Description: Small yellow booklet with history and projects of the Odd fellowship: The United Nations Pilgrimage for Youth, the Pilgrimage to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, The Educational Foundation, The World Eye Bank and Visual Research Foundation, the Respirator Program, the Nursing Training Scholarship Project. Published by the Grand Lodge of Maine Indepenedent Order of Odd Fellows First Edition 1964
Description: Small yellow booklet with history and projects of the Odd Fellowship: The United Nations Pilgrimage for Youth, the Pilgrimage to the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, The Educational Foundation, The World Eye Bank and Visual Research Foundation, the Respirator Program, the Nursing Training Scholarship Project. Published by the Grand Lodge of Maine Independent Order of Odd Fellows First Edition 1964.
Description: describing the project of renovating the Bass Harbor Memorial Library. Includes information on the mission of the organization, what community needs they hope to address, and how the plan will be completed. Appendices describe the services offered by the library and the history. Undated, but mentions that the project began in 2014.
Description: Mary Bond Collection of essays published by the Bar Harbor Times from 1976 to 1986. (Updated description 04/17/2012 by Annette). Mary Bond was the wife of James Bond - the ornithologist who was the namesake for Ian Fleming's character. The Bonds lived in Pretty Marsh on the estate which is now (2012) owned by Joan Fitzgerald.
Description: 48 pps. Gives report of Selectmen on appropriations, receipts and expenditures, e.g., for sprinkling streets, disposing of garbage, payments to overseers of poor. Given to Jesup Library, January 2014
Description: “The Kelly Duplex Grinding Mill, manufactured by Springfield Engine & Thresher Co., Globe Co., Springfield Ohio. 16 page pamphlet about corn grinder. c. 1880’s.
Description: Madame Bacler de Leval, a French woman, efforts to establish a settlement for French refugees in the present Tremont area in 1792, This pamphlet summarizes those efforts as includes her diary (and other writings) in French. There are also handwritten notes in French, and a postcard from the donor, which are in a small envelope.
Description: 1994 Menu Guide to Mount Desert Island More than 20 Menus at a Glance, cuisine, prices, locations at your fingertips, newsprint 8.5 x 11 brochure advertising restaurants on MDI
Description: ...Containing a collection of new designs of carpentry and architecture which will be particularly useful to country workmen in general. Originally published in 1797
Description: Two excerpts from Chebacco: Hadlock Executed this Day, from the History Journal of the Mount Desert Historical Society, Vol. I, 1998 The Last Words and Dying Speech of Samuel L. Hadlock, from Chebacco, Vol. Vii, 2005.
Description: Collection of 13 plays; titles are: A Case for Sherlock Holmes by Gladys Ruth Bridgham Caste by T.W. Robertson Cousin Faithful by Julie M. Lippmann A Scrap of Paper, Comic Drama in three acts by J. Palgrave Simpson His Heroine by Margaret Louise Holbrook The Snowball, a Farce-Comedy in three acts, by Sydney Grundy Betsy Baker by J. Maddison Morton The Trouble at Satterlee's by Louise Latham Wilson The White Silhouette and other acting monologues, by Evangeline M. Lent The Blundering Mr. Brown, a comedy in three acts, by Harold Hale If I Had A Thousand A Year, by J.M. Morton The Brixton Burglary, by Frederick W. Sidney Billy's Bungalow, by Eleanor Maud Crane A Kettle of Fish (adapted from the German), by Franz von Schonthan Parted by Patience, by Bessie Blair Smith [show more]
Description: 21-page monograph presented by the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Story originally published from Rachel Field's collection Points East: Narratives of New England, 1933. Bruce Komusin of the Great Cranberry Island Historical Society brought the work to the attention of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Editor: Emily M. Beck
Description: 21-page monograph presented by the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Story originally published from Rachel Field's collection Points East: Narratives of New England, 1933. Bruce Komusin of the Great Cranberry Island Historical Society brought the work to the attention of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Editor: Emily M. Beck