Description: During the fall of 1982, the COA Oral History Workshop collected and prepared oral history interviews documenting COA's founding and early years. For her senior project, Bethany Arownow '83 edited these interviews into a booklet entitled "Such a Frail Bark". The book is fascinating and contains photographs of Kaelber Hall and people instrumental in COA's birth and life.
Description: The photograph is a newspaper clipping (text on reverse) from April 12, 1984 that describes 1924 championship team. The Gilman High School of Northeast Harbor basketball team and their coach Stanley Week posed outside after winning the Eastern Maine basketball tournament at the University of Maine at Orono in 1924. The players are in uniform, and Week holds the plaque they won. People Depicted: Stanley Week, Burton Seavey, Edward Ralph, Albert Manchester, Stuart Branscom, Horace Bucklin, Francis Atwood, Jerome Knowles, Merrill Whitmore and Paul Bucklin. Also mentioned in the article are Douglas Driscoll, Carl Kelley Black and white [show more]
Description: Children examine whale bones and other materials at the College of the Atlantic "Ocean Day" on March 21, 1981. Inscription on back reads "College of the Atlantic "Ocean Day" March 21, 1981/ Photo by John Jacob/ Please Return" in blue pen and "John P. Jacob/ COA/ 288-5015" in red pen. Black and white
Description: GCI School Teacher Shannon Shannon, Ellen Savage, Hannah Gray, Alicia Sporacio, Christina Bracy, Candy Wedge, Chris Sporacio, Molly Gray, Audra Wellman, Megan Liebow, Scott Bracy, Mandy Bracy, 1987 (1st day of school)
Description: Photo card, Happy Holiday, depicting children playing on newly cemented playground, bikes in foreground, inscription reads "Thank you! Longfellow School Playground Committee." Back reads "new basketball court -1989. Josh Gray, Hannah Gray, Brendan Westphal, Scott Bracy, Christina Bracy, Gabriel Westphal, Mandy Bracy, Brandon Russell, Heath Wedge on jungle gym, Abigail Leibow + Adrian Savage"