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| A Cabin in the Woods - Wini Smart Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  A Cabin in the Woods - Wini Smart Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A booklet written by Wini Smart about Sammy Sanford and Rachel Field's friendship through the years, which led to her writing the acclaimed God's Pocket. Published in 2011. | |
| Cranberry Road: GCI 1919-1950 - Wini Smart Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cranberry Road: GCI 1919-1950 - Wini Smart Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A brief history of Great Cranberry between 1919 and 1950. Covering the businesses and activities of islanders. Including many of Betty Hartleys recollections. | |
| Cranberry Rooster Division Sign Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Cranberry Rooster Division Sign Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: The Cranberry Club Rooster Division was a local spoof men's club to mirror the elite women’s Cranberry Club. The club house was behind Doc Haydock’s house and also included Arvard Savage, Charlie Rice, and Victor White. They would put on performances of music and ‘interpretive island dances’. | ||
| Richard 'Chuddy' Alley Interview Transcript Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Richard 'Chuddy' Alley Interview Transcript Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Interview Transcript from an interview with Richard 'Chuddy' Alley. The interview was recorded in the 2000's (exact year unknown) by Jessi Duma and Jenny Matthews, who both lived on the island for a number of years. Chuddy came to GCI as a young boy, and recounts many memories of Great Cranberry in the early to mid 20th century. He talks about agriculture and fishing extensively with Jessi. He moved over to Islesford and his son Ricky Alley speaks about fishing with a fish trap, and Pursing. Jessi was a Cranberry Island Fellow and became the general manager for GCIHS for a few years. Interview with transcribed by Hannah Gower-Fox. She was the Archivist and Museum Curator for GCIHS in 2023. [show more] | ||
| The Construction of Road I-95 - Doris 'Dot' McSorley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  The Construction of Road I-95 - Doris 'Dot' McSorley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A description of the process around building the road I-95, written by Dot McSorley. | |
| Salvaging Cargo from the Wreck of Emily F. Northam Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Salvaging Cargo from the Wreck of Emily F. Northam Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: The Emily F. Northam was a three masted cargo schooner that was grounded off of the Baker Island reef, the crew and cargo were rescued but the Northam never left the Cranberry Isles. In 1974 the Downeast Magazine published a piece written about the event by Farnham W. Smith, and the Historical Society acquired its use for the island's history. Introduction by Bruce Komusin. | |
| Preserving our Past to Steer our Future Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Preserving our Past to Steer our Future Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A booklet made in the early years of GCIHS explaining the need for a permanent home for the Historical Society: Cranberry House. | ||
| Enterprising Islanders Great Cranberry - Wini Smart Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Enterprising Islanders Great Cranberry - Wini Smart Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A descriptive booklet describing a number of enterprises local islanders began and maintained between 1760 and 2008. Fishing, Ship Building, Boat Yards, Newman and Gray Boatyard, the mailboat, Stores, Restaurants and Boarding Establishments, Farms, Hooked Rugs, Antique Autos, Art. | |
| A Taste of Cranberry - Susan Donald Michalski Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  A Taste of Cranberry - Susan Donald Michalski Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A collection of poetry and wood cuts by Susan Donald Michalski from 2002. | |
| Collection of over 110 digital video recordings of interviews, oral histories, and events Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Collection of over 110 digital video recordings of interviews, oral histories, and events Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Video recordings. Collection of over 110 digital video recordings of interviews, oral histories, and events recorded by Bruce Komusin, Phil Whitney, and Wini Smart from 2001-2013. [Note: 74 of these videos converted to MPEG-4/H.264 files by Northeast Historic Film in Bucksport, ME May 2016.] Subjects include interviews of donors, residents, and GCI events including: Richardson, Dunbar, Stanley, Bracy, Horvath, Moss, King, Goldberg, Wadsworth, Rice, Wedge, Bloom Phippen, Peterson, Seimer, Marr, Beaulieu, Bunker, Noether, Hartley, Grandgent, Mountain, Allen, Westphal, Cumming, Sayre, Spurling interviews. Events include: Tom Powell ordination, Jane Goldberg Tap Dancing, Baker Island dancing, memorial services, Poetry and Music, GCI scenes, quilt seminar, fiddle playing, boats, Hitty, Rachel Field, Lawler's ice lecture, Crow & Sound, moving Cranberry House, and trailmaking. Most of the original recordings are on mini digital video cassettes (mini DV), with some mini-discs, and four mini-VHS tapes. Several of these recordings have been made into DVDs for sale at the museum store. [show more] | |
| Easter Service held on March 30 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Easter Service held on March 30 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Poster. Easter Service Sunday March 30 (no year), Arthur Forrester and William Goldberg led the service; lunch served in the Ladies Aid. Hand drawn lilies, cross, and text, mixed media with cut-outs of flowers. | ||
| Hilda Spurling Interview Oct. 1984 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hilda Spurling Interview Oct. 1984 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Minidisc, audio, interview of Hilda Spurling by Georgie Ware, 8 Oct 1984 |