Ebbie -- most people don't understand tides, alas. On either coast. My favorite overheard comment as I walked across the bridge in Kennebunkport back in the '70s (and the river is still very tidal at that point) was a woman saying to her husband, "Isn't it nice how they park the boats all pointing in the same direction." Ayuh, just neatifying the quaintness for the tourists...

I managed a year-round shop (and then I was sold along with it to the local hardware store) with the Tourist Information office right behind us. I kept an ear cocked in that direction. One of these days I plan to publishing a pamphlet of tourist quotations entitled "You Can't Get to Heaven If You're Hit By a Tourist."

Maine Round House sold Jotul and other woodstoves and rya rugs. Tourists would look at the floor display of cast iron stoves and say, "How nice; you don't need a chimney," or "How clever; are they gas or electric?"

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