Description: Bangor Daily News, Oct. 24, 1947: "Thousands Flee as Raging Blaze Sweeps Bar Harbor." Bangor Daily News, Oct. 25-26, 1947: "Ellsworth Scouts Aid in Disaster," "U.of M. Students Aid in Fighting Flames," " 40 Bangor Jaycees Fight Forest Fires," "Fires Ravage Maine Towns," "$10,000,000 Loss at Bar Harbor; Maine Still Fights many Fires," and photo. of Faith and Caroline Olsen, evacuees separated from relatives. Photo, elderly evacuee Dorothy Hodgkins consoled by Grace Hodgkins, n.d. Bangor Daily News, Oct. 24, 1947: "Trail of Ruin is Left by Forest." Bangor Daily News, Oct. 25-26, 1947: Photo., Mrs. E.T. Johnson; JImmy Nolan and younger brother. Bar Harbor Times, July 9, 1964: "Mount Desert Island's Worst Disaster." "The Fire of '47," Supplement to the Bar Harbor Times, Oct. and Aug. 1987 Misc. notes and postcards to Ballard. [show more]
Description: News story about part of a hs reunion story (Somesville High?) with names of those present in July 1977. Previously archived as 011.FIC.71.6
Description: A newspaper clipping from the Bar Harbor Times and Ellsworth American written about various projects and fairs over the years put on by the Someville Sewing Circle.
Description: Article about Mrs. Alice Gray, Mrs. Linda Foote, Allen Smith. "Pretty Marsh Was Once Populous Farming and Fishing Community," Bar Harbor Times, May 9, 1963. (3 copies) "Pretty Marsh is a few miles and a world away from the rest of MDI," Community Observer, Sept. 4, 1974 "Under Uncle Dick Hill, " Bar Harbor Times, July 12, 1979 "Acadia: Land and Sea Vie in Eternal Struggle," Philadelphia Inquirer, May 11, 1965 (2 copies) Christening of "Acadian" by Lisa MacQuinn, Bar Harbor Times, April 16, 1970 Articles from Bar Harbor Times, April 9, 1970 Letter to editor, Bar Harbor Times, from Helen Cosgrove-Carignan, Sept. 23, 1976 "Legend of Schooner Head," Bar Harbor Times, Aug. 27, 1981 "Wreck of the Grand Design," Bar Harbor Times, April 16, 1987 Obituary, David Eliot McGiffert, Bar Harbor Times, Oct. 20, 2005 [show more]
Description: Three short articles from the Mount Desert Herald pertaining to the geology of Mt. Desert Island. One article also discusses historical visitation by Norsemen to the shores of Mt. Desert Island.
Description: Two articles pertaining to the history of the Bar Harbor Times newspaper. Titles are: Bar Harbor Times is Fifty Years Old This Week, commemorative edition, published in the Bar Harbor Times, Bar Harbor Times Has New Owners, published in the Ellsworth American and authored by LaRue Spiker.
Description: Poor quality photocopies of articles from undated newspaper (unidentified, but likely Bar Harbor) relating to debate about allowing cars on Mt. Desert Island. Handwritten notes on verso of some indicate dates are April 4, 1900; July 4, 1906
Description: 1.The Davis Bar Harbor Buckboard Company (c. 1889),copy of news paper article. “The Davis Bar Harbor Buckboard Company - First Manufacturing Concern in Bar Harbor - W.H. Davis, L.B. Decey (Deasy?), C.E. Marcyes”. Company on School Street in Bar Harbor. Circa 1889. 2 "Memories of old Bar Harbor..." Down East Magazine, July 1976, by Cathleen Sherman Clayton. (Author's parents were native to Bar Harbor, who established a hardware business in 1892.) Illustrated with photos. 3. Map, Village of Bar Harbor, Bar Harbor, Town of Eden, Mount Desert, c.1881. 4."The Fire," typwritten ms. by Horace H. Leavitt, Pres,. V.I.A., Nov. 2, 1947. Report on various aspects of fighting the fire with total community support. [show more]
Maureen Williams, writing for Bangor Daily News; LaRue Spiker for Ellsworth American
Collection:
LaRue Spiker Collection
Description: Articles on two pages each reporting on the possible acquisition of a Bar Harbor estate owned by William Wolff by an medical research enterprise, Ivest Medical Research Foundation. This former Sears estate was the birthplace of Nelson A. Rockefeller. Previously archived as 012.FIC.046.3
Maureen Williams, writing for Bangor Daily News; LaRue Spiker for Ellsworth American
Collection:
LaRue Spiker Collection
Description: Articles on two pages each reporting on the possible acquisition of a Bar Harbor estate owned by William Wolff by an medical research enterprise, Ivest Medical Research Foundation. This former Sears estate was the birthplace of Nelson A. Rockefeller. Previously archived as 012.FIC.046.3
Description: Church was Methodist Episcopal. Also housed Baptist services. Mentions old road names, Coal Kiln Road, Old Beech Hill Rd. Battle of Norwood Cove mention Bit of history about Isaac Herrick as a Wheelwright Previously archived as 011.FIC.66.2
Description: Boating supplement to Bar Harbor Times includes articles on new Hinckley picnic boats, clean environment good for boating,directory of boat yards, new ownership up harbor in Tremont. International One-Design Sharecroppers of the Sea, article from Scribeners magazine , May 1937, photocopied
Description: Miscellaneous newspaper clippings, mostly from Ohio newspapers and Time magazine, gathered by Virginia Somes Sanderson and put in her scrapbook (see 014.FIC.007.1). They were removed from the scrapbook because they were loose; most are undated. Folder also includes three ration books. Rehoused to Box 76 from loose FIC stack due to connection with Sanderson. 9/2020.