Description: Detail of the parade celebrating the Bicentennial of the Town of Mount Desert listing time, assembly area, map of parade route and the parade line-up.
References to WLC members Lucy Smith (8), Elizabeth Manchester Johnson (92), Edith Favour (93), Virginia Somes Sanderson (93), and Katherine Savage (94) Scan: Cover, first pages only
Description: References to WLC members Lucy Smith (8), Elizabeth Manchester Johnson (92), Edith Favour (93), Virginia Somes Sanderson (93), and Katherine Savage (94) Scan: Cover, first pages only
Copies of a brochure loaned by Miriam Pyle about the steamboat S. S. Rangeley, launched in 1913 and first serving the towns on Mt. Desert Island. Brief summary of steam boats in general. Publ. by Rangeley Foundation - Peter Bell.
Description: Copies of a brochure loaned by Miriam Pyle about the steamboat S. S. Rangeley, launched in 1913 and first serving the towns on Mt. Desert Island. Brief summary of steam boats in general. Publ. by Rangeley Foundation - Peter Bell.
List of books and other papers in collection at Asticou Big House. Private collection of Charles W. Eliot. List of articles and books at the Northeast Harbor Library.
Description: List of books and other papers in collection at Asticou Big House. Private collection of Charles W. Eliot. List of articles and books at the Northeast Harbor Library.
Letters, by class, of the Mt. Desert Elementary School students thanking Mrs. Astor for the addition of the children's room at the Northeast Harbor Library.
Description: Letters, by class, of the Mt. Desert Elementary School students thanking Mrs. Astor for the addition of the children's room at the Northeast Harbor Library.
Consists of a profile of MDI, a description of what the island may come to be, based on current trends, and a preferred future, based on conversations with a cross-section of MDI residents and their leaders.
Description: Consists of a profile of MDI, a description of what the island may come to be, based on current trends, and a preferred future, based on conversations with a cross-section of MDI residents and their leaders.
Article with photographs of several formal gardens, public and private, on Mount Desert Island. Beatrix Jones Farrand, renowned landscape architect, designed as many as 40 gardens on the island. Published in Connoisseur, August 1984.
Description: Article with photographs of several formal gardens, public and private, on Mount Desert Island. Beatrix Jones Farrand, renowned landscape architect, designed as many as 40 gardens on the island. Published in Connoisseur, August 1984.
This is a weekly newspaper produced since 1914. It is MDI's hometown newspaper. Each issue contains local town news. This copy has great interview with Sen. Mitchell.
Description: This is a weekly newspaper produced since 1914. It is MDI's hometown newspaper. Each issue contains local town news. This copy has great interview with Sen. Mitchell.
Typewritten paper of an address of Reverend Haskell at a meeting of the Union Church members on the founding and development of the Maine Seacoast Missionary Society.
Description: Typewritten paper of an address of Reverend Haskell at a meeting of the Union Church members on the founding and development of the Maine Seacoast Missionary Society.
Article about Beatrix Farrand, landscaper. Has an accompanying Photograph copy of a letter to the editor from the March 8, 1985 Bar Harbor Times about the article.
Description: Article about Beatrix Farrand, landscaper. Has an accompanying Photograph copy of a letter to the editor from the March 8, 1985 Bar Harbor Times about the article.
Members of the planning team and other interested MOFGA members visit educational farms in the Northeast, including the Coolidge Center for the Advancement of Agriculture (Topsfield, Mass.), Maine Audubon’s Gilsland Farm, The Rodale Organic Gardening and Farming Research Center, The Ark (on Prince Edward Island), the New Alchemy Institute and more. They write about these places for the Feb. 1981 issue of The Maine Organic Farmer & Gardener.
Description: Members of the planning team and other interested MOFGA members visit educational farms in the Northeast, including the Coolidge Center for the Advancement of Agriculture (Topsfield, Mass.), Maine Audubon’s Gilsland Farm, The Rodale Organic Gardening and Farming Research Center, The Ark (on Prince Edward Island), the New Alchemy Institute and more. They write about these places for the Feb. 1981 issue of The Maine Organic Farmer & Gardener.
Description: Article about the origins and purpose of the Maine Seacoast Mission's boat, Sunbeam, which visits outlying islands providing spiritual services.
Copy of R. Lunt article appearing in book "By Land and By Sea; Studies in the Folk-lore of Work and Leisure. ( R. D Abrahams, ed.) Dedicated to Horace Beck on his 65th birthday.
Description: Copy of R. Lunt article appearing in book "By Land and By Sea; Studies in the Folk-lore of Work and Leisure. ( R. D Abrahams, ed.) Dedicated to Horace Beck on his 65th birthday.
Article about the development and research of the cetacean program "Allied Whale" with its field station on Mount Desert Rock, run by Ann Rivers and Steve Mullane.
Description: Article about the development and research of the cetacean program "Allied Whale" with its field station on Mount Desert Rock, run by Ann Rivers and Steve Mullane.
Letter to Mr. Pyle from Lee Patterson, containing Robert W. Patterson's Landscape architect designs. Lists of clients and projects from surviving account books.
Description: Letter to Mr. Pyle from Lee Patterson, containing Robert W. Patterson's Landscape architect designs. Lists of clients and projects from surviving account books.