Port Hope Visitor Guide 2019
This is a place where you can slow down. If the weekend was a place, if the weekend was a philosophy, a conversation, a memory – this is where it would be. Port Hope is a place where you can shake hands with a farmer, snuggle a goat, take a dip in a cool lake, eat a meal fresh-picked from a local field, and breathe it all in. There’s room here. There’s quiet. There’s slow. And there are more ways to enjoy your day than weekends in a year. Come enjoy craft food, drinks and sunsets by the water. Explore quaint streets and scenic country roads. It’s the weekend.
This is a place where you can slow down. If the weekend was a place, if the weekend was a philosophy, a conversation, a memory – this is where it would be.
Port Hope is a place where you can shake hands with a farmer, snuggle a goat, take a dip in a cool lake, eat a meal fresh-picked from a local field, and breathe it all in. There’s room here. There’s quiet. There’s slow. And there are more ways to enjoy your day than weekends in a year. Come enjoy craft food, drinks and sunsets by the water. Explore quaint streets and scenic country roads. It’s the weekend.
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UNIQUELY PORT HOPE<br />
Admittedly, <strong>Port</strong> <strong>Hope</strong> is the quintessential small town by the lake, with an<br />
easygoing coastal feel, friendly faces and beautiful Victorian architecture.<br />
The air is fresh and the living is good here (just ask around!).<br />
MAYBE THIS IS WHAT MAKES IT THE PERFECT FOIL FOR HORROR?<br />
Pretty <strong>Port</strong> <strong>Hope</strong> was transformed into the fictional Derry, Maine,<br />
the setting for the Warner Bros. 2017 blockbuster adaption of<br />
Stephen King’s IT. And the evil shape-shifting Pennywise is returning<br />
for the sequel, IT CHAPTER TWO slated for release this September 6,<br />
<strong>2019</strong>. (Get ready for the <strong>Port</strong> <strong>Hope</strong> release party. We do it up right!)<br />
Horror Master Stephen King<br />
stopped by for a visit and a tour<br />
with Mayor Bob Sanderson.<br />
WHERE THE HECK IS<br />
DERRY, MAINE?<br />
IT’S RIGHT HERE!<br />
IT and IT CHAPTER TWO’s producer, Barbara Muschietti, and<br />
her brother, director Andy Muschietti, say they adore <strong>Port</strong><br />
<strong>Hope</strong> for its small-town warmth, charm and laidback lifestyle.<br />
“The best part of filming was meeting the people of <strong>Port</strong> <strong>Hope</strong>, who are wonderful,”Barbara<br />
says, adding that most of the cast and crew are from urban locales and loved the friendly<br />
low-key feel. “I remember noticing how people on a Saturday were just out walking,<br />
enjoying the day.”<br />
<strong>Port</strong> <strong>Hope</strong> is more about good neighbours than red balloon-carrying monsters. What made<br />
it the ideal quiet town to tell the story of the pre-teen misfits, The Loser Club, now as adults<br />
in IT CHAPTER TWO with flashbacks to childhood soul-scarring moments?<br />
“<strong>Port</strong> <strong>Hope</strong> is just as idyllic as we thought Derry should be. It has a perfection and<br />
cohesiveness where every corner is beautiful and everything belongs,” Barbara says.<br />
“We’re always looking for things that tell the story. It’s that perfection of <strong>Port</strong> <strong>Hope</strong> that<br />
accentuates how different it is to be a loser and not fit in.”<br />
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<strong>2019</strong> PORT HOPE VISITOR GUIDE
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