Mount Desert is her husband's idea, and to Clara it offers a dream of freedom: "He had said the magic word.

There is an island, east of Mount Desert, owned by a Boston family.

The place looked like a wilderness, covered with trees, except for some scaly-looking pink patches on Mount Desert itself.

In 1908, when he and Abby were expecting their third child, they visited Mount Desert.

He was 69 years old and lived in Mount Desert, Me.

There are more than 20 islands surrounding Mount Desert, roughly half of them inhabited.

I recently visited four islands off the coast of Mount Desert.

These islands are still a getaway from the hectic pace of Mount Desert.

There was a brief period when it seemed Mount Desert would again become a center of French activity.

Mount Desert, still remote from the cities of the East, became a retreat for prominent people of the time.