Belgrade Lakes Maine Where Eugene O'Neill and Ernest Thompson (Author of On Golden Pond) Were Inspired .: Knowledge Base

Belgrade Lakes Maine & Wings Hill Inn & Restaurant Where You Can Stay for Dinner

Prior to our visit to Belgrade Lakes, Maine, I had done some homework pertaining to one of Maine’s best kept secrets and it was quite a revelation when I discovered that for many years well-known artists and writers had vacationed at this popular lakeside community including one of America’s most prominent playwrights, Eugene O’Neill. O’Neill spent the summer of 1926 at Belgrade Lakes, Maine, where he created his Pulitzer Prize play Strange Interlude and it was here where he met for the second time the famous actress Carlotta Monterey who was to become his third wife.

In the 1950s playwright Ernest Thompson arrived on the scene and wrote his award winning play “On Golden Pond” at his family’s cottage on Great Pond and he even included in his play the mail boat that is one of the few remaining delivering mail to the cottages along the shore line. Even today, you can still ride along during the summer months on the scenic pontoon mail boat that has been touring the thirty-five mile route around Great Pond since 1900 and dropping mail into over one hundred mail boxes.

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