BANGOR DAILY NEWS • June 25, 2021
Michael Boland, an MDI-based restaurateur, this past winter acquired the Naturalist’s Notebook and, with the help of employee Jordan Chalfant, reopened the shop in the village of Seal Harbor on Memorial Day weekend after it was closed for all of 2020 because of the COVID-19 pandemic. Chalfant, an artist who worked at the business under its prior owners, Craig Neff and Pamelia Markwood, is managing the shop for Boland. Different sections of the shop, which is spread out over three floors, have different themes, some defined by specific periods of the planet’s history.