Description: Includes Municipal Department Reports, Board & Committee Reports, Conners-Emerson School Report, MDI Regional School Committee, Financial Reports, Warrant, State Senator, State Representative.120 pps.
Description: Photocopy excerpt pertaining to Stephen Jones of Gouldsborough, with handwritten notes on reverse pertaining to Thomas Richardson of Bass Harbor and the partitioning of land on MDI.
Description: "One Summer in Seal Harbor" -- an article from the Johns Hopkins Magazine, June 1995, recounting the relationship between artist Thomas Eakins and physicist Henry Rowland. Describes Eakins' painting of a portrait of Rowland, discusses Rowland's career and describes the construction of "Craigstone", the Rowland cottage in Seal Harbor. Includes biographical information on both Rowland and Eakins.
Description: Magazine article in the Scribners Magazine by Bertram B. Fowler on the condition of fishing in Maine in 1937. As early as this the author is promoting co-operatives.” As the fish go, so goes the coast of Maine-unless something is done to remedy the conditons which have sapped the morale of the fishermen from Portland to Canada”.
Description: Includes Municipal Department Reports, Board & Committee Reports, Conners-Emerson School Report, MDI Regional School Committee, Financial Reports, Warrant, State Senator, State Representative.102 pps.
Description: Article from June 1982 Down East magazine about stoneworks of Acadia National Park, designed by Frederick Law Olmsted and financed by John D. Rockefeller, Jr.
Description: Article about 1917 filming of Fox Film Company's "Queen of the Sea" on Sand Beach and along Ocean Drive, from Sept. 1981 issue of Down East magazine
Description: Contents: C.C. Little and the Founding of the Jackson Laboratory, Martha Harmon The Episcopal Church Comes to Mount Desert Island, The Rev. Edwin Atlee Garrett, III Making America Work: a Look at Christians and Jews on Mount Desert Island, Judith Goldstein Review: A History of Bartlett's Island, Mount Desert, Maine, Michael McGiffert
Description: Vol. VII, 2012: The Woman's Question: Francis Parkman's Arguments Against Women's Suffrage by Tim Garrity "Women got the vote fifty long years ago" by La Rue Spiker Elinor Wylie's Mount Desert Island Retreat by Carl Little A Literary Refuge: Ruth Moore and Eleanor Mayo by Sven Davisson Casualties: The Women of Mount Desert and the Civil War by Tim Garrity Sargent House: A Woman's Gift to the Outer Island of Down East Maine by Rosamond S. Rea Reflections of a Natural Historian by Ruth Gortner Grierson [show more]
Description: Vol. XII, 2011 History Builds Community by Jack Russell The Histories of Saint Sauveur by Tim Garrity "Indians Camping at Somesville" by Adelma Somes Joy Asticou's Fjord or Somes Sound? Mythistory of Wabanaki Dispossession by Harald E.L. Prins and Bunny McBride "Mansell Mountain Breakdown" and "Winter Walk" by Carl Little "Elegy for my Brother 1997," "The Apple" and "In Praise of White" by Beth Straus John Gilley Fell at the Battle of the Wilderness by Tim Garrity "Hurray for 'Another Reason'" by Hellmut Juretschke An Afternoon with David Rockefeller, David Rockefeller with Kathleen Miller Thoughts While Keeping Warm on January 25, 2011 by Bill Horner MD [show more]
Description: Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society (continues The History Journal of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society) Vol. VI, 2004 Godly Discipline and Charitable Walking: The Congregational Church of the Town of Mount Desert--the First Fifty Years by Michael MdGiffert Icy, Corkscrew and Whalesback: Discriptive Terms in The Placenames of Mount Desert Island by Henry A. Raup George Dorr's Vision for "Garden Approaches" to Acadia National Park by Ronald H. Epp Beatrix Farrand (1872-1959) by Patrick Chasse A Russian in Retrospect: Lev Vladimir Goriansky by Carl Little Local Color: Charmian Kittredge London by Ralph W. Stanley The Sketch of the Life of Nicholas Thomas of Eden--Written by himself August 6th 1857--Age 78 Review: A Transcription of Trenton's Cemeteries, So They Are Not Forgotten by Seth Singleton [show more]
Description: Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Historical Society Vol. X, 2009 Two Voices, One Island: A Dialogue by John R. Gillis and Christina Marsden Gillis The Future of MDI's Natural World by Ruth Gortner Grierson The Cobbler's: A Somesville Home for the Generations by Thomas Dresser Island Poets and Poems: Nancy Dew Taylor, Anne Mazlish, Hellmut Juretschke, Christime Chronis, Carl Little The Memorials of Acadia National Park by Don Lenahan Nabobs of the Northeast by Jerry Miller Lyford Stanley: A Maine Boat Builder Remembered, Reminiscences of Friends and Family [show more]
Description: Vol. II, 1999 Great Duck Island--At Sea and on Memory's Horizon by Peter P. Blanchard III The Legends of Talleyrand by Gladys Butler Maypole Point by Rachel Field The Acadians, Their Culture and Their Influence on Mount Desert, edited by Anne Mazlish Fred Savage, The Cottage Builder by Jaylene Roths Review--Mount Desert: A History by Michael McGiffert
Description: The History Journal of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Vol. III, 2000 C.C. Little and the Founding of the Jackson Laboratory by Martha Harmon The Episcopal Church Comes to Mount Desert Island by The Rev. Edwin Atlee Garrett, III, Th. M. Making America Work: A Look at Chriatians and Jews on Mount Desert Island by Judith Goldstein Review--A History of Bartlett's Island, Mount Desert, Maine by Michael McGiffert
Description: The History Journal of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Vol. V, 2003 Transcription of the Early Records of Mount Desert by Patti Leland-Hanson Boatbuilding During World War II: MDI, Ellsworth, Stonington & Blue Hill by Ralph W. Stanley Establishing Dr. Abbe's Museum in Mr. Dorr's Park by Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D The Green Mountain Railway: Bar Harbor's Remarkable Cog Railroad by Peter Dow Bachelder Preview--The Story of Mt. Desert Island and Acadia National Park by Anne Funderburk Review--Cemeteries of Cranberry Isles and the Towns of Mount Desert Island by Michael McGiffert [show more]
Description: The History Journal of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Vol. IV, 2001-2002 LaRue Spiker and "America's Most Beautiful Island" by Elizabeth Redhear A Playground Contested: Bar Harbor Natives and Rusticators, 1875-1925 by Lynne Nelson Manion College of the Atlantic: The First Three Decades by William Carpenter Review--A History of Little Cranberry Island, Maine by Michael McGiffert Review--The Story of Mount Desert Island by Carl Little [show more]