Description: Table of contents in front includes oaths of officers, warrant of special meetings, records of meetings, constables return, etc. and pages for same.
Description: This is a white loose-leaf binder, approximately 10" X 11", containing six articles by Ralph Stanley: The Clark family: Charmian Kittredge and Jack London The Romer Boys Shipbuilding on Mount Desert Island Early Maritime History of Mount Desert Island Schooner Augusta E. Herrick of Swan's Island Boatbuilding during World War II: M.D.I., Ellsworth, Stonington, and Bluehill
Description: Ellsworth American “Constructing a Pretty Pluck Living” by LaRue Spiker. Harpsichord. Previously accessioned as **0914, Object Id 012.FIC.047.5
Description: Bar Harbor Record “Early Settlers of Bar Harbor” by Rev. O.H. Fernald August 14, 1890. Previously acessioned as **0864, Object Id 012.FIC.043.6
Description: Bar Harbor Times “Development Shaping the Future of Our Communities: Outer Islands Fight to Maintain a Way of Life” by Steve Kloenn. Previously accessioned as **0824, Object Id 012.FIC.035.6
Description: In the Bangor Daily News.Detailed history of Beatrix Farrand and what Catherine and Bob Barrett have done to preserve and restore her horticultural contributions to Mt. Desert. Miscellaneous Bar Harbor Times articles Overcliff, one of oldest Northeast Harbor summer cottages built by Longfellow and Harlow for John Prentiss Hopkinson, brother in law of Charles W. Eliot and presently owned by Peter Bell was heavily damaged by fire. Overcliff was the final home of Eleanor Robson Belmont, a famous Flora Dora girl. Two page article ND Michael Graves paintings at Birdsnest Gallery July 27 2000 Mount Desert Island Historical Society tea at tavern Eden Baptist Church Design Review Rules, Bar Harbor [show more]
Description: Newspaper clipping of Somesville bridge newly-erected by the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Article published in the News Ellsworth Bureau.
Description: “Past Tense”, by Marion Kane. “Tales Told in a Map." In reference to a handdrawn map of Bar Harbor c 1855. Previously accessioned as **0620, object Id 011.FIC.54.1
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: “The Current Scene” by Nancy Dow. Newspaper in New Jersey reports on trip to Maine and Gott’s Island. Previously accessioned as **0817, Object Id 012.FIC.035.2
Description: Poster or Newspaper page of Mount Desert Hight School presentation of Salt Water Taffy at Masonic Hall, Somesville has to be before 1969 when the high schools merged
Description: Long format newspaper reprint photograph of Bushnell (Illinois) High School Class of 1928. The class photograph includes student LaRue Spiker. Part of LaRue Spiker Collection Previously accessioned as **1859, Object Id **1859, 012.FIC.067.7
Unknown Author writing for Bar Harbor Times; LaRue Spiker writing for Bar Harbor Times
Collection:
LaRue Spiker Collection
Description: Two articles, the first, with photograph, written in recognition of Dr. Edith Hamilton's 95th birthday, which she celebrated at her home in Seawall, Southwest Harbor. The second article reviews a biography of Edith Hamilton, "Edith Hamilton: An Intimate Portrait" written by Doris Fielding Reid. Previously archived as 012.FIC.047.7
Description: One page article, damaged and incomplete, with photographs details the story of Cranberry Island seaman Samuel Hadlock III and his wife Hannah Caroline Hadlock (AKA Dorothea Albertina Wihelmina Celeste Russ Hadlock). Samuel perished in the Arctic in 1829 while hunting seals. previously archived as 012.Fic.047.23