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12577Champagne and a Gardener: A Little Maine Murder
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Fiction
  • Other, Mount Desert Island
  • Morison, B.J.
  • Thorndike Press
  • 1982
Description:
According to the dust jacket, this is a "novel of manners and ...mystery" centering around a Boston family who summers on the "backside" of Mount Desert Island. (The author bought the Criterion Theater in Bar Harbor in 1969.)
12150Quitclaim Deed from Emily F. Grindle to MDI Historical Society (April 23, 1981)
  • Document, Legal, Deed
  • Other, Mount Desert Historical Society
  • 1981
Description:
Quitclaim Deed from Emily F. Grindle to MDI Historical Society (April 23, 1981). Pertains to approximately .08 acre transfer.
12008Peddlers of Long Ago
  • Document, Manuscript
  • Other, Hall Quarry
  • Other, Peddlers
  • 1983
Description:
Article by Doris Grant in New England Sampler: Peddlers of Long Ago, peddlers who came to Hall Quarry and other MDI villages. Mentions Charles and Ralph Sawyer, who began as peddlers, then opened a store in Southwest Harbor.
10077LaRue Spiker
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Other, 4th of July
  • Other, Independence Day
  • Other, Parades
  • Unknown
  • 1980
Description:
Many people standing along a roadside. LaRue Spiker is passing out League of Women Voters’ statements on acid rain and the synfuel bill along the Bar Harbor 4th of July parade route in 1980.
9332Newspaper article: "The Corsair’s Retreat - A Story of the Slave Trade"
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Environment
  • 1983
Description:
Mount Desert Herald “The Corsair’s Retreat - A Story of the Slave Trade” June 21, 1983. Previously accessioned as **0862, object Id 012.FIC.043.1
9331COA 10 Years Later
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Education
  • 1980
Description:
Ellsworth American “COA 10 Years Later - Has Come a Long Way” by LaRue Spiker February 28, 1980. Peviously accessioned as **0858, Object Id 012.FIC.043.12
9330Newsclipping: "Property Values Go Higher and Higher"
  • Publication, Clipping, Newspaper Clipping
  • Other, Development
  • Other, Islands
  • 1986
Description:
Ellsworth American “Property Values Go Higher and Higher” by John R. Wiggins October 23, 1986. Previously accessioned as **0826, Object Id 012.FIC.035.1
7589Parade Float
  • Image, Photograph, Negative
  • Other, Community Events
  • People
  • c 1980s
Description:
Parade float for Mt. Desert Island Historical Society passing Main street stores. Bango and fiddle player (Ralph Stanley) in 19th century costume on end of float. Women in costume in back of float with spining wheel and Museum sign. Float pulled by red truck. Crowd watches from the sidewalk.
7093Parade Float
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Community Events
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • c 1980s
Description:
Parade float for Mt. Desert Island Historical Society passing down Main Street Bar Harbor. Crowd watches from the sidewalk.
7092Parade Float
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Community Events
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • c 1980s
Description:
Parade float for Mt. Desert Island Historical Society passing down Main Street Bar Harbor. Crowd watches from the sidewalk.
7091Parade Float
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Community Events
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • c 1980s
Description:
Parade float for Mt. Desert Island Historical Society passign down Main Street Bar Harbor. Truck carrys Somesville Historic District sign. Crowd watches from the sidewalk.
7090Parade Float
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Community Events
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • c 1980s
Description:
Parade float for Mt. Desert Island Historical Society passing down Main Street Bar Harbor. Truck carrys Somesville Historic District sign. Crowd watches from the sidewalk.
7089Parade Float
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Community Events
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • c 1980s
Description:
Parade float for Mt. Desert Island Historical Society passing Main street stores. Bango and fiddle player (Ralph Stanley) in 19th century costume on end of float. Women in costume in back of float with spining wheel and Museum sign. Float pulled by red truck. Crowd watches from the sidewalk. Person’s hands clapping in air.
6723Parade Float
  • Image, Photograph, Negative, Roll Film Negative
  • Other, Community Events
  • People
  • Spiker, LaRue
  • c 1980s
Description:
Parade float for Mt. Desert Island Historical Society passing Main street stores. Bango and fiddle player (Ralph Stanley) in 19th century costume on end of float decorated in red, white, and blue. Women in costume in back of float with spining wheel and Museum sign. Float pulled by red truck. Crowd watches from the sidewalk.
56851984 Virginia Somes Sanderson
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Other, Building
  • People
  • 1984
Description:
Dr. Virginia Somes Sanderson inside MDI Historical Society Selectmen’s Building. Seated at table, wearing blue shirt under long sleeve white blouse with blue pattern. Surrounded by museum exhibits.
5676Mt. Desert Island Historical Museum circa 1980s
  • Image, Photograph, Color Photograph
  • Other, Interior
  • c 1980s
Description:
Interior of Mount Desert Island Historical Society Museum 1980s.Bare wood shelves, bottles across top sheves. Photographic display of Somesville and Hall quarry ships, with half hull model and brass bell.
1524Fabulous Radio NBD
  • Publication, Book
  • Other, Acadia National Park
  • Other, Fabbri, Alessandro, Lt.
  • Other, Otter Cliffs
  • Wentworth,Brandon
  • Beech Hill Publishing Co.
  • 1984
Description:
The story of "how and why Lieutenant Fabbri conceived and developed" the Otter Cliffs Naval Radio Station in 1917, commemorated in the Fabbri Memorial on Ocean Drive. NOTE: PDF available
4368Arcady Music Festival
  • Document, Minutes
  • Other, Arcady Music Festival
  • 1989
Description:
Arcady Music Festival Board Minutes, Fund raising, Agenda, Budget Organization Plan approved in 1989
3932Descriptions of ships
  • Document, Specification
  • Other, Ships
  • Stanley, Ralph
  • 1987
Description:
Individual typewritten descriptions and histories of 8 schooners: IRENE AND MYRTLE, ABRAHAM RICHARDSON, CATHERINE, POLLY, A.T. HAYNES, BLOOMER, E.T. HAMOR, HARRY A. BERWIND.
3896Agenda, VIS
  • Document, Agenda
  • Other, Somesville
  • Other, Village Improvement Society
  • 1985
Description:
Agenda for undated meeting of VIS; indicates film to be shown on preserving American Elm.
3829Will of Virginia Somes Sanderson
  • Document, Legal, Will
  • Other, Estates
  • 1/2/1986
Description:
Will
3111Program for Service of Ordination for Joanne E. Stoughton
  • Document, Program
  • Other, Churches
  • Other, History - Somesville
  • People
  • 4/27/1985
Description:
Service of Ordination to Christian Ministry and Installation to Service in the Mount Desert larger Parish, U.C.C. of Joanne E. Stoughton, William Bigelow, Rosemary Denman, Marvin Ellison, Kenneth Ferguson, Donald Gow, Chrisina Hamor,Wesley Haynes, Charles Heslam, Susan Ingham, Keta Jones, Olive Lockhart, Lydia Lyman, Charles Pugh, Ansley Throckmorton
3106Hancock County Four Seasons Guide Acadia National Park
  • Publication, Guidebook
  • Other, History - Cranberry Islands
  • Other, History - Southwest Harbor
  • Other, Tourism
  • 1/1/1980
Description:
1980 32 page Hancock County Four Seasons Guide to Acadia National Park, Mount Desert Island, Ellsworth, Bucksport, and Trenton. Eastern Sunshine Guide, with color photographs, map and business advertisements.
3105Southwest Harbor -Tremont Chamber of Commerce Brochure
  • Document, Advertising, Advertisement
  • Other, History - Mount Desert Island
  • Other, History - Southwest Harbor
  • Other, Tourism
  • 1/1/1984
Description:
Southwest Harbor -Tremont Chamber of Commerce Brochure, The Quiet Side of Acadia on Mount Desert Island, summer of 1984, includes schedule of events, map, and business advertisements
3059Recipes compiled by the Ladies of Mount Desert Chapter O.E.S. 1903
  • Document, Instructional, Recipe, Cookbook
  • Other, Cookbook
  • Other, Order of Eastern Star (O.E.S.)
  • Other, Recipes
  • 1903/1981
Description:
Recipe book orginally printed in 1903 and reprinted in 1981 by MDI Historical Society. Contains recipes contributed by local women who belonged to OES (Order of the Eastern Star) and many advertisements by local businesses.