Spend some time in Wyeth country on the banks of the beautiful St. George River.

 

In 1910, Captain Arthur Elliot floated the main room of this cozy two bedroom cottage down the St George River from Thomaston. A team of oxen hauled the cottage up the bank to where it sits today nestled among the towering spruce trees. The same family owns the cottage today and generations of grandchildren have grown up munching s’mores and exploring under the seaweed for tiny crabs and periwinkles.

The wide porch offers views that helped make Maine summers famous. This porch is for relaxing, napping, and reading.  Or, you can look up and watch lobstermen hauling their traps, then drive or walk to the wharf and choose your own lobsters to cook for supper.

 

Proud duck parents swim with their young along the shore, seals cavort, and porpoises dart underwater looking for their next meal.  In the early morning or at dusk, egrets and an occasional blue heron can be spied.

In the late afternoon, the setting sun brilliantly illuminates the opposite shore in a blaze of warm color.  And, can there be anything more magical than watching puffs of fog slowly creep in from the ocean until the islands, the shore, and the water disappear in a delicious salty soup of fog?

For a change of pace, it’s just a short stroll to the Farnsworth Museum’s Olson House, site of Andrew Wyeth’s “Christina’s World” painting.  Or drop your kayak into the water and see what’s going on up river.

The cottage has a spacious living room and dining area looking out to the islands, a fireplace with plenty of wood for chilly evenings. No TV reception, just a DVD player, a radio/CD player, books, games and old New Yorker magazines.

 

The kitchen, with an herb garden outside the door, is well equipped for cooking but maybe all you’ll need is the big pot for lobsters and clams!

There is a good size bathroom with modern fixtures.

The bedrooms are small but comfortable with a double bed in each. There is an additional sleeping nook with one twin bed.

 

 

 

 

Cushing is less than an hour from the Rockland/Rockport/Camden area where you’ll find museums, art galleries, fine restaurants, windjammer cruises, ferries to the islands, the Lobster Festival, the Blues Festival, Bay Chamber Concerts, and live theater. Camden’s mountains are an easy climb and have spectacular ocean views. The ferry to Monhegan Island and Puffin Watch boats leave from Port Clyde across the river.

Thomaston, just 20 minutes from the cottage, has art galleries, a small grocer, a laundromat, a great coffee shop, and the Slipway restaurant on the harbor where dinner and lunch can be served out on the dock.

$1000 per week.  Minimum, one week.  7% tax.  No pets, children welcome.

Our Cushing Cottage, 107 Bird Point Road, Cushing, Maine 04563