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Fortunes Rocks Beach, Biddeford. If you're seeking action and fun in Biddeford, head over to Fortunes Rocks Beach, featuring two miles of sandy shoreline. This beach is a popular destination in ...
Fortunes Rocks is seaside community in Biddeford, York County, Maine, located approximately 85 miles (140 km) north of Boston, Massachusetts. The 1999 novel Fortune's Rocks by Anita Shreve is loosely based on this Maine seaside neighborhood.
The twin cities of Saco and Biddeford include the resort communities of Biddeford Pool and Fortunes Rocks. The town is the site of the University of New England and the annual La Kermesse Franco-Americaine Festival. First visited by Europeans in 1616, it is the site of one of the earliest European settlements in the United States.
Mile Stretch Road, a sandy strip of beach which connects the neighborhood of Biddeford Pool to the mainland, is a notable tombolo. [ 7 ] Points of interest around Biddeford Pool include the Biddeford coastal neighborhoods of Hills Beach , Fortune's Rocks, and Granite Point; and the Kennebunkport coastal area of Goose Rocks.
A damaged section of Fortunes Rocks was due to open the following day. The roadway was also damaged in the Jan. 10 and 13 storms and had just reopened on Feb. 29, with temporary repairs to some ...
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Fortune's Rocks is a 1999 romance novel by bestselling author Anita Shreve. It is the first novel in Shreve's tetralogy to be set in a large beach house on the New Hampshire coast that used to be a convent. Chronologically, it is followed by Sea Glass, The Pilot's Wife and Body Surfing.