Description: Figures seated on a stone wall. MDI League of Women Voters celebrated the Year of the Coast with an informal picnic and hike to Bar Island on August 23, 1980. Seated left to right: Louise Gilbert, Hollis Piatt, Helen Douglas, Bob, Chris and Ben Diebold from the Bangor-Brewer League.
Description: Man standing by a boat on wheels with League of Women Voters banner. Boat is MDI LWV float in the Bar Harbor 1980 4th of July parade. Bruce Leighton loaned the boat and drove the truck that hauled it.
Description: Stretch of unspoiled shoreline. MDI League of Women Voters celebrated the Year of the Coast with an informal picnic and hike to Bar Island on August 23, 1980. Pictured is Bar Island shore with Bald Porcupine Island on the right.
Description: Woman and child seated on picnic blanket. MDI League of Women Voters celebrated the Year of the Coast with an informal picnic and hike to Bar Island on August 23, 1980. Seated are Gail Wright and daughter.
Description: Figures walking on beach at low tide. MDI League of Women Voters celebrated the Year of the Coast with an informal picnic and hike to Bar Island on August 23, 1980. In this photo they are heading across at low tide.
Description: Two women standing outdoors at a table under a League of Women Voters banner. Louise Gilbert and Hollis Piatt sell refreshments on July 26, 1980 at the Bar Harbor Green
Description: Two women standing outdoors behind a table under a League of Women Voters banner. Helen Douglas and Jackie Russell sell refreshments on July 25, 1980 at the Bar Harbor Village Green Art Show. Helen also exhibited paintings.
Description: Two women seated on ground outdoors under “League” banner. Helen Douglas and Doris Riley wait for customers at the Bar Harbor Village Green Art Show on July 25, 1980. Helen also sold paintings.
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: Person in a boat on wheels with League of Women Voters banner. Boat is MDI LWV float in the Bar Harbor 1980 4th of July parade. Louise Gilbert rode the entire route and tossed taffy.
Description: Woman waving from a boat on wheels with League of Women Voters banner. Boat is MDI LWV float in the Bar Harbor 1980 4th of July parade. Louise Gilbert rode the entire route and tossed taffy.
Description: Display entitled “Synfuels is Sinful.” At an Earth Day 1980 presentation at the COA the MDI League sponsored an informational booth about synfuels. LaRue Spiker and Helen Douglas designed and set up the display.
Description: League of Women Voters banner and display table. At an Earth Day 1980 presentation at the COA the MDI League sponsored a booth entitled “Synfuels is Sinful.” LaRue Spiker and Helen Douglas designed and set up the display.
Description: Two harnessed work horses. Paul Birdsall’s horses were a feature of a visit to Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters.
Description: Sheep in barnyard. Sheep were a feature of a visit to Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters.
Description: Three women standing with pile of yard in background. LaRue Spiker, Hollis Piatt and Gail Meier are looking at wool spun by Mollie Birdsall during a visit to Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters.
Description: Woman standing and reading. Gladys Butler is visiting Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters.
Description: Group of women patting a black lamb. Jackie Russell (back), Maggie Wheelwright, Doris Riley, Barbara Dillon, Mollie Birdsall (holding lamb), and Ruth Cummins visit Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters.
Description: Group of women and men standing in front of a barn door. Mollie Birdsall talks to Helen Douglas, Louise Gilbert and Don Sawyer. Visit to Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 is in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters
Description: Women lined up along a fence view and handle sheep. LaRue Spiker looks on as Mollie Birdsall holds black lamb. Louise Gilbert, Ruth Cummins, Doris Riley are along fence. Visit to Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 is in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters..
Description: League of Women Voters banner above a bulletin board with various photographs and documents displayed underneath. Under the bulletin board there is a small round table with one chair to the right. Table has books and papers laid on it.
Description: 3 X 5 color photograph in vertical format of milkweed gone to seed. Many pods on one stalk. View from bellow. Against blue sky, Half an inch of wheat field showing at bottom, with two white structures on horizon to left of base of stalk.
Description: 3 X 5 color photograph in vertical format of milkweed gone to seed. Several golden pods on one stalk against grey-blue sky. Gold wheat along bottom of photo. Milkweed stalk extending from right side of photo.
Description: 3 X 5 color photograph of field of golden wheat against grey-blue sky (Horizontal Format). Various Brown plants dot midground and horizon.