Description: Bar Harbor Times article about a local high school students doing research into into the history of Mount Desert Island and some of the changes which have taken place over the years. Also current plans to reopen historic senic views in Acadia National Park.
Description: Bar Harbor Times article about a lecture comparing historic buildings in Southwest Harbor then and now. Discusses the survey of buildings of historical architectural significance identified.
Maureen Williams, writing for Bangor Daily News; LaRue Spiker for Ellsworth American
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LaRue Spiker Collection
Description: Articles on two pages each reporting on the possible acquisition of a Bar Harbor estate owned by William Wolff by an medical research enterprise, Ivest Medical Research Foundation. This former Sears estate was the birthplace of Nelson A. Rockefeller. Previously archived as 012.FIC.046.3
Description: Article wirtten by LaRue Spiker about lobsters and the lobster fishing industry for the Bar Harbor Times. Previously archived as 012.FIC.022.1
Description: Grinding ice sheet molds MDI geography. The articles deal with the geologic processes which formed Mt. Desert Island, the granite intrusions of the Island, and the claciation periods which shaped the geography of Mt. Desert Island. A portion of Part I of the series appears to be missing. Previously archived as Object Id 012.FIC.029.3
Description: Supplement to the Bar Harbor Times, each including several artices, pertaining to development in the towns of Mt. Desert Island and Trenton. Bar Harbor Struggles with Big City Problems; Previously archived as object Id 012.FIC.043.4
Description: Segments of articles relating to history of Mt. Desert Island. Titles: Early ladies aid societies have left stamp on MDI Previously archived as 012.FIC.043.5
Description: Segments of articles relating to history of Mt. Desert Island. Titles: Church in Manset built in 1828 Previously archived as 012.FIC.043.5
Description: Segments of articles relating to history of Mt. Desert Island. Titles: Visitor to Tremont County store Previously archived as 012.FIC.043.5
Description: Segments of articles relating to history of Mt. Desert Island. Titles: Visitor to boatyards in West Tremont and Bernard Previously archived as 012.FIC.043.5
Description: Segments of articles relating to history of Mt. Desert Island. Titles: Article about the founding of the Sewing Circle on Southwest harbor. Previously archived as 012.FIC.043.8
Description: Articles from various newspapers pertaining to the history of Southwest Harbor. Southwest Harbor Revisited: Times Writer Reports on 1922 Fire, authored by LaRue Spiker Previously archived as 012.FIC.043.8
Description: 4 articles chronicling support for a Fillipino family moving into a neighborhood in Indpls. A petition had been circulated against the family moving in. Picketing of an alderman who objected to the family moving in Mrs. Hardman Declares... (2p), Union Leader, Defending..(2p), Residents on Fetter..(1p) Previously archived as object id #012.FIC.015.4, **1266, **1266, **1267, **1268
Description: Article about Mrs. Alice Gray, Mrs. Linda Foote, Allen Smith. "Pretty Marsh Was Once Populous Farming and Fishing Community," Bar Harbor Times, May 9, 1963. (3 copies) "Pretty Marsh is a few miles and a world away from the rest of MDI," Community Observer, Sept. 4, 1974 "Under Uncle Dick Hill, " Bar Harbor Times, July 12, 1979 "Acadia: Land and Sea Vie in Eternal Struggle," Philadelphia Inquirer, May 11, 1965 (2 copies) Christening of "Acadian" by Lisa MacQuinn, Bar Harbor Times, April 16, 1970 Articles from Bar Harbor Times, April 9, 1970 Letter to editor, Bar Harbor Times, from Helen Cosgrove-Carignan, Sept. 23, 1976 "Legend of Schooner Head," Bar Harbor Times, Aug. 27, 1981 "Wreck of the Grand Design," Bar Harbor Times, April 16, 1987 Obituary, David Eliot McGiffert, Bar Harbor Times, Oct. 20, 2005 [show more]
Description: Donation of the architectural drawings of Robert Patterson Jr. to the MDI Historical Society. It includes a summary of Patterson’s career.