This Fall, tourists will find it’s easy to explore the many charms of Ogunquit, Maine. Jolly-trolleys deliver visitors all-about the nooks and crannies of the beach community.  Sweeping vistas of the Atlantic Ocean frame cafés with Parisian-roasts and pâtisserie boasts of such delicate deliciousness ~they’re, positively “To Di For.”

With folks bustling about shops filled with inspiration, Beach Street looks as though it’s been dusted with pumpkin-spiced confetti. From door-to-door an atmosphere of good-will wafts around the post-card-perfect community with a spirit of old-time congeniality.

“Spoiled Rotten”  27 Beach Street, Ogunquit, Maine

Entertainment options include stage performances at the Gilded Age Ogunquit Playhouse. The legacy of this world renown theater draws talents from New York, Los Angeles and London. State-of-the-art production-standards delivers theatricality that earns national and international acclaim.  Now-October 27th visitors to the Playhouse can catch the World Premier stage production of ” My Best Friend’s Wedding” featuring the music of Burt Bacharach and Hal David .

Ogunquit Playhouse 10 Main Street Ogunquit, Maine

Quaint B&B’s, roadside cottages and ocean front hotels are hubs of hospitality. Pristine accommodations near cool-bars, upscale spas and cozy-pods for near-cliff-walk dining offer a range of customizable amenities that are imaginative and seem to be limitless.

Cliff House Maine 591 Shore Road, Cape Neddick, Maine (private-pod dining service)

For those eager to shift gears, The Ogunquit Museum of American Art (OMAA) welcomes guests to slow down, inhale the salted air and feel the gravitational power of coastal Maine from their cliff-side venue. Natural light fills the center atrium of the Museum that is a multi-faceted jewel-box of artistic renderings. Indoors and out, each gallery offers a place to pause

Foreground painting by Lee Krasner

Opened in 1953, and founded by Lost Generation artist Henry Starter, OMAA is home to a collection of important “things.” These things resonate with American authenticity. Each represents a facet of our multi-focal society.  Abstract or representational, the curated drawings, paintings, prints, photography and sculpture at this Museum of American Art stand alone as complete thoughts. However, in-context the collection captures, in many ways, the elegant richness and sometimes uncomfortable complexities of our American culture.

Featured this Fall are images of history, humor and humanity. Plan a visit before the galleries close for the season November 17th, 2024.

Guests exploring some early works of Lee Krasner at OMAA

 

Séance by Stephen Hopkins Hensel beckons guests away from a contemplative study

 

Statuary scattered throughout the out-door ‘galleries’ are adjacent to comfortable garden seating. The places of tranquility are ideal spots to watch the tide roll in, the sunset, or contemplate the humanity of each sculpture

 


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