Description: A DVD that contains a 2 minute video, narrated by William Horner, that describes the Chebacco Project hosted by MDIHS in collaboration with the Essex Historical Society and Essex Shipbuilding Museum, Massachusetts, during the summer, 2013. The video was made as a short film that could be used for various audiences (board, community, funders, etc) to describe the scope and intent of this project. The video used in this film was shot during the Chebacco visit on the island by Peter Logue, resident of MDI. The film is attached to this record. Please click on the Media tab to access the mp4 file. It is also filed in hard copy, on DVD. [show more]
Description: A DVD that includes a three minute promotional film that was developed by Dobbs Productions for the purpose of promoting the film, "Dancing at the Mill: Two Centuries of Life on Mount Desert Island".
Description: A DVD that contains 14 .tif and 93 .jpg images used in the creation of the film, "Dancing at the Mill: Two Centuries of Life on Mount Desert Island". These photos can also be used as images for promoting the film.
Description: A DVD that was created by Dobbs Productions to be played as a film or backdrop at events that were held during 2012, the 250th year celebration of the landing of the first settlers on Mount Desert Island.
Description: A DVD that contains the finished film, "Dancing at the Mill: Two Centuries of Life on Mount Desert Island". This DVD is the film version that was sold to the public. This is an MDIHS library copy of the final film.
Description: Collection of images from MDI Historical Society and other sources for talk given by Roc Caivano, architect, for Acadia Senior College group at Sips, April 5, 2013.
Description: Article and photos of the summer of 1917 when actress Annette Kellerman and over 100 actors and actresses came to Bar Harbor to film Queen of the Sea. Article written by Gladys O'Neil.
Description: Article along with photos by Victor J. Layton of the stoneworks of Acadia National Park including Duck Brook Bridge and the gatehouses of Brown Mountain and Jordan Pond.
Description: Article by Norah Deakin Davis along with old photos of the Turrets at College of the Atlantic and how it survived and was useful to students, faculty and administrators during the campus fire of 1983.
Description: 1) Article with photos by Cynthia Bourgeault on Swan's Island residents and the pros and cons of real estate development there. 2) Article with photos by John N. Cole on the Claremont Hotel's annual croquet tournament (Southwest Harbor).
Description: Article with Photos in a travel magazine by Jessica Maxwell on visiting the sites in Bar Harbor, Bass Harbor, Southwest Harbor, Jordan Pond and Acadia National Park.
Description: This is a booklet of perspectives designed by COA dated 1980 of the Somesville Museum. It is seven pages and the drawings were done by various people, possibly students of COA. For example, Herb Foote; Ron Johnson; heidi Dexter; Katie Van pine; Abigail Goodyear; Ellen Sullivan; and Dwight Lampher. The pages measure 18 by 24 inches. These designs depict the museum with a porch and a second story.
Description: This is an 18 by 24 inch detail drawing of the Somesville Museum. It shows the grade line, coarse gravel fill, treated outer layer coming into contact with the ground, rigid foam insulation, sill plate, plywood, sill and ram set, etc.
Description: This is a 6 page booklet of architectural drawings on the museum building in Somesville for the Historical Society. Page 1 is the title page and general conditions; page 2 is the floor plan; page 3 is the section; page 4 is the south elevation; and page 5 actually encompasses two pages dedicated to the elevations. The booklet measures 18 by 24 inches.
Description: This is a single page measuring 16 by 20 inches of the Somesville Museum Plan. Exhibit areas and an area for administration and Museum sales are marked on the plan.
Description: This booklet contains the specifications of a stable for Mr. John Kane of Bar Harbor. With the index , it is 20 typewritten pages. There is evidence of water damage around the edges of the documents. The name of Mr. John Kane's home in Bar Harbor is "Breakwater" so this file has been places with the rest of those materials. Kane's home in Bar Harbor was called "Breakwater".
Description: Interviews of 27 residents of the Bar Harbor and Otter Creek areas about the Tarn, now a small, shallow pond and emergent wetland; it was originally a meadow.
Description: Vol. VII, 2012: The Woman's Question: Francis Parkman's Arguments Against Women's Suffrage by Tim Garrity "Women got the vote fifty long years ago" by La Rue Spiker Elinor Wylie's Mount Desert Island Retreat by Carl Little A Literary Refuge: Ruth Moore and Eleanor Mayo by Sven Davisson Casualties: The Women of Mount Desert and the Civil War by Tim Garrity Sargent House: A Woman's Gift to the Outer Island of Down East Maine by Rosamond S. Rea Reflections of a Natural Historian by Ruth Gortner Grierson [show more]
Description: Vol. XII, 2011 History Builds Community by Jack Russell The Histories of Saint Sauveur by Tim Garrity "Indians Camping at Somesville" by Adelma Somes Joy Asticou's Fjord or Somes Sound? Mythistory of Wabanaki Dispossession by Harald E.L. Prins and Bunny McBride "Mansell Mountain Breakdown" and "Winter Walk" by Carl Little "Elegy for my Brother 1997," "The Apple" and "In Praise of White" by Beth Straus John Gilley Fell at the Battle of the Wilderness by Tim Garrity "Hurray for 'Another Reason'" by Hellmut Juretschke An Afternoon with David Rockefeller, David Rockefeller with Kathleen Miller Thoughts While Keeping Warm on January 25, 2011 by Bill Horner MD [show more]