Description: Christmas church service 1989. Ruth (at the piano), Angela, Abbie, Audra (behind), Hannah (behind), Martha, Josh(?), James, Scott (behind), Jeremy (behind Martha), girl in front (?), unknown, Gabriel, Molly, Brendan Westphal, Christina, Megan Liebow. (Note: it was hard to read the names of children on donor handwritten note)
Description: Brochures and notices from the Home, Art & Garden Tour. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society invites you to attend its first Home, Art & Garden Tour. Wednesday, August 11. The year of tour is 2010. The scanned items are numbered 1531a-1531f. Note: There is additional paperwork that has not be scanned in this folder. These items are: HAGT Guide consists of 4 pages (1531g), Home, Art & Garden Tour (HAGT) Information for Tour Hosts 8-4-10 consists of 3 pages (1531h), Southwest and Northeast Harbor Ticket Sellers consist of 1 sheet (1531i), Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Announces Home, Art and Garden Tour Wednesday, August 11, 2010 consists of 2 pages (1531j), Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Home, Art & Garden Tour (HAGT)--Wednesday, August 11, 2010--Final (Ferry Schedule) 1 page (1531k), HAGT Final Execution Plan dated August 8, 2010 consists of 7 pages (1531l), Home, Art and Garden Tour Action Plan-Draft: July 31, 2010 consists of 13 pages (1531m). From items 1531g-1531m note only the 1st page was scanned - however, the complete document is stored in folder 1531 located at the Great Cranberry Isles Historical Society Archives. [show more]
Description: Collection of September 1999 color photos of the play "An evening with Rachel Field". Gaile Colby in apron, Hugh Dwelley in overalls, Janet Roberts in tan sweater, Susan King with book, Leslie Horvath in yellow. Wini Smart's large canvas mural in background.
Description: Collection related to the 'Ship' display exhibit in the museum, 1105a-e. (a) Photo of Herbert A. Whitney and Captain Harold Whitney. (b) Photo of Coasters in the GCI Harbor. (c) Labels for donated and loaned objects related to ship building. (d) Write up describing the ship model "The Islander", owned by Phil Whitney. (e) Museum display text "Cranberry Vessels and Shipbuilding" pages 1-8
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: 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: 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: 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: Poster (3 copies) for "Christmas in July", a GCIHS event 21 July 2004. Flyer reads "Free - for the kids - Story Time, Fun, Gifts, Activities, Treats"
Description: Cranberry Clam Diggers Cabaret with sing-along words for Getting to Know You, Bye-Bye Blackbird, Tomorrow, Swanee, and As Time Goes By. Also see item 708 and 710
Description: Poster, laminated, designed by Bruce Komusin announcing GCI Historical Society Annual Meeting, 19 Aug 1998. (The Moose Mound Memorial was a hoax on us, we did not find out until after poster was displayed.)
Description: Document, 2 sheets, 1 side, glued together end-to-end, handwritten, "List of Persons Between the ages of 20 and 45 years liable to pay the Tax of $50.00 voted in Town Meeting Jan 23d 1865" and signed and paid that same day, apparently a special Civil War tax. Signed by William P Preble, William H Preble, Samuel S Bunker, Assessors of Cranberry Isles. Transcribed.