Boothbay Harbor’s Wharfscape: Structures, Territory and Life at Water’s Edge

In midcoast Maine, harbor edge structures and surfaces of wood, metal, stone, plastic and rock were the results of public and private decisions that may be probed as wharfscape -- the totality of the visible wharf and its use, its relation to both the competitive and cooperative life of the town as infrastructure and symbol, fragile and always changing. Wharfscape, a geography of movement, enclosure and space, reflects community and individual will, and is shaped by opportunity, argument, negotiation, and nature.