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| 12776 | The Rugged Maine Coast Produces a Hard-Working Breed of Mankind |
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| from the Sarasota Herald Tribune, September 28, 1980, pg 18-A | 
Description: from the Sarasota Herald Tribune, September 28, 1980, pg 18-A | ||||
| 3022 | Homer - A.B. Homer Obituary |
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| 3013 | Dodge - Thomas Ellison Oliver Dodge |
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| 3015 | Dunn - Gano Sillick Dunn |
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| 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] | ||
| 3038 | Obituary for Hannah Kent Schoff |
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| 3017 | The Forgotten Millions - John Gilley |
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| 3028 | Leffingwell Estate Lawsuit |
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| 3044 | Fiddle Making |
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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] | ||
| 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. | ||
| 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": | ||
| 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 | ||
| 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] | |||
| 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. | ||
| 12770 | Has Come Here for 68 Summers: A.L. Higgins Tells of Henry Rand's First Visits |
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| Bar Harbor Times clipping--A.L. Higgins tells of the Rands coming to Eden circa 1866 | 
Description: Bar Harbor Times clipping--A.L. Higgins tells of the Rands coming to Eden circa 1866 | ||||
| 12771 | The Difficulties That Led Edward Sprague Rand to Leave the United States And Move to Para, Brazil, in 1877 |
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| 12778 | The Coit Excursion |
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| An account of the third “Coit Family” steamer excursion from Worcester, Massachusetts, this third trip does not seem to have involved the family though known by their name as they had started the excursions in earlier years. Descriptions of stops made by the steamer were written by various authors. | 
Description: An account of the third “Coit Family” steamer excursion from Worcester, Massachusetts, this third trip does not seem to have involved the family though known by their name as they had started the excursions in earlier years. Descriptions of stops made by the steamer were written by various authors. | ||||
| 12781 | Cap't Bunker's Boy |
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| "Maine Speaks: An Anthology of Maine Literature," The Maine Literature Project, Edited by Jeff Fischer Director, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance in conjunction with the Maine Council for English Language Arts, First Edition, 1989, p. 359. | 
Description: "Maine Speaks: An Anthology of Maine Literature," The Maine Literature Project, Edited by Jeff Fischer Director, Maine Writers and Publishers Alliance in conjunction with the Maine Council for English Language Arts, First Edition, 1989, p. 359. | ||||
| 12782 | Paintings of the Late Philip Lyford on Display at Westport |
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| 12783 | Jennie Mason Obituary |
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| 12789 | A Barney Beal Ballad |
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| by Alice Frost Lord (1877-1966) Columnist for the Lewiston Evening Journal, Lewiston, Maine | 
Description: by Alice Frost Lord (1877-1966) Columnist for the Lewiston Evening Journal, Lewiston, Maine | ||||
| 12791 | Perennial Parents |
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| 12794 | Mattie Dolliver: Dairy Farmer at the Age of 75 |
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| Published in an unknown newspaper in 1938 or 1939 | 
Description: Published in an unknown newspaper in 1938 or 1939 | |||
| 12796 | Fannie and Donald Mayo Obituary |
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| From the Ellsworth American |
