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Subject
  • People
  • Places
  • Transportation✖
  • Carriage
Type
  • Image
Place
  • HCTPR
Date
  • 1880s
Item Title Type Subject Creator Publisher Date Place Address Description
12747Buckboard Party Passing Sand Beach
  • Image, Photograph
  • People
  • Places, Shore
  • Transportation, Carriage
  • 1888-07-21
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
  • Sand Beach
From July 12 to July 24, 1888 a party of twenty young people who attended Westtown [Quaker] School vacationed on Mount Desert Island. The young people stayed at The Roberts House hotel in Northeast Harbor from July 14, 1888 to July 23, 1888. They wrote and privately published a journal of their adventures, with one person writing each chapter. The journal was illustrated with photographs hand tipped in to the pages. Judy and Peter Obbard, longtime summer residents of Southwest Harbor, have kindly loaned their copy of “Mount Desert Memories” to the Southwest Harbor Public Library to study. Here in the Tenth Day Chapter, written by Anna Helena Goodwin, the young people, aboard a buckboard, passed Sand Beach on July 21, 1888 Goodwin – Anna Helena Goodwin (1862-1958)
Buckboard Party Passing Sand Beach
Item:
  • 12747   
Type:
  • Image, Photograph
Subject:
  • People
  • Places, Shore
  • Transportation, Carriage
Date:
  • 1888-07-21
Place:
  • Acadia National Park, HCTPR
State:
  • ME
Address:
  • Sand Beach
Source:
  • Mount Desert Memories
Description:
From July 12 to July 24, 1888 a party of twenty young people who attended Westtown [Quaker] School vacationed on Mount Desert Island. The young people stayed at The Roberts House hotel in Northeast Harbor from July 14, 1888 to July 23, 1888. They wrote and privately published a journal of their adventures, with one person writing each chapter. The journal was illustrated with photographs hand tipped in to the pages. Judy and Peter Obbard, longtime summer residents of Southwest Harbor, have kindly loaned their copy of “Mount Desert Memories” to the Southwest Harbor Public Library to study. Here in the Tenth Day Chapter, written by Anna Helena Goodwin, the young people, aboard a buckboard, passed Sand Beach on July 21, 1888 Goodwin – Anna Helena Goodwin (1862-1958) [show more]