Deer Isle is a town in Hancock County, Maine, United States.

[2] Notable landmarks in Deer Isle are the Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, Stonington Opera House, and the town's many art galleries.

[5] In the 19th century, the granite industry flourished on Deer Isle where its quarries supplied granite for structures such as the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Smithsonian Institution, the US Naval Academy, the Manhattan Bridge, and President John F. Kennedy's tomb at Arlington National Cemetery.

Steinbeck wrote, "One doesn't have to be sensitive to feel the strangeness of Deer Isle".

[7] It was Deer Isle that musician Dan Fogelberg and his wife Jean chose for their final home, and where he died in 2007.

Many small private islands can be found in the waters surrounding Deer Isle.

Cabot Lyford, a Maine sculptor, used seven tons of Deer Isle granite to carve one of his best known pieces, Life Force.

[8] The sculpture, which depicts dolphins jumping from the water, stands outside the Regency Hotel in Portland.