Description: 1997: Charles W. Eliot and John Gilley: Good Hope for Our Country. Plan of exhibit, list of artifacts & photographs, bibliography, "John Gilley and Charles W. Eliot: Good Hope for Our Country," by Jaylene B. Roths (ms.), "The Gilley Family of Mt. Desert," by William Otis Sawtelle, (ms), and other notes. 1997: From Boarding House to Grand Hotel: The Origins of Tourism on Mount Desert Island. Background notes for exhibit, list of photographs and other items. 2000: Victorian Dining on Mount Desert Island. Photographs of exhibit; artifact list; background notes. Many items loaned for exhibit; excerpts from rules of dining, how to set tables, cookbooks, etc. 2001: Stitch in Time," at Somesville Museum: Weaving, Woolen Mill, Spinning, Sewing, Quilting, 2002: "I Came to this Place: The Story of the Village of Somesville." A new permanent exhibit at the Somesville Museum. 2004: Somesville Museum. Many of same objects and info. as in 2002 exhibit, above. 2005: Somesville Museum, "Arrival of Rusticators in 1855, Their Adventures, and Stories of the Local Residents They Met." Tracy Party, poem by Theodore Winthrop. 2006: Handicrafts Exhibit, notes from Smallidge. Also notes about Winter Industries, Getting By in Winter or Hard Times, What's Here to do After Summer People go home? [show more]
Description: Application to become a member of the MDI Historical Society for 1991-92. On the back is copied a newspaper clipping titled "Federal Work at Somesville", and some general information for upcoming Historical Society events.
Description: Taking a Step in Time, MDI Historical Society slide show with Mary Jones and Ralph Stanley on 15 historic buildings. Changes in Southwest Harbor by Ralph Stanley; (undated) may be the transcript to accompany slides; Attic Treasures sought for historical exhibit; July 1981 picture of Nelson Leland from newspaper holding Order of Eastern Star cookbook Miscellaneous newspaper articles, Route 3 corridor; McKinley Minstrel cast (1950), heirloom seeds [show more]
Description: During his tenure as lightkeeper, his family consisted of his wife, Catherine (Kimball), 4 daughters, Sarah, age 8, Ida, age 7, Augusta, age 4, and Adelma, age 2. Gives accounts of oil, wicks, and chimneys expended daily; shows time of lighting and extinguishing and length of time lighted each night, for each month.
Description: Names and comments by visitors to the Somesville Museum, 2014-2015. Guest book used for the duration of the "Portrait of an Island" Exhbition; the story of Art and Nan Kellam and their life on Placentia Island. Black "perfect" binding.