Spaces & Places – Bruce Jacobson

Life on the Harraseeket

Many communities are found along the shores of the Haraseeket estuary in Freeport, Maine. A community is any interacting group…

Woodmont Road

It was my parents’ dream to make something special of the house on Woodmont Road, their first. My detail-oriented dad…

New Pond Environment

Begun in 2017, I completed my plan for the pond environs five years later (not bad, considering the length of…

Candlewood Lake

Our family enjoyed going to Candlewood Lake in western Connecticut on summer weekends. It turns out my father had been…

Acadia Outings

I’ve lost track of visits to Acadia, which is not surprising given that my home is adjacent to the national…

National Parks Visited

Wherever I go, I like to visit significant natural areas and historic sites. I have memories from visits to more…

Norberg, 2018

During a 10-day visit to Sweden I visited Norberg, the home parish of my paternal grandfather Carl Albin Jacobsson. The…

Västergötland, 2018

My paternal grandmother, Anna Vitalia Lindquist, and her sister Augusta Ottilia Lindquist–my great aunt “Guttie”–emigrated from southwestern Sweden in 1901…

Stigmanspasset, Tivedens Nationalpark

Tivedens nationalpark is located in southern Sweden’s wildest forests. The area is strewn with glacial erratic boulders and cut by…

Allagash Wilderness Waterway

It has been my pleasure to collaborate with Allagash Wilderness Waterway Foundation (AWWF) and Maine Bureau of Parks and Lands…

Friends in Maine

Acadia. Baxter. Allagash. These are places of wildness and beauty where visitors seek renewal. They are the premier wildland recreation…

Walk in the Footsteps at l’île Sainte-Croix

Located in the ancestral homelands of the Wabanaki, Saint Croix Island International Historic Site commemorates the 1604 site of the…