Column: Our trip to Maine

The golden-rod is yellow;

The corn is popping brown;

The timber in apple orchards

With fruit are bending down.

The gentian’s bluest fringes

Are curling within the solar;

In dusty pods the milkweed

Its hidden silk has spun.

From “September” — Helen Hunt Jackson.

We spent three fantastic days on the Fisherman’s Wharf Inn on the shore of Sales space Bay Harbor, Maine. It’s the embodiment of a small, lively fishing village in New England. It additionally caters to guests when handy from Could by October. Charming outlets stand shoulder to shoulder, crowding the few slender streets. And the meals! We steeped ourselves to the eyebrows with lobsters, clam chowder, lobster bisque, mussels, oysters, haddock and different delicacies discovered greatest alongside the coast of New England.

We flew to and from the Portland airport. The Sales space Bay area is about an hour and 1 / 4 north and east of Portland on very advantageous roads. Alongside the way in which, in Bathtub, we noticed one of many Navy’s next-generation destroyer.

International warming is affecting the Bay of Maine fishing. Lobsters and different species have moved north due to the rising heat of the water. Maine scientists are cataloging the numerous results of rising greenhouse gases and local weather change on the state. Sea ranges, extra frequent extreme storms, elevated environmental harm, and public well being maladies should be addressed

The climate was most cooperative. Heat days within the mid-70’s, a few sprinkles, full moon. Bushes have begun to show tawny, gold and auburn.

Maine has turn out to be depending on immigrant employees and welcomes them gratefully. Many come throughout the vacationer season from international locations comparable to Turkey, Bulgaria, and Romania to work in inns and eating places. They’re keen to speak about their experiences and impressions about America and are puzzled at our unusual politics. One younger Turk has an engineering diploma and inexperienced card. If Trump wins in 2024 he plans to return to his house nation.

Maine has two congressional districts: Down East, the counties hugging the south alongside the coast are Democratic; the remaining, although geographically bigger, is usually rural and votes Republican. The readers of the Portland Press Herald rejoiced.

Down Easters are additionally on the aspect of athletes who kneel for the nationwide anthem in protest of Blacks killed due to racism. Additionally they resent that analysis on local weather change has been faraway from the USGS Science Explorer web page. “

And Maine has spent loads of hard-earned taxpayer {dollars} on retaining their roads glorious! How dare they? They’re easy and fantastic to drive on. Good for them. Then there are the advantageous New England buildings within the Sales space Bay space. Properties, church buildings, banks, libraries within the 18th- and Nineteenth-century types copied within the Mt Nice neighborhood.

We ended again in Portland. The early morning flight again was easy and nearly on schedule. We’re glad we went however are blissful to be again in Michigan. We visited the Farmers Market and stocked up on corn, flowers, honey crisp apples, and brook trout. Now we have, after all, scheduled one other journey for subsequent autumn.

Ed Fisher writes a weekly column for the Morning Solar.