Description: This picture was taken of Ralph and Marion at Mount Vernon on their trip to Washington D.C. when Ralph received his National Heritage Fellowship. The caption of this image in Ralph Stanley's autobiography reads, "Marion and me on the porch at Mount Vernon, wondering where those boots went." The boots in question were the boots that George Washington supposedly gave to Jacob Lurvey, a Stanley ancestor, when he was developing frostbite at Valley Forge. [show more]
Description: Left to Right: First Lady Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (1947-) Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Governor John Elias Baldacci of Maine (1955-) On September 28, 1999 the Folk & Traditional Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts recognized Ralph W. Stanley as a Master Artist “who has contributed to the shaping of our artistic traditions and to preserving the cultural diversity of the United States” and gave him a National Heritage Fellowship at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. attended by First Lady Hillary Clinton. [show more]
Description: USS Samuel Eliot Morison (FFG 13) is the seventh ship of the Oliver Hazard Perry class of Guided Missile Frigates. Includes a newspaper clipping published in The Boston Globe on October 12, 1980: "Frigate Morison joins Navy fleet".
Description: Connections: Suminsby Genealogical Records, Higgins, Hull, Owen, Marshall, Phelps. "History of United States", by Bancroft, George. "The Winthrop Fleet of 1630", by Banks, C. E.
Description: Mary on the walk in front of her sister Ann's house - 1901 Pine Street, Philadelphia. Ann Lenhard Hickox, wife of Dr. Charles F. Hickox. Dentist
Description: Archivists have identified this photograph as possibly the father of Arthur Millis Kellam. Viewers more informed than Southwest Harbor Public Library archivists are invited to correct mistakes about this photograph.