The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1908-04-30
HIGH PASTURE.
The Summer Home of John Kendrick
Bangs.

The Summer Home of John Kendrick
Bangs.
According to all accounts, Mr.. John
kendrick Bangs is meeting with great
| success III annexing the Maine sea
coast to the suburbs of New York, saws
writer in the New York Herald.
After an experience of half life time
on the Hudson and Long Island Sound.
Mr.. Bangs thought he would try a bit
OF the "real thing" in seeking the per
feet suburban home. So he went to
the coast of Maine and found the place
of his dreams.
It's near Ogunquit, sweet little vii
lage eight miles north of York Harbor
and only fifteen miles from. Ports
mouth, n. H., the only place in the
world where peace could be made be-
tween Russia and Japan. Mr.. Bangs
has bought twelve and half acres of
the loveiest and most life. prolonging
real estate in that part of the coast. 1t
is just at the entrance to the beautiful
High Pasture property so famous for
it's rugged cliffs and enhancing views
The house is perched on an eminence
overlooking the sea, with fine views in
all directions. Here the wild storms of
the Atlantic beat against the rocks,
but the peculiarly genial climate, with
it's sheltered southern exposure, turns
the worst weather into sunshine and
ozone in a few hours.
+ ''It is the finest place l have yet
seen," said Mr.. Bangs. '"Think of the
most beautiful spot in the world up
there on the coast of Maine! And yet
it is only two and half hours from
ho off
ing at one o'clock gets me here in New
Returning, the New York night train
next morning.
'tAnd such place for work! The
best air, food and water in the world.
Just as starter, l put an acre and a
half of my farm into garden cultivation.
| found that everything grows there in
perfection. The first year we raised all
the vegetables we could eat. AS an ex-
pertinent l put out "a rose bushes
jacks-which the experts assured me
would never live. Result-We had
seven hundred exquisite blossoms the
first season.
cit is amazing how things grow up
there on Names southern coast-fruits,
vegetables, all kinds Of farm products
and then the fish along shore are Won
ders, AT high tide little strip of an
acre or two down by the water is over
flowed. When the tide goes out it
leaves a lot of pools clear as crystal, in
which we find Holsters, coralS, spongeS,
auemoneS and other sea plants, saying
nothing of ever changing rainbow pic
lures left on the rocks, printed there by
the peculiar action of the submarine
chemicals. Fish are almost as cheap
as air. We get delicious CLAIMS deliver
ed at our door for % cents bushel, and
you can buy fresh cod as big as baby
for Is cents apiece.
THE scenery IS a perpetual surprise,
with pine groves stretching away in the
background, while the entire water
front and the rockbound indentations
with bays and sparkling streams, to-
gether with the wonderful, balmy pine
scented all, are an inspiration. There
is nothing between my yard and Europe
except the sea and a few waves and fish.
It's the ideal place for the best work of
ones life You can sleep of nights the
perfect sleep of childhood. Sickness is
hardly known.
"Ogunquit's winter population about
three. hundred-live hundred in the
spring and three thousand during the
summer months. Among the distin-
tinguished artists living there are Fred
erick Porter Vinton, Charles W. Wood
bury, the leading marine painter, who
has class there and is permanent
resident.
Gone cannot say too much of his
neighbors. They are the highest type
of native Americans-the men and
women Emerson delighted to write
about. They are simply supurb- good,
honest people intellectual and we'll bred
and sincere because it's in their blood.
There is no patroniZing-they couldn't
put on airs if they tried-ln fact They're
the real ariStocrats of the country. Some
of their estates have been held in the
family name since their ancestors re-
ceived title through the original pa
tents direct from King George.
$50 you see at last we have found a
place where life is worth living; where
man feels at his best, growing young
er every day. There you realize what
is meant by the simple life. The best
and the noblest of humanity are your
neighbors. Your never hear small talk,
and bridge whist and the stock market
are unknown