Description: Invitation to wedding (1917) for M/M Fred Smith for the marriage of Harry E. Fitzhenry's daughter N. Irene to Mark Whiting Somes on July 10th in Lubec, Maine.
Description: An audio walking tour of Southwest Harbor, Maine, with Ralph W. Stanley, produced and narrated by Mary Jones. Audio may be heard through the multi-media link attached to this record. Available in CD format for playing on a portable CD player or CD computer drive. This audio tour is available for sale, with an accompanying hand drawn map, for $12.95. All rights are owned by the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Extra copies for sale are located in the Research Room, lower shelf, left, on the window side of the room. [show more]
Description: Sub-division Plan of Worcester Associates at Southwest Harbor, Maine, by Robert Raynes. Salem Towne Road plans. July 1973 (revised August 1974) Scale: 1 inch=100 feet
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.
Description: An audio recording of an oral History Interview with Emma Richards (Interviewed by Charlotte Singleton), February 5, 2007 Emma grew up in McKinley (Bass Harbor)
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
Description: Chebacco: the Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Vol. VII, 2005 When Hollywood Came Downeast: Movie Houses on Mount Desert Island by William J. Baker Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect: A Life Revived by Carl Little Island Poets and Poems: Beth Straus, Christian Barter, Oliver Wendell Holmes, William R. Huntington, Jessica Smith Hadlock's Eskimos in New York (1821) by Hugh L. Dwelley Women Conservationists of Acadia National Park by Caroline M. Pryor Local Color: Rum Running by Ralph W. Stanley The Last Words and Dying Speech of Samuel L. Hadlock [show more]
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.
Description: A CD with 10 images of hooked rugs included in the exhibit: Three Centuries of Hooking, August, 2009, Mount Desert Historical Society Schoolhouse Probably photos taken by Judith Burger-Gossart, Curator Images also included in catalog of exhibit: Three Centuries of Hooking, MDIHS, August 2009, Burger-Gossart, Judith, Curator
Description: A biography of Percy Thompson Reed, who was born on Mount Desert Island in 1917, and was the caretaker for the author's wife's family in Northeast Harbor, Maine.