Description: Memorial Service on August 14, 2010 for Charlene Louise Allen b. August 7, 1929 d. July 29, 2010. This item consists of 1530a, 1530b, 1530c and 1530d.
Description: Oral history. These two interviews with lifelong GCI resident Gaile Colby were conducted by Phil Whitney and Josh Hastings in July 2018. They mostly discuss houses along The Lane, Harding Point, Heliker-Lahotan and Jimmies Point Road. Arvard helped a lot with certain houses on Harding Point Road and certain houses on The Lane in the second interview. Two sessions 7/22/18 and 7/29/18. Several segments of the July 29 interview were transcribed 2018 and include the visit of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to the Cranberry Club on GCI; the wakes of Rena Bunker Willis' widow (1940) and Henry Bunker (1941) held in the Richman house; the 1961 fire at the Sherman house. The MP3 Sound recordings are very good. See GCIHS-NAS\video\2018. (Note: photo used here is from the 2009 Portrait Project by Becky Buyers-Basso (2013.238.1933), not these 2018 interviews.) [show more]
Description: Oral history. Interviews of Islander Gaile Colby conducted by Phil Whitney with audio recording by Josh Hastings; five sessions beginning Friday, January 13, 2017, and continuing through April 28, 2017. The MP3 Sound recordings are good. See NAS/Video/2017interviews. 2017.400.2176; the two partial transcripts (1A and 1B) are poor, but several interesting segments transcribed 2018 include early memories in the Little House, Winter sledding, Elisha Bunker, Santa Claus at Stratton Store; no transcripts for the other interviews. Note: The photo used here is from the 2009 Portrait Project by Becky Buyers-Basso (2013.238.1933) not these 2017 interviews. [show more]
Description: Interview. Video (DVD) interview of Winston Sheppard by Phil Whitney (GCIHS President) on December 10, 2014, at Folkways Retirement Home in Gwyneth, PA. Sheppard is 99 years old; his wife is present and is 94. Sheppard reminisces about his visits to GCI with parents Charles and Rita Shepard in the 1930s; parents first visited Northeast Harbor in 1910. He discusses various individuals he recalls including Eber Spurling, Pink Stanley, Carl Hardy, and others. Sheppard's parents built their summer home on GCI, a Hodgson Camp House constructed near Fish Point (see documents pertaining to GCI cottage 2015.313.2074 and 2015.313.2073 family slides).Sheppard also had a home in Southwest Harbor, ME. [show more]