Description: Letter (2p.) in response to communication from LaRue Spiker regarding his support of assistance to the Contras in Central America. Reverse of letter includes extensive notes listing names of people and organizations and note "Ad in paper". Previously archived as 012.FIC.057.1
Description: Photocopy of letter to Virginia Somes Sanderson discussing Somes family genealogical research. Letter also describes attachments which are cataloged separately in this Somes folder.
Description: Photocopy of handwritten document discussing the genealogy of the Somes who emigrated to Canada and particularly the question of whether people with the surnames Somes and Solmes are of the same family.
Description: The story of "how and why Lieutenant Fabbri conceived and developed" the Otter Cliffs Naval Radio Station in 1917, commemorated in the Fabbri Memorial on Ocean Drive. NOTE: PDF available
Description: Typewritten letter from Sanderson concerning details of her proposed donation of money to fund construction of a bridge to connect old and new MDI Historical Society buildings in Somesville.
Description: Three page article describing the history of the construction of the carriage roads, bridges and gatehouses of Acadia National Park on Mt. Desert Island.
Description: Six sheets containing five bids by various contractors for construction of new museum building in Somesville for the MDI Historical Society.
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: Three obituary notices of the death of Willis H. Ballard, May 25, 1980. From Bar Harbor Times, Portland Press Herald, and Bangor Daily News. Facsimile copies of each.
Description: Building Permit (one page) and Land Use Permit (one page) issued by the Town of Mount Desert, Maine, to the MDI Historical Society for construction of a new museum building in Somesville, ME.
Description: Map on tissue paper drawn by assessor, Town of Mount Desert, Maine, and photocopy of map presumably drawn by MDI Historical Society of area in Somesville to include new museum building.
Description: Article describing myths which have been reported regarding an unexplained light seen at night off the coast of Mt. Desert Island in Placentia Bay. Previously archived as object Id 012.FIC.043.15