Description: Report on a survey of the educational programs and facilities of the schools on Mount Desert Island taken in 1948, including trends in enrollment, school housing needs, finances, and transportation. The survey recommends the establishment of a consolidated, regional school for grades 7-12.
Description: Reports from government agencies and two clipped newspaper articles from unspecified newspapers. Items included: 1) 11th Annual Report, Fiscal - 1968 of the Maine Industrial Building Authority, 2) FAA Information Newsletter dated April 25, 1968, 3)MIRFAB (Maine Industrial and Recreational Finance Approval Board) 1967 Annual Report, 4) Newspaper clipping regarding financing sources for Maine economic development, and 5) Newspaper clipping regarding industrial loan guarantee for Vahlsing, Inc. Items likely collected in preparation for an article to be written by Spiker. Part of LaRue Spiker Collection Previously archived as object Id 012.FIC.058.4 and **1769 [show more]
Description: 95-page booklet (including bibliography) about the parties, the voters, the preliminaries; delegate selection; national nominating conventions, and more.
Description: Typewritten 2 pp. Environmental Committee report on the issue of land use, and 2 pp. Economic Development Committee report on activity of this committee. These League of Women Voter committees were considering issues of local development and governance. Part of LaRue Spiker Collection Previously archived as object id 012.FIC.062.4
Description: Appeal for donations for the Campaign for History Education, soliciting funds for museum repairs, museum grounds work, and an endowment fund.
Description: Report recounting highlights of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society's 1996 year, listing coming events for the next year, and listing the membership.
Description: Fundraising and informational materials prepared for the Sound School House Campaign Committee of the Mount Desert Island Historial Society dated July 1998. Includes the Sound School House Fact Sheet, the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Fact Sheet, the Sound School House Restoration and Use Plan, Fundraising Plan, and pledge sheet.
Description: Fundraising and informational materials regarding the Sound School House Restoration project prepared by the Mount Desert Island Historical Society and dated March 1998.
Description: Legal Black Binder:Copy of the Earliest Records of the Island of Mount Desert and Vital records : An index to the Early Records of the Town of Mount Desert
Description: Legal Black Binder:Copies of Mount Desert Town Records 1821-1841 Intentions and Marriages,1847-52; Town Meeting Records 1847-50;Records of Intentions and Marriages 1853-89; Misc. Ref to Pretty Marsh roads and Taxes to 1860s.
Description: War Survey: includes number of wells, beds, linens, cooking utensils, vehicles, firearms available in the area of Southwest Harbor, Manset and Seawall by May Salsbury, Survey Chairman Seawall, Manset P.O., Maine
Description: 1 page report, from the Coast and Geodetic Survey. About tidal bench marks in Southwest Harbor. Research for an article by LaRue Spiker. Previously accessioned as **2009, object Id 2001.2009
Description: As title indicates. Triangulation stations in Bass Harbor, Mount Desert and West Peak - pages numbers of these marked by LaRue Spiker. Preparation for an article. 23 pages. Previously accessioned as **2010, object Id 2001.2010
Description: A report prepared for the Mount Desert Island regional high school committee. Printed by the Bar Harbor Times. Folder 9 also contains numerous letters, memos and announcements about the decision process, 1948, for building a new island wide High School to replace regional schools.
Description: 76-page booklet: A Report Prepared for The Mount Desert Island Regional High School Committee by the Survey Staff, Mark R. Shibles, Director. The report recommended establishing "a single, six-year Regional Secondary School for the youth of the entire Island" (school consolidation). Also gave plans for use of existing school buildings affected by this new organization. Includes a center photographic spread of the existing buildings.