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Main: An argument can be made that you ' ve made it " Down East " by the time you arrive here, in Bucksport. Right: An elevator takes you 420 feet to the observatory atop the eastern tower of the Penobscot Narrows Bridge.
Motorcycles on display include examples from Indian, Pope, Pierce-Arrow, Thor, Flying Merkel and Fabrique Nationale. Several vehicles on display were made in my home region of western Massachusetts, including the Indian bikes and Knox autos, both from Springfield, and Stevens-Duryea autos from Chicopee Falls. Some vehicles are unlike anything we’ ve ever seen. An exquisite mahogany-bodied 1913 Peugeot resembles the Chris-Craft and Ditchburn boats of the same period. Steve and I linger over displays of technical information, histories of companies and entrepreneurs, period advertising, and insights into the social changes brought about by motor vehicles.
The museum was started by collector and historian Richard C. Paine, Jr.( 1928 – 2007), a native Mainer. His