Description: Document from Hugh Dwelley to Bruce Komusin, Winnie Smart, and Phil & Karin Whitney, dated 3/22/2011. Subject: "Cranberry Chronicle". Documents mentions that Rachel Fields called it Big Cranberry and when Hugh Dwelley was growing up in the 1940s & 1950s, we simply called it "Big Island". The memories of Great Cranberry (Big Island) are indeed interesting as they are of Islesford. Document mentions memoirs of Islesford being published and the warm memories of The Grange where Les Rice held the #2 position and came over with Ida, Wilfred, Norma and a few others nearly every Wednesday night for many years. Hugh talks about enjoying photos of the kids at Longfellow School and wishing classes were still in session at the school. Documents mentions Jack Rosebrook moved to Islesford and was a good friend and that Richard Alley is on Islesford now. Hugh remembers Karl Wedge, Allison Bunker, Pauline Bunker and Charlene Allen. Hugh says there were two dozen kids in the Islesford School during my years there (1936-1944). Some of the kids were from Coast Guard families. Hugh mentions the Coast Guard Station where he delivered "GRIT" newspapers and sold pull-books. There were as many as 50 men there for a time late in WWII. Hugh also mentions Sadie's Doughnuts and Sadie Fernald frying doughnuts. Lew Stanley and Wilfred & Tud's pictures in younger days are also mentioned. [show more]
Description: Documents. (A) Map 1958 map and cottage directory of Cranberry Isles by L. S. Robinson. (Display in Museum reception.) (B) 1987 GCI phone list with artistic yellow cover designed and published by Longfellow School 1987; (C) 1995-1996 GCI phone list; (D) Ladies Aid Fair laminated announcement for Aug 9, 2000 - it's 100th Annual fair. (E) Newspaper publication of poem: “’Twas a Mite Before Midnite – An Ode to Great Cranberry Isle - with apologies to "Twas the Night Before Christmas" - 1982; frame removed. (F) newspaper clippings and obituaries that were stored behind the poem in the frame. [show more]
Description: Memories of Duck and Bakers Island circa 1891. Gifted by Hugh Dwelley in Summer 2007. The bulk of the document is a copy of a letter to the Ellsworth American written by Rufus George Frederick Candage. The letter was written in 1891, but in the letter he is reminiscing about a two-week vacation to the Duck and Bakers Island in 1841. He writes about a barn, cattle, vegetables, hay, butter, cheese, eggs, fowls on Great Duck, and sheep on Little Duck. At that time the family of John Bartlett was living on Duck Island, although the Duck Islands were claimed by Mr. Gilley. Candage also remembers a trip to see the Bakers Island lighthouse. The letter is preceded by an excerpt from the book "The Descendants of James Candage/Cavendish of Blue Hill, Maine" and some notes on the Bartlett family and the letter made by Ralph W. Stanley. The document also includes a letter from Hugh Dwelley as President of the Islesford Historical Society to Mr. Gil Bunker in reference to a visit that the Bunker Family Association of America planned to make to the Cranberry Islands. [show more]
Description: James Parker writes to his sister, Letita A. Parker, from Camp Roberts near Bangor. He wishes for new food, thanks her for a letter, asks for advice about purchasing a revolver, and describes his life at camp. The original envelope is included as well. People Mentioned: Lizzie Young
Description: Loose photographs from Edward Roberts Marvin and Katharine Langdon Marvin (Griffin). The collection is images of the Marvin family in Northeast Harbor, at Harvard University and elsewhere.
Description: Photographs: Stetson School (item 6997) Gilman High School (item 6998) Ballard Hill School (item 6999) Mount Desert High School (item 7000) Clifton Dock area (item 7001) Who's who - People (item 7002) Northeast Harbor (1) (item 7005) Northeast Harbor (2) (item 7006) Miscellaneous (item 7004) Documents and Manuscripts: Parker Fennelly's diploma from Leland Powers School (item 7003) Nathan Fennelly invoices Parker Fennelly scrapbook Parker Fennelly discharge papers Parker Family writings Parker Family plays and writings Cottages for Rent, 1929 Letter from Northeast Harbor Water Co., 1904 Future of Mount Desert Island by Charles W. Eliot Mount Desert High School and Mount Desert Elementary School specifications, letters from architects & contractors, additions, building notes Objects WWII ration books, tokens, service ID, Red Cross Volunteer Pin, V pin [show more]
Description: Very old videos that Mr. Philip Pearson's maternal grandfather took in 1927 and which have been digitized. There are many clips of children (his aunt Coxie and her friends when they were about 13) diving into the pool at the Northeast Harbor Pool. The cold pool. * Digital Location: Dropbox/Archives/Archives Digital Images/NEH old movies.mp4
Description: Letter from Robert S. Peabody (of Peabody & Stearns) written from Eden to his family in Boston. He describes his trip to Mt. Desert Island, his accommodations, and includes transportation fares.
Description: Notes of Bob Pyle about the Klu Klux Klan on the island and the impact on local Northeast Harbor workers. His home on Summit Rd., once the Catholic Church rectory, is an example.
Description: History of Northeast Harbor and an account of the Manchester family. 1 copy includes 1959 forward by Samuel E. Morison and hand notes of Ruth Jordan.
Description: Records of the Colonies, Towns, Churches, Courts & Other Contemporary Sources. Pioneers of Mass. by Pope, Cheney, Tobey, Merrian & Hooper Genealogies.
Description: With lists to 1651. Compiled from the Original Sources. 1. Piscataqua River 2. York River 3. Cape Neddock River; Ogunquit River; Wells River; Maryland River; Cape Porpoise River; Kennebunk River; Batson's River; Little River 4. Saco River 5. Scarborough River; Nonesuch River 6. Spurwink River 7. Fore River 8. Presumpscot River 9. Royal River; Bunganuck River 10. New Meadows and Pejepscot Rivers 11. Sagadahoc River 12. Kennebec River 13. Sheepscot River 14. Damariscotta River 15. Pemaquid River 16. Pemaquid River 17. Muscongus River 18. Saint George's River 19. Penobscot River 20. Machias River [show more]
Description: Genealogies, Families of 1651 to 1850 & their Resident Descendants. The Burning of Medfield, Rebuilding and Progress,1677 to 1699. Annals of the town during the transition.