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| 16712 | Interview of Henry and Elizabeth Guthrie |
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| Esther Rodick interviews Henry and Elizabeth Guthrie. Originally, the couple lived together in New York City where Henry worked as a lawyer at a very big firm. They came to MDI in 1933 after being invited to the house party of a friend, and soon began coming regularly. They usually chartered a boat from Farnham Butler, but eventually bought the boat "Snowflake" outright after enjoying it so much. Elizabeth recalled a conversation between Farnham Butler and Henry Hinckley about the future of boatbuilding. She also talks about taking the "Bar Harbor Express," a train from Washington D.C. up to a ferry which would complete the journey to Bar Harbor. The Guthries were always just summer people, but felt that they belonged in Southwest Harbor and were very complimentary of the people they met in town. They talk about how they would spend time in SWH every summer because of the great dancing and restaurants. She talks about sailing up and down the coast of Maine, her love of ecology, donating land to the local college for research and studies, and their extensive travelling. They took the first passenger ship to England after World War Two ended. She finishes by telling a story of a passenger fixing a Douglass DC-3 plane with a screwdriver; he was an expert mechanic after working on them during World War Two. | 
Description: Esther Rodick interviews Henry and Elizabeth Guthrie. Originally, the couple lived together in New York City where Henry worked as a lawyer at a very big firm. They came to MDI in 1933 after being invited to the house party of a friend, and soon began coming regularly. They usually chartered a boat from Farnham Butler, but eventually bought the boat "Snowflake" outright after enjoying it so much. Elizabeth recalled a conversation between Farnham Butler and Henry Hinckley about the future of boatbuilding. She also talks about taking the "Bar Harbor Express," a train from Washington D.C. up to a ferry which would complete the journey to Bar Harbor. The Guthries were always just summer people, but felt that they belonged in Southwest Harbor and were very complimentary of the people they met in town. They talk about how they would spend time in SWH every summer because of the great dancing and restaurants. She talks about sailing up and down the coast of Maine, her love of ecology, donating land to the local college for research and studies, and their extensive travelling. They took the first passenger ship to England after World War Two ended. She finishes by telling a story of a passenger fixing a Douglass DC-3 plane with a screwdriver; he was an expert mechanic after working on them during World War Two. [show more] | ||
| 16714 | Interview of Andrew Herrick |
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| A woman interviews Andrew Herrick, who begins by listing off al his male ancestors from memory. The earliest Herrick came to America around the Revolutionary War and built a log cabin at the head of Somes Sound, but he did not stay. The first Herrick to stay was Isaac who ran a tide mill in Southwest Harbor. Andrew grew up in the house that Isaac built. He served in the Army during the first World War for the final 18 days of the war, though even those were grueling and horrifying. After service, he returned to marry Hulda Hodgkins, with whom he had a daughter. Andrew drove a truck for a gas company, living in Bar Harbor and Ellsworth but was forced to stop that work in 1952 following a shoulder injury. He has many stories from his time in Southwest Harbor; the first car in the town, Beech Mountain priginally being called Herrick Mountain, finding bootleg booze in Summer People's houses. He talks about his ancestor William Herrick who was feared by the British. Andrew also had several stories about Billy Tot, a man who worked as a cabin boy for Captain Norwood and eventually lived a primitive life on the edges of society near Southwest Harbor. |
Description: A woman interviews Andrew Herrick, who begins by listing off al his male ancestors from memory. The earliest Herrick came to America around the Revolutionary War and built a log cabin at the head of Somes Sound, but he did not stay. The first Herrick to stay was Isaac who ran a tide mill in Southwest Harbor. Andrew grew up in the house that Isaac built. He served in the Army during the first World War for the final 18 days of the war, though even those were grueling and horrifying. After service, he returned to marry Hulda Hodgkins, with whom he had a daughter. Andrew drove a truck for a gas company, living in Bar Harbor and Ellsworth but was forced to stop that work in 1952 following a shoulder injury. He has many stories from his time in Southwest Harbor; the first car in the town, Beech Mountain priginally being called Herrick Mountain, finding bootleg booze in Summer People's houses. He talks about his ancestor William Herrick who was feared by the British. Andrew also had several stories about Billy Tot, a man who worked as a cabin boy for Captain Norwood and eventually lived a primitive life on the edges of society near Southwest Harbor. [show more] | ||
| 16716 | Interview of Nelson Herrick |
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| In the second part of this interview, Nelson Herrick continues to talk about being a draftee during World War One but being saved from service by the signing of the armistice. He tells the story of meeting his wife by giving her a ride in his truck. At the time she was a widow with two children and he was delivering milk and farm products. Nelson tells the story of a carnival coming to town and offering $300 to a farmer for his land, not telling him what they planned to use it for. He also claims that he was the first volunteer firefighter after the town acquired a fire engine. Reluctant to tell more, he admits to remembering rum running during Prohibition. Many locals took part and kids found booze in the cellars of Summer People's homes. He also remembers Wabanaki people(Indians) living in a village at the Somesville end of Long Pond and harvesting materials to make baskets. He talks about clamming on the island, how they were processed, and how they were used to help people walk across muddy ground in the spring. He answers questions about his ancestors during the Civil War, telling the story of an ancestor who hired a Russian to take his place in the Army. Then he talks about his time as a teamster working with horses and wagons delivering hay to Ellsworth. He also tells a story about delivering old stones to be used as garden decorations. | 
Description: In the second part of this interview, Nelson Herrick continues to talk about being a draftee during World War One but being saved from service by the signing of the armistice. He tells the story of meeting his wife by giving her a ride in his truck. At the time she was a widow with two children and he was delivering milk and farm products. Nelson tells the story of a carnival coming to town and offering $300 to a farmer for his land, not telling him what they planned to use it for. He also claims that he was the first volunteer firefighter after the town acquired a fire engine. Reluctant to tell more, he admits to remembering rum running during Prohibition. Many locals took part and kids found booze in the cellars of Summer People's homes. He also remembers Wabanaki people(Indians) living in a village at the Somesville end of Long Pond and harvesting materials to make baskets. He talks about clamming on the island, how they were processed, and how they were used to help people walk across muddy ground in the spring. He answers questions about his ancestors during the Civil War, telling the story of an ancestor who hired a Russian to take his place in the Army. Then he talks about his time as a teamster working with horses and wagons delivering hay to Ellsworth. He also tells a story about delivering old stones to be used as garden decorations. [show more] | ||
| 5812 | Frances Budahn Hitchcock and Isabel Colquhoun |
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| 12363 | Ronald Dean Rich at Seawall |
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| 14839 | Gotts Island Maine - Its People 1880-1992 |
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| An account of the summer visitors and native population on Gotts Island starting in the 1890's, the book describes the island experience, the families, and changes that took place over the next 100 years. | 
Description: An account of the summer visitors and native population on Gotts Island starting in the 1890's, the book describes the island experience, the families, and changes that took place over the next 100 years. | ||
| 3457 | Homesick For That Place: Ruth Moore Writes About Maine |
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| The lives of authors Ruth Moore and Eleanor Ruth Mayo were their own, but their private lives and the lives they led on Mount Desert Island, were so intertwined that archivists find it difficult to divide documents, stories and photographs between them. It is for this reason that this Item exists in the database. It ties together other Items that relate more to both women than to either as an individual. “Homesick For That Place: Ruth Moore Writes About Maine” by Jennifer Craig Pixley is so well conceived that it may be recommended to those who are interested in Ruth and Eleanor above many other works, but there is much to be learned from everything included here. | 
Description: The lives of authors Ruth Moore and Eleanor Ruth Mayo were their own, but their private lives and the lives they led on Mount Desert Island, were so intertwined that archivists find it difficult to divide documents, stories and photographs between them. It is for this reason that this Item exists in the database. It ties together other Items that relate more to both women than to either as an individual. “Homesick For That Place: Ruth Moore Writes About Maine” by Jennifer Craig Pixley is so well conceived that it may be recommended to those who are interested in Ruth and Eleanor above many other works, but there is much to be learned from everything included here. [show more] | ||
| 11753 | Ralph Warren Stanley Receives the National Endowment for the Arts Award as Master Artist |
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| Left to Right: First Lady Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (1947-) Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Governor John Elias Baldacci of Maine (1955-) On September 28, 1999 the Folk & Traditional Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts recognized Ralph W. Stanley as a Master Artist “who has contributed to the shaping of our artistic traditions and to preserving the cultural diversity of the United States” and gave him a National Heritage Fellowship at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. attended by First Lady Hillary Clinton. | 
Description: Left to Right: First Lady Hillary Diane Rodham Clinton (1947-) Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Governor John Elias Baldacci of Maine (1955-) On September 28, 1999 the Folk & Traditional Arts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts recognized Ralph W. Stanley as a Master Artist “who has contributed to the shaping of our artistic traditions and to preserving the cultural diversity of the United States” and gave him a National Heritage Fellowship at a ceremony in Washington, D.C. attended by First Lady Hillary Clinton. [show more] | |||
| 16638 | Ralph Warren Stanley and his wife Marion Louise (Linscott) Stanley on the porch at Mount Vernon |
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| This picture was taken of Ralph and Marion at Mount Vernon on their trip to Washington D.C. when Ralph received his National Heritage Fellowship. The caption of this image in Ralph Stanley's autobiography reads, "Marion and me on the porch at Mount Vernon, wondering where those boots went." The boots in question were the boots that George Washington supposedly gave to Jacob Lurvey, a Stanley ancestor, when he was developing frostbite at Valley Forge. | 
Description: This picture was taken of Ralph and Marion at Mount Vernon on their trip to Washington D.C. when Ralph received his National Heritage Fellowship. The caption of this image in Ralph Stanley's autobiography reads, "Marion and me on the porch at Mount Vernon, wondering where those boots went." The boots in question were the boots that George Washington supposedly gave to Jacob Lurvey, a Stanley ancestor, when he was developing frostbite at Valley Forge. [show more] | ||
| 10957 | Peter Warren Peterson With Horses |
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| 10989 | Ralph Warren Stanley and Sister - Ruth Celestia (Stanley) Holmes |
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| 10990 | Ralph Warren Stanley and Daughter Nadine Marie (Stanley) Goodwin |
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| 10999 | Richard Lewis Stanley and Ralph Warren Stanley in the Clark Point Office |
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| 11493 | Otmar Franz Karban and Kerstin Stracke-Weiss |
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| 12265 | Peter Theodore Benson Jr. and Gertrude Katherine (Gatcomb) Benson's Children |
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| 10117 | Bill Robinson Mending Nets |
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| 9356 | Ralph Warren Stanley Presenting a Half-Model of a Friendship Sloop to Bruce Noble Morang and Marcia (Vannah) Morang |
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| Left to Right: Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Bruce Noble Morang (1930-1993) Marcia (Vannah) Morang, Mrs. Bruce Noble Morang "Bruce and Marcia Morang were presented with a half-model I made as an award at the Friendship Sloop Society annual meeting in 1992." - “Ralph Stanley : Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder” by Craig S. Milner and Ralph W. Stanley, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine 2004, p. 117. | 
Description: Left to Right: Ralph Warren Stanley (1929-2021) Bruce Noble Morang (1930-1993) Marcia (Vannah) Morang, Mrs. Bruce Noble Morang "Bruce and Marcia Morang were presented with a half-model I made as an award at the Friendship Sloop Society annual meeting in 1992." - “Ralph Stanley : Tales of a Maine Boatbuilder” by Craig S. Milner and Ralph W. Stanley, published by Down East Books, Camden, Maine 2004, p. 117. | |||
| 12661 | Charlotte Helen (Riebel) Morrill |
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| 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": | ||
| 12753 | United States Stamp - Thornton Wilder - Issued April 17, 1997 |
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| Postage Stamp Title: Thornton Wilder Scott Cat. Number: 3134 Subject: Wilder – Thornton Niven Wilder (1897-1975) Designer and Art Director: Phil Jordan, Falls Church, Virginia Artist: Michael Deas, New Orleans, Louisiana Typography: John Boyd, New York Modeler: Joseph Sheeran Media: Offset Lithography Printer: Ashton-Potter Ltd., USA Color: Black, cyan, magenta and yellow Size: 1.56 x 0.991” Country: United States Postage Value: 32 cents Issue Series: 14th in the Literary Arts Series Issue Origin: 100th Anniversary of Thornton Wilder’s birth. Issue Date: April 17, 1997 Issue Location: Hamden, Connecticut Issue Size: "The stamp features artist Michael Deas’s portrait of Wilder in the foreground, which is based on a photograph by Gisele Freund, a renowned photographer who is a former president of the Federation of French Art Photographers. The background comes from the artist’s imagination of a scene from Our Town, one of Wilder’s most well-known works." United States Post Office Postal Bulletin, PB 21941, March 13, 1997, p. 32. Artist, Michael Deas, was honored the second time by The Society of Illustrators for this design. They presented a gold medal to the USPS for this image and, the year before, for his portrayal of James Dean for that stamp. | 
Description: Postage Stamp Title: Thornton Wilder Scott Cat. Number: 3134 Subject: Wilder – Thornton Niven Wilder (1897-1975) Designer and Art Director: Phil Jordan, Falls Church, Virginia Artist: Michael Deas, New Orleans, Louisiana Typography: John Boyd, New York Modeler: Joseph Sheeran Media: Offset Lithography Printer: Ashton-Potter Ltd., USA Color: Black, cyan, magenta and yellow Size: 1.56 x 0.991” Country: United States Postage Value: 32 cents Issue Series: 14th in the Literary Arts Series Issue Origin: 100th Anniversary of Thornton Wilder’s birth. Issue Date: April 17, 1997 Issue Location: Hamden, Connecticut Issue Size: "The stamp features artist Michael Deas’s portrait of Wilder in the foreground, which is based on a photograph by Gisele Freund, a renowned photographer who is a former president of the Federation of French Art Photographers. The background comes from the artist’s imagination of a scene from Our Town, one of Wilder’s most well-known works." United States Post Office Postal Bulletin, PB 21941, March 13, 1997, p. 32. Artist, Michael Deas, was honored the second time by The Society of Illustrators for this design. They presented a gold medal to the USPS for this image and, the year before, for his portrayal of James Dean for that stamp. [show more] | |||
| 12828 | The Wind and the Wood |
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| 16409 | Peter Blanchard and Nan Kellam Aboard Rundy Turnstone |
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| 16410 | Peter Blanchard and Nan Kellam Aboard Rundy Turnstone |
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| 16411 | Peter Blanchard, Nan Kellam, and Unknown Man on Placentia Island |
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| 16650 | Richard Stanley Aboard the Acadia |
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| Richard Lewis Stanley aboard Acadia. |
