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Bar Harbor

American  

noun

  1. a town on Mount Desert Island, in S Maine: summer resort.


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In high school, Baltimore enrolled in a summer program at the prestigious Jackson Laboratory at Bar Harbor, Maine, where he made a discovery that altered his life and set him on the path to science.

From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 8, 2025

Earlier Saturday in Bar Harbor, Maine, the touristy gateway to Acadia National Park, a whale watch vessel broke free of its mooring and crashed ashore.

From Seattle Times • Sep. 16, 2023

In Bar Harbor, there were only two lobster boats in the water compared with 20 to 25 on a normal day.

From Washington Times • Sep. 15, 2023

The city had already been under a boil-water directive for weeks — not uncommon in Jackson, and all too reminiscent of tainted-water scandals in the Michigan cities of Flint and Bar Harbor.

From Washington Post • Sep. 26, 2022

He could see her neatly made bed covered in Koosh pillows, the poster of Bar Harbor from their trip to Maine this summer, and her night table with Charlotte's Web at the ready.

From "The Lemonade War" by Jacqueline Davies