Description: ...Short biography of Beatrix Farrand - her family background, her education, her focus on her Reef Point Gardens in BarHarbor, and her landscape projects..., including the Abby Aldrich Rockefeller garden in Seal Harbor...
Description: ..."Landing The Prize… Scott Worcester of Southwest Harbor receives congratulations from Sallie Hinckley of the Southwest Harbor [Public] Library after winning...National Bank of BarHarbor...The second prize, a free, round-trip on BarHarbor Airlines was won by Vaughn Marshall of Machias...The raffle raised $9,400 to be divided between the Harbor House and the library." – The BarHarbor Times, Thursday, September 8, 1983, Sec. 1, p. 13...
Description: ...On the steps of the Library in Southwest Harbor. The photograph is by W.H...Ballard and was originally published in The BarHarbor Times Oct. 1, 1942...The caption under it read as follows: "LAST STORY HOUR AT SOUTHWEST " - Seventy children who have been attending the weekly story hour at the Southwest Harbor...
Description: ...Robie Milton Norwood, Jr. (1872-1951) 15 - 16 - Edith Evans – Librarian, Jessup Library, BarHarbor 17 - Fernald – Louise Lawton (Fernald) Goulding...." - BarHarbor Times, Thursday, May 22, 1947, page 10 - Mrs. Seth Thornton, Corr., Southwest Harbor, Telephone 66...Evans, of BarHarbor, Mrs. Cynthia Stanley, Manset; Edith V. Vaughan, Frances W. Weeks, Gertrude F. Durham, Belfast: Charlotte Norwood, Bernard, Mrs...Miss Shaw pronounced the occasion one of the most successful held in small communities." - BarHarbor Times, Thursday, May 29, 1947, page 1...
Description: Collection of fourteen Reef Point Garden Bulletins (several items of each bulletin): August 1946, November 1947, September 1948, August 1949, July 1950, August 1950, August 1951, June 1952, January 1953, June 1953, June 1954, July 1954, August 1954.
Description: ...A letter from the BarHarbor Village Improvement Association president Gist Blair, stating his support for an expanded road network on Mount Desert Island...
Description: ...Eliot, president of Harvard College and one of the first summer resident of Northeast Harbor. The book was originally published in 1902...Published in the "BarHarbor Times" on October 5, 2000...
Description: ...Nellie Carroll Thornton descended from early settlers of Southwest Harbor and was related, in one way or another, to practically all of her neighbors...Nellie was the author of the SWH social column in the BarHarbor Times from c. 1921 until c. 1958...Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton (Nellie C...It was reproduced in 1988 by the Southwest Harbor Public Library and digitized in 2010...
File Attachment: Thornton - Traditions and Records SWH.pdf …Purington of BarHarbor and prayer by Rev. …The first message sent over the telegraph line from BarHarbor to Bangor was "From the Mayor of BarHarbor to the Mayor of Bangor Eden sends a telegraphic …., borrowed a boat of a neighbor and started for BarHarbor. …BarHarbor in the eighteen eighties.
Description: ...Nell and Seth Thornton are shown leaving Southwest Harbor for their home in Houlton, Maine in a beautiful 1910 Model T Ford automobile...The Model T may belong to Seth or the other man who may possibly be driving them to BarHarbor or Ellsworth to board the train for Houlton...If the Ford belonged to the Thorntons the trip from Southwest Harbor to Houlton would have taken them at least 11 hours by automobile in 1912...The Carroll family celebrated the Fourth of July every year with a picnic at their old family home, The Mountain House, on Carroll hill in Southwest Harbor...
Description: ...Seth Sprague Thornton, is leaving Southwest Harbor at Steamboat Wharf for her home in Houlton, Maine...Nell would have travelled by steamship from SWH by way of BarHarbor to meet the Maine Central Railroad at Hancock Point...
Description: Development staff member Lynn Boulger, faculty member Jamie KcKown, and presenter Ted Widmer behind the scenes at the first virtual Champlain Institute. The Champlain Institute is a week-long ideas festival which hosts leaders from around the country and the world to share their expertise on pressing issues of our time.
Description: Development staff member Wes Norton, IT staff member Jarly Bobadilla, and Library staff member Zach Soares behind the scenes at the first virtual Champlain Institute. The Champlain Institute is a week-long ideas festival which hosts leaders from around the country and the world to share their expertise on pressing issues of our time.
Description: Ted Widmer introducing the session Unbreaking America, a conversation with Josh Silver and COA Trustee Will Thorndike during the first virtual Champlain Institute. The Champlain Institute is a week-long ideas festival which hosts leaders from around the country and the world to share their expertise on pressing issues of our time.