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Asticou's Island Domain: Wabanaki Peoples at Mount Desert Island 1500-2000.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • People
  • McBride - Bunny McBride
  • Prins - Harald E. L. Prins
  • 2007-12
  • Mount Desert Island
  • No Copyright - United States
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Acadia National Park Ethnographic Overview and Assessment Volume 1 and Volume 2 This two-volume historical-ethnographic overview of Acadia National Park spans almost 500 years and covers a wide coastal stretch between Penobscot and Gouldsboro Bays – and sometimes much beyond. Such breadth of coverage is necessary in order to take in the park’s center piece on Mount Desert Island, plus Isle au Haut and Schoodic Peninsula, along with various land holding arrangements (including easements) on numerous offshore sea-islands in this area.1 The study explores the shifting but ongoing relationship between this habitat and Wabanaki peoples – a group of northeastern Algonquianspeaking ethnic groups or tribal nations today distinguished as the Abenaki, Maliseet, Mi'kmaq, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot. [show more]


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wabanaki_peoples_vol1-optimized.pdf
…Encampment in Bar Harbor. 1894: Nine-year-old Eleanor Roosevelt visits the Bar Harbor Indian encampment. 1896: During annual Bar Harbor sport festivities …and Bar Harbor. …Everybody does the same at Bar Harbor. …See also Souvenir of Bar Harbor.

wabanaki_peoples_vol2-optimized.pdf
Bar Harbor. …Harbor AML=Abbe Museum Library, Bar Harbor ANPA=Acadia National Park Archives, Bar Harbor BCL=Bowdoin College Library BHHS=Bar Harbor Historical Society …Bar Harbor: Abbe Museum. …A Guide to Bar Harbor, Mount Desert Island, Maine. Bar Harbor: Bar Harbor Board of Trade. W.H. Sherman, printer. 56 pp., ill. 14x20 cm.
The House that Ruth and Eleanor Built
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Newsletter
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Trask - Muriel (Trask) Davisson-Fahey
  • 2005
  • Tremont, Bass Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
The House that Ruth and Eleanor Built
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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MOORE MAYO HOUSE - 2005.pdf
…Ruth was born and raised on Gott s Island just off Bass Harbor Head, where her parents Lovina and Philip Moore ran the island store and post office, …and Eleanor grew up in Southwest Harbor, the daughter of Fred and Lillian Mayo. …They purchased 18 acres on the Bass Harbor Head lighthouse road and began building in early June of 1947. …Acknowledgements: material for this article was drawn from 1947 articles in the Bangor Daily News and Bar Harbor Times and an article written by Ruth for
Grindle - Ralph Merrill Grindle - Obituary
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Announcement, Obituary
  • People
  • 2005
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Grindle - Ralph Merrill Grindle - Obituary
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Grindle - Ralph Merrill Grindle - Obit.pdf
…He was a boat builder and co-owner of Rich and Grindle Boat Company in Southwest Harbor. He served in the U.S. …He was proprietor of Grindle s Store in Southwest Harbor for more than 45 years. …; and two daughters, RuthAnn Fenton and her husband, Nathaniel, of Bar Harbor; and Linda Ann Dow and her husband, George, of Southwest Harbor; 10 grandchildren …, Jeffrey Rich of Bass Harbor, and Paul Grindle of Southwest Harbor; 18 great-grandchildren; and a very special friend, Mary Grindle.
A Biography of Ruth Moore of Gott’s Island, Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • People
  • Davisson - Sven Davisson
  • 2004
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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Reprinted in The Newsletter of the Tremont Historical Society - 2007-2008.


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A Biography of Ruth Moore of Gott.pdf
…Her father and her brother Harve also maintained a weir in the island s harbor. …Gott s Island is actually two islands, Great Gott and Little Gott, connected by a tidal bar. …By the turn of the century, these rusticators had made their way to Bar Harbor, Maine and established there a thriving enclave of summer cottages …Desert Island communities of Bar Harbor, Seal Harbor, and Northeast Harbor. Gott s Island was not isolated from the influx of select families.