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Wasp's Nest
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Places, Town
  • Alison Oneacre
  • 2003
  • Mount Desert
Wasp's Nest
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Article about residents of Mount Desert Island's Seal Harbor and Northeast Harbor elite. Photographs by Jennifer Livingston. Published in "WMagazine", October 2003.
Brooke Astor's Cove End, Summers on Mount Desert in Maine
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Structures, Dwellings
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Susan Mary Alsop
  • Jul-96
Description:
An article about Brooke Astor's summer home. Interior Design by Mark Hampton, & Nancy Pierrepont. Landscape Architecture by Morgan Wheelock. Photography by B. Brink.
Edsel Ford's Bright Idea - Mount Desert joins the War effort
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Other
  • People
  • Letitia Baldwin
  • 1995
Description:
Down East Magazine article about Edsel Fords's plan to keep an army of Mainers employed during World War II. Published June 1995.
Marguerite Yourcenar: After 300 years, a woman writer (from Maine, "Mon Dieu"), joins "The Immortals" of France
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Other
  • People
  • Magda Palacci Bleier
  • 1980
Description:
Article about writer Marguerite Yourcenar's acceptance as first woman into the Académie Française. Published in People Magazine, May 5, 1980.
Petite Plaisance
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • Agnes Bushell
  • July 1999
Petite Plaisance
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Article about Marguerite Yourcenar with photographs of her home where she lived with her companion Grace Frick since 1950.
Yourcenar House, Northeast Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • Christopher Glass
  • 2004
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Yourcenar House, Northeast Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Short article about the simple architecture and interior design of the Marguerite Yourcenar house in Northeast Harbor Yourcenar house, "Petite Plaisance," on Shore Road in Northeast Harbor. Photographs.
Bowdoin remembers: Marguerite Yourcenar 1903-1987
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Other
  • People
  • 1988
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
Short article remembering French Academy writer Marguerite Yourcenar. "For 40 years, one of the most respected French writers of the century lived in a small resort town in Maine - and from time to time visited Bowdoin." Published in Bowdoin magazine, Spring 1988. Vol. 61, No. 3 - An issue devoted to writers.
Maine's Little-Known 'Immortal"
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Other
  • People
  • Jordan Pecile
  • 1982
Maine's Little-Known 'Immortal"
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Short article about French Academy writer Marguerite Yourcenar's quiet life in Northeast Harbor. Published in Down East Magazine, October 1982.
Four Special Summer Places: 1 Northeast Harbor, Maine's snuggest harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Organizations
  • People
  • Places, Town
  • Lorna Livingston
  • 1985
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
Article about many Northeast Harbor summer and year-round families (Mellon, Milliken, Peabody, Strawbridge), organizations (Cranberry Club) and places in town. Published in Town & Country, July 1985.
Bass Harbor Head Light
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • LaRue Spiker
  • 1982
  • Maine
Bass Harbor Head Light
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Article about Bass Harbor Lighthouse published in "The Islander Magazine", July 1982 Item also contains a chronology of Bass Harbor Head Light (photocopy).
Shore Village Museum, Rockland, Maine
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Structures, Civic, Exhibition, Museum
  • Structures, Transportation, Lighthouse
  • Ken Black, Bill Caldwell, Ivy W. Dodd
  • 1981-83
  • Maine
Description:
Several publications regarding the Shore Village Museum in Rockland, Maine: - "Lighthouse Keeper's Lament", by Ken Black, May 7, 1981 - "The Pilot Psalm", by Ken Black - "Rockland Museum displays Petit Manan Light lens", by Ken Black, March 6, 1983 - "Maine's Lighthouse Museum", by Bill Caldwell, Portland Press Herald, April 3, 1983 - "Lighthouse postcard collection 'mushrooming', says museum here", by Ivy W. Dodd, The Courier Gazette, September 3, 1983 [show more]
Francis Hector Clergue, Super Developer
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Charles Francis
  • 2006
Description:
Short biography of Francis Clergue of Brewer, ME who began the development of Bar Harbor (and MDI) as a tourist center. He built the cog railway up Cadillac Mount (then Green Mountain). Published in "Discover Maine", volume 3, issue 7, 2006.
Tea and Popovers
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Russell Butcher
  • July 1970
  • Acadia National Park, Jordan Pond
Tea and Popovers
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Article about Jordan Pond House published in Down East Magazine, July 1970.
The "Grandes Dames" Who Grace America
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Toni Frissell
  • 1968
Description:
Article published in Life Magazine in 1968 about 9 prominent ladies of American high society: Mrs. T. Charlton Henry Mrs. Christopher Temple Emmet Mrs. Edgard B. Stern Mrs. Nicholas Longworth Mrs. Harper Sibley Mrs. Malcom Peabody Mrs. August Belmont Mrs. Lytle Hull Mrs. Thomas Armstrong
Inspired by China: An interview with Joe Tracy
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Events
  • People
  • John Lavine
  • Feb-07
Description:
Joe Tracy, furniture designer and crafter of Somesville, is interviewed following an exhibition of Chinese furniture at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. He details the making of his presentation of a cabinet based on a Chinese tangram.
The Redoubtable Lady of Reef Point
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Anne Raver
  • 1985
  • Bar Harbor
The Redoubtable Lady of Reef Point
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Biography of Beatrix Farrand with focus on the development Reef Point gardens, her summer home in Bar Harbor. Published in Down East Magazine in July 1985.
Re-User Friendly
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • Bonnie P. Sawyer
  • 1996
  • Bar Harbor
Re-User Friendly
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
"Breakwater", a Fred Savage designed summer cottage in Bar Harbor, originally built for John E. Kane in l904,is turned into a bed and breakfast home.
1947 Fire
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Events, Fire
  • 1997
  • Bar Harbor
1947 Fire
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
1: Bar Harbor Burning. Reprint of a letter from U. Maine, Orono, student to his father in NJ about the l947 Bar Harbor fire which he and fraternity brothers helped fight. 2: The Big Fire by Parson Williams and Mrs. Williams 3: Bar Harbor 40 Years Later
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.
The Redoubtable Lady of Reef Point
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Places, Garden
  • Anne Raver
  • 1985
  • Bar Harbor
The Redoubtable Lady of Reef Point
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Short biography of Beatrix Farrand - her family background, her education, her focus on her Reef Point Gardens in Bar Harbor, and her landscape projects, including the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller garden in Seal Harbor. Published in Down East Magazine, July 1985.
Maine's Rockbound Classic
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Structures, Dwellings
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Ellen MacDonald Ward
  • 1989
  • Mount Desert, Seal Harbor
Maine's Rockbound Classic
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Description, with photographs, of the Walter Harrison designed house "Anchorage" built in 1939 for Nelson Rockefeller in Seal Harbor. Owned by Dodie Ford in l979. Published in Down East Magazine, August 1989.
The Gardens of Mt. Desert Island
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Places, Garden
  • Elizabeth Hulbert
  • Sep-79
  • Mount Desert Island
The Gardens of Mt. Desert Island
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Brief article of the significance of landscaped gardens on MDI. Colored photographs of a few private gardens in Northeast Harbor and Seal Harbor. Published in Down East Magazine, September 1979.
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Places, Garden
  • Paula Deitz
  • Feb-85
  • Mount Desert, Seal Harbor
Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Garden
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Designed by Beatrix Farrand, the Rockefeller Gardens in Seal Harbor combine East and West influences in landscape design and artifacts. Several photographs included. Published in House & Garden, February 1985.
Summers at the Eyrie
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Ellen MacDonald Ward
  • August 1996
  • Mount Desert, Seal Harbor
Summers at the Eyrie
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Although their Mount Desert summer home was palatial in scale, the Rockefellers came to Seal Harbor each year to enjoy the simple life. This article describes their life.
Summers at the Eyrie
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Ellen MacDonald Ward
  • 1991
  • Mount Desert, Seal Harbor
Summers at the Eyrie
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Description of Rockefeller family life at their summer home "Eyrie" in Seal Harbor. Published in Down East Magazine, August 1991.