Description: Collection of three items. (A) Trailboard from a Friendship sloop. Letters visible: “BUILDER FRIENDSHIP, ME” on one side, and “WILBUR A. MORSE, BUILDER” on the other side. Carved with leaves and wavy line on both sides. Donor believes this could be the trailboard from one of Peter Richardson’s Friendship sloops. Richardson kept five Friendship sloops where Heliker LaHotan now stands (the old Stanley boatyard).(Trailboards are a pair of decorative boards at the bow of a sailboat, running from the figurehead back towards the hawsepipe.) (Measurements: 35"L x 6"H x 8.5"W)Note: On 10/14/16 Captain, historian, and boat builder Ralph Stanley visited GCIHS and commented on the trailboard. Ralph explained that donor's Friendship sloop, Old Baldy, was bought from its original owner; Kathy Newman owns it now. Jarvis Newman restored it. Stanley believes that the sloop that the trailboard came from was Little Flirt. (Apparently, the intended name was Alert, but William Doane Stanley had also named his boat Alert.) Eventually, Little Flirt had Sweet Pea painted on her stern. Whoever gave Lou Alert’s trailboard, likely found it in the field by Lewis Stanley’s boat yard (Ralph Stanley’s Uncle Lew) after the boat was destroyed and the ruins put in the field. He believes a full trailboard would have included the date made, 1904, and would have had an eagle’s head on the end. Ralph will check and see if Kathe Walton has the head.(B) Stanley cemetery wooden post. A broken post with carved top intact for exhibit purposes and for use as a model for new fence posts for the 2014 restored Stanley cemetery. (There are several more broken fence posts currently at the cemetery.) (Measurements: 41"L x 6" Diameter)(C) Powder horn from donor's family. Lovely, plain, unornamented horn which Donor used with her muzzle loading rifles and as a prop in a play. Has string attached by screw; two drilled holes; hollow. It was probably acquired in Ohio. No direct connection to GCI other than Lou Millar's use in her long and interesting life and it’s a neat artifact. (Measurements: 14.5"L x 3.5"H x 3"W) [show more]
Description: Memories of Duck and Bakers Island circa 1891. Gifted by Hugh Dwelley in Summer 2007. The bulk of the document is a copy of a letter to the Ellsworth American written by Rufus George Frederick Candage. The letter was written in 1891, but in the letter he is reminiscing about a two-week vacation to the Duck and Bakers Island in 1841. He writes about a barn, cattle, vegetables, hay, butter, cheese, eggs, fowls on Great Duck, and sheep on Little Duck. At that time the family of John Bartlett was living on Duck Island, although the Duck Islands were claimed by Mr. Gilley. Candage also remembers a trip to see the Bakers Island lighthouse. The letter is preceded by an excerpt from the book "The Descendants of James Candage/Cavendish of Blue Hill, Maine" and some notes on the Bartlett family and the letter made by Ralph W. Stanley. The document also includes a letter from Hugh Dwelley as President of the Islesford Historical Society to Mr. Gil Bunker in reference to a visit that the Bunker Family Association of America planned to make to the Cranberry Islands. [show more]
Description: Page 52 is an article called "Islesford's Creative Economy - Island Artists Must Also Be Entrepreneurs" by Carl Little. Page 70 has a picture of Lil and Chuddy Alley
Description: 3 Ring binder containing “The Islesford Journals of Dr. Vincent Y. Bowditch, Journals I-IV”, Transcribed by Hugh L. Dwelley published by the Islesford Historical Society in June 1992.
Description: A loose-bound volume of documents copied from the records of the U.S. Light House Service in the national Archives in Washington, D.C. The documents record the acquisition of Bakers's Island by the USG to build a light house. They also record the failed efforts of the USG to have the Gilley family removed from the island for trespass.
Description: Back of postcard says "THE MAYPOLE, Islesford, Maine, on Little Cranberry Island - This Island Paradise, with its splendid panoramic view of the Mount Desert Hills, may be reached by the Islesford Ferry from Seal Harbor, Northeast and Southwest Harbors." Aeriel photo by A.D. Phillips
Description: Back of postcard says "THE WATER-FRONT, Islesford, Maine, on Little Cranberry Island - Included in its many attractions is a Historic Museum, founded in 1919 by Professor William O. Sawtell.Passage to the Island may be obtained, during the summer, from Seal Harbor, Northeast and Southwest Harbors on the Islesford Ferry." Aeriel photo by A.D. Phillips