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writing aboard an old schooner past its sailing days. Old Orchard Beach, closest to Portland, boasts a tremendous reach of firm sand and is a holiday playground for thousands seeking relief from summer heat. The hardpacked sands also provided an excellent airstrip for many of the early transatlantic flyers.
AROUND PORTLAND HARBOR Portland and its environs offer the movie maker enough subject matter for a complete vacation film; or they can readily serve as a single sequence in a film covering more of the Maine coast. Besides being a New England seaport town of historic interest, Portland is a great tourists' center and the starting place for most Maine vacations. Portland Head Light, probably the most famous Maine lighthouse, is on a military reservation and usually closed to the public; but Cape Elizabeth with its Two Lights is not far away. A picnic sequence on the rocky shore, with the lighthouses as a background, will add much to the New England flavor of your film, as will the fishermen on the rocks and in nearby boats.
Portland, too, is the home port for the first of the several windjammer cruises that are an increasingly popular form of Maine vacation, as well as being ideal motion picture material. Other Maine coastal towns which offer windjammer cruises of one or two weeks' duration are Boothbay Harbor, Rockland, Camden, Belfast and Bar Harbor.
.North and east of Portland the foreshore becomes more rugged, taking on more of the fjord-like characteristics of the Norwegian coastline. Offshore islands become more numerous and rocky headlands surround the many deep bays, long sounds and far reaches of the sea. This is a drowned-mountain coastline, where the submergence of the land has created magnificent scenery and excellent boating and fishing.
PORTLAND TO DAMARISCOTTA It is only a little more than fifty miles by direct highway from Portland to Damariscotta; but side roads reaching toward the sea are numerous and it is down these
FROM TRAPS TO TABLE is the beguiling course of the Maine lobster. A short sequence or a full film might be made of this industry.
roads that the movie maker will find much of interest. Brunswick, on the main highway, was the home of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom's Cabin, and Bowdoin College is close by. Popharn Beach, where the first English colony in New England was planted in 1007. lies at land's end east of Bath. Between Bath and Damariscotta several side roads lead tow aid the sea and such noted vacation spots as Boothha\ Harbor and Georgetown. Damariscotta, the starting point for side trips in many directions, maintains a tourists' information office right on the main highway. Again good side roads lead to the sea and Pemaquid Point — a combination of rocky coast, restlessly surging sea, and a real oldlime lighthouse that goes back to 1824. Nearby is Fort William Henry, a reconstructed version of a colonial stronghold built in 1692 as a defense against pirates and Indians. Also close by is the almost land-locked port of New Harbor, old despite its name, where lobster pots literally choke the piers and the filmer seeking a [Continued on page 193J
BOW TO BOW in impromptu pattern are these boats moored at the yacht club landing at Camden. Figure in foreground would help.