Description: Document, photocopy, 2 sheets, essay starting "My mother's interest in Cranberry...", by Mary Cabot Wheelwright, about Mrs. Andrew C. Wheelwright's efforts for GCI, including donating to the church the Sarah Whitman stained glass window, the bell, and the parsonage; paying to restore the pulpit and chairs, helping to settle the site of the Town Dock, and hiring Mrs. Schrifgrisser to teach the children games and handcrafts. Transcribed. Also included is a 2019 letter from an Eliot family descendant, Alexander Goriansky, with with Eliot family genealogy and a copy of a letter published in "Letters from Elizabeth Cabot, Vol. III, Boston 1905". The letter is about Mrs. Cabot's visit to GCI August 8, 1900 to view the new stained glass window in the church: "...It is one of Mrs. Whitman's beautiful wreathes, with gorgeus reds and blues and enough white to show them off, laid on a white Greek cross, on the arms of which is the inscription. The church is absolutely bare, but well colored as to the walls...." Goriansky states that 100 years later, he lived upstairs from where the window's creator, Sarah Wyman Whitman, had lived from 1880-1904 (#77 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston), and that she was very fine designer and maker of "stained" glass windows. [show more]
Description: Booklet with face shots of the 1937 class of Stetson Grammar School. Identified. 1. Bob Graves, Henry Bickford, Hout Clark, Austin Grindle, Eddie Bucklin, Ira Pinkham 2. Flora Manchester, Jane Smallage (?), Helen Manchester, Eleanor Hamor, Francis Iveny, Mary Grindle 3. Shirley Reynolds, Eleanor Walls, Maxine Eaton, Smith, Martland Murphy, Murphy 4. Luther Phillips, Fred Phillips, Buddy Brown, Joseph Chase, Harlan Murphy, Sherwood Carr 5. Frasier Peckham, Hugh Smallage, ..., Everard Gray, Seavey, Seavey From the collection of Hoyt Clark 9-28-2010 [show more]
Description: Photographs: Stetson School (item 6997) Gilman High School (item 6998) Ballard Hill School (item 6999) Mount Desert High School (item 7000) Clifton Dock area (item 7001) Who's who - People (item 7002) Northeast Harbor (1) (item 7005) Northeast Harbor (2) (item 7006) Miscellaneous (item 7004) Documents and Manuscripts: Parker Fennelly's diploma from Leland Powers School (item 7003) Nathan Fennelly invoices Parker Fennelly scrapbook Parker Fennelly discharge papers Parker Family writings Parker Family plays and writings Cottages for Rent, 1929 Letter from Northeast Harbor Water Co., 1904 Future of Mount Desert Island by Charles W. Eliot Mount Desert High School and Mount Desert Elementary School specifications, letters from architects & contractors, additions, building notes Objects WWII ration books, tokens, service ID, Red Cross Volunteer Pin, V pin [show more]
Description: An account of Hoyt Clark's remembrances of the Neighborhood House from February 1944-1945 from comments made by his father Harry Clark, custodian at NHH and his mother Gladys.