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Martha's Maine Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Martha's Maine Northeast Harbor Library Description: Copy of article of John Gordon's interview with Martha Stewart about living in Maine, what she likes to do, places she likes to go, and her love of her home, "Skylands", in Seal Harbor. | |
Allied Whale Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Allied Whale Northeast Harbor Library Description: Article about the development and research of the cetacean program "Allied Whale" with its field station on Mount Desert Rock, run by Ann Rivers and Steve Mullane. | |
Lure of the Maine Coast Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Lure of the Maine Coast Northeast Harbor Library 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. | ||
A Playground Contested; Bar Harbor Natives versus Rusticators, 1875-1925 Northeast Harbor Library |
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| A Playground Contested; Bar Harbor Natives versus Rusticators, 1875-1925 Northeast Harbor Library 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. | ||
First Class Mail Northeast Harbor Library |
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| First Class Mail Northeast Harbor Library Description: Article about Little Cranberry Isle post office and postmaster Joy Sprague, who built a big business for this tiny post office with cream puffs and a personal touch. Published in Down East Magazine, December 1994. | |
Rachel Field of the Cranberry Isles Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Rachel Field of the Cranberry Isles Northeast Harbor Library Description: Short biography of Rachel Field's life on Sutton Island and nearby Cranberry Islands and how her environment influenced her writing. Published in Down East Magazine, August 1971. | |
Sutton Island: From Year-round to Summer Colony Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Sutton Island: From Year-round to Summer Colony Northeast Harbor Library Description: Article published, in part, by the Island Institute. This is Mr. Little's complete article of the development of Sutton Island from a working class, year-round place to a summer enclave. Story begins with an account of John Gilley. | |
Piper Prince of the Cranberry Isles Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Piper Prince of the Cranberry Isles Northeast Harbor Library Description: Short biography of Islesford's resident artist and storyteller, Ashley Bryan with focus on his life and home on Cranberry Island. Published in Down East Magazine, December 1991. | |
The Bar Harbor Auto War Northeast Harbor Library |
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| The Bar Harbor Auto War Northeast Harbor Library Description: Article about the conflict when the automobile was introduced to Mount Desert Island. Published in Down East Magazine, August 1975. | |
Gardens by the Sea Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Gardens by the Sea Northeast Harbor Library 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. | ||
The Last WASP Enclave Northeast Harbor Library |
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| The Last WASP Enclave Northeast Harbor Library 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 | ||
Adventures on Mount Desert Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Adventures on Mount Desert Northeast Harbor Library 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 | ||
Patriarchal Picnics Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Patriarchal Picnics Northeast Harbor Library 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. | ||
It Could Have Been Mount Mansell Island! Northeast Harbor Library |
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| It Could Have Been Mount Mansell Island! Northeast Harbor Library Description: Excerpt of an article by William Otis Sawtelle in a 1925 Sprague's Journal of Maine History. Sir Robert Mansell bought Mt. Desert Island in a lottery. |