Description: Document. Newspaper article, "Russians and Yankees Battle Mosquitoes on Cranberry Isles" Boston Evening Transcript, Saturday, July 28, 1928, page 3. An Expert Leads the Forces and Guarantees to Drive the Pests Out or No Pay; By Karl Schriftgiesser, Northeast Harbor, Me. Article begins: "Eighteen Russians and native Yankees are fighting a desperate battle on the Cranberry Isles that shelter the south side of Mt. Desert from fury of the seas." This sardonic article explains the project to rid the Cranberry Isles of mosquitoes. Mentions Moorfield Storey's role; and Major Edward Skinner was the engineer (founder of the United States Drainage and Irrigation Company); cost $12,000. Article states that "It is the first place anywhere in the State of Maine that mosquito eradication will have been attempted." Mentions several sites to be worked on: a crisscross of trenches will drain a "salt marsh covers between eight and nine hundred acres and is free of all drainage." As well as "The "haith," as it is known locally, is nearly a mile in length. Now a long trench stretches the long way and other transverse ditches help to drain it." And "A dozen or so other swamps and salt marsh areas dot the island." "Deep down into these beaches of rock and gravel and sand wooden outlets have been sunk. In some instances the depth has been from six to twelve feet. The outlets have been constructed of heavy timbers rather than of iron or clay pipes because wood alone can withstand the constant buffeting of heavy rocks tossed hither and yon by a sea that is often in an angry mood. Iron would break, clay would crumble, wood alone can stand the strain." "On Great Cranberry there is a point of ground known locally for years as Pond Point. In this area are (or rather, were) Birlem's pond and the so-called Salt Lakes. Scientific drainage has entirely dissipated Birlem's pond and when the huge twelve-foot drain through a dishearteningly rocky beach has been completely cut the Salt Lakes will have been drained slowly into the sea." Mentions the 70-foot whale that beached itself there during WWII. "Near Green Spot and Long Point other treacherous bogs have been drained. Islesford, as Little Cranberry rather vainly calls itself, is fast being dried up. Sutton, the aristocrat of the small archipelago, is quickly becoming a pestless place." "Some of the native population is skeptical of results. Others, led by such whole-hearted citizens as Mr. and Mrs. John Hamor and Millard Spurling, have done fine work to help Mr. Storey in the war of which he is the prime mover. Summer residents of the islands and nearby harbors, the Cranberry Club, and other organizations have helped considerably." See complete transcript by Bruce Komusin. Article was in a wood and glass frame with cardboard backing, badly deteriorated. Removed from frame 9/18/14. [show more]
Description: (A) Six oceanfront lots for sale by Marr family along the Western Way (southwest coast) on Great Cranberry, July 2, 1970 Bar Harbor Times. (B) Map of lots for sale listing the lots as Cranberry Cove, Spruce Haven, Rockledge, Preble Cove, Western Way, and Roberts (on Long Point).
Description: Picture and notice of slide lecture bytThomas Vining ,author of “Cemeteries of Cranberry Isles and the Towns of Mount Desert Island”Sponsered by MDI Historical Society
Description: 1 filing cabinet containing folders with envelopes, loose articles and clippings about local people, families, organizations and events. Compiled by Lydia Satterlee Rivers, who worked at the Northeast Harbor Library under Robert Pyle. The collection was donated by Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Rivers. Files are catalogued by subject. A Abbe Museum Acadia Animal Park Acadia National Park Agnese, Cheryl C. Agnese, Joseph H. Aircraft (historic) Allen, Richard Archeology Artists & Sculptors Ashley, Irving Asticou Inn Astor, Brooke Authors Automobile War B Ballard, Willis H. Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Airlines Bar Harbor Yacht Club Bartlett, Irene Bartlett Island Bass, Robert Beal & Bunker Ferry Beal, David A. Bell, Katie Belmont, Mrs. August Bird Count / MDI Christmas Beamer, Gillian Bigelow, William (Mac) Biological Lab, MDI Blair, Edward McC. Boat Builders Boat Skippers Boats (historic) Bond, James & Mary (Wickham) Bordeaux, Meredith (Bud) Bordeaux, Pearl Bowman, Bob Bryan, Ashley Brzezinsky, Zbigniew Brophy, Keira Brown, Tom Bryant, Roy Bucklin, Horace Burden, William A. M. Burr, Gregory Buildings Businesses, Small Island C Carr, Dennis Caughey, Phil Center Charpentier, Arthur Chasse, Patrick Churches Circus Claremont Hotel Coffin, Ernest L., M.D. Coffin, Steve Cole, Kendra Cole, Mark Coleman, Douglas L., Dr. College of the Atlantic Coombs, Arthur Coombs, Dwight Coombs, Harold Corning, Erastus II Cranberry Club Cranberry Isles Crime Articles Czapowsky, Miro D Damon, Dennis Damon, Herbert L. Dana, Carol Dickey, Charles D. Jr. Donnan, David Dudman, Helen Dudman, Martha Tod Dudman, Richard Durost, David E Eaton, Maxine Eliot, Charles Eliot, Thomas F Fairchild, Julia F. Falt, Gordon Farrand, Beatrix Favour, Edith Favour, Paul Fay, Gertrude Fennelly, Parker Fennelly, William Fernald, Barry Fernald, Jean Fernald, John S. Fires & Fire Equipment Fishing & Fishermen Flagg, Ernest Fremont-Smith, Frances Flye, Flick & Charlotte Frenchboro Foster, Ray & Beatrice G Gardiner, Elizabeth Gates, Thomas S. Jr. Gardens Genealogy Geology Gilley, Mildred Gilley, Wendell Gilpatric, Chadbourne Goriansky, Carola E. Grace, J. Peter Grant, Doris & Carolyn Graves, David Gray, C. Boyden Gray, Inez Great Duck Island Green, Joe Green Mountain Railway H Hadlock, Elmer Hadlock, Wendell S. Hagberg, Karol Hall, Thomas S. Dr. Hamblen, John & Della Hamlin, Clarice & Philip Hamor, Linda A. Hancock County Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations Hansen, Gunnar Harms, John Harrison, Wallace K. Haskell, G. Merrill Haynes, Richard Heckscher, August Heckshire, Claude Higgins, Victor & Ruby Hill, Gerald Hill, Percey History Holmes, Bernard (Bun) Housing, MDI Hylander, Bob I Ice J Jackson Lab Jekyll, Gertrude Jokes Jordan, John Jordan Pond House Jordan, Ruth Joy, Barbara Joy, Lillis K Kelley, Carl E. Mr. & Mrs. Kennedy, Moorhead Kimball, Ben Knowles, Asa Knowles, Lilly Belle Smallidge Knowles Real Estate L Lane, Priscilla (Skippy) Lanpher, Charles W. Lanpher, Juanita Layton, Victor LePage, Laurence Libitzki, Cheryl Library, NEH – Vol. I Library, NEH – Vol. II Library, NEH – Vol. III Art Displays Libraries Liebow, Bob Lighthouses Lippmann, Walter Lunt, Durlin Lynam, Lydia M Maddocks, Grace Mahaney, Kevin Mahaney, Larry K. Maine - Flood of ’87 (April 14, 1987) Maine – 200 years of Maine Housing Maine Coastal Program Maine Sea Coast Mission Massucco, Bart McGiffert, Cushman Rev. MDI Workshop McLean, Phillip & Annie Menzietti, Ivey & Annie Miller, Mimi Salisbury Milliken, Roger Morfit, J. Mason Mount Desert Mount Desert Boys in WWII Mount Desert Festival of Chamber Music Mount Desert Island Mount Desert Public Health Murphy, Maitland Murphy, Maurice Mussetti, Joseph Jr. N Neighborhood House Newman, Kim Newspapers Ninfi, Carlo Nitze, Paul Northeast Harbor O Obituaries P Parady, Bernard (Bernie) Patterson, Barbara N. (Mrs. Robert W. Patterson) Patterson, Robert Peabody, Mary Peck, Louine Peltz, Mrs. John Dewitt Phillips, Augustus Phippen, Les Politics Post Office (Otter Creek) Publishing Pyle, Louisa Pyle, Robert Q Quarries R Railroads Ramsdell, Jay Rand, Henry L. Real Estate Renault, David Rianhard, Richard Richards, Charles L. Richardson, Louise & Doug Rockefeller Family Roth, Hal Russell, Will S Sage, Dewitt Savage, Charles K. Savage, Dianna Savage, Fred Savage, Richard Sawmill in Somesville Schools Scouts Scull, David Seal Harbor Seals Seavey, Jon Serpell, Barry W. Dr. Serpell, Sandra Shaw, Samuel Smallidge, Anne Smallidge, Mr. & Mrs. Earl (Curly) Smallidge, Mazie Smith, Joseph T. Smith, Lucy (Mrs. Richard) Smith, Margaret Chase Smith, Samantha Smith, Stephen & Dennis Solar Houses Somes, Chauncey Somes Sound Somesville Somesville Fire Department Space Spiker, LaRue Sports Spurling, Arthur Spurling, Ted Stanley, Ralph Stanley, Woodbury Stroud, Joan Milliken Suminsby, Kathryn Suminsby, Robert T Tepco Theatre Thomas, Joseph B. IV Townsend, Bill Toy Lending Library (NEH) Tracy, Mrs. Ralph Tracy, Valerie Train, Barbara Tripp, Susan Tyler, Sally V Vinalhaven W Walls, John Walsh, Sean Watras, Victoria Watson, Herb Weinberger, Caspar & Jane Westphal, David Westphal, Gretchen Westphal, Joan Westphal, Mike Westphal, Ruth Whales Wheelock, Morgan Wheelwright, Mary White, Mary H. Dr. Whitehill, Walter Widmerding, John Woman’s Club of Northeast Harbor Wooden Boat Woodward, Charles H. Wright, Jack Wright, Mildred Y Yacht Club, Seal Harbor Young, Nathan Yourcenar, Marguerite Z Zirnkilton, Stephen [show more]
Description: 1 filing cabinet containing folders with envelopes, loose articles and clippings about local people, families, organizations and events. Articles are not catalogued by year nor subject. Files have been extracted from FileMaker (expect some formatting inaccuracies).
Description: 17 boxes containing scrapbooks, envelopes with loose articles and clippings, some with dates others without dates. Articles are not catalogued by year nor subject
Description: Short biography of Fitz Hugh Lane and an excerpt from William Witherle's diary of a sailing trip with Lane and 4 other men from Castine to Mount Desert Island. Published in Down East Magazine, October 1988.
Description: Copy of article by L. Manion submitted for publication in Island History Journal contrasting the economic and social life of summer and year-round residents of Mount Desert Island.
Description: "Witnesses to History" is Part Four of a commemorative series celebrating: hundred years of Maine life. This copy covers WWI, (1914-1918)----The Health Care Revolution
Description: Article with photographs of several formal gardens, public and private, on Mount Desert Island. Beatrix Jones Farrand, renowned landscape architect, designed as many as 40 gardens on the island. Published in Connoisseur, August 1984.
Description: On MDI, off the coast of Maine, our man observes the Rockefellers at rest and decides to go native. The description of Island & customs are great. Published on GQ, September 1991
Description: A clipping from a newspaper article about Mrs. Harriet M. Lyman, 80, who saw Mt. Desert Develop from Fishing Villages to World-famed Resort, also a Photograph of Mrs. Lyman.
Description: Buckboards and down-home cooking were the chief creature comforts for island visitors in the decade before the great hotels and cottages began to crowd the scene. Published in Down East Magazine, July 1995
Description: Frances Eliot reminisces in this essay of summer days in Northeast Harbor with Charles Eliot, President of Harvard Univ. (her father-in-law). She was the wife of Rev. Samuel Eliot.