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Museum Traces Island's History - Abbe Museum Blends Ruth Moore Poetry With Great Gott Island Artifacts
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • People
  • Harbour - Kathy Harbour
  • 1994-05-28
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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...Bar Harbor - When the archaeologists of summer probe the fragile layers of Great Gott Island history, they say the faint bark of an Indian dog is freed...


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MOORE GOTT ARCHEOL - 05-28-94.pdf
…Museum Traces Island's History Abbe Museum Blends Ruth Moore Poetry With Great Gott Island Artifacts By Kathy Harbour The Bangor Daily News, May 28, 1994 BarHarbor - When the archaeologists of summer probe the fragile layers of Great Gott Island history, they say the faint bark of an Indian dog is freed. …The museum is located at Sieur de Monts Spring, off Route 3 between Bar Harbor and Otter Creek, and is open daily 10 a.m. to 4 p.m.
Interview of Henry and Elizabeth Guthrie
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
  • 1991-08-31
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Interview of Henry and Elizabeth Guthrie
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...She also talks about taking the "Bar Harbor Express," a train from Washington D.C. up to a ferry which would complete the journey to Bar Harbor...The Guthries were always just summer people, but felt that they belonged in Southwest Harbor and were very complimentary of the people they met in town...
Interview of Ruth Grindle
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
  • 1992-01-06
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Interview of Ruth Grindle
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...Esther Rodick interviews Ruth Grindle who talks about her life in Southwest Harbor...Neither of her parents were originally from the area, but her father moved to Bar Harbor to work in a jewelry story before moving to Southwest Harbor to...Finally, she tells of how she finagled her way into meeting FDR when he visited Southwest Harbor...
Interview of Andrew Herrick
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
  • 1991-02-07
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Interview of Andrew Herrick
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...The first Herrick to stay was Isaac who ran a tide mill in Southwest Harbor. Andrew grew up in the house that Isaac built...Andrew drove a truck for a gas company, living in Bar Harbor and Ellsworth but was forced to stop that work in 1952 following a shoulder injury...He has many stories from his time in Southwest Harbor; the first car in the town, Beech Mountain priginally being called Herrick Mountain, finding bootleg...stories about Billy Tot, a man who worked as a cabin boy for Captain Norwood and eventually lived a primitive life on the edges of society near Southwest Harbor...
Gotts Island Maine - Its People 1880-1992
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Johnson - Rita (Johnson) Kenway (1931-2011)
  • 1993
  • Tremont, Great Gott Island
  • In Copyright
Gotts Island Maine - Its People 1880-1992
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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An account of the summer visitors and native population on Gotts Island starting in the 1890's, the book describes the island experience, the families, and changes that took place over the next 100 years.


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Gotts Island Maine - Kenway.pdf
…Reportedly, one of his guests was President Taft who had come to Bar Harbor to play golf. The mansion burned during the Bar Harbor fire in 1947. …Bar Harbor showed little change. July 4. …On Aug. 19, they look an auto to Southwest Harbor and the train boat to Bar Harbor. …Only a duffel bag was found off Egg Rock , Bar Harbor.