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Marie C. Taylor, an attorney, lives in
Wellesley Hills, Massachusetts with her husband, Dick tenEyck, and Molly, their 12 year
old Golden Retriever. Taylor was raised in Needham, Massachusetts and received a BA in
Economics from Albertus Magnus College (New Haven, CT), and a JD from Suffolk University
Law School (Boston, MA).
She works as co-director of a non-profit corporation.
Taylor first visited Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park when her sister and
brother- in-law moved to Surry, Maine in the early 1970s. Her brother-in-law worked
for a local airline which generously provided relatives free rides, space permitting, to
visit their airline employed relatives in Maine.
Her sister and brother-in-laws home was a spacious apartment in a large house which
overlooked Contention Cove in Surry. Whenever Taylor came to visit, a trip over to Acadia
was often on the itinerary, as was a lobster dinner. They usually bought the lobsters at a
small general store in Salisbury Cove and then headed back home to eat them at the
apartment.
When Taylor and her husband married in the early 80s, she thought it would be
fun to introduce him to Maine. They stayed in a little cottage on Salisbury Cove, since
Taylor had remembered the area as being very pretty and also just a short ride from Acadia
National Park and the town of Bar Harbor. They have been returning to the area every year
since to celebrate their wedding anniversary.
Things have changed, however, over the years. The house where her sister and
brother-in-law lived has become the Surry Inn, although the portion that was their living
room still has the same wallpaper! The general store in Salisbury Cove has been converted
into condominiums. But, best of all, from Taylors point of view, insulation has been
added to the little cottage where she and her husband stay. Now, even on those really cold
Maine nights, it is toasty warm inside!
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