It was a cold and rainy day with no chance of clearing up, so I went for a drive. I decided to head to the Indian Point area on Mount Desert Island and see what there was to see. Of course I couldn't find the place. I ended up in a place called Bartlett's Landing. I ended up there because that is where the road ends. There is a dock and there are boats moored in the area. I don't use the word bleak much, but somehow bleak seems to apply the the coast of Maine on a cold and rainy day. It was bleak. I guess that why they named the place Mount Desert Island.
I went on the internet to try and find out why it called Bartlett's Landing. I learned that on the other side of the narrows is a place called Bartlett Island. I tried to find out why it was called Bartlett Island. I was not very successful. All I could find out was that Bartlett Island is Rockefeller land. They own most of the place. I'm sure that somewhere in the distant past there was a feller named Bartlett that owned or had a farm out there and that's how the place got its name. I just didn't feel like digging into the history today. Not much motivation.
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