The indicators started showing up by the last week of August but are inescapable now. Eastport’s locking up for the winter.
As evidence?
- The passenger ferry to Lubec has already been hauled out of the water and is up on props in the boatyard for annual maintenance.
- The Tides Institute Museum is closed for the season, with the Eastport Art Gallery set to do likewise at the end of the month.
- I trot down to Horn Run Brewing and find it closed today. Gotta check the new schedule. Not that I expected its popular deck to be open all year. And other restaurants have curbed back as well.
- Nobody’s out on the Breakwater.
- Rosie’s hot dog stand is closed and its sign thanks us for a good summer.
- I haven’t seen a super yacht for a month, much less tied up at the dock.
- Most of the out-of-state license plates are gone, along with the luxury car models. It’s mostly Maine and New Hampshire now, and soon it will be about all Maine.
- Well, there is a sole convertible stubbornly zipping about – but just one, with its driver bundled up.
- There just aren’t as many folks around, period. At least the dog walkers are holding up their end.
- There’s an uptick in the number of houses for sale as some Summer People realize they can’t keep up with another year. And the places are staying on the market longer.
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