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The Kellams Rowed Their Dory, Tracing An Island Story
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • People
  • Vessels, Boat
  • Schreiber - Laurie Schreiber
  • 2011-02-02
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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...The Bar Harbor Times, February 2, 2011...


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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
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • People
  • 1934-12-26
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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...Bar Harbor Times clipping--A.L. Higgins tells of the Rands coming to Eden circa 1866...
Surprising Revelations: Intimacies in the Letters Between Charles W. Eliot, George B. Dorr & John D. Rockefeller Jr.
Jesup Memorial Library
  • Publication, Literary, Speech, Lecture
  • People
  • Epp - Ronald H. Epp
  • 2016-08-10
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
...Epp on August 10, 2016, at the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor, Maine...
Homage to a Forgotten Giant
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Literary, Memoir
  • People
  • Rev. Edwin Atlee Garret III
Homage to a Forgotten Giant
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
...Silas Weir Mitchell Mitchell and his wife Mary Cadwalader, began summer residency in Northeast Harbor...They relocated to Bar Harbor where his support helped in development of Acadia and the MDI Hospital...
Museum Traces Island's History - Abbe Museum Blends Ruth Moore Poetry With Great Gott Island Artifacts
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • People
  • Harbour - Kathy Harbour
  • 1994-05-28
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
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...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...


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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 BarHarbor - 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.
The Revenue Man - Catching Smugglers During Prohibition Was Tough Work
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • People
  • Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021)
  • In Copyright
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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
The Coit Excursion
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • People
  • 1870
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
The Coit Excursion
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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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.


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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
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • People
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • 2012-05-04
  • In Copyright
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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
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • People
  • Lenahan - Donald Patrick Lenahan
  • 2016-12-26
  • In Copyright
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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.
Newman's legacy, and his boats, will sail on
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Businesses, Boatbuilding Business
  • People
  • Hinckley - Sarah Hinckley
  • 2019-09-11
  • In Copyright
Newman's legacy, and his boats, will sail on
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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Article about legendary boatbuilder Jarvis Newman.


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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
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • People
  • Davisson - Sven Davisson
  • 2004
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Reprinted in The Newsletter of the Tremont Historical Society - 2007-2008.


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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.
The Concept of Tribal Separation as rationalized in Indian Folklore
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Other
  • People
  • Wendell S. Hadlock
  • 1946
Description:
Reprinted from "Pennsylvania Archeologist", Vol. XVI, No. 3