Eastport Commons, Writing Retreat or Just Pleasure

 

Around this time last year I stopped by whim in the town of Eastport Maine, on my way home from St John, Canada. I liked the feel immediately and rented a small house in the center of town overlooking the harbor. On walking around I could see the revitalization happening and not the big corporate type. It actually was a grass roots effort promoted by nine local ladies and centered around a store/ lodging place called the Commons. Over 90 Maine artisans show their work there. In my quest for a repeat of a peaceful fall week on the Maine coast I saw a bit about the Common and Eastport in the New England Travel Guide ’09. Watching the sun rise at the first place in the US for a week, heaven, writer sabbaticals are offered off season!