Description: Letter to Connie and Carol from Rose discussing her presentation on A.C.'s letters. She sends along a hand drawn map of the James River 1864 for Connie and Carol to put with their copies of the letters.
Description: Foreward written by Rose Perry Ruse to a book thanking different members of the family for their assistance in compiling information abut A.C.Savage and this descendants.
Description: 1. Pages 6-15 of address given by Rev. Horace H. Leavitt on July 14, 1940 in Somesville; memoranda and notes to same. 2. Names of 23 people who met on July 2, 1840 to form Congregational Church. 3. Names of people who desired a Union Meeting House and who bought pews for $5.00 each [1852]. 4. Lists of signers of Supply Fund, 1906, 1907, 5. Invitation to attend ecclesiastical council on June 11, 1908 to examine Mr. Elias Ambrose Jenkins to be pastor of the Somerville [sic] Congregational Church. 6. List of people taken into membership Oct. 17, 1909. 7. Typewritten notes from records of Congregational Church, Somesville, Jan. 6 1885, noting gift of communion service from Mr. Nehemiah Kittredge of Bangor. 8. Typewritten notes on history and legends of Congregational Church, Southwest Harbor, Maine, taken from Nell Thornton's "Traditions and Dates of Southwest Harbor." 9. Booklet with photos about Congregational Church in SW Harbor, n.d. 10. A Record of the Congregational Parish or Religious Society in Mount Desert organized July 2nd, 1840 [original booklet, Somesville] [show more]
Description: Five typed pages of vital statistic records on Abraham and Hannah Somes and their children. These records, drawn from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Ancestral File, include some birth, death and marriage dates.
Other, Beach [Beech?] Hill Methodist Episcopal Church
Other, Genealogy
Creator:
Dean R Purdie
Collection:
Dow Genealogy
Date:
2001
Description: Letter from Dean Purdie to the MDI Historical Society discussing the Dow family genealogy and connection with Mount Desert Island. Purdie also sent materials detailing Dow family members.
Description: One page handwritten letter, photocopy of handwritten note and transcription of both. These all pertain to the Lunt family history in Mt. Desert.
Description: Oral History Interview with Emma Richards, February 5, 2007 (2 audio tapes marked 007.6.2a and 007.6.2b) .2a=XR-90 Extended Range (45 minutes) .2b=Maxell UR (60 minutes)
Description: Harry Spurling , watercolorist, life long resident of Little Cranberry, died Oct. 1, 2000 at 97. He became the chief curator of the Little Cranberry museum.
Description: Donation of the architectural drawings of Robert Patterson Jr. to the MDI Historical Society. It includes a summary of Patterson’s career.
Description: A video of the history of the Maine Seacoast Mission. This film was created in 2005 by Jeff Dobbs Productions, Bar Harbor, Maine The film is in the library in two formats: DVD and VCR
Description: A DVD that includes a 4.5 minute film of an opera created at the Stonington Opera House titled "The Singing Bridge: Fish Factory", April, 2006