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| 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. | |
| 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... | ||
| The Maine Fire Story Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  The Maine Fire Story Northeast Harbor Library Description: ...Article about the 1947 fire that destroyed Bar Harbor... | |||
| Surprising Revelations: Intimacies in the Letters Between Charles W. Eliot, George B. Dorr & John D. Rockefeller Jr. Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Surprising Revelations: Intimacies in the Letters Between Charles W. Eliot, George B. Dorr & John D. Rockefeller Jr. Jesup Memorial Library Description: ...Epp on August 10, 2016, at the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor, Maine... | |
| Homage to a Forgotten Giant Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  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 |
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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. | |
| 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 | ||
| The Dandelion Ladies Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  The Dandelion Ladies Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: The Dandelion Ladies-uncompressed.pdf …suggests, it sits hill at the outermost edge of the island, a quiet little presence one passes through on the way to visit the liveli er attractions of Bar …Harbor, Southwest Harbor, or picture-perfect Somesville. …turns her buckets full of blossoms into bright yellow, lemony-sweet jelly or chewy gumdrops that she gives away as gifts or sells in her craft shop in Bar …Harbor. | |||
| Who Killed Captain Rumill? Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Who Killed Captain Rumill? Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Who Killed Captain Rumill-uncompressed.pdf …Dressed in the larger island towns of Southwest Harbor in his traveling clothes and carrying several and Bar Harbor. large canvas duffel bags, the captain …Nor are ship. massive blocks of ice from Long Pond sluiced This was one of the captain s shorter as down into the harbor to be carried off by sailing …They had then tried as best they could to keep the under-crewed, captain DARK HARBOR HOUSE less vessel on course until they sighted On the Island of | |||
| 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. | |
| 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. |
| 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. | |
| 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. | |
| Variety of Indian Relics Unearthed at Gouldsboro Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Variety of Indian Relics Unearthed at Gouldsboro Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Variety of Indian Relics Unearthed at Gouldsboro-uncompressed.pdf …The Indian women to Bar Harbor, the Passama- a)S0 made many ornaments from quoddy Indians used the French- bone some of the beads show mau s Bay region …Dug For Relics Lloyd Fernald of Gouldsboro mound- it is probable that the worked for the Robert Abbe Mu i dead were among the first Indians seum in Bar …Harbor for several i to visit this region. | |||
| 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. | |
| The Ancient Remains at Pemaquid, Maine: Some Observations Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  The Ancient Remains at Pemaquid, Maine: Some Observations Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Ancient Remains at Pemaquid-uncompressed.pdf …Bar Harbor, ME 04609-1727 THE ANCIENT REMAINS AT PEMAQUID, MAINE Some Observations By Warren K. …The inner harbor is quite protected and the early inhabitants selected this sheltered spot. …The large ocean craft of these days, for obvious reasons, 1 require a deeper and larger harbor. …The reverse is true of Portland, Bar Harbor and other ports. All of this must be taken into consideration in a study of Pemaquid. | |||
| Relics of Red Paint People Discovered on Indian Island Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Relics of Red Paint People Discovered on Indian Island Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: Relics of Red Paint People-uncompressed.pdf …Walter Brown Smith of Bar Harbor has also written an il lustrated bulletin called The Lost Red Paint People of Maine. | |||
| The Red-Paint People of Maine Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  The Red-Paint People of Maine Jesup Memorial Library File Attachment: The Red Paint People of Maine-uncompressed.pdf …., 15, 1913 Most of the cemeteries thus far discovered are near tidewater, and range from the valley of the Kennebec eastward as far as Bar Harbor. | |||
| The Concept of Tribal Separation as rationalized in Indian Folklore Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  The Concept of Tribal Separation as rationalized in Indian Folklore Northeast Harbor Library Description: Reprinted from "Pennsylvania Archeologist", Vol. XVI, No. 3 |