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| The Kellams Rowed Their Dory, Tracing An Island Story Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Kellams Rowed Their Dory, Tracing An Island Story Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...The Bar Harbor Times, February 2, 2011... File Attachment: 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. | |
| Has Come Here for 68 Summers: A.L. Higgins Tells of Henry Rand's First Visits Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Has Come Here for 68 Summers: A.L. Higgins Tells of Henry Rand's First Visits Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Bar Harbor Times clipping--A.L. Higgins tells of the Rands coming to Eden circa 1866... | ||
| Museum Traces Island's History - Abbe Museum Blends Ruth Moore Poetry With Great Gott Island Artifacts Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Museum Traces Island's History - Abbe Museum Blends Ruth Moore Poetry With Great Gott Island Artifacts Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...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... File Attachment: 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 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. …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. | |
| A Cheese-shaped Building Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  A Cheese-shaped Building Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: A Bangor Daily News article about an urban legend hiding in plain sight. File Attachment: 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 Bar …Harbor 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. |
| Annabelle's: Untying the Apron Strings at a "Backside" Institution Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Annabelle's: Untying the Apron Strings at a "Backside" Institution Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Annabells Sept 1990 - 2.pdf …Harbor, she was also pretty dam sure where it would be. …Harbor Times, September 20, 1990 T' The Bar Harbor Times Page C2 September 20 , 1990 Annabelle fgS? …Ann 667-6961 OeafoocC O tcE ^ WSTAURANT I ON BASS HARBOR ENJOY OUR FOOD IN A FRIENDLY, INFORMAL SETTING Nestled on the Harbor in a quiet Maine fishing …State: - Saturday we win be closed U am 6 pm for a private party The Bar Harbor Times, BOX 68, Bar Harbor, Maine 04609 Name: School SATURDAY NIGHT |
| The Revenue Man - Catching Smugglers During Prohibition Was Tough Work Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Revenue Man - Catching Smugglers During Prohibition Was Tough Work Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 14997.pdf …His records, from which much of the following is taken, show that he sometimes walked from Southwest Harbor to Somesville and Bar Harbor. …to several Bar Harbor summer residents, namely a Miss Coles, Arthur C. …In one of his letters, Inspector Higgins wrote that Bar Harbor had more bootleggers and rumrunners than any other town in the county. …Higgins felt like a wanted man and carried a revolver as it was rumored that the Bar Harbor rumrunners had contracted with someone in Boston to take him | ||
| Fire, Obliteration, Mission 66, and Park Trails Program, 1943-2003 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Fire, Obliteration, Mission 66, and Park Trails Program, 1943-2003 Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Excerpt from Pathmakers: Cultural Landscape Report for the Historic Hiking Trail System of Mount Desert Island, pgs. 149-156 File Attachment: Effects_of_the_1947_Fire.pdf …However, as recorded in Bar Harbor or maintenance of the trails. …Norton had also been a member of the towards Hulls Cove and Bar Harbor and south over CCC trails crew at the Great [Long] Pond Camp. …For several years, Norm Walls and his crew divided their time between the NPS and the Bar Harbor VIA. …Path in Bar Harbor, a challenging task as the area was often hard-hit by winter storms. | |
| Henry L. Rand: Photographer & Visual Diarist Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Henry L. Rand: Photographer & Visual Diarist Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: 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 File Attachment: 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. |
| The Coit Excursion Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Coit Excursion Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: An account of the third “Coit Family” steamer excursion from Worcester, Massachusetts, this third trip does not seem to have involved the family though known by their name as they had started the excursions in earlier years. Descriptions of stops made by the steamer were written by various authors. File Attachment: Coit_Excursion_1870.pdf …His description of his visit to Bar Harbor is clear and his style delightful. American House, Belfast, Me., August 4, 1870. …South West Harbor is in Tremont. Bar Harbor, our stopping place, and the favorite resort, is in Eden. …Bar Harbor takes its name from a sand-bar at its head, across which the high tide swells, but along which at low water one may walk or drive to Bar Island …The cosy harbor is protected by forbidding names. | ||
| George Bucknam Dorr - the Father of Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  George Bucknam Dorr - the Father of Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 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. | |
| Gotts Island, Maine by Jane M. Holmes Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Gotts Island, Maine by Jane M. Holmes Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2029-001.pdf …Gotts Island lies one mile south of Bass Harbor Light at the end of Bass Harbor Bar, but it is three miles from the landing at Bass Harbor to the only …The third son married soon after and settled on Bar Island, now known as Little Gotts Island. …Here she lived all year around from 1910 to 1925, with occasional trips to Bar Harbor to visit relatives. …Many famous ministers took services while summering at Bar Harbor and Northeast Harbor. |
| Atwater Kent - Inventor, Industrialist and Philanthropist Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Atwater Kent - Inventor, Industrialist and Philanthropist Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 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. | |
| The Mayflower and Mount Desert Island Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Mayflower and Mount Desert Island Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Ralph Stanley has researched the people he knew on Mount Desert Island and their common ancestors who were Mayflower passengers and their descendents. File Attachment: Pilgrims - The Mayflower and Mount Desert Island.pdf …Eben Hamor in his History of Bar Harbor lists thirteen families from Eastham that were settled in Eden before 1779. …Israel Higgins took up land at Bar Harbor about 1771 and was living there with his wife and their son, Henry, then two years old. …branch of the Bar Harbor Banking and Trust Co. until she retired, Lawrence B. …Richardson, who now lives at Bar Harbor, Constance (Robbins) Stanley of Southwest Harbor and Jaylene Roths, former director of the Mount Desert Island | |
| Newman's legacy, and his boats, will sail on Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Newman's legacy, and his boats, will sail on Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Article about legendary boatbuilder Jarvis Newman. File Attachment: 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. | |
| A Biography of Ruth Moore of Gott’s Island, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  A Biography of Ruth Moore of Gott’s Island, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Reprinted in The Newsletter of the Tremont Historical Society - 2007-2008. File Attachment: 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. | |
| Public Gets Rare Glimpse at Historic Acadia Gatekeeper’s Home Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Public Gets Rare Glimpse at Historic Acadia Gatekeeper’s Home Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: An account of a rare open house at one of the two Gate Lodges in Acadia National Park. File Attachment: 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 Bar …Harbor. …According to Anne Funderburk, a Seal Harbor resident with extensive knowledge of the village s history, Rockefeller went to great lengths to have the | |
| Chris's Pond: A Town's Memories are Etched in Ice Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Chris's Pond: A Town's Memories are Etched in Ice Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: Lawlor - Chris Pond.pdf …Chris's Pond: A Town's Memories Are Etched In Ice by Nan Lincoln The Bar Harbor Times - January, 12, 1989 A cherry-cheeked child skitters by, her bright …Skating on Chris's Pond has been a cherished winter memory for Southwest Harbor residents for decades. …In summer Chris Lawlor would drain the pond by pulling a plug, allowing the stagnant water to run down the hill into Southwest Harbor. …Uncle Bill Something else is different about the little pond on a hill overlooking Southwest Harbor. | |
| Article About Rich and Grindle Boatbuilders Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Article About Rich and Grindle Boatbuilders Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Adapted from an article by Meredith Rich Hutchins for the Mount Desert Islander – July 7, 2005 File Attachment: Rich and Grindle Boatbuilders.pdf …1946 my father, Roger Rich, and Ralph Grindle went into the boat building business together in Southwest Harbor. …Ralph got back to Southwest Harbor in May 1949, but his days of climbing in and out of boats were over. …A few days later the Hamlins left Southwest Harbor for their homeport in Stamford, CT. …Whenever I went to his market in Bar Harbor to buy fish, Snicker would ask after my father and I never told him I wasn t quite reconciled to the name |