Northeast Region Ethnography Program

The Waterfront of Otter Creek: A Community History

History of the community of Otter Creek, Maine, and its historical connections with the waterfront in Acadia National Park. Early families settled there and earned a living fishing and lobstering. Book recounts changes to relationship betw…

The Tarn: Community Recollections and Reflections

Interviews of 27 residents of the Bar Harbor and Otter Creek areas about the Tarn, now a small, shallow pond and emergent wetland; it was originally a meadow.