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| Interview of Athol Higgins Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Interview of Athol Higgins Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Ralph Stanley interviews Athol Higgins, who talks about her husband, Howe Higgins, and his jobs. Before World War One, he worked in the Post Office in Bar Harbor and saw the switch from horses to automobiles. After World War One, he worked in the customs office in Southwest Harbor for twelve years. His duties as customs officer got in the way of some friendships. He talks of sardine boats that went herring fishing in bad weather and fog. The sardine factory was a busy place during the Spring and Summer as it was the main source of employment. Howe helped start the fire department after the fire of 1922; his office was in the Odd Fellows Hall and he carried out a lot of files to prevent them from burning. Athol talks about walking out to "the small island in the middle of the harbor" for picnics, and having to be careful of the tide. [show more] | |
| Interview of Mildred Hill Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Mildred Hill Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: This interview consists of Mildred Hill talking about her life. She was born in Hawaii after her father was "imported" to the Dole plantation for his canning knowledge. Some of her mother's family came from Germany. Her family moved back from Hawaii to Southwest Harbor while she was two years old and lived at Seawall and then Manset. She talks about having well water, but using "town water" in the summer. The main industry in Manset was fishing or processing fish, as well as hotels and ice storage. He also talks about the Seawall radio station around World War One which communicated with ships and mainland Europe. Many sailors stationed there married local girls or stayed in the area after the war ended. Mildred's husband Carleton worked as a civilian for the Coast Guard, in the houses of Summer People, and in local hotels. She also recounts stories about issue with the mail and how boys made pocket money baiting trawl lines after school. [show more] | ||
| Interview of Laurence Newman Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Laurence Newman Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: In this interview, Laurence talks about being born and raised in Manset. His grandfather has a store there, though his grandmother was the one who really ran it. She also worked at the Post Office in Manset. She talks about the "Prussian Women," and Capt. Samuel Hadlock's relationship with her. He would sail into the Northern waters and bring back mementos for her; he once brought back Eskimos with sleds and dogs. Capt. Hadlock died on one such voyage and was found frozen onboard his ship. Laurence's father was a fisherman, and Laurence stayed in that line of work, even as he wont off to MIT for school. He met his wife at a dance that he was playing saxophone for. After a long time working as an engineer in Connecticut, he moved back to Southwest Harbor to be a fisherman again. He tells many stories of his time fishing; great catches, salting and drying the fish on the beach, and selling to processors. He would run fishing parties on the weekends for people, and had people booking their spots a year in advance. He preferred going out in the dense fog, as others would not venture out and he got all the good spots to himself. Laurence laments the overfishing and destructive techniques (gill netting and bottom trawling) that caused the collapse of the cod fishery in New England. [show more] | ||
| Mary Jones Interviews with Ralph Stanley and Eric Henry about SWH Buildings - Oral History Tapes Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Mary Jones Interviews with Ralph Stanley and Eric Henry about SWH Buildings - Oral History Tapes Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Interview of Harold R. Beal Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Harold R. Beal Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: In this interview Harold R. Beal talks about the early history of the Beal family, his experience in the U.S. Navy during World War II (including stories about the preparation and invasion of Omaha Beach), and life in Southwest Harbor before and after World War II. | |
| Interview of Elmer "Buzzy" Lawrence Beal Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Elmer "Buzzy" Lawrence Beal Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: In this interview, Elmer "Buzzy" Lawrence Beal talks about his family history on Cranberry and Manset islands, fishing, steam ship service, working at a Coast Guard station, the beginning of Beal's Lobster Warf, his grandparents life on Mt. Desert Rock, and life during World War II in Southwest Harbor. | |
| Gladys Butler (Whitmore) interviewed by Alice Long Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Gladys Butler (Whitmore) interviewed by Alice Long Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: In this interview Gladys Butler describes her family history, connections to other families in Southwest Harbor, her father's involvement in helping the Dole company set up canning in Hawaii where Gladys and all her siblings were born, the journey to Mount Desert Island from Hawaii, and of meeting her husband, Farnham Butler, and starting a family. | |
| Interview of Calvin and Edna Alley Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interview of Calvin and Edna Alley Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: In this interview Calvin Carroll Alley and Edna E. (Bagley) Alley speak about their early life (without electric power) in Jonesport, Southwest Harbor, Ilseford (Little Cranberry Island), life on their farm, a career in the Coast Guard, and running a restaurant together in Southwest Harbor. | |
| A series of interviews of Ralph Stanley conducted by David Spurling Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| A series of interviews of Ralph Stanley conducted by David Spurling Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: David Spurling interviewing Ralph Stanley about his life. Interview 1: Stories of boatbuilding, family life, voyages, and historical events. Interview 2: Details of shipbuilding, historic events, details of lost seamen, and Southwest Harbor specific historical events. Interview 3A: Stanley family history, details of other Southwest Harbor families, specific vessel details, and stories of foreign voyages including being on the pepper trade from India. Interview 3B: Stories of sailing, navigating a dangerous rock at Cranberry Island using dories, stories about Admiral Byrd of Arctic exploring fame, stories of rum running, and a story about Christopher Lawler. Interview 4: Stories of the Robinson and Nickerson families, a story about Emily Robinson. Interview 4: A story about a Cole Robinson sailing disaster and reading of several newspaper accounts of Mount Desert Island citizens. [show more] | |
| Interviews of Richard Carroll about the Carroll family Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| Interviews of Richard Carroll about the Carroll family Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: In these interviews, Richard Carroll recollects his own childhood on the Carroll homestead as well as describes the Carroll family's journey from Ireland and their establishment in Southwest Harbor. | |
| Sounds of the Granite Quarry Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Sounds of the Granite Quarry Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: An audio recording of sounds heard in a working granite quarry. This CD was created to accompany an exhibit of quarrying information that was housed at the Sound School House Museum, 2001. | |||
| Spirit of America Mount Desert Island Historical Society |
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| Spirit of America Mount Desert Island Historical Society Description: A CD of songs from the American Revolution, recorded by the U.S. Army Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps. Source of this CD is unknown. | ||||
| Roc Caivano Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Roc Caivano Northeast Harbor Library Description: Elly Andrews interviews 4 of Roc Caivano's close friends from his Yale years: Bob Knight, Peter Woerner, Tom Carey, and Ron Filson. Roc received his BA from Dartmouth College and a Master of Architecture degree from Yale University. He and and wife Helen arrived on MDI in 1974 where he was hired to start a program in Environmental Design at the College of the Atlantic. While at COA, Roc, Barbara Sassaman and Harris Hyman established an office in Southwest Harbor where they were involved in the renovation of the Turrets, a granite shorefront “cottage” designed by Bruce Price and originally built in 1895. They also created the Wendell Gilley Museum, the Somesville bridge and a number of single family residences. For over 45 years Roc Caivano Architects prepared the master plan for Acadia National Park, the renovation and conversion of the Schoodic Navel Station in to the Schoodic National Park Education Center, Acadia’s Fee Station and the Island Explorer Bus Shelter System, the Mary Dow and MDI Hospital Oncology Centers and other medical and educational facilities. [show more] | ||
| Marion Kimball Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Phyllis Reynolds Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Phyllis Reynolds Northeast Harbor Library Description: Pastime Theatre 1913-1966 Bill Doliver, husband, built the theatre. Update 7/7/21: According to Mr. Sam McGee, the speaker / author is not Phyllis Reynolds, but rather Emily Phillips (formerly Dolliver) Reynolds. Emily was a granddaughter of Emily Manchester and Augustus Chase Savage, the founders of the Asticou Inn. One of her husbands, William "Bill" Dolliver, was the Pastime Theater proprietor She also wrote a local history publication about growing up in Northeast Harbor entitled "Down Memory Lane". [show more] | ||
| Woodbury A. Stanley Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Endicott Peabody Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Endicott Peabody Northeast Harbor Library Description: Recollections of Northeast Harbor Interviewee: Endicott Peabody Interviewer: Julia Fairchild | |||
| Marguerite Yourcenar, "Gentle Aristocrat" Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Marguerite Yourcenar, "Gentle Aristocrat" Northeast Harbor Library Description: Interview with Marguerite Yourcenar about her life and literary work. Production of Maine Public Broadcast Network, 1983. | |||
| Elizabeth Gardiner Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Elizabeth Gardiner Northeast Harbor Library Description: Childhood summers and Northeast Harbor in the early 1900s. | |||
| Elsie Fay Hawtin and Patricia Grant Scull Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Elsie Fay Hawtin and Patricia Grant Scull Northeast Harbor Library Description: Summer Youth in Northeast Harbor | |||
| Memorial service for Clyde Everett Shorey Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Memorial service for Clyde Everett Shorey Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Recording. Audio CD. Memorial service for Clyde Everett Shorey who passed away in 2013. (Digital recording saved in all years\videos, too.) | ||
| Anne Smallidge Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Anne Smallidge Northeast Harbor Library Description: Anne Walls Smallidge of Seal Harbor born in 1929. Interviewed by Anne Haynes | |
| Lydia Vandenberg and Earl Shettleworth Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Lydia Vandenberg and Earl Shettleworth Northeast Harbor Library Description: Talk about Seal Harbor. 2nd file is incomplete. | ||
| Gertrude Fay Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Gertrude Fay Northeast Harbor Library Description: Retirement as Chairman of Board of the Northeast Harbor Library and Remarks at the 23rd Annual Meeting, August 1973. Mentions library artifacts. Coat of Arms by Wendell Gilley, William Draper Lewis plaque, Hancock County walling map all from Roger Griswald. Flying Cloud by Luther Phillips, doll house from Mrs. Sawyer, chair from Green (now Cadillac) Mountain house porch. | |
| Gertrude Fay Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Gertrude Fay Northeast Harbor Library Description: Mrs. Fay reading her dedication of the Northeast Harbor Library in 1950. |