Especially during a pandemic...

An Amtrak Downeaster at the Portland train station

“It appears to be the firm conviction of many of the Maine citizenry that since there’s no legal way to keep people from coming to Maine, the least that can be done is to make it as inconvenient as possible.’’

-- Lew Dietz, in Night Train at Wiscasset Station (1977) on the end of passenger-train service to Maine. Passenger train service has since been restored, first to Portland and then extended to Brunswick.

A favorite summer eatery in Wiscasset

Wiscasset’s Nickels-Sortwell House, built in 1807, after the town had prospered as a shipbuilding and fishing center. There are many grand old houses in the town.