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The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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...In 1892 the ladies of Southwest Harbor gathered together to raise money for land upon which to build a library building and then reported how they raised...their dollar..The Dollar Social was the first fundraising event held for the Southwest Harbor Public Library and the poem describing it was famous in...


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The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor.pdf
…The Dollar Social At Southwest Harbor The Southwest Harbor Public library was founded in 1884. …Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 115. …"The Dollar Social At Southwest Harbor" describes how each woman earned her dollar. …Tracy, our Republican friend, took a bribe, I'm sorry to state, For her husband promised her a dollar if she would help him illuminate, So she sacrificed bar
A Talk About the Southwest Harbor Public Library (1905-2005)
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Oral History
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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...This is a transcription of a talk given by Meredith Hutchins as a Southwest Harbor Public Library evening program in 2005...


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The Southwest Harbor Public Library – 1905-2005 - MH.pdf
…The Southwest Harbor Public Library 1905-2005 by Meredith Hutchins A talk given as a Southwest Harbor Public Library evening program in 2005. …According to the Bar Harbor Record of Wednesday, Nov. 6, 1895 A large number of people from all parts of the town of Tremont gathered at Southwest Harbor …To return to the library dedication, after the presentation of the keys, the Bar Harbor Record says that the greater part of the assembly went to Tremont …She would leave in mid-May to operate her Mount Desert Bookstore in Bar Harbor, while a summer librarian filled in.
Digital Archive posters created by COA students
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Advertising, Poster
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
  • 2019-02
  • In Copyright
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...In 2019 graphic arts students at the College of the Atlantic in Bar Harbor created these posters to promote the Digital Archive...
The Civilian Conservation Corps
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Organizations, Civic
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • 2015-03-13
  • In Copyright
The Civilian Conservation Corps
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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2015-03-13 The Civilian Conservation Corps.pdf
…One was the Eagle Lake Camp, 154th Company, located in Bar Harbor at the current site of Park headquarters. …The second was the Great Pond Camp, 158th Company, located in Southwest Harbor near Long Pond (formerly Great Pond). …Just outside the Park boundary, it likely was on the site of the former CCC camp in Southwest Harbor.