Visitors to Acadia are full of questions, and evidently they always have been. Over the course of the years, Acadia’s patient cadre of park rangers has fielded some real doozies, and a handful of these collected during the Depression appear in the recently published book Discovering Old Bar Harbor and Acadia National Park. Here’s what intrepid adventurers in 1938 asked rangers:

• Are you a forester?

• What do you do in the winter?

• How can you tell a virgin tree from the others?

• This is a real rock, isn’t it?

• Does the sea cruise include the trip up Cadillac Mountain?
 
•How does this compare with the Grand Canyon?

• What good are starfish?

• Do the tides come in by daylight or standard time?

• Is that water salty?

• Is this the ocean? Well, is it the Atlantic Ocean?

• How does this compare with Mount Everest?

(Published April 1997)