You searched for: Year start: 1900✖Contributor: Mount Desert Island Historical Society✖Date: 1980s✖Place: [blank]✖Subject: [blank]✖Type: Image✖Type: Photograph✖
Description: flood swollen mill stream in Somesville. Water is flowing under the Selectmen's Building to left. Photo taken before bridge was installed. Chain link fence along road. Log floating in mill stream.
Description: "Wilfred Bunker, ca 1984". Wilfred ran the Mailboat to the Cranberries and lived on Big Cranberry. Along with Clarence Beal, Wilfred started the "Beal & Bunker, Inc." (ALW) Wilfred is on his boat. He is at the wheel, wearing his blue work shirt. His right hand is resting on the open windshield. There is a mug to his right. He has sunglasses on and has a smile on his face.
Description: Warren Fernald at work on his boat. He is checking a trap on the deck. He is smiling and smoking a cigarette. I know that this subject is Warren Fernald of Islesford or Little Cranberry. (ALW)
Description: League of Women Voters banner above a bulletin board with various photographs and documents displayed underneath. Under the bulletin board there is a small round table with one chair to the right. Table has books and papers laid on it.
Description: Women lined up along a fence view and handle sheep. LaRue Spiker looks on as Mollie Birdsall holds black lamb. Louise Gilbert, Ruth Cummins, Doris Riley are along fence. Visit to Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 is in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters..
Description: Group of women and men standing in front of a barn door. Mollie Birdsall talks to Helen Douglas, Louise Gilbert and Don Sawyer. Visit to Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 is in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters
Description: Group of women patting a black lamb. Jackie Russell (back), Maggie Wheelwright, Doris Riley, Barbara Dillon, Mollie Birdsall (holding lamb), and Ruth Cummins visit Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters.
Description: Three women standing with pile of yard in background. LaRue Spiker, Hollis Piatt and Gail Meier are looking at wool spun by Mollie Birdsall during a visit to Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters.
Description: Woman standing and reading. Gladys Butler is visiting Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters.
Description: Sheep in barnyard. Sheep were a feature of a visit to Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters.
Description: Two harnessed work horses. Paul Birdsall’s horses were a feature of a visit to Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters.
Description: League of Women Voters banner and display table. At an Earth Day 1980 presentation at the COA the MDI League sponsored a booth entitled “Synfuels is Sinful.” LaRue Spiker and Helen Douglas designed and set up the display.
Description: Woman waving from a boat on wheels with League of Women Voters banner. Boat is MDI LWV float in the Bar Harbor 1980 4th of July parade. Louise Gilbert rode the entire route and tossed taffy.
Description: Display entitled “Synfuels is Sinful.” At an Earth Day 1980 presentation at the COA the MDI League sponsored an informational booth about synfuels. LaRue Spiker and Helen Douglas designed and set up the display.
Description: Person in a boat on wheels with League of Women Voters banner. Boat is MDI LWV float in the Bar Harbor 1980 4th of July parade. Louise Gilbert rode the entire route and tossed taffy.
Description: Two women seated on ground outdoors under “League” banner. Helen Douglas and Doris Riley wait for customers at the Bar Harbor Village Green Art Show on July 25, 1980. Helen also sold paintings.
Description: Two women standing outdoors at a table under a League of Women Voters banner. Louise Gilbert and Hollis Piatt sell refreshments on July 26, 1980 at the Bar Harbor Green
Description: Two women standing outdoors behind a table under a League of Women Voters banner. Helen Douglas and Jackie Russell sell refreshments on July 25, 1980 at the Bar Harbor Village Green Art Show. Helen also exhibited paintings.
Description: Woman and children working on a craft. Gail Wright is attending a League of Women Voters board meeting at Rhodes House in Southwest Harbor on June 8, 1981.
Description: Two women standing on a dock in front of a lobster boat. Helen Douglas and Louise Gilbert are attending a League of Women Voters board meeting at Rhodes House in Southwest Harbor on June 8, 1981.
Description: Hand drawn map of eastern section of the U.S. Nancy Kandutsch made the poster for a League of Women Voters “Save the Clean Air Act” display at the Bar Harbor Flower Show in September of 1981.
Description: Two men and a woman seated at a table. John Jerabek, Louise Gilbert, and Skip Greenlaw are speaking at an MDI League of Women Voters public meeting on “An Act to create the Maine Energy Commission” on October 29, 1981 at the Bar Harbor YWCA
Description: Woman standing talking with seated people. Pictured are Gail Meier, Edna Hysom, Arthur and Phyllis Charpentier at an MDI League of Women Voters public meeting on “An Act to create the Maine Energy Commission” on October 29, 1981 at the Bar Harbor YWCA.