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Early Remembrances of Somesville by T. Smith, an oral history conducted by Pamela Dean, date unknown
Oral history interview of Nancy Dunbar Bulger
Sea-Going Policeman are Fisherman’s Friend
1931 E. S. Dana speech on Seal Harbor history to Seal Harbor Village Improvement Society
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A Biography of Ruth Moore of Gott’s Island, Maine
A Career in Bud; Beatrix Jones Farrand's Education & Early
A Historical Sketch of Rev. John Mayo
A Literary Refuge: Ruth Moore and Eleanor Mayo
A Memoir of Elizabeth Shaw Morison 1886-1945
A Pioneer Family: The Richardsons of Mount Desert
"A Poor Wiseman" by Mary Roberts Rinehart, Curtis Publishing Co., 1920.
A Sea Yarn: A Gale on the Cape Shore of Nova Scotia
A three-scene play about drunkeness and redemption
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Acadia National Park: Random Notes on the Significance of the Name
Administration Blocks Ex-Hostages' Bid for Damages From Iran
Alden Yawls Nirvana and Valhalla
Americans in the Spanish Civil War
An Attempted Evocation of a Personality
An early version of "The Houses of Little Cranberry Island-Islesford" By Marion Spurling
Arcady Music Festival Benefit The Art of Matching Food and Wine
Arcady Music Festival Maine Student Bios
Article about John Lenzy Stanley in Maine - A History
Article About Rich and Grindle Boatbuilders
Article about Sara Lambert Bloom
Article and Photograph About Howe D. Higgins' Hobby Business
Article on Beatrix Ferrand April 1985
Article re: Sutton Island, Post Office history, flora & fauna
Article re:Ellsworth post office history
Article, Salvaging Cargo from the Wreck of the Emily F. Northam
Atwater Kent - Inventor, Industrialist and Philanthropist
Austin 'Castle' in Maine Has Odd History
Automobiles The Mount Desert Town Meeting.
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Bangor Daily news article about possible reopening of West Tremont post office.
Beatrix Jones Farrand - Pioneer in Gilt-Edged Gardens
Between the Hills and Its 100 - Year Old Church
Biographies of Carrie Esther Higgins and Son, Charles Leslie Rinaldo
Biography notes re: Constance Joy Robbins
Biography of Joseph Somes (1787-1845)
Biography of Lloyd and Rachel Hayes
Biography of Sara Lambert Bloom
Boat Building on MDI: Can it survive?, July 22, 2009
Bob Lincoln, Eddie Davis, Davis Irvin, Daniel McLauhlin - Boat Builders
Brief history of the Cranberry Isles Post Office
Building the Better Lobster Trap
"By the quiet lake" nocturne. (10)
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Capt. Thurston's Death Recalls Old Shipwreck
Caretakers and Cooks A panel discussion, April 2003
Caretakers and Cooks: A panel discussion, April, 2003
Castine Lecture 1895 Brooklyn Institute
CD: Interview with dairy famer John Fernald
"Cemetaries of Cranberry Isles and the Towns of Mount Desert Island" by Thomas F. Vining
"Childhood Memories" -- Emma Reed Richards
Chris's Pond: A Town's Memories are Etched in Ice
Collection of Poems: Fear is the Thorn by Rachel Field. Hard Cover.
Collection of poetry by Dr. Frederick Fraley Sr.
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“Concert Gems” song book by C.E. Leslie, 1891
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copy of the Opera Three little wolves and the big bad pig
Cranberry Club 50th Anniversary
Creation of a trail by Mr. Stebbins
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David Rockefeller, Interview, September 9, 2010
Description of the history of Postal service at Mount Desert Ferry.
Dodge - Thomas Ellison Oliver Dodge
Donald Mann's tribute to Hal Newell, Jr.,
Don’t Bother Me with the Facts
Don’t Bother me with the Facts
Douglas and Donald Macfarlan doctors
Duffy of the Chemung, poem by Charles E. Lee
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Early History of Mt. Desert Island
Editorial written by Marvin Ott for Ellsworth Americaan
Eighteen Months in the Near East Relief: January 1919 to June 1920
Essay on Sammy Sanford's Cabin
Eulogy for Hildagarde Fernald Smith 1917-2003
Eulogy for Mrs. Captain Bunker, and Bunker Genealogy
Excerpt from 1909 Bar Harbor Record article re: Northeast Harbor Post Office and local mail.
Excerpt from account of shipping, c. 1863
Excerpt from Bar Harbor record article re: Asticou Inn fire, 1900
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Face To Face, Trifet's Monthly Galaxy of Music
Fannie and Donald Mayo Obituary
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“Finding Aid for Cranberry Isles Collection 1596-1982”
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Finding Aid for the William Otis Collection: 1692-1941
Fire, Obliteration, Mission 66, and Park Trails Program, 1943-2003
First Church of Mount Desert Church Records 1792-1867
First Permanent Settler: Abraham Somes
Framed article about the History of the Northeast Harbor Fleet International Class
Framed copy of the poem, If once you have looked for a parking space
Frances H. Eliot - "Her Book and Heart" (1871-1954)
Friday Club Mother Daughter Banguet Speech
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George Bucknam Dorr - the Father of Acadia National Park
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“Ghost Story” by Betsy Alexander
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Guide to and history of St. John the Baptist Parish Church, Thorpe Mandeville, England
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Hancock County Trustees of Public Reservations: An Historical Sketch and a Record...
Has Come Here for 68 Summers: A.L. Higgins Tells of Henry Rand's First Visits
Healing Power of the Wild Provides a Warming Winter Tale
Hike On: Poems of Mount Desert Island by Thomas Peter Beckett
Historical Address at the Somesville Union Meeting House
Historical Sketch of Mt Desert and Cranberry Islands
History and development of Mount Desert Island and Seal Harbor as a summer resort (2)
History of Seal Harbor and Mount Desert Island
History of Seal Harbor Village Improment Society
History of Somesville, Betwixt the Hills
History of the Eden Baptist Church, 1799-1949
History of Tremont Lodge, No. 77
Hooked Rugs of the Grenfell Mission: Paula Laverty, September 2, 2009
Hugh Dwelley write up about the USCGS
Human Impact on Acadia’s Trails
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"In Memorium", by Elmenia T. Preble
Inauguration 2008 oral history interviews: Rick Savage, Sydney Roberts Rockefeller, McFarlands
Interview and oral history of Louine Lunt Peck, born at Clarks Cove, Bar Harbor, 1908.
Interview of men who were at the Mount Desert Light Station, Storm of October 7, 1962.
Interview with Art Stover about the Bar Harbor Fire of 1947
Interview with Bill Lawlor, about Chris Lawlor. Interviewed at Pemetic School, May 24, 2007
Interview with Bud and Grace Bordeaux
Interview with David Rockefeller, oral history, September 9, 2010
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Isle of Shoals Lectures with notes on John Smith
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Jack Frost and the Carotenoids
John Fitzgerald Kennedy: Where were you on November 22, 1963
Joint Statement opposing atomic bombs-Stockholm Agreement
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Karban, Otmar Franz - Biography
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Ladies Benevolent Society speech
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"Maine - A Literary Chronicle" by W. Storrs Lee
Maine Court Records: Ancient Sources, Modern Access.
Mattie Dolliver: Dairy Farmer at the Age of 75
Memoir of Sara Tamblyn's 1917 summer in Seal Harbor, Maine
Memories of Mt. Desert Island by residents
Memories of St. Agnes School 1878 - 1891
Memories of the Cranberry Club 1985
Minuet in G. L. Van Beethoven.
Modern Deer Management Methods Needed in Maine
Morris Somes Arrrival in Gloucester
Mount Desert Island Cultural History Project
Mount Desert Larger Parish in Maine, 1925-1950, Twenty-five Years Together
Mount Desert Light Station, Storm of October 7, 1962: Interviews
"Mowee" by Cummins E. Speakman, Jr.
Music by Lew Smallidge's Orchestra
My Grandmother Lived for the Factory Whistle
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Neck Broken by Fall: Esteemed Southwest Harbor Woman Victim of Sad Accident
Nelson Herrick:Oral History recorded at Southwest Harbor Public Library, 1990's
Newman's legacy, and his boats, will sail on
News article about delivery of mail to outer island Post Offices, 1998
News article about Gotts Island post office
News article re: Bar Harbor post office
news photo of mail coach for Bangor, Machias & Calais
Newspaper article and a valentine from Sarah to Hugh and Shirley
Newspaper article lamenting the closing of and history of Manset Post Office 1995
Notes on Champlain and draft of lecture
Notes on Heroes of Eploration on the New England Coast
Notes on History of Somesville, Maine
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Obituary for Dr. Daniel Gould in the Boston Medical and Surgical Journal
Obituary for Gladys (Manzer) Muir
Obituary for Hannah Kent Schoff
Odd Fellows and Rebekah Officer Biographical Sketches
Odd Fellows Cadillac Mountain Memorial Services
Old Gods Came to Somesville, Maine
"One Summer in Seal Harbor" - a magazine article
Oral History: John Kief on dairy faming
Oral history: Charlotte Proctor
Oral history: Emma Reed Richards
Oral history: George McKay, Jr.
Oral History, Herm Woodworth, Fire of '47, 1997
Oral History Interview, Molly Reynolds, Fire of '47, 1997
Oral history interview of Carl Bennett, February 3, 1992
Oral History Interview of John Fernald
Oral History Interview of John Kief
Oral history interview of Louise S. Libby
Oral history interview of Louise Sawtelle Libby
Oral History Interview of Louise Sawtelle Libby
Oral History Interview, Roger Cunningham, Fire of 1947, 1997
Oral History Interview with Emma Richards, February 5, 2007
Oral History Interview with Emma Richards, February 5, 2007, Mount Desert, Maine
Oral History of Dorothy Althea Robinson Worcester, Southwest Harbor, Maine, March 23, ----
Oral History of Josephine and John Richardson, Fire of 1947, 1996
Oral History of Warren Worcester, Southwest Harbor, Maine, July 20, 1993
Oral history: Rebecca Rhodes Stebbins
Oral History with Rebecca Rhode Stebbins, date unknown
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Peace: The Over Riding Imperitive
Photo copies of Islesford in the 1940's
photo copy of article about Rachel Field Down East Magazine 1971
Photo-Essay of Last (1942) Voyage of Coal Schooner "Rebecca R. Douglas"
Poem about Grandfather Preble's house (or is this the old Spurling house?)
Poem about the view from Bald (Cadillac) Mountain as seen by Mogg Megone
Poem: Beautiful Isle by the old open sea
Poem by Alice (Bulger) Stanley
Poem by Carrie Stanley (Richardson) 1864, "Remember me when far away."
Poem by Elmina Spurling and Lurvey
Poem: "Coastwise A.D. 1814-1818"
Poem copied by Carrie Richardson
Poem: I Like a Window Looking Out Upon the Sea"
Poem (possibly by Carrie Richardson) "A House of Glass Shall Come to Pass" ca. 1891
"Points East Narratives of New England" by Rachel Field
Political History II: Old Political War Horse Tells of a Hot Battle
Political History: Old Political War Horse Tells of a Hot Battle
"Praise of the Coast Guard" Poetry, undated
Preservation of the Art of Traditional Wooden Boat Building
Public Gets Rare Glimpse at Historic Acadia Gatekeeper’s Home
Publication "Chebacco: The Magazine of the Mount Desert Island Historical Society Volume VI 2004"
Publication "Pioneer Settlers of Islesford - The Hadlocks" By Hugh Dwelley
Publication "The Houses of Islesford Little Cranberry Island, Maine" By Marion Spurling
Publications “The Island Reader Volumes I-V”
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Radio announcements about Fire of !947
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Recollections of Dr Henry Stebbins, 1962
Recollections of Summers Spent: Northeast Harbor, Maine.
Recovered - Friendship Sloop-Maine Sloop Boat
Recovered Sloop Can Be Fixed, Owner Says
"Reflections of a Winter's Night: Growing up on Islesford in the 1940's & 1950'
"Reflections of Dr. Mary Lee Edward" by Mary Lee Edward
Religion and Politics: Subjects of Lively meetings in Surry Seventy years ago.
Remembrances of Mount Desert (2)
Reminiscence of Somesville by Adelma Somes Joy
Reminiscences of Islesford and some of its people 1063-1995
Rudolf Condon Scuptor and Rug Maker
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Salvaging Cargo from the Wreck of the Emilu F. Norton
Salvaging Cargo from the Wreck of the Emily F . Northman
Sammy Sanford and Peter Richardson article
Samuel Atkins Eliot on improvements needed to Northeast Harbor
schedule for Maine Central railroad including Mt.Desert Ferry
Schooner Harry A. Berwind Baptized
Script for the play "Carrie Richardson of Big Cranberry" 2001
Script of play "An Evening with Rachel Field and Sammy Sanford"
Scripts for the play "Carrie Richardson of Big Cranberry"
Scripts from Islesford Drama Club from 1915-present
Seal Harbor and MDI History (3)
Seal Harbor Celebrates 100th Anniversary
Seal Harbor Village Improvement Society
Ships and Schooners of Mount Desert
Shop of Penobscot Indian Enterprises
Softly over the rippling waters - Chorus / Over the cloud
Somesville and Hall Quarry Historical Summaries
Somesville Sewing Circle History
Southwest Harbor Village Improvement Association
Speech to Ladies Benevolent Society (3)
Spiker, LaRue defense of peace petition
St. Ignatius Parish - Northeast Harbor, Maine - 100th Anniversary 1895-1995
St. Jude's Church, Seal Harbor
State Receives Low Bid of $5.35 Million for Demolition of Waldo-Hancock Bridge
Statement made at Trenton Meeting regarding TEPCO
Strout, Raymond: Conversations with
Sunken sardine carrier going nowhere
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“Sustaining Island Communities”
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Tales of the Sea, of Religion and of Temprence
Terrorism: Is Retaliation Enough?
The Claremont Hotel--My Story, 1884-1964
The Concept of Tribal Separation as rationalized in Indian Folklore
The construction of "I-95" on Great Cranberry Island
The Early History of Seal Harbor and Mount Desert Island by Dora Atwood
"The Education of a Yankee - An American Memoir" by Judson Hale
The Forgotten Millions - John Gilley
"The Handicrafts of the Modern Indians of Maine" by Fannie Hardy Eckstrom
The Islesford Journals of Dr. Vincent Y. Bowditch
The Kellams Rowed Their Dory, Tracing An Island Story
The Last U.S. Sardine Factory Shutting Its Doors
The Maine Perspective: Architectural Drawings
The Post Offices of Mt.Desert Island
The Rev. John Mayo - Barnstable Pioneer
The Revenue Man - Catching Smugglers During Prohibition Was Tough Work
The Rugged Maine Coast Produces a Hard-Working Breed of Mankind
The Steamer J. T. Morse Her History and Adventures
The Town of the Five Islands: A Thumbnail Sketch of Cranberry Isles, Maine
"The Town of the Five Islands" by Ted Spurling Sr.
Timeline for presentation by Dave Irvin
Town of Mount Desert in the Civil War; 1st Maine Heavy Artillery
Transcript of Interview: John Sweet
Transcription of Eleanor Mayo's Interview of Emily Rich Trask (1884-1981)
Transcription of Eleanor Mayo's Interview with Lillian Rich Reed (1889-1973)
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Union Church of Northeast Harbor
Using Surveying Records for Genealogical Research
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Washington State Normal School Commencement Class Ode written by Bernice Gardner
"What Islesford Meant to Me an Open Letter from Philip Bowditch"
Who fished these waters: Cranberry Isles
Who Owned Baker's Island? by Hugh Dwelley
William H. Clinkard House Walk
World War II Remembered: A panel discussion, July 11, 2010