Description: Memorial service program for Lindon "Tud" Bunker (b 12 Jun 1909, d 22 Nov 2000), held at the Great Cranberry Congregational Church, 12 Aug 2001
Description: Memorial service program for Jean Wadsworth (b 22 Oct 1921, d 28 May 2001), held at the Great Cranberry Congregational Church, 26 Aug 2001
Description: Document: Memorial service program for Samuel Adam Michalski (b 14 Sep 1965, d 13 Apr 2005), held at the South Egremont Congregational Church of South Egremont, MA. Interment in Stanley Cemetery, GCI. Samuel was the son of artist Susan Michalski, Malcolm Donald's sister.
Description: Memorial service program for Elizabeth Hartley (b 27 Nov 1914, d 30 Mar 2009), held at the Great Cranberry Congregational Church, 12 Aug 2009. Transcribed.
Description: Memorial service program for William Goldberg (b 24 Jan 1917, d 7 Jun 2008), held at the Great Cranberry Congregational Church, 13 Aug 2008
Description: Photos: 3 snapshots of Hitty ladies including Virginia Heyerdahl (editor of Friends of Hitty Newsletter), who visited the schoolhouse museum in November 2005. Photo 1: blank. Photo 2: Hitty Ladies & Bruce Komusin. The women include Virginia Heyerdahl - they donated some Rachel Field books shown on the table. Photo 3. Sarah Newell in schoolhouse museum behind Rachel Field books, some just donated.
Description: Booklet: Narramissic Notebook, Pictures, poems and stories from neighboring towns; Number 7, 2006; with poems by islanders Paul Liebow, Carl Little, Emily Roberts, and Susan White, also with a memorial remembrance and photo of Emily and her dog Rosey; also 3 separate pages of poems, author unknown, on loose sheets stuffed in the Notebook
Description: Memorial service program for Emily Winthrop Roberts held at the Great Cranberry Island Congregational Church, 17 Aug 2006. Includes sheet music and words for "Lord of the Dance" one of the hymns on the program.
Description: Collection of printed items about the fundraiser "Arts - Creative Works of the Cranberry Isles" held 20 July 2006 at the Neighborhood House, Northeast Harbor, which included an art show, quilt show, fashion show, quilt raffle, and live and silent auctions. Incudes: postcard announcement of the event, program, signs, newspaper clipping, "Cranberry Quilts" guide to the quilts on display, facility use agreement with the Neighborhood House, internal notes of the various committees involved, and thank-you sign posted after ther event. [show more]
Description: Signs (5), Historical Museum 2005 Exhibit: The Sea Around Us, made by Bruce Komusin, featuring a photo of Charles Rice rowing toward GCI town dock. The photo is probably from the mid 1960s, based on cars in the background, and the appearance of the dock (no angled extension.)
Description: Booklet "Ralph Stanley" (notes used by Ralph Stanley as speaker at the 2006 Annual Meeting of the Islesford Historical Society) with two vivid descriptions of the sinking of the two-masted schooner KATE NEWMAN after its collision with the three-masted schooner STEPHEN HARDING off of Long Branch, NJ during a severe storm Feb 1880. One description is by Capt. Stephen Harding of the STEPHEN HARDING, the other by William H. Rea, sole survivor of the KATE NEWMAN crew. The crew apparently was from Tremont. Booklet also contains article (published between 1999 and 2006) "Maritime Museum showcases Stanley" Great Harbor Maritime Museum (Northeast Harbor) honors Ralph Stanley with an exhibit "Ralph Stanley: Retrospective of a Wooden Boat Builder. Acquistion number 346 with Islesford Historical Society. [show more]
Description: Collection about "Once Upon an Island" fundraising event for Cranberry House, 14 July 2004, starring David Jackson (singer) and Kristen Blodgette (piano.) Collection includes handwritten letter from Larry Allen, with bios and 8"x10" glossy publicity photos of the stars; also includes several copies of the program handed out at the event.
Description: Letter (copy) sent by Hugh L. Dwelley to Mildred Cole Peledeau in 2004, about Cranberry Island Rugs. Hugh's letter includes several patterns for rugs: "Jefferson's Fancy", "Dimond Diaper", "Rose of Sharon", and some unlabeled. The patterns are also labeled "Mrs. Eliza Murray", "1840", and "1844". A photo of some samples made form the patterns in 1999.
Description: Brochures (6 copies): "Arts - Creative Works of the Cranberry Isles" art exhibit, silent auction, and fashion show fundraiser for Cranberry House, 20 July 2006. Lists sponsors, people who loaned artworks for exhibit, fashion show models, musicians, donors of items for sale, workers who helped, and on the back, a blurb and artist's conception of Cranberry House, and the officers and directors of GCI Historical Society.
Description: Photos, 14 color snapshots, 6 of Ladies Aid Fair 9 Aug 2000, 1 of new Museum sign, 7 (1 duplicate) of crowd at Historical Society play "Bits and Pieces" 16 Aug 2000