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The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor
Southwest Harbor Public Library
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  • Events
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
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...In 1892 the ladies of Southwest Harbor gathered together to raise money for land upon which to build a library building and then reported how they raised...their dollar..The Dollar Social was the first fundraising event held for the Southwest Harbor Public Library and the poem describing it was famous in...

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…The Dollar Social At Southwest Harbor The Southwest Harbor Public library was founded in 1884. …Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 115. …"The Dollar Social At Southwest Harbor" describes how each woman earned her dollar. …Tracy, our Republican friend, took a bribe, I'm sorry to state, For her husband promised her a dollar if she would help him illuminate, So she sacrificed bar