tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263500.post114009036887346382..comments2023-10-02T07:55:24.415-04:00Comments on Words Matter: Down the coast of MaineJimhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01763876658345223153noreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263500.post-1140106644285191432006-02-16T11:17:00.000-05:002006-02-16T11:17:00.000-05:00I suppose a better rendering might have been, "Ell...I suppose a better rendering might have been, "Ellsworth, the summer tourist's jumping off point for Bar Harbor and other points Downeast."<BR/><BR/>I would concur with your characterization of Ellsworth.<BR/><BR/>I found myself pondering, as I again rambled D'east (I last was there conducting interviews for WTHT, Fall of 2004), is how little of Maine I actually experience. I've visited Florida, for gawd's sake, more than Bar Harbor! <BR/><BR/>Strange indeed.Jimhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01763876658345223153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263500.post-1140101357102128642006-02-16T09:49:00.000-05:002006-02-16T09:49:00.000-05:00I'm sorry Jim, I know it looks like I always nit p...I'm sorry Jim, I know it looks like I always nit pick at your posts (although you will keep throwing out these unsubstantiated statements I'm probably no better at fact checking myself!). I want to add that I think the photos and post are great and a good read. I too love Helens but I never have enough room for pie after the fried clams!Wisdom Weaselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18216020315074987565noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9263500.post-1140100749424866482006-02-16T09:39:00.000-05:002006-02-16T09:39:00.000-05:00"Ellsworth, the summer’s tourist mecca". Good god...."Ellsworth, the summer’s tourist mecca". <BR/><BR/>Good god. If a tourist winds up on vacation in Ellsworth, they are doing something very, very wrong indeed. Ellsworth is an armpit; a place so flea ridden it makes Rumford look like Colonial Williamsburg by comparison. Tourists go <EM>through</EM> Ellsworth, which is why they have some of the most expensive gas in the state there.<BR/><BR/>Next time we hang out I'll have to give you the skinny on living and working in eastern Hancock County and hanging out in the "WC o' Maine"- ol' Washington County, the Mississippi of the east.Wisdom Weaselhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18216020315074987565noreply@blogger.com