Year 2000 sunrise showdown in Maine Naval Observatory settles dispute of where one can see first light of day in U.S.

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel | September 5, 1999| | Copyright

Even before the dawn of the year 2000, they're already squabbling over who will see it first.

In Lubec, a blue-collar town of 1,800 people, the sign greeting visitors says "Easternmost town in America," and the local newspaper calls itself the "Most Easterly Newspaper Published in the United States."

So when the U.S. Naval Observatory declared that the summit of Cadillac Mountain, just outside Bar Harbor, would be the first place in the nation to see dawn on Jan. 1, 2000, folks here were taken aback.

"Some people can get quite bent out of shape over it," said John Smith, manager of Quoddy Head ...

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