Description: small four page booklet with constitution and by-laws printed in 1947blue map of Mount Desert Island and blue text on coverincludes handwritten notes in ink
Description: Historic and Descriptive Manual of the First Seven Years of the Organization: The Mount Desert Larger Parish 1925 -1932 the communities: Otter Creek, Seal Harbor, Northeast Harbor, Somesville, Town Hill, Salisbury Cove
Description: Service of Ordination to Christian Ministry and Installation to Service in the Mount Desert larger Parish, U.C.C. of Joanne E. Stoughton, William Bigelow, Rosemary Denman, Marvin Ellison, Kenneth Ferguson, Donald Gow, Chrisina Hamor,Wesley Haynes, Charles Heslam, Susan Ingham, Keta Jones, Olive Lockhart, Lydia Lyman, Charles Pugh, Ansley Throckmorton
Description: Somes Family Tree made on the back of a large 1973 wall calendar. Had wooden strip for hanging (strip missing) . 12 pages total Photocopies of the pages are also in the folder, separated from the originals by tissue. Photocopies have not been catalogued.
Description: 1953 Somesville Union Meeting House Summer Worship Schedule Card from July 7 to August 25. INcludes Miriam J. Higgins, Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Tertius Van Dyke, Horace Leavitt, John G. Manter, George B. MacDonald, John N0ss, Appleton Lawrence+-, John B.Whiteman
Description: 1940 Somesville Union Meeting House Summer Worship Schedule Card from July 7 to August 25. INcludes Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Tertius Van Dyke, Horace Leavitt, Samuel Eliot, Arthur Wilson, John N0ss, Perry Smith , John Whiteman
Description: Letter asking for gifts and pledges to the Somesville Parish House Fund from the Finance committee and John G. Minter, minister . Robert W. Patterson, Sr. had drawn plans for the structure.
Description: 1940 Union Meeting House Summer Worship Schedule Card from July 7 to August 25. INcludes Arthur Cushman McGiffert, Tertius Van Dyke, Horace Leavitt, Samuel Eliot, Arthur Wilson, John N0ss, Perry Smith , John Whiteman
Description: Green Binder: Copies of Reminiscences of Somesville by Adelma F. Joy; Excerpts from The Island of Mount Desert Register 1909-1910;Annual Report of Town Officers of Mount Desert, ME 1900,1910, 1911 - 1916 and 1931
Description: Summer 1952 Worship Schedule includes names of celebrants and dates of services. Includes the one Hundredth Anniversary of the erection of the meeting house and the back includes the mission statement, council and parish staff
Description: bulletin for Rededication service for the Somesville Union Meeting House includes order of service and participants include: Organist Marjory Hayward and committee Brown, Leavitt, Nutting and Hollis Smith
Description: Service bulletin for Services Commemorating the Organization of the Congregational Society of Mount Desert in July 1840 Held at the Meeting Housedate when 15 page Sermon / historical address was given by Rev. Horace H. Leavitt, D.D. on the history of the Somesville Union Meeting House, U.C.C. coloring in cover illustration
Description: Service bulletin for Services Commemorating the Organization of the Congregational Society of Mount Desert in July 1840 Held at the Meeting Housedate when 15 page Sermon / historical address was given by Rev. Horace H. Leavitt, D.D. on the history of the Somesville Union Meeting House, U.C.C.
Description: Adelma Somes Joy recalls Somesville’s Red school house in 1847. Includes description of the interior and student pranks. Also the tale of Sam Slick. Also Singing School; Indians Camping at Somesville, two poems (one alludes to a suicide), Churches on Mt. Desert (1840), That Old Tannery (recalls Daniel and Lewis Somes, Israel Haven, John Keniston and Somesvilles' cobbler shop), That Old Factory (woolen mill), That Old Road [over Beech Hill], (1837), That Upper Gate (kept water back when not needed to turn mill wheels)--all by Adelma Somes Joy. "The Indian Violin Player" by Eunice Deering. [show more]
Description: 1881 bound book with illustrated embossed cover of cat with parrot and decoration. INcludes newsclippings of local interest, poetry and obituaries from early Somesville and Mount Desert Residents: Somes, Pineo, Parker, Whiting etc.
Description: All by Adelma Somes Joy: “Somes Sound must have been one beautiful place." Recalls arrival of Abraham Somes, the oak trees on oak hill, Ebenezer Sutton, and Denning’s Pond. "Years ago when we had the telegraph..." Recalls advances in technology, balloons, and flight. Northeast Harbor Women's Literary Club talk , Jan. 30, 1920. Plans to travel abroad, give clothing to naked Africans, open beauty parlor. "That Old Reed House." Mrs. Reed was her grandfather's sister; house near Jim's Cove. "My first recollections of life..." Recalls her grandparents' house in 1838. Also separate essay, "Grandfather's House." Reminiscences of Somesville #6. Recalls naming of Somesville, old roads, school house, industry, and tanning pits. Two Letters from Adelma Somes Joy to Harriet Somes Sanderson, Aug. 10, 1929. recalls Col. Black House in Ellsworth, Episcopal Church at Seal Cove, Bp. Manning, church sales, other historical notes. "Memories" of her father. History of Somes and Richardson families. [show more]