Description: Handwritten in ink; no date given, but note from Harriet Somes Sanderson says was written by her father, Thaddeus, when a schoolboy. He went to East Corinth Academy in 1846 at age 7. Thaddeus Shaply Somes was born on April 2, 1839.
Description: Manuscript undated by LaRue Spiker Dedicated to everyone who loves or has loved Mount Desert Island, pp 42 Handwriting on the back of p. 1 Notations in the margins doesn't fit in protective sleeve Previously archived as #012.FIC.012.1
Description: Per introduction by Robert Pyle: "Written in the 1930's and scanned from a copy preserved by Elmer H. Cousins and supplies by his nephew Dana R. Haynes in 2012." Refers to numerous people and places.
Description: Notes (5 versions)about the club, giving names of members, items sewed, plans to raise money to buy hearse, organ, build sidewalk, fence around Brookside Cemetery. Library, church parish house, Somesville School House also mentioned.
Description: Diary and other narrative material written by Marian Lawrence Peabody. Includes description of summer life on MDI, social life in Boston, wartime experiences and events, travels to California, Paris and other locations, and the Claremont Hotel. Black binder has been included in the collection. There is substantial duplication between the material in folders and in the black binder (which was marked "May to Dec 1917"). Much of the material was incorporated in the book "To be Young was Very Heaven," with Mrs. Harold Peabody listed as the author. Also included are letters from Craig Wylie of Houghton Mifflin and Anne Ford about difficulty finding copies of the book in stores. THIS MATERIAL HAS BEEN GIVEN ONLY THE ACCESSION NUMBER, AS OF DECEMBER 12, 2007. Individual items have not been numbered or catalogued. [show more]
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]
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]
Description: This folder contains information sent to MDIHS in connection with an exhibit of W.H. Ballard photographs, held from 1998 through 2006. It includes: 1. Letter, to Diane Ballard Michael from Charlotte Singleton, 10-18-2006 2. Letter and Notes, to Ann Mazlish and Jaylene Roths, 6-4-1998, from Diane Ballard Michael. Includes biographical notes from Michael related to a future book on her father, W.H. Ballard. 3. Biography, W.H. Ballard, 5" x 7" card 4. Manuscript, "Captain Bert Gets His Coot", a story by W.H. Ballard, ca 1976 5. Notated manuscript, biographical information about W.H. Ballard, author unknown but probably Diane Ballard Michael 6. Exhibition notes, exhibit at University of Maine, January-February 1967, photographs of W.H. Ballard 7. Letter and manuscript, to Jaylene Roths from Diane B. Michael, 8-3-1999, includes "Brief Biography W.H. Ballard Mount Desert, Maine" by Diane B. Michael [show more]
Description: 12 page typewritten manuscript. early history of Seal Harbor, Jan 1959 with corrections Letter from Mrs. Roscoe C. Marshall (Elsie) to Dianne Ballard Michael correcting Claremont history. Elise's father was Dr. Joseph Phillips who owned the Claremont Michael re history of Claremont Hotel. says Elise Marshall is only daughter of Dr Phillips, owner on sticky note The Claremont Hotel-My Story, 1884-1964 (two copies) who wrote it? 1967 Menu inside of one of the typed booklets Poem about W.H. Ballard by Hilda G. Moe 1969 "Paper Talks," booklet; includes photos of Pemetic H.S. Eastern, Maine, champ. and cheerleaders, 1948. 1950 newspaper article re George William Dolliver: Has had his driver's license for 43 years, since 1908 and car. Letter to Ballard from K. Tracy 1947 postcard from Laurie and Mary Holmes Letter to W.H. Ballard from Don E. Smith, 1947, re Miss Gordon's letter about Bar Harbor fire. [show more]
Description: Manuscript written by Doris Grant, possibly in the 1980s, about the store and parties held there, musicals and contests, the "Medicine Show", Professor Ness and his trained animal show, Italian quarrymen, boarding house for workers, quarry workers' union, maids who were ferried from Northeast Harbor for parties in the old Standard Hall.
Description: Manuscript written by Doris Grant, possibly in the 1980s, about Ed Pete Richardson of Hall Quarry. Mentions entertainment in A.J. Whiting's Hall, including "Nick o' the Woods" ; picking up mail in Somesville and delivering it to C.J. Hall's store to be picked up; sharpening tools for the granite cutters; blueberry picking and sales, bears in Hall Quarry, the arrival of "Hell Wagons" (automobiles) on the island. [show more]
Description: Memories of the chapel at Hall Quarry, written by Doris Grant, possibly in the 1980s: 2 handwritten versions (They have not been compared to see if they are identical. Mentions its use as a school and community center as well as a religious building. References to Horace Leavitt, minister; Mandy Perkins, Sunday school superintendent, and Bill Grant, organist. Marked as copies a (5 pages) and b(4 pages).
Description: Manuscript written by Doris Grant , possibly in the 1980s, with memories of Somes Sound and the vessels and captains who sailed up the Sound, mainly to Hall Quarry. Stories of crossing the ice on Somes Sound in the winter and shipwrecks. Handwritten copy (a) and typewritten copy (b). Scene in movie the Modern Thelma filmed in Somes Sound The two copies have not been compared to determine if they are the same. As of 2018, only type written copy [show more]
Description: Print copy including maps of a contractor's report for the Bar Harbor Town Plan in July 1948 in wake of the 1947 fires. Copy of originals held by Rockefeller Archive Center.
Description: Three manuscripts: Prairie Song-- a poem, written in Illinois Ponds & their Life Cycle--includes difference between lakes and ponds and descriptions of the plants and animals that live in ponds Politicians in Pig Tails--15-pages; story about a deer and children
Description: Five manuscripts: Paradise for Parakeets--Parakeet Sanctuary near Largo, Florida Petit Manan Point (1968)--description and history Opening of Cadillac Road--includes names of notable people who attended ceremony (Dorr, Deasy, Cleaves, Damrosch, Adams, Wescott Perry Sesquicentennial (1968)--town pride in downeast Naming of Tunk Lake--story behind "tunk"