the scene bathed in moonlight. Starting in 2014, she made pen-and-ink “I’m going to back out the green a bit,” she with wash drawings of favorite trails. The says, “and maybe gray up the mountain? time capsule assembled for Acadia National Make it a little lighter? Park’s centennial includes her 2016 “I’ve painted so much of Acadia,” calendar featuring the drawings. Hubbell says, listing some of the motifs she Hubbell’s favorite season in Acadia is has explored: Schoodic Point from MDI fall. It’s not just the colors that appeal to and MDI from Schoodic; a “nice tree” in the her. “The fall helps you see,” she explains. Sand Beach parking lot; Jordan Pond, Eagle “Once the trees start turning, they’re not

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nelsongoodwin.com OF CARL LITTLE COURTESY Artist Libby Hubbell of Bar Harbor in her Cherryﬁeld studio. Her art focuses on sharing indelible interpretations of Acadia’s many timeless motifs. 20 Summer 2019 Friends of Acadia Journal PHOTOS COURTESY OF CARL LITTLE PHOTOS COURTESY

Artist Libby Hubbell’s paintings span the seasons in a variety of styles and media. At top right, the view from trail heading south from the summit of Penobscot Mountain in Acadia National Park. At left, above, the Milky Way ﬂoats above the water and boathouse at Little Long Pond in Seal Harbor. At left, the carriage road at the Waterfall Bridge in Acadia National Park.

just all green anymore—you can make out Born Liddy Tebbens, Hubbell grew up she handling the wiring, he, most of the the different individual forms.” And the in Larchmont, New York. She attended carpentry. The house is solar-powered. skies are beautiful that time of year too. MIT, earning a BA in art and design and When their daughter Nora became Hubbell works from memory and a master’s in architecture. She credits her school age, the family moved to Bar photographs and will make small professors with developing the foundation Harbor. An avid biker, Liddy loved being sketches; she gets too distracted working of her visual understanding. “It wasn’t just close to Acadia; “The park really surrounds en plein air. She has used Google how to organize a building,” she recalls: “It you,” she says. She has volunteered with photographs to make sure she has the was about how to organize a space.” Waldron’s Warriors, the group that line of a hill right because that kind of She met her future husband, Brian monitors and maintains cairns. She is a accuracy is important to her. She largely (currently State Representative for District Friends of Acadia member and has donated avoids brushes, preferring rags and 135 that includes Bar Harbor, Lamoine, artwork to its annual auction. a palette knife to create her textured and Mount Desert) at the school. They When Nora headed off to college surfaces. She likes to add wax or a gel to both had connections to Maine, she, in Colorado, the pair moved back to the oil paint to build depth in the color through family vacations to Rangeley and Cherryﬁeld, but they’re in the park all the and surface. The blend dries well and Deer Isle, he, from summer camp at Craig time. “You drive down onto the island and allows her to cut in and scrape down to Pond in Orland. When they started dating, near the airport, you see the western side, bring out the foundation color. The effect they’d drive up to Acadia in Brian’s ’48 and you say, ‘Oh, look at those beautiful is gestural and luminous. Chevy truck and camp. mountains.’ And then you see the ones Hubbell shows her landscapes and They bought the property in Cherryﬁeld to the east. Oh! It happens to me nearly wire sculptures at the Artemis Gallery in in 1986 and married soon after. At the every time.” � Northeast Harbor. Her work has many time, Liddy was doing architecture and admirers, including Maine’s new governor, Brian was in construction management in CARL LITTLE co-authored “Art of Acadia” Janet Mills, who has invited her to hang the Boston area and they wanted to leave with his brother David. He lives in paintings in the Blaine House. the city. They built a camp and then house, Somesville. Friends of Acadia Journal Summer 2019 21 Power to heal, continued from page 7

self-esteem development and behavioral marveling at the sight of the snowy owls, change. Over the months, moaning and and thanking God for Acadia—the elixir complaining turned to elation, as their for all wounds. � bodies and minds strengthened. Now adults, they are devotees of the park and DR. DIANNA EMORY is a retired clinical CLAREMONT HOTEL For over 124 summers upholding the traditions role models for their own children. mental health counselor and founder of of hospitality and leisure on the coast of Maine. Like those young ones, I moaned my the Behavioral Medicine Institute. She {www.theclaremonthotel.com} 1-800-244-5036 way to a pinnacle. I was rewarded by is the author of “Bonding with Nature: FINE DINING - COTTAGES - SUMMER HOTEL memories of magnificent owls in a pristine Responding to Life’s Challenges and the landscape that will last a lifetime. The Aging Process” and the upcoming book, details of the experience have already been “Assess, Adjust, Advance: Facing Adversity used for visual imagery that has enhanced and Finding Your Silver Lining.” She has my treatment. Thanks to the existence of served in many nonprofit board leadership Acadia, the boost of excellence that FOA roles, including at Friends of Acadia, the gives the park, and the medical miracle of Schoodic Institute, Maine Coast Heritage attacking lung cancer with targeted therapy, Trust, and College of the Atlantic. I think I will be up there again next winter, COURTESY OF LIBRARY OF CONGRESS OF LIBRARY COURTESY A drawing of Duck Brook Bridge in Acadia National Park.

Bridge IQ, Correct answers from page 17

1. Amphitheater Bridge 6. Kebo Brook Bridge 2. Blackwoods Bridge 7. Jordan Pond Dam Bridge 3. Cobblestone Bridge 8. Little Hunters Brook Bridge 4. Deer Brook Bridge 9. Little Harbor Brook Bridge 5. Eagle Lake Bridge 10. Stanley Brook Bridge COURTESY OF LIBRARY OF CONGRESS OF LIBRARY COURTESY The Cliffside Bridge on the Carriage Road along the east side of Penobscot Mountain in Acadia National Park. FOA/TOM BLAGDEN

22 Summer 2019 Friends of Acadia Journal New Donors NONPROFIT RESEARCH FOR MAINE AND THE WORLD We are pleased to Neal Dodson Foundation Jennifer and welcome our newest Christy Drinka Robert Jolly Marcus Saunders friends. Nathaniel Duncan JPMorgan Securities Cathryn and Jean and Brian Fahey Charitable Giving Paul Schmidt February 1, 2019 – Scott Feinberg Fund Laura Searfoss May 31, 2019 Phil Feinsot Pamela and Allen King Tina Shafer Derek Fieldsend Lauren and Melissa Williamson Anonymous (2) Carol and Davis Kuykendall Simpson Dianne and William Fortune Lyndon Langthorne Bruce Smith Michael Anciello Marie Fosello Susan Lasalla Maia Smith Cathy Anderson and Martha and Randy Fox Renata Lavach-Savy Jeffrey Sponder Stephen McKay Icy and Scott Frantz Lenora and Gary St. Laurent Evelyn and Dwight Fronsdahl Thornton Lockwood Wray Stalvey David Battle Robert Garner Sarah Lucchesi Barbara Stricklin Eric Bauman Kathryn and Dante Maderal Lynne Swartz Noah Bernstein Charles Green Sally and Tom Magill Marty Szydlowski Brenda Bigelow Karin Greenberg and Scott Marchessault Carl Taplin Blue Ridge Parkway Edward Mistler Kevin Marston Cameron Target At JAX, Foundation Greenwich Garden Caroline and Taylor Strategic Doug, Carolyn, and Club Richard Martin Partnerships Acadia Bost Jean-Pierre Guedes Leland McClaire Andy Tennille Timothy Brooks Jeanne Guglielmo and David and Taleen Mena Bibi Tucker Ellen and Peter Dalury Brenda Merritt Missy Van Buren- Daniel Byrum Glenn Gurney Terese and Will Miller Brown and Mary Cahillane and Laurie Hagar The Montclair Group Tom Brown CURES Dianna Labonte Vicki Hall Robert Morris Janet Wahlberg Terry Campbell Anne and James Hart Emily Muise Victoria Wang Russell Chamberlin MJ Hartka Judy and Kerry Olsen Jeff Watson re n our Jane and David Edward Hasler Susan and Eric Wenberg Chapman Mark Horsburgh Chris Pappas Susan Wetherald Choate, Hall and Jenna Horton and Carol A. Perry Adam Whitcomb Stewart Steve Boucher Peter Pettengill William Blair & Kathy Chruscielski Scott Hoyt Richard Phippen Company Louise Clark Shera and Bill Hube Elise Piazza John Williamson Gerald Collins Abby Huckel and Gary Plowman Elizabeth and DNA Frank Colonna Ben Rubins Charles Powers Eddie Winstead Kim Crayco James Ingle Lois Powers Kathryn Wujcik Deborah Crooks Sandra and Bob Reichman Rachel Yates Paul Dell’Aquila Ronald Jacobs Susan Richard Rosemary York Tony DiGennaro John W. Henry Family Caitlin Saltonstall

VISIT US AT WWWJAXORG/MAINE THOMAS BLAGDON Friends of Acadia Journal Summer 2019 23 Updates Wetland Restoration Outreach Wild Acadia Coordinator Brian Henkel led a discussion this winter at the Jesup Library in Bar Harbor about how the Great Meadow within the Cromwell Brook watershed has changed over time and what conditions people might like to see in the future. Henkel shared information about historical cranberry harvesting, ditching, and roadbuilding. He also talked about current efforts to remove invasive plants, monitor water levels, and improve wildlife passage along stream corridors as they cross under roads. The event was well attended, and a positive opportunity to share Wild Acadia monitoring initiatives, habitat improvement strategies, and projects to restore ecological resiliency. On October 16, Henkel will give a similar talk to the Southwest Harbor Historical Society, sharing what is known about the FOA/ASHLEY CONTI Atlantic Landscape Construction’s Pablo Perez (left) and Josue Lopez plant a tree in the wetland restoration area at Marshall Brook Watershed and seeking Sieur de Monts in Acadia National Park. Restoration of a forested wetland at the former septic ﬁeld site followed feedback from the public about issues of a plan prepared by Roger St. Amand of Atlantic Resource Co. LLC. Last fall, Friends of Acadia hired Atlantic concern and desired improvements. Landscape to complete the soil manipulations and plant appropriate tree and shrub species. The new habitat will continued on page 27 continue to develop over time to match the surrounding landscape.

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48 Down, Two To Go FOA/EARL BRECHLIN Friends of Acadia currently has members The late Neil “Goose” O’Keefe rides the ferry to Isle au Haut during his 2014 Acadia Quest. living in 48 states—all but Alaska and North Dakota—but we would like to be in Honor of Goose event. Neil “Goose” year’s Acadia Quest, contact Lisa Horsch represented in all 50! Can you help? If O’Keefe participated in FOA’s Acadia Quest Clark or Paige Steele at the FOA ofﬁ ces at you have friends or family in these states, annually for many years with his mother, 207-288-3340. please encourage them to visit our website Laura Mathews. Their Quest team name May the force be with you! at www.friendsofacadia.org, learn more was Moose and Goose. about us, and make a membership gift After ﬁ nishing the Quest and returning Membership Survey Complete to support our work to preserve Acadia home to Connecticut in 2017, Goose died In late February of this year, Friends of National Park. unexpectedly in his sleep. He especially Acadia launched a comprehensive survey We also have members in 13 countries loved two things in life—Star Wars and of its members, donors, volunteers, and on six continentsevery—continent but Acadia National Park. We all like to think of friends. The goal was to better understand Antarctica. If you know someone who lives Neil as a Jedi defender of Acadia. To that end. who our members and supporters are, what there, please send them our website and and as a way to honor Goose, Laura plans the they like most about FOA’s programs and encourage them to join. hike-a-thon each year at a beautiful park in Acadia National Park, what they believe is her hometown and donates all the proceeds the most important role FOA can play in Moose and Goose to Friends of Acadia to help protect Acadia helping to preserve and protect Acadia, and More than 50 hikers gathered at Burr and support our youth programming and what they see as the most important issues Pond State Park in Torrington, CT on June conservation work in the park. facing FOA and the park. 9 for the 2nd Annual Hike with Moose To learn more about the event or this The 50-question survey was offered electronically online and via a mailed paper survey. We emailed a link to 16,000 constituents in February, included the link in the March E-news, and shared it on our social media platforms in February and March. The goal was to have more than 1,000 respondents. When the survey closed on April 11, we had 1,097. The data book for the survey is 271 pages long and we are still analyzing the results. The FOA staff has enjoyed reading the many thoughtful comments and good ideas shared by constituents. According to survey results, most respondents are familiar with Earth Day, Take Pride in Acadia Day, and the Island Explorer bus system. Many respondents feel that an

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riends of Acadia’s Trailblazer money. Eighty-eight respondents said destinations in the park. They will help FMonthly Giving program they have included FOA in their estate reduce plastic waste by giving visitors easy spreads your membership gifts plans and an additional 181 respondents ways to hydrate using their own water bottles. throughout the year, using a credit said they would consider including FOA None of these projects would have been card. Trailblazer gifts go farther, in their estate plans in the future. possible without the spirit, creativity, and saving paper and postage costs by Friends of Acadia was fortunate to have generosity of the Acadia Centennial Partners. avoiding renewal requests. Gifts longtime FOA member Brian Robertson, Acadia’s visitors will benefit throughout the are processed on the first business Vice President of Research at Market park’s next century. � day of each month, beginning Decision Research, vet the questions, the month after you sign up. Each January we’ll mail you a letter interpret results, and provide additional pro acknowledging your total gift for bono expertise throughout the process. the past year, with our thanks for We always welcome emails and phone Seeking Info your help in protecting Acadia—all calls from members, volunteers, and friends. year long. Please call the office at 207-288-3340 or from Respondents email [email protected]. o be a Trailblazer, just go to Are you one of the 88 friendsofacadia.org/giving- T Centennial Sales Fund Bike Racks, respondents who indicated in the membership/monthly-giving and Water Stations click on the “Give Now” button. survey that they have included After designating the amount you If you stop by the Jordan Pond House FOA in their estate plans or have would like to donate each month, this summer, park your bike on the new made a bequest in their will to select “Make this a monthly gift.” bicycle racks and stay awhile. The racks benefit Friends of Acadia and You can change the amount of were funded with proceeds from Acadia the park? If so, thank you! We your gift or opt out of the program Centennial products. As part of the 2016 would love to know who you at any time. Centennial celebrations, 140 businesses are and invite you to join us at and organizations designed and sold a future George B. Dorr Society products that were approved by the Acadia event. Simply contact Lisa or For information, Centennial Task Force. Sellers agreed to another FOA team member at contact Development Officer contribute at least 5 percent of the proceeds [email protected] or Sharon Broom at 207-288-3340 or back for projects in the park. [email protected] 207-288-3340. FOA also bought five new water- filling stations that will be installed at key 30 Summer 2019 Friends of Acadia Journal Chair’s Letter

SUMMER SWINGS INTO HIGH SEASON

fter many months of anticipation, John D. Rockefeller, Jr. commissioned high summer is now here. The busy Atterbury to design it in the French Aseason has quickly unfurled. Some Norman Revival-style and the structure highlights I have been looking forward to is now a flagship building featuring a all winter include welcoming Friends of museum interpreting the history of the Acadia’s seasonal hires as they get to work region including the former Naval base, in the park in June, attending the annual and a hub for the activities of Schoodic meeting at the Bar Harbor Club in July, Institute. the Annual Benefit Auction held in August FOA and Schoodic Institute are key celebrating 30 years of success, and most partners always striving to work more importantly, coveted quality time out in the closely, learning from one another. That park with family and friends. long-running, collaborative relationship This summer, I plan to utilize the Island strengthens both organizations as we strive Explorer shuttle bus more often especially for the advancement and betterment of when I need to be in Bar Harbor. I hope Acadia National Park. to establish a routine of using the bus to A fine example of establishing a new go to Jordan Pond House for a popover FOA partnership came this past spring when or to access some of Acadia’s busier and Cadillac Mountain. The sweeping FOA joined forces with the Brandywine trailheads and parking lots. With a little pink granite shoreline has been magically Conservancy and Museum of Art for an pre-planning, using the Explorer is easy, weathered by eons of wind and waves. event in Chadd’s Ford, Pennsylvania. and ridership is free. The verdant forest canopy is lush and While our two communities are many This year marks a significant milestone includes a wide diversity of trees, shrubs, miles apart, we each share long traditions for the shuttle. Thanks to state, federal and and plants. Ideally when I go, I will pack of conservation and philanthropy, as well local government support, and backing my camera and take my bike so I can as many members in common. Sharing by FOA and grants from L.L.Bean over leisurely explore and focus on the majestic stories and broadening relationships the years, the system has flourished, viewsheds. geographically and culturally has transporting nearly 8 million visitors over tremendous benefits to all. The gathering its 20 years. Who can imagine what the Wherever your path leads you was a terrific opportunity to catch up with visitor experience would be like without it? many FOA supporters and friends in the Another summer aspiration is to spend this summer, be it remote or offseason. time in the less-traveled places in the park. well-traveled, I hope you will Wherever your path leads you this One potential off-the-beaten-track summer, be it remote or well-traveled, I destination is somewhat ambitious—Isle prioritize any opportunity to hope you will prioritize any opportunity au Haut, an island in the Penobscot Bay. be out in the natural beauty to be out in the natural beauty of Acadia, With access via ferry from Stonington, of Acadia, soaking up all that soaking up all that nature has to offer. there are more than 20 miles of hiking trails And, thanks to our many, many FOA along the rugged coast of cliffs, coves and nature has to offer. members and friends who continue to craggy beaches. A visit to Isle au Haut will support the vital work of preserving, appeal to curious souls looking to wander This August FOA will hold our summer protecting and caring for Acadia in its more remote areas. board meeting at the Schoodic Education second century. Happy Trails. Schoodic Peninsula is a part of Acadia and Research Center campus where that I try to visit at least once a summer we will also gather with the Schoodic In Gratitude, season. I confess it often feels like there Institute’s board and staff. One of my are not enough hours in the day to fully favorite buildings is Rockefeller Hall, explore the landscape or become familiar an architectural gem on the Schoodic —Anne B. Green with the expanded network of trails. campus; it was masterly designed by the Schoodic is a true ethereal beauty renowned Grosvenor Atterbury who also situated on the rocky coast with designed the Brown Mountain and Jordan commanding views of Frenchman Bay Pond gate houses on Mount Desert Island. Friends of Acadia Journal Summer 2019 31 Special People

MARY AND PHIL GALPERIN By Earl Brechlin

uring their ﬁrst visit to Acadia on their honeymoon in 1988, Mary Dand Phil Galperin planned to spend some time in Maine celebrating their love and the beginning of their life together. Little did they realize at the time it also was the start of a decades-long love affair with a special place that also captured their hearts. “We originally thought we’d spend a few days and then continue on to Quebec,” recalls Mary. “By the third day we decided to just spend all of our time right here.” For the next 18 years the couple, then living in coastal New Jersey, spent at least a week in Acadia annually. Before long, those trips morphed into occasional stays lasting a month, or more. And it was during those visits that they decided to volunteer for one of Friends of Acadia’s drop-in trail work days.

“We read about the trail crew in the FOA THOMAS FOA/JULIA WALKER Journal,” explains Mary. “We enjoyed the hard Mary and Phil Galperin have been sharing their love for Acadia National Park as Friends of Acadia volunteers for three decades. work, digging ditches, cutting brush, moving rocks, using a Pulaski,” she adds. They became Friends of Acadia members FOA’s good works, ever since. of FOA’s George B. Dorr Society, composed and eventually worked their way up from “I just love this park and being able to talk of folks who have made provisions to drop-in volunteers to experienced hands to people and share in their experiences,” continue their support in their estate plans. and crew leaders. Among the projects Mary explains. Many jump at the chance to According to Mary, that ﬁrst trip to Acadia they lent their hearts and hands to were join as a method of protecting a place they more than 30 years ago set the couple the rehabilitation of the Ocean Path along have connected with in a special way, she on a path that has been extraordinarily Ocean Drive, as well as trails in the Schooner continues. “Often they don’t realize they rewarding. “You get more than you give Head and Duck Brook areas. were looking for a way to give back until we when you’re truly part of the team that takes Eight years ago, Phil, a retired lieutenant talk about it,” she says. care of this park,” Mary explains. “We all with the Philadelphia Fire Department, “There is great satisfaction and enjoyment have a common purpose and goal.” and Mary, who worked in insurance and in connecting to families that appreciate Those rewards also come in the form of banking, bought property in downtown what this park represents,” Phil adds. long and lasting friendships the couple have Bar Harbor and built a modest home. Most Over the years, Phil says he has come to made with other volunteers and people in for their friends at the time thought they deeply appreciate the diversity of experiences the community as their lives shifted to focus were crazy, Mary recalls. “They thought we available in the park. Acadia’s mix of sea and around Acadia. should be moving to Florida.” shore, forest and mountains, lakes and trails “We fell in love. We came here. We fell in It was around that time that another offer unlimited recreational and spiritual love all over again,” she says. � volunteer suggested that, in addition to renewal, he believes. “There’s something here trail work, the Galperins might be good for people at every age,” he notes. EARL BRECHLIN is Friends of Acadia’s candidates for FOA’s Membership Table at Along with being members and Communications Director. the Jordan Pond House. They have been volunteers, the Galperins also have been serving there, sharing the news about all of regular donors to FOA. They are members

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