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: A video recording of a panel discussion and program, sponsored by the MDI Historical Society, July 22, 2009. Moderated by Kathy Miller, Board president. With panelists Ralph Stanley, Phil Bennett (Hinckley), Jock Williams (Williams Yacht Yard), Lee Wilbur (Wilbur Yachts), Cuyler Morris (Morris Yachts) and Alan Sprague, co-host of Boat Talk on WERU Radio. Video can not be uploaded to Past Perfect database with current technology. DVD is only record. [show more]
Description: Audio recording of Oral history interview with Farnham Butler. Interview conducted by Leza Colquhoun Date unkown. Gladys Butler also heard on the interview.
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: 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: 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: 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: Audio recording of interview with Leola Jackson, conducted by Esther Rodick of the Southwest Harbor Oral History Society, at the home of Ms. Rodick, Wesley Avenue, Southwest Harbor, Maine, 1990's
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: Audio recording of oral history interview with Nelson Herrick, interview conducted by Esther Rodick, Southwest Harbor Oral History Society Date unknown -- probably in the 1990's.
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: 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: 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: 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.