'Bar Harbor Regency' ('Acadia') Hotel: Canopy Collapse Kills One.

Click to ENLARGE. From Facebook from 'MDI'.

For their Website.

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This appeared on my Facebook feed this morning. WOW! I was taken aback. I know the hotel -- & particularly THIS CANOPY -- well. I have walked underneath it many a times -- a few times exactly a year ago during my last February visit to Acadia. [I didn't go in Feb. this year (for a change) because I had gone at the very end of Jan.]

This is one of the fancier 'grand' hotels in Bar Harbor -- albeit the one furthest from downtown.

President Obama, the ONLY sitting president to have visited Acadia, stayed at the Regency (with his family & dog) during their July 2010, 2-night visit.

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I did not think they were open in the winter. They certainly have not been over the last few years. I know. I amble through their lot during my morning & night ambles when I am there. I stay at the 'Atlantic Oceanside' the next hotel over (towards Downtown). They are open year-round & I am so used to staying there. It is like a second home.

Last year they had a huge pontoon boat parked under that canopy.

Not sure what somebody was doing underneath it at 6:45am this morning. That was just about sunrise. Possible they were doing work on the hotel & he was a workman.

We should get more details soon.

Shame.

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