Description: Published : Chillicothe, Ill. : Model Technology. Inscribed by the author "To Wendell Gilley, with best wishes to one of the pioneers in this field. We have all benefited from your efforts."
Description: Published: New York : Winchester Press. Page 69 is signed by Frank C. Wilson, a Massachusetts decoy carver who is featured in the book. Wilson's work was for sale in the Wendell Gilley Museum shop.
Description: Audio cassette tape, Side 1: Benefit Concert Cranberry Isles Aug 1974, Robert Bloom oboe, The Monteaux Festival guests, Eugene Vance host, playing Bach & Beethoven. Side 2: Church Service 1977, Robert Bloom oboe, Bill Goldberg, organ, playing Mozart & Handel
Description: Audio cassette tape, Church service 2 Aug 1972, Sara Lambert "Sally" Bloom oboe, Bill Goldberg organ, Robert Bloom recording engineer. Mozart, Handel.
Description: This is the invitation for the College of the Atlantic's fifth commencement celebration in 1977. It is illustrated with a green line drawing of a flowering sprig.
Description: This is the invitation for the College of the Atlantic's fifth commencement celebration, June 4, 1977. It has a print in red ink depicting budding twigs.
Description: This is the invitation for the College of the Atlantic's sixth commencement celebration, held at St. Saviour's Episcopal Church in Bar Harbor in 1978. It has an illustration in blue depicting a perching bird.
Description: This is the invitation for the College of the Atlantic's seventh commencement celebration, June 2, 1979. It has an abstract green design and hand lettering.
Description: Community Improvement Plan Album of the Woman's Literary Club of Northeast Harbor. Contains manuscripts, typescripts, news clippings, photographs, programs.
Description: A large, hard fungus with names of students and faculty that participated in the trip carved into the surface. There is a face drawn with marker on the fungus. Discernible Names: Alexandra Brown Gillian Brown Kate Darling Dick Davis Jonathan Gormley Dan Kane Becky Renaud Steve Williams Billy
Description: Letter discusses publishing Gilley's book in a limited edition as well as including a photograph of Gilley with an osprey as an insert. It also mentions a carving of an owl and another of a bobwhite quail on a hatchet.
Description: Letter discusses sending text, artwork, and photos for the book, Art of Bird Carving, to Byron Cheever. Flying goose, bob-white and blue quail carvings are also mentioned.
Description: Wendell suggests carvings he had on hand that could be photographed to illustrate his book. Birds he suggests are: bob white quail, scaled quail, flock of 7 Canada geese, pair of Wilson snipe, pair of grouse, single woodcock, several miniature birds of all types, great blue heron with trout in mouth, group of three pintails, life size eagle, pair of life size wood duck, spotted sandpiper on mussel shell, life size pileated woodpecker, pair of eagles with two babies in nest. [show more]
Description: Photocopy from the original by Byron Cheever listing questions he had regarding publishing Gilley's book. Gilley's answers as dictated to Donal C. O'Brien, Jr. are in pencil after each question.
Description: Original letter from Byron Cheever, Publisher of North American Decoys, expressing Cheever's willingness to publish Wendell Gilley's book and asking questions about publication and printing details.