Description: Audio recording of interview with Rick Savage, Sydney Roberts Rockefeller, Scott and Keating McFarland by Martha Dudman. Related to 2008 inauguration. Transcript is in Archival Box #44A, accession number 010.FIC.028.
Description: Collection consists of three boxes of archival files donated by the Seal Harbor Library pertaining to the history of Seal Harbor village and Acadia National Park. An itemized summary of each boxes' contents is enclosed in each box. A small quarter page booklet on the life of Robert Abbe by William Lawrence and printed by the Lafayette National Park Museum, Bulletin No IV. Thirteen typed pages with a fades purple cover with A LIFE in dark type. [show more]
Description: A play ("dialogue" is the word used by the author ) about drunkeness and redemption. Appears to have been written by Allen Somes. Three scenes, handwritten on 3 pages. A note on the back of the second page asks a Mr. Higgins to take one of the roles and to come to rehearsal on a Friday evening. If Higgins cannot take the role, he is asked to pass the script to Bloomfield. No date is given.
Description: Discusses the change from Lafayette National Park to Acadia National Park so that the name describes the area more accurately, reflecting popular ideas about the park.
Description: Audio recording of interviews of 4 MDI residents, Cora Fernald, Addie Smith, Morris Somes, and Danny Kane.conducted by Pamela Dean. Dates and places of interviews are not stated. Interviews appear to have been conducted individually but recorded on the same media. Interviewer sounds like Pamela Dean but that has not been verified.
Description: Collection consists of three boxes of archival files donated by the Seal Harbor Library pertaining to the history of Seal Harbor village and Acadia National Park. An itemized summary of each boxes' contents is enclosed in each box. This is a letter of sorts addressed to the "Voters, Cottagers, and Hotel Guests in the Town of Mount Desert, Present and to Come" giving those who read it a rational for the decision to ban cars. The letter is signed by: Jospeh H. Curtis Charles W. Eliot Charles H. Frazier David Greer Richard H. Harte Jerome H. Knowles William Draper Lewis John S Melcher Frank R. Ober Henry Parkman Alvah L. Reed L.A. Wilson Amos Clement Ernest B. Dane Edward K. Dunham F.H. Macomber James Ford Rhodes John D. Rockefeller William T. Sedgwick Henry Van Dyke W. H. Whitmore George F. Armold R. L. Grindle [show more]
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: Collection consists of three boxes of archival files donated by the Seal Harbor Library pertaining to the history of Seal Harbor village and Acadia National Park. An itemized summary of each boxes' contents is enclosed in each box. Photocopy of the reprint from the Bar Harbor Life, August 23, 1913. It is a lenghty poem on the debate and those who spoke at the meeting about the automobile.
Description: A video recording of a panel discussion and program, sponsored by the MDI Historical Society, July 22, 2009. Moderated by Kathy Miller, Board president. With panelists Ralph Stanley, Phil Bennett (Hinckley), Jock Williams (Williams Yacht Yard), Lee Wilbur (Wilbur Yachts), Cuyler Morris (Morris Yachts) and Alan Sprague, co-host of Boat Talk on WERU Radio. Video can not be uploaded to Past Perfect database with current technology. DVD is only record. [show more]
Description: Audio recording of Oral history interview with Farnham Butler. Interview conducted by Leza Colquhoun Date unkown. Gladys Butler also heard on the interview.