GCIHS Home, Art & Garden Tour 2010

Home, Art & Garden Tour

The Great Cranberry Island Historical Society will host its first annual Home, Art & Garden Tour on Great Cranberry Island, Wednesday, August 11, 2010.

The Tour

The tour features twelve stops:

Wini Smart’s shorefront Art Studio
Jan’s Garden - part of the Archives of American Gardens of the Smithsonian Institute
Graven-Encarnation Garden on the Western Way
Preble-Macfarlan Home - a nineteenth century sea captain’s home
Heliker-LaHotan Foundation - a beautiful compound of buildings hosting an artist residency program
Newell-Matthews Residence
Williamson Residence - a newly-built gem on Spurling Cove
Cranberry House - hosting the Preble-Marr Historical Museum, the Arts Center with a Cranberry Artists Exhibition, Box Lunches available plus a take-out café, and the trail head for a mile-long Nature Trail to the magnificent back shore
Congregational Church - featuring musical events and poetry reading throughout the day
Whale’s Rib Gift Shop - hostess Polly Bunker celebrating her 40th year in business
The Wood’s Residence
The Taylor Residence

Getting to Great Cranberry Island

Ticket price includes a round-trip chartered passenger-only ferry ride (no cars) from Northeast Harbor, Southwest Harbor, or Manset, Maine. Ferries leave as follows:

Northeast Harbor to/from Great Cranberry Island Vessel: B & B Capacity: 48
Morning trip to GCI
leave NEH	arrive GCI
9:45 am	10:00 am
10:45 am	11:00 am
Afternoon return
leave GCI	arrive NEH
3:30 pm	3:45 pm
4:30 pm	4:45 pm

Southwest Harbor (Upper Town Dock) Manset (Cranberry Isles Dock) to/from Great Cranberry Island Vessel: Seguin Capacity: 50
Morning trip to GCI
leave SWH UTD	leave Manset CID	arrive GCI
10:30 am	10:40 am	10:55 am
11:30 am	11:40 am	11:55 am
Aternoon return
leave GCI	arrive Manset CID	arrive SWH UTD
3:30 pm *	3:50 pm *	4:00 pm *
4:15 pm *	4:35 pm *	4:45 pm *
* changed 29 July 2010

Getting Around on Great Cranberry Island

On Great Cranberry Island you will get a map and brochure describing each of the tour stops. While many visitors will wish to walk between tour stops, transportation will be provided as well. Special box lunches (or the regular menu) will be be available at Hitty's Café in Cranberry House - one of the tour stops.

Cost

Tickets for the tour (including round trip ferry, but not lunch) are $35 per person in advance ($20 tour, $15 reduced-fare ferry), or $49 the day of the tour ($25 tour, $24 normal ferry fare.)

Advance Tickets

Advance tickets will be sold in Northeast Harbor and Southwest Harbor starting two weeks before the event.

You can also buy advance tickets direct from us by mail, email, or telephone.

Advance Tickets Direct Sales Orders must be received by August 10, 2010. You will receive your tickets at the dock of embarcation.
Mail	Print out and mail us this order form
Email	Send an email with your telephone number (no credit card number as email is not secure); we will call you back; have a credit card ready
Telephone	Call, with a credit card ready: (207) 244-7800

Advance Tickets Direct Sales

Orders must be received by August 10, 2010.
You will receive your tickets at the dock of embarcation.

Mail

Print out and mail us this order form

Send an email with your telephone number
(no credit card number as email is not secure);
we will call you back; have a credit card ready

Telephone

Call, with a credit card ready:

(207) 244-7800

Tickets will also be sold at the docks of embarcation on the day of the event but you will pay more than for an advance ticket.

More information

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GREAT CRANBERRY ISLAND HISTORICAL SOCIETY