Description: Collection consists of three boxes of archival files donated by the Seal Harbor Library pertaining to the history of Seal Harbor village and Acadia National Park. An itemized summary of each boxes' contents is enclosed in each box. Recounting of the events that marked Seal Harbor's 100th anniversary back in September of 1909.
Description: Interview with Bud and Grace Bordeaux , May 2005, by Charlotte Singleton. Discussion of Bordeaux family history, Sound School which Bud had attended, Bordeaux house and dairy, CCC (Bud didn't like it), summer people, caretaking, Lindsay Smallidge, working for Town of Mount Desert.
Description: Oral history interview with Emma Reed Richards. Her father was Hollis G. Reed and her mother was Lillian Reed . Discussed growing up in McKinley (Bass Harbor), schooling, Neptune Theater and movies, Reed's Store, transmitting station at Seawall.
Description: Transcript of Oral History Interviews with: Rick Savage, Sydney Roberts Rockefeller, Scott McFarland and Keating McFarland. Martha Dudman, Interviewer. May 5, 2009 CD-R is in Archival Box #68, accession number 010.FIC.144.20.
Description: Written transcript of oral history interview of Bill Lawlor by students at Pemetic School. and Charlotte Singleton. Topics: Chris' Pond, ice cutting, Chris' horses. Delivering ice. CD-R located in Archival Box #68, accession number 010.FIC.144.13. WORD(doc) files is missing. Perhaps Jean Fosillo has it on her hard drive? Needs to be located. Scanned copy of text is attached to this record. (See media link)
Description: Audio recording of interview with Leola Jackson, conducted by Esther Rodick of the Southwest Harbor Oral History Society, at the home of Ms. Rodick, Wesley Avenue, Southwest Harbor, Maine, 1990's
Description: Audio recording of interviews of 4 MDI residents, Cora Fernald, Addie Smith, Morris Somes, and Danny Kane.conducted by Pamela Dean. Dates and places of interviews are not stated. Interviews appear to have been conducted individually but recorded on the same media. Interviewer sounds like Pamela Dean but that has not been verified.
Description: Audio recording of oral history interview with Nelson Herrick, interview conducted by Esther Rodick, Southwest Harbor Oral History Society Date unknown -- probably in the 1990's.
Description: Audio recording of oral history interview with Dorothy Althea Robinson Worcester, at her home in Southwest Harbor, Maine. March 23, ------- Copy of this interview also exists at the Southwest Harbor Library and is part of the archives there. Note: year of interview is missing on the interview and needs to be determined for the record herein.
Description: Audio recording of Oral history interview with Farnham Butler. Interview conducted by Leza Colquhoun Date unkown. Gladys Butler also heard on the interview.
Description: Audio recording of Raymond Strout interviewed by Susan Lerner, Judith Burger- Gossart, Charlotte Singleton. NOTE: Audio quality is too quiet to hear in many places. This CD and the Past Perfect media file need to be editted to improve the audio sound level before sharing publicly.
Description: A video recording of a panel discussion and program, sponsored by the MDI Historical Society, July 22, 2009. Moderated by Kathy Miller, Board president. With panelists Ralph Stanley, Phil Bennett (Hinckley), Jock Williams (Williams Yacht Yard), Lee Wilbur (Wilbur Yachts), Cuyler Morris (Morris Yachts) and Alan Sprague, co-host of Boat Talk on WERU Radio. Video can not be uploaded to Past Perfect database with current technology. DVD is only record. [show more]
Description: Photocopies of the History of the Eden Baptist Church, 1799-1949, by Mrs. Francis Clark Grindle (which includes copies of handwritten church records). Names in the history include: Young, Emery, Grindle, Mayo, Leland, Eaton, Higgins, Hull, Hamor, Thomas, Hadley, Lord, Merrill, Huntting, Gilkley, Cary, Rich, Herrick, DeLaittre, Paine, Hamilton, Rockefeller, Hodgkins, Snow, Case, Murphy, Smallidge, Stanwood, Haynes, Thompson, Wasgatt, Stetson, Jackson, Swett, and Salisbury. [show more]
Description: 13-page booklet describing history of the "larger parish" formed in 1925 when churches in Seal Harbor and Northeast Harbor were without pastors at same time. John D. Rockefeller Jr. influential in establishing this concept.
Description: Audio recording of interview with Irma Gott 4-19-94, conducted by the Southwest Harbor Oral History Society at the Library in 1994. An additional copy of this interview is in the Southwest Harbor Library collections.
Description: History of Mount Desert recounted with important dates and descriptions of the events. Includes additional sections "Manners & Customs", "Population", and "The Church". In pencil is written "From Somesville + Southwest Harbor", some additional notes in pencil are made in the margins. Undated.