Description: A film on DVD about Wendell Gilley, master carver from Southwest Harbor. Title: Gilley: Portrait of a Bird Carver. A documentary story filmed during the construction of the museum built in his honor in 1981. Film by Richard W. Adams, with a 2004 update on the 25th anniversary of the Museum and the centennial of the birth of Wendell Gilley. Running time of 25 minutes.
Description: 4 hand written page Copy of a letter to John Cushing about the upcomming shipment of S.A. Eliot's papers to the Massachussetts Historical Society. He talks about his hopes for these materials, the need to a valuation of the collection for tax purposes, the hope that Harvard Archives, Harvard Divinity School and the Historical Society will be able to cross refrence the collections for future researchers. There is also three pages of inventory of the boxes being sent. [show more]
Description: 1 hand written page Copy of a letter to his sisters and brothers about the donation of S.A. Eliot papers to the Massachusetts Historical Society. He also addresses other papers which he is going to send to the Harvard Divinity School library. There are also notes to Ted and Cush written on the bottom of the letter.
Description: 1 hand written page Copy of two letters to Ted. Letter discussed his need for a response from Ted to his letter of Dec 30, 1974 about the Champlain Society Papers. Charles also mentions meeting with Harvard Divinity School to see how they have organized the donated papers from 1975 & 1977. Second letter is the one from Dec 30, 1974 Two copies
Description: 1 Hand written page Copy of a letter to Ted discussing the conversation with Harvard Divinity School on how they have archived S.A. Eliot's papers, the materials recently sent to the Massachusetts Historical Society, and what Charles is currently sorting through at the house.
Description: 2 hand written page Copy of a letter to Ted attached to a copy of an inventory list of materials sent to Ted on 12/30/1974 and his hope that he will give the Champlain Society Materials to the Northeast Harbor Library while he is on Mount Desert Island.
Emma Richards, Secretary, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Collection:
MDI Historical Society
Date:
1982
Description: Letter from the MDI Historical Society to Virginia Somes Sanderson thanking Sanderson for her gift of funds for construction of an arched footbridge between two buildings of the Historical Society in Somesville.. A resolution of the Society commending Dr. Sanderson and her book, "The Living Past" is also discussed in the letter.
Description: Deed 1975 and letters of conveyance documenting the sale of land in Somesville, ME, from Emily Grindle to the Mount Desert Island Historical Society on April 23, 1981.
Description: Two typewritten pages by Irene Dow Purdie regarding her ancestors John Ware Dow and John Wesley Dow. Both Dows had a connection to Mount Desert Island.
Description: Four-page handwritten letter and envelope with return address, written by Lucie Smallidge (daughter of Laura Richardson) to Mrs. Charles Lanpher (Juanita) and dated September 21, 1988; mentions going to school in Northeast Harbor and values of people in NEH when she was growing up. Mentions effort to see "Goldie"; Lucie's brothers Curley and Galen, sisters Leola and "Skoot," who was married to Don McEachern; and her grandparents Olin and Luch Richardson; her mother, Laura, and Laura's sister Lucretia. Her uncle Olin Richardson had the gas station and store in Town Hill for many years; she had another uncle named Bide Richardson. Describes Lucie's love of music and work with the elderly in nursing homes [show more]