Description: Audio recording of interview with Irma Gott 4-19-94, conducted by the Southwest Harbor Oral History Society at the Library in 1994. An additional copy of this interview is in the Southwest Harbor Library collections.
Description: Somesville family reminiscences, singing school, debating clubs, Sunday School, candle-making, tanning mill, entertainment, ice-houses, moving picture theatre; Biography of Thaddeus S. Somes; Dr Grindle's recollections re organization of Somesville Congregational Church; will of George A. Somes giving $1,000.00 to Church (Mary B. Somes Fund); "Cling Clang" by Chief Stanwood; Interview with Emilie Clarissa Somes (1918); Bartlett's Sail Loft in Southwest Harbor for dancing (c. 1850); Otmar Franz Karban (b. 1909) and Echo Vista, his home & restaurant; Transcript of interview with Tryphena Smith and others (n.d.); also transcript of interview about the 1947 fire. [show more]
Description: Account by Jane Thompson Sumner of "The Beth," which she says was once the Islesboro ferry and which was on the water at the time of the 1947 fire. Donor (Sturgis Haskins) says it was not the Islesbor ferry, but rather a private yacht that was used to pick-up and deliver guests from Lincolnville to Islesboro.
Description: Transcript of Oral History Interviews with: Rick Savage, Sydney Roberts Rockefeller, Scott McFarland and Keating McFarland. Martha Dudman, Interviewer. May 5, 2009 CD-R is in Archival Box #68, accession number 010.FIC.144.20.
Description: Written transcript of oral history interview of Bill Lawlor by students at Pemetic School. and Charlotte Singleton. Topics: Chris' Pond, ice cutting, Chris' horses. Delivering ice. CD-R located in Archival Box #68, accession number 010.FIC.144.13. WORD(doc) files is missing. Perhaps Jean Fosillo has it on her hard drive? Needs to be located. Scanned copy of text is attached to this record. (See media link)
Description: Title is "Lyford's Life." Charlote Singleton is interviewer of people about Lyford Stanley: Jock Williams (friend), Roxanne Lewis (daughter), Scott Swan (friend), and Janet Strong (friend).
Description: Interview with Bud and Grace Bordeaux , May 2005, by Charlotte Singleton. Discussion of Bordeaux family history, Sound School which Bud had attended, Bordeaux house and dairy, CCC (Bud didn't like it), summer people, caretaking, Lindsay Smallidge, working for Town of Mount Desert.
Description: Oral history interview with Emma Reed Richards. Her father was Hollis G. Reed and her mother was Lillian Reed . Discussed growing up in McKinley (Bass Harbor), schooling, Neptune Theater and movies, Reed's Store, transmitting station at Seawall.
Description: Audio recording of oral history interview with Dorothy Althea Robinson Worcester, at her home in Southwest Harbor, Maine. March 23, ------- Copy of this interview also exists at the Southwest Harbor Library and is part of the archives there. Note: year of interview is missing on the interview and needs to be determined for the record herein.
Description: Audio recording of interviews of 4 MDI residents, Cora Fernald, Addie Smith, Morris Somes, and Danny Kane.conducted by Pamela Dean. Dates and places of interviews are not stated. Interviews appear to have been conducted individually but recorded on the same media. Interviewer sounds like Pamela Dean but that has not been verified.
Description: Audior recording of an interview with T.Smith about her Early Remembrances of Somesville. No date or interviewer mentioned on the recording. Interview sounds like one conducted by Pamela Dean
Description: Audio recording of Raymond Strout interviewed by Susan Lerner, Judith Burger- Gossart, Charlotte Singleton. NOTE: Audio quality is too quiet to hear in many places. This CD and the Past Perfect media file need to be editted to improve the audio sound level before sharing publicly.