Description: COA officially opened in the fall of 1972. This is the first class photograph consisting of students, faculty, and staff. Front Row: Laura Perry, Leanne McIntyre, Eric Henry, Jill Tabbutt, Sidney Rathbun Muska, Edwin Geissler, Francis Pollitt with dog, Susan (Cook) Grossjean, Craig Kesselheim. 2nd Row: Joanne Carpenter, Katherine Hazard, Pat King, Jon Allen, Cathy Johnson, John March, Rick Waters, Annie Goodwin, Bill Ginn, Scott Kraus, Susan Hatch, Gail Davidson. 3rd Row: Bill Carpenter, Linda Swartz, Anne Peach, Millard Dority, unknown librarian?, Dodie Jordan, Steve Katona, Moira McTighe, Henry Elliott, Lynn McDermott, June Tucson, Josie Todrank, Jackson Gillman, Robin Willison, Mel Cote. Back Row: Jim Perkins, Gillian Brown, Philip Kunhardt, Will Russell, Harry Stark, Dan Kane, Sam Eliot, Ed Kaelber, Elmer Beal, Andy Jennison, Steve Savage, Al Stork, Randy Horsey. [show more]
Description: Faculty members Eliot and Carpenter with student Tabbutt during the summer of 1971 an experimental pilot program brought 13 students and 3 faculty members to the college to test and evaluate certain aspects of the proposed curriculum. Participants in the summer program worked together in a multidisciplinary workshop, and joined the staff and trustees in raising and answering questions about the future direction of the college.
Description: 9.5 X 13.25 black and white photograph of Bass Harbor Light. Keeper watches over harbor with binoculars from top of light. Photo taken from banks above lighthouse. Gift of George Daniell.
Description: Marked on back, “Junior Hostesses at our museum. Bets and Karen West as Junior Hostesses at Museum in our village, “Somesville”. July 14, 1976.” Girl on left wears colonial costume of blue with white in center of bodice and full cuffs, with white cap. Her hand on Great Walking Wheel. Girl on right wearing floral print colonial costume with bonnet and apron. 3.5 x 4
Description: Marked on back, “Juniors on duty at the museum. Bets and Karen at Museum. Bets holding doll we found in our house. July 14, 1976.” Girl on left, holding china doll, wearing floral print colonial costume with bonnet and apron. Girl on right, wears colonial costume of blue with white in center of bodice and full cuffs, with white cap. Her hand on Great Walking Wheel.
Description: Fall 1976. Marked on back, “At Brookside Oct. 1976 - we searched out the oldest and most recent grave marker.” Unknown children play on fishway in Somes Brook.
Description: Fall 1976. Marked on back, “A visit to Brookside for Gravestone rubbings Oct 1976.” Children age 10-12 rubbing gravestones in Brookside Cemetery. Children standing, Keith Moore, Selena Hamlin. 3.5 x 4
Description: October 1976. Marked on back, “The ‘Jr’s’ Halloween Party 1976.” Children in costume from left to right, Juliana Reddish, Doreen Stillman, Laura MacDonald, Amy Fernald, Missie Fernald, Stephanie Fernald.
Description: Fall 1976. Marked on back, “Mrs. Preston shows us the old hearse.” Children age 10-12 standing in entrance of hearse house in Brookside Cemetery. From left to right, Laura MacDonald, Karen Thomas, Bart Massuco, Keith Moore.
Description: Fall 1976. Marked on back, “A visit to check the old graves of early settlers.” Children age 10-12 rubbing gravestones in Brookside Cemetery.
Description: July 1976. Marked on back, “Helen Pedrone (left ), directs the Junior Historical Society members in basting together the Friendship Quilt (Gift of the women of Somesville to the Historical Society). Bets and Karen Pepper right.”
Description: Portraits of Mt. Desert Elementary, 1969-70 grade two mounted on single mattte. Ruby Higgins, teacher, in center. Students, from top row, left to right: Kim Wilson, Kathy Cousins; Row two, Kevin Smith, Lisa Richards, Ruby Higgins, teacher, Snadra Norwood, Billy Haynes; Row Three, Jean Mandell, Jay Henderson, Kelley Taylor, Harold Link, Beth Graves, David Dawson, Debra Durant; Bottom Row, Janice Smallidge, Ralph Walls, John Walls, Mark Burk, Norman Walls. [show more]
Description: Portraits of Mt. Desert Elementary, 1970 grade two mounted on single mattte. Ruby Higgins, teacher, in center. Only one student marked, top left, Mike Carter. Nineteen portraits.
Description: Portraits of Mt. Desert Elementary, 1972-1973 grade two mounted on singel mattte. Marked at top, “Last class that I taught. I had on a wig. Ruby.” Names of students not marked. Ruby Higgins, teacher, in center. Twenty students. One photo detached.
Description: Mrs. Martha Cyr-Genest, (approximately age 70-80,) at the College of the Atlantic Fair. Wears black veil on head with white blouse and plaid skirt. Seated underneath cedar tree.
Description: Art show on Village Green in Bar Harbor. Paintings displayed near sidewalk. Woman walks past paintings. Four people seated in lawn chairs in facing away from paintings. Congregational Church in background. Cars parked along street and in church parking lot. Gift of George Daniell.
Description: Aurelia Brown in Wingspread Gallery, Northeast Harbor. Brown seated in caned chair on left, elbow on table. Wears turtle neck, stretch pants and white sneakers. Woman acroos the table, long hair parted in middle. Man in background with long poney tail walks through curtain into another room. Dog asleep at Brown’s feet. Gift of George Daniell.
Description: Left to Right: Floyd Clayson Farley (1915-1990) - tenor banjo, guitar and mandolin Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) - fiddle and piano - holding his Spurling Violin Ruth J. (Gortner) Grierson, Mrs. Stanley O. Grierson - piano and fiddle Clarence G. Gott (1918-1981) - fiddle - not a regular member of the group Frederick M. Black (1926-1999) - guitar and vocals
Description: Back Row - Left to Right: Stanley - Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) - fiddle and piano - holding his Spurling Violin Farley - Floyd Clayson Farley (1915-1990) - tenor banjo, guitar and mandolin Gott - Clarence G. Gott (1918-1981) - fiddle - not a regular member of the group Stanley - Richard Lewis Stanley (1962-) - son of Ralph Stanley - washtub base Front Row - Left to Right: Black - Frederick M. Black (1926-1999) - guitar and vocals Gortner - Ruth J. (Gortner) Grierson - piano and fiddle [show more]
Description: Tabbutt (foreground) and Pierce (background) during the summer of 1971 an experimental pilot program brought 13 students and 3 faculty members to the college to test and evaluate certain aspects of the proposed curriculum. Participants in the summer program worked together in a multidisciplinary workshop, and joined the staff and trustees in raising and answering questions about the future direction of the college.