Description: Volume IV 2001-2002 Larue Spiker and "America's Most Beautiful Island' By Elizabeth Redhead A Playground Contested: Bar Harbor Natives and Rusticators, 1875-1925 By Lynne Nelson Manion College of the Atlantic: The First Decades By William Carpenter Review- A History of Little Cranbery Island, ME By Michael McGiffert Review- The Story of Mount Desert Island By Carl Little
Description: Volume V 2003 Transcription of The Early Records of Mount Desert By Patti Leland- Hanson Boatbuilding During World War II MDI, Ellsworth, Stonington and Blue Hill By Ralph W. Stanley Establishing Dr. Abbe's Museum in Mr. Dorr's Park By Ronald H. Epp Ph.D The Green Mountain Railway Bar Harbor's Remarkable Cog Railroad By Peter Dow Bachelder Preview- The Story of Mt. Desert Island And Acadia National Park By Anne S. Funderburk Review- Cemeteries fo Canbery Isles and the Towns of Mount Desert Island ByMichael McGiffert [show more]
Description: Volume III 2000 C. C. Little and The Founding of The Jackson Laboratory By Martha Harmon The Episcopal Church Comes to Mount Desert Island By The Rev. Edwin Atlee Garrett, III Th. M. Making America Work: A Look at Christians and Jews on Mount Desert Island By Judith Goldstein Review- A History of Bartlett's Island, Mount Desert, Maine By Michael McGiffert
Description: Formerly known as Gray's Farm Dairy; gambrel roofed. Once at the heart of the farm district which fed the Bar Harbor rusticators; barn no longer used for agriculture. Taken during Barns of Yesterday tour
Description: Queen Anne style; attached to 1830's center-chimney cape house; located on Beech Hill Road, once the main road from Somesville to Southwest Harbor.
Description: Constructed in 1810 and named for original owner; placed on National Register of Historic Places in 2003. The one-story timber-framed English barn is one of the finest examples of this style and of barn craftmanship. Ichabod Higgins's family moved to MDI from Cape Cod in 1778 to settle in the small Island community of Somesville. Not until the early 1800's did this ridge of land outside the village become and agricultural area. The barn has been in continuous use since its construction. [show more]
Description: Built in 1842, but not in use as working farm for many years. Frequently a site for weddings; in the beginning of Somesville's development this farm occupied the whole south end of the harbor, where cows roamed the cleared woods.
Description: Duplicate of letter from Jaylene B. Roths, Executive Director of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society, to the Planning Board of Mount Desert applying to request permission to sell mission related items in the Somesville Museum and the Sound School House Museum.
Description: This matted color photograph by Bob Thayer is labeled "Steve Haynes" and dated 2001. Steve is standing by quarrying tools and is holding some kind of pole. He is wearing a white, short-sleeve tee shirt and bluejeans. It looks as if there is a display behind him.
Description: Contains a list of Architectural Drawings of Fred L. Savage 1861-1926 in the Collection of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society. by Michael Shook 2008 Finding aid and notes on teh Collection of Fred L. Savage, by Michael Shook 2008
Description: Written transcript of Caretakers and Cooks A panel discussion, April 2003 This is a written transcript of the panel discussion, probably held at the Southwest Harbor Public Library. Audio file is attached to 010.FIC.144.12 Transcript file is attached to this record. Printed transcript is located in archives, as noted on location tab.
Description: Audio recording of interview with Rick Savage, Sydney Roberts Rockefeller, Scott and Keating McFarland by Martha Dudman. Related to 2008 inauguration. Transcript is in Archival Box #44A, accession number 010.FIC.028.
Description: Audio recording of oral history interview with Sherwood (Sherdy) Carr. Interview conducted in the Somesville Schoolhouse by Janet Strong, March, 2007.
Description: Interview of Louise Sawtelle Libby , 2001. Interviewed by Leza Colquohn as part ot the Southwest Harbor Public Library Oral History collection. There are four interviews conducted on: July 11, 200l; September 6, 2001, October 9, 2001, and March 14, 2002. Original tapes of these interviews are in the Southwest Harbor Public Library collection. Written transcripts of these interviews exists in the MDI Historical Society Archives.
Description: Moonlit Graveyard Walk, Aug. 16, Brookside Cemetery with Thomas Vining Wildlife of MDI with Ruth Grierson, Feb. 4 Creating a Timeline Garden, Master Gardener Lee Fay, June 17 Planting a Period Garden: Kitchen and Ornamental Gardens of the Early 19th Century, Christie Higginbottom of Old Sturbridge Village, Mass. Fred Savage Homes (in connection with publication of book by John Bryan) With Port in a Storm bookstore. Art Exhibition (Acadia Summer Art Program) and Fiddle Concert with Ralph Stanley & Friends, Aug. 4 "Hard Work": Maine's Working Women in the 19th Century, brown bag lunchtime film (by Jim Sharkey) and discussion, Feb. 18 Collecting American Art: A Personal History, John Wilmerding, Sept. 6 Fernald Point Picnic and Annual Meeting, Sept. 25 [show more]
Description: Excursions to Placentia and Pond Islands, Aug. 14 & Aug. 23, with Peter Blanchard. Also on Sept.17. (See 013.FIC.36B.14 for photos of this program trip) Steam to the Summit, Green Mountain Railway, with Peter Dow Bachelder, Aug. 12 Corner with a Past (Peabody Drive and Route 198, Northeast Harbor), Feb. 24 Barn Tour, Aug. 5 Early Broadsides and Mass Advertising, July 28, Jerry Miller and Raymond Strout, held at Union Church, NE Harbor Annual Meeting, David Hales, new COA Presidenet, Sept. 13, and photograph exhibit Good Fences: Stories and Pictures of New England's Stone Walls, William Hubell, Oct. 7, Somesville Firehouse Christmas Readings at Port in a Storm, by Moorhead Kennedy,December [show more]