Description: Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Historical Society Vol. X, 2009 Two Voices, One Island: A Dialogue by John R. Gillis and Christina Marsden Gillis The Future of MDI's Natural World by Ruth Gortner Grierson The Cobbler's: A Somesville Home for the Generations by Thomas Dresser Island Poets and Poems: Nancy Dew Taylor, Anne Mazlish, Hellmut Juretschke, Christime Chronis, Carl Little The Memorials of Acadia National Park by Don Lenahan Nabobs of the Northeast by Jerry Miller Lyford Stanley: A Maine Boat Builder Remembered, Reminiscences of Friends and Family [show more]
Description: Chebacco: the Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Vol. VII, 2005 When Hollywood Came Downeast: Movie Houses on Mount Desert Island by William J. Baker Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect: A Life Revived by Carl Little Island Poets and Poems: Beth Straus, Christian Barter, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William R. Huntington, Jessica Smith Hadlock's Eskimos in New York (1821) by Hugh L. Dwelley Women Conservationists of Acadia National Park by Caroline M. Pryor Local Color: Rum Running by Ralph W. Stanley The Last Words and Dying Speech of Samuel L. Hadlock [show more]
Description: Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society (continues The History Journal of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society) Vol. VI, 2004 Godly Discipline and Charitable Walking: The Congregational Church of the Town of Mount Desert--the First Fifty Years by Michael MdGiffert Icy, Corkscrew and Whalesback: Discriptive Terms in The Placenames of Mount Desert Island by Henry A. Raup George Dorr's Vision for "Garden Approaches" to Acadia National Park by Ronald H. Epp Beatrix Farrand (1872-1959) by Patrick Chasse A Russian in Retrospect: Lev Vladimir Goriansky by Carl Little Local Color: Charmian Kittredge London by Ralph W. Stanley The Sketch of the Life of Nicholas Thomas of Eden--Written by himself August 6th 1857--Age 78 Review: A Transcription of Trenton's Cemeteries, So They Are Not Forgotten by Seth Singleton [show more]
Description: Contents: C.C. Little and the Founding of the Jackson Laboratory, Martha Harmon The Episcopal Church Comes to Mount Desert Island, The Rev. Edwin Atlee Garrett, III Making America Work: a Look at Christians and Jews on Mount Desert Island, Judith Goldstein Review: A History of Bartlett's Island, Mount Desert, Maine, Michael McGiffert
Description: Chebacco, volume IX 2008 Investing in Acadia: The Invisible Hand of John Stewart Kennedy by William J. Baker Centre? Center? What and When Was That? by Raymond E. Robbins, Jr. Fraternal Organizations on Mount Desert Island by William J. Skocpol Northeast Harbor Delivered: Provisioning the Carriage Trade by Meredith Hutchins Island Poems, Prose & Drawings by Candice Stover, Betsy Alexander, Les Menard, Edward W. Evans Local Color: A Winter Industries Family: the Smallidges of Northeast Harbor by Charlotte Singleton Memories of the Fire of '47 by Robert Patterson, Sr.,, Jack Russell [show more]
Description: Continuation from Dr. Leavitt Since 1940 --60 Years have passed! History continuting from the Sermon / historical address given by Rev. Horace H. Leavitt, D.D. on the history of the Somesville Union Meeting House, U.C.C. by Gail Reiber
Description: A viedotape of a program, "Corner with a Past: Roberts Corner" sponsored by the MDI Historical Society and the Mount Desert Land & Garden Preserve, February 16, 2006, at the Sound Schoolhouse. Program about the tearing down of a house located at the intersection of Route 198 and Route 3, Asticou, and its history. Video available for viewing either in DVD format of through the multimedia link with this record.
Description: Describes materials collected from various sources by William Otis Sawtelle, who founded the Islesford Historical Museum on Little Cranberry Island.
Description: Guide to the William Otis Sawtelle collection of documents for 1915-1935; these include receipts, correspondence, and ledgers. Related works are the Islesford Collection Inc. Collection and the U.S. Lifesaving Station Collection.
Description: Picture and notice of slide lecture bytThomas Vining ,author of “Cemeteries of Cranberry Isles and the Towns of Mount Desert Island”Sponsered by MDI Historical Society
Description: Book: Harold B. Warren and Mount Desert Island. Paintings of Mount Desert, Islesford, Schoodic, Great Cranberry, Baker Island, Gott Island. Discusses the work and friendships of a trio of painters known as The TIPS: Clarence Scott White, Charles Edwin Kinkead and Harold B. Warren