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guards, and the Historic 19th houses   ay-Bennett, the cable ship that recovered
                                    along the waterfront with stories of the   his body pitched in for a grave stone. The
                                    great explosion of  the SS Mont-Blanc that   marker says ‘Erected to the memory of an
                                    killed over 2,000 in 1917, before heading   unknown  child  whose  remains  were  re-
                                    out to a small working fishing village at   covered after the disaster of the “Titanic”
                                    Fisherman’s Cove with a wonderful sea- April 15th 1912’. Recently forensic testing,
                                    food restaurant. The fish and chips were   found  that  the  remains  were  19-month-
                                    amazing and the lobster rolls featuring a   old Sidney Leslie Goodwin from England
                                    chopped whole lobster got raves from the   who perished with his entire family.
                                    hungry group.

                                    The highlight of the shore excursion was   Bar Harbor Main
                                    the emotional visit to the Fairview Cem-
                                    etery where 121 passengers of the RMS   Like most port, one day is not enough
         Fairview Cemetery where 121 passen-  Titanic are interred.   Respectful visitors   time  explore  Bar  Harbor  and  Maine’s
         gers of the Titanic are buried in Halifax,   wandered the area where rows of gray   DownEast and Acadia region. The town
         Nova Scotia. Right: Changing of the   granite  markers  indentified  the  unfortu-  itself is welcoming and touristy cute with
         guard at Citadel Hill.     nate cruisers.                       lots of souvenir shops, bars and restau-
                                                                         rants mostly catering to visitors.
                                    One of the grave stones is for an uniden-
                                    tified child victim, called The Unknown   But it’s the beauty of the area that is the
                                    Child. When the body of the child went   real attraction. It’s a visual feast with
                                    unclaimed the crew of the CS Mack-   sights like the historic lighthouses set in







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