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14649Traditions and Records: Southwest Harbor, and Somesville -- Mount Desert Island, Maine.
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, History
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Other, Somesville
  • Other, Southwest Harbor
  • Thornton, Mrs. Seth
  • Acadia Publishing Co.
  • 1988
2813MDI's Auto War: Summer vs. Permanent Residents, 1900-1915
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Automobiles
  • Other, History
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Diana Abrell writing for Bar Harbor Times
  • 9/6/1984
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Article beginning on p.17 and continued on p.32 describing the disputes on Mt. Desert Island in the early 20th century regarding the use of automobiles on the Island. Addended to the article is a poem, reprinted from Bar Harbor Life, August 23, 1913, entitled "Automobiles, The Mount Desert Town Meeting. Only initials "H.W.S." [Herbert Weir Smyth] identify the author of the poem.