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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. | ||
Book of Remembrance, history of church and ladies aid Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Book of Remembrance, history of church and ladies aid Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Book, "Book of Remembrance", by Velma Teel, history of the church and ladies aid. Also included, 3.5" floppy diskette perhaps by Sarah Newell, with, presumably, transcriptions of some parts. (From Ladies Aid 2000). A description of the early history of the Cranberry Isles and the Ladies Aid Founding history. | |||
A Christmas card to Lewis Stanley. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| A Christmas card to Lewis Stanley. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A Christmas card to Lewis Stanley. The card says "To Uncle Lew" and it is signed by Jennie and Gertrude. | ||
Items found in the church closet from many different times. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Items found in the church closet from many different times. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Many different items from the closet of the church. The first item is a list of people. The second is a note about who will be doing what for a reception. The third item is a note written by a woman named Velma, this note says " Dear Mr. MacDonald :- I shall not dare risk my foot to go to church tonight. I have written out a plan as best I can and i am going to ask you to attend to it for me. Will you please read it over at the business meeting for me? Please tell the two who solicit for food to see me before they start to work. Hastily, and thank you, Velma." The fourth item is the longfellow school Christmas program. The fifth item is a magazine called "The new girls' companion." The last item is from the congregational church of Great Cranberry Island. From the summer of 1975. [show more] | ||
Notes re: music at church services Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Notes re: music at church services Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Notes regarding music played at various regular GCI church services, presumably by Sara Lambert "Sally" Bloom, 1984-1995 | |||
Church history 1860s and 1890 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Church history 1860s and 1890 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, 2 handwritten sheets, an early church history, mentioning the Benevolent Sewing Circle (1860-1866), the secession of members, selling of pews Aug 1866 and dedication of Union Meeting House 11 Sep 1866, revival and sale to Rev. Harwood 1896, and then raising subtle legal questions. Perhaps written by Abigail Preble? | |||
Church deed 1897 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Church deed 1897 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Letter from Hugh Dwelley to Susan White explaining the enclosed copy of the Great Cranberry Island's church deed from 1897, Includes a copy of the original church deed. | |||
Mrs. Andrew C. Wheelwright legacy Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Mrs. Andrew C. Wheelwright legacy Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, photocopy, 2 sheets, essay starting "My mother's interest in Cranberry...", by Mary Cabot Wheelwright, about Mrs. Andrew C. Wheelwright's efforts for GCI, including donating to the church the Sarah Whitman stained glass window, the bell, and the parsonage; paying to restore the pulpit and chairs, helping to settle the site of the Town Dock, and hiring Mrs. Schrifgrisser to teach the children games and handcrafts. Transcribed. Also included is a 2019 letter from an Eliot family descendant, Alexander Goriansky, with with Eliot family genealogy and a copy of a letter published in "Letters from Elizabeth Cabot, Vol. III, Boston 1905". The letter is about Mrs. Cabot's visit to GCI August 8, 1900 to view the new stained glass window in the church: "...It is one of Mrs. Whitman's beautiful wreathes, with gorgeus reds and blues and enough white to show them off, laid on a white Greek cross, on the arms of which is the inscription. The church is absolutely bare, but well colored as to the walls...." Goriansky states that 100 years later, he lived upstairs from where the window's creator, Sarah Wyman Whitman, had lived from 1880-1904 (#77 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston), and that she was very fine designer and maker of "stained" glass windows. [show more] | ||
Children singing Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Children singing Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo, Chris Sporacio, Candy Wedge, Christina Bracy, Alicia Sporacio, Unknown, Scott Bracy, Molly Gray | |||
Children at church Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Children at church Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo, Scott Bracy, Christina Bracy, Chris Sporacio, Hannah Gray, Candy Wedge | |||
Unidentified child with hat in church Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Unidentified child with hat in church Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Photo, Unknown child | |||
Cranberry Isles Parsonage Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Cranberry Isles Parsonage Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Cranberry Isles Parsonage | |||
Hymnal Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Hymnal Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Book, Hymnal |