Description: Article with Photos in a travel magazine by Jessica Maxwell on visiting the sites in Bar Harbor, Bass Harbor, Southwest Harbor, Jordan Pond and Acadia National Park.
Description: Article by Norah Deakin Davis along with old photos of the Turrets at College of the Atlantic and how it survived and was useful to students, faculty and administrators during the campus fire of 1983.
Description: 1) Article with photos by Cynthia Bourgeault on Swan's Island residents and the pros and cons of real estate development there. 2) Article with photos by John N. Cole on the Claremont Hotel's annual croquet tournament (Southwest Harbor).
Description: Article along with photos by Victor J. Layton of the stoneworks of Acadia National Park including Duck Brook Bridge and the gatehouses of Brown Mountain and Jordan Pond.
Description: Article and photos of the summer of 1917 when actress Annette Kellerman and over 100 actors and actresses came to Bar Harbor to film Queen of the Sea. Article written by Gladys O'Neil.
Description: Photocopied pages (4) from history magazine discussing Stephen Jones of Gouldsborough. Handwritten notes on reverse pertaining to Thomas Richardson of Bass Harbor and the partitioning of land on MDI.
Description: This book has a golden, tan hardcover . The title is "Forsythia Intrigued by the Stars". The author was identified as Azerlea P. Barton. However, on the title page the P. Barton is crossed out and the name Pray-Somes is written in black ink. The book is published by Exposition Press, Hicksville, New York. The copyright date is 1976.
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: Chebacco Vol. XI, 2010 Deasy: A Maine Man by Bill Horner, M.D. Maine Sea Coast Mission Hooked Rugs by Judith Burger-Gossart Poems by Helmut Juretschke Henry L. Rand: Photographer & Visual Diarist by Meredith Hutchins Poems by Thomas Peter Bennett A Path of One's Own by Judith S. Goldstein A.C. Fernald's Store by Allen Fernald "Ravenscleft" on Sea Cliff Drive by Anne Stebbins Funderburk
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: Article in Mount Desert Island Living, Mount Desert Islander, Dec. 16, 2010, about collaborative effort to form Friends of [Mount Desert] Island History. Mentions Bill Horner, Ruth Eveland, Don Lenahan, Jack Russell. Emily Beck, Rebecca Cole-Will, Muriel Davisson, Deborah Dyer, Candy Emlen, Anne Funderburk, Tim Garrity, Meredith Hutchins, Charlotte Morrill, Robert Pyle, Paul Richardson. Photos, including "Steamship Norumbega" hard aground in Southwest Harbor. [show more]
Description: An audio recording of World War II Remembered: A Panel Discussion, July ll, 2010, Somesville Firehouse, Somesville, Maine Panel includes Frank Soares, Tommy Newman, and Warren Worcester. Narrator: Nat Fenton Audio file does not capture the full discussion. Abbreviated at end.
Description: A videorecording, on DVD format, disc, of an excerpt from an interview with David Rockefeller by Kathy Miller, Sept. 9, 2010 This is an excerpt from the full interview, 011.003.001. This excerpt was played at the Annual Meeting, August, 2011 Interview took place at Seal Harbor home, Ringing Point, of David Rockefeller
Description: Vol. XII, 2011 History Builds Community by Jack Russell The Histories of Saint Sauveur by Tim Garrity "Indians Camping at Somesville" by Adelma Somes Joy Asticou's Fjord or Somes Sound? Mythistory of Wabanaki Dispossession by Harald E.L. Prins and Bunny McBride "Mansell Mountain Breakdown" and "Winter Walk" by Carl Little "Elegy for my Brother 1997," "The Apple" and "In Praise of White" by Beth Straus John Gilley Fell at the Battle of the Wilderness by Tim Garrity "Hurray for 'Another Reason'" by Hellmut Juretschke An Afternoon with David Rockefeller, David Rockefeller with Kathleen Miller Thoughts While Keeping Warm on January 25, 2011 by Bill Horner MD [show more]
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: Vol. VII, 2012: The Woman's Question: Francis Parkman's Arguments Against Women's Suffrage by Tim Garrity "Women got the vote fifty long years ago" by La Rue Spiker Elinor Wylie's Mount Desert Island Retreat by Carl Little A Literary Refuge: Ruth Moore and Eleanor Mayo by Sven Davisson Casualties: The Women of Mount Desert and the Civil War by Tim Garrity Sargent House: A Woman's Gift to the Outer Island of Down East Maine by Rosamond S. Rea Reflections of a Natural Historian by Ruth Gortner Grierson [show more]