Maine - New Hampshire Trip
October 2018 Trip Report

Day three: L.L.Bean & Jamison Tavern in Freeport. Wadsworth-Longfellow House and various lighthouses in Portland and Robert's Maine Grille in Kittery.

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A successful day's shopping at L.L.Bean & Kittery Outlet shops
Eartha - Yarmouth, Maine
Eartha
Monday started out rainy as well. We made a brief stop on out way to Freeport, to see Eartha, the world's largest rotating Globe, in Yarmouth, Maine. The globe is at the local Garmin facility and includes 792 map sections. Garmin acquired Eartha and this facility when it purchased the map maker, DeLorme, in 2016.

The part of the building with Eartha is open to the public and admission is free

It was just a few more miles to the L.L.Bean Flagship Store in Freeport, where I bought a pair of jeans and a lightweight base layer. Linda has changed size in the past two years and needed much more clothes, so we signed up for an L.L.Bean credit card and got 15% off our rather substantial purchases.

L.L.Bean Flagship Store - Freeport, Maine
The L.L.Bean Flagship Store has been located on Main Street in Freeport, Maine for over a century.

We had already planned lunch across the street at Jameson Tavern. Jameson is one of the oldest operating Taverns in Maine and we had some of the best food of the trip. Linda and I each had clam chowder and a lobster roll, both of which were very good. William and Fay had scallop salad and swordfish salad.

Fay's lobster stew was probably the best part of the meal.
 
 

Jameson Tavern - Freeport, Maine
Looking out at Jameson Tavern from L.L.Bean

Clam chowder and lobster roll at Jameson Tavern
Clam chowder and lobster roll

Caesar salad with grilled swordfish - Jameson Tavern
Caesar salad with grilled swordfish

We drove south after lunch, back into Portland, to the Wadsworth-Longfellow House & Garden. The mansion was built in 1785-86 and is most famous for being the home where Henry Wadsworth Longfellow grew up and wrote some of his poetry. It has been a museum since 1902.

Wadsworth-Longfellow House - Portland, Maine
Wadsworth-Longfellow House

The Parlor - Wadsworth-Longfellow House
The Parlor


This is the view from the desk where Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote "The Rainy Day."
Is is from a small room behind the parlor.  (Prints of this photo

Admission to the adjacent Maine Historical Society Museum is included with admission to the Wadsworth-Longfellow House, but much of the current "Maine Eats" exhibit didn't interest us. The rain stopped and the sun had come out while we were in the home, so we hurried to try to get to some lighthouses while the sun was out.

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