Description: Vol. XV 2014 Maine's Gone Mad: The Rising of the Klan by Raney Bench Ku Klux Klan on Mount Desert Island; opposition to immigrants and Catholics Visionary Science of the "Harvard Barbarians"by Catherine Schmitt Champlain Society, Charles Eliot Going Against the Tide: The Kellams of Placentia Island by Peter P. Blanchard III Cliff Rich built their boat; Gotts Island neighbors The War at Home: Copperheads Down East, 1861-1865 by Tim Garrity Opponents to Civil War Three Buildings: The Quiet Iconoclasm of Robert W. Patterson by William N. Thorndike, Jr. Architect Robert W. Patterson Superintendent Dorr and the Mountain Naming Controversy by Ronald H. Epp, Ph.D. Belle Smallidge Knowles, Before Her Time by Brooke Ewing Minner Growing Up Gay in Down East Maine by Victor Stanley Island Outlaws by Luanne Yetter (smuggling on Mount Desert Island) [show more]
Description: History of the community of Otter Creek, Maine, and its historical connections with the waterfront in Acadia National Park. Early families settled there and earned a living fishing and lobstering. Book recounts changes to relationship between community and waterfront, especially following the Depression; Otter Creek was only town on Mount Desert Island to be fully encircled by new Acadia National Park, thus losing access to the waterfront.
Description: Historical geography of Maine from end of last ice age to 2000. Sections are: history of Native peoples, European exploration and settlement, American Revolution, Maine statehood, industrial developement, rise of tourism and environmental awareness. Includes maps, paintings, graphs, and text.
Description: Chebacco Vol. XI, 2010 Deasy: A Maine Man by Bill Horner, M.D. Maine Sea Coast Mission Hooked Rugs by Judith Burger-Gossart Poems by Helmut Juretschke Henry L. Rand: Photographer & Visual Diarist by Meredith Hutchins Poems by Thomas Peter Bennett A Path of One's Own by Judith S. Goldstein A.C. Fernald's Store by Allen Fernald "Ravenscleft" on Sea Cliff Drive by Anne Stebbins Funderburk
Description: Volume XVII 2016 Introduction: The Center of Our Stories By Virginia Mellen The History Trust By Bill Horner, MD An Island Landscape Gardening Culture, The Legacy of Nurserymen from 1888-1939 By Betsy Hewlett The Shatter Zone: A Physical Borderland from 420 Million Years Ago to Present and Conceptual Borderland from 1837 to Present By Duan Braun Immigrants in the Borderland 1880-1920 By Tim Garrity Eliot, Borderlands, and Historiography By Paige Melin The Coast Walk By Jennifer Steen Booher Unsettled Mount Desert Island by John Gillis Mount Desert Island"s Diverse Working Waterfront by Natalie Springuel Borderland of the Present By Catherine Schmitt and Tim Garrity [show more]
Description: Volume XVII 2015 La Maison d'Or By Oliver Wendell Holmes Introduction: A Cloud of Witnessess By Tim Garrity How Changing Climate Created Mount Desert Island By Catherine Schmitt A Kaleidoscopic View of Place: Ecological Studies and Island Conservation Across the Generations By Marina Schauffler Landscapes We Have Lost: Environment ad History of Mount Desert Island By David Hackett Fischer When Canopies Rivaled Cathedrals By Polly McAdam From Wealth to Poverty: The Rise and Fall of Cod Around Mount Desert Island By Natlie Springuel, William B. Leavenworth, and Karen Alexander [show more]
Description: Vol. XVII 2016 "The Acadian Borderland": The Center of Our Stories, Virginia Mellen The History Trust, Bill Horner, M.D. An Island Landscape Gardening Culture: The Legacy of Nurserymen from 1888 to 1939, Betsy Hewlett The Shatter Zone: A Physical Borderland from 420 Million Years Ago to Present and Conceptual Borderland from 1837 to Present, Duane Braun Immigrants in the Borderland, 1880-1920, Tim Garrity Eliot, Borderlands, and Historiography, Paige Melin The Coast Walk, Jennifer Steen Booher Unsettled Mount Desert Island, John Gillis Mount Desert Island's Diverse Working Waterfront, Natalie Springuel Borderline of the Present, Catherine Schmitt and Tim Garrity [show more]
Description: Vol. XVIII 2017 "A Sense of Place" A Sense of Place: Maine in Winter, Roxana Robinson The Somesville Bridge, Roc Caivano "Like it Growed There": Architecture and the Environment on Mount Desert Island, 1880-1940, David W. Granston III Two Architects, One Island, Sargent C. Gardiner First Person: Asticou and Northeast Harbor Forward to "Memories of a Lifetime" (1972), Charles Savage "Memories of a Lifetime" (1902), Augustus C. Savage Growing up in Asticou: The late 1940's to Mid-1960's, Rick Savage Northeast Harbor in the 1940's: Nothing Gold Can Stay, Louisa Newlin Real and Imagined France in Acadia National Park, Tim Garrity Apples of Eden: Discovery and Change in Eastern Maine's Orchards, 1760-1930, Todd Little-Siebold A Fisherman's Paradise: A History of Inland Fish Conservation on Mount Desert Island, Erik Reardon Henry van Dyke at Seal Harbor, Carl Little [show more]
Description: Interview with David Rockefeller by Kathy Miller, Sept. 9, 2010 on video DVD. Attempts to link a multi-media file of this interview to Past Perfect have been unsuccessful. Currently(11/30/2011) there are several files linked, but they do not play through Past Perfect. Assistance is needed to make this interview playable through Past Perfect.
Description: An audio recording of World War II Remembered: A Panel Discussion, July ll, 2010, Somesville Firehouse, Somesville, Maine Panel includes Frank Soares, Tommy Newman, and Warren Worcester. Narrator: Nat Fenton Audio file does not capture the full discussion. Abbreviated at end.
Description: A film of oral histories given by thirteen people who currently reside on Mount Desert Island, on November 22, 2013, College of the Atlantic Gates Auditorium, of their personal recollections of the day that John F. Kennedy was assassinated in 1963. The presentation was hosted by the MDIHistorical Society and Nathaniel Fenton was the moderator and interviewer. Individuals with recorded oral histories: Robert Shea, Sheldon Goldthwait, Deborah Dyer, Sherwood Carr, Mary Mitchell, Merdith Rich Hutchins, Joan Carey, Marian Smith, Karen Craig, Fred Benson, Jack Gibbons, Sandy McFarland, and Nat Fenton. [show more]
Description: Article in Mount Desert Island Living, Mount Desert Islander, Dec. 16, 2010, about collaborative effort to form Friends of [Mount Desert] Island History. Mentions Bill Horner, Ruth Eveland, Don Lenahan, Jack Russell. Emily Beck, Rebecca Cole-Will, Muriel Davisson, Deborah Dyer, Candy Emlen, Anne Funderburk, Tim Garrity, Meredith Hutchins, Charlotte Morrill, Robert Pyle, Paul Richardson. Photos, including "Steamship Norumbega" hard aground in Southwest Harbor. [show more]
Description: Eight-page supplement that contains articles on Haynes Garage (Northeast Harbor), and other businesses in Maine. Date is Friday, January 13, 2012.
Description: This book is the story of Maine public education in the 20th century; it traces the history from small community schoolhouses to a "seamless statewide system" with the attendant tensions that accompany this transition.