Description: Marguerite Yourcenar (1903-1987) was the first woman elected to the Academie Francaise; she lived on Mount Desert Island in Northeast Harbor and is buried in Brookside Cemetery in Somesville.
Description: How to start an oral history project, conduct interviews, use oral history in research and writing, videotape oral history, preserve it in archives and libraries, and teach and present oral history.
Description: Photographs from about the Civil War times to about the time of the First World War relating to economic activity in the state. Activities include agriculture, lumbering, boat building, and more. Photo credits are given.
Description: A series of 12 programs on six videotapes, created by the Old Sardine Village Museum, Lubec, Maine, 1995-1997. Videotapes are in VCR format. Twelve programs: Tape 1: Wolff & Reessing, 1875-1903 and The Seacoast, 1899-1920 Tape 2: Capen & Cover Dept., 1900-1920 and Diamond Pkgy Co., Early 1900's Tape 3: Wm. Underwood Shop, 19821-1921 and Can Company, 1890's-1920's Tape 4: Hole and Cap Can Shop, Stewart's Blueberries and Blacksmith Shop-Eastern Steamship Dock-Rier Barn Tape 5: Capain's Quarters, 1820's-1920's and The Columbian, est. 1890 Tape 6: winslow Packing Co, 1843-1899 and Carpenter Shop, 1850's-1920's, and Sheet Metla Shop [show more]