Description: Promotional Clippings of Ted Shawn and his Ensemble of Men Dancers. Ted Shawn dance company performed in at the Bar Harbor Building of the Arts in 1938, the bottom clipping advertises that performance. Ted Shawn was one of the first notable male pioneers of American modern dance.
Description: Framed newspaper article regarding actress Annette Kellerman and the 1952 movie "Million Dollar Mermaid" about Kellerman's life in which actress Esther Williams portrays Kellerman. Clipping has two photos, one showing Esther Williams and Annette Kellerman looking at a sketch of a Kellerman inspired bathing suit and the second photo depicts Williams in the bathing suit.
Description: Newspaper clippings on a variety of topics: Bar Harbor Times April 25, 1985- Article titled Pretty Marsh Endeavors to Maintain Rural Traditions Bar Harbor Times March 10, 1994- Mazie E. Smallidge obituary. Unknown Newspaper- Editorial on landing rights to the boat launching area. Bar Harbor Times October 20.2005-Obituary for David E. McGiffert a summer resident of Pretty Marsh. Bar Harbor Times October 1, 1987- Photo and caption by Nan Lincoln of Alyssa Jones. Bar Harbor Tmes December 22, 1988- Article on Pretty Marsh Christmas. [show more]
Description: Newspaper article from unknown paper and unknown date about the proposed building of a recycling center at the town grange site in Pretty Marsh, Maine.
Description: Collection consists of three boxes of archival files donated by the Seal Harbor Library pertaining to the history of Seal Harbor village and Acadia National Park. An itemized summary of each boxes' contents is enclosed in each box. Three sets of articles from the Bar Harbor Times about the Fire of 1947.
Description: Obituaries: A=Andrew Stanley 1969; B=Elisha Bunker and Edgar Bunker (father and son); C=Mrs. Winslow Bunker 1967; D=Leslie M. Rice 1966; E=Lena M. Stanley 1965; F&G= James R. Dwelley 1955 (father of Hugh Dwelley). Seven photographs: People H-L: H=Shirley Phippen (son of Leslie and Marjorie Phippen; I=Herbert and Florence Towns on sled; J="Brother Perley on boat, Stanley?, Addie Duren's brother". Houses K-M: K= Donald house; L= Reverend Nelson/Sherman Cottage which burned down ca. 1961 and the Wards built on this site; M= unknown house. [show more]
Description: Elizabeth Peterson came from Pennsylvania to become first a summer residetn and later year round resident of Gotts Island, Tremont, Hancock, Maine.
Description: Newspaper clippings: A= Mr. and Mrs. Charles E. Stanley renew wedding vows, 1960. B= Schooner Nile of Bath, F.H. Lewis master wreck in Winthrop (no date).
Description: Newspaper article, 1886 Boston Globe. "February 8, 2006, These remnants of the Boston Globe newspaper of 1886 were found sandwiched between floor boards in the kitchen, confirmng that the kitchen had been an addition to the Great Cranberry Island Parish House (aka Parsonage) approximately 122 years ago." Two tattered articles: "The City's Chief Ruler" and "To Reduce the Fare" were mounted and framed in 2006. (See also Parsonage House shoes research and Cape houses research GCIHS 2015.304.2062.) [show more]
Description: Document. Newspaper article, "Russians and Yankees Battle Mosquitoes on Cranberry Isles" Boston Evening Transcript, Saturday, July 28, 1928, page 3. An Expert Leads the Forces and Guarantees to Drive the Pests Out or No Pay; By Karl Schriftgiesser, Northeast Harbor, Me. Article begins: "Eighteen Russians and native Yankees are fighting a desperate battle on the Cranberry Isles that shelter the south side of Mt. Desert from fury of the seas." This sardonic article explains the project to rid the Cranberry Isles of mosquitoes. Mentions Moorfield Storey's role; and Major Edward Skinner was the engineer (founder of the United States Drainage and Irrigation Company); cost $12,000. Article states that "It is the first place anywhere in the State of Maine that mosquito eradication will have been attempted." Mentions several sites to be worked on: a crisscross of trenches will drain a "salt marsh covers between eight and nine hundred acres and is free of all drainage." As well as "The "haith," as it is known locally, is nearly a mile in length. Now a long trench stretches the long way and other transverse ditches help to drain it." And "A dozen or so other swamps and salt marsh areas dot the island." "Deep down into these beaches of rock and gravel and sand wooden outlets have been sunk. In some instances the depth has been from six to twelve feet. The outlets have been constructed of heavy timbers rather than of iron or clay pipes because wood alone can withstand the constant buffeting of heavy rocks tossed hither and yon by a sea that is often in an angry mood. Iron would break, clay would crumble, wood alone can stand the strain." "On Great Cranberry there is a point of ground known locally for years as Pond Point. In this area are (or rather, were) Birlem's pond and the so-called Salt Lakes. Scientific drainage has entirely dissipated Birlem's pond and when the huge twelve-foot drain through a dishearteningly rocky beach has been completely cut the Salt Lakes will have been drained slowly into the sea." Mentions the 70-foot whale that beached itself there during WWII. "Near Green Spot and Long Point other treacherous bogs have been drained. Islesford, as Little Cranberry rather vainly calls itself, is fast being dried up. Sutton, the aristocrat of the small archipelago, is quickly becoming a pestless place." "Some of the native population is skeptical of results. Others, led by such whole-hearted citizens as Mr. and Mrs. John Hamor and Millard Spurling, have done fine work to help Mr. Storey in the war of which he is the prime mover. Summer residents of the islands and nearby harbors, the Cranberry Club, and other organizations have helped considerably." See complete transcript by Bruce Komusin. Article was in a wood and glass frame with cardboard backing, badly deteriorated. Removed from frame 9/18/14. [show more]
Description: A write up of Patti D'Angelo's work on Cranberry Island with the elementary school and interview with Tud Bunker as well as an explanation of her affiliation with the College of the Atlantic.
Description: Newspaper clipping, "The Subway Sailors Who Saved New York", Saturday Evening Post 13 May 1944, about John Stanley being decorated for bravery aboard blazing ammunition ship. (3 pages)
Description: Newpaper, "The Working Waterfront" Aug 2001, see page 10, article "Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Builds a New Museum from Scratch"
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.
Description: Magazine clippings, photos & articles on coronation of Queen Elizabeth II: Star Weekly (Toronto, Can.) 6 June 1953 (pp. 1-4, 7-10); Life 27 Apr 1953 (cover page only, with address label "Capt. Frank L Stanley, GCI); Sunday News (New York) 31 May 1953 (complete photo section, pp 1-20).
Description: Newpaper clipping, Bangor Daily News, 6 June 1956, pp. 17-18 & 21-22, "Maine Greets Opening of Yarmouth-Bar Harbor Ferry," about the new ferry terminal in Bar Harbor, and the Bluenose ferry.
Description: The Old Homestead, a poem by E.T. Preble., reminisces about the Preble house on GCI and all the lives now past. The author of the poem is most likely Elmenia Thompson Spurling, b. 19 Aug 1840, who married first Ezra Carroll, then William Henry Preble. Elmenia had four children by Preble, one being Abby Lizzie Preble, b. 25 Sep 1865, d. 24 Dec 1901 in Chicago. (Statement at bottom of poem connects author to GCI Preble house.)
Description: (A) Six oceanfront lots for sale by Marr family along the Western Way (southwest coast) on Great Cranberry, July 2, 1970 Bar Harbor Times. (B) Map of lots for sale listing the lots as Cranberry Cove, Spruce Haven, Rockledge, Preble Cove, Western Way, and Roberts (on Long Point).
Description: (A) Deane Spurling Whitney 10/2/1994 obituary; (B) Ida M. Spurling obituary 4/5/1994; and (C) wedding announcement for Harold Spurling & mabel Ingersol of Lynn.
Description: Wilfred Bunker (about age 43) receives cargo on stern of the Island Queen. "Mail Route - Men at Southwest Harbor load mail for delivery at Cranberry Island and Islesford." Photo shows the mail boat at the Lower Town Dock in Southwest Harbor. Photo for newspaper by L. Spiker. The Island Queen was built in 1963. Beal & Bunker moved operations to Northeast Harbor in 1972.