Description: Man standing by a boat on wheels with League of Women Voters banner. Boat is MDI LWV float in the Bar Harbor 1980 4th of July parade. Bruce Leighton loaned the boat and drove the truck that hauled it.
Description: Written transcript and audio Interview Arthur & Rebecca Foote, conducted March 19, 1989 by M.L. Hughes, at the Foote home in Southwest Harbor, Maine. Part of the Southwest Harbor Public Library oral history collection, Tape #289. Written transcript and audio tape are attached to this record under Media tab. Both transcript and audio are under same accession number. Audio CD is in Archival Box #68
Description: Figures walking on beach at low tide. MDI League of Women Voters celebrated the Year of the Coast with an informal picnic and hike to Bar Island on August 23, 1980. In this photo they are heading across at low tide.
Description: Stretch of unspoiled shoreline. MDI League of Women Voters celebrated the Year of the Coast with an informal picnic and hike to Bar Island on August 23, 1980. Pictured is Bar Island shore with Bald Porcupine Island on the right.
Description: Program for the Benefit Chamber Music Concert out on Great Cranberry Island, Sunday Aug 4, 1985. Shows the music preformed and the musicians, hosts, ushers, reception hosts, raffel hosts, and a history of the Acady Music Fiestival.
Description: Women lined up along a fence view and handle sheep. LaRue Spiker looks on as Mollie Birdsall holds black lamb. Louise Gilbert, Ruth Cummins, Doris Riley are along fence. Visit to Birdsall’s farm at Penobscot on March 29, 1980 is in connection with a farmland study by MDI League of Women Voters..
Document, Advertising, Advertising Card, Political Card
Collection:
Donald Smith
Date:
3/25/1981
Description: An card from Ronlad and Nancy Regan to Addie Smith on her 100th birthday. This is a stock card offering congradulations and joy for the comming year.
Description: Hand-drawn plan of the Carroll Farm showing boundaries, pasture-land, road, house, barn ruins, meadow, fence, ledge, logging area. 8.5" X 9.5"
Description: Map in color showing Mount Desert Island, Schoodic Peninsula, Islands in Western Bay, from Les Voyages duSieur De Champlain with annotation in French. A reprint of a 1932 map. Size 22.5" x 28"
Description: Model in glass case. Plate reads, “Circa 1790, Chebacco Boat”. No sails but has rigging. Shows rudder, tiller and anchor. Scale 1/65. Original was 36 feet long with 10 feet 5” beam; On underside of base "Robt. F. Kurtz Pride's Crossing Massachusetts 1983" Incorrect Object ID number also on base: 96-283