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| Bunker Boatyard check Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Bunker Boatyard check Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...MacAllister, Bar Harbor Banking & Trust Co... | |||
| Wild Island Farm seed collection Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Wild Island Farm seed collection Great Cranberry Island Historical Society 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” (Bar Harbor Times, October 21, 1976)... | ||
| 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? | ||
| 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... | |||
| Downeast Windjammer Cruise information Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Downeast Windjammer Cruise information Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...We needed a vessel for a pilot launch as we were then running pilots out to cruise ships entering and leaving Bar Harbor back in the 1990's... | ||
| 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. |
| 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... | |||
| Native American Indian maiden doll Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Native American Indian maiden doll Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs... | |||
| Native American sweetgrass basket with lid Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Native American sweetgrass basket with lid Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs... | |||
| Native American acorn-like sweet-grass basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Native American acorn-like sweet-grass basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor... | |||
| Native American miniature sweetgrass basket (Passamaquoddy) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Native American miniature sweetgrass basket (Passamaquoddy) Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs... | |||
| Native American sweetgrass basket and lid Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Native American sweetgrass basket and lid Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor... | |||
| Native American sweetgrass whisk brooms Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Native American sweetgrass whisk brooms Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs... | |||
| Indigenous American barrel-shaped Sweetgrass Basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Indigenous American barrel-shaped Sweetgrass Basket Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs... | ||
| Native American sweetgrass square shape Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Native American sweetgrass square shape Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Norman Shaw) ca. 1980-2000, who ran the Dancing Deer gift shop in Bar Harbor. She eventually sold them to Wini Smart's daughter, Gail, (per Mrs... | |||
| Closing Cranberry Isles Post Office in 1985 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Closing Cranberry Isles Post Office in 1985 Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Series of documents ("Bar Harbor Times" article, letters and drafts of letters of protest to President Reagan, letters in response from House of Representatives... | ||
| Maine Summer Visitor's Day program Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Maine Summer Visitor's Day program Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Program of Maine Summer Visitor's Day, hosted by the Abbe Museum at its location at Sieur de Monts Spring in Bar Harbor, 16 Aug 1935, listing acts in an... | ||
| Acadia NPS, Sawtelle Collection Finding Aids Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Acadia NPS, Sawtelle Collection Finding Aids Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Collection housed at Acadia National Park Headquarters in Bar Harbor, ME, in the William Sawtelle collection... | ||
| Templar's Lodge Charter for Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Templar's Lodge Charter for Cranberry Isles Great Cranberry Island Historical Society 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] | ||
| Music program at College of the Atlantic Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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| Music program at College of the Atlantic Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...Program, Music from Cranberry Isles, 28 Jul 1996 at the College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor... | ||
| 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! | |||
| Colby - Gaile Great Cranberry Island Historical Society |
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|  Colby - Gaile Great Cranberry Island Historical Society Description: ...(This photograph was taken by Bar Harbor photojournalist Rebecca Buyers-Basso as part of a 2009 Photo Journalism project on GCI - 2013.238.1933.)... | |||
| 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. |