Description: ...History of BarHarbor, with photographs by Sargent Collier...Includes chapters on Acadia National Park, social and club life, island laboratories, BarHarbor-Yarmouth ferry, Fire of 1947, Kebo Valley Golf Club, Bar...Harbor Club, Pot and Kettle Club, the Building of Arts, Great Automobile War...
File Attachment: 1947 Bar Harbor Fire.pdf …the BarHarbor, Maine Fire Department received a call from a Mrs. …Written by an historian who was on the scene for the 1947 BarHarbor Fire. …BarHarbor: A Town Almost Lost A Pictorial Essay of BarHarbor s Mansions Before and After the Fire of 1947 by Deborah M. …Dyer, maps courtesy of Arthur Corliss, BarHarbor Historical Society, BarHarbor, Maine, 2008. Author: Charlotte R. Morrill Date: 2016
Description: Wendell Gilley exhibits forty carvings plus carvings-in-progress at the Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences in the show "Down East Bird Carvings."
Description: Announcement that Wendell Gilley would be attending a bird carving exhibition in Chestertown, Maryland. The carving of a bald eagle family that he entered in the exhibit is depicted.
Description: ...to benefit Harbor House and the Southwest Harbor Public Library...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: ...In 1892 the ladies of Southwest Harbor gathered together to raise money for land upon which to build a library building and then reported how they raised...their dollar..The Dollar Social was the first fundraising event held for the Southwest Harbor Public Library and the poem describing it was famous in...
File Attachment: The Dollar Social at Southwest Harbor.pdf …The Dollar Social At Southwest Harbor The Southwest Harbor Public library was founded in 1884. …Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 115. …"The Dollar Social At Southwest Harbor" describes how each woman earned her dollar. …Tracy, our Republican friend, took a bribe, I'm sorry to state, For her husband promised her a dollar if she would help him illuminate, So she sacrificed bar
Description: ...The July 2015 Show at the Southwest Harbor Public Library presented a visual stroll down Main Street and Clark Point Road composed of photographs from...
File Attachment: THEN AND NOW SHOW 2015 - BROCHURE.pdf …Neal is just visible driving his horse and buggy out of the barn drive across the wood plank sidewalk on to Main Street. 05 B The BarHarbor Bank and …See the BarHarbor Times, April 20, 1927, p. 7. 9 21 B The First Masonic Hall - The Clark Point Road from Main Street - Circa 1909-1910 353 Main Street …Public Library Collection of Photographs 23 A Moore's Garage Co. and BarHarbor Banking & Trust Co. on Clark Point Road - Circa 1919-1933 19 Clark Point …Photographer unknown Number 5823 - The Southwest Harbor Public Library Collection of Photographs The BarHarbor Bank and Trust Company is housed in the
Description: ...Republication of BarHarbor Record news items in BarHarbor Times, ...Compiled by Deborah Dyer of the BarHarbor Historical Society, 8/1/1999.Detailed description of the fire that destroyed the Kebo Valley clubhouse...
Description: ...The first feature of the day was the band concert given the Southwest Harbor band, assisted by Lindall’s band of Boston and BarHarbor, at the rustic little...In the afternoon after the band concert the ball game between Northeast Harbor and BarHarbor nines was called, in the field near the Union church...To the BarHarbor people there was nothing pleasanter for the day than the sail back and forth on the [steamer] Golden Rod. Capt....” – The BarHarbor Record, July 6, 1895...