Discovering Ogunquit Maine 2023: Heritage, Coastal Beauty, and Broadway Magic

We are in Ogunquit, Maine and we're going to show you the fun things you can do here. Our first stop is the Ogunquit Heritage Museum. This is a rustic local museum housed in an 18th century residence devoted to Ogunquit's heritage. Here are different paintings of Ogunquit by Don Cortex and the one I especially like is this because this is basically a reverse of that. This is the sign from the restaurant The Whistling Oyster which is now called Barnacle Billy's. You can see it's the same building just a different sign that's a lobster. Here the walls are original they look pretty cool. This room pays tribute to the lobster men in Maine and here's a campaign to save Maine lobster men because Whole Foods stopped buying Maine lobsters since they thought the lobster industry was endangering the whales but it's actually the cargo ships that are. This is an old lobster shack from Perkins Cove and nowadays you don't see this you just see souvenir shops. The Ogunquit Heritage Museum is a great free place to stop by and now we're heading to the Perkins Cove walking tour which is run by the museum. Our tour guide today is Amy Perkins a descendant of the Perkins family that this cove is named after. At the top of that hill is where the first inn was in Ogunquit and there was a highway that went from Portland all the way to Boston. This is the oldest building in Ogunquit and it's owned by the Littlefields family which owned from here all the way to the ocean. Number three and look straight ahead at that gray building. Do you think it looks anything like it? Oh so that used to be the country shop. That used to be number three it was called the Cawthorn Lodge. We're in the cove garden and we can see Perkins Cove over here. It was named after the Perkins family that owned a house over there where many big artists stayed. To allow bigger ships to come here they dredged the cove to make it deeper and wider and they did discover some gold but no one got rich from it. It's just a lot of people moved to Ogunquit thinking they would become rich. This is a drawbridge and even today tall boats can use their remotes to lift it up. There's a red siren thing on top to make sure people get off. I just wish oh oh wait there's one coming there's one coming. That was perfect timing. This was a chicken coop and now it's the last art gallery in Perkins Cove and that sucks because this used to be a hot spot for artists. This was a coast guard outpost communication center during world war ii and also the ships had guns to watch out for German submarines. Originally it was that tiny little house and it was called the island house because you couldn't get there unless you could walk when it was low tide. This is the ss crusher and the art on here was done by fourth graders. Here you can see that it's used to crush ice runs the bank a Perkins puts the gasoline in everyone's tank a Perkins sells you magazines another sells you fish you have to go to Perkins's for anything you wish you'll always find a Perkins his fingers in your purse and when I die I think that I will ride a Perkins first no doubt there is a lot of truth in the above little verse but it's a good bet that at the end a little thank you miss Amy for the tour and that is the Perkins Cove walking tour I like learning about all the history of the area and also the drawbridge was really cool and we saw at the correct timing it was so perfect I like how the person giving the tour was Amy Perkins who was a descendant of the Perkins that the Perkins Cove was named after so she had a really strong connection to the place by taking the walking tour you're also helping this museum restore their fireplace onto our next stop we're gonna walk the marginal way which is around one mile each way we're at Perkins Cove right now and we're walking to the main town of Ogunquit here we can see some of the buildings at Perkins Cove and during the winter sometimes they have storms that will flood the top here we can see Ogunquit beach and this little Cove area here there's many people because it's summer and I think most of them are from Boston this part seems really cool because there's a little land bridge that you can take to go all the way out there can we go to the beach we're now at the Ogunquit playhouse and we're gonna watch singing in the rain founded in 1933 the Ogunquit playhouse is listed on the national register of historic places we weren't able to film the musical but it was really cool and this is intermission so brother what's your favorite one so far my favorite one so far is Moses Supposes because it was really funny because they kept singing tongue twisters and I liked the song singing in the rain which is when they made the stage actually rain and the guy got wet and he was dancing in the rain and that was after I think that was after he fell in love with Kathy so basically in this play there's two actors one is named Don who's the main guy and then one is named Lina who is this person who looks good but she cannot talk well because of her voice is so high-pitched and she also can't really sing or act and at first when there were silent films it was fine because people didn't have to hear her voice but then all of a sudden Warner Brothers who was the competing company they started making talking films so then Monumental Pictures which was the company in this play they had to adapt and the problem was that Lina couldn't adapt well even after taking speech lessons so their latest idea is to have Kathy who's good at talking and singing to dub for her let's go in for act two and that is singing in the rain at the Ogunquit Playhouse my favorite part was when the rain came down because I've never seen that before and it's super cool you've never seen me I thought the end was pretty cool when they exposed Lina as a fraud and also the actors were very good at singing I was surprised at how good the production was because I didn't think that Ogunquit Maine would have something this great but it turns out that they're actually a pretty big playhouse they have many other plays and musicals for all different ages and I think during Christmas time they have the sound of music see you in the next video bye