Rockland, ME, Lauded as Getaway Destination
A family hikes along the mile-long breakwater toward the lighthouse. Photo by Joe Devenney
Bangor Daily News: The worm has turned, baby. Rockland has stolen most of Camden’s iconic windjammer fleet. Rockland’s lower rents have attracted a slew of art galleries that cluster around the famed Farnsworth Art Museum like a mother hen feeding her chicks.
Even people who love the Lobster City will be surprised by the treatment Rockland got in the September issue of Coastal Living magazine, based in Birmingham, Alabama, of all places. This glossy mag says Rockland “feels like a slice of Greenwich Village.”
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Tom Richardson is the co-director and host of BoatingLocal. Before that he served as the editor of Northeast Boating from 2005 to 2009, and as managing editor of Salt Water Sportsman magazine from 1995 to 2004. He lives, boats and fishes in southeastern Massachusetts with his wife and three kids.
