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Billy Bigelow, a rough-talking, macho, handsome carousel barker, and Julie Jordan, a young, innocent mill worker, live in the small town of Boothbay Harbor, Maine.They fall in love, but are fired from their jobs; Billy because he paid too much attention to Julie and incurred the wrath of the jealous carousel owner Mrs. Mullin, and Julie because she had violated the curfew imposed by wealthy ...
Carousel is the second musical by the team of Richard Rodgers (music) and Oscar Hammerstein II (book and lyrics). The 1945 work was adapted from Ferenc Molnár 's 1909 play Liliom, transplanting its Budapest setting to the Maine coastline. The story revolves around carousel barker Billy Bigelow, whose romance with millworker Julie Jordan comes ...
Boothbay Harbor is a town in Lincoln County, Maine, United States. The population was 2,027 at the 2020 census. [2] It includes the neighborhoods of Bayville, Mount Pisgah, and Sprucewold, and the villages of Isle of Springs and West Boothbay Harbor. During summer months, the entire Boothbay Harbor region is a popular yachting and tourist ...
The Opera House at Boothbay Harbor stands near the northern end of Boothbay Harbor's downtown area, at the southwest corner of Townsend Avenue and Smith Street. It is a large 3⁄ -story wood-frame structure, with a hip roof and brick foundation. Its exterior is finished mainly in wooden clapboards, with bands of decorative scallop-cut shingles.
November 23, 1977. Burnt Island Light 2018. The Burnt Island Light, built in 1821, is the second oldest surviving lighthouse in Maine. [2][3] It hosts a living history museum run by the state Department of Marine Resources. [4] It was added to the National Register of Historic Places as Burnt Island Light Station on November 23, 1977.
Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, May 2015. Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens is a botanical garden in Boothbay, Maine. It was opened in 2007. [1][2] The gardens have been named one of Maine's top attractions. [3][4][5][6][7] Its gardens and landscape include nearly a mile of tidewater shoreline. After 16 years of planning, planting, and building ...
Auld-McCobb House. / 43.85222°N 69.62750°W / 43.85222; -69.62750. The Auld-McCobb House is a historic double house on Oak Street in Boothbay Harbor, Maine. It is the town's oldest brick residence, built in 1807 for a pair of prominent local merchants. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1988.
Ram Island Light is a lighthouse located just offshore of Ram Island, marking the eastern entrance to Boothbay Harbor, Maine, and the west side of the mouth of the Damariscotta River. It was built in 1883 and automated in 1965. [2][3] It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places as Ram Island Light Station on January 21, 1988.