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| Great Cranberry Island History Project, College of the Atlantic, 1992 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Great Cranberry Island History Project, College of the Atlantic, 1992 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Book, Great Cranberry Island History Project, College of the Atlantic, "Photography: Public and Private Language" Fall 1992, mostly photographs with some text. | ||
| Russians and Yankees Battle Mosquitoes on Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Russians and Yankees Battle Mosquitoes on Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document. Newspaper article, "Russians and Yankees Battle Mosquitoes on Cranberry Isles" Boston Evening Transcript, Saturday, July 28, 1928, page 3. An Expert Leads the Forces and Guarantees to Drive the Pests Out or No Pay; By Karl Schriftgiesser, Northeast Harbor, Me. Article begins: "Eighteen Russians and native Yankees are fighting a desperate battle on the Cranberry Isles that shelter the south side of Mt. Desert from fury of the seas." This sardonic article explains the project to rid the Cranberry Isles of mosquitoes. Mentions Moorfield Storey's role; and Major Edward Skinner was the engineer (founder of the United States Drainage and Irrigation Company); cost $12,000. Article states that "It is the first place anywhere in the State of Maine that mosquito eradication will have been attempted." Mentions several sites to be worked on: a crisscross of trenches will drain a "salt marsh covers between eight and nine hundred acres and is free of all drainage." As well as "The "haith," as it is known locally, is nearly a mile in length. Now a long trench stretches the long way and other transverse ditches help to drain it." And "A dozen or so other swamps and salt marsh areas dot the island." "Deep down into these beaches of rock and gravel and sand wooden outlets have been sunk. In some instances the depth has been from six to twelve feet. The outlets have been constructed of heavy timbers rather than of iron or clay pipes because wood alone can withstand the constant buffeting of heavy rocks tossed hither and yon by a sea that is often in an angry mood. Iron would break, clay would crumble, wood alone can stand the strain." "On Great Cranberry there is a point of ground known locally for years as Pond Point. In this area are (or rather, were) Birlem's pond and the so-called Salt Lakes. Scientific drainage has entirely dissipated Birlem's pond and when the huge twelve-foot drain through a dishearteningly rocky beach has been completely cut the Salt Lakes will have been drained slowly into the sea." Mentions the 70-foot whale that beached itself there during WWII. "Near Green Spot and Long Point other treacherous bogs have been drained. Islesford, as Little Cranberry rather vainly calls itself, is fast being dried up. Sutton, the aristocrat of the small archipelago, is quickly becoming a pestless place." "Some of the native population is skeptical of results. Others, led by such whole-hearted citizens as Mr. and Mrs. John Hamor and Millard Spurling, have done fine work to help Mr. Storey in the war of which he is the prime mover. Summer residents of the islands and nearby harbors, the Cranberry Club, and other organizations have helped considerably." See complete transcript by Bruce Komusin. Article was in a wood and glass frame with cardboard backing, badly deteriorated. Removed from frame 9/18/14. [show more] | |||
| Friends of Hitty Newsletters 1995-2002 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Friends of Hitty Newsletters 1995-2002 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of "Friends of Hitty Newsletters" Published quarterly by Virginia Ann Heyerdahl. Collection contains each issue from January 1995 - Fall 2002 | |||
| Who Owned Baker's Island? by Hugh Dwelley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Who Owned Baker's Island? by Hugh Dwelley Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Publication. "Who Owned Baker's Island?" Written and compiled by Hugh Dwelley of the Islesford Historical Society | |||
| John D. Rockefeller Jr.: Godfather to Acadia National Park Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  John D. Rockefeller Jr.: Godfather to Acadia National Park Northeast Harbor Library Description: A gray soft covered booklet, describing the vision of the richest man in the United States of America for Mount Desert Island. His foresight, patience, perseverance and action saved MDI. | ||
| Maine's Rockbound Classic - The Anchorage Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Maine's Rockbound Classic - The Anchorage Jesup Memorial Library | |||
| Mount Desert Island Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Mount Desert Island Northeast Harbor Library Description: Photocopy of a guidebook to Mount Desert Island containing a few historical notes and images of landscapes and buildings. | |||
| Down East magazine articles about GCI 2014 and 2015 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Down East magazine articles about GCI 2014 and 2015 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Magazine articles. Two articles from Down East Magazine. (1): Down East, December 2014, "Alone Together" p. 73-79, 118-130, by Virginia Wright, photos by Douglas Merriam. Magazine, tear sheets, and scanned copies; digitally as pdf. (see also: http://www.downeast.com/alone-togethe). Storyline - Islesford and Great Cranberry facing the future side by side, with photos and statements by Blair Colby, Tiffany Tate, Beverly Sanborn, Eileen Richards, Phil and Karin Whitney, Tom and Becca Powell, and a cameo photo of Anne Grulich walking in front of the church. (2): Down East, April 2015, "The Secret Lives of Houses" storyline - clues to your old home's age and the people who lived there p. 59, 68, and 70, by Virginia Wright with photos by Brian Vanden Brink. PDF copy and print out. Tells the story of the GCI parsonage house 2014 renovation and how the four concealed shoes in the fireplace wall lead Anne Grulich to research into the house's history, connected it with 7 other cape houses built about the same time, information from other houses, and how to research old houses in general. (There are some mistakes: Bulger didn't live in the Parsonage House. She may have the wrong Enoch Spurling as "ship captain" and owner.) See also www.downeast.com/the-secret-lives-of-houses. [show more] | |||
| Poem: I Like a Window Looking Out Upon the Sea" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Poem: I Like a Window Looking Out Upon the Sea" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, 1 handwritten sheet, poem "I Like a Window Looking Out Upon the Sea" | |||
| "Reflections of a Winter's Night: Growing up on Islesford in the 1940's & 1950' Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "Reflections of a Winter's Night: Growing up on Islesford in the 1940's & 1950' Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Islesford Historical Society publication of "Reflections of a Winter's Night: Growing up on Islesford in the 1940's & 1950's" By Hugh Dwelley November 1995 | |||
| Island Reader magazine 2006-1008 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Island Reader magazine 2006-1008 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: The Island Reader Volume I: Spring 2006, Volume II: Spring 2007, Volume IV: Spring 2009, Volume III, Spring 2008 | |||
| Running To Catch Up Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Running To Catch Up Northeast Harbor Library Description: Personal narratives, wife of Park Ranger, life in Maine and elsewhere. | |||
| Martha's Maine Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Martha's Maine Northeast Harbor Library Description: Copy of article of John Gordon's interview with Martha Stewart about living in Maine, what she likes to do, places she likes to go, and her love of her home, "Skylands", in Seal Harbor. | |
| Park Service Capitulates Isle Au Haut Giveaway Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Park Service Capitulates Isle Au Haut Giveaway Northeast Harbor Library Description: Article about Isle au Haut in relation to National Park. | ||
| Lure of the Maine Coast Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Lure of the Maine Coast Northeast Harbor Library Description: Short biography of Fitz Hugh Lane and an excerpt from William Witherle's diary of a sailing trip with Lane and 4 other men from Castine to Mount Desert Island. Published in Down East Magazine, October 1988. | ||
| Ensign Ben Bunker, Mount Desert, and The Cranberry Isles Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Ensign Ben Bunker, Mount Desert, and The Cranberry Isles Northeast Harbor Library Description: This is a second in a series of Occasional Papers to be published under the auspices of the Islesford Historical Society. It was given to Anne Haynes who gave it to the Northeast Harbor Library. | |
| Cranberry Chronicle Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Cranberry Chronicle Northeast Harbor Library Description: News of Cranberry House and the GCI Historical Society. President: Phil Whitney | |
| Cranberry Isles Sketches Northeast Harbor Library |
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|  Cranberry Isles Sketches Northeast Harbor Library Description: Reminiscences of social life & customs, Cranberry Islands, 1959 | ||
| Publications “The Island Reader Volumes I-V” Islesford Historical Society |
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| Publications “The Island Reader Volumes I-V” Islesford Historical Society Description: Contributions by residents of Frenchboro, Great Cranberry, Islesford, Isle au Haut, and Swan’s Island | ||||
| The Island Reader Islesford Historical Society |
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| Island Journal - The Annual Publication of the Island Institute - Volume Twenty - Nine Islesford Historical Society |
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| Island Journal - The Annual Publication of the Island Institute - Volume Twenty - Nine Islesford Historical Society Description: Page 52 is an article called "Islesford's Creative Economy - Island Artists Must Also Be Entrepreneurs" by Carl Little. Page 70 has a picture of Lil and Chuddy Alley | ||||
| A Fjord by Any Other Name Jesup Memorial Library |
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| A Fjord by Any Other Name Jesup Memorial Library | |||
| Red Sky at Night Jesup Memorial Library |
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| Red Sky at Night Jesup Memorial Library | |||
| Summers at the Eyrie Jesup Memorial Library |
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| Summers at the Eyrie Jesup Memorial Library | |||
| Surprising Bass Harbor Jesup Memorial Library |
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| Surprising Bass Harbor Jesup Memorial Library |