Lodging
Crocker Pond
LODGING-Jan/Feb 2010
By Hilary Nangle | Photographs by Trent Bell
A retreat in Bethel’s snowy, adventure-filled woods
Dusk descends as I motor along the North Road, a rural byway that runs parallel to the Androscoggin River between Bethel and Gilead. Lacelike flurries, the advance scouts of an approaching storm, tat the windshield and dance in the headlights. The woods disappear into shadows. Snowflakes filter through the treetops and float to the down-covered ground. The woods are lovely, dark and deep, I say to myself. But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.
Suite Dreams Are Made of These
LODGING-Nov/Dec 2009
By Hilary Nangle | Photographs by Trent Bell
Too often suites aren’t so sweet. You arrive expecting a suite of rooms and instead open the door to an oversized hotel room.
Destination Dining
Two of Maine’s top tables can be found within two of its finest inns
LODGING-October 2009
By Hilary Nangle | Photographs by Trent Bell
Kennebunkport and Camden are Maine icons, popular with travelers, and rich in rave-worthy B&Bs and inns. Among these, two stand out, each having earned national acclaim. Both the well-established White Barn Inn in Kennebunk’s Lower Village and relative newcomer the Camden Harbour Inn cater to a wealthy, worldly clientele that values the finer things in life, especially fine dining.
The Bass Cottage Inn and Ullikana
Refined Victoriana in Bar Harbor
LODGING-September 2009
By Hilary Nangle | Photographs by Trent Bell
Just off Bar Harbor’s Main Street, steps away from ice cream parlors and T-shirt shops, banks and restaurants, are two side-by-side Victorian mansions, both survivors of the Great Fire of 1947. The Ullikana and the Bass Cottage Inn not only share an address in The Field, a pocket of quiet and seclusion that few tourists stumble upon, but also a heritage as cottages for the elite rusticators who summered here.
