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| "Lure Of Life At Sea attracts Edward Preble." Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "Lure Of Life At Sea attracts Edward Preble." Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: "Lure Of Life At Sea attracts Edward Preble." Part 184 of Fred Humiston's "Blue Water Men - And Women." This story starts off talking about Edward Prebles father and his love for practical jokes. This article tells the story about how Edward was always meant to be a seaman. The article ends by saying " 'One voyage aboard a privateer will cure him of any notion of making the sea his profession.' He couldn't have been more wrong." [show more] |
| Spurling- Andrew B. Spurling. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Spurling- Andrew B. Spurling. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper Articles on Andrew B. Spurling. The first article is entitled "Reminder of a Gallant Soldier." This article is about A.B Spurling being a gallant soldier during the civil war, and him getting a portrait featured in the State House. This article also mentions Samuel Spurling, and tells a story of A.B's upbringing. The second article is about the same portrait mentioned in the first article. This article is about how the portrait of A.B Spurling being in an appropriate place for the portrait to remain. The last article is entitled "Brought in Three Live Johnnies." This article is about A.B Spurling receiving a metal of honor for gallantry during the Civil War. This article tells a story of how A.B was captured by three rebel soldier and he singlehandedly fought them and brought them back to union territory. [show more] | ||
| Bertie and Freddy Birlem book - Barnes New National readers Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Bertie and Freddy Birlem book - Barnes New National readers Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A book entitled "Barned, New National Readers" owned by Bertie and Freddy Birlem |
| Poem copied by Carrie Richardson Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Poem copied by Carrie Richardson Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Poem, handwritten, "The old-fashioned bible", (probably written by Carrie Richardson) (found in Bob LaHotan's barn when he cleaned it 2001) (See scan in 2000>photos>Hazel Brooke Peterson. Transcribed.) | |||
| Poem (possibly by Carrie Richardson) "A House of Glass Shall Come to Pass" ca. 1891 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Poem (possibly by Carrie Richardson) "A House of Glass Shall Come to Pass" ca. 1891 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Poem, handwritten, (possibly by Carrie Richardson), "A House of Glass Shall Come to Pass", with lines like "In 1891, the world unto an end shall come" | |||
| Poem by Alice (Bulger) Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Poem by Alice (Bulger) Stanley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Poem, written by Alice (Bulger) Stanley, dated 25 Jun 1935, and found in the ledger (item 99) | |
| Appreciation of Carl Nelson from Boston Globe Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Appreciation of Carl Nelson from Boston Globe Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper clipping, Appreciation of Carl Nelson, from Boston Globe | |||
| Carl Nelson artwork Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Carl Nelson artwork Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, news release about retrospective exhibit at Carl Nelson's house, highlighting his art. Dated Aug (1988) | ||
| Poetry booklet Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Poetry booklet Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Booklet, "The Most Wonderful Collection of Famous Recitations Ever Written", with humorous poems | |||
| Brochures Civil War Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Brochures Civil War Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Three booklets: (A) Typhoid Fever Its Prevention and Restriction, Issued by the State of Maine (Form 25) undated, 4 pages. (B) Circular No. 54 State of Health of Maine, On the Prevention of Consumption undated, 4 pages. (C) What they have to do who State at Home issued by Fred. Law Olmstead, General Secretary, Washington DC 1862 (Civil War), 4 pages. | ||
| Closing Cranberry Isles Post Office in 1985 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Closing Cranberry Isles Post Office in 1985 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Series of documents ("Bar Harbor Times" article, letters and drafts of letters of protest to President Reagan, letters in response from House of Representatives, petitions) regarding possible close of Cranberry Isles Post Office in 1985, replacing it with a CPO (Community Post Office) | ||
| Pilot Rules for inland waters, Atlantic and Pacific coast, Gulf of Mexico 1910 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Pilot Rules for inland waters, Atlantic and Pacific coast, Gulf of Mexico 1910 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Booklet, "Pilot Rules for certain inland waters of the Atlantic and Pacific coast and of the coast of the Gulf of Mexico", about ship navigating, dated 1910 | |||
| Pilot Rules for Atlantic and Pacific coast inland waters 1906 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Pilot Rules for Atlantic and Pacific coast inland waters 1906 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Booklet, "Pilot Rules for Atlantic and Pacific coast inland waters", about ship navigating, dated 1906 | |||
| Vessel "Hurricane" aground on Great Cranberry Island Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Vessel "Hurricane" aground on Great Cranberry Island Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper articles. Article 963 A "Maine's Misty Kingdoms" NY Times August 26, 1984; Article 963 B about the boat "Hurricane" aground on GCI (no date). | |||
| "Newman and Gray steers a steady course" article 2008 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "Newman and Gray steers a steady course" article 2008 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper clipping, "Newman and Gray steers a steady course" article in the Mount Desert Islander, dated Monday, December 25th, 2008 located on page 6, section 2. "Cranberry Isles: "The current economic downturn is on the radar of many boatbuilders in Maine. On the island of Great Cranberry, venerable boatbuilders, Newman and Gray, however, have yet to see the effects of the falling tide, due to a consistent current of customer service work. (note: item # 1622a & #1622b are the bottom portions of the newspaper page) [show more] | |||
| Mackerel in Maine Waters - article 1909 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Mackerel in Maine Waters - article 1909 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper article, probably September 1909. Title: "Mackerel in Maine Waters". Article reports that 20 barrels of mackerel were caught by Eben T. Lewis, Benjamin A. Spurling, and John S. Seavey, near Monhegan. Article lists other ships and captains active in the Monhegan area due to reports of large schools of mackerel. | |||
| Article: Benjamin Spurling commissioning the Annie Q. Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Article: Benjamin Spurling commissioning the Annie Q. Spurling Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper article (photocopy), undated. Title " 'Georgie' was Leading Vessel into New York". Author listed as Fred Humston. Article on right column mentions Benjamin Spurling commissioning the building of the 'Fannie Q. Spurling', a mackeral fishing boat. | |||
| Uncle Edgar's Lobster Boat" By Deig Marie Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Uncle Edgar's Lobster Boat" By Deig Marie Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Copy of "Uncle Edgar's Lobster Boat" By Deig Marie. Presented to the Islesford Library in the Summer of 2001 | |||
| Nautical Almanac 1876 for schooner Carrie M. Richardson Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Nautical Almanac 1876 for schooner Carrie M. Richardson Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Journal. Nautical Almanac 1876 containing tables of sun's declination and equation of time and tide by D. Eggert's sons, 23 pages, annotated by Carrie M. Richardson aboard the schooner Carrie M. Richardson. Recording the sun sightings for navigating voyages using dead reckoning; transatlantic journeys are plotted on nautical chart 1 and possibly others of 2015.315.2076. .) From the Lewis Stanley descendants collection. (See also 2015.316.2077 and 2017.388.2163 Initial review of the annotated Nautical Almanac of 1876 indicates that it records the Carrie M. Richardson's journey east from New York starting June 23, 1876; arriving Seville July 22, and departing Seville August 3. She arrived at Cadiz August 5 and left for Boston August 12. A wonderful addition as Nautical Chart 1 (2017.315.2076) only plots the west to east legs of two 1877 and 1878 Spain-to-Cranberry Isles voyages. Decipher the chronometer dead reckoning entries in this Almanac should enableus to plot the route she sailed to reach Spain. (Scanned July 2017) [show more] | ||
| A Little Bit of Hell, Maine Style Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| A Little Bit of Hell, Maine Style Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Article: A Little Bit of Hell, Maine Style. (TBD 1/9/18, article not located; see also pending Backlog item 2501 for possible copy.) See reprint in Cranberry Chronicle Spring 2014 edition, page 7, from Bangor Daily News ca. 1919; Sam Spurling was aboard the Cashier during this event. Introductory paragraph: “A Little Bit of Hell—Maine Style That’s What Capt. Spurling Gave a Pirate. State Gets Tokens of His Courage. from the Bangor Daily News, ca. 1919 It was just ninety-six years ago Tuesday (Jan. 21) that an event happened in the harbor of Trinidad, Cuba, which reflected great credit on the leader of a bold enterprise, recollections of which have recently been stirred in Maine, on account of the purchase by the state of a brace of pistols and a sword from Mrs. E. Preble of Framingham, Mass…..” And see Charles Liebow notes on the Cashier: - CASHIER: Masters - Samuel Spurling & William Moore, Built in Eden in 1820, 30 Gross Tons, 49.8/17.8/5.3: Two masts with a square stern. Perhaps the vessel from which Sam Spurling gave the Caribbean pirates a "little bit of Hell, Maine style." [show more] | ||
| Old Time New England booklet with story "The Steamer J.T. Morse and others Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Old Time New England booklet with story "The Steamer J.T. Morse and others Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Booklet, "Old Time New England" Apr 1937, with long story "The Steamer J.T. Morse, Her History and Adventures", with ten illustrations. Other stories too. | ||
| "Island writer reels in the lore of fishing" by Carl Little 1926 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "Island writer reels in the lore of fishing" by Carl Little 1926 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper clipping, "Island writer reels in the lore of fishing" by Carl Little, Bar Harbor Times, 21 Nov 1996: about John McDonald of NYC, who summered on GCI in the small white house opposite the Preble house. He wrote several important books about angling, as well as "My Years With General Motors by Alfred Sloan." (Scanned, clear copy also made.) | |||
| Heck of a Halibut, article 2004; Bracy's 200-pound halibut Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Heck of a Halibut, article 2004; Bracy's 200-pound halibut Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper clipping, Mount Desert Islander, 17 Jun 2004, "Heck of a Halibut... Cranberry Isles fisherman Junior Bracy caught this nearly 200-pound halibut while out fishing off Duck Island on June 7. It dressed out at 154 pounds. Mr. Bracy and his sternman, son Scott, are third and fourth generation fishermen from Cranberry Island." | |||
| Herman Savage carves boats for many mantles 1980 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Herman Savage carves boats for many mantles 1980 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper clipping, "Cranberry Island model maker carves boats for many mantles", Bar Harbor Times, 17 Jul 1980, about Herman Savage | |||
| "Shark bites boat" 1955 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| "Shark bites boat" 1955 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper clipping, 5 Aug 1955, "Shark bites boat" (see items 400-406) |