1 7 m White s u m m e r g u i d e 2 0 1 7 1 0 3 SeSSi nS rustic wooden furniture. Phoebe Island sits only a hundred feet from the shore, with two acres of shoreline and a utility boat for loading and transportation included in the sale. Bangor International Airport is an easy hour’s drive away. Thirsty for beauty? Sebec Lake sits directly south of Mt. Katahdin and the Hundred-Mile Wilderness. “You’re away from everybody,” Bai- ley says. “You’re away from the big, stupid boats going by, the planes…everything,” he says. “This place is spiritual.” Taxes: $850. high iSLand 1 7 m aCreage 2 A ccording to Charles McLane’s Is- lands of the Mid-Maine Coast, the first recorded deed for High Island was conveyed for just $65 back in 1805. Factoring in inflation, that’s a 1300-percent increase in value. Between then and now, 26-acre High Is- land (one of the Muscle Ridge Islands off Spruce Head) underwent extensive quar- rying in the early 20th century. Two large boarding houses hosted hundreds of quar- rymen, among them many Italian immi- grants. Conditions were poor. Food often consisted of “hard-boiled eggs like golf balls or doughnuts that would make good links for a stone chain.” To make matters worse, “local liquor laws led to periodic raids by the county sheriff and the confiscation of the red wine necessary to the morale of the luckless Italians.” The pink granite from the quarries made it all the way to Philadelphia, where it was used to make bridge seats for the Pennsylvania Railroad. The boarding houses are long gone, but the steep ledges of the quarry, the stone foundations, and the beautiful granite wharves (built for loading the stones) sur- vive to this day. Among the spruce woods and heirloom apple trees are several new building sites, meaning the next chapter in this island’s history is still to be written. Taxes: $1,914. hite iSLand 1 7 000 aCreage 1 Sailing enthusiasts, set your course for White Island. “We’re surrounded by a lot of very in- teresting boats,” current owner Bill Boyd says. And they’re drawn here for a reason. Brook- lin’s Wooden Boat School and the renowned Brooklin Boat Yard sit just a short ride across Eggemoggin Reach, a stretch of water that the courtes of tHe resPecti e agent owner seLLer