Author: Bar Harbor News

Philanthropist Emily Sabah-Maren and Maine Sea Coast Mission Executive Director the Rev.

Perry B. Newman is a South Portland resident and president of Atlantica Group, an international business consulting firm based in Portland, with clients in North America, Israel and Europe.

Bar Harbor Rotary Club President James Collier presents Dianne Helprin, principal of Pemetic School, with a Golden Apple Award for outstanding contributions to the education of local students.

BAR HARBOR, Maine — They biked, they hiked, they stayed at the Holiday Inn. For once, a sitting president took a vacation the Average Joe can duplicate — well, except for the motorcades and Air Force One.

President William Howard Taft’s 10-day journey up and down the Maine coast in July of 1910 on the presidential yacht USS Mayflower should have yielded important news for the small army of reporters following him.