Down East Maine Smokehouse Snowscape

by Marty Saccone

Title

Down East Maine Smokehouse Snowscape

Artist

Marty Saccone

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Photograph - Fine Photography

Description

This image is currently featured in the January, 2018 issue of Down East magazine, the magazine of Maine. Featured as the "Where in Maine" mystery photo of the month.

A coastal Maine winter scenic at one of my favorite abandoned structures in down east Maine, a bygone herring smokehouse enveloped in a soft falling snow creates a nostalgic atmosphere of mystique and tranquility along a secluded coastal cove in Trescott township, Lubec, Maine.
For an interesting story..read below

Additional renditions of this smokehouse and other down east Maine scenics are available for viewing at marty-saccone.pixels.com where a complete gallery portfolio of coastal Down East Maine fine art photography by Marty Saccone may be viewed.

Since back in the 1700's this location in Lubec, Maine Is known by the unusual name "Baileys Mistake"

Story goes something like this:
There was then a renowned sea captain, a Captain Bailey who was known and revered for his exemplary seamanship and sailing skills. It seems he, his ship and crew had left Boston, Massachusetts bound for Lubec, ME, with a cargo of lumber.
As they approached West Quoddy Head Light they were socked in by a heavy, heavy fog. Old salt that he was, Captain Bailey, his ship and crew turned wrongly into this cove only to run aground high and dry.
It was out of this embarrassment and pride that Captain Bailey and his crew, then came ashore at this place and there used that cargo of wood to build homes and settle at this location, never to again sail.
Bailey's Mistake to this day carries the history of that fateful voyage in its name..

So here's to old Bailey, who sailed the salt sea,
'Till his ship ended up where 'twas not s'posed to be;

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