Description: ..."It is a special tribute to the town of BarHarbor, a diverse community surrounded by extraordinary scenery that inspired the original name, Eden...Boating to BarHarbor 4. BarHarbor's First Settlers 5. An island on fire 6. An education in ecology 7. Searching for a rustic life 8...Maps of BarHarbor and Mount Desert Island Magazine available in the Archives...
Description: Feature article is death of Rev. Leffingwell. Paper includes international and national articles, e.g. the Boer War; also includes many advertisements of local businesses.
Description: This is a weekly newspaper produced since 1914. It is MDI's hometown newspaper. Each issue contains local town news. This copy has great interview with Sen. Mitchell.
Description: ...Society edition of The BarHarbor Record from August 26, 1905 with articles on a recent horse exhibition, parties and other social events, news from Northeast...Harbor, and a fictional travel diary from China...
Description: ...Society edition of The BarHarbor Record from August 12, 1899 with articles on events held in honor of the visit of the North Atlantic Squadron led by...
Description: ...Society edition of The BarHarbor Record from July 29, 1899 with articles on recent parties and other social events, notable arrivals at area resorts,...
Description: ...Memories of growing up in BarHarbor in the late 1890's and early 1900's. Ms. Cole writes of the John D. Rockefeller Jr. family in Seal Harbor...
Description: ...BarHarbor Times “An Experiment in Expression - Islesford Summer Resident From the Bronx Experiments with Colored-Glass Panels” September 24, 1964 by LaRue...
Description: This article, titled "Capt. Black: Artist and Surgeon", describes Wendell Gilley's influence on sculptor Paul Black. It also mentions Gilley's Canada goose carved for Harry S. Truman.
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: ...BarHarbor Times “Personality Profile: John Noyes of Manset Pursues Active Retirement Following Fifty Years of Work on Fish Wharfs” LaRue Spiker December...
Description: Copy of article by L. Manion submitted for publication in Island History Journal contrasting the economic and social life of summer and year-round residents of Mount Desert Island.
Description: ...The BarHarbor Times, February 2, 2011...
File Attachment: Kellam_-_Kellam_Dory_-_02-02-11.pdf …From Bernard boat builder Clifton Rich, they bought the dory that would serve as their vehicle for the runs they made to Bass Harbor to pick up supplies …The dory will be an outdoor display at the society s Country Store Museum in Bass Harbor, said the society s president Muriel Davisson. …Nan would later use the analogy of two black bears converging on the same hollow tree that harbored a honeycomb. …The BarHarbor Times, February 2, 2011.
Description: ...Republication of BarHarbor Record news items in BarHarbor Times, . Compiled by Deborah Dyer of the BarHarbor Historical Society, 7/29/1999...
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: ...Republication of BarHarbor Record news items in BarHarbor Times, . Compiled by Deborah Dyer of the BarHarbor Historical Society, 5/18/2000...Comment on the desirablitiy of the harbor in Bar H. for the Squadron. Suggestion that the newly aquired parkland in B.H. be named for Eben Hamor...