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This harborside burg has become rightly famous for its fishing industry and its distinctive tree.

  • By: Joshua F. Moore
  • Photography by: Kevin Sheilds

The festive fisherman who came up with the lobster buoy ornament was pretty clever. Evergreens can be found up and down the coast festooned with colorful floats, and they always seem fun and festive and fitting. But a Christmas tree actually made out of lobster traps is another thing altogether. That’s the kind of old-timer ingenuity — or the work of a crafty chamber of commerce — you don’t get in every port. (Cape Porpoise incidentally claims the first trap tree, page 60). But there’s probably no more deserving place for such a spectacle than this rock-ribbed city of 7,609. This harborside burg has become rightly famous for its fishing industry. It also knows how to party. Popular festivals bring some of the state’s largest crowds here in the summer. Come the holidays, Lermond Cove celebrates with a parade of lights, Santa arriving on a Coast Guard vessel, horses and carriages tugging people through the historic streets, and this “tree” getting lit. Have you ever seen the Lobster Trap Tree? Send us a comment below, drop us a note at PO Box 679, Camden, ME 04843, or whip us an e-mail at editorial@downeast.com

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  • By: Joshua F. Moore
  • Photography by: Kevin Sheilds

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