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Addendum to Maine Families in 1820
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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Printed addeundum to Maine Families in 1820 book series
We Were An Island: The Maine Life of Art and Nan Kellam
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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The Kellams lived alone on Placentia Island from 1949-1987.
Folk Art from Mount Desert Island Collections
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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Catalog accompanying Folk Art Exhibit at Sound School House, 2010.
Memorials of Acadia National Park
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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Guide to memorials, paths, trails, engravings in ANP, including Schoodic and Isle au Haut. Gives geogrphic coordinates.
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Schooners (four- five- and six-masters), age of steam, descriptions of selected schooners.
Down East Schooners and Shipmasters
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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History of the people of Down East Maine, with emphasis on the town of Hancock. Author has Mount Desert ancestors.
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A chronological account of "Journey's End," and their owners from 1184 (?) to 2010. There should be 2 copies: 1 hard copy, 1 perfect bound; latter missing 8/14/12
The Tarn: Community Recollections and Reflections
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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Interviews of 27 residents of the Bar Harbor and Otter Creek areas about the Tarn, now a small, shallow pond and emergent wetland; it was originally a meadow.
Forsythia Intrigued By The Stars by Azerlea Prey-Somes
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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This book has a golden, tan hardcover . The title is "Forsythia Intrigued by the Stars". The author was identified as Azerlea P. Barton. However, on the title page the P. Barton is crossed out and the name Pray-Somes is written in black ink. The book is published by Exposition Press, Hicksville, New York. The copyright date is 1976.
The Waterfront of Otter Creek: A Community History
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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History of the community of Otter Creek, Maine, and its historical connections with the waterfront in Acadia National Park. Early families settled there and earned a living fishing and lobstering. Book recounts changes to relationship between community and waterfront, especially following the Depression; Otter Creek was only town on Mount Desert Island to be fully encircled by new Acadia National Park, thus losing access to the waterfront.
Historical Atlas of Maine
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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Historical geography of Maine from end of last ice age to 2000. Sections are: history of Native peoples, European exploration and settlement, American Revolution, Maine statehood, industrial developement, rise of tourism and environmental awareness. Includes maps, paintings, graphs, and text.
Images of America: Baker Island
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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Pictorial history of Baker Island, ME. Contains images from the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Collections.
Campaign for the Bass Harbor Memorial Library
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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Spiral bound publication designed to advocate for donations to the Bass Harbor Library remodeling effort.
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Personal accounts of the survival of Charles Orville Trask and his two sons, Charles Brian Trask and Philip Alison Trask, of Bernard by these sons of being swept into Meadow Stream by flooding at Schoolhouse Bridge in Surry, Maine, December 17, 1960. The book also includes a story of another person from Surry who was swept into the same stram at another time. The stories include photos and copies of newspaper clippings about the accidents.
Boatbuilding on Mount Desert Island
Tremont Historical Society
Sadie's Winter Dream
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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Fishermen's Wives & Maine Sea Coast Mission Hooked Rugs, 1923-1938
FromSchoolhouse to Schooling System...
Mount Desert Island Historical Society
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This book is the story of Maine public education in the 20th century; it traces the history from small community schoolhouses to a "seamless statewide system" with the attendant tensions that accompany this transition.