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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
2783The Harbor Light
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Light
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Myths
  • The Enterprise
  • 02/1984
Description:
Article describing myths which have been reported regarding an unexplained light seen at night off the coast of Mt. Desert Island in Placentia Bay. Previously archived as object Id 012.FIC.043.15
2694Pretty Marsh Endeavors to Maintain Rural Traditions
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Pretty Marsh
  • Whitmore, Diane
  • 04/25/1985
Description:
Article from Bar Harbor Times; describes community events, restoration of schoolhouse.
11760The Bar Harbor Times Volume 76 Number 22
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • The Bar Harbor Times
  • 10/10/1988
Description:
Entire issue of The Bar Harbor Times, number 22 of volume 76.
17486Down East Magazine
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Other, Education
  • Other, History - Bar Harbor
  • Other, Summer Community
  • 10/1/1985
Description:
Mount Desert Island article p.46 “Saved by a Great White Elephant” Built as a Bar Harbor summer “cottage” with thirty-five rooms and two-foot-thick granite walls - the Turrets served ably when tragedy struck the College of the Atlantic in 1983” by Norah Deakin Davis Article covers history of Turrets and the fire at COA
3106Hancock County Four Seasons Guide Acadia National Park
  • Publication, Guidebook
  • Other, History - Cranberry Islands
  • Other, History - Southwest Harbor
  • Other, Tourism
  • 1/1/1980
Description:
1980 32 page Hancock County Four Seasons Guide to Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Ellsworth, Bucksport, and Trenton. Eastern Sunshine Guide, with color photographs, map and business advertisements.
2613Shuttle Disaster Hits Close to Home
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Transportation - air
  • 1/30/1986
Description:
First-hand comments regarding the space shuttle "Challenger" disaster by Wm. Townsend who was a finalist to be aboard the shuttle. Also an editorial about the disaster
17030Early American Trades Coloring Book
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Occupations
  • Copeland, Peter F.
  • Dover Publications
  • 1980
Description:
Black and white drawings of colonial trades
17307Mount Desert Island: Summer Guide
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Guidebook
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • 1980
16423Victorian House Coloring Book
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Architecture
  • Helberg, Kristin
  • Dover Publications
  • 1980
Description:
Black and white drawings of rooms in Victorian house, with descriptions. Could be reproduced for coloring.
9331COA 10 Years Later
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Education
  • 1980
Description:
Ellsworth American “COA 10 Years Later - Has Come a Long Way” by LaRue Spiker February 28, 1980. Peviously accessioned as **0858, Object Id 012.FIC.043.12
12012Needlecraft for Today (June 1980)
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • 1980
Description:
Needlecraft for Today (June 1980)
17641Pretty Marsh Community Directory 1980
  • Publication, Directory, Telephone Directory
  • Pretty Marsh Community Corporation
  • 1980
Description:
Community Directory, 1980
12788History of Barlett’s Island, Mount Desert Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bartlett’s Island
  • Other, History
  • Binnewies, Esther and Muriel Davisson
  • Seavey Printers
  • 1981
Description:
164-page history of Bartlett's Island; with an introduction by Peggy Rockefeller. Copy #2 was donated by Gail Reiber.
12895Eliots and Asticou Foreside, Northeast Harbor
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Eliot, Charles W.
  • Other, Northeast Harbor
  • Eliot, Charles W. 2nd
  • unpublished
  • 1981
Description:
Description and comments about family homes in Northeast Harbor, visitors to the homes, and summer activities.
17092A History of Bartlett’s Island, Mount Desert, Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bartlett’s Island
  • Other, Mount Desert
  • Binnewies, Esther and Muriel Davisson
  • Peggy and David Rockefeller
  • 1981
Description:
History of Barlett’s Island from approximately 1800s-1970s
11685Not a Common House
  • Publication, Book
  • Gunnar Hansen
  • 1981
Description:
Copy of Not a Common House: A History of St. Mary's-by-the-Sea (Gunnar Hansen, 1981).
11757Not a Common House: A History of St. Mary's-by-the-Sea
  • Publication, Book
  • Gunnar Hansen
  • 1981
Description:
A historical account of St. Mary's-by-the-Sea, a gothic church in Northeast Harbor. Begins with preface written by the Reverend Douglas M. Morrill and in the main text covers the history of the church beginning in 1879 and continuing through to 1981. The book also includes an appendix with sections listing gifts to the church and St. Jude's Church, visiting clergy, memorial windows, gifts, and plaques, the vestry, and centennial committee. [show more]
2877St. Mary's by the Sea history
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Bishops
  • Other, Cottages
  • Other, Episcopal churches
  • Other, Justice of Peace
  • Other, Northeast Harbor
  • Other, Sandpoint, Village of
  • Other, St. Mary's By the Sea
  • 1981
Description:
St Mary's by the Sea original newspaper clipping. A wooden frame church 1883 picture of it. First stone portion added 1899. Excerpt from A Common House, a book about St. Mary's Previously archived as object Id 011.FIC.66.3
4094Peace: The Over Riding Imperitive
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Other, Peace
  • Other, Politics
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • 1981
Description:
“Peace: The Overiding Imperitve” by LaRue Spiker. 2 pages. Previously archived as object Id 012.FIC.063.06
2839June Groundbreaking Planned for New Historical Museum
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Ground breaking ceremonies
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Other, Museums
  • Bar Harbor Times
  • 1981
Description:
This Bar Harbor Times newspaper clipping describes plans for the construction of a new museum building by the MDI Historical Society. The building to be located on Rt. 102 at the intersection of Oak Hill Road in Somesville was designed by Roc Caivano. A photograph of four unnamed members of the Building Committee is included. Dated May 14, 1981.
2838Historical Society Building Under Way
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Other, Museums
  • Bangor Daily News
  • 1981
Description:
Newspaper clipping from "Bangor Daily News" of July 13, 1981 describing construction of new museum building for the MDI Historical Society on Rte. 102 in Somesville. The building and its planned use are described.
14685The Vertical World of Mt. Desert
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • Koch, Daniel
  • 1981
Description:
Article from June 1981 Down East magazine about rock climbers on Mt. Desert Island.
14686When Hollywood Came to Bar Harbor
  • Publication, Periodical, Magazine
  • O'Neil, Gladys
  • 1981
Description:
Article about 1917 filming of Fox Film Company's "Queen of the Sea" on Sand Beach and along Ocean Drive, from Sept. 1981 issue of Down East magazine
12577Champagne and a Gardener: A Little Maine Murder
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fiction
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Morison, B.J.
  • Thorndike Press
  • 1982
Description:
According to the dust jacket, this is a "novel of manners and ...mystery" centering around a Boston family who summers on the "backside" of Mount Desert Island. (The author bought the Criterion Theater in Bar Harbor in 1969.)
12596The Living Past: Being the Story of Somesville Mount Desert, Maine and Its Relationships with Other Areas of the Island
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Somesville
  • Somes-Sanderson, Virginia
  • Beech Hill Publishing Co.
  • 1982.
Description:
As the author says in the preamble, " This is the story...of the first permanent settlement on Mount Desert Island..." ?At one time Somesville had seven mills, five shipyards, four blacksmith shops, two stores, and ...serv[ed] the entire area and outlying islands."