Charlotte
Rhoades Park & Butterfly Garden has been recognized as a 2013
"Editor's Choice" winner in Yankee
Magazine's Travel Guide to New England,
on newstands now. This designation is awarded by Yankee's
editors and contributors, who name select restaurants, lodgings, and
attractions in New England to the exclusinve list. For 27 years,
Yankee
Magazine's Travel Guide to New England has
been the most widely distributes and best-selling guide to the
six-state region, providing readers with a comprehensive
vacation-planning tool and daily reference.
The
Butterfly Garden at the Charlotte Rhoades Park was established in
1998 to promote conservation education and gardening instruction in
the community. Volunteers work throughout the season with school
children and adults to learn more about butterfly habitat and
observation. Suggestive of butterfly wings, the garden beds were
designed by Bar Harbor landscape architect Bruce John Riddell and
includes perennials, annuals, and shrubs that are butterfly host
plants.
Bring
a picnic and enjoy coastal views, stroll amid blooming perennials,
annuals, and see a variety of butterflies at this small seaside
garden. The park is open daily dawn to dusk.
"Every
one of the 300-plus places we highlight contains an untold backstory
about someone striving for perfetion, having a dream, and having the
vision to make a difference, whether it's a small artisan's studio or
a lobster-in-the-rough shack or a dressed-up steakhouse on a
tree-lined Boston street," says Yankee's
editor Mel Allen. "While it maybe hard to create a business,
the true challenge is in making it work, being good enough that it
endures and brings people back. Those are the challenges we look for
and reward when we say 'Best of New England.'"
Yankee
Magaine's
May/June 2013 Travel
Guide,
on newstands April 23, features 317 "Best of New England –
Editor's Choice" winners, which include the region's best
attractions, food & dining, lodging, and bargains. This special
issue also names 120 top events aroundNew England and shares six
island daytrips – from dawn to dark, pluss recipes for deltable
island fare.
For more information
visit: YankeeMagazine.com
About
Charlotte Rhoades Park & Butterfly Garden:
The
Charlotte Rhoades Park and Butterfly Garden is located in Southwest
Harbor, on Mount Desert Island. For visitors of all ages, it is
exciting to experience a coastal butterfly habitat in Downeast Maine
and see how careful organic gardening practices can sustain and
protect butterflies.
Charlotte
Rhoades, a resident of Southwest Harbor, owned this property in
the1950’s. In 1978 the property was given to the town in her memory
with the request that it be used as a quiet park for children and
their parents.
The
Town of Southwest Harbor is grateful to the following organizations
for their support of the Charlotte Rhoades Park & Butterfly
Garden: the Southwest Harbor Beautification Committee, the Garden
Club of Mount Desert Island, the Bar Harbor Garden Club, Friends of
Acadia, Southwest Harbor Coast Guard, and the University of Maine
Cooperative Extension Hancock County Master Gardener Volunteers.
About
Yankee
Magazine:
Yankee
Magazine
was founded in 1935 and is based in Dublin, New Hampshire. It is the
only magazine devoted to New England through its coverage of travel,
home, food and feature stories. With an average circulation of
317,000 and a total audience of 1.7 million readers, it is published
by Yankee Publishing Incorporated (YPI), a family-owned, independent
magazine publisher. YPI also owns the nation's oldest continuously
produced periodical, The
Old Farmer's Almanac,
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