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Mount Desert Island Was A Breathless Discovery Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Mount Desert Island Was A Breathless Discovery Northeast Harbor Library | ||
Resort Town War-Minded Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Resort Town War-Minded Northeast Harbor Library Description: Several clipped articles about the 1943 war time activity in the Town of Mount Desert. Focus on residents: Wilma Clark Eaton, Herbert Thomas (town manager), servicemen Fred Ralph, James McElroy, Ray Young, and Charles Stover. | ||
Robert Bloom retirement article Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Robert Bloom retirement article Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, 2 pages, photocopy of newspaper article "Au Revoir, not goodbye" by Gordon Emerson, written around March 1980, about retirement of Robert Bloom. Annotated with note by Sara Lambert "Sally" Bloom saying the job of assembling and publishing Bob Bloom's music, mentioned in the article, took longer than expected. | ||
Edsel Ford's Bright Idea - Mount Desert joins the War effort Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Edsel Ford's Bright Idea - Mount Desert joins the War effort Northeast Harbor Library Description: Down East Magazine article about Edsel Fords's plan to keep an army of Mainers employed during World War II. Published June 1995. | ||
"Between the Hills" and its 100 year old church. Northeast Harbor Library |
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| "Between the Hills" and its 100 year old church. Northeast Harbor Library Description: Historical address of Dr. Horace Leavitt on the 100th anniversary of the Somesville Union Meeting House. He traces early history of Somesville and many families. Bar Harbor Times, September 19, 1940. | |
Marguerite Yourcenar: After 300 years, a woman writer (from Maine, "Mon Dieu"), joins "The Immortals" of France Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Marguerite Yourcenar: After 300 years, a woman writer (from Maine, "Mon Dieu"), joins "The Immortals" of France Northeast Harbor Library Description: Article about writer Marguerite Yourcenar's acceptance as first woman into the Académie Française. Published in People Magazine, May 5, 1980. | ||
Bowdoin remembers: Marguerite Yourcenar 1903-1987 Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Bowdoin remembers: Marguerite Yourcenar 1903-1987 Northeast Harbor Library 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 |
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| 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. | ||
Maine Pilgrims Followed Prophet to Holy Land Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Maine Pilgrims Followed Prophet to Holy Land Northeast Harbor Library Description: Article about the "Church of the Messiah" sect, lead by G. J. Adams, in Indian River, ME, their pilgrimage to Jaffa in 1866. Material from Carl Kelley | ||
Personal Glimpses of Bar Harbor's Lush Era Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Personal Glimpses of Bar Harbor's Lush Era Northeast Harbor Library 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. | |
Cabot, the mysterious sailor who gave England rights to North American Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Cabot, the mysterious sailor who gave England rights to North American Northeast Harbor Library 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 |
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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. | ||
History of Sutton Island Features Review of Early Settlers and Island Homes Northeast Harbor Library |
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| History of Sutton Island Features Review of Early Settlers and Island Homes Northeast Harbor Library Description: August 20, 1938 Sutton Island history. | |
Re-enacting Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Re-enacting Northeast Harbor Library Description: Copy of an article about Civil War Reenactments by Joseph Smith, teacher at Mt. Desert Elementary School in early 1980's. Mr. Smith was actively involved with the Maine Civil War Company reenactment group. | ||
La Grande Poetesse du Maine... Northeast Harbor Library |
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| La Grande Poetesse du Maine... Northeast Harbor Library Description: Brief biography and review of the works of Hortense Flexner, poetess, of Sutton Island. Mr. Little quotes Marguerite Yourcenar for details of Flexner's life and works, some of which Madam Yourcenar translated. Published in "Island Journal", Volume Seven, 1990 | ||
Gone and Back Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Gone and Back Northeast Harbor Library Description: Northeast Harbor author recounts daughter's torturous journey through drug abuse in a book entitled "Augusta Gone: A True Story" by Martha Dudman, Simon & Schuster, NY | ||
Prescott The American Thucydides Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Prescott The American Thucydides Northeast Harbor Library Description: Review of Morison's book about William Hickling Prescott of Boston, noted author and historian. | |||
Collection of Rachel Field's Hitty Preble materials Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Collection of Rachel Field's Hitty Preble materials Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of Rachel Field/Hitty items, 1098a-g. (a) News article "Hitty Comes Home" Bar Harbor Times May 27, 2004. (b) News article "Children's books Include Rachel Field favorite" Mount Desert Islander May 18, 2006. Apparently, "Grace for an Island Meal" was her favorite. (c) 3 different printed copies of "Big Hitty" postcards. (d) Two-page genealogy "The Field Family of Stockbridge in the 1800s" covering 1781-1942, and ending with the death of Rachel Field. (e) Two writings by Rachel Field. "A Valentine for Old Dolls" and "Acceptance Paper", which she read after winning the Newbery Medal for "Hitty" in 1030. (f) Article by the Macmillan Company "Dorothy P. Lathrop" illustrator of Rachel Field's works. (g) Article from COMPASS, Aug 31, 2006, "Do You Know Who Hitty Is? If So, We've Got a Weekend for You", with announcement of "All this and Hitty too: a doll, a book, a seminar" held in Stockbridge, MA September 15-17, 2006. Also one-page "Looking Back at Hitty's Second Hundred Years" a talk by Margaret Chang, Delivered at the "all this and Hitty Too" Seminar of the Stockbridge Library Assocition, September 16, 2006. Actually, items d-g probably were all distributed at this seminar [show more] | |||
Approximately My Idea of Heaven Northeast Harbor Library |
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| Approximately My Idea of Heaven Northeast Harbor Library Description: Carl Little presents a brief biography of Elizabeth Bishop, poetess and summer resident of North Haven, with excerpts of her poems and letters. Published in "Island Journal", Volume Twenty, 2003 |