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Political History: Old Political War Horse Tells of a Hot Battle
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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Article by Dr. R. L. Grindle about the election contest which was between four candidates: Milliken of Belfast, Burleigh and Manley of Augusta, Andrew P. Wswell of Ellsworth. Burleigh's convincing his supporters to vote for Milliken who would later win the nomination.
Political History II: Old Political War Horse Tells of a Hot Battle
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Article
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Article by Dr. R. L. Grindle about the election of Milliken as a congressman but died before his term was up. Grindle also gives some more thoughts on the other candidates at the time.
Hereditary Greatness
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • June 22, 1925
Hereditary Greatness
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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Article by Dr. R. L. Grindle about Toddy Pond and its historical and present day usage, father making log rafts to get logs to the mills, herediary greatness, ancestor Edmund Grindle and his son, back to talking about Toddy Pond.
A Sea Yarn: A Gale on the Cape Shore of Nova Scotia
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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A Sea Yarn: A Gale on the Cape Shore of Nova Scotia
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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Article by Dr. R. L. Grindle about describing a storm off the shore of Nova Scotia while he was on a fishing schooner Nimrod.
Religion and Politics: Subjects of Lively meetings in Surry Seventy years ago.
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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  • Unknown
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Article by Dr. R. L. Grindle about various persons in the town of Surry, Maine and their political views and political meetings which took place.
Tales of the Sea, of Religion and of Temprence
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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  • Unknown
Tales of the Sea, of Religion and of Temprence
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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Article by Dr. R. L. Grindle about traveling on a schooner to deliver a load of lumber milled on the edge of Patten's Pond, Trips his Uncle Ben had made on various schooners, meetings of the Temprence movement. Three Copies.
Summers at the Eyrie
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Ellen MacDonald Ward
  • August 1996
Summers at the Eyrie
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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Summer home of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and his family. Describes family life, gardens, interior furnishings. House was demolished c. 1963.