It was 55 degrees today at noon; cloudy and damp with a little fog. This November has set records for being wet. November is normally our wettest month but was even more so this year. The water in the river has just fallen back into its banks after being at or near flood stage most of the month. I was at a meeting last evening with folks from the mountains in the western part of Maine and they told me that even the peaks did not have snow.
I traveled to New Jersey over the weekend for the Thanksgiving Holiday but we learned once we arrived that my father in-law had passed away the night we arrived. His passing was not unexpected he had been in the hospital for a long stretch and then came home briefly only to return a short while later. Everyone worked together to make the arrangements for a funeral only a few days later with a holiday in the middle.
A fascinating discussion has developed around tourism and it’s funding. It was all started with a proposal in a Brookings Institution study for GrowSmart Maine that suggested that a fund be developed to purchase more public land by increasing the tax on lodging to 10%.
