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: Color photograph of LaRue Spiker standing next to a camper with a dog. There is a woman standing behind a car tot he right of LaRue on the right of the frame. A camper and small white building can be seen behind LaRue.
Description: Color photograph of LaRue Spiker crouching next to an older woman in a blue dress. A dog lays inbetween them. There is a red flowering plant and a short grey building behind both women. Sign next to the building reads "Stone".
Description: Color photograph of LaRue Spiker standing next to a 1950s blue car with a dog. There are campers in the distance adn tall pine trees with Spanish Moss. LaRue is dressed in a black print top and blue pleated skirt.
Description: Color photo of LaRue Spiker standing in a room fill of flowers. She has one hand resting on a TV there are lace curtains behind her, and a portrait of a woman hangs on the wall above the TV. Caption on back reads: Anniversary Flowers. Processing stamp reads October 1954
Description: Color photograph of LaRue Spiker and another woman standing in front of a shrub with a dog on a leash. There are two structures in the photo but it is unclear what they might be. There is also a one foot tall white fence to the left of the unknown woman. Both women are dressed in skirts and blouses. One wears a dark sweater. Caption on back reads: Dec. 54
Description: Color photograph of LaRue Spiker standing with a dog next to a flowering shrub and short structure. Sign next to the structure reads Stone Caption on back reads: Processing stamp on the back with date Mar 9, 1957
Description: Color photograph of LaRue in the stern of a canoe with a paddle in her hand. The canoe is in some tall reed like grasses. LaRue is wearing all white outfit. There are lily pads in the water arround them and trees on the opposite shore.
Description: Color photo of LaRue Spiker (middle), unknown woman (right), unknown woman left standing outside with a cabin in the background. From Blue Album labled "Southwest Harbor August 1960" in "Spiker Family Friends Personae" File
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: 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: 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: 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: Woman (standing) addresses audience at u-shaped table. Nancy DeWick leads the energy discussion at the biennial State Council meeting of the League of Women Voters of Maine on May 19 and 20, 1978. The meeting was hosted by the MDI LWV and took place at the Golden Anchor hotel in Bar Harbor.
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: 8 X 10 color glossy photograph of a single yellow lady's slipper. The flower is sorrounded by green leaves and the leaves of the flower are twisted.