![]() “I’ve been hiking here for a long time, and it’s really fun doing things for Acadia. “I volunteered over the summer for the trail work,” said Friend, who lives in Florida but plans to move to Mount Desert Island. She was helping to refinish the benches that sit outside the Hulls Cove Visitor Center from early spring to late fall. ![]() This past Monday was Lorelle Friend’s first day as a sign shop volunteer. The new carriage road signs will be installed in the spring.įriends of Acadia covers the cost of the materials for the signs and other items made by the sign shop volunteers. “It’s all done to the original specs, too, from when the carriage roads were first constructed,” Schlag said. “Nothing on those posts comes from the outside it’s all done here,” said volunteer Don Bell. Then they are sanded and painted.Īll of the metal that is part of the signs, including the chains that are both functional and decorative, are fabricated in the sign shop. Jean Bell, a retired nurse, uses a router to create the letters. Other volunteers work on the directional signs, which are later attached to the posts, that point toward Witch Hole or Aunt Betty Pond or wherever else someone might want to go. “In really shady, wet areas they’ll rot faster.” “Sometimes the logs are finished, sometimes not, depending on the areas they’re going to be in,” Schlag said. The volunteers strip the bark, shape the top end of the logs into points so that they shed water and then spend hours sanding them. The sign posts come into the shop as cedar logs. “Occasionally something will happen where one breaks.” “It’s mostly because of weather they deteriorate,” Schlag said. We hope to connect you with your memorable experiences through our thoughtfully made Lantern Press products. At least a few of them need to be replaced every year. We create unique imagery that is printed in the USA across multiple mediums, like paper, organic cotton, birch wood, metal and ceramic. Schlag said the large sign posts typically last 15 to 20 years. “That’s all we did at first, just making new carriage road signs.” “The signs get old and have to be replaced,” said Jim Linnane a long-time volunteer. A few of the volunteers who did trail work in the park decided that making signs was something they could do, as well. The volunteers’ sign shop work started eight or 10 years ago when the park employee who had been making the carriage road signs retired.
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