Brooklin

Brooklin Review

The village of Brooklin, originally part of Sedgwick, established itself as an independent town in 1849. Today it's home to the world-famous Wooden Boat School, a 60-acre oceanfront campus offering courses in woodworking, boatbuilding, and seamanship, plus a few art classes on topics like painting seascapes. The public is welcome here. A small park-like area on the waterfront has a long pier and affords spectacular views of the area's chiseled coast. The gift store has some general interest books with nautical tie-ins, plus T-shirts with Wooden Boat's cool ship's bow logo. The school is off the road to Naskeag Point, a sleepy, serenely beautiful spot at the end of the peninsula road with a small rock beach, teeny park, and a home peeking through the trees on the island across the harbor. As a stone marker notes, a Revolutionary War naval battle raged here.