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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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  • swhpl-12784
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  • Reference
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  • Events
  • Organizations, Civic, 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
Vesta E. (Spear) McRae House and Original Bass Harbor Library
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
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  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Tremont, Bernard
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Vesta E. (Spear) McRae House and Original Bass Harbor Library
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • swhpl-13420
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  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
  • Structures, Civic, Library
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
Place:
  • Tremont, Bernard
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Vesta E. (Spear) McRae House and Original Bass Harbor Library.pdf
…Spear McRae (1842-1916) The first Bass Harbor Library was begun by Vesta E. (Spear) McRae, Mrs. …The new library and free reading room at Bass Harbor supplies a long-felt want in the community. Last autumn Mrs. G.M. …- The Bar Harbor Record, January 9, 1901. …In 1909 the Bass Harbor Library in Bernard, Mrs. V. E.