Back in the US of A! Cleared customs at Calais Maine, kind of comforting to be back in the states, but I don’t know why. Canada is a perfectly safe and sane country save for a few oddities mostly in Quebec. But the signs are just in English and the road markings familiar. (I never really understood what a flashing green signal light meant)
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| FDR's little cottage in Campobello. Can you find Patsy? |
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| Eastern most lighthouse in the US |
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| The view from our front door this morning |
Today we are in Lubec, Maine, the most eastwardly US community in the lower 48. Lubec is not particularly eastward compared to Nova Scotia just up the road, but everyone needs their own lame claim to fame. We came here to visit the island of Campobello which is just north of here via a very short bridge, and a customs crossing back into Canada. This is the site of the Roosevelt Campobello International Park. This park is jointly administered by the US and Canadian governments and was the summer home of FDR. Franklin came here with his parents as a very young child, they built a summer “cottage” here in the 1890s, and FDR built his 32 room cottage in 1910 or so. While quite spacious it had no electricity or gas, It was heated and lit by wood and kerosene. It was very lovely and the place to be in August and September when New York was just too hot! All the upper crust from the east coast were here. Campobello was where FDR enjoyed being with his family, Eleanor gave birth to Franklin Jr. here, and unfortunately FDR came down with polio while he was here.
We had our first official Lobster dinner in Lubec. The menu advertised “Lobstah” with fries, cole slaw, and root vegetables. It was delicious. Just a local place right on the water, where patrons greeted everyone coming a going, where the waitress graduated from high school with 13 other graduates, but was going to the local community college and hoped to move to Alaska.
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