Hopping Happiness

Egg-stra-ordinary egg hunts draw island families to Bar Harbor Inn and YWCA MDI

BAR HARBOR—This morning staff and volunteers at the Bar Harbor Inn hid 1,574 Easter eggs, plus 12 little gold eggs, plus six big gold eggs, Saturday morning.

But it’s never quite enough for the annual free Easter egg hunt that happens along its lawns and inspires families from throughout the island to hippity-hop in the joyous hunt for the plastic eggs.

“This way! This way!” children shouted.

“He has a red bucket. Yep,” one mom said, laughing as she and her family walked up the newly repaired Shore Path that had been devastated by walloping storms approximately 15 months ago.

“I can’t find an egg!” a little girl called out during the wild scramble to find one.

One boy had thirty eggs in his bucket.

“Thirty!” he yelled.

But another one? Another one started putting eggs back in hiding, tucking them under a boulder.

“What are you doing, buddy?” one parent asked him.

He looked up. He didn’t stop taking eggs out of his own basket, one after another. “Some kids don’t have any.”

And that? That’s what community and giving is really about.

The YWCA-MDI also hosted indoor egg hunts for different age groups at its Mount Desert Street building, another free and community-focused event. The MDI YMCA hosted an event earlier in the week. Both the Witham Family Hotels event and the non-profits’ events are annual celebrations of joy, an occasional frazzled moment, and of community.

Photos by Carrie Jones/Shaun Farrar/Bar Harbor Story

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