Description: An introduction to "the silver and ceramic tablewares that have been used at the western dining table since the 16th century and to show the features that help identify their style, date, manufacturer, and country of origin."
Description: Information about per pupil funding of school libraries with multiple questions for League of Women voters to decide on whether to support changes in staffings, school funding, materials selection of libraries. Accompanying documents
Description: Tells how to create historic gardens and landscapes that reflect specific periods, e.g., colonial, Victorian as well as how and where to research these gardens. Suggested plantings that are historically accurate are given as are guidelines for maintaining the restored landscape.
Description: Republication of Bar Harbor Record news items in Bar Harbor Times, . Compiled by Deborah Dyer of the Bar Harbor Historical Society, 3/16/2000.Listing of people who were in town in connection with various building projects. Rober Amory and W.R. Emerson;Waldron Bates in connection with the new Kebo Valley Club House.
Description: “Ralph Richardson - Tending to the rich: a lifetime of caretaking.” Article from Days and Nights on Mt. Desert Island. June 1992. Story about Richardson, a caretaker for wealthy summer residents for 43 years.
Description: Somesville Sampler, part of MDI Historical Society Collection. Framed crosstich sampler. Depicts planes and airport, clock on mantle with candlesticks, sailboats, grounded schooner, 1920s automobile, horse and buggy,church, cemetery. Not sure this is correct location (AB, 7/12/12)
Description: Contains more than 70 color reproductions of Stobart's paintings as well as halftones and drawings. Subjects include clipper ships, whalers, and steamboats; text gives background information and relates American maritime history.
Description: The Redbook is a directory and handbook for Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor, Somesville, Bar Harbor, Southwest Harbor and Adjacent Islands. This is dated 1999. The publisher and editor is Cheryl Caughey Chase. The price at that time was $6.50.
Description: Letter regarding two W.H. Ballard photos that Sturgis Haskins bought for the Town of Sorrento; Edmund Burke owned the Bullseye that is likely in the photo, possibly named Scamp. Picture of the Skylark; named changed to the Valkyrie. Edmund Gillespie has better pictures of the Skylark than the one taken by Ballard.