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Wasp's Nest
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Places, Town
  • Alison Oneacre
  • 2003
  • Mount Desert
Wasp's Nest
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Article about residents of Mount Desert Island's Seal Harbor and Northeast Harbor elite. Photographs by Jennifer Livingston. Published in "WMagazine", October 2003.
Edsel Ford's Bright Idea - Mount Desert joins the War effort
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Other
  • People
  • Letitia Baldwin
  • 1995
Description:
Down East Magazine article about Edsel Fords's plan to keep an army of Mainers employed during World War II. Published June 1995.
Marguerite Yourcenar: After 300 years, a woman writer (from Maine, "Mon Dieu"), joins "The Immortals" of France
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Other
  • People
  • Magda Palacci Bleier
  • 1980
Description:
Article about writer Marguerite Yourcenar's acceptance as first woman into the Académie Française. Published in People Magazine, May 5, 1980.
Petite Plaisance
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • Agnes Bushell
  • July 1999
Petite Plaisance
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Article about Marguerite Yourcenar with photographs of her home where she lived with her companion Grace Frick since 1950.
Yourcenar House, Northeast Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • Christopher Glass
  • 2004
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Yourcenar House, Northeast Harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Short article about the simple architecture and interior design of the Marguerite Yourcenar house in Northeast Harbor Yourcenar house, "Petite Plaisance," on Shore Road in Northeast Harbor. Photographs.
Bowdoin remembers: Marguerite Yourcenar 1903-1987
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Other
  • People
  • 1988
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
Short article remembering French Academy writer Marguerite Yourcenar. "For 40 years, one of the most respected French writers of the century lived in a small resort town in Maine - and from time to time visited Bowdoin." Published in Bowdoin magazine, Spring 1988. Vol. 61, No. 3 - An issue devoted to writers.
Maine's Little-Known 'Immortal"
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Other
  • People
  • Jordan Pecile
  • 1982
Maine's Little-Known 'Immortal"
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Short article about French Academy writer Marguerite Yourcenar's quiet life in Northeast Harbor. Published in Down East Magazine, October 1982.
Four Special Summer Places: 1 Northeast Harbor, Maine's snuggest harbor
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Organizations
  • People
  • Places, Town
  • Lorna Livingston
  • 1985
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
Article about many Northeast Harbor summer and year-round families (Mellon, Milliken, Peabody, Strawbridge), organizations (Cranberry Club) and places in town. Published in Town & Country, July 1985.
Francis Hector Clergue, Super Developer
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Charles Francis
  • 2006
Description:
Short biography of Francis Clergue of Brewer, ME who began the development of Bar Harbor (and MDI) as a tourist center. He built the cog railway up Cadillac Mount (then Green Mountain). Published in "Discover Maine", volume 3, issue 7, 2006.
The "Grandes Dames" Who Grace America
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Toni Frissell
  • 1968
Description:
Article published in Life Magazine in 1968 about 9 prominent ladies of American high society: Mrs. T. Charlton Henry Mrs. Christopher Temple Emmet Mrs. Edgard B. Stern Mrs. Nicholas Longworth Mrs. Harper Sibley Mrs. Malcom Peabody Mrs. August Belmont Mrs. Lytle Hull Mrs. Thomas Armstrong
Inspired by China: An interview with Joe Tracy
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Events
  • People
  • John Lavine
  • Feb-07
Description:
Joe Tracy, furniture designer and crafter of Somesville, is interviewed following an exhibition of Chinese furniture at the Peabody Essex Museum in Salem, MA. He details the making of his presentation of a cabinet based on a Chinese tangram.
The Redoubtable Lady of Reef Point
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Anne Raver
  • 1985
  • Bar Harbor
The Redoubtable Lady of Reef Point
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Biography of Beatrix Farrand with focus on the development Reef Point gardens, her summer home in Bar Harbor. Published in Down East Magazine in July 1985.
Martha's Maine
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Structures, Dwellings, House, Cottage
  • John Golden
  • Nov-11
  • Mount Desert, Seal Harbor
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.
The Redoubtable Lady of Reef Point
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Places, Garden
  • Anne Raver
  • 1985
  • Bar Harbor
The Redoubtable Lady of Reef Point
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Short biography of Beatrix Farrand - her family background, her education, her focus on her Reef Point Gardens in Bar Harbor, and her landscape projects, including the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller garden in Seal Harbor. Published in Down East Magazine, July 1985.
Summers at the Eyrie
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Structures, Dwellings, House
  • Ellen MacDonald Ward
  • August 1996
  • Mount Desert, Seal Harbor
Summers at the Eyrie
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Although their Mount Desert summer home was palatial in scale, the Rockefellers came to Seal Harbor each year to enjoy the simple life. This article describes their life.
Summers at the Eyrie
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Ellen MacDonald Ward
  • 1991
  • Mount Desert, Seal Harbor
Summers at the Eyrie
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Description of Rockefeller family life at their summer home "Eyrie" in Seal Harbor. Published in Down East Magazine, August 1991.
Bleachers, Pins, & the Green Line Blues
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Organizations, Civic, Public Library
  • People
  • Aug-75
  • Mount Desert, Northeast Harbor
Description:
A photograph of the Northeast Harbor Library. People in photograph are Mrs. Fay & Ambassador Norman Armour.
Personal Glimpses of Bar Harbor's Lush Era
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Other
  • People
  • Places, Town
  • Nan Cole
  • 1969
  • Bar Harbor
Description:
Memories of growing up in Bar Harbor in the late 1890's and early 1900's. Ms. Cole writes of the John D. Rockefeller Jr. family in Seal Harbor. Many Photographs including an aerial shot of the "Eyrie". Published in Down East Magazine, July 1969.
Lure of the Maine Coast
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • William Witherle
  • Oct-88
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.
Cabot, the mysterious sailor who gave England rights to North American
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Other
  • People
  • Samuel Eliot Morison
  • 1971
Description:
Excerpts from Morison's book, The European Discovery of America (1971), about Cabot's voyages to North America beginning in 1497.
A Playground Contested; Bar Harbor Natives versus Rusticators, 1875-1925
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • Other
  • People
  • Places, Island
  • Lynne Nelson Manion
  • 2001
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.
Fraas & Slade's Art of the Quilt
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Carl Little
  • Jul-08
Fraas & Slade's Art of the Quilt
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Gayle Fraas and Duncan Slade collaborate on one-of-a-kind quilts created with a unique technical skill and creative vision. The couple reside in Edgecomb, ME.
The Art of Richard Estes
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Carl Little
  • 2007
The Art of Richard Estes
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Carl Little reviews some of the works of photograph-realist artist, Richard Estes, of Northeast Harbor and New York. Several photographs of his works are included; one is "Water Taxi" with Nancy McCormick and daughter Nina, Bear Island in background.
Two Geniuses and a Paintbrush
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • 1994
Two Geniuses and a Paintbrush
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Article about the friendship of artist Thomas Eakins and physicist Henry Rowland, summer resident of Seal Harbor, while Eakins spent the summer painting Rowland's portrait. 2 copies.
Change of Scene
Northeast Harbor Library
  • Publication, Clipping, Magazine Clipping
  • People
  • Beth Crichlow
  • 1991
Change of Scene
Northeast Harbor Library
Description:
Short Down East Magazine article, with photographs, of Northeast Harbor artist Richard Estes. 2 copies.