Description: Sunday School Attendance Record, printed in 1951, said by Lucille Sayre to be for GCI Church where her mother Alice White taught Sunday school, with full names of 15 children, and stars indicating their attendance during 14-week period (item rolled into cylinder shape)
Description: Audio cassette tape, Church service 2 Aug 1972, Sara Lambert "Sally" Bloom oboe, Bill Goldberg organ, Robert Bloom recording engineer. Mozart, Handel.
Description: Book, paperback, "Griswold's Life of Henry Ward Beecher", with selections of his sermons, published by Griswold, 1887. With 2 engravings, Plymouth Church and Beecher's Brooklyn Residence. Owned by Alice White, Lucille Sayre's mother.
Description: Book, The Holy Bible from 1873 in poor condition. Belonged to Carrie Richardson. The GCIHS wrote and directed a play about Carrie Richardson which can be found on DVD in the museum. Carrie Richardson was able to navigate a boat by celestial navigation, she lived down in what is now the Heliker LaHotan foundation. Her husband Meltiah Richardson committed suicide, he tied cod weights around himself and jumped off the dock. Geneaological records that seem to have little relevance can be found tucked into the Bible. [show more]
Description: Pew 21 in the Union Meeting House, formerly owned by Wm. P. Preble and given to C. E. Harwood for use of the people in 1896; with the death of Harwood 1897, the Pew reverted back to Preble, and Preble, at the request of A. C. Wheelwright, did verbally allow him right to claim said Pew [thus apparently causing legal inaccuracies]. Preble now conveys the pew to Mrs. Frances A. Spurling. Signed by Wm. P. Preble December A.D. 1898, witnessed by Carrie M. Richardson and Lucinda Fernald [show more]
Description: Audio cassette tape, Cranberry Island Church service, a typical morning at church, Sara Lambert "Sally" Bloom oboe, Susan Storey Frank soprano, Bill Goldberg piano, playing Mozart, Bach, Amazing Grace, & Jim Gertmenian's Hymn, 26 Aug 1990
Description: Document, 1 handwritten sheet, 2 sides, side 1 is copy of original deed giving pew #19 in Union Meeting House to Mary L. Bulger, 25 Aug 1866. Side 2 is assigning Mary bulger 1/44 share of proceeds of sale of Meeting House, 26 Feb 1897.
Description: Documents pertaining to rug making. (A) Report of the Maine Seacoast Missionary Society for the year ending 1927. (B): Nine items of correspondence pertaining to the Cranberry Island Hooked Rugs program started by the Seacoast Mission, letters date from 1901-1902. The hooked rug program was one of the first cottage industries, the Seacoast Mission took completed rugs to New York for sale
Description: Document, 2 handwritten sheets, an early church history, mentioning the Benevolent Sewing Circle (1860-1866), the secession of members, selling of pews Aug 1866 and dedication of Union Meeting House 11 Sep 1866, revival and sale to Rev. Harwood 1896, and then raising subtle legal questions. Perhaps written by Abigail Preble?
Description: Church program of testimonial meeting in honor of Mr. Daniel H.E. Fox, 12 Aug 1935, retiring as pastor of GCI after serving 1933-1935, with photo of Mr. Fox
Description: Letter from Hugh Dwelley to Susan White explaining the enclosed copy of the Great Cranberry Island's church deed from 1897, Includes a copy of the original church deed.
Description: Document, photocopy, 2 sheets, essay starting "My mother's interest in Cranberry...", by Mary Cabot Wheelwright, about Mrs. Andrew C. Wheelwright's efforts for GCI, including donating to the church the Sarah Whitman stained glass window, the bell, and the parsonage; paying to restore the pulpit and chairs, helping to settle the site of the Town Dock, and hiring Mrs. Schrifgrisser to teach the children games and handcrafts. Transcribed. Also included is a 2019 letter from an Eliot family descendant, Alexander Goriansky, with with Eliot family genealogy and a copy of a letter published in "Letters from Elizabeth Cabot, Vol. III, Boston 1905". The letter is about Mrs. Cabot's visit to GCI August 8, 1900 to view the new stained glass window in the church: "...It is one of Mrs. Whitman's beautiful wreathes, with gorgeus reds and blues and enough white to show them off, laid on a white Greek cross, on the arms of which is the inscription. The church is absolutely bare, but well colored as to the walls...." Goriansky states that 100 years later, he lived upstairs from where the window's creator, Sarah Wyman Whitman, had lived from 1880-1904 (#77 Mt. Vernon Street, Boston), and that she was very fine designer and maker of "stained" glass windows. [show more]
Description: Post Card dated April 20th, 1906 to Mrs. L. E. Rice, Steuben, Maine from A. This post card is significant because it was mailed from the Post Office on Sutton (Island) and also a picture of the Congregational Church as it was in 1906 (the other side of post card Item # 1594a. The Postcard is a picture of the Congregational Church, Cranberry Isles, Me. (Mrs. E. A. Stanley, Publisher.) Hand writing text reads: Sutton Apr. 30th, 1906. My Dear Hattie: The (?) (?) around here yesterday. O.K. so you will see us soon. All are well. Lovingly A-" [show more]