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17032Love to All and Eight Hands Around
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Asia
  • Other, Biography
  • Other, Eliot, Charles W.
  • Pierce, Roger
  • Self-published
  • [2007]
Description:
Collection of letters and photos. describing journey of Dr. Charles William Eliot, president emeritus of Harvard, to the Far East under the auspices of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace.
17026Descendants of John S. Robinson About 1732-1801
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Gott Family
  • Other, Robinson family
  • Other, Savage family
  • Other, Stanley, Ralph W.
  • Stanley, Ralph W.
  • Self
  • June 2008
17003Self-Guided Walking Tour of Historic Bar Harbor
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Guidebook
  • Massie, Betty M.
  • Betty Massie
  • 2005
16982Writing on Stone: Scenes from a Maine Island Life
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Biography
  • Other, Gott's Island
  • Gillis, Christina Marsden
  • University Press of New England
  • 2008
Description:
"A moving account of how the life of an island [Gotts], past and present, shapes and transforms the unexpected loss of a son." (From the flyleaf.)
16964Oral History Interview of John Kief
  • Publication, Literary, Transcript
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Farms
  • People
  • 3/20/2002
Description:
Transcript of interview with John Kief born 8/29/1911 of Eden regarding the dairy industry and farming on Mount Desert Island
16909Finding Aid for Carroll Farm Collection 1840-1966 (Bulk Dates 1880-1940)
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Carroll family
  • Other, Southwest Harbor
  • Karle, Tim J.
  • National Park Service
  • [2005]
16700Three Centuries of Hooking: An Exhibit of Hooked Rugs from Private Collections
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Cranberry Islands
  • Other, Grenfell Mission
  • Other, Maine Sea Coast Mission
  • Other, Rugs
  • Other, Textile art
  • Other, Waldoboro
  • Burger-Gossar, Judith (curator)
  • 2009
Description:
Mount Desert Island Historical Society Exhibition, August, 2009
16683Julius Lawrence and Cora Mayo Hansen of Boise, Idaho
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Hansen, Lois
  • Wordwinder Desktop Publishing
  • 2000
Description:
Genealogy that includes Mayo family of Mt. Desert; also Dollivers (Doliver), Newmans.
16556Using the Collections of Penobscot Marine Museum
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Education
  • Other, Museums
  • Penobscot Marine Museum
  • 2006
Description:
Guide to using the collections of the Penobscot Marine Museum to address Maine's Learning Results (2006)
16550Art of the Edge Tool: The Ferrous Metallurgy of New England Shipsmiths and Toolmakers 1607-1882
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Forge shops
  • Other, Iron industry
  • Other, Metallurgical industry
  • Other, Ship building
  • Brack, H.G.
  • Davistown Museum
  • 2008
Description:
Hand tools of maritime culture: shipsmiths, metallurgy, bog iron furnaces and forges.
16548Traditional Uses of Fish Houses in Otter Cove.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fishing industry
  • Other, Otter Creek
  • Smythe, Charles W.
  • 2009
Description:
Research report: Traditional Uses of Fish Houses in Otter Cove - "ethnohistorical research about the customary and traditional uses and practices associated with fish houses in Otter Cove . . . in the late 19th and 20th centuries". Discussses fishing, bait, equipment, social affarirs, landings, slips, docks.
16544The Creation and Growth of Acadia National Park
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Richardson, Paul
  • 2005
Description:
Copy 1 (for the library) of Paul Richardson's manuscript about Acadia National Park with particular emphasis on the carriage roads and bridges and their construction. Includes a map and pictures and an appendix with a description and technical information on all carriage road bridges. A bibliography and index are included. "A Gift from Paul S. and Dorothy L. Richardson to the Mount Desert Island Historical Society." Fifty copies were given to the Historical Society for distribution locally. [show more]
16518Bar Harbor's Gilded Century: Opulence to Ashes, 1850-1950
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Cottages
  • Other, Rustication
  • Vandenbergh, Lydia Bodman
  • Down East
  • 2009
Description:
Story in words and pictures of everyday people on Mt. Desert Island, and of the rusticators.
16516Bygone Bar Harbor: A Postcard Tour of Mount Desert Island & Acadia National Park
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Bar Harbor
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Brechlin, Earl
  • Down East Books
  • 2002
Description:
Postcard tour of Mount Desert Island & Acadia National Park
16514Stories of Hope From the Past, for the Future: Oral Histories collected for the Bicentennial Celebration of the Town of Hope,Maine by Students of Hope School
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Hope [Maine]
  • 2004
16397Norumbega Reconsidered: Mawooshen and the Wawenoc Diaspora
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Indians of Northern America
  • Brack, H.G. Skip
  • Davistown Museum
  • 2006
Description:
Questions, Controversies, paradigms, and Uncertainties about these indigenous communities.
16396Oral History Interview of John Fernald
  • Publication, Literary, Transcript
  • Nature, Animals
  • Other, Farms
  • People
  • 2/25/2002
Description:
Transcript of interview with John Fernald, born 11/25/1932 on Mount Desert, regarding the dairy industry and farming on Mount Desert Island. See also CD-R, located in Archival Box #68, accession number 010.001.001.
16395Hike On: Poems from Mount Desert Island, Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Poetry
  • Bennett, Thomas Peter
  • Goose River Press
  • 2008
Description:
Collection of poems about MDI and Acadia National Park. Inscribed, "For Tim Garrity as you HIKE ON in your fine work."
14738The Story of The Grand Design
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Grand Manan
  • Other, Londonderry
  • Other, Presbyterians
  • Other, Ship Harbor
  • Other, Shipwrecks
  • Lane, Julia
  • Castlebay, Inc.
  • 2007
Description:
It is the story of The Grand Design, a Scots Irish Journey. Tucked in the inside cover is a one page fact sheet about the Legend of the Grand Design Wreck in the late fall of 1740 near Ship Harbor on Mount Desert Island.
14703Oral History Interview of Louise Sawtelle Libby
  • Publication, Literary, Transcript
  • Other, History - Cranberry Islands
  • Other, Islands
  • People
  • Colquohn, Leza
  • 3/20/2002
Description:
Written transcript of interview with Louise Sawtelle Libby, born 1/20/1907 in Cambridge Mass., regarding the history of Islesford; Duck Island; and many stories about growing up in the mid 1900s and summering on the coast of MDI, Coast Guard, Bangor fire in 1911, small bit about MDI fire of 1947
14701Hooked Rugs of the Grenfell Mission: Paula Laverty, September 2, 2009
  • Publication, Literary, Speech
  • Other, Rugs
  • Laverty, Paula
  • 2009
Description:
An audio recording of Hooked Rugs of the Grenfell Mission: Paula Laverty, September 2, 2009, an audio recording of a presentation sponsored by the MDI Historical Society, Mellon Room Northeast Harbor Library.
13872Savage Genealogy
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, Savage family
  • Ruze, Ruth P.
  • 2005
Description:
A reference book with genealogy and family stories of the ancestors and descendants of Augustus Charles Savage and Emily Manchester of Northeast Harbor, Maine
13004Acadia Revealed: Mount Desert Island & Acadia National Park
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Kaiser, Jay
  • Papyrus Travel Guides
  • 2000
12999Cemeteries and Burial Sites in Trenton, Maine: A recording of the information found on the cemetery stones in Trenton, Maine
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Cemeteries
  • Other, Genealogy
  • Other, Trenton
  • Leland, Particia and Robert Leland
  • 2004
Description:
Includes map of Trenton indicating cemetery locations; lists cemeteries with names and dates of those buried in them.
12993List of Vessels Built: Mount Desert, Cranberry, Tinker’s, Thompson’s, and Long Island (Frenchboro)
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Boat industry
  • Other, Cranberry Isles
  • Other, Frenchboro
  • Other, Islands
  • Other, Mt. Desert
  • Stanley, Ralph W.
  • 2003
Description:
Arranged chronologically; gives date, place built, name of vessel, description, and owners