Description: Dr. Virginia Somes Sanderson inside MDI Historical Society Selectmen’s Building. Seated at table, wearing blue shirt under long sleeve white blouse with blue pattern. Surrounded by museum exhibits.
Description: Man standing by a boat on wheels with League of Women Voters banner. Boat is MDI LWV float in the Bar Harbor 1980 4th of July parade. Bruce Leighton loaned the boat and drove the truck that hauled it.
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: Color slide a slice cut into the ground showing ground cover on top and layer of dark soil underneath. From box labled: Great Heath & Col. Falls, April 1983
Description: Display entitled “Synfuels is Sinful.” At an Earth Day 1980 presentation at the COA the MDI League sponsored an informational booth about synfuels. LaRue Spiker and Helen Douglas designed and set up the display.
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: Women seated in an audience. Gail Meier, Sue Meyers, Jackie Russell and Tibby Russell attend a meeting about policies and problems of Maine’s educational system sponsored by the MDI League of Women Voters in Bar Harbor in January, 1982.
Description: Color slide a short shrubs with fall colors under a cloudy sky. These might be blueberry shrubs. From box labled: Great Heath & Col. Falls, April 1983
Description: Sheep in barnyard. Sheep were a feature of 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: Group of women patting a black lamb. Jackie Russell (back), Maggie Wheelwright, Doris Riley, Barbara Dillon, Mollie Birdsall (holding lamb), and Ruth Cummins visit Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters.
Description: Group of women and men standing in front of a barn door. Mollie Birdsall talks to Helen Douglas, Louise Gilbert and Don Sawyer. 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: Woman standing talking with seated people. Pictured are Gail Meier, Edna Hysom, Arthur and Phyllis Charpentier at an MDI League of Women Voters public meeting on “An Act to create the Maine Energy Commission” on October 29, 1981 at the Bar Harbor YWCA.
Description: Woman standing and reading. Gladys Butler is visiting Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters.
Description: Two women standing on a dock in front of a lobster boat. Helen Douglas and Louise Gilbert are attending a League of Women Voters board meeting at Rhodes House in Southwest Harbor on June 8, 1981.
Description: Two women seated on ground outdoors under “League” banner. Helen Douglas and Doris Riley wait for customers at the Bar Harbor Village Green Art Show on July 25, 1980. Helen also sold paintings.
Description: Two women standing outdoors behind a table under a League of Women Voters banner. Helen Douglas and Jackie Russell sell refreshments on July 25, 1980 at the Bar Harbor Village Green Art Show. Helen also exhibited paintings.