Description: Page that appears to be from a newsletter, articles/stories include "History of the Somesville Samplers", "Soapstones and Warming Pans", "'Ed Pete'". Undated.
Description: Appears to be a page from a newsletter, sections include "Sloops of Mount Desert", "Geneological Notes", "The Jordan Pond House", "The Golden Rod", and "Indian Summer". Undated.
Description: Collection consists of three boxes of archival files donated by the Seal Harbor Library pertaining to the history of Seal Harbor village and Acadia National Park. An itemized summary of each boxes' contents is enclosed in each box. Recounting of the events that marked Seal Harbor's 100th anniversary back in September of 1909.
Description: Marian Lawrence Peabody, Aug 2, 1914 to April 6. 1917 excerpts from 1914-1017 to create a book chapter has handwritten notes on the side, pasted areas Is this written by Marian Lawrence Peabody or is someone else excerpting her diary. Mass Historical organization states, "she published several articles of historical reminiscences and a volume of excerpts from her diaries in To Be Young Was Very Heaven (1967)," Mentions the Crown Princess entering the harbor (Kronprinzessen Cecile) [show more]
Description: Article by LaRue Spiker about the Cranberry Islands Begins with paragraphs regarding love of a Prussian woman, Dorothea Albertina Wilhelmina Celeste Russ for her husband, Sam Hadlock who died in the Arctic, Cranberry Island men who were in the Battle of Norwood Cove, and life on the Cranberry Islands Has her editing of the story Previously archived as #012.FIC.005.3
Description: Four page handwritten document describing the Battle of Norwood's Cove, a skirmish between settlers of Mt. Desert Island and a British Frigate, Tenedos. Stated to be part of LaRue Spiker Collection, from a file marked "Mrs. Dorr."
Description: Handwritten nine page document of unknown authorship describing a battle between settlers on Mt. Desert Island and a British frigate in pre-revolutionary period. Stated to be part of LaRue Spiker Collection, from file marked "Mrs. Dorr."
Description: Mount Desert Church Records, Vol. 73 of ? Source N.E. Genealogical Society, Boston. Short history of church from its founding on Oct 17, 1792. List founders, those later admitted and deaths. Record of baptisms. At end list members of those connected to the Congregational Church in Temont, Mt. Desert, and Eden in 1857,
Description: Directory and Handbook, Redbook, 1914, 1929, 1945,1968 One has run because it was wet. Northeast Harbor Seal Harbor and Mt Desert and adjacent islands
Description: Interview with Bud and Grace Bordeaux , May 2005, by Charlotte Singleton. Discussion of Bordeaux family history, Sound School which Bud had attended, Bordeaux house and dairy, CCC (Bud didn't like it), summer people, caretaking, Lindsay Smallidge, working for Town of Mount Desert.
Description: Oral history interview with Emma Reed Richards. Her father was Hollis G. Reed and her mother was Lillian Reed . Discussed growing up in McKinley (Bass Harbor), schooling, Neptune Theater and movies, Reed's Store, transmitting station at Seawall.