Description: Damaged black and white photograph of multiple boats under sail, including #4, during the Luders 16 race. Written on the back: "Luders Start 1950, Pg53, Frame 13, Photographed by Robert L. Scott, 172 Newbury St, Boston, Mass.", [photo has measurement marks on back]
Description: A weekly newspaper covering the events of the communities on MDI, the schools, births, deaths, marriages and other important news or items of interest that occur.
Description: Full page article published in the Bar Harbor Times, entitled " Sunday in the Parish", featuring clergy and parishioners to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the parish. Several b/w photographs.
Description: Silver trophy bowl. It appears this trophy was reused in later years. Around the back are the list of the winners of this trophy. Inscription reads as follows. __________ The Fenton Challenge Cup PRESENTED BY THE BOATHOUSE SORRENTO YACHT CLUB 1959 1960 Bar Harbor Yacht Club 1961 Kollegewidgwok Yacht Club 1984 Red Baron - William W. Smith 1985 - Cowabunga - Julia O. Thompson 1988 - Fox - J. Campbell Henry 1988 - Evermore - Laura K.S. Welles 1990 - Fox - J. Campbell Henry 1991 - Shanti - Anne A. Mazlish 1992 - Magic - Bradley C. Madeira 1993 - Magic - Bradley C. Madeira 1994 - E. Amory Loring 1995 - E. Amory Loring 1996 - Stockton Smith 1997 - Bandit - Gardner Loring 1998 - Toby Elliman 2000 - Resolute - Sarah N. Coffin 2001 - Slingshot - Elizabeth & Henry Brauer 2002- Eve - Parker Brown Stamped on the bottom of the trophy it reads: Sterling Reproduction Paul Revere. [show more]
Description: Chapters on: Indians and explorers; Jesuits; de Gregoire; Bernard; Wreck of the Grand Design; British Navy; Early settlers; Summer visitors; Green Mountain Railway; Navy; Social Life; Bar Harbor fire; Jackson Lab; Acadia National Park.
Description: Letter, from Henry B. Bigelow, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Harvard College, Cambridge MA, 6 Sep 1955, to John L. Saltonstall, identifying man-eating shark that attacked boat
Description: Asticou Celebratory Menu, in French and English, in honor of the three hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the discovery of the Island of Mount Desert by Samuel De Champlain, September 5, 1604. September 5, 1954
Description: Five b/w photographs showing kindergarten students at the Stetson School in Northeast Harbor in 1956 helping Marilyn Meader celebrate her birthday.
Description: Iola Klaas and LaRue Spiker explain the background and importance of the Stockholm Resolution of Peace, which was passed at the World Committee in Defense of Peace. They emphasize the dangers of atomic warfare, particularly for children, and advocate for the outlawing of the atomic bomb. People Mentioned: O. John Rogge, Rockwell Kent, Albert Kahn, Johannes Steel, W. E. B. DuBois
Description: LaRue Spiker provides a statement regarding her activities of July 7, 1950. She relates a conversation with reporter Ed Cotton about a communist petition she had allegedly distributed. People Mentioned: Ed Cotton, Iola Klaas, Maurice O. Hunt
Description: LaRue Spiker provides a statement regarding her activities of July 6, 1950. She explains that she was attempting to get signatures on petition from the Civil Rights Congress about the Stockholm Resolution for Peace when she was stopped and questioned by police officers.
Description: BW photographs of the construction of Mount Desert High School, Northeast Harbor. Styled by Cedric G. Chase, Photographic Laboratories Inc., Waltham, MA.