Description: digital copies of four photographs taken at the Northeast Harbor Fleet in the summer of 1988. 2023.011.001 - Graham Schelter and a group of sailing school students on the Northeast Harbor Fleet Dock. The girl standing with the pink shirt is Margaret Norris, and the girl with the pink Alice band is Mairsie Webster. The girl seated on the dock, wearing a blue shirt is Eliza ___________. 2023.011.002 - Instructors Julie Thompson and Tom Kennedy with a group of students on the Fleet Dock. Students are: lower left, unknown; above lover left, Mairsie Webster; to the left of Julie Thompson, Augusta Lorber; upper right, Sasha ______; lower right, Georgia Godfrey; bottom middle, Eliza ______. 2023.011.003 - Mairsie Webster wearing the pink Alice band and Eliza _______, with the blue sleeves. 2023.011.004 - Sailing School Roll Call in the Fleet House. Individuals in this photo include: far left, Sailing Master Eric Champlin. Left to right from Eric: white mock turtle neck: (unknown), blue Alice band: Sasha ______, pink Alice band: Mairsie Webster, Sailing instructor John Hutchins, blond boy in a yellow lifejacket: Drew Heckman, Sailing instructor Gretchen Kelly, girl with brown hair and blue top: Morgan ________, girl in red shirt, jeans, and a yellow lifejacket: Brooke Harris, yellow/orange Omega life jacket: Georgia Godfrey, others unknown. [show more]
Description: Full page article published in the Bar Harbor Times, entitled " Sunday in the Parish", featuring clergy and parishioners to celebrate the 75th anniversary of the parish. Several b/w photographs.
Description: Historical address of Dr. Horace Leavitt on the 100th anniversary of the Somesville Union Meeting House. He traces early history of Somesville and many families. Bar Harbor Times, September 19, 1940.
Description: In 1892 the ladies of Southwest Harbor gathered together to raise money for land upon which to build a library building and then reported how they raised their dollar..The Dollar Social was the first fundraising event held for the Southwest Harbor Public Library and the poem describing it was famous in the community for many years.
Description: Held at the Eyrie in Seal Harbor. Attached are the "Articles of Agreement for a Federated Church", by the Massachusetts Federation of Churches. Bulletin No. 14, 6th edition, Sept. 1929.
Description: Bob Pyle's remarks to the Mount Desert residents, trustees, staff and family at the Library's "Open House" in Oct. 2011 honoring his 40+ years of service to the library.
Description: Documents. Exhibit text, labels, photo identifications, and miscellaneous from 2014 GCIHS museum photography exhibit (A). And parsonage house shoes/cape houses exhibit (B) (see also 2015.304.2062).
Description: Journal with transcription. 38-page typed transcription of protestations of ships wrecked on the Cranberry Isles from an original 19th-century ledger/journal kept by William P. Preble 1867-1879. Journal transcribed by Michael Macfarlan c. 2002. One loose page partial protestation for 1893. The back of the journal also contains pages for the accounts pertaining to School district No. 2, the Post Office, and for various islanders (not transcribed). (See also 1000.0.934: selections from 1080 - sea captain's transcribed broadcasts for possible video production. (See also June 2018 Cranberry Chronicle, pages 20-13 - link below) [show more]
Description: Poster for Historical Museum Opener, featuring 2 videos: "Fishing with Wesley Bracy, Jr." and "Ice Harvesting", plus ice lecture by Bill Lawler, held 7 July 2004. (video of lecture on miniDV tape #2004-0004, and see 2013.265.1998 and all years>video)
Description: Program for service of commemoration, 27 Oct 1940 at the Ladies Aid building, including song, with words by Mrs. E.T. Preble, written for dedication of Ladies Aid house in 1908, sung to "America"