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Rockland Maine's Old Granite Inn

Rockland Maine's Old Granite Inn sculpture hewn from tons of St. George,
Read Jetsetters Magazine at Maine artisan-dressed granite.
To read this entire feature FREE with John, the innkeeper, originally from
photos cut and paste this link: California, greeted me and showed me
Every year in an Outside Magazine around the modest inn, and then took me
readers' poll, Rockland, Maine ranks to my room, an airy corner alcove on the
among the top 100 best small towns to second floor (room #6) with windows all
live in. This is the town where the then around for great views of the bay.
controversial 1957 Lana Turner soap opera John's wife, Regan is an educator from
flick, Peyton Place, was filmed - back New York City. John is a former engineer,
when the most dangerous thing in a small so he keeps the inn in tiptop shape.
town was . . . gossip! The producers There's a steam radiator for heat in the
wanted to give small, hometown America a winter, but it is summer, and I didn't
risqué shock that today is a comical need the ceiling fans, so I popped open
celluloid version of homespun Americana, the large windows for fresh breezes
a mild comparison to what is on the coming off the saltwater bay.
Internet today. The OGI has 11 standard rooms, nine with
Maine joins only one other state in the private baths, but try to get my room,
lower 48, the only state to do so. It is #6, the best room, with private bath and
the only state with a single syllable. a king comfy bed, period-piece dresser
Life in Maine is a simple life, not many drawers, and replicated gray-stripped
complexities. Rockland has not changed Colonial Federalist wallpaper. The
much since the '50s. I guess that is why natural hardwoods throughout the inn have
the PP producers chose it for their been painstakeningly restored.
mighty cult genre. On the ground floor, the living room is
I was sitting in a local café one fine stocked with books about the area, with a
summer day, gazing upon the black and fireplace in front of the sofas to curl
white photos on the wall of a bygone era up in with one of those tomes. The dining
of the historic Main Street. There used area is just off to the back, where Regan
to be an electric trolley line down the serves her famous quiche in the morning.
main drag, and the gossip is they are You can come cook for me anytime, Regan.
bringing it back. I can see Peyton Place Breakfast is from 8-9 a.m., with coffee
in the frozen-in-time snapshots. Rockland at 7 a.m.
is still a great place to live. Main From 1906-1984 the Old Granite Inn served
Street is now on the National Register of as an Elks Club, but it was originally
Historic Places, with most of the old built in the 1700s as a family home. The
brick buildings housing ice cream shops, gray terrazzo floors were added after a
bookstores, cafés and bars, museums and fire gutted the building in the 1940s.
art galleries. Rockland is a wonderful John and Regan Cary live in a more
place to visit in the summer - just for contemporary home attached to the OGI.
all those farm fresh flavors of ice Regan was working hard in a computer
cream! cubby hole, designing a flyer for a
But beneath the surface, the community rummage sale that day, taking place in
has a lot going for it. MBNA moved into the basement. I checked out the items for
town and is the main employer, the sale, and John was doing a brisk business
largest privately owned credit card for such an early morning start.
issuer is the U.S., with their corporate Get on their email newsletter at
restored stark white Greek Check out is at 11 a.m., but I was
Revivalist-style headquarters near the staying longer in town, so with Regan's
water, giving it a campus-like feel. It permission I left my bags and came back
is fun to walk around Rockland, to view later and left the key in the basket by
the old mansions and buildings; duck into the door. That gave me a warm, small town
a canoe and dory building shop to see feeling, and I can see why Rockland is
dense, white Maine cedar turned into a voted one of the best small towns to live
recreational work of art. in - because of people like John and
One place not to be missed is the Regan.
Farnsworth Art Museum, rather museums. Summer Fun In Maine
Farnsworth is a respected name in The North Atlantic Blues Festival, winner
Rockland, and you will find a three-story of the Blues Foundations "Keeping the
art gallery museum in the old bank Blues Alive Award", runs in July at
building on Main Street, and then a few Harbor Park, in Rockland. I noted that
blocks to the back is the magnificent Shemekia Copeland was one of the
Pirate Museum (entrance $7). headliners at the 2003 event, whom I saw
The Pirate Museum is a vast collection of in Vegas, and she shouldn't be missed.
dramatic seafaring oil paintings, mostly Tickets are only $20 per day, $25 at the
create by the notable Wyeths (The museum door, or better yet, $35 for a weekend
is known as the Wyeth Center.), a three pass. Call 207/593-1189 or call the
generational collection of their canvases Rockland Chamber of Commerce at 800
that portrays the days of yore and lore 562-2526.
on the high seas. Rockland still Port cargo is up 43% over the prior year
maintains its links to windjammers and in the Rockland port, but the fishing
packet boats. Many summertime windjammers haul is down at the Portland Fish
load up a cargo of tourists for cruises Exchange, as was the number of cruise
through the Penobscot Bay islands. Later ships in the harbor. The cruise ships are
in the day I watched ferry boats load all going over to Bar Harbor, now, but
trucks and cars for the largest island, you can still catch a family outing on a
Vinalhaven, where in the past much of the traditional coastal schooner through the
famous Maine granite was quarried. Maine Windjammer Association Do not miss
The regional airport is located just the Pirate Museum at the Farrington/Wyeth
outside Rockland at the Knox County Museum in Rockland. Find out why pirates
Airport; the terminal is a throw back to capture our imagination from these
simpler times. I think they still shoo imaginative portraits, murals, and
cows off the runway, but the security seascapes. I guess there is a little of a
problems of the world have hit home - pirate in all of us. Then you will have
four TSA agents checked my bags on the some jargon to swap with the maties on
flight out - I was the only passenger on your summer windjammer cruise.
the plane, so they had plenty of time to For the best on Maine on TV check out
unzip everything. On my flight to Maine I "Bill Green's Maine" on Channel WLEZ in
met returning residents bound for some of Bangor, Maine, or WCSH in Portland,
the coastal islands. The main Maine Maine, or visit
airline into the terminal is Colgan, a The Rockland Farmers' Market Association
rubber-band express service of USAir, is an organization of independent local
with connecting flights primarily to farmers, growers, and producers who offer
Boston. The local bus terminal is located a wide variety of locally produced farm
at the Ferry terminal, which is probably fresh foods, plants, flowers and other
really the main hub of the town because a products. Many of those products can be
marina is located close by. purchased in the stores on Main Street.
The Rockland ferry terminal is across Acadia National Park is close by, great
Main Street from the best place to stay for rock climbing with Acadia Mountain
in town - the historic Old Granite Inn, a Guides: or call 800/232-9559.
Colonial Federalist architectural




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