Description: Book of geneology including the Gonzales family of Hall Quarry. Other entries focus on Whittlesey's family connections to Castine, Plainville Connecticut, and York Maine.
Description: Bound picturebook of photographs from Bar Harbor and Acadia Park. Date of publication unkown. One image labeled "Flying Squadron Mountain" dating the source to between 1929 and the 1940s.
Description: Newspaper clipping from the Maine Campus, 15 April 1977. Details the Cyrstal Palace Cafe in Bar Harbor. Clipping mounted on posterboard with scotch tape.
Description: 1997: Charles W. Eliot and John Gilley: Good Hope for Our Country. Plan of exhibit, list of artifacts & photographs, bibliography, "John Gilley and Charles W. Eliot: Good Hope for Our Country," by Jaylene B. Roths (ms.), "The Gilley Family of Mt. Desert," by William Otis Sawtelle, (ms), and other notes. 1997: From Boarding House to Grand Hotel: The Origins of Tourism on Mount Desert Island. Background notes for exhibit, list of photographs and other items. 2000: Victorian Dining on Mount Desert Island. Photographs of exhibit; artifact list; background notes. Many items loaned for exhibit; excerpts from rules of dining, how to set tables, cookbooks, etc. 2001: Stitch in Time," at Somesville Museum: Weaving, Woolen Mill, Spinning, Sewing, Quilting, 2002: "I Came to this Place: The Story of the Village of Somesville." A new permanent exhibit at the Somesville Museum. 2004: Somesville Museum. Many of same objects and info. as in 2002 exhibit, above. 2005: Somesville Museum, "Arrival of Rusticators in 1855, Their Adventures, and Stories of the Local Residents They Met." Tracy Party, poem by Theodore Winthrop. 2006: Handicrafts Exhibit, notes from Smallidge. Also notes about Winter Industries, Getting By in Winter or Hard Times, What's Here to do After Summer People go home? [show more]
Description: Publication called Gary Galyean's Golf Letter, subtitled The Inside Report on World Golf, Number 53, August 1994. Contains a description and history of the Northeast Harbor Golf Club and infromation on the Number 16, 17, 18 holes. Publication called Gary Galyean's Golf Letter, subtitled The Inside Report on World Golf, Listing of publications available through them on golf courses around the counrty and world NE Harbor Golf Club being one of those publications which can be ordered. [show more]
Description: Written Transcript Interview of Louise Sawtelle Libby , 2001. Interviewed by Leza Colquohn as part ot the Southwest Harbor Public Library Oral History collection. There are four interviews conducted on: July 11, 200l; September 6, 2001, October 9, 2001, and March 14, 2002. Original tapes of these interviews are in the Southwest Harbor Public Library collection.
Description: Catalogue of George B. Dorr's Mount Desert Nurseries. Clarence E. Dow is listed as manager of the nurseries. Dorr is listed as president of the company. Catalogue includes tree, shrubs, vines, hardy herbaceous perennials, bedding plants, and roses. Offices and greenhouses of the nurseries: Lower Main Street, Bar Harbor. Although there is no date on the catalogue, the introduction mentions that the nurseries "were founded thirty years ago in recognition of the remarkable horticultural qualities Mount Desert Island had disclosed in its earliest pleasure garden, established fifteen years before and linked with the first development of summer residence upon the Island." [show more]