Description: Audio recording of interview with Rick Savage, Sydney Roberts Rockefeller, Scott and Keating McFarland by Martha Dudman. Related to 2008 inauguration. Transcript is in Archival Box #44A, accession number 010.FIC.028.
Description: Guide to understanding old buildings, written especially for home-owners in northern New England. Discusses evolution of building technology from log buildings through framed houses, evolution of style, and evolution of key features.
Description: This is the second volume of the series about economic activity, covering the period from the end of the Civil War to the end of World War I.
Description: The author grew up on Little Cranberry (Islesford). Chapter titles include Pioneer Settler Families (Stanwoods, Stanleys, Gilleys, Bunkers, Spurlings, Hadlocks), Farming and Fishing, Arts and Entertainment, Summer Colony, Winter Living, Great War, World War II, as well as sections on schools, roads, churches, and more.
Description: Donation of the architectural drawings of Robert Patterson Jr. to the MDI Historical Society. It includes a summary of Patterson’s career.
Description: Asticou's Island Domain, by Harald Prins and Bunny McBride. Ethnographic overview and assessment . Volume I of a two-volume history of the Wabanaki Peoples at Mount Desert Island, 1500--2000.
Description: Asticou's Island Domain, by Harald Prins and Bunny McBride. Ethnographic overview and assessment . Volume 2 of a two-volume history of the Wabanaki Peoples at Mount Desert Island, 1500--2000.
Description: Call for articles to be used in the exhibit at the MDI Historical Society celebrating the turn of the century. The exhibit will run from June 15 to Sept. 20 , 2000. Articles will be on loan and returned to owners at the end of the exhibit.
Description: A History evening, sponsored by MDI Historical Society, Basketball on MDI:Hoops Around the Island, held on Thursday, April 16, 2009 at the Somesville Firehouse.
Description: A videotape of Cannery Women, 3/24/06 SWH Library Video tape recording of a panel discussion and history night at the Southwest Harbor Library, March 24, 2006. Part of the March series of Women in History. Interviews were modertated by Charlotte Singleton, ED of MDI Historical Society. Taped by John Hewlett. Additional copy of the video is located at the Southwest Harbor Library. This video can be viewed from the original disc, located in the Sound Schoolhouse Archival Storage, Box #68 or through the multimedia links to the files provided within this record. There are three multimedia files which currently need to be played in succession. No "autoplay" connects the three separate media files. [show more]
Description: Written transcript of Caretakers and Cooks A panel discussion, April 2003 This is a written transcript of the panel discussion, probably held at the Southwest Harbor Public Library. Audio file is attached to 010.FIC.144.12 Transcript file is attached to this record. Printed transcript is located in archives, as noted on location tab.
Description: Caretakers and Cooks 2 discs. April 2003 This is an audio recording of a speech or panel discussion probably held at the Southwest Harbor Library or the MDI Historical Society. Ralph Stanley is involved in some way. This recording is very faint.
Description: Audio recording of oral history interview with Sherwood (Sherdy) Carr. Interview conducted in the Somesville Schoolhouse by Janet Strong, March, 2007.
Description: CD-R containing 2002 oral history interview of Mount Desert dairy farmer John Fernald. Interviewer: Jaylene Roths. Transcript located in Box 44A, Folder 2, accession #002.094.2437.
Description: A comprehensive record of names and dates on gravestones in cemeteries of Bar Harbor, Cranberry Isles, Mount Desert, Southwest Harbor, and Tremont. The records are arranged by cemetery; an index refers to last names in each cemetery.
Description: A comprehensive record of names and dates on gravestones in cemeteries of Bar Harbor, Cranberry Isles, Mount Desert, Southwest Harbor, and Tremont. The records are arranged by cemetery; an index refers to last names in each cemetery.