Description: Binder containing information about Mount Desert Island gas stations, automobile dealerships, or automotive-related businesses; visitors were asked to add their own comments or information. Small pamphlet about exhibit inside pocket.
Description: Nocturne: By the Quiet Lake, by FJ Keller 1877. Reconstructed by David Schildkret, Prof. of Choral Music, Arizona State Univ. School of Music, using Sibelius 6 software, from parts held in the MDI Historical Society. NOTE: If used, give above attribution.
Description: A film compilation about the fire of 1947 from the Collections of Northeast Historic Film. Included is: October Fury 1947, Maine's Forect Fire Disasters, A Look Back at the Infamous Fires 50 Years Later, a retrospective produced by the Maine Forest Service. There are other cuts and film included without attribution of sources. On DVD.
Description: Copy of photograph of Dottie Dyer Grindle in full length dress on steps of Sound Schoolhouse steps. On reverse is an explanation by Sylvia A Grindle Gillon of the source of the dress.
Description: 1 page photocopy of history of Herrick name and the Herricks of Mount Desert Island, apparently taken from "Old Hancock County Families" by William DcDuff Pierce.
Description: 5 page photocopy of Herrick genealogy, based on material from the book "Gen. Reg. of Name and Family of Herrick" 1830, by Jedediah Herrick.
Description: Photocopied pages (4) from history magazine discussing Stephen Jones of Gouldsborough. Handwritten notes on reverse pertaining to Thomas Richardson of Bass Harbor and the partitioning of land on MDI.
Description: Oral History Workshop, Jan. 28, 2010 Lenny's Legacy (Lenny DeMuro), MDI's Winning Swimmers, Jue 6, 2010 Memorials of Acadia National Park, Donald Lenahan, June 13, 2010 Photo Detectives: Researching Old Photographs, Meredith Hutchins & Charlotte Morrill, July 18, 2010 Peter Blanchard, author of We Were and Island (Kellams), August 10, 2010 Tour of Fred Savage Cottages (High Seas & Callendar House), Aug. 20, 2010 Swan't Island Trip, Aug. 21 (and another date), 2010 Soderholtz / Schoodic Trip (and stops along way), Aug. 28, 2010 Annual Meeting, August 24, 2010 [show more]
Description: A film of oral histories given by thirteen people who currently reside on Mount Desert Island, on November 22, 2013, College of the Atlantic Gates Auditorium, of their personal recollections of the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. The presentation was hosted by the MDIHistorical Society and Nathaniel Fenton was the moderator and interviewer. Individuals with recorded oral histories: Robert Shea, Sheldon Goldthwait, Deborah Dyer, Sherwood Carr, Mary Mitchell, Merdith Rich Hutchins, Joan Carey, Marian Smith, Karen Craig, Fred Benson, Jack Gibbons, Sandy McFarland, and Nat Fenton. [show more]
Description: History of the community of Otter Creek, Maine, and its historical connections with the waterfront in Acadia National Park. Early families settled there and earned a living fishing and lobstering. Book recounts changes to relationship between community and waterfront, especially following the Depression; Otter Creek was only town on Mount Desert Island to be fully encircled by new Acadia National Park, thus losing access to the waterfront.