Description: Duplicate of letter from Jaylene B. Roths, Executive Director of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, to the Planning Board of Mount Desert applying to request permission to sell mission related items in the Somesville Museum and the Sound School House Museum.
Description: Real estate advertisements, hand-drawn maps, photographs related to Dodge/ Harlow home in Pretty Marsh. Inscription on Smith tombstone on property. 1983 (?) Carter's real estate ad. for property: $235,000. Hand-drawn map (after Colby & Stuart) and notes indicating provenance and boundaries of property, including guardian of Nancy Pray releasing property to Daniel Smith. Notes on Mr. Dodge's description of house, tombstones, and likely history of house. 8X11.5 color photograph of house--and key taped to back. Hand-drawn flyer advertising "Annual Pretty March Sale". c.1915, 1920 photographs of house; photo. of Mrs. Allan Smith, c. 1915, color photo. and notes of house. [show more]
Description: Letters to various members of the Pretty Marsh Community Corporation on a variety of topics from donations to infromation presented in the last newsletter, nominations for committee members, save the date cards,
Description: Obituaries of B. J. Morrison (Betty Jane), Chester E. Clement, Nelson Collins Leland, Louine Lunt Peck, Lawrence C. Hadley, Harold W. Walls, Eleanor Hallowell Lippincott, Ann Harbourt Raup, Marion A. Sargent, Adra E. Tarbell, first secretary of Acadia National Park, Jack Harkins, John Heliker, Mary Diane Carroll, Cary Chaplin, Anna Flagg Johnston Wellington, Duard E. Garver, Julie Crofoot, Joan Staats Anna Scott Kennedy, Julia B. Smith, Robert E. Blum, Harry Spurling, John Heliker Evan Bryan White, Charlton Yarnall, Grace Tracy Reed Rachel Carroll Phalen, Thomas H. Maren, T. Dennie Pratt Verna Hodgdon, Charles Eliot Pierce [show more]
Description: Two discs, #16 and #17, that contain 4 lectures that comprise a portion of a course, "The American Civil War". Discs are labelled A & B. The discs contain topics: The River War and Confederate Commerce Raiders; Women at War, I; Women at Warr, II; and Stalemate in 1864
Description: Mailing Flyer for the 2000 Arcady Music Festival Concerts. Front side shows dates of the performances and those who will be preforming. Front also shows how to make a donation to the festival. The back of the flyer gives a short biography of the different performers.
Description: Program for the 2000 Arcady Music Festival. Contents show preformance dates and the music being preformed, concert sponsors, and musician biographies.
Description: Appeal for donations for the Campaign for History Education, soliciting funds for museum repairs, museum grounds work, and an endowment fund.
Description: Background info., planning notes, photographs of exhibit, photocopy of Tombstones and Paving Blocks: the History of the Maine Granite Industry by Roger L. Grindle, photocopy of the Granites of Maine by T. Nelson Dale, photocopy of 1902 annual report of the Bureau of Industrial and Labor Statistics for the State of Maine, other exhibit notes.
Description: An audio recording of sounds heard in a working granite quarry. This CD was created to accompany an exhibit of quarrying information that was housed at the Sound School House Museum, 2001.
Description: Mailing Flyer for the 2001 Arcady Music Festival Concerts. Front side shows dates of the performances and those who will be preforming. Front also shows how to make a donation to the festival. The back of the flyer gives a short biography of the different performers.
Description: Program for the 2001 Arcady Music Festival. Contents show preformance dates and the music being preformed, concert sponsors, and musician biographies.
Description: Contains a list of Architectural Drawings of Fred L. Savage 1861-1926 in the Collection of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. by Michael Shook 2008 Finding aid and notes on teh Collection of Fred L. Savage, by Michael Shook 2008
Description: “Femo” baking clay imprint mold from Sound School House bell. Bell Maker’s markings 1893. Bell in center of a rectangle with Trade written on one side, Mark on the other with signature center.slightly yellow in color.curvature of bell visible
Description: “Femo” baking clay imprint mold from Sound School House Bell Maker’s markings 1893.Bell in center of a rectangle with Trade written on one side, Mark on the other with signature centerflat and white in color .
Description: Mailing Flyer for the 2002 Arcady Music Festival Concerts. Front side shows dates of the performances and those who will be preforming. Front also shows how to make a donation to the festival. The back of the flyer gives a short biography of the different performers.
Description: Program for the 2002 Arcady Music Festival. Contents show preformance dates and the music being preformed, concert sponsors, and musician biographies.
Description: Mailing Flyer for the 2003 Arcady Music Festival Concerts. Front side shows dates of the performances and those who will be preforming. Front also shows how to make a donation to the festival. The back of the flyer gives a short biography of the different performers.
Description: Program for the 2003 Arcady Music Festival. Contents show preformance dates and the music being preformed, concert sponsors, and musician biographies.
Description: Letter from Harris Hyman to the MDI Historical Society regarding the load capacity of the Somesville bridge 06 October 2003. Addressing a concern from the community about the weight capacity for the bridge, Hyman assures the society that the bridge can sustain the weight of fornicating couples and drunk local gentlemen.
Description: Program for the 2004 Arcady Music Festival. Contents show preformance dates and the music being preformed, concert sponsors, and musician biographies.