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| "Raid On Enemy Ship Is Highly Successful." Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "Raid On Enemy Ship Is Highly Successful." Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: "Raid On Enemy Ship Is Highly Successful." Part 187 of Fred Humiston's "Blue Water Men - And Women." This story tells of a Edward Preble being sent to prison where he contracted typhus and was dying until he was saved a family friend. The story goes on to tell about how Preble saved prisoners off of a British War Ship |
| "Edward Turns Tables On That Terrible Turk!" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "Edward Turns Tables On That Terrible Turk!" Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: "Edward Turns Tables On That Terrible Turk!" Part 183 of Fred Humiston's "Blue Water Men - And Women." This story starts off by telling a brief story of Edward Preble saying he was the "Father of the Navy," and "He was born to the sea: salt was in his blood." The article then shifts to Edwards father Jebediah Preble, saying that he was a humorous man who was known for his practical jokes. The rest of the article consists of a story about Edward branding a turk. [show more] |
| "Promotion To Captain Keeps Preble In Navy." Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "Promotion To Captain Keeps Preble In Navy." Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: "Promotion To Captain Keeps Preble in the Navy." Part 191 of Fred Humiston's "Blue Water Men - And Women." This article tells the story about Lieutenant Edward Preble getting promoted to a captain. After his promotion Preble was commanded to take a ship to the east indies, and then return with other sailors. It says that the ship hit some troubles with the sails, but since Preble was a better sailor he was able to handle the trouble. The article ends with telling the readers about how Preble and eight other sailors got sick on the ride home, but Preble was not able to fully recover from it. [show more] |
| "Lure Of Life At Sea attracts Edward Preble." Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "Lure Of Life At Sea attracts Edward Preble." Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: "Lure Of Life At Sea attracts Edward Preble." Part 184 of Fred Humiston's "Blue Water Men - And Women." This story starts off talking about Edward Prebles father and his love for practical jokes. This article tells the story about how Edward was always meant to be a seaman. The article ends by saying " 'One voyage aboard a privateer will cure him of any notion of making the sea his profession.' He couldn't have been more wrong." [show more] |
| Spurling- Andrew B. Spurling. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Spurling- Andrew B. Spurling. Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper Articles on Andrew B. Spurling. The first article is entitled "Reminder of a Gallant Soldier." This article is about A.B Spurling being a gallant soldier during the civil war, and him getting a portrait featured in the State House. This article also mentions Samuel Spurling, and tells a story of A.B's upbringing. The second article is about the same portrait mentioned in the first article. This article is about how the portrait of A.B Spurling being in an appropriate place for the portrait to remain. The last article is entitled "Brought in Three Live Johnnies." This article is about A.B Spurling receiving a metal of honor for gallantry during the Civil War. This article tells a story of how A.B was captured by three rebel soldier and he singlehandedly fought them and brought them back to union territory. [show more] | ||
| Surprising Revelations: Intimacies in the Letters Between Charles W. Eliot, George B. Dorr & John D. Rockefeller Jr. Jesup Memorial Library |
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|  Surprising Revelations: Intimacies in the Letters Between Charles W. Eliot, George B. Dorr & John D. Rockefeller Jr. Jesup Memorial Library Description: Text of the lecture given by Ronald H. Epp on August 10, 2016, at the Jesup Memorial Library in Bar Harbor, Maine. | |
| Portland Press Herald. Headline: "Roosevelt Reelected Sweeps Nation. Maine Goes for Landon By Big Margin" Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Portland Press Herald. Headline: "Roosevelt Reelected Sweeps Nation. Maine Goes for Landon By Big Margin" Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: Four pages from the morning edition of the Portland Press Herald from Wednesday, November 4, 1936. Major stories focus on the landslide re-election of Franklin D. Roosevelt as President of the United States despite Maine's electoral votes going to his opponent, Alf Landon. Also included are classified advertisements and local news from communities throughout the state. Also story re Newman - Leland R. Newman (1876-1936) of Winter Harbor, ME dies of exposure and shock after capsize. People Mentioned: Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Alf M. Landon, William Lemke, David Grange, Joseph Curran, Alfred E. Smith, Mrs. Alfred E. Smith, Edward Rydz-Smigly, Marshal Pilsudski, Eleanor Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt Jr., Mrs. James Roosevelt Sr., Francisco Franco, John Nance Garner, Frank Knox, Charles L. Carder, Mary Carder, D. G. Carder, Beatrice Richards, Parker L. Starrett, C. B. Bogle, Nettie Burleigh, Katherine Potter, Mrs. Paul Otto, Mrs. Alf M. Landon, John M. Landon, Mrs. A. E. Todd, Mrs. R. R. Bittman, Theo Cobb Landon, Nancy Jo Landon, Peggy Ann Landon, Belle D'Arcy, Charles A. Day, Jose Fernandez, Lottie Dunton Gilman, George H. Gilman, Helouise Francoeur Laberge, Henry McUne, Martin J. Murphy, Alice M. Plummer, Fred W. Plummer, Sadie M. Storer, Clarence E. Storer, William H. Storer, Ralph Mitchell, Ella Martha Widdows, George B. Russell, Maria Russell, Frank Russell, Winfield Storer, A. B. Widdows, James Legg, Lydia Legg, Ernest L. Widdows, Howard B. Widdows, James C. Widdows, Mrs. Harley Hyde, Mrs. Carl Lawrence, Earl Legg, Charles Legg, A. P. Legg, Mary E. Legg, Edith Bean, Herbert Hoover, J. Henry Roraback, Melzer T. Crawford, William H. Crawford, Mary Althea Howard Crawford, Donald Crawford, Weston P. Holman, Marshall Snow, Rose Murgita, N. A. Fogg, Robert H. Duenner, Mrs. Wallis Simpson, David Y. Alkazin, Olive Thompson, Harriet Buker, Joe Soffayer, Henry A. Lessard, William Erswell, James Lewis, Horace Polchier, John Nelson, Daniel Mitchell, Luther S. Smith, Abraham Lincoln, Rodney E. Marshall, Mrs. Rodney E. Marshall, Allen R. Chaplin, Mrs. Allen R. Chaplin, Leona Dyer, Arthur E. Dyer, Mrs. Arthur E. Dyer, Elizabeth Snow, Ralph Weaver, Mark Snow, Howard Grover, Wilbur Warren, Leonard Pitts, Samuel Chesey, Elmer Evans, Grace L. Dyke, Harold Stacy, Mrs. Harold Stacy, Jeanette Stacy, Lucille Stacy, Edson Stacy, Elywin Sanborn, Ruth Burnell, Everett L. Chadbourne, Louise Hill, Sarah Terry, Agnes Kennedy, Annie Folsom, Theodore Decker, Mrs. Harry L. Jones, Emma C. Chadbourne, Edward S. Douglas, Robert Douglas, Mrs. Fred L. Robinson, Gerald Wood, Earle Day, Wyman Famsdell, Miriam Kelley, Ralph Mills, Charles E. Breen, John H. Breen, Emery J. Knowlton [show more] | |
| Newspaper article commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Eastern Maine Basketball Champions of 1924 Great Harbor Maritime Museum |
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|  Newspaper article commemorating the 60th anniversary of the Eastern Maine Basketball Champions of 1924 Great Harbor Maritime Museum Description: The photograph is a newspaper clipping (text on reverse) from April 12, 1984 that describes 1924 championship team. The Gilman High School of Northeast Harbor basketball team and their coach Stanley Week posed outside after winning the Eastern Maine basketball tournament at the University of Maine at Orono in 1924. The players are in uniform, and Week holds the plaque they won. People Depicted: Stanley Week, Burton Seavey, Edward Ralph, Albert Manchester, Stuart Branscom, Horace Bucklin, Francis Atwood, Jerome Knowles, Merrill Whitmore and Paul Bucklin. Also mentioned in the article are Douglas Driscoll, Carl Kelley Black and white [show more] | |
| Appreciation of Carl Nelson from Boston Globe Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Appreciation of Carl Nelson from Boston Globe Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper clipping, Appreciation of Carl Nelson, from Boston Globe | |||
| Carl Nelson artwork Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Carl Nelson artwork Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, news release about retrospective exhibit at Carl Nelson's house, highlighting his art. Dated Aug (1988) | ||
| A Little Bit of Hell, Maine Style Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| A Little Bit of Hell, Maine Style Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Article: A Little Bit of Hell, Maine Style. (TBD 1/9/18, article not located; see also pending Backlog item 2501 for possible copy.) See reprint in Cranberry Chronicle Spring 2014 edition, page 7, from Bangor Daily News ca. 1919; Sam Spurling was aboard the Cashier during this event. Introductory paragraph: “A Little Bit of Hell—Maine Style That’s What Capt. Spurling Gave a Pirate. State Gets Tokens of His Courage. from the Bangor Daily News, ca. 1919 It was just ninety-six years ago Tuesday (Jan. 21) that an event happened in the harbor of Trinidad, Cuba, which reflected great credit on the leader of a bold enterprise, recollections of which have recently been stirred in Maine, on account of the purchase by the state of a brace of pistols and a sword from Mrs. E. Preble of Framingham, Mass…..” And see Charles Liebow notes on the Cashier: - CASHIER: Masters - Samuel Spurling & William Moore, Built in Eden in 1820, 30 Gross Tons, 49.8/17.8/5.3: Two masts with a square stern. Perhaps the vessel from which Sam Spurling gave the Caribbean pirates a "little bit of Hell, Maine style." [show more] | ||
| "Island writer reels in the lore of fishing" by Carl Little 1926 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "Island writer reels in the lore of fishing" by Carl Little 1926 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper clipping, "Island writer reels in the lore of fishing" by Carl Little, Bar Harbor Times, 21 Nov 1996: about John McDonald of NYC, who summered on GCI in the small white house opposite the Preble house. He wrote several important books about angling, as well as "My Years With General Motors by Alfred Sloan." (Scanned, clear copy also made.) | |||
| Heck of a Halibut, article 2004; Bracy's 200-pound halibut Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Heck of a Halibut, article 2004; Bracy's 200-pound halibut Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper clipping, Mount Desert Islander, 17 Jun 2004, "Heck of a Halibut... Cranberry Isles fisherman Junior Bracy caught this nearly 200-pound halibut while out fishing off Duck Island on June 7. It dressed out at 154 pounds. Mr. Bracy and his sternman, son Scott, are third and fourth generation fishermen from Cranberry Island." | |||
| Herman Savage carves boats for many mantles 1980 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Herman Savage carves boats for many mantles 1980 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper clipping, "Cranberry Island model maker carves boats for many mantles", Bar Harbor Times, 17 Jul 1980, about Herman Savage | |||
| John Saltonstall, 77, kills attacking shark Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| John Saltonstall, 77, kills attacking shark Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper clipping, Boston Globe, 5 Aug 1955, "John Saltonstall, 77, kills attacking shark", with photo of John Saltonstall, also with envelope that held the clippings | ||
| Newspaper clippings about island life Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Newspaper clippings about island life Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper clippings about island life | |||
| John McDonald tribute Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| John McDonald tribute Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Appreciation of John McDonald by James M. Storey, biographical, probably published in alumni magazine | |||
| Retrospective exhibit at Carl Nelson's house 1988 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Retrospective exhibit at Carl Nelson's house 1988 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper clipping, about retrospective exhibit at Carl Nelson's house, highlighting his art. From Bar Harbor Times, 25 Aug 1988. | ||
| Sammy Sanford and Peter Richardson article Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Sammy Sanford and Peter Richardson article Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Sammy Sanford and Peter Richardson from the Grotonian Articles | |||
| Collection of copies about Rachel Field publications Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Collection of copies about Rachel Field publications Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Collection of copies about Rachel Field publications | |||
| "Reflections of a Winter's Night: Growing up on Islesford in the 1940's & 1950' Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "Reflections of a Winter's Night: Growing up on Islesford in the 1940's & 1950' Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Islesford Historical Society publication of "Reflections of a Winter's Night: Growing up on Islesford in the 1940's & 1950's" By Hugh Dwelley November 1995 | |||
| Edward Preble, Hero: 1947 Radio broadcast Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Edward Preble, Hero: 1947 Radio broadcast Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Booklet. 7 pages single-sided. "Edward Preble, Hero: An Address". Written by Colonel Robert R. McCormick. Dated September 27, 1947. Radio broadcast over WGN and the Mutual Broadcasting System. | |||
| Article about Sara Lambert Bloom Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Article about Sara Lambert Bloom Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Document, promotional article about Sara Lambert Bloom, oboist, with good photos | |||
| "In Memorium", by Elmenia T. Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| "In Memorium", by Elmenia T. Preble Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Poem, handwritten, "In Memorium", by Elmenia T. Preble, Chicago, in praise of a woman who was first to suggest the building of the church on GCI. (probably in praise of Abigail C. Preble) | |||
| Copy of 1995-1996 "The 'DELIGHTful' phone book Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Copy of 1995-1996 "The 'DELIGHTful' phone book Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: A copy of the 1995-1996 "The 'DELIGHTful' phone book" |