Description: COA students, faculty, and staff grouped on the college pier surrounded by boats before jumping into the water for the annual Bar Island Swim.
Description: Steve Katona (faculty member from 1972-1993 and college president from 1993-2006) being interviewed during his inauguration as president of the college.
Description: Pepsi machine with a hitchhiking thumb attached to its side sitting on the edge of the road in front of campus. The machine has a sign attached to it reading "Pepsi Cola Bottling Co. or bust!"
Description: Letter regarding the possible exhibition of a Gilley piece in the Spirits and Nature Exhibition organized by Steven Rockefeller and held at Middlebury College. The piece was a carved and painted group of eiders made in 1970. Color slide transparency enclosed with letter
Description: Exhibit at the Northeast Harbor Library, "Arms of the Past", provides a fascinating look at the firearms & other artifacts that shaped & changed local history.
Description: Exhibit of Betsy Flagg Melcher's paintings held at the Northeast Harbor Library in the fall of 1991. Main photograph shows Betsy Flagg Melcher in 1978. Other photographs taken by Pamela Melcher, Lydia Rivers and other guests.
Description: 1: Bar Harbor Burning. Reprint of a letter from U. Maine, Orono, student to his father in NJ about the l947 Bar Harbor fire which he and fraternity brothers helped fight. 2: The Big Fire by Parson Williams and Mrs. Williams 3: Bar Harbor 40 Years Later
Description: Photographs of Betsy Flagg Melcher's portraits, floral still lives, and nature scenes. Several photographs are of an exhibit of her paintings at the Northeast Harbor Library in 1992.
Description: Book made as a guide to the gun exhibit "Arms of the Past" in March 1999 at the Northeast Harbor Library coordinated by Bob Pyle. The book lists and describes the exhibits, gives a short history of firearms, and has Q and A's.
Description: Announcement & checklist of a Farnsworth Art Museum outreach exhibition held at the Northeast Harbor Library July-August 1994 featuring four leading printmakers inspired by Maine.
Description: Program of recitations presented under the Library's Public Performance Program, organized by Judith Blank. Jeff McKeen, host Ted Spurling Sr. (Islesford) Elizabeth Carlson (Swan's Island) Bob Quinn (Eagle Island) Includes old favorites by: Robert W. Service, Ruth Moore, Holman Day (by Jeff McKeen) Rachel Field, poems from childhood (by Ted Spurling) Original poems from Swan's Island (by Betty Carlson) Several other original poems of Eagle Island (written in the 1930's by Bonney Quinn, read from the original manuscript by his nephew, Bob Quinn). Recorded in the Mellon Room, Northeast Harbor Library. [show more]