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Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date
14633School Consolidation Program, sponsored by the MDI Historical Society, April 28, 2009
  • Document, Program
  • Other, Schools
  • 4/28/09
Description:
Audio recording of a program held on School Consolidation on Mount Desert Island, April 28, 2009, sponsored by the MDI Historical Society.
14071Reminiscences of Somesville
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Object, Telegraph
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • Other, Roads
  • Other, Schools
Description:
All by Adelma Somes Joy: “Somes Sound must have been one beautiful place." Recalls arrival of Abraham Somes, the oak trees on oak hill, Ebenezer Sutton, and Denning’s Pond. "Years ago when we had the telegraph..." Recalls advances in technology, balloons, and flight. Northeast Harbor Women's Literary Club talk , Jan. 30, 1920. Plans to travel abroad, give clothing to naked Africans, open beauty parlor. "That Old Reed House." Mrs. Reed was her grandfather's sister; house near Jim's Cove. "My first recollections of life..." Recalls her grandparents' house in 1838. Also separate essay, "Grandfather's House." Reminiscences of Somesville #6. Recalls naming of Somesville, old roads, school house, industry, and tanning pits. Two Letters from Adelma Somes Joy to Harriet Somes Sanderson, Aug. 10, 1929. recalls Col. Black House in Ellsworth, Episcopal Church at Seal Cove, Bp. Manning, church sales, other historical notes. "Memories" of her father. History of Somes and Richardson families. [show more]
13589Reminiscence of Somesville
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • Other, Indians of North America
  • Other, Mills
  • Other, Roads
  • Other, Schools
  • Other, Shoemaking
  • Other, Singing
  • Other, Tanning
Description:
Adelma Somes Joy recalls Somesville’s Red school house in 1847. Includes description of the interior and student pranks. Also the tale of Sam Slick. Also Singing School; Indians Camping at Somesville, two poems (one alludes to a suicide), Churches on Mt. Desert (1840), That Old Tannery (recalls Daniel and Lewis Somes, Israel Haven, John Keniston and Somesvilles' cobbler shop), That Old Factory (woolen mill), That Old Road [over Beech Hill], (1837), That Upper Gate (kept water back when not needed to turn mill wheels)--all by Adelma Somes Joy. "The Indian Violin Player" by Eunice Deering. [show more]
13251Mt. Desert High School graduation program
  • Document, Program
  • Other, Schools
  • 1907
Description:
Program for 1907 Mt. Desert High School graduation including titles of speeches, music, names of 7 graduates, school officers and committee
12770Program for the Sunbonnet Girl
  • Document, Program
  • Other, History - Bar Harbor
  • Other, Schools
  • Structures, Civic, Entertainment
  • 1935
Description:
Program for the Sunbonnet Girl An Operetta in two Acts presented by the Bar Harbor High School The Casino Tuesday Evening, December 17,1935
12283School Account Book for the Town of Mount Desert
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Other, Book keeping
  • Other, Education
  • Other, History - Mount Desert
  • Other, Mount Desert Schools
  • Other, Schools
Description:
Large grey ledger 1918-1919 Mt. Desert written in Ink on cover
12215Nelson Leland's Commencement Address-1972
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Reunions
  • Other, Schools
Description:
Two dates on manuscript: 1968 and 1972.
4300Letter from Nelson C. Leland
  • Document, Correspondence
  • Other, Schools
  • People
Description:
Papers related to Mt. Desert High School in Somesville. Class reunion 1980 and bill from 1948 with notes regarding local schools....Mt. Desert High School founded 1903, Addition to Mt. Desert School 1930, Hall Quarry School built 1901, Somesville School house built in 1897
3945Programs: Mt. Desert H.S. graduation; Somesville Grammar School Anniv. Exercises
  • Document, Program
  • Other, Schools
Description:
Anniversary Exercises lists participants in recitations, readings, flag drill; graduation lists participants in essay, recitations.
3944Names of Scholars, Somesville, 1857
  • Document, List
  • Other, Schools
  • Other, Somesville
  • 1857
Description:
Original and copy; gives names, ages, and dates of birth
3943School Agent's Census, 1882, District 1
  • Document, Government, Census Record
  • Other, Census
  • Other, Schools
  • 1882
3942List of Scholars, Mt. Desert, April 1st, 1862
  • Document, List
  • Other, Schools
  • 1862
Description:
Note, "Oak Hill", District 2
3900Somesville School-playground improvements
  • Document, Specification
  • Other, Playgrounds
  • Other, Schools
  • Other, Somesville
  • n.d.
Description:
Schedule and estimated cost of Athletic Fields; other needed improvements to grounds in general.
1479School Account Book for the Town of Mount Desert
  • Document, Financial, Bookkeeping Record, Account Book, Ledger
  • Other, Education
  • Other, History - Mount Desert
  • Other, Schools
Description:
Large grey ledger 1914-1918 Mt. Desert written in Ink on cover Includes: Note in back cover in blue pencil, reading:Census 1916 499 boys 235 girls 264 Also included loose paperwork, resume,