Description: Newsclipping: “Somesville History is Family History for Chauncey Somes” by Mercy Johnson July 7, 1979. Previously Accessioned as **0722, Object Id 011.FIC.77.3
Description: Newsclipping: Ellsworth American “Linwood Richardson: A Smithy for Rockefeller and MDI” LaRue Spiker December 22, 1972. Previously accessioned as **0725, Object Id 011.FIC.77.4
Description: Newsclipping: “Dispensary works night and day." Picture of Henrietta Fernald, nurse. Previously accessioned as **0745, Object Id 011.FIC.77.5
Description: “Fernald Reunion” Two different branches of the Fernald family met July 14 at the home of A.C. Fernald, Carriage ride to Beech Hill, brief history of the family, Previously acessioned as **0867, Object Id 012.FIC.043.1
Description: Annotated draft of an article written by LaRue Spiker for an unknown publication. Gov. James Long;ey by LaRue Spiker. 9 pages. Previously accessioned as **1190, object Id **1190 and 013.FIC.30.18
Description: Rudolf Condon: Sculptor and Rug Maker by LaRue Spiker. 5 pages. Previously archived as accession #**1231, Object Id **1231 and 013.FIC.30.7
Description: -Notes regarding the participation of of Constance Robbins in the rebekah Assembly of maine written by Bill Skocpol. Interesting poem welcoming Connie Robbins as warden of RA 1963. Introduction of Connie Robbins by Adelma McFarland Richardson. May 1968 letter describing Past President's meting with mentiton of Eugene Robbins getting orders to go to Vietnam. Official photo of Rebekah officers 1964-1965
Description: In the Bangor Daily News.Detailed history of Beatrix Farrand and what Catherine and Bob Barrett have done to preserve and restore her horticultural contributions to Mt. Desert. Miscellaneous Bar Harbor Times articles Overcliff, one of oldest Northeast Harbor summer cottages built by Longfellow and Harlow for John Prentiss Hopkinson, brother in law of Charles W. Eliot and presently owned by Peter Bell was heavily damaged by fire. Overcliff was the final home of Eleanor Robson Belmont, a famous Flora Dora girl. Two page article ND Michael Graves paintings at Birdsnest Gallery July 27 2000 Mount Desert Island Historical Society tea at tavern Eden Baptist Church Design Review Rules, Bar Harbor [show more]
Description: Ellsworth American “Constructing a Pretty Pluck Living” by LaRue Spiker. Harpsichord. Previously accessioned as **0914, Object Id 012.FIC.047.5
Description: 1 filing cabinet containing folders with envelopes, loose articles and clippings about local people, families, organizations and events. Compiled by Lydia Satterlee Rivers, who worked at the Northeast Harbor Library under Robert Pyle. The collection was donated by Mr. and Mrs. Henry C. Rivers. Files are catalogued by subject. A Abbe Museum Acadia Animal Park Acadia National Park Agnese, Cheryl C. Agnese, Joseph H. Aircraft (historic) Allen, Richard Archeology Artists & Sculptors Ashley, Irving Asticou Inn Astor, Brooke Authors Automobile War B Ballard, Willis H. Bar Harbor Bar Harbor Airlines Bar Harbor Yacht Club Bartlett, Irene Bartlett Island Bass, Robert Beal & Bunker Ferry Beal, David A. Bell, Katie Belmont, Mrs. August Bird Count / MDI Christmas Beamer, Gillian Bigelow, William (Mac) Biological Lab, MDI Blair, Edward McC. Boat Builders Boat Skippers Boats (historic) Bond, James & Mary (Wickham) Bordeaux, Meredith (Bud) Bordeaux, Pearl Bowman, Bob Bryan, Ashley Brzezinsky, Zbigniew Brophy, Keira Brown, Tom Bryant, Roy Bucklin, Horace Burden, William A. M. Burr, Gregory Buildings Businesses, Small Island C Carr, Dennis Caughey, Phil Center Charpentier, Arthur Chasse, Patrick Churches Circus Claremont Hotel Coffin, Ernest L., M.D. Coffin, Steve Cole, Kendra Cole, Mark Coleman, Douglas L., Dr. College of the Atlantic Coombs, Arthur Coombs, Dwight Coombs, Harold Corning, Erastus II Cranberry Club Cranberry Isles Crime Articles Czapowsky, Miro D Damon, Dennis Damon, Herbert L. Dana, Carol Dickey, Charles D. Jr. Donnan, David Dudman, Helen Dudman, Martha Tod Dudman, Richard Durost, David E Eaton, Maxine Eliot, Charles Eliot, Thomas F Fairchild, Julia F. Falt, Gordon Farrand, Beatrix Favour, Edith Favour, Paul Fay, Gertrude Fennelly, Parker Fennelly, William Fernald, Barry Fernald, Jean Fernald, John S. Fires & Fire Equipment Fishing & Fishermen Flagg, Ernest Fremont-Smith, Frances Flye, Flick & Charlotte Frenchboro Foster, Ray & Beatrice G Gardiner, Elizabeth Gates, Thomas S. Jr. Gardens Genealogy Geology Gilley, Mildred Gilley, Wendell Gilpatric, Chadbourne Goriansky, Carola E. Grace, J. Peter Grant, Doris & Carolyn Graves, David Gray, C. Boyden Gray, Inez Great Duck Island Green, Joe Green Mountain Railway H Hadlock, Elmer Hadlock, Wendell S. Hagberg, Karol Hall, Thomas S. Dr. Hamblen, John & Della Hamlin, Clarice & Philip Hamor, Linda A. Hancock County Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations Hansen, Gunnar Harms, John Harrison, Wallace K. Haskell, G. Merrill Haynes, Richard Heckscher, August Heckshire, Claude Higgins, Victor & Ruby Hill, Gerald Hill, Percey History Holmes, Bernard (Bun) Housing, MDI Hylander, Bob I Ice J Jackson Lab Jekyll, Gertrude Jokes Jordan, John Jordan Pond House Jordan, Ruth Joy, Barbara Joy, Lillis K Kelley, Carl E. Mr. & Mrs. Kennedy, Moorhead Kimball, Ben Knowles, Asa Knowles, Lilly Belle Smallidge Knowles Real Estate L Lane, Priscilla (Skippy) Lanpher, Charles W. Lanpher, Juanita Layton, Victor LePage, Laurence Libitzki, Cheryl Library, NEH – Vol. I Library, NEH – Vol. II Library, NEH – Vol. III Art Displays Libraries Liebow, Bob Lighthouses Lippmann, Walter Lunt, Durlin Lynam, Lydia M Maddocks, Grace Mahaney, Kevin Mahaney, Larry K. Maine - Flood of ’87 (April 14, 1987) Maine – 200 years of Maine Housing Maine Coastal Program Maine Sea Coast Mission Massucco, Bart McGiffert, Cushman Rev. MDI Workshop McLean, Phillip & Annie Menzietti, Ivey & Annie Miller, Mimi Salisbury Milliken, Roger Morfit, J. Mason Mount Desert Mount Desert Boys in WWII Mount Desert Festival of Chamber Music Mount Desert Island Mount Desert Public Health Murphy, Maitland Murphy, Maurice Mussetti, Joseph Jr. N Neighborhood House Newman, Kim Newspapers Ninfi, Carlo Nitze, Paul Northeast Harbor O Obituaries P Parady, Bernard (Bernie) Patterson, Barbara N. (Mrs. Robert W. Patterson) Patterson, Robert Peabody, Mary Peck, Louine Peltz, Mrs. John Dewitt Phillips, Augustus Phippen, Les Politics Post Office (Otter Creek) Publishing Pyle, Louisa Pyle, Robert Q Quarries R Railroads Ramsdell, Jay Rand, Henry L. Real Estate Renault, David Rianhard, Richard Richards, Charles L. Richardson, Louise & Doug Rockefeller Family Roth, Hal Russell, Will S Sage, Dewitt Savage, Charles K. Savage, Dianna Savage, Fred Savage, Richard Sawmill in Somesville Schools Scouts Scull, David Seal Harbor Seals Seavey, Jon Serpell, Barry W. Dr. Serpell, Sandra Shaw, Samuel Smallidge, Anne Smallidge, Mr. & Mrs. Earl (Curly) Smallidge, Mazie Smith, Joseph T. Smith, Lucy (Mrs. Richard) Smith, Margaret Chase Smith, Samantha Smith, Stephen & Dennis Solar Houses Somes, Chauncey Somes Sound Somesville Somesville Fire Department Space Spiker, LaRue Sports Spurling, Arthur Spurling, Ted Stanley, Ralph Stanley, Woodbury Stroud, Joan Milliken Suminsby, Kathryn Suminsby, Robert T Tepco Theatre Thomas, Joseph B. IV Townsend, Bill Toy Lending Library (NEH) Tracy, Mrs. Ralph Tracy, Valerie Train, Barbara Tripp, Susan Tyler, Sally V Vinalhaven W Walls, John Walsh, Sean Watras, Victoria Watson, Herb Weinberger, Caspar & Jane Westphal, David Westphal, Gretchen Westphal, Joan Westphal, Mike Westphal, Ruth Whales Wheelock, Morgan Wheelwright, Mary White, Mary H. Dr. Whitehill, Walter Widmerding, John Woman’s Club of Northeast Harbor Wooden Boat Woodward, Charles H. Wright, Jack Wright, Mildred Y Yacht Club, Seal Harbor Young, Nathan Yourcenar, Marguerite Z Zirnkilton, Stephen [show more]
Description: A newspaper article entitled "Defeats a Champion By the Aid Of A Heating Pad." This article is about W.H Marr defeating Stuart F. Walker in a golf competition. The full article says "W.H. Marry, prominent local druggist, by the aid of a torridaire heating pad in his pocket to keep his hands warm, played golf Tuesday afternoon at the Wilson Lake Country club and succeeded in defeating Stuart F. Walker, the club champion, who was handicapped because of being unable to share Mr. Marr's heating pad for the same purpose. Marr was five strokes on Walker at the competition of the nine holes. [show more]
Description: Newspaper clipping, "Island writer reels in the lore of fishing" by Carl Little, Bar Harbor Times, 21 Nov 1996: about John McDonald of NYC, who summered on GCI in the small white house opposite the Preble house. He wrote several important books about angling, as well as "My Years With General Motors by Alfred Sloan." (Scanned, clear copy also made.)
Description: Newspaper clipping, Mount Desert Islander, 17 Jun 2004, "Heck of a Halibut... Cranberry Isles fisherman Junior Bracy caught this nearly 200-pound halibut while out fishing off Duck Island on June 7. It dressed out at 154 pounds. Mr. Bracy and his sternman, son Scott, are third and fourth generation fishermen from Cranberry Island."