Description: Movie posters from attic of McEachern & Hutchins hardware store in SW Harbor which use to be a movie theater. These posters are hand drawn. Poster Reads: Hilarious Knock on Wood Danny Kaye
Description: Movie posters from attic of McEachern & Hutchins hardware store in SW Harbor which use to be a movie theater. These posters are hand drawn. Poster Reads: New York Film Critics Award For Best Actor of the Year in Class Comedy of the Man Servant Lost in a Poker He wild west. Wi Zazu Pit Mary Boland Charlie Rug Roland Young "Ruggles of Red Gap" G, 1935, Directed by Leo McCarey B/W 90 Min
Description: Movie posters from attic of McEachern & Hutchins hardware store in SW Harbor which use to be a movie theater. These posters are hand drawn. Poster Reads: Charlie Chaplin in The Gold Rush. There are three empty cut-out circles on the left side.
Description: Movie posters from attic of McEachern & Hutchins hardware store in SW Harbor which use to be a movie theater. These posters are hand drawn. Poster Reads: One of the Great Classic Films "Grand Hotel" starring Garbo, John & Lionel Barrymore and Joan Crawford
Description: Movie posters from attic of McEachern & Hutchins hardware store in SW Harbor which use to be a movie theater. These posters are hand drawn. Poster Reads:Hope Crosby Lamour "Road to Morocco", G 1942 B/W 81 Min
Description: Movie posters from attic of McEachern & Hutchins hardware store in SW Harbor which use to be a movie theater. These posters are hand drawn. Poster Reads:Ava Gardner Howard Keel Kathrn Grayson Joe E. Brown, "Showboat", Music Jerome Kern, Lyrics: Oscar Hammerstein II, Filmed in 1951 In Color- Rated G- For everyone (on Front) Considered to be John Ford's Great Western, Lee Marvin- James Stewart, John Wayne, Vera Miles, Edmond O'Brien, Andy Devine in "The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance", Filmed in 1962, Rated PG (on Back) [show more]
Description: Movie posters from attic of McEachern & Hutchins hardware store in SW Harbor which use to be a movie theater. These posters are hand drawn. Poster Reads: Boris Karloff (written next to a picture of Frankenstein)
Description: Movie posters from attic of McEachern & Hutchins hardware store in SW Harbor which use to be a movie theater. These posters are hand drawn. Poster Reads: Ralph Stanley Floyd Farley Fred Black Ruth Grierson (on Front) Tony Curtis Burt Lancaster in "The Circus and its Acrobats Trapeze" (on Back)
Description: Movie posters from attic of McEachern & Hutchins hardware store in SW Harbor which use to be a movie theater. These posters are hand drawn. Poster Reads: Paul Newman in Slap Shot with Lindsay Crouse 1976 Color 122 Min, Partrons Note: In order to portray professional HOCKEY most realistically, the language in this film is "colorful" to say the least.....and it's rated R
Description: Movie posters from attic of McEachern & Hutchins hardware store in SW Harbor which use to be a movie theater. These posters are hand drawn. Poster Reads: Mae West My Little Chickadee, 2 From W.C. Fields, If I Had A Million Jack Oakie
Description: -Letters re death of John Higgins, son of Elliot Higgins, killed in NYC by runaway horses (1844); -"old-timers" in Somesville (1940); -from Daniel Somes to unknown woman, perhaps his later wife (1827); -Wm. Hamor to Mr. Somes re disapproval of dancing school (184?) & another re deaths of Lot and Paul Somes from scarlet fever (1853?); -from Susan Trask to "child" re death of "litell Harry [?], 1842; -from Andrew J. Frisbee, adopted son of Abraham Somes, re death of first wife(1851?), and to Mr. Somes re death of Billy (1852); -from Hattie Somes to Grandpa (1877); -from Mr. Heath to Rev. George E. Street (1903); -from Harriet Somes to Aunt Mary re baby sister Blanche (18?9); -from Dell to Hattie (1921) and to Harriet (1928); -to Harriet from Harry S. re selling privilege on land (1944); about Ed, brought home from Boston, by Florence Gray (1959); -from Jacob Somes to brother re legislative session concering railroad (1842). [show more]
Description: Photocopy of rough draft pages pertaining to genealogy of multiple families which Wiley prepared for publication. Richardson name appears on 5th page.
Description: Photograph of a concert in the Somesville Union Meeting House, c. 2010. Pictured: Skip Fraley, Ralph Stanley, Ruth Grierson, Peter Golbitz, Rick Cuselis. Piano player unknown. In audience (left) Tom Kranofsky.
Description: Account by Jane Thompson Sumner of "The Beth," which she says was once the Islesboro ferry and which was on the water at the time of the 1947 fire. Donor (Sturgis Haskins) says it was not the Islesbor ferry, but rather a private yacht that was used to pick-up and deliver guests from Lincolnville to Islesboro.
Description: Letter from MDI Historical Society secretary, Chadbourne Gilpatric, to Virginia Somes Sanderson, notifying her of her election as Honorary Director of the Society.
Description: Letter from Harris Hyman to the MDI Historical Society regarding the load capacity of the Somesville bridge 06 October 2003. Addressing a concern from the community about the weight capacity for the bridge, Hyman assures the society that the bridge can sustain the weight of fornicating couples and drunk local gentlemen.
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.