Snow is a fact of life in Maine, even along the coast where temperatures are milder than the interior. You can rail against it and stomp your feet until it finally melts away in spring---or you can play in it. I heartily recommend the latter.
In early February, the Owls Head Transportation Museum celebrated one of the many winter pasttimes here in the Midcoast: snow mobiling. In true fashion, the museum focused on the history of motorized sleds. Included were machines from the early days of the sport as well as a tracked Model T-style truck. Ironically, a major storm was forecast for the day of the event, keeping many of the exhibitors from trucking their snow machines from all over New England to the museum.
Even so, the event drew a pretty good crowd. Demonstrations included an old municipal truck-mounted snow blower, rides on the tracked truck and a parade of gasoline-powered snow mobiles from the past.
As always, visitors could tour the museum's exhibits of cars, airplanes, motorcycles and other transportation artifacts inside the main building. During the summer, events include a variety of car, motorcycle and aircraft rallies and shows. If you're lucky, you might win a ride in one of the museum's open cockpit bi-planes.
More on museum events in later posts! Check it out at www.ohtm.org
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