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Southwest Harbor Flamingo Festival Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Events		Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Southwest Harbor Flamingo Festival Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14974 Type: Reference Subject: Events Place: Southwest Harbor Description: The annual Harbor House Flamingo Festival is whimsical, lighthearted and decidedly pink, this fun filled family festival truly has something for everyone. The four day festival celebrates the plastic flamingo lawn ornament and features flocks of residents and visitors decked out in pink. The event kicks off with a lobster dinner on Friday evening. Saturday starts with a pancake breakfast prepared by volunteers from the U.S. Coast Guard followed by the Flamingo Parade down Main Street. Other activities include a craft fair and kids carnival, open house at the Coast Guard Station, and a 4 mile fun run. [show more]
1922 Southwest Harbor Fire Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Events, Fire		Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	1922 Southwest Harbor Fire Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14688 Type: Reference Subject: Events, Fire Place: Southwest Harbor Description: Main Street in Southwest Harbor was devastated by fire on March 27, 1922. Newspaper accounts of the fire reported estimated losses of $150,000 and that the Southwest Harbor Volunteer Fire Company, “did remarkable work, considering the limited equipment with which they had to work.” Bar Harbor and Northeast Harbor firemen also responded, but the roads were considerably different from today and it took the Bar Harbor department, “four hours over difficult spring roads.” Apparently their “combination truck…was making some 40 miles an hour near Burns’ Corner when it was stuck in a bad hole in the muddy road” and “between Somesville and Southwest they were mired time after time and horses that were sent to assist them…had to drag the big steamer” [weighing almost six tons] out of the holes in the road. In spite of these delays the truck arrived finally…in about three hours, too late to do any good. “Had the roads been in anything like fair condition it is the unanimous opinion that the truck from Bar Harbor would have been able to save the Odd Fellows building.” [show more]
1955 Southwest Harbor Lemont Building Fire Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Events, Fire		Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	1955 Southwest Harbor Lemont Building Fire Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14636 Type: Reference Subject: Events, Fire Place: Southwest Harbor
Visions Show 2016 Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Events	2016	Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Visions Show 2016 Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-14116 Type: Reference Subject: Events Date: 2016 Place: Southwest Harbor
Annual Lantern Walk and Story Telling at the Causeway Southwest Harbor Public Library	Reference	Events		Southwest Harbor	In Copyright - Non-Commercial Use Permitted	Annual Lantern Walk and Story Telling at the Causeway Southwest Harbor Public Library Identifier: swhpl-13375 Type: Reference Subject: Events Place: Southwest Harbor Description: In November, the Southwest Harbor Public Library holds a lantern walk as an observance of the changing season and a celebration of the darkening days. Participants meet at dusk in the High Road parking lot and a walk down Causeway Lane to Causeway Bridge, where a seasonal story is told. A lantern making event occurs prior to the walk. After the walk, participants are invited to go to the library around for a simple meal of soup and bread.

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