Towns and Villages
There are four towns on Mount Desert Island:
- Bar Harbor, with the villages of Eden, Hulls Cove, Salisbury Cove, and Town Hill;
- Mount Desert, with the villages of Hall Quarry, Northeast Harbor, Otter Creek, Pretty Marsh, Seal Harbor, and Somesville;
- Southwest Harbor, with the villages of Manset and Seawall;
- Tremont, with the villages of Bass Harbor, Bernard, Gotts Island, Seal Cove, and West Tremont.
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“The whole tree itself is but one leaf, and rivers are still vaster leaves whose pulp is intervening earth, and towns and cities are the ova of insects in their axils.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)
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—Kenneth Grahame (1859–1932)
“But I go with my friend to the shore of our little river, and with one stroke of the paddle, I leave the village politics and personalities, yes, and the world of villages and personalities behind, and pass into a delicate realm of sunset and moonlight, too bright almost for spotted man to enter without novitiate and probation.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)