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Time to exercise the horse at Maine's Scarborough DownsThe chairs, the table and everything on it is from one estate sale.One of a number of pianos that Bill Johnson has for auction at the museum.Johnson buys stuff at estate sales, then auctions it off. The cupola on the Johnson Hall Museum came from a demolished Howard Johnson restaurant.Bill Johnson salvaged this eagle and its twin from the Portland, Me. railroad station before it was demolished. Now they grace twin pillars in front of this museum.Carved on the bottom of this chair is an inscription that reads: Franklin D. Roosevelt sat here, 1931, from the Johnson Hall Museum collection, Wells, Me.This strip of US Route 1 in Machias, Me., called "the breezeway," is host to farmer's markets and this flea market most days.Lubec, Me., seen from Campobello Island, New Brunswick, Canada.This spot overlooking the water used to be occupied by a house that belonged to James Roosevelt, father of Franklin D.Another restored guest cottage on Campobello Island, N.B., Canada.One of the former guest The tiny Maine town of Lubec remembers those who served.Eastport, Me., is the first spot on North America to be touched by light from the rising sun at dawn, each day.This stone, erected by the U.S. Dept. of Commerce in 1896, marks the exact spot equidistant between the equator and the North Pole.This sign graces the front door of 45th Parallel, an antiques and sundries store run by Chicago expatriate Phil Pascarella in Perry, Me.The carpenters, masons and artisans who came with Dugua built in the style they knew, thought to be typical of southwestern France in the early 1600s.The St. Croix settlement was established by French nobleman Pierre Dugua, one of the men who explored this part of the coast of North America with Samuel de Champlain in the early 1600s.This is a scale model of the original French settlement on St. Croix Island, a tiny speck at the mouth of the St. Croix River. Today, it is part of the international boundary between Maine and New Brunswick, Canada.Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge has five nesting sites for Osprey. One gets appropriated each year by a nesting pair of bald eagles. This eagle has a chick in the nest that is not visible in the photo.A bald eagle nest in the Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge southwest of Calais, Me.An osprey nest in Moosehorn National Wildlife Refuge near Calais, Me.This list of diseases is inside the home of Dr. Job Holmes, a mid 19th century medical practitioner in Calais. His home is now a museum.Fred Becker, 65, retired from Georgia pacific in 1993. He devoted himself to preserving the history of Calais. He gave me a two-hour guided tour of some of the city's historical sites.A marker for the East Coast Greenway made from Florida limestone. The Greenway originates in Calais, Me.Calais Waterfront Walkway."Grampie Bill" Gibson, proprietor of Grampie Bill's place, Calais, Me.Junkyard outside Caribou, Me.Depiction of Saturn in Aroostook County, Me.Windmills of Maine.Dandelions in a potato field outside Presque Isle, Me.Ken and Clare Arndt, owners of Arndt's Aroostook River Campground and Lodge, Presque Isle, Me.Girl With a Watering Can Park, Caribou, Me.A stream from the Aroostook River flows past this idylic park in Caribou, Me.Mike True and Edie Williams, proprietors of Lille Antiques.Antique cookware at Lille Antiques, Lille, Me.Cathedral, Lille, Me.Four Corners Park, Madawaska, Me.Buckwheat mill, Bouchard Family Far, Fort Kent.Rita bouchard, matriarch of Bouchard Family Farm, Fort Kent.Janice Bouchard, of Bouchard family Farm, Fort Kent, Me.Olad skipper Aaron LincolnSloop olad, harbor, Camden, Me.Harbor Dogs price list for sandwiches.Harbor Dogs hot dog stand, Camden, Me.The harbor at Camden, Me.Camden, Me.Alamo Theater, Bucksport, Me.Belfast harbor sign asking for help with marine mammal strandings.Belfast, Maine, downtownMovie theater in downtown Belfast, Me.Fort Knox, Bucksport, Me.Hot dog vendor on Searsport beach.Penobscot Narrows Bridge at Bucksport, Me.The Penobscot River clean up efforts have worked well enough to entice Atlantic salmon back to the river.The Penobscot River at Bucksport, Me.The Penobscot Bay, off Searsport, Me.Old bottles for sale, Searsport, Me.Moose antlers for sale at Searsport Antiques Mall.Antiques store in Searsport, Me.Fragments of the Berlin Wall, now on the Maine State Pier in Portland.Maine Responder, based in Portland, Me.Antiques Mall in Searsport, Me., known as the Ellsworth, Me., Civil War MonumentEllswworth City HallPenobscot Narrows Bridge replaced an older one in 1931The Penobscot Narrow Bridge