Description: Four clipping from unknown newspapers about Marguerite Yourcenar. One is about the sexism women faced when trying to enter the French Academy. Two are clippings of photos of her. One is an obituary written in the New York Times about her. Previously archived as 011.FIC.004.4
Description: News article about Eleanor Murphy, the last postmaster in West Tremont retiring after 25 years of service. Bangor Daily News weekend edition, October 4-5, 1997. by News staff writer Catherine Ivey.
Description: Newspaper clipping from the Maine Campus, 15 April 1977. Details the Cyrstal Palace Cafe in Bar Harbor. Clipping mounted on posterboard with scotch tape.
Description: Undated newspaper clipping written by Henry Buxton outlining the claim of Prince Talleyrand, a French noble politician of the late 1700s and early 1800s being born on Mount Desert Island.
Description: Newspaper clippings, letter from Sen. Wm. Cohen, tributes from Pres. Clinton, Vice Pres. Gore, and other items related to Democratic Party and the League of Women Voters, in which Patricia Bousfield was active. Part of LWV materials donated by LaRue Spiker.
Description: "Old Yellow Building" more recently known as the Higgins Store, anitiques store (as of 2011). History of the building, handwritten by unknown person. original copies of newspaper story.
Description: Clipped article on two pages describes history of the Jordan Pond House as well as considerations for rebuilding the establishment. Previously archived as 012.FIC.038.3
Description: Two articles, both incomplete, celebrating the 94th and 96th birthdays of C.E. Whitmore also known as Ed Whitmore. Previoulsy archived as object Id 012.FIC.047.1
Description: Article in Mount Desert Island Living, Mount Desert Islander, Dec. 16, 2010, about collaborative effort to form Friends of [Mount Desert] Island History. Mentions Bill Horner, Ruth Eveland, Don Lenahan, Jack Russell. Emily Beck, Rebecca Cole-Will, Muriel Davisson, Deborah Dyer, Candy Emlen, Anne Funderburk, Tim Garrity, Meredith Hutchins, Charlotte Morrill, Robert Pyle, Paul Richardson. Photos, including "Steamship Norumbega" hard aground in Southwest Harbor. [show more]
Description: May 17, 1979 article in Bar Harbor times profiles Wilfred Bunker, owner of Beal and Bunker boat services Also on same page: photograph and caption about "The Game Room" in space formerly used by community theater in McEachern and Hutchins building in Southwest Harbor.
Description: Taking a Step in Time, MDI Historical Society slide show with Mary Jones and Ralph Stanley on 15 historic buildings. Changes in Southwest Harbor by Ralph Stanley; (undated) may be the transcript to accompany slides; Attic Treasures sought for historical exhibit; July 1981 picture of Nelson Leland from newspaper holding Order of Eastern Star cookbook Miscellaneous newspaper articles, Route 3 corridor; McKinley Minstrel cast (1950), heirloom seeds [show more]