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Summers at the Eyrie
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Ellen MacDonald Ward
  • August 1996
Summers at the Eyrie
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
Description:
Summer home of John D. Rockefeller, Jr. and his family. Describes family life, gardens, interior furnishings. House was demolished c. 1963.
Newspaper article lamenting the closing of and history of Manset Post Office 1995
Tremont Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Other, Hotels
  • Other, Manset, Southwest Harbor, Hancock County, Maine
  • Other, Post Offices
  • Other, Postage
  • Other, Southwest Harbor, Hancock County, Maine
  • Other, Stamps
  • Other, Stanley House
  • Structures, Commercial, Lodging
  • 1995
Description:
Newspaper article by Bill Benson lamenting the closing of and history of Manset Post Office 1995
The Post Offices of Mt.Desert Island
Tremont Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • 1995
The Post Offices of Mt.Desert Island
Tremont Historical Society
News article about delivery of mail to outer island Post Offices, 1998
Tremont Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Other, Cliff Island, Maine
  • Other, Cranberry Isles, Hancock County, Maine
  • Other, Frenchboro, Hancock County, Maine
  • Other, Islesford, Hancock County, Maine
  • Other, Mail Delivery
  • Other, Post Offices
  • Other, Postage
  • Other, Postmasters
  • Other, Stamps
  • Other, Transportation
  • Other, Vessels
  • 9/8/1998
Description:
News article about delivery of mail to outer island Post Offices, 1998
Bangor Daily news article about possible reopening of West Tremont post office.
Tremont Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Other, Post Offices
  • Other, Postage
  • Other, Postmasters
  • Other, Stamps
  • Other, West Tremont, Hancock County, Maine
  • 9/5/1998
Description:
Bangor Daily news article about possible reopening of West Tremont post office.
A Career in Bud; Beatrix Jones Farrand's Education & Early
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • People
  • Cynthia Zaitzevsky
  • 1998
Description:
Biography of Beatrix Farrand with intensive review of early focus on landscape design, her mentors, her developing philosophy of gardening.
The Islesford Journals of Dr. Vincent Y. Bowditch
Islesford Historical Society
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Places, Island
  • 1992
Description:
3 Ring binder containing “The Islesford Journals of Dr. Vincent Y. Bowditch, Journals I-IV”, Transcribed by Hugh L. Dwelley published by the Islesford Historical Society in June 1992.
Annabelle's: Untying the Apron Strings at a "Backside" Institution
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • Businesses, Restaurant Business
  • Lincoln - Nan Lincoln
  • 1990-09-20
  • Southwest Harbor, Seawall
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Homesick For That Place: Ruth Moore Writes About Maine
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Pixley - Jennifer Craig Pixley
  • 1997
  • Tremont, Great Gott Island
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
The lives of authors Ruth Moore and Eleanor Ruth Mayo were their own, but their private lives and the lives they led on Mount Desert Island, were so intertwined that archivists find it difficult to divide documents, stories and photographs between them. It is for this reason that this Item exists in the database. It ties together other Items that relate more to both women than to either as an individual. “Homesick For That Place: Ruth Moore Writes About Maine” by Jennifer Craig Pixley is so well conceived that it may be recommended to those who are interested in Ruth and Eleanor above many other works, but there is much to be learned from everything included here. [show more]
Museum Traces Island's History - Abbe Museum Blends Ruth Moore Poetry With Great Gott Island Artifacts
Southwest Harbor Public Library
  • Publication, Literary, Article
  • People
  • Harbour - Kathy Harbour
  • 1994-05-28
  • Copyright Not Evaluated
Description:
Bar Harbor - When the archaeologists of summer probe the fragile layers of Great Gott Island history, they say the faint bark of an Indian dog is freed. It was Maine writer Ruth Moore who first imagined the dog's bark, as she sifted through the sand and sod on her native Great Gott Island, pausing later to reflect on the island's history in her poem, "The Indian Shell Heap":