Description: Eight-page supplement that contains articles on Haynes Garage (Northeast Harbor), and other businesses in Maine. Date is Friday, January 13, 2012.
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.
Description: A chronological account of "Journey's End," and their owners from 1184 (?) to 2010. There should be 2 copies: 1 hard copy, 1 perfect bound; latter missing 8/14/12
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: This book is the story of Maine public education in the 20th century; it traces the history from small community schoolhouses to a "seamless statewide system" with the attendant tensions that accompany this transition.
Description: Interviews of 27 residents of the Bar Harbor and Otter Creek areas about the Tarn, now a small, shallow pond and emergent wetland; it was originally a meadow.
Description: Historical geography of Maine from end of last ice age to 2000. Sections are: history of Native peoples, European exploration and settlement, American Revolution, Maine statehood, industrial developement, rise of tourism and environmental awareness. Includes maps, paintings, graphs, and text.
Description: Vol. XVIII 2017 "A Sense of Place" A Sense of Place: Maine in Winter, Roxana Robinson The Somesville Bridge, Roc Caivano "Like it Growed There": Architecture and the Environment on Mount Desert Island, 1880-1940, David W. Granston III Two Architects, One Island, Sargent C. Gardiner First Person: Asticou and Northeast Harbor Forward to "Memories of a Lifetime" (1972), Charles Savage "Memories of a Lifetime" (1902), Augustus C. Savage Growing up in Asticou: The late 1940's to Mid-1960's, Rick Savage Northeast Harbor in the 1940's: Nothing Gold Can Stay, Louisa Newlin Real and Imagined France in Acadia National Park, Tim Garrity Apples of Eden: Discovery and Change in Eastern Maine's Orchards, 1760-1930, Todd Little-Siebold A Fisherman's Paradise: A History of Inland Fish Conservation on Mount Desert Island, Erik Reardon Henry van Dyke at Seal Harbor, Carl Little [show more]
Description: Vol. XVII 2016 "The Acadian Borderland": The Center of Our Stories, Virginia Mellen The History Trust, Bill Horner, M.D. An Island Landscape Gardening Culture: The Legacy of Nurserymen from 1888 to 1939, Betsy Hewlett The Shatter Zone: A Physical Borderland from 420 Million Years Ago to Present and Conceptual Borderland from 1837 to Present, Duane Braun Immigrants in the Borderland, 1880-1920, Tim Garrity Eliot, Borderlands, and Historiography, Paige Melin The Coast Walk, Jennifer Steen Booher Unsettled Mount Desert Island, John Gillis Mount Desert Island's Diverse Working Waterfront, Natalie Springuel Borderline of the Present, Catherine Schmitt and Tim Garrity [show more]
Description: Volume XVII 2016 Introduction: The Center of Our Stories By Virginia Mellen The History Trust By Bill Horner, MD An Island Landscape Gardening Culture, The Legacy of Nurserymen from 1888-1939 By Betsy Hewlett The Shatter Zone: A Physical Borderland from 420 Million Years Ago to Present and Conceptual Borderland from 1837 to Present By Duan Braun Immigrants in the Borderland 1880-1920 By Tim Garrity Eliot, Borderlands, and Historiography By Paige Melin The Coast Walk By Jennifer Steen Booher Unsettled Mount Desert Island by John Gillis Mount Desert Island"s Diverse Working Waterfront by Natalie Springuel Borderland of the Present By Catherine Schmitt and Tim Garrity [show more]
Description: Interview with David Rockefeller by Kathy Miller, Sept. 9, 2010 on video DVD. Attempts to link a multi-media file of this interview to Past Perfect have been unsuccessful. Currently(11/30/2011) there are several files linked, but they do not play through Past Perfect. Assistance is needed to make this interview playable through Past Perfect.
Description: Volume XVII 2015 La Maison d'Or By Oliver Wendell Holmes Introduction: A Cloud of Witnessess By Tim Garrity How Changing Climate Created Mount Desert Island By Catherine Schmitt A Kaleidoscopic View of Place: Ecological Studies and Island Conservation Across the Generations By Marina Schauffler Landscapes We Have Lost: Environment ad History of Mount Desert Island By David Hackett Fischer When Canopies Rivaled Cathedrals By Polly McAdam From Wealth to Poverty: The Rise and Fall of Cod Around Mount Desert Island By Natlie Springuel, William B. Leavenworth, and Karen Alexander [show more]