Description: Brochure, "The Town of Cranberry Isles" by Ted Spurling, includes 12 black and white pages with illustrations by Rose Russo Crooker, copyright 1979 by Theodore and Cara Spurling. First printing 1979, second 1986.
Description: Photo, framed, of Carl Hardy Jr. and Betty Hardy with their dog taken in the 1970s. They lived in the house that is now the Donald trust house.
Description: A letter to Polly Storey from Carl Nelson. It says "Nearly four score years have paled the happy memories of festive experience as a small child. The place was Sweden, where I was born, and the occasion was the building of a Christmas snow house. This was not to be an ordinary snow house, but one of architectural ingenuity and splendor. We started by making a generous circle of medium-sized balls of snow row, placed alternately, and so on, with each successive row tilted slightly towards the center. The end result was a filigreed rotunda of white lace. An opening was left as a doorway, and now was was carefully dashed over the entire structure to give it an icy strength and an appearance of glistening crystal. The undertaking was accomplished and the enthusiasm boundless. Now it was time for the celebration to begin. Lighted candles were moved in, and the rhythmic beating of a drum added an impressive air of festivity. Not until the afternoon light had faded did the fervorr slacken and surrender to a northern twilights blessing of opalescent magic to a child's palace and a fitting place to spend all the days of Christmas. He sent this from his residence on Cranberry Island, a residence he named "Tosh Park." [show more]
Description: Retirement contract for Andrew A. McSorley from the State of Connecticut State Teachers' Retirement Board. Retirement date effective as of July 1st, 1973, with an annuity of $124.33 and a pension of $692.51. Creditable service time totaled 37 years and 4 months.
Description: Document. Cremation Certificate for "Mary M. Chamberlin" (maiden name "Marr"). Issued by the city of Cambridge Massachusetts on June 20th, 1977. Signed by the superintendent of Mt. Auburn Cemetary.
Description: Document. Certificate of Death for "Mary Chamberlin (nee Marr)", from city of Boston, issued on July 26, 1977. Date of death listed as June 17, 1977. Cause of death listed as Carcinoid Tumor.
Description: Receipt for Louise Sorenson's Post Office Box 6 on GCI, signed by Marjorie Phippen (postmistress), December 24, 1975. Sorenson died the next year.
Description: Letter to Mrs. Doris P. McSorley in reply to a communication submitted on February 1, 1973, declaring her intent to retire from the Southington, CT public school system. Letter expresses positive sentiment over Mrs. McSorley's performance at the Plantsville School.
Description: Photographs. Digital copies of three trays of color film slides loaned by donor - about 225 total. Wesley Bracy, Jr. scuba diving expeditions in local area in 1970s-1980s - close-up photos of aquatic flora and fauna, mastodon bone, underwater scenery, a storm, brass ship fittings from local wrecks, and more. Digital files are on NAS Museum Photos. (See also GCIHS 1000.212.1260A-D recovered brass shipwreck artifacts loaned by Bracy in 2000. And Bracy's 2015 presentation at GCIHS located on NAS /video/Events Videos/BracyLecture2015. [show more]
Description: Photos, 1060a-f4. (a) Clarence Beal at the helm of a vessel. (b) Clarence Beal in uniform. (c) Clarence Beal in uniform, just his head. (d) Clarence Beal at the helm of a vessel; inscribed "Clarence Beal Sept. 1973". (e) Reataurant on the old Beal and Bunker Dock on GCI.
Description: Photo of Halloween party held at the Firehouse in 1973. Label on back of people from left to right 'Joan Westphal, Rebecca Sanborn, Rhonda Colby, Rolf and James Westphal, Kitty Peterson Around apple bobbing tub Nancy Savage, Mark Alley, Gretchen Westphal, Tonya Colby, Cherie Sanborn, Norman Sanborn'
Description: Photograph, b&w, Edgar N. White with handwritten note: "July 1970. He died 7 Jan 1972." (Edgar was second husb. Of Alice White, and Lucille Sayre's step-father.)
Description: Photograph, b&w, Alice White with handwritten note: "11 Nov 1977, Singer Island, Florida. Home for winter." (Alice was Lucille Sayre's mother.)
Description: Minidisc, audio, interview of Ella Bates Spurling ("Nana") by Deane Whitney, 20 Dec 1972, about old school she taught at on GCI, (See 2003.56.467 transcript)