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Bar Harbor Burning
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Bar Harbor Burning
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…I REMEMBER Bar Harbor Burning A letter borne from the front lines of the Great Fire of 47 captures the enormity of the historic blaze. …In the living room three big win dows looked out over the bay and across to Bar Harbor. …We had planned to head for Bar Harbor to help out there, but we had to wait until the road reopened. …As we moved toward Bar Harbor we passed hundreds of fires burning on either side of the road.
Bar Harbor Burns
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Bar Harbor Burns
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…WHIPPED BY 50-MILE-AN-HOUR WINDS WHICH MADE FIRE FIGHTING ALMOST IMPOSSIBLE, LEAPING FLAMES MAKE SHORT WORK OF BAR HARBOR BURNS $25 million forest fire …Desert Island, Maine, encircled the famed summer-resort town of Bar Harbor. …As the refugees pulled out, they could look, over AN ABANDONED SUMMER MANSION their shoulders and watch Bar Harbor s colony of palatial estates go …WHILE HOUSE BLAZES LIKE CARDBOARD BOX (BELOW), FLAMES SPREAD THROUGH TREES TO CONTINUE MARCH DOWN BAR HARBOR S MlLLIONAIRES ^ROW (OPPOSITE)
The Bar Harbor Express
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The Bar Harbor Express
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…Accordingly, on June 27, 1887, the Maine Central gave the Bar Harbor Express a companion, which was named the Bar Harbor Limited. …At left is the Bar Harbor Express leaving Mount Desert Ferry about the year 1925. …That means was the Bar Harbor Express. …there may some day be an other Bar Harbor Express of 15 Pullmans and a diner.
The Bar Harbor Fire
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The Bar Harbor Fire
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…THE BAR HARBOR FIRE (Taken from Mount Desert - The Host Beautiful Island In The World by Sargent Collier) The great fire of 1947 was a crucible …Exhausted men eaugl.t brief naps on the floor of tho Bar Harbor Fire House, the command center, between calls to duty on the ever-shiting fire lines. …T The Paris Figaro on its front page screamed La ville de Bar Harbor est a deni detruite. …Le Figaro tried to imply that Bar Harbor had been fired by Maine peasants protesting great landed estates.
Tragedy in Bar Harbor
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Tragedy in Bar Harbor
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BAR HARBOR HISTORICAL SOCIETY What s in a Picture? …Tragedy in Bar Harbor HE dark-clad and tormented figure of Medea stands astride wooden folding chairs amid the semicircle indicates that a good the lower …forty Bar Harbor grand Building of the Arts, built with the support of such wellsummercators have even noticed the anachronistic attire. …Most of known summer names in Bar Harbor as Mrs.
Bertie Vamps Bar Harbor
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Bertie Vamps Bar Harbor
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…These pio neering Bar Harbor rusticators Photographs courtesy Bar Harbor Historical Society formed a bond of trust and like-mindedness unknown in other …Bar Harbor in the nineties earned its nickname, Little Paris. …Both local weekly newspapers, The Bar Harbor Record and The Bar Harbor Herald, did their bit by vying to see who could cover in greatest detail last night …Later, the eccentric owner During the summer of 92, the belle of Bar Harbor was the beautiful debutante, Suzy everyone in Bar Harbor.
Old Bar Harbor Days
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Old Bar Harbor Days
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…A Reception at the Pot and Kettle Club OLD BAR HARBOR DAYS fell in love with Bar Harbor at first sight. …Bar Harbor Times October 3, 1914 Saunderson, took us out on his launch right after breakfast and, as Mrs. …He had suggested Bar Harbor and offered to pilot the ship in, as he was familiar with the coast and harbor, having often steered his own steam yacht over …Fabbri had been coming to Bar Harbor often since a child with her family, the Elliott F. Shepards.
Bar Harbor: 40 Years Later
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Bar Harbor: 40 Years Later
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…Although the substantial Bar Harbor summer cottage of A. …who made Bar Harbor and near by villages their summer playground. …Most of downtown Bar Harbor was saved. …The story of the Bar Harbor fire ran as front-page news worldwide.
The Bar Harbor Auto War
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The Bar Harbor Auto War
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…Mahoney boldly drove his large touring car to the door of a Bar Harbor hotel. …This time Bar Harbor and neighboring Northeast Harbor cottagers came together in support of a bill calling for total exclusion of cars from all island …Within a few months a dozen adaptable Bar Harbor merchants were selling automobiles and supplies. …By that time some 300 cars were registered in Bar Harbor alone.
The Stotesbury's Bar Harbor Folly
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The Stotesbury's Bar Harbor Folly
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…She retained a personal fashplicity in his private Bar Harbor quarters. …When her Bar Harbor neighbor down the street, Mrs. …Three years later, the fur nishings of the Stotesburys Bar Harbor house went on the block. …Today the era of the grand cottage and the glittering social life that Bar Harbor once knew seem long ago.
Bar Harbor -From Eden to Tourism
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Bar Harbor -From Eden to Tourism
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…All photos courtesy of Bar Harbor Historical Society Bar Harbor, 1876. BAR HARBOR FROM EDEN TO TOURISM By Herbert J. …arriving at Bar Harbor about 9:30 the next morning. W 24 M Mt. Desert St w Harbor, ME 04609 Bar Harbor before the turn of the century. …The Bar Harbor Record of August 14, 1912, records that Mr. and Mrs. …Then the wind changed and saved Bar Harbor from complete destruction.
Bar Harbor: A Resort is Born
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Bar Harbor: A Resort is Born
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…the nation. 11 Panorama of the mountains at Bar Harbor, c. 1900.P/ioto courtesy of the Bar Harbor Historical Society. …Photo courtesy of the Bar Harbor His torical Society. successful oils that further pub licized Bar Harbor and Mount Des ert. …His kind words did Bar Harbor and Mount Desert no harm. Bar Harbor s traditional occupa tions rapidly gave way to the resort trades. …Photo courtesy of the Bar Harbor Historical Society.
Bar Harbor: 40 Years Later
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Bar Harbor: 40 Years Later
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I was a Bar Harbor Bellhop
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I was a Bar Harbor Bellhop
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…IWasa Bar Harbor Bellhop And oh, the things I saw before the war and the fire changed everything. By Franc Ladner. …NE summer day a few years ago I to the side-wheeler J.T. decided to drop by the Bar Harbor Morse for the last leg of the Historical Society s museum …Harbor. …My mother had been lucky enough to The Newport House had been built in grow up in Bar Harbor, a descendant of set 1869 just as Bar Harbor was gaining
When Hollywood Came to Bar Harbor
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When Hollywood Came to Bar Harbor
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…LL the make-believe glamour of Hollywood came to Bar Harbor in the summer of 1917, when one of its early stars, Annette Kellerman, arrived, ac companied …The arrival of the screen company was a godsend for Bar Harbor s merchants; it gave employment as well to townspeople who were hired on as extras. …One summer resident, John Ogden, in the interest of raising money for the Bar A When Hollywood Came to Bar Harbor In the summer of 1917, sea goddessesfrolicked …And, once, Annette Kellerman gave a special exhibition at the Bar Harbor Swimming Club for the benefit of the local hospital.
Bar Harbor Observes 150th Birthday
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A Natives Memories of Old Bar Harbor
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…True, we were barred from membership town citizens in the world were privileged to view in The Pot and Kettle Club and the Bar Harbor Club such magnificence …The site of the Bar Harbor Horse Show was presented in 1918 by Mrs. …Taft s visit to Bar Harbor, he played golf at the Kebo Valley Club, and did fairly well until he reached the 17th hole. …Gouldsboro, on Frenchman s Bay, (Atlantic Ocean) facing Bar Harbor, Acadia National Park and Mount Cadillac.
Baymeath and the Bar Harbor That Was
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…But how is the modern visitor to know this other, older Bar Harbor? …Like most Bar Harbor great houses, Baymeath was a reflection of its times generous, free-wheeling, and good. …The Bar Harbor Water Company had pronounced the estate too far from town to lay pipes. …Their coalition was typical of the old the other Bar Harbor.
RFC Declares Bar Harbor Area Disaster Area
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…While Guite supervises, Mary Clough receives a call from Kansas City inquiring about a friend at Bar Harbor. Mrs. Helen F. …Harbor) on a similar errand. …RFC Declares Bar Harbor Area Disaster Area (NEWS Washington Bureau) WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 While federal agencies marshaled aid to combat Maine …Harbor area a disaster area. | L.
Memories of Old Bar Harbor Mt. Desert Island
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…MEMORIES OF OLD There are not too many of us who remember Bar Harbor in its golden days, wonderful years when the splendid cottages and great hotels …By Cathleen Sherman Clayton I remember coming home to Bar Harbor on the steamboat J. T. Morse greeted by our dear friend Capt. …The Steamboat Landing, Bar Harbor Each summer we looked forward to horse shows at Robin Hood Park. …My brother, Albion, then owner of the Bar Harbor Times, would take me out for a visit, and the Captains gig would be sent for us.
Victory Road: the Proposed New Approach to Bar Harbor
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…Page 8 Bar Harbor Life V ictory Road The Proposed New Approach to Bar Harhor The accompanying plan is for a proposed new and suitable ap proach from …Companies wharves to the center of Bar Harbor village, beginning at these landing places and skirting the shorefront around Birch Point to the town lot …There need only to be a start made in the right direction an the ideals for Bar Harbor improvement may become realities for the hand is put to the plough …Let everyone who has the interest of Bar Harbor at heart this project constantly in his mind and before the people till it bec< an assured fact.
Bar Island Brouhaha
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Bar Island Brouhaha
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…A long-smoldering boundary dispute between Bar Harbor and Gouldsboro over a historic islet threatens to erupt in a Bar Island Brouhaha By Gladys O Neil …The case would have a moral one, says Bar Har arose when the town of Bar Harbor sued bor Town Manager Richard Plante. …One possibility in Porcupine Islands, of which Bar was one. volves annexation of the island by Bar In vain did Bar Harbor s lawyer argue Harbor, but …Ice, too, was sold from the Rodicks icehouses on the Bar Harbor shore.
Bar Harbor's Grant Park
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Bar Harbor's Grant Park
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BAR HARBOR S GRANT PARK by Gladys O'Neil It was love at first sight when Mrs. …had arrived in Bar Harbor in the summer of 1869 during a prolonged period of very foggy weather. …Grant had met Jock Darling, a woodsman from northern Hancock county, who came to Bar Harbor in the summer with his canoe to paddle people around the …an The building was remodeled attractive,modern hotel without using the Grant In 1950, the town was from the Bar Harbor Hotel.
Bar Harbors Great Cottages
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Bar Harbors Great Cottages
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…Thirty years before the coming of the millionaire cottagers in the 187Os-8Os, Bar Harbor was discovered by artists of the Hudson River school …Stotesbury's Bar Harbor home, Wingwood House," (upper right and below). …But from the 1890s the other showcase yachts riding at anchor in Bar Harbor on, with real estate booming and with an income tax yet waters. …By the late 1920s, Bar Harbor s period of platinum pleasures slowly began to decline.
Bar Harbor-A Wild Weird Tale of Love and Adventure
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