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: 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: 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: 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: Vol. XV 2014 Maine's Gone Mad: The Rising of the Klan by Raney Bench Ku Klux Klan on Mount Desert Island; opposition to immigrants and Catholics Visionary Science of the "Harvard Barbarians"by Catherine Schmitt Champlain Society, Charles Eliot Going Against the Tide: The Kellams of Placentia Island by Peter P. Blanchard III Cliff Rich built their boat; Gotts Island neighbors The War at Home: Copperheads Down East, 1861-1865 by Tim Garrity Opponents to Civil War Three Buildings: The Quiet Iconoclasm of Robert W. Patterson by William N. Thorndike, Jr. Architect Robert W. Patterson Superintendent Dorr and the Mountain Naming Controversy by Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. Belle Smallidge Knowles, Before Her Time by Brooke Ewing Minner Growing Up Gay in Down East Maine by Victor Stanley Island Outlaws by Luanne Yetter (smuggling on Mount Desert Island) [show more]
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: Vol. XIV 2013 "The Journey Issue": A Celebration of the Chebacco Boat, Bill Horner, M.D. The Bar Harbor Express: A Most Elegant Travel Option, Brook Ewing Minner Getting Here from There: Steamboat Travel to Mount Desert Island, David W. Granston III The Journey of the Ferry Bluenose, Carroll Fernald Far from Home: The Spring of 1864, Tim Garrity From Houses to Horsepower: Mount Desert Island's Ten-Year War for the Automobile, Bill Horner, M.D. The Wrect of the Tay, Catherine Schmitt Dream Realized--Dream Lost: Hancock County/Bar Harbor Airport 1934-1984, Nathaniel R. Fenton [show more]
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: 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: 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]
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: Vol. XVIII 2017 "A Sense of Place" A Sense of Place: Maine in Winter, Roxana Robinson The Somesville Bridge, Roc Caivano "Like it Growed There": Architecture and the Environment on Mount Desert Island, 1880-1940, David W. Granston III Two Architects, One Island, Sargent C. Gardiner First Person: Asticou and Northeast Harbor Forward to "Memories of a Lifetime" (1972), Charles Savage "Memories of a Lifetime" (1902), Augustus C. Savage Growing up in Asticou: The late 1940's to Mid-1960's, Rick Savage Northeast Harbor in the 1940's: Nothing Gold Can Stay, Louisa Newlin Real and Imagined France in Acadia National Park, Tim Garrity Apples of Eden: Discovery and Change in Eastern Maine's Orchards, 1760-1930, Todd Little-Siebold A Fisherman's Paradise: A History of Inland Fish Conservation on Mount Desert Island, Erik Reardon Henry van Dyke at Seal Harbor, Carl Little [show more]
Description: Vol. XVII 2016 "The Acadian Borderland": The Center of Our Stories, Virginia Mellen The History Trust, Bill Horner, M.D. An Island Landscape Gardening Culture: The Legacy of Nurserymen from 1888 to 1939, Betsy Hewlett The Shatter Zone: A Physical Borderland from 420 Million Years Ago to Present and Conceptual Borderland from 1837 to Present, Duane Braun Immigrants in the Borderland, 1880-1920, Tim Garrity Eliot, Borderlands, and Historiography, Paige Melin The Coast Walk, Jennifer Steen Booher Unsettled Mount Desert Island, John Gillis Mount Desert Island's Diverse Working Waterfront, Natalie Springuel Borderline of the Present, Catherine Schmitt and Tim Garrity [show more]