Lodging:
The Bath-Brunswick Chamber of Commerce (phone 207-725-8797), 59
Pleasant St., maintains an information center and keeps a list of rental
cottages as well as vacancies in motels, inns, and bed-and-breakfasts. The Web
site is www.midcoastmaine.com.
Brunswick Bed & Breakfast (800-299-4914), right on Park Row, overlooking
the mall, is a mid-1800s Greek Revival house with ample, handsome common space
and six nicely furnished guest rooms with private baths.
The 34 modern guest rooms and suites are furnished with reproduction antiques
in the Captain Daniel Stone Inn (800-267-0525). The Black
Lantern (888-306-4165), just across the river in Topsham, a new B & B in a
circa 1810 house, has two guest rooms with private baths.
The Harpswell Inn (800-843-5509), overlooking Middle Bay, is also well
worth noting.
Down on Bailey Island, the Log Cabin (207-833-5546) offers rooms and
suites with waterside decks.
Driftwood Inn and Cottages (207-833-5461), near the tip of Bailey Island,
offers old-style housekeeping cottages and rooms.
Dining:
Scarlet Begonias, a storefront restaurant on the upper end of Maine
Street, is a favorite for a quick lunch or dinner -- if you are lucky enough
to get a table. Joshua's Restaurant and Tavern (121 Maine St.), the Great
Impasta (42 Maine St.), and Benzoni's Brick Oven Pizza & Italian Cafe (11 Town
Hall Place) are also good. Wild Oats Bakery and Cafe in the back of the
Tontine Mall (149 Maine St.) is fine for salads, sandwiches, exceptional
breads, and pastries. The Fat Boy Drive-in features carhops as well as good
road food. In Harpswell Center, check out J. Hathaway's Restaurant and Tavern.
Good places for lobster include Holbrook's Lobster Wharf and Snack Bar in
Cundy's Harbor, The Dolfin Restaurant in South Harpswell, and Cook's Lobster
House on Bailey Island.
Entertainment:
For Maine State Music Theatre tickets, phone 207-725-8769;
the Web site is www.msmt.org. Performances are Tuesday-Saturday, 8 p.m.;
matiness are Tuesday, Thursday, and Friday.
For information and tickets for the Bowdoin Summer Music Festival, call
207-725-3895.
The Theater Project (207-729-8584) is at 14 School St., Brunswick. Evening
performances run Wednesday through Saturday at 8; the first late-night
cabarets are at 10:30 Saturdays in August; Dinner Theater Thursday nights includes a ticket and
meal, with tax and tip included.
Concord/Trailways and Greyhound serve Brunswick from Boston.
Bowdoin College Museum of Art (725-3275) and the Peary-MacMillan Arctic
Museum are open Tuesday-Saturday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m., and Sunday, 2 p.m. to 5
p.m.
The Joshua L. Chamberlain Museum is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m.
to 4 p.m. The Skofield-Whittier House
is open Tuesday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., and Saturday, 1 p.m. to 4
p.m. The Pejepscot Museum, which is free, is open
Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., and summer Saturdays, 1 p.m. to 4
p.m. Phone 207-729-6606.
