Description: Video recording, DVD copied and returned to donor. No sound. Ted Madara's Family 1940, transferred from 16 mm, 6/2008, Northeast Historic Film. Home movies of family members and friends sailing, fishing,scenes of gulls feeding on a school of fish, seals cavorting, and family rowing, all in and around Northeast and Southwest Harbor and the Cranberry Isles. Includes sailboat headed towards Mount Desert Rock, sailboat race in Southwest Harbor area, picnic on Baker Island. People and items in film include: Florence Hessenbruch, IOD boats in Northeast Harbor, Hermann Hessenbruch, Mount Desert Rock, Frank Faulkingham (Keeper from 1935-1941 on Baker Island), seals, Anna Hessenbruch Madara, Markle Hessenbruch, Edward S. Madara, Ida Hessenbruch, Fir-Lee House (built 1908-1910), Black Island picnic, Polly Hessenbruch. Complete IDs of scenes minute by minute compiled by Ted Madara 2015 in folder. Film may also include a very rare appearance of Mickey Macfarlan's old boat ( in foreground at 16:00). The Hessenbruchs owned the Sutton Island cottage presently (2014) owned by Hartley Rogers ("Fir Lee"). Hessenbruch died 1962, cottage went to Princeton, then Tom __, then Hartley Rogers. [show more]
Description: Very old videos that Mr. Philip Pearson's maternal grandfather took in 1927 and which have been digitized. There are many clips of children (his aunt Coxie and her friends when they were about 13) diving into the pool at the Northeast Harbor Pool. The cold pool. * Digital Location: Dropbox/Archives/Archives Digital Images/NEH old movies.mp4
Description: Documentary film of the Hancock County 4-H Dairy Club developing dairy stock in conjunction with the University of Maine Extension Service & Hancock County Farm Bureau.
Description: A play written by Wini Smart and Bruce Komusin. Presented at the annual meeting of GCI Historical Society August 8, 2001. Spiralbound transcript also on shelf.
Description: This movie was based on the book by the same name written by Rachel Field. The movie was purchased to show in connection with release of a new edition of God's Pocket also written by Rachel Field, a resident of Sutton's Island