Description: Letter from Nelson F. Goodwin to Robert Heffner May 3, 1994 about the Somesville bridge construction. The letter also includes a copy of the plans for the footbridge.
Description: Copy of the magazine article, from Journal of Light Construction-Eastern Edition June 1990, about the design and construction of the Somesville footbridge. The article was by Harris Hyman.
Description: One page typewritten letter giving notice of upcoming special meeting of Members and Board of Directors of Coastal Resource Center, Inc. Issues to be discussed included affordable housing, handicapped project, restoration of Bar Harbor Club and Third World projects. LaRue Spiker was included those to whom letter was directed. Part of LaRue Spiker Collection. Previously archived as Object id 012.FIC.062.6
Description: Acadia National Park 75 Anniversary Newspaper. 40 pages with articles about the creation of Acadia National Park, current activities within the Park, significant dates in the history of the Park.
Description: Special supliment to the Bar Harbor Times Newspaper for the 200 anniversary of Mount Desert Island. Articles cover various parts of history over the years.
Description: The Redbook is a directory and handbook for Northeast Harbor, Seal Harbor, Somesville, Bar Harbor, Southwest Harbor and Adjacent Islands. This is dated 1999. The publisher and editor is Cheryl Caughey Chase. The price at that time was $6.50.
Description: Article from the Bar Harbor Times January 18, 1990 detailing the history of The Boston Post Oldest Citizen canes and the latest recipient Ruth Wiberg of Southwest Harbor
Description: Ellsworth American July 30, 1998 article is a reprint of an article written by Dr. Robert P. Grindle of Somesville, Maine about Surry, Maine back before the Civil War.
Description: Ellsworth American July 23, 1998 article is a biography of Dr. Robert L. Grindle. Talks of his time as a doctor in Somesville, Republican County Chair, early election process in Maine, fight to keep automobiles off of Mount Desert Island, Career as a sailor, description of his funeral.
Description: Includes genealogical charts of Eliot and other families and brief biography of Charles W. Eliot. Extensive records of cruising the New England coast.
Description: Fundraising and informational materials prepared for the Sound School House Campaign Committee of the Mount Desert Island Historial Society dated July 1998. Includes the Sound School House Fact Sheet, the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Fact Sheet, the Sound School House Restoration and Use Plan, Fundraising Plan, and pledge sheet.
Description: Fundraising and informational materials regarding the Sound School House Restoration project prepared by the Mount Desert Island Historical Society and dated March 1998.
Description: Negative of painting "My Family at Somesville" by Louis Comfort Tiffany. The painting is of his children, wife, nurse and a cow in Somes Meadow. By permission of Charles Hosmer Morse Museum of American Art in Winterpark Florida. For use only to replace MDI Historical Society Photographic Reproduction. The framed reproduction in the MDIHS collection is a gift from Anne Mazlish. Anne Mazlish says it is at Beech Hill, not Somes Meadow.