Description: This book is the story of Maine public education in the 20th century; it traces the history from small community schoolhouses to a "seamless statewide system" with the attendant tensions that accompany this transition.
Description: Cemetery. Collection of Spurling Cemetery Preservation Project 2016 materials. These are the records of work done on Spurling Cemetery No. 1 on Spurling Cove on the bluff near the Town dock in 2016. Inscriptions, digital photographs, measurements, deeds, spreadsheets, costs, blog, and photos of work and discoveries for each of the 26 known graves recorded by Anne Grulich. Documentation includes minutes, research, spreadsheet, photos, administrative documents, and field notes. Deed information was supplied by the Maine Coast Heritage Trust who has a conservation easement along part of the David and Tracy Weibel property where the burial ground is located. See various GCIHS Cranberry Chronicle newsletters for cemetery project progress. A memorial headstone listing all 26 known burials for whom only 8 headstones and 5 footstones remain. Memorial stone is funded by the Town of Cranberry Isles and the GCI Church. Folder 1: Committee meeting notes from March 2016 through June 2017. Folder 2: Field work notes and spreadsheet of Names, Dates, and details of headstones. Folder 3: Ground Penetrating Radar (GPR) Survey of June 15, 2016 performed by Mike Scully and Michael McCormick of Northeast Geophysical Services of Bangor, and paid for by the GCI Church. Folder 4: Documents relating to preservation work done by Fred Wieninger and his nephew Benjamin of Wieninger Monuments in Milbridge. Folder 5: Joseph L'Grow and Sarah L'Grow (LeGrow) genealogical and gravestone information from Cynthia Robertson. Folder 6: Andrew Herrick burial information from Steve Herrick. Folder 7: Deeds for conservation easement for Stanley and Isabel Seimer (parents of David Weibel) to Maine Coast Heritage Trust. Folder 8: PowerPoint printout and printout of intro pages for website. Note: In addition to these papers, the project is fully documented with photos and daily notes and historical information located online at gcihs.org “cemetery projects” and on the GCIHS server \Archives\atgrulich\SpurlingCemetery1_2015_2017, as well as in e-mails. (See also 2016.374.2137 a fragment of William Spurling (d. 1839) marble headstone displayed in Museum, and two posters on exhibit.) [show more]
Description: Brochures and notices from the Home, Art & Garden Tour. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society invites you to attend its first Home, Art & Garden Tour. Wednesday, August 11. The year of tour is 2010. The scanned items are numbered 1531a-1531f. Note: There is additional paperwork that has not be scanned in this folder. These items are: HAGT Guide consists of 4 pages (1531g), Home, Art & Garden Tour (HAGT) Information for Tour Hosts 8-4-10 consists of 3 pages (1531h), Southwest and Northeast Harbor Ticket Sellers consist of 1 sheet (1531i), Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Announces Home, Art and Garden Tour Wednesday, August 11, 2010 consists of 2 pages (1531j), Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Home, Art & Garden Tour (HAGT)--Wednesday, August 11, 2010--Final (Ferry Schedule) 1 page (1531k), HAGT Final Execution Plan dated August 8, 2010 consists of 7 pages (1531l), Home, Art and Garden Tour Action Plan-Draft: July 31, 2010 consists of 13 pages (1531m). From items 1531g-1531m note only the 1st page was scanned - however, the complete document is stored in folder 1531 located at the Great Cranberry Isles Historical Society Archives. [show more]
Description: Memorial Service on August 14, 2010 for Charlene Louise Allen b. August 7, 1929 d. July 29, 2010. This item consists of 1530a, 1530b, 1530c and 1530d.
Description: Oral history. These two interviews with lifelong GCI resident Gaile Colby were conducted by Phil Whitney and Josh Hastings in July 2018. They mostly discuss houses along The Lane, Harding Point, Heliker-Lahotan and Jimmies Point Road. Arvard helped a lot with certain houses on Harding Point Road and certain houses on The Lane in the second interview. Two sessions 7/22/18 and 7/29/18. Several segments of the July 29 interview were transcribed 2018 and include the visit of Vice President Nelson Rockefeller to the Cranberry Club on GCI; the wakes of Rena Bunker Willis' widow (1940) and Henry Bunker (1941) held in the Richman house; the 1961 fire at the Sherman house. The MP3 Sound recordings are very good. See GCIHS-NAS\video\2018. (Note: photo used here is from the 2009 Portrait Project by Becky Buyers-Basso (2013.238.1933), not these 2018 interviews.) [show more]
Description: Oral history. Interviews of Islander Gaile Colby conducted by Phil Whitney with audio recording by Josh Hastings; five sessions beginning Friday, January 13, 2017, and continuing through April 28, 2017. The MP3 Sound recordings are good. See NAS/Video/2017interviews. 2017.400.2176; the two partial transcripts (1A and 1B) are poor, but several interesting segments transcribed 2018 include early memories in the Little House, Winter sledding, Elisha Bunker, Santa Claus at Stratton Store; no transcripts for the other interviews. Note: The photo used here is from the 2009 Portrait Project by Becky Buyers-Basso (2013.238.1933) not these 2017 interviews. [show more]
Description: Interview. Video (DVD) interview of Winston Sheppard by Phil Whitney (GCIHS President) on December 10, 2014, at Folkways Retirement Home in Gwyneth, PA. Sheppard is 99 years old; his wife is present and is 94. Sheppard reminisces about his visits to GCI with parents Charles and Rita Shepard in the 1930s; parents first visited Northeast Harbor in 1910. He discusses various individuals he recalls including Eber Spurling, Pink Stanley, Carl Hardy, and others. Sheppard's parents built their summer home on GCI, a Hodgson Camp House constructed near Fish Point (see documents pertaining to GCI cottage 2015.313.2074 and 2015.313.2073 family slides).Sheppard also had a home in Southwest Harbor, ME. [show more]