NORTHEAST HARBOR — Bar Harbor restaurant Lunch took home the People’s Choice Award, while Harbor Table of Southwest Harbor scored the Judges’ Choice Award April 1 at the second annual
Reviving a fading tradition
MOUNT DESERT As the month of April draws to an end, some remember the fading tradition of May Basket Day where people fill festively decorated baskets with small gifts and hang them on the doors of friends, neighbors and loved ones on May 1.
The custom evokes feelings of nostalgia for folks like Sharon Richardson of Mount Desert. “I’ve been making [May baskets] since I was 6 years old. Us girls all around the dining room table, mom would throw the crate, paper, pipe cleaners and these little dixie cups, and away we went,” she said. Richardson remembers spending hours preparing the baskets and then delivering them around town with her seven siblings.