Civil War Veterans hall building . In 2013 , the Tides Institute established an artist-in-residence program that attracts artists from across the United States as well as abroad .
Blue Hill is home to Kneisel Hall , an internationally famous chamber music concert series in production since 1953 . Paul Stookey of the folk trio Peter , Paul , and Mary raised his family on the Blue Hill Peninsula . The Machias Bay Chamber Concert series was founded in 1970 and continues to this day , performing each summer in the historic 1836-37 Gothic Revival style Centre Street Congregational church building in downtown Machias . The Eastport Arts Center organization ( housed in the 1838 former historic Washington Street Baptist Church building ) offers a music and film series , a community orchestra and student and children ’ s arts programming . Bruce Potterton , a musician and music teacher from New Jersey , began the SummerKeys summer music program in Lubec . Weekly summer concerts are held at the historic 1820 Congregational Christian church building off Main Street high on the hill in the village center of Lubec . The Monteux School and Music Festival was founded in 1943 by internationally renowned French-born conductor Pierre Monteux and his wife Doris as a summer school for conductors and orchestra musicians in Hancock , inspired in part by Monteux ’ s earlier conducting classes in France . The Monteux School is located in Hancock , Maine , in what was the permanent residence of Pierre and Doris Monteau , and Doris ’ childhood home .
Fisherman Statue - Murder in Small Town X , a Fox reality TV show was filmed in Eastport in 2001 . The fisherman statue was made for the show and has became a classic Eastport monument . Ángel L . Juarbe , Jr ., a Bronx firefighter , was the winner of the reality show . Angel was killed in the World Trade Center on September 11 , one week after the series finale , and the statue became a memorial for him .
The Downeast landscape is the set of many films , including Stephen King ’ s Pet Semetery , filmed in Bangor , Bucksport , Hancock , Ellsworth , and Acadia National Park . The plot of the movie was inspired by a pet cemetery in 1978 , and features a family cemetary on Hancock Point and a historic New England farmhouse . Key scenes with rocky shore and crashing waves from the Martin Scorcese film Shutter Island were filmed at Otter Cliffs in Acadia National Park . The Man Without a Face , starring Mel Gibson , was filmed in an 1896 cottage owned by landscape architect , Frederick Law Olmsted , above the rocky coastline of Deer Isle , Maine . Scenes from The Cider House Rules , an Acadamy Award-winning film starring Charlize Theron and Toby Maguire , were filmed at Sand Beach in Acadia National Park , Thurston ’ s Lobster Pound
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