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You searched for: 'bar harbor'Date: 1990sPlace: Southwest HarborSubject: People
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  • Southwest Harbor
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  • Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Interview of Henry and Elizabeth Guthrie
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
  • 1991-08-31
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Interview of Henry and Elizabeth Guthrie
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...She also talks about taking the "Bar Harbor Express," a train from Washington D.C. up to a ferry which would complete the journey to Bar Harbor...The Guthries were always just summer people, but felt that they belonged in Southwest Harbor and were very complimentary of the people they met in town...
Interview of Ruth Grindle
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
  • 1992-01-06
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Interview of Ruth Grindle
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...Esther Rodick interviews Ruth Grindle who talks about her life in Southwest Harbor...Neither of her parents were originally from the area, but her father moved to Bar Harbor to work in a jewelry story before moving to Southwest Harbor to...Finally, she tells of how she finagled her way into meeting FDR when he visited Southwest Harbor...
Interview of Andrew Herrick
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Document, Recording, Audio Recording
  • People
  • 1991-02-07
  • Southwest Harbor
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Interview of Andrew Herrick
Southwest Harbor Public Library
Description:
...The first Herrick to stay was Isaac who ran a tide mill in Southwest Harbor. Andrew grew up in the house that Isaac built...Andrew drove a truck for a gas company, living in Bar Harbor and Ellsworth but was forced to stop that work in 1952 following a shoulder injury...He has many stories from his time in Southwest Harbor; the first car in the town, Beech Mountain priginally being called Herrick Mountain, finding bootleg...stories about Billy Tot, a man who worked as a cabin boy for Captain Norwood and eventually lived a primitive life on the edges of society near Southwest Harbor...