Quirky? Maine? No freakin’ way! Check out this article from the Press Herald for 16 ideas to add to your summer trips, or just to read more about what our great state has to offer. An excerpt:

WICKED-HUGE WEIRD
Everything’s bigger in Texas? P’shaw! Apparently those Southern folks never saw the 14-foot-tall crank telephone in Bryant Pond. The “World’s Largest Telephone” stands as a tribute to those cranky days of yore. It’s also rumored to be the phone that Bangor’s 31-foot-tall statue of Paul Bunyan uses to drunk-dial his ex-girlfriends.

Full article: http://www.pressherald.com/blogs/outgoing

“…’Curiosities and Oddities’ are the rule rather than the exception, in the state of Maine. We’re all quirky characters, and every road in every town has some sort of roadside oddity.”

-Steve Bither, intro to ‘Maine Curiosities,’ 3rd edition