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| The Passamaquoddy Encampment at Bar Harbor Newspaper Article Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Passamaquoddy Encampment at Bar Harbor Newspaper Article Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| 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. | |
| Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Nellie Carroll Thornton descended from early settlers of Southwest Harbor and was related, in one way or another, to practically all of her neighbors...Nellie was the author of the SWH social column in the Bar Harbor Times from c. 1921 until c. 1958...Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton (Nellie C...It was reproduced in 1988 by the Southwest Harbor Public Library and digitized in 2010... File Attachment: Thornton - Traditions and Records SWH.pdf …Purington of Bar Harbor and prayer by Rev. …The first message sent over the telegraph line from Bar Harbor to Bangor was "From the Mayor of Bar Harbor to the Mayor of Bangor Eden sends a telegraphic …., borrowed a boat of a neighbor and started for Bar Harbor. …Bar Harbor in the eighteen eighties. | |
| 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. | |
| Obituary for Chester E. Clement Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Obituary for Chester E. Clement Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...Clement of Southwest Harbor, aged about sixty, died at the Mount Desert hospital at Bar Harbor late Saturday afternoon from the effects of an automobile...Neal from Southwest Harbor and also aid from a garage... | ||
| Asticou's Island Domain: Wabanaki Peoples at Mount Desert Island 1500-2000. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Asticou's Island Domain: Wabanaki Peoples at Mount Desert Island 1500-2000. Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: 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] File Attachments: 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 Stanleys of Cranberry Isles…and Other Colorful Characters. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Stanleys of Cranberry Isles…and Other Colorful Characters. Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: ...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... File Attachment: 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. | |
| Eden Hall: Summer Home of T.B. Musgrave Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Eden Hall: Summer Home of T.B. Musgrave Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Obituary of Nettie C. (Allen) Higgins Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Obituary of Nettie C. (Allen) Higgins Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| 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 | ||
| Captain John Theodore Stanley Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| 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. |
| Mount Desert Island, and the Cranberry Isles. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Mount Desert Island, and the Cranberry Isles. Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: DODGE_-_SAWYERS_-_MT._DESERT_ISLAND_-_1871_B.pdf …Salsbury; Bar Harbor, l\[i-;s Reynold;;. The Steamer Lewiston, Ca11t. …Reynold.-; , Bar Harbor, East Eden. Teachers. Gideon 1\fa, o, Edgar W. iiiggins. …Desert) for Bar Harbor and South West Harbor. Freight Taken at Reasonable Rates. …SAUVEUR, , I BAR HARBOR, - - - - - - EAST EDEN. 1t1aine. | |
| 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. | |
| The House that Ruth and Eleanor Built Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The House that Ruth and Eleanor Built Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 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 |
| Gotts Island Maine - Its People 1880-1992 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Gotts Island Maine - Its People 1880-1992 Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: An account of the summer visitors and native population on Gotts Island starting in the 1890's, the book describes the island experience, the families, and changes that took place over the next 100 years. File Attachment: Gotts Island Maine - Kenway.pdf …Reportedly, one of his guests was President Taft who had come to Bar Harbor to play golf. The mansion burned during the Bar Harbor fire in 1947. …Bar Harbor showed little change. July 4. …On Aug. 19, they look an auto to Southwest Harbor and the train boat to Bar Harbor. …Only a duffel bag was found off Egg Rock , Bar 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. | |
| Edith Hamilton Lanman, Newspaper Article Written by LaRue Spiker Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Edith Hamilton Lanman, Newspaper Article Written by LaRue Spiker Southwest Harbor Public Library |