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| Bar Harbor and the Porcupine Islands from the Pulpit Rock Trail, Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Bar Harbor and the Porcupine Islands from the Pulpit Rock Trail, Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: This photo was taken from almost the same spot as a photo by W.H Ballard in October 1935. See Item 11895 for the Ballard photo. The cruise ship in the distance is the "MS Maasdam," a Holland America cruise ship built in 1993 by Italy’s Fincantieri Shipyards. She was named for a dam located on the Maas River in the Netherlands. “Maasdam” is an S class 10 deck cruise ship, 721.78’ long, 101.50 beam, 131.23’ high with a 24.93’ draught. She carries a crew of 580 and 1,258 passengers at a speed of 22 knots. [show more] |
| Bar Harbor and the Porcupine Islands from the Pulpit Rock Trail, Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Bar Harbor and the Porcupine Islands from the Pulpit Rock Trail, Acadia National Park Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: I was inspired to take this photograph by Ballard's image (item 11895) of this same scene. -- George Soules |
| The Cross on Flying Mountain, Acadia National Park - a Mystery Unraveled Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Cross on Flying Mountain, Acadia National Park - a Mystery Unraveled Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-10-22 The Cross on Flying Mountain, Acadia National Park -- a Mystery Unraveled.pdf …Eyebolts Cut rod and brace What these iron relics are is revealed in a 1924 Bar Harbor Times photograph, which shows a cross on top of Flying Mountain …"*2 Bar Harbor Times The wooden cross was designed for Aimee (Rotch) Sargent, wife of Winthrop Sargent, summer residents of Northeast Harbor, by the …Saviour Episcopal Church in Bar Harbor and other structures on Mount Desert Island. …*Footnotes: 1 Bar Harbor Times, March 19, 1924, p. 3. 2 Eliot retired as president of Harvard in 1909, a position he had held for 40 years. | |
| Skiing on Mount Desert Island - a Look Back Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Skiing on Mount Desert Island - a Look Back Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-02-24 Skiing on Mount Desert Island -- a Look Back.pdf …This type of chancy skiing changed somewhat in 1936 with the establishment of a formal downhill enterprise on McFarland Hill in Bar Harbor. …McFarland Field today looking north to McFarland Hill *Footnotes: 1 These downhill venues are mentioned in numerous Bar Harbor Times articles of the MDI …from the summit to the Featherbed; and the old carriage road refers to the historic buckboard road that once ran from Eagle Lake Road to the summit. 2 Bar …Harbor Times, December 19, 1940, p.1. 3 Bar Harbor Times, September 12, 1940, p.1. 4 A special thanks to Messrs. | |
| Acadia National Park's Little-Known Mountain Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Acadia National Park's Little-Known Mountain Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2014-06-04 Acadia National Park's Little-Known Mountain.pdf …In 1896 it was changed to "Dan Brewers Mt" on the Bar Harbor Village Improvement Association's Bates-Rand-Jaques Path Map of the Eastern Part of Mount …In 1866 he built the first hotel on it, the Mountain House, overlooking Bar Harbor from its prominent 1530' summit. | |
| New Facts Concerning the Cross on Flying Mountain Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  New Facts Concerning the Cross on Flying Mountain Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2015-01-26 New Facts Concerning the Cross on Flying Mountain.pdf …Thanks to Hannah Stevens, archivist at the Northeast Harbor Library, and a letter she discovered in records of The Knowles Company founder Belle Smallidge …Lewis, a Philadelphian, and Cromwell, a New Yorker, both Northeast Harbor summer residents, were members of a committee attempting to acquire the mountains …Cornelius Smith and his wife Mary Wheeler who were pioneers of the summer colony at Northeast Harbor 1886-1913." …Cooksey Drive; the memorial was moved in the 1970s to a spot near the Route 3 entrance to the Day Mountain path]) and Eliza Lee Homans of Boston and Bar | |
| Great Head, Sand Beach and J. P. Morgan Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Great Head, Sand Beach and J. P. Morgan Southwest Harbor Public Library File Attachment: 2013-02-05 Great Head, Sand Beach and J. P. Morgan.pdf …Morgan did vacation in Maine in 1875, when he and Fanny visited Bar Harbor and stayed at the newly extended Rodick hotel, then Bar Harbor's largest. …He enjoyed steaming from New York to Bar Harbor aboard his yacht, Corsair, and would take her around to Northeast Harbor to attend church services and …In 1897, as the 16th commodore of the New York Yacht Club, Morgan organized the first-ever cup event from NYC to Bar Harbor. …Bar Harbor, ME: Acadia Publishing Co., 1997. 3 The History of the New York Yacht Club, (pub. by the NYYC). 1975. 4 Bar Harbor Record, August 11, 1897. |