Games, Art, Beer, and Belonging: A Winter Saturday in Bar Harbor

Winter gatherings bring warmth, community and smiles.

BAR HARBOR—Just outside the Bar Harbor Congregational Church in downtown Bar Harbor, Saturday afternoon, a bundled up family member tried to get a baby stroller over a parking lot snowbank so that it could go onto a sidewalk and then out into Main Street.

It wasn’t going easily. The carriage’s front wheels hitched; the angle was a bit wrong.

“No, here, le…