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| Maine Greets Opening of Yarmouth-Bar Harbor Ferry 1956 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Maine Greets Opening of Yarmouth-Bar Harbor Ferry 1956 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Newpaper clipping, Bangor Daily News, 6 June 1956, pp. 17-18 & 21-22, "Maine Greets Opening of Yarmouth-Bar Harbor Ferry," about the new ferry terminal...in Bar Harbor, and the Bluenose ferry... | |||
| "A New Super Highway", Bluenose Ferry, Bar Harbor to Nova Scotia Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  "A New Super Highway", Bluenose Ferry, Bar Harbor to Nova Scotia Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Newspaper clipping, "A new Superhighway" about new Bluenose ferry terminal and service from Bar Harbor to Yarmouth, Nova Scotia... | |||
| The Fire of '47; Remembering - 40 Years Later Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  The Fire of '47; Remembering - 40 Years Later Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Newspaper supplement to the Bar Harbor Times, 1987, "The Fire of '47; Remembering - 40 Years Later." With photos and remembrances... | |||
| Musical performances by the Arcady Music Society Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Musical performances by the Arcady Music Society Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Two DVD copies of musical performances by the Arcady Music Society of Bar Harbor, Maine, with accompanying note from Masanobu and Tomoko Ikemiya to Phil... | |||
| Prints, photographs, oral histories for GCI Portrait Project 2009 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Prints, photographs, oral histories for GCI Portrait Project 2009 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...(Three prints linoleum/color; 14 copper/b&W.) 20 color photos with text profiles by Bar Harbor photojournalist Rebecca Buyers-Basso... | |||
| Portrait of person in green jacket (perhaps Charles Gott) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Portrait of person in green jacket (perhaps Charles Gott) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Gott, Bar Harbor, ME". Gaile Colby recalled some information about Mr... | |||
| Richard 'Chuddy' Alley Interview Transcript Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Richard 'Chuddy' Alley Interview Transcript Great Cranberry Island Historical Society 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 Bar Harbor that's loaded every year. JD: Where is that? CA: Bar Harbor. RA: That Hulls Cove? …CA: yeah on the road to Bar Harbor. 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? | ||
| Wilfred Bunker Interview Transcript 5th Dec, 2011 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wilfred Bunker Interview Transcript 5th Dec, 2011 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society 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 Bar Harbor two or three times. Anyway, we were cruising 9 naught and he was cruising about 25 (chuckles) PW: Yeah. |
| Collection of 61 books by and about Rachel Field with some letters Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Collection of 61 books by and about Rachel Field with some letters Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Books. Collection of 61 books by and about Rachel Field, some first editions signed by the author. See list of titles and descriptions in FieldBooks2016.pdf. Articles and letters discovered inside various books were scanned and saved separately. File Attachment: 2014.268.2004.pdf …2011.162.1388) John & Barbara Robinson 12/15/2014 All Through the Night, 1940, by Rachel Field Sarah Corson Archive1 Box 57 and Dick Atlee of Southwest Harbor …(Archive article found inside: Grandson of Prussian Lady at Southwest Harbor 90 Years Old Yesterday by Mrs. Norman J. …Walsh, Bar Harbor Times 2/1957(year?). | |||
| Script for the play "Carrie Richardson of Big Cranberry" 2001 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Script for the play "Carrie Richardson of Big Cranberry" 2001 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Script for the play "Carrie Richardson of Big Cranberry" by Wini Smart and Bruce Komusin, first performed 8 Aug 2001 (3 copies, 1 copy has the actors' names). (See also items 446-450 and online at http://www.gcihs.org/1/carrie_richardson.htm.) A video was made of this play and offered for sale at the museum - Catalogue # 2013.265.1998 – Box 45. File Attachment: 1000.30.446.pdf …Boston Harbor what activity! The new section of the waterfront was a muddy mess, with wagons and pushcarts all in slop. …Man 1 plays a few bars of an old melody (for example, Stephen Foster) but not too well. Meltiah: "That's enough! | |||
| Ferry Sea Queen, Bar Harbor Times 1994 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ferry Sea Queen, Bar Harbor Times 1994 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Newspaper photo: Beal & Bunker ferry Sea Queen pulling out of Northeast Harbor to the Cranberry Isles; Bar Harbor Times, 1 Sep 1994... | |||
| Royal "Tinker" Colby, 1977 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Royal "Tinker" Colby, 1977 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Newspaper clipping, obituary of Royal "Tinker" Colby, died 25 May 1977, Bar Harbor Times, Thursday 2 June 1977. Transcribed... File Attachment: 00000532.txt …The Bar Harbor 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. | |||
| Elisha Bunker and Edgar Bunker 1952 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Elisha Bunker and Edgar Bunker 1952 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Newspaper clipping, double obituary of Elisha Bunker and Edgar Bunker, Bar Harbor Times, Thursday 8 May 1952... | |||
| 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... | |||
| "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... File Attachment: 1000.0.850.pdf …The Bar Harbor Times, 21 November 1996 Island writer reels in the lore of fishing by Carl Little CRANBERRY ISLES Over the past half century, John | |||
| James F. Bracy 1958 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  James F. Bracy 1958 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Bracy, 86, died today in a Bar Harbor nursing home after a short illness...Surviving are four grandchildren, Leslie Wedge of Prospect Harbor, Harold Wedge of Moody, Estella Forcetano of Chelsea, Mass., and Norman Wedge of Cranberry... File Attachment: 00000529.txt …Bracy, 86, died today in a Bar Harbor nursing home after a short illness. …Surviving are four grandchil- dren, Leslie Wedge of Prospect Harbor, Harold Wedge of Moody, Estella Forcetano of Chelsea, Mass., and Norman Wedge of | |||
| Sinking Barge Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Sinking Barge Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Bar Harbor Times article about the Beal and Bunker Barge, the Moleska, sinking just off of Islesford... | ||
| Marjorie E. Phippen, (1904-2002) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Marjorie E. Phippen, (1904-2002) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper obituary, Marjorie E. Phippen, b 15 Jul 1904, d 20 Mar 2002. Transcribed. File Attachment: 00000853.txt …BAR HARBOR TIMES, unknown date Marjorie E. Phippen Marjorie E. Phippen, of Southwest Harbor, died at age 97 March 20, 2002, in Bar Harbor. …Since her husband died in 1986 she had been living in Southwest Harbor, where she truly enjoyed going to the Kozy Kove Restaurant for lunches, usually …memory be made to the Cranberry Island Church, care of Gaile Colby, treasurer, Cranberry Isles 04625; or to the Maine Seacoast Mission, 127 West St., Bar …Harbor 04609. | |||
| Hazel "Brooke" "Snooks" (Stanley) Peterson (1920-2006) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Hazel "Brooke" "Snooks" (Stanley) Peterson (1920-2006) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper obituary, Hazel "Brooke" "Snooks" (Stanley) Peterson (b 23 Jun 1920, d 8 Jan 2006). Transcribed. File Attachment: 00000873.txt …Peterson, know as "Snooks" or "Brookes," 85, died peacefully in her sleep on Jan. 8, 2006 at a Bar Harbor health care facility. …is survived by her son, Paul Peterson of Arkansas; her daughter, Catherine Nelson of Lovell; two sisters, Nina Turner and Mae Joyce, both of Southwest Harbor …Peterson's memory to the fund that helps maintain the Stanley Cemetery on Great Cranberry, c/o the Northeast Harbor branch of Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Co | |||
| Marjorie E. Phippen (1904-2002) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Marjorie E. Phippen (1904-2002) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper clipping (copy), MDIslander, obituary of Marjorie E. Phippen, b. 15 July 1904; d. 20 Mar 2002. She was daughter of Oscar & Millie (Harding) Bulger, and was married to Leslie "Phip" Phippen for 65 years. Transcribed. File Attachment: 00000793.txt …Phippen, of Southwest Harbor, died at age 97 March 20, 2002, in Bar Harbor. …Since her husband died in 1986, she had been living in Southwest Harbor, where she truly enjoyed going to the Kozy Kove Restaurant for lunches, usually …memory be made to the Cranberry Island Church, care of Gaile Colby, treasurer, Cranberry Isles 04625; or to the Maine Seacoast Mission, 127 West St., Bar …Harbor 04609. | |||
| Ada B. Rice (1910-2002) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Ada B. Rice (1910-2002) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper obituary, Ada B. Rice, b 5 Dec 1910, d 29 Nov 2002. Transcribed. File Attachment: 00000855.txt …Ada attended Bar Harbor Schools. She loved horses and took riding lessons in Bar Harbor. | |||
| Charles E. Wadsworth Jr (1917-2002) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Charles E. Wadsworth Jr (1917-2002) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper obituary, Charles E. Wadsworth Jr, b 3 Mar 1917, d 21 Aug 2002. Transcribed. File Attachment: 00000852.txt …BAR HARBOR TIMES, 29 Aug 2002 Charles Wadsworth. Charles E. …Wadsworth, he built a house out of wood salvaged from the Bar Harbor fire. | |||
| Warren Everett Fernald (1927-2005) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Warren Everett Fernald (1927-2005) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper obituary, Warren Everett Fernald, b 17 Jul 1927, d 14 Jun 2005. Transcribed. File Attachment: 00000851.txt …Fernald married Anna Marie Cameron of Bar Harbor, on New Year's Eve in 1949, when he was home on a 10-day leave. …He is survived by his wife Anna; his children and their spouses, Bruce and Barb Fernald of Islesford, Mark and Vicky Fernald of Bar Harbor and Islesford …, Dan and Katy Fernald of Mount Desert and Islesford, Karen and Hugh Smallwood of Baltimore and Islesford, Paul and Brenda Fernald of Northeast Harbor | |||
| John Heliker (1909-2000) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  John Heliker (1909-2000) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper obituary, John Heliker (b 16 Jan 1909, d 22 Feb 2000). Transcribed. File Attachment: 00000878.txt …Bar Harbor Times, 2 Mar 2000 John Heliker, 91, artist John Heliker, a Cranberry Island artist and teacher, died at age 91, Feb. 22, 2000, at Sonogee …Rehab and Living Center in Bar Harbor. | |||
| David Stainton (d. 2006, age 72) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  David Stainton (d. 2006, age 72) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: Newspaper obituary, David Stainton (d 31 Jul 2006, age 72). Transcribed. File Attachment: 00000877.txt …The Bar Harbor Times, 3 Aug 2006 David Stainton, community leader David Merriman Stainton, a Cranberry Island resident, community leader and the |