A Century of Service to Maine's Leisure Travel Industry - Bachelder, Peter Dow
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Little more than a century ago, Maine's business community faced unprecedented adjustments. World War I had recently ended, leaving in its wake the initial stages of a whole sphere of groundbreaking commercial activities and pursuits in response to an entirely new and different range of public demands. Competition for meeting these changing times was bound to be keen on all fronts, including within the state's emerging tourism industry, even then considered one of the key components of Maine's overall economy. In fact, there were those who viewed prolonged inaction in this latter instance as…mehr

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Little more than a century ago, Maine's business community faced unprecedented adjustments. World War I had recently ended, leaving in its wake the initial stages of a whole sphere of groundbreaking commercial activities and pursuits in response to an entirely new and different range of public demands. Competition for meeting these changing times was bound to be keen on all fronts, including within the state's emerging tourism industry, even then considered one of the key components of Maine's overall economy. In fact, there were those who viewed prolonged inaction in this latter instance as seriously threatening the state's very future. To that end, in late 1921 the leaders of the Maine Hotel Association and the Maine Automobile Association jointly took what would be one of the most significant steps in the history of the growth and development of the state's leisure travel business. From this impromptu gathering emerged what would officially be called the Maine Publicity Bureau (MPB), to be "a privately supported, state-wide, non-profit, non-partisan organization for the promotion and development of Maine's agricultural, industrial and recreational resources." Its basic purpose would be "to maintain and operate a bureau and offices for the purpose of acquiring and disseminating information concerning the business interests of the State of Maine."The success of the bureau, known since 1999 as the Maine Tourism Association, was immediate, not only because it fulfilled a vital need, but also because it worked constantly at its basic functions, ones that have become more or less standardized over the years, yet which permit a flexibility of operation that allows adjustments to meet present needs.Within the pages of this volume, Peter Dow Bachelder has created a centennial history of the organization that both showcases how and why it came to be in the first place and highlights a succession of its subsequent undertakings and accomplishments.
Autorenporträt
Peter Dow Bachelder is a Maine native and a graduate of the University of Maine at Orono. Following a brief stint with the U.S. Weather Bureau, he devoted his professional career to service within Maine's tourism industry. He spent 30 years as Director of Information Services at the Maine Publicity Bureau-in Portland and in Hallowell. For much of his life, Bachelder has savored an intense fondness for the state of Maine. Growing up in Cape Elizabeth, he developed an early fascination for the ocean, which soon fostered his desire to learn more about the state's unique maritime heritage. For several years, he wrote a column about shipwrecks and lighthouses that appeared in The Portland Evening Express. During the course of his work in tourism, Bachelder traveled more than two million miles within the state, visiting and coming to know virtually all the grandeur its nooks and corners present. This decades long "grand tour" has afforded him a vast body of knowledge from which to draw, in connection with his extensive writings on various Maine-related topics. To this end, he wrote a book called The Great Steel Pier, an illustrated history of the Old Orchard Ocean Pier-the long-standing attraction that helped draw millions of enthusiastic visitors to this popular southern Maine beachfront community during the early and middle years of the twentieth century. A more recent work, Steam to the Summit, recounts the little known tale of the Green Mountain Railway, an 1880s cog railroad that for eight seasons operated from the shore of Eagle Lake to the summit of today's Cadillac Mountain at Bar Harbor.Bachelder resides in Ellsworth and has spent the last nine years doing extensive research for A Century of Service to Maine's Leisure Travel Industry: A Centennial History of the Maine Publicity Bureau/Maine Tourism Association. A companion volume, Maine Tourism: The Origins, Growth, and Development of the Pine Tree State's Foremost Industry, is currently in the final stages of production and is slated for publication prior to the end of 2022.