Description: Christmas edition. Includes advertisements for stamping patterns, paper hangings, tooth powder, liniment, and more. Also Illustrations and stories.
Description: Vol. XIV 2013 "The Journey Issue": A Celebration of the Chebacco Boat, Bill Horner, M.D. The Bar Harbor Express: A Most Elegant Travel Option, Brook Ewing Minner Getting Here from There: Steamboat Travel to Mount Desert Island, David W. Granston III The Journey of the Ferry Bluenose, Carroll Fernald Far from Home: The Spring of 1864, Tim Garrity From Houses to Horsepower: Mount Desert Island's Ten-Year War for the Automobile, Bill Horner, M.D. The Wrect of the Tay, Catherine Schmitt Dream Realized--Dream Lost: Hancock County/Bar Harbor Airport 1934-1984, Nathaniel R. Fenton [show more]
Description: Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Vol. VIII, 2006-2007 Burnt Coat Harbor Light Station, Swans Island, Maine by John M. Bryan A Boy in Summer, Pretty Marsh, The 1930's by Michael McGiffert The Kellams of Placentia Island by Peter P. Blanchard III Island Poets & Poems: Lucy Bell Sellers, Louisa Newlin, Meredith Hutchins, Carl Little, Philip Heckscher August Heckscher: A Man about the World--and Mount Desert Island by Carl Little "Behold This Isle" and Other Poems by August Heckscher The Mayflower and Mount Desert Island by Ralph W. Stanley [show more]
Description: a-Life magazine for Nov. 29, 1963; photograph of President John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 on cover. Editorial: The President's Empty Chair Articles: Murder of the President; Lyndon Johnson, the 36th President; Intimate Memory of John Kennedy b- Life Magazing October 2, 1964, The Warren Report: How the Commission Pieced Together the Evidence ,
Description: The June 1990 issue contains an article (pp. 56-59) on the Haynes Garage in Northeast Harbor: "A Family Affair," which describes the history of this garage used to store many of the summer residents' vintage or antique automobiles.
Description: Vol. XV 2014 Maine's Gone Mad: The Rising of the Klan by Raney Bench Ku Klux Klan on Mount Desert Island; opposition to immigrants and Catholics Visionary Science of the "Harvard Barbarians"by Catherine Schmitt Champlain Society, Charles Eliot Going Against the Tide: The Kellams of Placentia Island by Peter P. Blanchard III Cliff Rich built their boat; Gotts Island neighbors The War at Home: Copperheads Down East, 1861-1865 by Tim Garrity Opponents to Civil War Three Buildings: The Quiet Iconoclasm of Robert W. Patterson by William N. Thorndike, Jr. Architect Robert W. Patterson Superintendent Dorr and the Mountain Naming Controversy by Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. Belle Smallidge Knowles, Before Her Time by Brooke Ewing Minner Growing Up Gay in Down East Maine by Victor Stanley Island Outlaws by Luanne Yetter (smuggling on Mount Desert Island) [show more]
Description: Chebacco Vol. XI, 2010 Deasy: A Maine Man by Bill Horner, M.D. Maine Sea Coast Mission Hooked Rugs by Judith Burger-Gossart Poems by Helmut Juretschke Henry L. Rand: Photographer & Visual Diarist by Meredith Hutchins Poems by Thomas Peter Bennett A Path of One's Own by Judith S. Goldstein A.C. Fernald's Store by Allen Fernald "Ravenscleft" on Sea Cliff Drive by Anne Stebbins Funderburk
Description: Volume XVII 2016 Introduction: The Center of Our Stories By Virginia Mellen The History Trust By Bill Horner, MD An Island Landscape Gardening Culture, The Legacy of Nurserymen from 1888-1939 By Betsy Hewlett The Shatter Zone: A Physical Borderland from 420 Million Years Ago to Present and Conceptual Borderland from 1837 to Present By Duan Braun Immigrants in the Borderland 1880-1920 By Tim Garrity Eliot, Borderlands, and Historiography By Paige Melin The Coast Walk By Jennifer Steen Booher Unsettled Mount Desert Island by John Gillis Mount Desert Island"s Diverse Working Waterfront by Natalie Springuel Borderland of the Present By Catherine Schmitt and Tim Garrity [show more]
Description: Volume XVII 2015 La Maison d'Or By Oliver Wendell Holmes Introduction: A Cloud of Witnessess By Tim Garrity How Changing Climate Created Mount Desert Island By Catherine Schmitt A Kaleidoscopic View of Place: Ecological Studies and Island Conservation Across the Generations By Marina Schauffler Landscapes We Have Lost: Environment ad History of Mount Desert Island By David Hackett Fischer When Canopies Rivaled Cathedrals By Polly McAdam From Wealth to Poverty: The Rise and Fall of Cod Around Mount Desert Island By Natlie Springuel, William B. Leavenworth, and Karen Alexander [show more]
Description: 1998 Logo Provenance Charles W. Eliot and John Gilley: Good Hope for Our Island By Jaylene B. Roths Hadlock Executed This Day By Mary H. Jones A Research Adventure: The Tracy Log Book of 1855 By Anne Mazlish This Island Is A Gift By Carl Little
Description: 1999 Great Duck Island- At Sea and On Memory's Horizon By Peter P. Blanchard III The Legend of Talleyrand By Gladys Butler Maypole Point By Rachel Field The Acadians, Thier culture and Their Influence on Mount Desert Edited By Anne Mazlish Fred Savage, The Cottage Builder By Jaylene B. Roths Review- Mount Desert: A History by Michael McGiffert
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]