Archivists have identified this photograph as most likely the mother of Leone Marie (Wemmert) Kellam, Roberta Burns Wemmert. Viewers more informed than Southwest Harbor Public Library archivists are invited to correct mistakes about this photograph.
The Arthur Millis and Leone Marie (Wemmert) Kellam Collection
Description: Archivists have identified this photograph as most likely the mother of Leone Marie (Wemmert) Kellam, Roberta Burns Wemmert. Viewers more informed than Southwest Harbor Public Library archivists are invited to correct mistakes about this photograph.
From Left to Right: Madeline Ward (1905-1908) William Henry Ward Jr. (1871-1921) Franklin Dolliver Ward (1900-1963) Eldora Flye (Dolliver) Ward (1868-1938) Malcolm S. Ward (1904-1983)
Description: From Left to Right: Madeline Ward (1905-1908) William Henry Ward Jr. (1871-1921) Franklin Dolliver Ward (1900-1963) Eldora Flye (Dolliver) Ward (1868-1938) Malcolm S. Ward (1904-1983)
Newspaper article about the Bowdoin Cottage, known as La Rochelle, when it was being constructed on West Street in Bar Harbor in 1902. A transcription of the article is also attached to this item.
Digital Archives of the Friends of Island History
https://islandhistory.newspaperarchive.com/bar-harbor-record/1902-07-16/
Description: Newspaper article about the Bowdoin Cottage, known as La Rochelle, when it was being constructed on West Street in Bar Harbor in 1902. A transcription of the article is also attached to this item.
"Merry Wing" was a Maine Sloop Boat, a centerboard sloop because Lewis Freeman Gott was from Gotts Island and he needed to be able to raise the centerboard to get into the Pool there. Lewis Freeman Gott won a cup for winning the Eagle Island Races three years in a row with "Merry Wing". The cup may be seen in the Tremont Historical Society Museum. "Local lore has it that she was the fastest sailboat in the area, and from time to time was entered in the early races held in the Great Harbor (Southwest Harbor - Northeast Harbor - Cranberry Isles neighborhood) under the auspices of the Northeast Harbor Fleet, and there proved her merit by beating everybody!" - The Newsletter of the Tremont Historical Society, Vol. 15, No. 1, Summer 2012, p. 1.
Description: "Merry Wing" was a Maine Sloop Boat, a centerboard sloop because Lewis Freeman Gott was from Gotts Island and he needed to be able to raise the centerboard to get into the Pool there. Lewis Freeman Gott won a cup for winning the Eagle Island Races three years in a row with "Merry Wing". The cup may be seen in the Tremont Historical Society Museum. "Local lore has it that she was the fastest sailboat in the area, and from time to time was entered in the early races held in the Great Harbor (Southwest Harbor - Northeast Harbor - Cranberry Isles neighborhood) under the auspices of the Northeast Harbor Fleet, and there proved her merit by beating everybody!" - The Newsletter of the Tremont Historical Society, Vol. 15, No. 1, Summer 2012, p. 1. [show more]
Description: Mysie's biography is interesting as it illustrates both the later life of this young girl and the social life in Cambridge of which Rand was a part.
"The poem by Holman F. Day is given here as a curiosity but not because it is true." “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 230-233.
Description: "The poem by Holman F. Day is given here as a curiosity but not because it is true." “Traditions and Records of Southwest Harbor and Somesville, Mount Desert Island, Maine” by Mrs. Seth S. Thornton, 1938, p. 230-233.
The illustration by Edith Brand appears on page 7 in "A Case of Sardines: A Story of the Maine Coast" by Charles Poole Cleaves, The Pilgrim Press, 1904. A sentimental novel that includes descriptions of the lives of those employed by sardine factories on the coast of Maine.
Description: The illustration by Edith Brand appears on page 7 in "A Case of Sardines: A Story of the Maine Coast" by Charles Poole Cleaves, The Pilgrim Press, 1904. A sentimental novel that includes descriptions of the lives of those employed by sardine factories on the coast of Maine.