Down with Downhill
With all the recent snowfall and we would imagine most people are thinking snowshoeing, cocoa and marshmallows, stone fireplaces and wool blankets, snowmen and snow angels, shoveling, bags of sand, and skiing. Lots of skiing! With this in mind we are offering our delicious and fun Down with Downhill package. Leave the shoveling and bags […]
Jo Ellen Designs
One of the places we recommend to guests is the super smart shop Jo Ellen Designs at 21 Main Street in Camden, conveniently located across from Glendarragh Lavender. Owner Jo Ellen Stammen was a fine artist and children’s book illustrator. Her training and success – 15 published titles, including a Caldecott nomination and Christopher Award […]
Learn to Make Pasta at our Camden B&B
Have you always wanted to learn to make pasta? Join Chef Michael in his kitchen and learn pasta-making techniques. Steps include making the dough, coloring and flavoring different pastas, rolling out and cutting various shapes of pasta, filling pastas such as raviolis and tortellini, and cooking pasta. Learn to Make Pasta in Maine! Specific dishes include: Spinach […]
Glendarragh Lavender
One of the benefits to staying at the Hartstone or Hideaway is our proximity to the shops in downtown Camden. Guests often walk down to the harbor to see the boats and stroll about Camden visiting shops selling books, hand knit pieces, gourmet food items, toys, clothes, jewelry, antiques, souvenirs, and home goods. We will […]
Our 2011 Gift to Our Guests
For 2011, as a gift to our guests we have added a new amenity. Our guests now have complimentary access to our local YMCA! The Penobscot YMCA is a state of the art facility that offers all of the following: 8-Lane 25-Yard Swimming Pool Warm Therapy Pool Therapeutic Sauna Sauna State-of-the-art wellness studio and fitness […]
Our Family Has Grown
Our family has grown! Michael and I are the proud parents of Monet & VanGogh. Our two little Himalayan babies were born in late September and are making us laugh every day. (As you can see they are already using the computer and watching Oprah!) For those of you who are allergic to anything furry, […]
Driving Tour – Belfast (part 2)
We continue our day trip to Belfast with a stop at one of our favorite “casual” restaurants. Darby’s has been a bar or restaurant in Belfast since it was built in 1865. The current owners and operators, Gail & Jerry Savitz, remodeled the restaurant in 1985 and have been expanding and improving the restaurant since […]
Driving Tour – Belfast (part 1)
Mary Jo and I spent the afternoon and early evening exploring Belfast, Maine, a short 18 mile trip north of Camden on Route 1. Belfast is a small seaside village (population of around 7,000) and it has some very interesting stores, restaurants and scenery. A few years ago Belfast ran a “bearfest” in the village, […]
Visit Farmers Fare
Written by Meghan Small The building itself is modeled after a classic New England barn framed in Maine hemlock. It’s open design and tall ceilings are perfect for their year round indoor market of vegetables, fruits and other Maine products. In addition, Farmer’s Fare has a real honest to goodness, old-fashioned butcher shop stocked with […]
Hart Stones by Mary Jo
Written by Meghan Small. We all know Michael can be found in the garage restoring his 1962 Daimler when he is not in the kitchen. Many do not know however that when not tending to the various needs of the inn or to her hundred’s of orchids, Mary Jo can be found tucked away in her […]