Last Thursday found me sitting on a tall wooden stool at a table by the window at Michelle's Brown Bag Cafe in Bar Harbor, Maine. There on the table before me was a steaming bowl of New England Clam Chowder in a sturdy cardboard container. Some oysterette crackers waited patiently to take the plunge. Along side of that was a HUGE lobster salad sandwich; ginormous hunks of buttery lobster in a dill-flecked sauce fighting for space with crisp lettuce and bright red tomatoes, all crammed overflowingly into a crusty French baguette. A tall, cold bottle of Orangina and a giant Claussen-esque dill spear completed the feast!
I was in Bar Harbor as part of The Maine Puppet Festival, sponsored by the ultra-cool Criterion Theatre and hosted by the also ultra-cool Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers. What a great weekend of puppetry! Along with performances by Grey Seal and Frogtown, the Criterion Theatre's Rob Jordan brought in Perry Alley Theatre, Nappy's Puppets and Crabgrass Puppet Theatre for a cavalcade of puppetry by the rugged Maine coast! I was so honored to be a part of this inaugural festival and Rob Jordan is a great advocate for puppet theatre!
While I was there, I was really happy to get to know Erik, Brian and Robin Torbeck of Frogtown Mountain Puppeteers better too. They were so very kind to me during my stay. Erik and Brian gave me a wonderful tour of the nearby Acadia National Park. Fantastic vistas and views! We stepped atop the peak of Cadillac Mountain just as the sun was setting. Too cool. Frogtown does this hysterical show called Everybody Loves Pirates, but now I know why everybody loves the Torbecks. They are just super-nice people, the best!
Back to the lobster salad. With my show all set up for an evening performance, the afternoon beckoned for a stroll around Bar Harbor with a goal of finding some good indigenous food! I love food, and I love to find cool places to eat when I travel. No chains for me! I'm always amazed at the intriguing places I end up at, all because these little foam puppets take me there.
So, there I sat, at the window table, relishing every bite of the lobster salad and watching the world go by in Bar Harbor, Maine.
Ain't life grand?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
1 comment:
Wow, I am so envious for so many reasons. We love Acadia. It is a beautiful national park. We love the Torbeks. They are three of the neatest people we know. You were in great company at that puppet festival, what the Periales, Nappy and Crabgrass.
Post a Comment