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. . . A Walk Along the Winter Shore - Wild, Quiet, Strange . . .
. . .Determine Origin . . at Sand Beach
“Somesville Bridge” photograph and poem by James Russell Wiggins.
16,000 Acres Around Great Tunk Lake are Purchased...
200th Anniversary of Somesville Settlement
3 Tie for First Place in A Class Regata
40 Hayseeders And 700 Guests Prepare for 60th Annual Ball 1954
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A class Regatta at MDI Saturday
A lobster is a lobster on when native to the northeast----especially Maine, LaRue Spiker
Account of Boat Accident resulting in death of Richard Solmes (sic)
Adelma Richardson Retiring from Brown Furniturephotograph in newsclipping
Alumni of MD High School Hold Reunion
An Old-Time Sawmill Still Operates in Somesville
Annette Kellerman Newspaper Article
Announcement is Possible Monday on Aluminum Plant
Antique Water Pump Little Squirt
Architectural drawings dontated to historical society
article about Somesville Meeting House's 100th anniversary
Article about Someville Sewing Circle
Articles about the dismantling of the Eyrie.
Articles and copies of articles related to Pretty Marsh
Articles, Editorials, Letters and Advertisements regarding TEPCO
Articles in support of Filipino family in Indianapolis
Articles on Jordan Pond House History and Fire
Articles Pertaining to Geology of Mt. Desert Island
Articles Pertaining to the History of the Bar Harbor Times
At MD [sic] Historical Society Annual Meeting Old -Timers Provide Lesson on History of the Island .
Attic treasures sought for historical exhibit
"Automobile War" on MDI Was Long and Spirited
"Automobile War" on MDI was Long and Spirited
Automobile War on MDI was Long and Spirited
Automobiles on Mt. Desert Island
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Bakers Island Lighthouse Photo
Bangor Daily News article, Oct. 31, 1984.
Bangor Daily News Thrusday December 10, 1953
Bar Harbor Fisherman--Oldster Spry As Any Bloomin' Youngster; Ed Whitmore of Bar Harbor Active Man
Bar Harbor Record “Memoirs of Mount Desert Part VI”
Bar Harbor Record: “Memoirs of Mount Desert Part II”
Bar Harbor Record: “Memoirs of Mount Desert Part III”
Bar Harbor Record: “Memoirs of Mount Desert Part IV”
Bar Harbor Record: “Memoirs of Mount Desert Part VII”
Bar Harbor Record “The Ghost of Blue Hill Bay” January 1, 1967
Bar Harbor Struggles with Big City Problems
Bar Harbor Times August 3, 1961. Bicentennial Section.
Bar Harbor Times article, April 8, 1971
Bar Harbor Times article, July 3, 1980.
Bar Harbor Times article, November 20, 1969
Bar Harbor Times article, October 21, 1976
Bar Harbor Times “Development Shaping the Future of Our Communities”
Bar Harbor Times “History of Island’s Early Roads Proves to be Fascination Study”
Bar Harbor Times “Mount Desert Island’s Granite Heritage”
Bar Harbor Times: “Somesville Faces Impact of Urban Sprawl”
Bar Harbor Times: “Southwest Harbor Collides with Change”
Bar Harbor Times “Successful Fishpacking Plant Created from Charred Ruin at Bernard”
Bar Harbor Times “Trenton Stems Tide”
Bar Harbor Times “Visitor to MDI Provides Private Bird Sanctuary’”
Bar Harbor Tourist paper, Aug 11, 1880
Barberry Lane Mansion Offered to Fund-Raisers
Bass Harbor Marsh: Biologists still don't know the source of all the pollution
Beech Hill Cross Road photograph
Beech Hill Crossroad photograph.
Berlin Gott Tells of Abandonmernt of Gotts Island
Board Balks at Smith Appointment article
Boston Sunday Advertiser Pictoral Review
Boy Publisher Keeps Sports Fans in the Know
Bridge - Main Street Ellsworth
Bridge Dedicated to Hancock Service Men
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Carrying on a Family Tradition
Cave in Flying Mountain Once Pirate and Smuggler Resort
Chales O. Carey Brings Broadway to Well Know Summer Resort in Maine
Changes in Southwest Habor by Ralph W. Stanley
Children of Zacheus Higgins, III and Martha Stanwood
Cleveland Plain Dealer article, September 20, 1956
Coldest Wave in Years Visits Mt. Desert Island
Community to discuss the Rt. 3 Corridor
Conductor of Baltimore Symphony Describes Retreat at Mckinley
Cooperative craft shop planned by Penobscot Indian Enterprises
Copy of article on Hayseeders Ball
Copy of Newsclipping: “Lurvey Spring near old Beech Hill Road” July 21, 1960.
Cornelius Farley: A Kind of Peppery Guy
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Davis Wasgatt House and Richardson Homestead Photograph
Deacon H.H. Clark: Active Nineteenth Century Entrepreneur in SWH
Death of Roland Sprague and Fred Fernald
Dedication of Cadilac Mountain Road
Demolition of The Eyrie, Fabled Landmark of the Golden Age, To Be Done By Spring
Development Shaping the Future of our Community: Outer Islands Fight to Maintain a Way of Life
Distinguished Teacher and Author Celebrates Her Ninety-fifth Birthday at Seawall; Edith Hamilton
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Early Days of Somesvile to be Recaptured in Lecture Tuesday.
Edith Hamilton Lanman, Newspaper Article Written by LaRue Spiker
Elizabeth Peterson Meets Death in Burning Cottage
Ellsworth American article, September 8, 1965
Ellsworth American “Computer and Tradition Meeting in Boatyard” April 28, 1977
Ellsworth American “Constructing a Pretty Pluck Living”
Ellsworth American excerpt dated June 13, 1974
End of Fabulous Home, Fabulous Era
Experts Plan Rebuilding of Bar Harbor: Lumber in Firs Area to be Salvaged
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Fabbri Home at Bar Harbor Burns Postcard and Clipping, 1917-1918
Fins ol Record Book: Tells of the founding of Sewing Circle in Southwest Harbor 80 Years Ago
Fire Company Accepts Tentative Land Offer (2)
Five articles about the Mount Desert Historical Society building a new museum.
Florida Hideaway from All Florida Magazine
Frazier's Creek was Site of Salt Refining Area in 1800's
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Gaffed Rigged Racing Sloop newspaper article
Geology History: Part III Grinding Ice Sheet Molds MDI Geography
George Richardson's Childhood Home
Golden Age of Maine Summer Hotels Advertisement
Gott’s Island Now Serene and Quiet Once Heavily Populated (2)
Greatest Event In Hancock County Since the Civil War
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Hadlock Family of Little Cranberry Island
Hake Was First Source of Income
Handwritten notes or copies of newspaper articles about cars on MDI
Harriet Somes Sanderson obituary
Health Measures after the Fire
Heartland: Emery District Farmers Wage Losing Battle to Save their Working Farms
Henry R. Hinckley and Company Expanding Boat Building Plant at Manset
Historical Society Bennefits from Bicentennial Tea At Somesville
Historical Society Building Under Way
Historical society leaps forward into past
History of Gott’s Island a Chain of Memories Linking Centuries
History of Sutton’s Island Features Review of Early Settlers and Island Homes
Hollis G. Reed Has Made Good in Home State; Capt. J.M. Gray, 71, Lighthouse Keeper Two-Score Years
Hollis G. Reed Has Made Good in Home State; Capt. J.M. Gray, 71, Lighthouse Keeper Two-score Years
Homes of James Richardson and J.G. Richardson photograph
Housing Dilemma Worsens Resort Labor Shortage
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"I Came to this Place", Feature by LaRue Spiker, Judged Best in New England
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Ice Sheet Gave MDI Scenic Land Forms
International One-Design World Championship
Isaac Stanley's Wonderland Lobster Pound at Seawall and Abel's Pound at Richville
It's Time to Swing "Em At The Way Back Ball
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Jones and Stanley Backtrack Again.
Journal of Voyage to the Island of Mt Desart
Juliette Nikerson [sp] Vlaues Her Independence
June 11, 1992 article about John Fernald while he was a Shriner's potentate
June 1960 Maine Dairy Edition | The Enterprise
June Groundbreaking Planned for New Historical Museum
June Groundbreaking Planned for New Historical Society
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Katahdin Iron Works, Artifacts of the Industrial Revolution
Kennebunkport hotelier buys the Claremont Hotel
Kent County News article, October 20, 1965
Kidd's Treasure: Is it Buried at Fernald's Point?
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Life details and obituary copy of Fannie M. Brown
Life- Life-Style Switch Turns Into Intriguing Adventure
Lighthouses Guide Sailors Around Mount Desert Isalnd
Lighthouses in the Southwest Group Area
Lighthouses Symbolize the Reach and Hazards of Blue Water Around MDI
Lighthouses Symbolize the Reach and Hazards of of Blue Water Around MDI- LaRue Spiker
Lions reap $1000 plus for charities
Lobstermen see threat in whale protection
Local Woman Hired to Teach Radio Announcers How To Speak.
Local Woodcarver's Exhibit Stirs Up Much Interest
Looking Backward Religion and Politics in Surry (2)
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Macrame and Rug-Hooking Found To Be Excellent Tension-Easers
Maine Nearly Scored 'First' in Women's Voting Rights
Maine's Progressive Businesses
Man Finally Deserts Mt. Desert Rock
Mansions on Mount Desert in the Eighties
Maritime Transportation Was Foundation of Early Mount Desert Island Economy
Marking 200 years at Eden Baptist
Masonic Lodge and traveling in the winter on Mount Desert Island
MDI Geological History : Part II
MDI's Auto War: Summer vs. Permanent Residents, 1900-1915
MDI’s AutoWar: Summer vs. Permanent Residents
Memories of Albert Higgins written in the Bar Harbor Times.
Memories of Islanders and visitors
Memories of Somesville area, Indian Point by Mrs. Brown, ca.1860-1890
Mickey Fahey: Hunter to Conservationist
Mill Pond at Somesville photograph
Misc news items about Somesville
Morrell Park, Somesville, Maine
Mount Desert Historical Society Hold Successful Strawberry Festival
Mount Desert Island Historical Notes
Mount Desert Island's Granite Heritage
Mrs. Shattuck's Photographs Reflect Extensive Travel
Mt. Desert Island Offers Varied Geological Rock Formations
Mt.Desert May be the Birthplace of Prince Talleyrand
Multiple Clippings on Various Political Issues
Multiple Newspaper Clippings on Industrial Topics Colllected by LaRue Spiker
Museum at Somesville is Credit to Enterprise of Women's Club
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New Bronze Foundry Brings Back an Ancient Art
New Signs in Acadia National Park
Newclipping: “Robert Whitely Patterson” February 21, 1988.
News article illustrating the search area for Roland Sprague and Fred Fernald
Newsclipping - “1903 Stage Play produced for more than 200 at Somesville” August 17, 1961
Newsclipping - “A Mount Desert Island Diary of the Summer 1857”.
Newsclipping - Bar Harbor Times “Dr. R.L. Grindle dies Aged 88” April 29, 1930.
Newsclipping - “Beech Hill Road”
Newsclipping - “Chauncey Somes."
Newsclipping - Downeast Enterprise “Steamship Sapph and Waukeage Ferry” 1978.
Newsclipping - “Firehouse landscape plan unveiled”
Newsclipping - “Myra Fernald Holmes."
Newsclipping - “Past Tense: The Blue Nose Ferry” by Marion Kane.
Newsclipping - Ships and Shipbuilding
Newsclipping - “The Great Western 1848."
Newsclipping - “The Somes Harbor Historic District”
Newsclipping - “Wreck of the Katherine”
Newsclipping: “99th Birthday observed by Somesville Lady” 1956
Newsclipping: “Abraham C. Fernald, Jr. Lifelong Somesville Resident” May 1988.
Newsclipping: “Agatha E. Reddish” October 28, 1984
Newsclipping: “An Old Time Sawmill Still Operates in Somesville” December 21, 1974
Newsclipping: “An unusual event at home of William Fernald
Newsclipping: "Bar Harbor Times is 50 Years Old this Week"
Newsclipping: Bar Harbor Times “Lurvey Spring near old Beech Hill Road” July 21, 1960.
Newsclipping: Bar Harbor Times “Old Days at Somesville” 1937
Newsclipping: Bar Harbor Times “Old Days at Somesville” January 29, 1937.
Newsclipping: Bar Harbor Times “Somesville News Items and Social Happenings”
Newsclipping: “Bicentennial Plans are Underway” by Diana Abrell 1989
Newsclipping: Cadillac Mountain Summit Road Reaches 25 Years
Newsclipping: Centruy Old Somesville Building, Former Post Office, to be Razed
Newsclipping: “Company’s History Spans from Bucket Brigad to New Firehouse”
Newsclipping: Copy of “Death of Lucie Pray." (2)
Newsclipping: “Death of Lucie Pray."
Newsclipping: “Dispensary works night and day."
Newsclipping: "Early Settlers of Bar Harbor"
Newsclipping: Ellsworth American “Ground broken for new Somesville Fire Station” October 23, 1986
Newsclipping: Ellsworth American “Somesville’s Lively History Related in The Living Past”
Newsclipping: “Entrance to Brookside Cemetery” photograph.
Newsclipping: "Fernald Reunion"
Newsclipping: firehouse press release October 16, 1986.
Newsclipping: “Firehouse shuffe is in motion”
Newsclipping: “Frances J. Richardson” June 24, 1978.
Newsclipping: “Funeral of Chauncey Somes” March 1987
Newsclipping: “H. Moore, Pioneer Club and Hotel Man Dies."
Newsclipping: "Heartland - Emery District Farmers Wage Losing Battle to Save Their Working Farms"
Newsclipping: “Holy Mackeral, What A View”
Newsclipping: “John Allen Somes” September 8, 1836
Newsclipping: “Landscape Sargent Painted Gone to make $25,000 DAM” 1936.
Newsclipping: "Location of Cave on Somes Sound Remains a Mystery"
Newsclipping: "Memoirs of Mount Desert"
Newsclipping: "Mount Desert-a composition by Lucie Pray nine years old."
Newsclipping "Mountain View Grange burns" 1926
Newsclipping: “Mr. John Somes of Mount Desert."
Newsclipping: “Mrs. Eva G. Somes” July 14, 1976
Newsclipping: “Not by Bread Along, but” by LaRue Spiker August 31, 1961.
Newsclipping of West Street, 1919
Newsclipping: “Old Time Traveler Mentions the Earliest History of The Island”
Newsclipping: Old Timers Expect Front
Newsclipping: part 2 of Somesville History June 7, 1979
Newsclipping: “Past Tense” by Marion Kane
Newsclipping: “Pot Luck at Pond’s End”
Newsclipping: "Property Values Go Higher and Higher"
Newsclipping: “Recollections of an old character”.
Newsclipping: “Richardsons Have Surprise 50th Party."
Newsclipping: Rodick House was built in 1882 and razed 6 years later
Newsclipping: “Romantic Era at Southwest Harbor Ended with Stanely Fisheries Fire”
Newsclipping: “Sailing a business enterprise not an adventure for sailors of Eden"
Newsclipping: “Somes honored on 50th Anniversary” January 19, 1978.
Newsclipping: Somesville Mill Burned, 1933
Newsclipping: “Somesville Resident Fills Gap with Book of Village History."
Newsclipping: “Somesville Woman Elected President of AAUW Monday” April 27, 1967.
Newsclipping: “Someville Woman to Celebrate Ninety-ninth Birthday." October 19, 1956.
Newsclipping: “Tanneries and Boot Making."
Newsclipping: “The Claremont Hotel: Last Victorian Relic”.
Newsclipping: “The Stories of Early Days”
Newsclipping: "Wayside Notes of a Vacation on the Maine Coast"
Newsclipping: “Wool Washing”, Tannery” and “Happy Memories."
Newsclipping:“Daniel Sullivan, Leader of American Cause in County, Foremost Hero” 1976.
Newsclipping:“John William Somes” August 11, 1981
Newsclipping:“Yellowed Pages” by Connee Jellison
Newsclippoing: Post Office Schedule
Newsclippong: "Bar Harbor Times has New Owner"
Newscllipping: “The Beech Hill Road” 1961. LaRue Spiker.
Newspaper article about the renewal of A-Classing racing fleet
Newspaper article: "Coldest Wave in Years Visits Mount Desert Island"
Newspaper Article Describing George Cough and His Family
Newspaper article on recycling center
Newspaper article retrospectives of 1947 Fire
Newspaper article: "The Corsair’s Retreat - A Story of the Slave Trade"
Newspaper Artile: Cargo Drops 6.6%
Newspaper clipings about Arcady Music Festival
Newspaper clipping about Daniel Somes Smith and his poetry. (2)
Newspaper clipping about Machias normal school graduation, 1930.
Newspaper clipping of Somesville bridge newly-erected
Newspaper Clippings featuring the Claremont Hotel
Newspaper Clippings Mount Desert Historical Society
Newspaper clippings of concerts
No Air Pollution, Urban Sprawl Boost to Economic Development
Notice of memorial service for Adelma Somes Joy
Notice of memorial service for Nathan J. Salsbury
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Oakes Center of Bowdoin College: An Experiment in Stimulating Cultural Interest
Obituary for Andrew Jackson Whiting
Obituary of Nettie C. (Allen) Higgins
Odd Fellows and Rebekah Newspaper Clippings
Old Beech Hill Road from Parking lot at Beech Cliff
Old -Fashioned Barn Dance Benefits Hostorical Society
Once Ground Out Grist at Heath Mill
Opposition Forms to TEPCO; Area Residents Want Information, Select Walker as Spokesman
Outer Long Island Nothing Special but oh so Charming
Owner Believes . . . Great Duck Island Resembles Captain Kidd's Treasure Island
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Painting Contractor Donates Services to Mount Desert Historical Society
Past Roads Lead to Somesville's Future
Personal accounts of Bar Harbor Fire, 1947
Personal Keepsakes of Patricia Bousfield
Philadelphia Inquirer article, Oct. 19, 1976
Photograph of Bushnell High School Class of 1928
Photograph of “Norma Fernald Tending Flowers in Somesville.”
Photograph of wrecked vessel at Sand Beach
Picture of the Norumbega steamboat.
Pitcher Collection "Talks" to Mrs. Clarence Smith of Bernard
Poem on the Bann of Cars to the Towns of Mount Desert and Southwest Harbor
Poetry Relieves Drudgery of the Fishing Life
Pretty Marsh Endeavors to Maintain Rural Traditions
Pretty Marsh Subdivision Stirs Residents' Concern
Pretty Marsh was Once Populous Farming and Fishing Community
Prussian Lady Launches Seals from Cranberry Island Wharf
Purchase of two islands off Mt. Desert Island by Sutton and Somes
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Ralph Richardson- Tending to the Rich
Real estate ad. for "restored 1830 Maine Farmstead"
Recognition Service Planned at Somesville UNion Church
Retired Poultryman Full of Pep and Love of Life at 88 Years
Reunion of the Old M. D. High School
Romantic era at Southwest Harbor ended with Stanley Fisheries fire
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Said the Bicycle to the Automobile
Salt Water Taffy Play at Mount Desert High School
Saving and growing heirloom seeds
School House Ground Breaking Set
Scientists Milk Sand Dollars, Sing to Seals in Salisbury Cove
Seal Cove Once Knew Life of Economic Activities
Seal Harbor Library Fundraiser
Seal Harbor Neighborhood Hall Association
Seal Harbor Yatch Club Sails On
Search for Roland Sprague and Fred Fernald
Ships of the Past When Ellsworth Built 'em
Shuttle Disaster Hits Close to Home
Site of Leonard Homes TIde Mill on Norwood Cove photograph.
Social Consequences of Economic Development are Spotlighted
Society issues related to Fire
Somes Harbor and Mill Dam photograph
Somesville History is Family History for Chauncey Somes
Somesville Library Association Fair Proves Very Successful
Somesville Library Celebrates Jubilee
Somesville Library Has an Intersting History
Somesville Social Column, 1959
Somesville Union Church Special Services
Somesville VIS Names Goal of Creating Somesville HIstoric District
Southwest Harbor History Ralph Stanley
Southwest Harbor Man Authors Book on Bird-Carving and Secrets of his Craft
Southwest Harbor Man Gave Up Family Business to Become "Whittling" Artist
Southwest Harbor Revisited: Times Writer reports on 1922 Fire
Spurlings Among First Settlers to Help Shape the History of the Cranberry Isles
Stalking the Wild Scenic W.H. Ballard
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State Charges Vahsling With New Pollution Count
Students Dig Deep To Find Their Roots.
Sturday 80 Year Older has Gone Lobster Fishing for 71 Years
Subdivisions blossom in Bar Harbor, 84-Acre Subdivision Approved for Mt. Desert
Successful Fish Packing Plant Created from Charred Ruins at Bernard
Summer Hotel Work is Good Experience for Girls
Summertime Sailors Take Over Maine Coastal Towns
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“Summit House on Cadillac” photograph
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Survey of Yesterday's Toys.....And Chistmas
Swamps and Wetlands are in Trouble
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Ten Days on a Maine Rock, an Adventure
The Fiery Intrusion; The Enormous Snow Plow
The Great Automobile War: Part II
The Haunted Ship, a Strange Legend of Mount Desert
The Jordans: 300 Years with NET
The Mansions of Mt. Desert and Bar Harbor
The Mansions of Mt. Desert and Bar Harbor; The Golden Era
The Oceanarium is an Ideal Place to Learn About the Environment
The Passamaquoddy Encampment at Bar Harbor Newspaper Article
The Sea Serpent, His Visit to Southwest Harbor
The Town’s Name Communication Newsclipping
They Live in Home of Tomorrow Today
Thousands at Dedication of Mount Desert Bridge
Three photos of historic sites around Somesville, Maine.
Town Meeting Waxes "Spirited" and Dissolves in Shameful Tears
Tremont, a Small Town Experiences Growing Pressure
Tremont town meeting March 3, 1958
Tremont Town Meeting year unknown
Typewritten notes or copies of articles about cars on MDI
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Union Meeting House, Somesville, Maine
Unique Features in Forest Growh of MDI Found in Study Completed by Ecologist
Unknown Poet Bewails the Bane of Polishing Lighhouse Brass
Unknown Poet Bewails the Bane of Polishing Lighthouse Brass
U.S. Show Recognizes Work of Early Southwest Harbor Photographer
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Vanda, the Most Luxurious Yacht Ever Built In New England
Various Articles Pertaining to Mount Desert Island History
Various Articles Pertaining to the History of Southwest Harbor
Various Incomplete Newspaper Articles Pertaining to Mt. Desert Island History (6)
Vigorous November Sailing With Two Experts
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Walls and Fences On Mount Desert Island
Wedding announcement of Mary Amelia Somes
Where There's Wind There's A Way . . .
Wide Range of Services Available in MDI Libraries
Woodcarvers Slate Speaker Here Saturday
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Writer Visiting Cormorant Rookery Has Interesting Ornithology Lesson