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The Kellams Rowed Their Dory, Tracing An Island Story
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Schreiber - Laurie Schreiber
  • 2011-02-02
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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...The Bar Harbor Times, February 2, 2011...


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Kellam_-_Kellam_Dory_-_02-02-11.pdf
…From Bernard boat builder Clifton Rich, they bought the dory that would serve as their vehicle for the runs they made to Bass Harbor to pick up supplies …The dory will be an outdoor display at the society s Country Store Museum in Bass Harbor, said the society s president Muriel Davisson. …Nan would later use the analogy of two black bears converging on the same hollow tree that harbored a honeycomb. …The Bar Harbor Times, February 2, 2011.
Gott's Store Celebrates 75 Years
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Newspaper
  • Businesses, Store Business
  • Hinckley - Sarah Hinckley
  • 2019-10-16
  • Southwest Harbor
  • In Copyright
Gott's Store Celebrates 75 Years
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...Newspaper article about Gott's Store in Southwest Harbor, Maine on its 75 year aniversary...


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Gott’s Store celebrates 75 years - Mount Desert Islander.pdf
…Hammond lumber Company Bar Harbor Blue Hill Bucksport Ellsworth It was just another day at the family-owned island institution opened by …There were residents of Bass Harbor, but they chose to open the store in Southwest Harbor. …The reason it s here , rather than in Bass Harbor was because Bass Harbor was a dry town , they couldn t sell beer, said Gott. …Mom walked over here , we lived in Bass Harbor, probably two miles away.
The Stanleys of Cranberry Isles…and Other Colorful Characters.
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Book
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021)
  • 2017-07-09
  • In Copyright
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...Ralph bears many titles and awards, but for the Southwest Harbor Public Library he is, most of all, a friend...To purchase the print version of this book please contact the Southwest Harbor Public Library at archivist@swhplibrary.org or (207) 244-7065...


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2021_The_Stanleys_of_Cranberry_Isles_2021-03-25.pdf
…The Bar Harbor Record reports that on June 21st, 1883, Capt. E. J. …The nearest stores were in Bar Harbor or Ellsworth. …Harbor Record Newspaper - microfilm at the Jesup Library, Bar Harbor, Maine Bar Harbor Times Newspaper - microfilm at the Jesup Library, Bar Harbor …Papers, Jesup Library, Bar Harbor, Maine Grondahl, Paul.
A Cheese-shaped Building
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Structures, Commercial, Store
  • Sambides - Nick Sambides Jr.
  • 2019-01-09
  • Maine
  • In Copyright
A Cheese-shaped Building
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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A Bangor Daily News article about an urban legend hiding in plain sight.


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A cheese-shaped building BDN article.pdf
…has been here long enough to remember it still calls it The Cheese House, said Sargent, a sales manager across the road at Coastal Builders at 393 BarHarbor Road, the local name for that section of Route 3. …Competition from big-box grocery stores that added specialty cheeses to their delis helped push the store out of business, said Holly Macomber, a Bar Harbor …Courtesy of the Southwest Harbor Public Library Digital Archive.
Henry L. Rand: Photographer & Visual Diarist
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • People
  • Rich - Meredith Adelle (Rich) Hutchins (1939-2016)
  • 2010
  • Mount Desert
  • In Copyright
Henry L. Rand: Photographer & Visual Diarist
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Henry L. Rand: Photographer & Visual Diarist by Meredith Hutchins, Chebacco: The Magazine of Mount Desert Island Historical Society , Volume XI, 2010, p. 50-71. - Courtesy of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society


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Rand_-_Henry_L._Rand_-_Photographer_And_Visual_Diarist.pdf
…Higgins, wrote in a Bar Harbor Times article in 1934, to reach Bar Harbor the Rand family came in a springless wagon over the narrow road that crossed …Maurice Rumsey, born Addie Bunker, in the collections of the Bar Harbor Historical Society. …Registry of Deeds, Book 712, page 558. 24 The Bar Harbor Times, Thursday, May 31, 1945. PHOTOGRAPHS Page 50. …WORKS CITED The Bar Harbor Record (August 18,1892). The Bar Harbor Times (April 2, 1930; December 26, 1934; May 31,1945). Beale, Howard Kennedy.
George Bucknam Dorr - the Father of Acadia National Park
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • People
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • 2012-05-04
  • In Copyright
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2012-05-04 George Bucknam Dorr - the Father of Acadia National Park.pdf
…Dorr Courtesy: ANP-NPS years later they built their Bar Harbor summer home, which they named Oldfarm, on 90 acres at Compass Harbor. …The property's entrance is a mile south of the Bar Harbor village green.*1 Dorr was a horticulturalist and in 1896 he established the Mount Desert Nurseries …His estate gave Bar Harbor's Jesup Memorial Library $12,865.63 and equal amounts of $6,432.81 to the HCTPR and the Abbe Museum of Bar Harbor.
Atwater Kent - Inventor, Industrialist and Philanthropist
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • People
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • 2016-12-26
  • In Copyright
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2016-12-26 Atwater Kent - Inventor, Industrialist and Philanthropist.pdf
…It was installed in 1946 on the Schooner Head Path, south of downtown Bar Harbor, ME and just beyond High Seas, the former home of pathmaker and Princeton …While a summer resident of Bar Harbor, Kent owned the former Frederick Vanderbilt s estate, Sonogee, and the Robert Abbe estate, Brookend, off Eden Street …Among his other holdings were Long Porcupine and The Hop, two islands off Bar Harbor in Frenchman Bay.
Newman's legacy, and his boats, will sail on
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Hinckley - Sarah Hinckley
  • 2019-09-11
  • In Copyright
Newman's legacy, and his boats, will sail on
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Article about legendary boatbuilder Jarvis Newman.


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Newman's legacy, and his boats, will sail on - Mount Desert Islander.pdf
…SOUTHWEST HARBOR MAINE 04679 207 - 244- 3860 : 31' FRIENDSHIP SLOOP "DICTATOR" MODEL DINETTE LAYOUT SPECIFICATIONS LOA - 30*10" LWL - 26* -O" BEAM …- will- sail-on) Newman s legacy, and his boats, will sail on September 11, 2019 by Sarah Hinckley on News, Waterfront BAR …He was living at Birch Bay Village in Bar Harbor after spending most of his life in Southwest Harbor. …In the winter of 1968, Newman s shop was a shed behind The Village Washtub, the laundromat he and his -V wife owned in Southwest Harbor.
Public Gets Rare Glimpse at Historic Acadia Gatekeeper’s Home
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Structures, Other Structures
  • Trotter - Bill Trotter
  • 2012-12-17
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
An account of a rare open house at one of the two Gate Lodges in Acadia National Park.


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Jordan_Pond_Gate_Lodge.pdf
…It and another built near Northeast Harbor on Route 198 are the only two such gate houses in Acadia. …national park dates to 1916, when President Woodrow Wilson established the 6,000acre Sieur de Monts National Monument not far from the downtown village of BarHarbor. …According to Anne Funderburk, a Seal Harbor resident with extensive knowledge of the village s history, Rockefeller went to great lengths to have the