Description: Interview Transcript from an interview with Richard 'Chuddy' Alley. The interview was recorded in the 2000's (exact year unknown) by Jessi Duma and Jenny Matthews, who both lived on the island for a number of years. Chuddy came to GCI as a young boy, and recounts many memories of Great Cranberry in the early to mid 20th century. He talks about agriculture and fishing extensively with Jessi. He moved over to Islesford and his son Ricky Alley speaks about fishing with a fish trap, and Pursing. Jessi was a Cranberry Island Fellow and became the general manager for GCIHS for a few years. Interview with transcribed by Hannah Gower-Fox. She was the Archivist and Museum Curator for GCIHS in 2023. [show more]
File Attachment: Chuddy_Alley_Transcript.pdf …CA; There s one over BarHarbor that's loaded every year. JD: Where is that? CA: BarHarbor. RA: That Hulls Cove? …CA: yeah on the road to BarHarbor. JD: Is that that same one you were thinking of? CA: Hairdresser. RA: the hairdresser. …RA: And other times I ve taken it, like David Thomas and I went up to Northeast Harbor and over on the west side of the Harbor before you get into the …middle, into the Harbor before that low grey house, what's that called?
Description: This is a transcript of an interview Phil Whitney and Bruce Komusin conducted with Wilfred Bunker, the cofounder of Beal and Bunker, on the 5th December, 2011.
File Attachment: Wilfred Bunker Interview Transcript 5th Dec, 2011.pdf …Yeah we run it from Seal Harbor to for quite a few years then changed to Southwest Harbor. …For a time we was there in Southwest Harbor then we went to Northeast Harbor. …PW: When did you switch from Seal Harbor to Southwest Harbor, the mail? WB: Well, let me see. …Gone into BarHarbor two or three times. Anyway, we were cruising 9 naught and he was cruising about 25 (chuckles) PW: Yeah.
Description: ...Newpaper clipping, Bangor Daily News, 6 June 1956, pp. 17-18 & 21-22, "Maine Greets Opening of Yarmouth-BarHarbor Ferry," about the new ferry terminal...in BarHarbor, and the Bluenose ferry...
Description: ...Newspaper clipping, "BarHarbor residents fleeing famed resort town feared doomed by forest fire", with picture of different fire, from West Palm Beach...
Description: ...Booklet, "A Souvenir of BarHarbor and Mount Desert Island" published by W.H...Sherman, Printer and Stationer, BarHarbor, ca. 1903-1905, with 66 b&w photos, and several ads...
Description: ...BarHarbor, Me". Wooden wheels with iron cladding. From the old barn at the Red House - the Towns/Lim house.Willie Granston December 2016: "…...One is privately owned by Martha Stewart, and one is a really sweet little 2 seater with a rear groomsman's seat owned by BarHarbor Historical Society...The Living Past,Virginia Somes-Sanderson p. 229: "People came in droves from BarHarbor, some in their private carriages, often with coachmen and footmen...
Description: ...(This photograph was taken by BarHarbor photojournalist Rebecca Buyers-Basso as part of a 2009 Photo Journalism project on GCI - 2013.238.1933.)...
Description: ...Newspaper clipping, obituary of Royal "Tinker" Colby, died 25 May 1977, BarHarbor Times, Thursday 2 June 1977. Transcribed...
File Attachment: 00000532.txt …The BarHarbor Times, Thursday, June 2, 1977 ROYAL [TINKER] COLBY Royal (Tinker) Colby, 44, of Cranberry Isles, died at a Mount Desert Island hospital …Eileen McCafferty, Rhonda and Renona, all of Cranberry Isles; three brothers, Harold of South Carolina, William of South Portland, and Stanley of Bar …Harbor; one sister, Mrs.