HARPSWELL: The picturesque seaside Cumberland County town of Harpswell is famous for lots of things, from its iconic Bailey Island bridge to the fact that the Marvel Comics superhero Captain Marvel, aka Carol Danvers, grew up, in part, in the town, according to comic book lore. More recently, the town became somewhat infamous as the site of the first-ever fatal shark attack in recorded Maine history, when a New York woman was bitten by a great white shark while swimming in 2020.
