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Mount Desert Island Was A Breathless Discovery
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events
  • Other
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • LaRue Spiker
  • 8/12/1976
Development, Shaping the future of our communities
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Town
  • David Outerbridge
  • 8/23/1987
  • Mount Desert Island
Description:
A compilation of articles on the development of the Mount Desert Island area which appeared in the Bar Harbor Times between July 23 and August 27, 1987 (2 copies).
Mount Desert Island Visitor
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Nature
  • Places, Island
  • The Bar Harbor Times
  • 1970
  • Acadia National Park
Mount Desert Island Visitor
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Newspaper supplement published by the Bar Harbor Times covering sightseeing and activities on and around Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park. Volume 3, No. 3. Published on July 17, 1970.
Mount Desert Island's Worst Disaster
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events, Fire
  • Places, Island
  • 1964
  • Bar Harbor
Mount Desert Island's Worst Disaster
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Summary of the 1947 Fire on Mount Desert Island. Photograph of Clarence Cook Little and post-fire Jackson Lab. 2 copies.
Frenchboro: Preserved
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Nature
  • Places, Island
  • Jim Valette
  • 2000
  • Frenchboro
Frenchboro: Preserved
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Article about the efforts by the Maine Coast Heritage Trust to preserve the uninhabited part of Frenchboro. Published in the "Bar Harbor Times" on October 12, 2000.
Martha's Maine
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • John Golden
  • Nov-11
  • Mount Desert, Seal Harbor
Martha's Maine
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Copy of article of John Gordon's interview with Martha Stewart about living in Maine, what she likes to do, places she likes to go, and her love of her home, "Skylands", in Seal Harbor.
Allied Whale
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Nature, Animals
  • Places, Island
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • Ann Rivers, Steven Mullane
  • 1984
  • Mount Desert Rock
Allied Whale
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Article about the development and research of the cetacean program "Allied Whale" with its field station on Mount Desert Rock, run by Ann Rivers and Steve Mullane.
Lure of the Maine Coast
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • William Witherle
  • Oct-88
Lure of the Maine Coast
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Short biography of Fitz Hugh Lane and an excerpt from William Witherle's diary of a sailing trip with Lane and 4 other men from Castine to Mount Desert Island. Published in Down East Magazine, October 1988.
A Playground Contested; Bar Harbor Natives versus Rusticators, 1875-1925
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Other
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Lynne Nelson Manion
  • 2001
Description:
Copy of article by L. Manion submitted for publication in Island History Journal contrasting the economic and social life of summer and year-round residents of Mount Desert Island.
1999...Looking Back
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Other
  • Places, Island
  • 12/30/1999
1999...Looking Back
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Looking back on past 100 years on Mount Desert Island
Hancock County... a Rockbound Paradise
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Other
  • Places, Island
  • Places, Town
  • Connie Jellison
  • 1990
  • Mount Desert, Seal Harbor
Description:
Copy of book section about the history of Mount Desert, specifically Seal Harbor. Many Photographs: J. D. Rockefeller Jr. riding in car, building sidewalk at Seal Harbor Village Green, Otter Creek Sewing Circle, Hollis Wright's fur trapping barn.
History of Sutton Island Features Review of Early Settlers and Island Homes
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Other
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Structures, Dwellings
  • LaRue Spiker
  • 1938
  • Cranberry Isles, Sutton Island
Description:
August 20, 1938 Sutton Island history.
First Class Mail
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Organizations, Civic
  • Places, Island
  • Structures, Civic, Public, Post Office
  • Letitia Baldwin
  • 1994
  • Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island
First Class Mail
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Article about Little Cranberry Isle post office and postmaster Joy Sprague, who built a big business for this tiny post office with cream puffs and a personal touch. Published in Down East Magazine, December 1994.
Island graduate takes all honors
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Events
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Letitia Baldwin
  • June 10-11, 1995
  • Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island
Island graduate takes all honors
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Eighth-grader is sole participant in ceremony at Little Cranberry Island's graduation. She has spent her childhood on the island. She will attend Concord Academy next year.
Class Dismissed
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • Organizations, School Institution
  • Places, Island
  • Shawn O'Leary
  • 6/12/2000
  • Cranberry Isles, Great Cranberry Island
Class Dismissed
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Great Cranberry Island bids farewell to what could be its last two pupils. Keith & Heath Wedge were the only two students attending school there & Keith graduated.
Rachel Field of the Cranberry Isles
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Herbert Edwards
  • 1971
  • Cranberry Isles
Rachel Field of the Cranberry Isles
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Short biography of Rachel Field's life on Sutton Island and nearby Cranberry Islands and how her environment influenced her writing. Published in Down East Magazine, August 1971.
Stories of Cranberry Isles Capt. Eugene Stanley
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Daniel H. Ham
  • 1936
  • Cranberry Isles
Description:
Writings about Captain Eugene Stanley from Sutton Island.
Sutton Island: From Year-round to Summer Colony
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Places, Island
  • Carl Little
  • 1995
  • Cranberry Isles, Sutton Island
Description:
Article published, in part, by the Island Institute. This is Mr. Little's complete article of the development of Sutton Island from a working class, year-round place to a summer enclave. Story begins with an account of John Gilley.
Piper Prince of the Cranberry Isles
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Carl Little
  • 1991
  • Cranberry Isles, Little Cranberry Island, Islesford
Piper Prince of the Cranberry Isles
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Short biography of Islesford's resident artist and storyteller, Ashley Bryan with focus on his life and home on Cranberry Island. Published in Down East Magazine, December 1991.
The Bar Harbor Auto War
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Places, Island
  • Transportation, Automobile
  • Richard A. Savage
  • 1975
  • Mount Desert Island
The Bar Harbor Auto War
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Article about the conflict when the automobile was introduced to Mount Desert Island. Published in Down East Magazine, August 1975.
Gardens by the Sea
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Places, Garden
  • Places, Island
  • Ogden Tanner
  • 1984
Gardens by the Sea
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Article with photographs of several formal gardens, public and private, on Mount Desert Island. Beatrix Jones Farrand, renowned landscape architect, designed as many as 40 gardens on the island. Published in Connoisseur, August 1984.
The Last WASP Enclave
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Places, Island
  • John Sedgwick
  • Sep-91
The Last WASP Enclave
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
On MDI, off the coast of Maine, our man observes the Rockefellers at rest and decides to go native. The description of Island & customs are great. Published on GQ, September 1991
Henry Buxton says
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Henry Buxton
Henry Buxton says
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
A clipping from a newspaper article about Mrs. Harriet M. Lyman, 80, who saw Mt. Desert Develop from Fishing Villages to World-famed Resort, also a Photograph of Mrs. Lyman.
Adventures on Mount Desert
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Businesses, Other Business
  • Places, Island
  • John Cole
  • Jul-95
Adventures on Mount Desert
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Buckboards and down-home cooking were the chief creature comforts for island visitors in the decade before the great hotels and cottages began to crowd the scene. Published in Down East Magazine, July 1995
Patriarchal Picnics
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Frances Hopkinson Eliot
  • 1940-1950
Patriarchal Picnics
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Frances Eliot reminisces in this essay of summer days in Northeast Harbor with Charles Eliot, President of Harvard Univ. (her father-in-law). She was the wife of Rev. Samuel Eliot.