An online journal which chronicles the steady decline in quality of life wrought by unchecked tourism on Mount Desert Island, Maine. The QSJ is written in the traditions of Pamphleteers in the late 18th Century and Muckrakers in the early 20th Century.
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SWH boards to air another Worcester conflict - plan to build a water line through polluted soil
SOUTHWEST HARBOR, July 14, 2026 - Having ousted him from the Planning Board last month, the select board is being asked to take up another matter in which developer Lee Worcester has a conflict - this time a proposed water line across his n...
Readers comment on Acadia Gateway Center article
TRENTON, July 14, 2026 - My recent article last Thursday on the Acadia Gateway Center is close to receiving 10,000 views and probably will be my most read blog since I started writing this journal.
It received 38 comments which is a record...
Bar Harbor Music Festivals hits its stride post July 4; Mozart, Copland and more ...
BAR HARBOR, July 12, 2026 - If you can find parking and then pay the usurious fare without having to take out a second mortgage, then hurry to the Criterion Theater the next few nights for a classical music extravaganza.
What a blessing, t...
A 28 million conceit, Acadia Gateway is symbol of a wayward park service and its 'friends'
TRENTON, July 10, 2026 - Last October, shortly after its “soft” opening, I stopped by the much touted $28 million Acadia Gateway Center here which is not visible from Route 3 as you come onto MDI, unlike the previous visitors center on Thom...
Is Bar Harbor council poised to scuttle 12-room cap on lodging in village?
BAR HARBOR, July 5, 2026 - The cankered alchemy of local politics is now so ripe that many think it’s normal for citizens to play defense against their own elected officials and full-time town staff.
And they wonder why citizen petitions a...
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