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| Select Wooden Boat and Down East Magazines Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Select Wooden Boat and Down East Magazines Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Clippings from issues of Wooden Boat and Down East Magazines featuring boats and boatbuilders located in or near Southwest Harbor. | |||
| Vanda, the Most Luxurious Yacht Ever Built In New England Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Vanda, the Most Luxurious Yacht Ever Built In New England Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Three articles in the Thursday, October 4, 1928 edition of The Bath Independent (price three cents) about the luxury yacht Vanda. The main article is about the boat's launching, the second is about its brass fittings, and the third is about its comfort. The third article continues on page three which was not available from the source. Also attached to this item is what appears to be an advertisement from Bath Iron Works which includes a photo of Vanda in the upper right. [show more] | ||
| Newspaper Clippings featuring the Claremont Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Newspaper Clippings featuring the Claremont Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: "At inn overlooking the sea, tradition has a capital T" from The Globe and Mail - September 21, 1994 "Claremont spruces up for another century" from The Bar Harbor Times - August 18, 1994 "Visitor's guide to a lush Maine isle" from The New York Sunday Times -August 9, 1989 A write up by Charles C. Calhoun in MAINE - 1994 "An escape to Acadia Park when the crowds have gone" in The Inquirer "Edwardian Elegance, Regal Comfort" in The Times Record - August 30, 2002 [show more] | |
| The Battle of Norwood's Cove: Southwest Harbor's Victory over the British in the War of 1812 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Battle of Norwood's Cove: Southwest Harbor's Victory over the British in the War of 1812 Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Published in honor of the 200th anniversary of the Battle of Norwood's Cove which took place on August 9, 1914. The book describes how the events appeared to those Mainers who participated in the battle, and how those events became part of the local historical narrative. | |
| W.H. Ballard, Maine Photographer - A Life of Ingenuity & Art Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  W.H. Ballard, Maine Photographer - A Life of Ingenuity & Art Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: This book of W.H. Ballard photographs, from the collection of the Southwest Harbor Public Library, compiles images from the Ballard exhibit displayed in the library from June 30, 2013 - July 26, 2013. The book images that are less well known than Ballard's famous postcards and scenic views of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park. Written and edited by Meredith Hutchins Designed and produced by Charlotte R. Morrill Research by Meredith Hutchins and Charlotte R. Morrill [show more] | |
| Edith Hamilton Lanman, Newspaper Article Written by LaRue Spiker Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Edith Hamilton Lanman, Newspaper Article Written by LaRue Spiker Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Sketchbook of a summer at the Stanley House Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Sketchbook of a summer at the Stanley House Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: A sketchbook kept by Daniel Lewis' Great-Great Grandmother depicting the summer of 1882 at the Stanley House Hotel. | |
| Mount Desert Island, and the Cranberry Isles. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Mount Desert Island, and the Cranberry Isles. Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Isaac Stanley's Wonderland Lobster Pound at Seawall and Abel's Pound at Richville Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Isaac Stanley's Wonderland Lobster Pound at Seawall and Abel's Pound at Richville Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Bar Harbor Times, Wednesday, June 6, 1928 LOBSTER POUNDS ARE POPULAR PICNIC RESORTS Wonderland at Seawall and Abel's Pound at Richville Opened for 1928 Season The picnic lobster pound is a new and very popular form of beach resort. Lobster pounds, dammed-up pools or coves similar to salt water swimming pools, have been used for many years for the purpose of keeping large quantities of live lobsters for long periods. Within the last few years it has been found that a lobster pound that happens to be situated on a picturesque piece of rocky shore backed up by spruce groves, and is supplied with an open fire and iron kettle makes an ideal picnic place. The two places on Mt. Desert that are primarily pleasure resort pounds are both new, and are both so busy that their boiling kettles work at capacity during the summer. One is ''Wonderland", Isaac Stanley's pound at Seawall. Mr. Stanley's property consists of 147 acres of high wooded land with a shore front a mile and three quarters in length, including Bennett's Cove, Mullin's Cove, and Bennett's Cove Head between them. That point is the extreme southeastern tip of Mount Desert Island and is thrust out into the open ocean where Long Ledge runs off into the section of Atlantic Ocean between Great Gott's Island and Great Cranberry Island. The pound is made by a dam across one corner of Bennett's Cove. Instead of putting lobsters into it, they are kept in a car floating in the pound, and the pound is stocked with cod and haddock, so that guests can get their own dinner with hook and line if they prefer that kind to lobster. There is a large log cabin dining-room, sealed inside with fragrant cedar boards, for use on days when it is too cool or too damp to picnic on the beach or in the spruce grove. Besides the log cabin there are several other smaller cabins, and a house-boat which is hauled up on the beach inside the pound, which are let to guests as overnight camps or as cottages for the week or season. One of the cabins, just being completed, is built completely of cedar which was growing in trees a few weeks ago. "Wonderland" is unique in several ways, with its remarkably cool location, its moss-carpeted woodland of big spruce, and its peculiar beach formation of huge sea-smoothe granite rocks, and it attracts many visitors by sea and land. On one Sunday last summer Mr. Stanley counted nearly three hundred cars at his place during the day. Not all of the people who visit the Seawall pound go there to buy lobsters; many of them merely wish to enjoy an hour on a bit of Mount Desert's rugged shore. They are just as welcome in any case, and customers and guests meet with the same real "down east" hospitality. Mr. Stanley's place is already opened for the season, and on the last two Sundays entertained quite a number of visitors. Henry Abel's park is situated farther around on the western side of Mt. Desert, at Richville, a little cove between Bass Harbor and Goose Cove. Mr. Abel has one of the fine little headlands of the Island, which for purposes such as his, are rapidly decreasing in number as the shoreline is sold for summer estates. In some ways this spot is like Wonderland. It has a bluff granite promontory with a little harbor on one side, and a seawall beach on the other, and a growth of big evergreens with little grass and moss glades among the trees comes down to the landward edge of the ledges; but whereas Mr. Stanley's pound is on the open ocean, this one is on the shore of Bluehill Bay which is a deep and wide, but generally smooth, expanse of water. It has a beautiful panorama of the string of islands which some five miles out form the western and southern breakwater that shelters the bay. Back of the beach at the east of the point is Gundlow Pond a curious little precisely skow-shaped salt pool that rises and falls with the tide, although it is separated from the ocean by a hundred and fifty feet of high-heaped seawall. Abel's Pound has a houseboat hauled up among the trees, and several cabins, which are used to serve lobster dinners in inclement weather, or for overnight or weekly parties. Then it has an outfit of rustic seats and tables along the shore and through the grove. The park furnishes boats and tackle to its guests so that they can enjoy the very good deep-water fishing to be had just off the shore. Mr. Abel makes a specialty of taking care of his quests in any weather, or at any time of the day or evening, as he has found that people who are on the Island for a week-end of for a limited vacation period must utilize their time fully without waiting for ideal days and nights. [show more] | |
| Asticou's Island Domain: Wabanaki Peoples at Mount Desert Island 1500-2000. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Asticou's Island Domain: Wabanaki Peoples at Mount Desert Island 1500-2000. Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Acadia National Park Ethnographic Overview and Assessment Volume 1 and Volume 2 This two-volume historical-ethnographic overview of Acadia National Park spans almost 500 years and covers a wide coastal stretch between Penobscot and Gouldsboro Bays – and sometimes much beyond. Such breadth of coverage is necessary in order to take in the park’s center piece on Mount Desert Island, plus Isle au Haut and Schoodic Peninsula, along with various land holding arrangements (including easements) on numerous offshore sea-islands in this area.1 The study explores the shifting but ongoing relationship between this habitat and Wabanaki peoples – a group of northeastern Algonquianspeaking ethnic groups or tribal nations today distinguished as the Abenaki, Maliseet, Mi'kmaq, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot. [show more] |
| The Passamaquoddy Encampment at Bar Harbor Newspaper Article Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Passamaquoddy Encampment at Bar Harbor Newspaper Article Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Obituary of Nettie C. (Allen) Higgins Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Obituary of Nettie C. (Allen) Higgins Southwest Harbor Public Library | ||
| Newspaper Article Describing George Cough and His Family Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Newspaper Article Describing George Cough and His Family Southwest Harbor Public Library | |||
| The Mt. Mansell Museum Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Mt. Mansell Museum Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| The Stanleys of Cranberry Isles…and Other Colorful Characters. Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  The Stanleys of Cranberry Isles…and Other Colorful Characters. Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: Historian, Genealogist, Musician, Boat Builder, Author, Raconteur - there is only one Ralph Stanley. Ralph bears many titles and awards, but for the Southwest Harbor Public Library he is, most of all, a friend. Ralph started using the library as a child and continued as an adult, graduated to Trustee, to President of the Trustees, and, in 2013, became our first Trustee Emeritus. Since 2007 he has spent hundreds of hours patiently identifying people, places and vessels in the Digital Archive. He gave the library his vast collection of photographs, The Ralph Warren Stanley Collection, in 2014. For years he has told us stories of his family, friends and adventures on Mount Desert Island. Archivists have written down almost every word and fact – a treasure for the collection and for the community. This is his chef d’oeuvre, The Stanleys of Cranberry Isles…and Other Colorful Characters, Ralph’s own story, based on his own research and in his own words. To purchase the print version of this book please contact the Southwest Harbor Public Library at archivist@swhplibrary.org or (207) 244-7065. [show more] | |
| 1967 Bar Harbor Times Newspaper, Fire of 1947 Anniversary Supplement Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  1967 Bar Harbor Times Newspaper, Fire of 1947 Anniversary Supplement Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: A 12 page special supplement published on the 20th anniversary of the 1947 Bar Harbor Fire. | |
| 1889 Bar Harbor Record Newspaper from March 14 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  1889 Bar Harbor Record Newspaper from March 14 Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Gotts Island, Maine by Jane M. Holmes Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Gotts Island, Maine by Jane M. Holmes Southwest Harbor Public Library |
| Gotts Island Maine - Its People 1880-1992 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Gotts Island Maine - Its People 1880-1992 Southwest Harbor Public Library Description: An account of the summer visitors and native population on Gotts Island starting in the 1890's, the book describes the island experience, the families, and changes that took place over the next 100 years. |
| Pemetic Yearbook 1944 Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Pemetic Yearbook 1944 Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Kennebunkport hotelier buys the Claremont Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Kennebunkport hotelier buys the Claremont Hotel Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Article and Photograph About Howe D. Higgins' Hobby Business Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Article and Photograph About Howe D. Higgins' Hobby Business Southwest Harbor Public Library | |
| Excerpts about the State Normal School at Castine, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Excerpts about the State Normal School at Castine, Maine Southwest Harbor Public Library | |||
| Dix - Holden - Boathouse Site - Mary Jones House Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Dix - Holden - Boathouse Site - Mary Jones House Southwest Harbor Public Library | |||
| Perennial Parents Southwest Harbor Public Library |
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|  Perennial Parents Southwest Harbor Public Library |