Description: A DVD that contains 14 .tif and 93 .jpg images used in the creation of the film, "Dancing at the Mill: Two Centuries of Life on Mount Desert Island". These photos can also be used as images for promoting the film.
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]
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.
Description: 1 page photocopy of history of Herrick name and the Herricks of Mount Desert Island, apparently taken from "Old Hancock County Families" by William DcDuff Pierce.
Description: 21-page monograph presented by the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Story originally published from Rachel Field's collection Points East: Narratives of New England, 1933. Bruce Komusin of the Great Cranberry Island Historical Society brought the work to the attention of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Editor: Emily M. Beck
Description: 21-page monograph presented by the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Story originally published from Rachel Field's collection Points East: Narratives of New England, 1933. Bruce Komusin of the Great Cranberry Island Historical Society brought the work to the attention of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Editor: Emily M. Beck
Description: Interviews of 27 residents of the Bar Harbor and Otter Creek areas about the Tarn, now a small, shallow pond and emergent wetland; it was originally a meadow.
Description: Report created by Ronald Forse for Robert Gardner (golf professional of the NEHGC) with recommendations and evaluations of the Northeast Harbor Golf Course, August 17th, 2011.
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.
Description: A DVD that contains a 2 minute video, narrated by William Horner, that describes the Chebacco Project hosted by MDIHS in collaboration with the Essex Historical Society and Essex Shipbuilding Museum, Massachusetts, during the summer, 2013. The video was made as a short film that could be used for various audiences (board, community, funders, etc) to describe the scope and intent of this project. The video used in this film was shot during the Chebacco visit on the island by Peter Logue, resident of MDI. The film is attached to this record. Please click on the Media tab to access the mp4 file. It is also filed in hard copy, on DVD. [show more]
Description: Vol. XVIII 2017 "A Sense of Place" A Sense of Place: Maine in Winter, Roxana Robinson The Somesville Bridge, Roc Caivano "Like it Growed There": Architecture and the Environment on Mount Desert Island, 1880-1940, David W. Granston III Two Architects, One Island, Sargent C. Gardiner First Person: Asticou and Northeast Harbor Forward to "Memories of a Lifetime" (1972), Charles Savage "Memories of a Lifetime" (1902), Augustus C. Savage Growing up in Asticou: The late 1940's to Mid-1960's, Rick Savage Northeast Harbor in the 1940's: Nothing Gold Can Stay, Louisa Newlin Real and Imagined France in Acadia National Park, Tim Garrity Apples of Eden: Discovery and Change in Eastern Maine's Orchards, 1760-1930, Todd Little-Siebold A Fisherman's Paradise: A History of Inland Fish Conservation on Mount Desert Island, Erik Reardon Henry van Dyke at Seal Harbor, Carl Little [show more]
Description: Vol. XVII 2016 "The Acadian Borderland": The Center of Our Stories, Virginia Mellen The History Trust, Bill Horner, M.D. An Island Landscape Gardening Culture: The Legacy of Nurserymen from 1888 to 1939, Betsy Hewlett The Shatter Zone: A Physical Borderland from 420 Million Years Ago to Present and Conceptual Borderland from 1837 to Present, Duane Braun Immigrants in the Borderland, 1880-1920, Tim Garrity Eliot, Borderlands, and Historiography, Paige Melin The Coast Walk, Jennifer Steen Booher Unsettled Mount Desert Island, John Gillis Mount Desert Island's Diverse Working Waterfront, Natalie Springuel Borderline of the Present, Catherine Schmitt and Tim Garrity [show more]