Description: 20 scraps, clippings and pages of notes and submissions used in preparation of the Newsletter of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society.
Description: Four pages of handwritten notes on the history of Somesville, ME, drawn from the book, "The Living Past" authored by Virginia Somes Sanderson.
Description: Two copies of printed poster announcing "Somesville Day" sponsored by the Village Improvement Society and the Mount Desert Historical Society. Year not specified.
Description: Handwritten pages (2) and handwritten or typewritten fragments (3) containing information related to the history of the founding of the MDI Historical Society. The purpose of the Society is described here.
Description: Fundraising and informational materials prepared for the Sound School House Campaign Committee of the Mount Desert Island Historial Society dated July 1998. Includes the Sound School House Fact Sheet, the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Fact Sheet, the Sound School House Restoration and Use Plan, Fundraising Plan, and pledge sheet.
Description: Fundraising and informational materials regarding the Sound School House Restoration project prepared by the Mount Desert Island Historical Society and dated March 1998.
Description: Newsletter from the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, Volume 3, January 1977, No. 1. Contains sections and articles giving information about places on MDI and the work that the Historical Society is doing.
Description: Report recounting highlights of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society's 1996 year, listing coming events for the next year, and listing the membership.
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: 1998 Logo Provenance Charles W. Eliot and John Gilley: Good Hope for Our Island By Jaylene B. Roths Hadlock Executed This Day By Mary H. Jones A Research Adventure: The Tracy Log Book of 1855 By Anne Mazlish This Island Is A Gift By Carl Little
Description: 1999 Great Duck Island- At Sea and On Memory's Horizon By Peter P. Blanchard III The Legend of Talleyrand By Gladys Butler Maypole Point By Rachel Field The Acadians, Thier culture and Their Influence on Mount Desert Edited By Anne Mazlish Fred Savage, The Cottage Builder By Jaylene B. Roths Review- Mount Desert: A History by Michael McGiffert
Description: Volume IV 2001-2002 Larue Spiker and "America's Most Beautiful Island' By Elizabeth Redhead A Playground Contested: Bar Harbor Natives and Rusticators, 1875-1925 By Lynne Nelson Manion College of the Atlantic: The First Decades By William Carpenter Review- A History of Little Cranbery Island, ME By Michael McGiffert Review- The Story of Mount Desert Island By Carl Little
Description: Volume V 2003 Transcription of The Early Records of Mount Desert By Patti Leland- Hanson Boatbuilding During World War II MDI, Ellsworth, Stonington and Blue Hill By Ralph W. Stanley Establishing Dr. Abbe's Museum in Mr. Dorr's Park By Ronald H. Epp Ph.D The Green Mountain Railway Bar Harbor's Remarkable Cog Railroad By Peter Dow Bachelder Preview- The Story of Mt. Desert Island And Acadia National Park By Anne S. Funderburk Review- Cemeteries fo Canbery Isles and the Towns of Mount Desert Island ByMichael McGiffert [show more]