Belfast Water District
Each month, Down East editors select our favorite response to “Where in Maine?” Here is our favorite letter from October’s photo.
Today’s delivery of your October issue was especially noteworthy, as I was very pleased to see the two-page spread on the decommissioned Belfast pump house. We pass it many times during our yearly stays in Bayside, on our way to and from town. Frequent expeditions take us to Hannaford, the Belfast Community Co-op, Left Bank Books, Chase’s Daily, the waterfront walk through the shipyard, and so much more. Belfast, like the Bayside community, is a treasure. The pump house, dam, and short rush of water to the bay make for a literal and metaphorical line of demarcation, going and coming home.
— Richard Woodward, of Clemson, South Carolina
