How the Sideshow Arts Saved Bar Harbor, Maine
by Paul Szauter
Bar Harbor, Maine, is not known as a great venue for the art of sideshow. The town dozes through a long winter with most of the businesses in town literally boarded up. Sheets of plywood are nailed to the windows of tourist trap shops and even restaurants sometime in November. The whale watch boats and the four-masted schooner sail off for warmer water for six months. The highlights of the winter include freak snowstorms, and occasional long cold snaps where the temperature refuses to rise above zero even as a daytime high. If there is not much wind, sea ice forms in the harbor. As the weather warms up a bit in March, it is warm enough for nor'easters, featuring heavy snowfalls, high winds, ice storms and other weather events that evoke disaster movies.
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