Drawing on his 2026 “Chebacco” article, Durlin Lunt, a lifelong resident and former Mount Desert Town Manager, traces how land acquisitions by John D. Rockefeller Jr. and the expansion of Acadia National Park cut Otter Creek off from its ancestral shores, turning a thriving maritime village into what he calls an "island within an island." Lunt examines the power dynamics behind that century of isolation and looks at efforts to reclaim the village's working waterfront identity, including the 2024 Waterfront Resolution.

Recorded August 5, 2026, at the Northeast Harbor Library.