Description: Donor information: Merlin Bar Harbor Luders #56, owned here by Norman Mailer, then summering in Sorrento. David Cadigan at the helm, Steve Hensel with hat. Other crew person unknown. Photo probably taken at the annual Bar Harbor regatta. Photo made from slide taken in 1972. Merlin later burned in a fire at Williams Boat yard, Halls Quarry. Boat built by Luders in 1948 for the new Bar Harbor Yacht Club fleet. Original owner was Amos Eno. Boat named Salty . Later owned by Mrs. E.E. Ownes, also of Bar Harbor. [show more]
Description: Many people standing along a roadside. LaRue Spiker is passing out League of Women Voters’ statements on acid rain and the synfuel bill along the Bar Harbor 4th of July parade route in 1980.
Description: 3.5 X 5 color photograph of a black and white dog standing on granite rock in front of LaRue Spiker. The sea and green trees to the left. LaRue Spiker is smiling and wearing light colored sweater and glasses. Holding blue cup with her left hand. Person on right is a girl with blond braids and is smiling. Small boat in fog in background.
Description: 3.5 X 5 color photograph of a black and white dog standing in field of tall grass with white wild flowers and bushes behind dog. Dog is in walking stance and facing to the right. Slightly out of focus.
Description: 3.5 X 5 color photograph of white and black spotted dog standing on granite rock in front of the ocean. Standing in mid-ground and facing to the right with pink tounge hanging out. Small boat in ocean behind dog. Dark atmosphere.
Description: 3.5 X 3.5 color photograph of LaRue Spiker wearing green pants and white shirt, bending down toward camera to hold out hands to cat on blue chair and black dog standing on floor.
Description: 3.25 X 3.25 color photograph of a black dog sticking head through wooden railings of a balcony inside a house. Wood paneled wall with knots in wood below the dog. Corner of picture on wall cropped by photo.
Description: 3.25 X 3.25 color photograph of LaRue Spiker sitting in blue easy chair with head resting on right hand. Dog on back of chair behind her standing up facing camera. In room with two windows, dark outside. T.V. in center of room on back wall. Photo is slightly out of focus.
Description: MDI class boat #16. Owned and skippered by Sturgis Haskins, of Sorrento. The MDI class was designed and built in 1924 for the Bar Harbor and Seal Harbor Yacht Clubs. Edsel Ford was said to have underwritten the design. This boat, the Rugusa , was originally owned by Sandy Kellog, of Sandy Kellog, of Bar Harbor. It was the last built in the class -1925. A later owner, in the 1930s,was Mary Smith of Greenings Island. Later in the 1950s it was owned by Rev. Palfred Perkins of Southwest Harbor who changed the name from Red Jacket to Lillibet. Toby Strong of Southwest Harbor purchased it from Perkins lat selling it to Sturgis Haskins. It is the last MDI left on Mt. Desert. The nearest two are in the Penobscot Marine Museum, in Searsport, and on an island in Penobscot Bay owned by the Porters. [show more]
Description: Somesville April 1995. Group standing on bank in back of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum below historic John Somes house (owned by Patsy Little) waiting for the new arched footbridge to be being placed over stream.
Description: 11 X 14 color aerial photograph in a cardboard mat showing the Somesville School after conversion to condominiums. Documentation on back: American Aerial Scenes, PO Box 239, Shea Rd., Pompey, NY. Reorder # 171-232.
Description: Acknowledgements for bicentennial slide show. People Acknowledged, John Fernald, Eva Somes, Georgia Stanley, Edna and Ross Hysom, Thalia and O.C. Nutting, Emmons Brown, Addie Smith, Carolyn Grant, Bertha Allen, MDI Historical Society for lending old photographs. Llewellyn Mitchell for converting these photographs to slides, - Marjory Hayward, color slides.
Description: Northeast Harbor A-Class boats in West Cove Boat Yard, Sorrento. #6 Ariel and #15 Whistler . Both built in 1912 by Lawley of Neponset, Boston. The A class raced at Northeast Harbor for over 50 years. About 50 boats were built in all. At least three remain in local waters on the island. A-boats were designed by Edwin A. Boardman of Boston. Gift of Sturgis Haskins, 1996.
Description: Somesville April 1995. From left to right, Marion Stanley, Ralph Stanley, Jaylene Roths, Marie Nolf fastening flag. People in distance waiting for arched foot bridge to be placed over stream.
Description: Main Street Somesville April 1995. Group standing on sidewalk watching the new arched footbridge being placed over stream. Historic Abraham Somes III (owned by Richard and Marian Cobb) on corner.
Description: Main Street Somesville April 1995. Group standing in the parking lot of Mount Desert Island Historical Society watching the new arched footbridge being placed over stream. Mill Pond across the street.