Description: Prepared for the Summer-Year Round Resident Planning Committee of the Mount Desert Chamber of Commerce. Includes land use maps of Otter Creek, Seal Harbor, Bracy Cove, Northeast Harbor, Somesville, Pretty Marsh. The overall objective was to find ways and means to guide the coourse of change while maintaining the basic character of the community; find ways to achieve growth of the permament summer community. Includes study of hotel/inn and restaurant facilities to see if they are adequate. Among the findings: lengthening season, more older permanent summer residents; need for basic recreational facilities, expansion and modernization of Bar Harbor airport; light housekeeping rental cottages;better shopping and marine services on Sea St. in Northeast Harbor [show more]
Description: Study of granite industry in Hancock Co., Maine, after Civil War to locate major quarry sites, ownership of quarries, types of granite products, characteristics of granite centers, and causes for the decline of the industry.
Description: This book describes Edith Hamilton's life and her work with Greek and Roman mythology and history. She summered in Seal Harbor for several years and loved Mount Desert Island so much that she bought a summer house in Seawall in 1917 where she spent a great deal of time, including the winter of 1926.
Description: History of Bar Harbor, with photographs by Sargent Collier. Includes chapters on Acadia National Park, social and club life, island laboratories, Bar Harbor-Yarmouth ferry, Fire of 1947, Kebo Valley Golf Club, Bar Harbor Club, Pot and Kettle Club, the Building of Arts, Great Automobile War. Mentions performances of the Boston Symphony at the Building of Arts.
Description: Vol X in Northeast Folklore Series, published in 1968. Tall tales and anecdotes about MDI families (Manring, Smallidge, Carroll, Holmes, Somes, Storer and Reed among them) and particularly about Jones Tracy (1856-1939).
Description: How to recognize and evaluate any antique--large or small--like an expert. This is a general guide covering paper, glass, furniture, pottery and porcelain, clocks, and more.
Description: Indicate the habitats of all the birds that breed on or near MDI during the past fifty years. Ian Fleming named his James Bond after the well known ornithologist who summered in Pretty Marsh. (description added by AC 2011)
Description: Doctoral thesis on Robert Swain Peaboy, design partner in prominent Boston architectural firm Photocopy only - probably a gift of author, Wheaton Arnold Holden
Description: A scrapbook of recipes and household tips pasted in a book. Note in book indicates these are recipes of Corinthia Bassett Earl (Dad's Grandmother) d. 1897 in her 70's, buried in Derby, Conn. Had been a printer in Cleveland.
Description: Single page folded Annual Report of the Maine Recreation Authority and a 16 page booklet, unstapled, explaining the program and legal authority for the organization to fund construction and expansion of recreational facilities in Maine. Part of LaRue Spiker Collection Previously archived as object id 012.FIC.058.6