Pleasant Mountain Patch (Maine Outline) — c. 1980s

A vintage Pleasant Mountain patch from Bridgton, Maine, estimated to date from the 1980s, a small rectangle with a light blue merrowed border on a white ground. The state of Maine is worked in solid red at the left with a blue crossed-skis mark set on it, and Pleasant Mountain runs in blue beside it over Bridgton, Maine.

Putting the whole state on the patch is a particular habit of Maine ski areas and almost nowhere else. Vermont mountains drew their own peak; New Hampshire drew a skier. Maine drew Maine, over and over, at four different hills in this catalog alone, as if the mountain mattered less than the fact that it was up here.

It is an unglamorous little object and it is doing something the big landscape patches never manage, which is place the hill on a map in the buyer's head.

Embroidered on twill, merrowed edge. Photos are the condition report.