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| 12691 | Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine |
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| Nellie Carroll Thornton descended from early settlers of Southwest Harbor and was related, in one way or another, to practically all of her neighbors. She inherited her aunt Mary Ann Carroll’s notes for a planned history of the town. Nellie was the author of the SWH social column in the Bar Harbor Times from c. 1921 until c. 1958. She combined her notes from the Times with those from Mary Ann and a good deal of scholarship to produce a very complete history of the town, full of opinion, local mythology and history. She was an astute observer and made a laudable effort to distinguish mythology from history. She left the town she loved its most valuable gift. Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton (Nellie C. Thornton) was originally published by Merrill & Webber Company in 1938. It was reproduced in 1988 by the Southwest Harbor Public Library and digitized in 2010. | 
Description: Nellie Carroll Thornton descended from early settlers of Southwest Harbor and was related, in one way or another, to practically all of her neighbors. She inherited her aunt Mary Ann Carroll’s notes for a planned history of the town. Nellie was the author of the SWH social column in the Bar Harbor Times from c. 1921 until c. 1958. She combined her notes from the Times with those from Mary Ann and a good deal of scholarship to produce a very complete history of the town, full of opinion, local mythology and history. She was an astute observer and made a laudable effort to distinguish mythology from history. She left the town she loved its most valuable gift. Traditions and records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton (Nellie C. Thornton) was originally published by Merrill & Webber Company in 1938. It was reproduced in 1988 by the Southwest Harbor Public Library and digitized in 2010. [show more] | ||
| 3458 | Well-Known Women Novelists Build Own Home Of CCC Camp Lumber |
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| 14994 | Article and Photograph About Howe D. Higgins' Hobby Business |
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| 16592 | Edith Hamilton Lanman, Newspaper Article Written by LaRue Spiker |
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| 14016 | Provincetown Profiles And Others On Cape Cod - Chapter IX Manny Zora |
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| 3475 | A Biography of Ruth Moore of Gott’s Island, Maine |
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| Reprinted in The Newsletter of the Tremont Historical Society - 2007-2008. | 
Description: Reprinted in The Newsletter of the Tremont Historical Society - 2007-2008. | ||
| 14018 | Free Rides to See Mayflower Thrills Provincetown Youth |
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| 16566 | The Passamaquoddy Encampment at Bar Harbor Newspaper Article |
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| 13306 | Charles Eliot, Landscape Architect, A Lover Of Nature And Of His Kind, Who Trained Himself For A New Profession, Practised It Happily And Through It Wrought Much Good |
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| A classic biography of a pioneer in the field of landscape architecture, who was a colleague and partner of Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. | 
Description: A classic biography of a pioneer in the field of landscape architecture, who was a colleague and partner of Frederick Law Olmsted Sr. | ||
| 15951 | Montell Gott Lives Alone On Island Ancestors Bought 162 Years Ago |
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| 1952 Newspaper article about Montell Gott living on Great Gott Island. | 
Description: 1952 Newspaper article about Montell Gott living on Great Gott Island. | |
| 14997 | The Revenue Man - Catching Smugglers During Prohibition Was Tough Work |
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| 3462 | A Literary Refuge: Ruth Moore and Eleanor Mayo |
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| The article appears in Chebacco: The Magazine of Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Volume XIII, 2012, p. 39-49 | 
Description: The article appears in Chebacco: The Magazine of Mount Desert Island Historical Society. Volume XIII, 2012, p. 39-49 | ||
| 15622 | Newman's legacy, and his boats, will sail on |
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| Article about legendary boatbuilder Jarvis Newman. | 
Description: Article about legendary boatbuilder Jarvis Newman. | ||
| 13497 | Making Wood Sing |
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| A profile of Ralph Stanley focused on his fiddle playing and making. | 
Description: A profile of Ralph Stanley focused on his fiddle playing and making. | ||
| 16461 | Mount Desert Island, and the Cranberry Isles. |
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| 16578 | Asticou's Island Domain: Wabanaki Peoples at Mount Desert Island 1500-2000. |
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| Acadia National Park Ethnographic Overview and Assessment Volume 1 and Volume 2 This two-volume historical-ethnographic overview of Acadia National Park spans almost 500 years and covers a wide coastal stretch between Penobscot and Gouldsboro Bays – and sometimes much beyond. Such breadth of coverage is necessary in order to take in the park’s center piece on Mount Desert Island, plus Isle au Haut and Schoodic Peninsula, along with various land holding arrangements (including easements) on numerous offshore sea-islands in this area.1 The study explores the shifting but ongoing relationship between this habitat and Wabanaki peoples – a group of northeastern Algonquianspeaking ethnic groups or tribal nations today distinguished as the Abenaki, Maliseet, Mi'kmaq, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot. | 
Description: Acadia National Park Ethnographic Overview and Assessment Volume 1 and Volume 2 This two-volume historical-ethnographic overview of Acadia National Park spans almost 500 years and covers a wide coastal stretch between Penobscot and Gouldsboro Bays – and sometimes much beyond. Such breadth of coverage is necessary in order to take in the park’s center piece on Mount Desert Island, plus Isle au Haut and Schoodic Peninsula, along with various land holding arrangements (including easements) on numerous offshore sea-islands in this area.1 The study explores the shifting but ongoing relationship between this habitat and Wabanaki peoples – a group of northeastern Algonquianspeaking ethnic groups or tribal nations today distinguished as the Abenaki, Maliseet, Mi'kmaq, Passamaquoddy and Penobscot. [show more] | |
| 15377 | The Stanleys of Cranberry Isles…and Other Colorful Characters. |
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| Historian, Genealogist, Musician, Boat Builder, Author, Raconteur - there is only one Ralph Stanley. Ralph bears many titles and awards, but for the Southwest Harbor Public Library he is, most of all, a friend. Ralph started using the library as a child and continued as an adult, graduated to Trustee, to President of the Trustees, and, in 2013, became our first Trustee Emeritus. Since 2007 he has spent hundreds of hours patiently identifying people, places and vessels in the Digital Archive. He gave the library his vast collection of photographs, The Ralph Warren Stanley Collection, in 2014. For years he has told us stories of his family, friends and adventures on Mount Desert Island. Archivists have written down almost every word and fact – a treasure for the collection and for the community. This is his chef d’oeuvre, The Stanleys of Cranberry Isles…and Other Colorful Characters, Ralph’s own story, based on his own research and in his own words. To purchase the print version of this book please contact the Southwest Harbor Public Library at archivist@swhplibrary.org or (207) 244-7065. | 
Description: Historian, Genealogist, Musician, Boat Builder, Author, Raconteur - there is only one Ralph Stanley. Ralph bears many titles and awards, but for the Southwest Harbor Public Library he is, most of all, a friend. Ralph started using the library as a child and continued as an adult, graduated to Trustee, to President of the Trustees, and, in 2013, became our first Trustee Emeritus. Since 2007 he has spent hundreds of hours patiently identifying people, places and vessels in the Digital Archive. He gave the library his vast collection of photographs, The Ralph Warren Stanley Collection, in 2014. For years he has told us stories of his family, friends and adventures on Mount Desert Island. Archivists have written down almost every word and fact – a treasure for the collection and for the community. This is his chef d’oeuvre, The Stanleys of Cranberry Isles…and Other Colorful Characters, Ralph’s own story, based on his own research and in his own words. To purchase the print version of this book please contact the Southwest Harbor Public Library at archivist@swhplibrary.org or (207) 244-7065. [show more] | ||
| 3461 | Museum Traces Island's History - Abbe Museum Blends Ruth Moore Poetry With Great Gott Island Artifacts |
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| Bar Harbor - When the archaeologists of summer probe the fragile layers of Great Gott Island history, they say the faint bark of an Indian dog is freed. It was Maine writer Ruth Moore who first imagined the dog's bark, as she sifted through the sand and sod on her native Great Gott Island, pausing later to reflect on the island's history in her poem, "The Indian Shell Heap": | 
Description: Bar Harbor - When the archaeologists of summer probe the fragile layers of Great Gott Island history, they say the faint bark of an Indian dog is freed. It was Maine writer Ruth Moore who first imagined the dog's bark, as she sifted through the sand and sod on her native Great Gott Island, pausing later to reflect on the island's history in her poem, "The Indian Shell Heap": | ||
| 11002 | Captain John Theodore Stanley |
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| 3474 | Obituary for Chester E. Clement |
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| Southwest Hbr. Boat Builder Died Saturday Chester E. Clement of Southwest Harbor, aged about sixty, died at the Mount Desert hospital at Bar Harbor late Saturday afternoon from the effects of an automobile accident which occurred soon after five o'clock Thursday. Mr. Clement started to overtake the mail with an important message, driving a light small truck when he had been accustomed to a heavy car. At a rough place in the road near Echo Lake the car left the road, turned over several times and struck one of the great boulders among the trees. Fortunately, the lights did not go out and the motor was running. Two young men, passing not long after the accident, saw the lights, investigated and found Mr. Clement lying on the ground with badly torn clothing and unconscious. His face was so covered with blood that they did not recognize him, but one remained with him while the other went to call Dr. George A. Neal from Southwest Harbor and also aid from a garage. He was taken to the hospital where it was found that he had ten broken ribs and numerous cuts and bruises besides head injuries. He seemed better Saturday but died suddenly from internal injuries. Mr. Clement's skill as a boat builder and machinist was widely known and he had built many fine craft in his shop here where he employed eight or ten men. Two boats are at present in the shop; one nearly completed and the other not far along. | 
Description: Southwest Hbr. Boat Builder Died Saturday Chester E. Clement of Southwest Harbor, aged about sixty, died at the Mount Desert hospital at Bar Harbor late Saturday afternoon from the effects of an automobile accident which occurred soon after five o'clock Thursday. Mr. Clement started to overtake the mail with an important message, driving a light small truck when he had been accustomed to a heavy car. At a rough place in the road near Echo Lake the car left the road, turned over several times and struck one of the great boulders among the trees. Fortunately, the lights did not go out and the motor was running. Two young men, passing not long after the accident, saw the lights, investigated and found Mr. Clement lying on the ground with badly torn clothing and unconscious. His face was so covered with blood that they did not recognize him, but one remained with him while the other went to call Dr. George A. Neal from Southwest Harbor and also aid from a garage. He was taken to the hospital where it was found that he had ten broken ribs and numerous cuts and bruises besides head injuries. He seemed better Saturday but died suddenly from internal injuries. Mr. Clement's skill as a boat builder and machinist was widely known and he had built many fine craft in his shop here where he employed eight or ten men. Two boats are at present in the shop; one nearly completed and the other not far along. [show more] | |||
| 14834 | W.H. Ballard, Maine Photographer - A Life of Ingenuity & Art |
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| This book of W.H. Ballard photographs, from the collection of the Southwest Harbor Public Library, compiles images from the Ballard exhibit displayed in the library from June 30, 2013 - July 26, 2013. The book images that are less well known than Ballard's famous postcards and scenic views of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park. Written and edited by Meredith Hutchins Designed and produced by Charlotte R. Morrill Research by Meredith Hutchins and Charlotte R. Morrill | 
Description: This book of W.H. Ballard photographs, from the collection of the Southwest Harbor Public Library, compiles images from the Ballard exhibit displayed in the library from June 30, 2013 - July 26, 2013. The book images that are less well known than Ballard's famous postcards and scenic views of Mount Desert Island and Acadia National Park. Written and edited by Meredith Hutchins Designed and produced by Charlotte R. Morrill Research by Meredith Hutchins and Charlotte R. Morrill [show more] | ||
| 3460 | Ruth Moore Remembered |
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| Before she became a well-known writer, Maine author Ruth Moore was a special investigator for the NAACP, worked for the publicity department of the Y.M.C.A., was an editor for the Readers Digest and managed a walnut ranch and vineyard in Martinez, California. | 
Description: Before she became a well-known writer, Maine author Ruth Moore was a special investigator for the NAACP, worked for the publicity department of the Y.M.C.A., was an editor for the Readers Digest and managed a walnut ranch and vineyard in Martinez, California. | ||
| 12689 | Henry L. Rand: Photographer & Visual Diarist |
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| Henry L. Rand: Photographer & Visual Diarist by Meredith Hutchins, Chebacco: The Magazine of Mount Desert Island Historical Society , Volume XI, 2010, p. 50-71. - Courtesy of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society | 
Description: Henry L. Rand: Photographer & Visual Diarist by Meredith Hutchins, Chebacco: The Magazine of Mount Desert Island Historical Society , Volume XI, 2010, p. 50-71. - Courtesy of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society | ||
| 12395 | Presley Dixon Holmes - University of Wisconsin |
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| University of Wisconsin Engineering Department - Class of 1919 | 
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| 12397 | Mildred Priscilla Rufsvold - University of Wisconsin |
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| Mildred Priscilla Rufsvold, later Mrs. Presley Dixon Holmes - University of Wisconsin Letters and Science Department - Class of 1919 | 
Description: Mildred Priscilla Rufsvold, later Mrs. Presley Dixon Holmes - University of Wisconsin Letters and Science Department - Class of 1919 |
