Description: ...folder of materials (F) relating to Wild Island Farm, the seed business, and a newspaper article “Polly Forbes Johnson Storey: A Spirit of Independence” (Bar...Harbor Times, October 21, 1976)...Blue Flag (Iris versicolor): No date packed etc, but an Acadia Shops sticker (no bar code) $1.50 on reverse...Newspaper article “Polly Forbes Johnson Storey: A Spirit of Independence” (BarHarbor Times, October 21, 1976)...
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: ...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: ...We needed a vessel for a pilot launch as we were then running pilots out to cruise ships entering and leaving BarHarbor back in the 1990's...
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: ...Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in BarHarbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs...
Description: ...Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in BarHarbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs...
Description: ...Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in BarHarbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs...
Description: ...Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in BarHarbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs...
Description: ...Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in BarHarbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs...
Description: ...Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in BarHarbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs...
Description: ...Series of documents ("BarHarbor Times" article, letters and drafts of letters of protest to President Reagan, letters in response from House of Representatives...
Description: ...Program of Maine Summer Visitor's Day, hosted by the Abbe Museum at its location at Sieur de Monts Spring in BarHarbor, 16 Aug 1935, listing acts in an...
Description: Charter document: Grand Lodge of North America (State of Maine) Independent Order of Good Templars, organized May 16, 1855, grant unto G. H. Pressey, C. H. Bulger, L. H. Bracy, A. M. Spurling, G. H. Spurling, Wm. P. Preble, H. A. Preble, L. G. Stanley, C. G. Kimball, A. Bunker, J. M. Bunker, S. A. Bunker and their associates this Charter for a Lodge to be known as Ocean Echo Lodge No. 157 located at Cranberry Isles… signed July 4, 1866. Wikipedia: "The IOGT originated as one of a number of fraternal organizations for temperance or total abstinence founded in the 19th century and with a structure modeled on Freemasonry, using similar ritual and regalia. Unlike many, however, it admitted men and women equally, and also made no distinction by race." According to a local 1888 newspaper article they met Tuesday evenings each week at Norwood's Cove School House. [show more]
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, BarHarbor Times 2/1957(year?).
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!
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.