Editing Sullivan, Maine (section)

=== In art, culture, and society ===

The Town of Sullivan, Maine's villages were featured in the novel ''Seven Steeples'', which focused on the communities that grew surrounding the Chapels and Churches that served them.

Sullivan Harbor was the inspiration for the setting of the novel ''The Tinker of Salt Cove''.

West Sullivan was the scene of author [[Jack Havey]]'s memoir ''West Sullivan Days''.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://archive.bangordailynews.com/2001/08/28/poignant-past-recalled-in-west-sullivan-memoir/|title=Bangor Daily News Article "Poignant Past Recalled in Memoir..." (2001, BDN, Bangor, ME)|publisher=Bangor Daily News}}</ref>

As with many semi-rural communities, Sullivan's Villages were once semi-autonomous communities that became more integrated after the turn of the 19th century; some former stores, customs houses, post offices and chapels have been converted into residential or commercial properties.

The area, encompassing mostly nearby [[Hancock, Maine|Hancock]] and Hancock Point, was featured as the filming location for part(s) of the film adaptation of [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[Pet Sematary (1989 film)|Pet Sematary]]''.

The Schoodic Peninsula's Upper Peninsula section transitions to the Lower Peninsula at the Gouldsboro/Sullivan town-line, while the demarcation between the Schoodic Foothills & the Upper Peninsula is less formalized, but considered to end at the Franklin/Sullivan town-line and the transition from Taunton to Hog Bay via water. Formerly, the colonial term "Schoodicshire" has been used in ages-passed for the two regions collectively.

"Schoodic" is the anglicized form of a Native American term of disputed origin, thought to mean (in one definition cited locally) as "where land and sea meet". Waukeag, the distinct name for the Sullivan area, also is of Native origin, and roughly translates to "crossing place" or "horsehead", among other interpretations. Maine's history as a disputed frontier territory between the British North American Colonies and French New France, and later a district of the Massachusetts Bay Colony (later Commonwealth) has provided the area with a distinctive, unique historic status.