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: 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: 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: 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: 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: 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: Eight-page supplement that contains articles on Haynes Garage (Northeast Harbor), and other businesses in Maine. Date is Friday, January 13, 2012.
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: 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: 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]