Description: Bob Pyle's remarks to the Mount Desert residents, trustees, staff and family at the Library's "Open House" in Oct. 2011 honoring his 40+ years of service to the library.
Description: Documents. Exhibit text, labels, photo identifications, and miscellaneous from 2014 GCIHS museum photography exhibit (A). And parsonage house shoes/cape houses exhibit (B) (see also 2015.304.2062).
Description: Journal with transcription. 38-page typed transcription of protestations of ships wrecked on the Cranberry Isles from an original 19th-century ledger/journal kept by William P. Preble 1867-1879. Journal transcribed by Michael Macfarlan c. 2002. One loose page partial protestation for 1893. The back of the journal also contains pages for the accounts pertaining to School district No. 2, the Post Office, and for various islanders (not transcribed). (See also 1000.0.934: selections from 1080 - sea captain's transcribed broadcasts for possible video production. (See also June 2018 Cranberry Chronicle, pages 20-13 - link below) [show more]
Description: Copy of Memorial Day address of Robert R. Pyle, Library Director, at the annual ceremony at the Joseph Musetti Park. The address was a remembrance on the 150th anniversary of the Civil War.
Description: The Photograph of the Memorial is in Photograph Collection #1304. This is the History of the Downeast Chapter, lists of men lost in action in WWII, dedication at Maine Maritime Academy.
Description: President-elect of Northeastern University, Asa S. Knowles typescript of the dedication of the Science Laboratories at Mount Desert High School in 1959.
Description: Description of the First Annual Ball of Island Lodge, No. 120, I.O.O.F. held at the Rodick Music Room in Bar Harbor. Ida, Augusta, and Delma Smallidge of Northeast Harbor attended.
Description: Former Northeast Harbor residence "Blueberry Ledge" (designed by Peabody & Harvard President Charles Eliot Sterns) of by new Gwathmey & Siegel house. Demolition project was controversial. President Charles Eliot, Mrs. Peter Jay and Mrs. Susan Alsop is replaced by new Gwathmey & Siegel house.
Description: Sent to Mr. and Mrs. Manson Manchester announcing the of the marriage of Clara L. Southard to Josiah G. Leighton on June 21, 1890. (Manchester Collection)
Description: Announcement sent to Mr. and Mrs. Manson Manchester of the marriage of Daisy Florence Roberts to Lowell Grindle Hodgkins on June 6, 1894 in Northeast Harbor, Maine. (Manchester Collection)
Description: Text of Moorhead Kennedy's speech at business breakfast. He speaks of terrorism and violence and a little of his experience as Iranian hostage from 1978-1980.