Description: Collection consists of three boxes of archival files donated by the Seal Harbor Library pertaining to the history of Seal Harbor village and Acadia National Park. An itemized summary of each boxes' contents is enclosed in each box. Letter from the Seal Harbor Library to library partrons giving an update of the past winter, summer hours, special events, call for volunteers, request for donations. Two copies of the letter.
Description: Collection consists of three boxes of archival files donated by the Seal Harbor Library pertaining to the history of Seal Harbor village and Acadia National Park. An itemized summary of each boxes' contents is enclosed in each box. Flyer announcing the upcomming talk by Senator George Mitchell at the Seal Harbor Library. Talk will focus on his book The Negotiator with a book sale/signing after the talk.
Description: Flyer advertising various events related to Jennifer Steen Booher's photography of the stained glass windows of MDI. Part of the 2019 edition of Chebacco.
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]
Description: Volume XVII 2016 Introduction: The Center of Our Stories By Virginia Mellen The History Trust By Bill Horner, MD An Island Landscape Gardening Culture, The Legacy of Nurserymen from 1888-1939 By Betsy Hewlett The Shatter Zone: A Physical Borderland from 420 Million Years Ago to Present and Conceptual Borderland from 1837 to Present By Duan Braun Immigrants in the Borderland 1880-1920 By Tim Garrity Eliot, Borderlands, and Historiography By Paige Melin The Coast Walk By Jennifer Steen Booher Unsettled Mount Desert Island by John Gillis Mount Desert Island"s Diverse Working Waterfront by Natalie Springuel Borderland of the Present By Catherine Schmitt and Tim Garrity [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: 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: Volume XVII 2015 La Maison d'Or By Oliver Wendell Holmes Introduction: A Cloud of Witnessess By Tim Garrity How Changing Climate Created Mount Desert Island By Catherine Schmitt A Kaleidoscopic View of Place: Ecological Studies and Island Conservation Across the Generations By Marina Schauffler Landscapes We Have Lost: Environment ad History of Mount Desert Island By David Hackett Fischer When Canopies Rivaled Cathedrals By Polly McAdam From Wealth to Poverty: The Rise and Fall of Cod Around Mount Desert Island By Natlie Springuel, William B. Leavenworth, and Karen Alexander [show more]
Description: Vol. XV 2014 Maine's Gone Mad: The Rising of the Klan by Raney Bench Ku Klux Klan on Mount Desert Island; opposition to immigrants and Catholics Visionary Science of the "Harvard Barbarians"by Catherine Schmitt Champlain Society, Charles Eliot Going Against the Tide: The Kellams of Placentia Island by Peter P. Blanchard III Cliff Rich built their boat; Gotts Island neighbors The War at Home: Copperheads Down East, 1861-1865 by Tim Garrity Opponents to Civil War Three Buildings: The Quiet Iconoclasm of Robert W. Patterson by William N. Thorndike, Jr. Architect Robert W. Patterson Superintendent Dorr and the Mountain Naming Controversy by Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. Belle Smallidge Knowles, Before Her Time by Brooke Ewing Minner Growing Up Gay in Down East Maine by Victor Stanley Island Outlaws by Luanne Yetter (smuggling on Mount Desert Island) [show more]
Description: A video taken of the January, 2014 MDI Historical Society Bean Supper held in the cafeteria of Mount Desert Island High School. Shows participants of the Dog Mountain Band, attendees at the supper, talk by society president, William Horner.
Description: Model of Chebacco boat that brought Abraham Somes to Mount Desert Island in 1761. Built by D. Muzzy in 2014. In glass case 20" x 22" x 6.5." Scale: 1:20.