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| 16554 | Memorials of Acadia National Park |
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Description: Guide to memorials, paths, trails, engravings in ANP, including Schoodic and Isle au Haut. Gives geogrphic coordinates. | |
| 16701 | Folk Art from Mount Desert Island Collections |
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Description: Catalog accompanying Folk Art Exhibit at Sound School House, 2010. |
| 16702 | We Were An Island: The Maine Life of Art and Nan Kellam |
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Description: The Kellams lived alone on Placentia Island from 1949-1987. |
| 16613 | Sprague's Journal of Maine History (excerpt) and Handwritten Notes |
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Description: Photocopied pages (4) from history magazine discussing Stephen Jones of Gouldsborough. Handwritten notes on reverse pertaining to Thomas Richardson of Bass Harbor and the partitioning of land on MDI. | ||
| 4185 | John Fitzgerald Kennedy: Where were you on November 22, 1963 |
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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] | |
| 13422 | The Waterfront of Otter Creek: A Community History |
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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. |
| 14706 | Down East Schooners and Shipmasters |
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Description: History of the people of Down East Maine, with emphasis on the town of Hancock. Author has Mount Desert ancestors. | |
| 14737 | Lost Maine Coastal Schooners: From Glory Days to Ghost Ships |
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Description: Schooners (four- five- and six-masters), age of steam, descriptions of selected schooners. |
| 14634 | Journey's End: the History of a Southwest Harbor, Maine Summer Cottage and the Pople Who Lived There |
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|  Journey's End: the History of a Southwest Harbor, Maine Summer Cottage and the Pople Who Lived There
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 |
| 4189 | World War II Remembered: A panel discussion, July 11, 2010 |
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Description: An audio recording of World War II Remembered: A Panel Discussion, July ll, 2010, Somesville Firehouse, Somesville, Maine Panel includes Frank Soares, Tommy Newman, and Warren Worcester. Narrator: Nat Fenton Audio file does not capture the full discussion. Abbreviated at end. | ||
| 4194 | Interview with David Rockefeller, oral history, September 9, 2010 |
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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. | ||
| 3117 | These Hundred Years |
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Description: History of The Hancock Association of Congregational Churches and Ministers (1825-1925) | |||
| 1526 | Line, Shade, and Shadow: The Fabrication and Preservation of Architectural Drawings |
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| 1549 | FromSchoolhouse to Schooling System... |
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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. | |
| 1550 | Sadie's Winter Dream |
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Description: Fishermen's Wives & Maine Sea Coast Mission Hooked Rugs, 1923-1938 | |
| 12262 | Chebacco : The Magazine of the Mount Desert Historical Society |
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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 | |||
| 12647 | Historical Atlas of Maine |
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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. | |
| 13517 | Chebacco, the Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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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] | |||
| 13886 | Forsythia Intrigued By The Stars by Azerlea Prey-Somes |
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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. | |||
| 13892 | Chebacco: the Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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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] | |||
| 16894 | Islands Magazine, Sep/Oct. 1986: A Visit to Bar Harbor |
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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. | |||
| 16895 | Down East Magazine, Oct. 1985: Saved by a Great White Elephant |
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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. | |||
| 16896 | Down East Magazine, August 1984: Trending into Bloom and Croquet Anyone? |
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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). | |||
| 16897 | Down East Magazine, July 1983: A Summer Full of Flowers |
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Description: Article by Jane Lamb along with photos of the perrenial gardens of Mary Louise Jenkins on MDI. | |||
| 16898 | Down East Magazine, Sep. 1982: Making it in Maine |
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Description: Article with photo of William Tapley, the overseer of Wildwood Stables in Seal Harbor since 1964. |
