Description: Selected pages; note,"copy for Thaddeus Somes" and "see page 124 for Elizabeth Barrett Browning", which is an essay and "medallion portrait." Other articles on "Dignity of Art," Power of Beauty," sketch of Jerome B. Thompson and sketches of farm life.
Description: Only 16 pps., probably not entire issue. Contains articles about poultry raising, painting on china, making honey, remedy for moths, practical housekeeping, summer millinery, fancy work, and advertisement for baking powder, rug machine, magic lantern, razor-steel knife, and more.
Description: Handwritten journal, E.H. Kimball & F.E. Somes, editors. Editorial, poems, and more. Note on blue cover says, "Garpa went to Blue Hill Academy when he was 16 years olf-1852.) Don't know who wrote this note.
Description: Hand-written (in ink) by the pupils of Mt. Desert School for the "instruction and amusement" of the pupils. Includes sayings and poems from newspapers pasted in.
Description: Christmas edition. Includes advertisements for stamping patterns, paper hangings, tooth powder, liniment, and more. Also Illustrations and stories.
Description: This issue is entitled "Champlain to Bernard" and has a picture of Champlain on the cover. Other articles include: Genealogy of Hinckley Family, the King Monument at Scarborough, School, Department, Editorial Comment. Includes advertisements; 207 pps.
Description: Vol. XIV 2013 "The Journey Issue": A Celebration of the Chebacco Boat, Bill Horner, M.D. The Bar Harbor Express: A Most Elegant Travel Option, Brook Ewing Minner Getting Here from There: Steamboat Travel to Mount Desert Island, David W. Granston III The Journey of the Ferry Bluenose, Carroll Fernald Far from Home: The Spring of 1864, Tim Garrity From Houses to Horsepower: Mount Desert Island's Ten-Year War for the Automobile, Bill Horner, M.D. The Wrect of the Tay, Catherine Schmitt Dream Realized--Dream Lost: Hancock County/Bar Harbor Airport 1934-1984, Nathaniel R. Fenton [show more]
Description: This book has a golden, tan hardcover . The title is "Forsythia Intrigued by the Stars". The author was identified as Azerlea P. Barton. However, on the title page the P. Barton is crossed out and the name Pray-Somes is written in black ink. The book is published by Exposition Press, Hicksville, New York. The copyright date is 1976.
Description: Poem by Sophronia Knapp, "Thoughts of the Mariner's Wife," copied by Clara S. Foster (?) and addressed to Mrs. Higgins with note: "Please accept the following lines which I take the liberty to copy for you [&} oblige, your sincere friend, Clara S. Foster. First lines of poem: "The night is dark, the tempest raves, Sleep from my pillow flies..."
Description: Novel includes chapters illustrating the heroine's duty before pleasure and a woman's goodcharacter, trials, disappointments, love, beauty, courting, marriage.
Description: Describes history of Seaside Inn and of the land, originally owned by "Bingham heirs" or John Bracy. Examples of early advertisement for the inn, menus, document showing transfer of land to James Clements by the Barings of London. Early photographs; lists of names of those who worked there; written memories. Seaside Inn opened in 1869 and was demolished in 1964.
Description: Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Vol. VIII, 2006-2007 Burnt Coat Harbor Light Station, Swans Island, Maine by John M. Bryan A Boy in Summer, Pretty Marsh, The 1930's by Michael McGiffert The Kellams of Placentia Island by Peter P. Blanchard III Island Poets & Poems: Lucy Bell Sellers, Louisa Newlin, Meredith Hutchins, Carl Little, Philip Heckscher August Heckscher: A Man about the World--and Mount Desert Island by Carl Little "Behold This Isle" and Other Poems by August Heckscher The Mayflower and Mount Desert Island by Ralph W. Stanley [show more]
Description: “Gilmanac 1944” Gilman High School yearbook - belonged to J. Walter Allen. Class of 1944 - Editorials, class members, class song, motto “We Finish to Begin”. Class notes for freshman, sophomores and juniors. Literary section with poetry etc. Basketball team pictures, records. Alumni section.
Description: a-Life magazine for Nov. 29, 1963; photograph of President John F. Kennedy, 1917-1963 on cover. Editorial: The President's Empty Chair Articles: Murder of the President; Lyndon Johnson, the 36th President; Intimate Memory of John Kennedy b- Life Magazing October 2, 1964, The Warren Report: How the Commission Pieced Together the Evidence ,