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: Photographic print of Roc Caivano and students building a solar-heated student shop. This building was designed and constructed by staff and students on the Environmental Design Curriculum. It is now called the B&G Shop.
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: Color snapshot of fire burning in fireplace in historic Abraham Somes III house (once owned by Richard and Marian Cobb) on the corner of Main Street and Oak Hill Road in Somesville. Large brick fireplace with brick oven. Clock with reverse glass painting on the mantle.
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: Donor information: Northwind, Bar Harbor Luders #51 (although the boat was carrying sail #52 that day. Eleanor (McCormick) Collier, owner and skipper. Crew unidentified. The occasion was a Sorrento regatta. Picture taken off Hancock Point by Sturgis Haskins in 1971. Northwind was built in 1948 for Minot Milliken. She was later owned by George Strawbridge, also of Bar Harbor (later to summer in NEH). In 1996 Northwind was nearly derelict in a Cherryfield backyard. [show more]
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.