Description: Handwritten partial history of the A Class Design. Includes quotes from E.R. Welles. It appears to be part of a forward for a future article. Gaff Rigged Sloop. Known also as an H class Previously accessioned as 007.121
Mount Desert Island Historical Society Bicentennial Committee
Date:
1961
Description: Two typewritten pages of Bicentennial notes pertaining to 1) Hamilton Pond and Northeast Creek, 2) dirigible visits to Mt. Desert Island and 3) granges.
Description: Arcady Music Festival Can Arcady raise $47,500 of income this winter? Yellow page has p numbers 3 and 4 but other assoicated pages, board member profile and address list do not have page numbers
Description: Five handwritten pages describing the founding, incorporation, early members and officers and early meetings of the MDI Historical Society. The Society was founded in 1931. The Society was founded for the purpose of maintaining a museum in the village of Somesville to educate, inform and benefit the public. Annual meeting activity from 1931-1935 is summarized.
Description: In a small yellow envelope, four handwritten back-to-back note pages denoting various religious, philosophical and biological facts or beliefs. Notepaper is that of O.H. Fernald, Principal, Greenwich Academy, East Greenwich, R.I. Also included in envelope is a newspaper clipping from an unknown source entitled "Remote Possibilities." Stated to be part of LaRue Spiker Collection, in folder marked "Mrs. Dorr."
Description: Typed notes on protest by Mount Desert Residents of establishing a Court of Common Please at Machias. 2 pages. Previously archived as 011.FIC.49
Description: Handwritten list of signers of a petition to keep the Court of Common Pleas at Pownelboro. Shows residence of signers. Previously archived as object id 011.FIC.49
Description: Handwritten notes in reference to petition to have Court of Common Pleas at Pownelboro with list of signers. 2 pages. Previously archived as 011.FIC.49
Description: Handwritten notes on the objection to moving the Court of Common Pleas from Pownelboro to Machias. 7 pages. Previously archived as object id 011.FIC.49
Description: Typed notes by LaRue Spiker - extracts from ‘North with the Spring’ by Edwin Way Teale. For her research for an article on Florida. 3 pages. Previously accessioned as **1963, Object Id **1963