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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 Glimpse of Northeast Harbor in the Nineties
A Historical Sketch of Rev. John Mayo
A Life: Robert Abbe Bulletin IV
A Literary Refuge: Ruth Moore and Eleanor Mayo
A Man Called Frazier: From Slavery to Salt Making
A Memoir of Elizabeth Shaw Morison 1886-1945
A Natives Memories of Old Bar Harbor
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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Abstract of Title from June 14 1785-Sept 4 1828
Acadia National Park: A Geological Summary
Acadia National Park Checklist of Common Flowering Plants
Acadia National Park Fact Sheet
Acadia National Park Group Camping Reservation Information
Acadia National Park: Random Notes on the Significance of the Name
Administration Blocks Ex-Hostages' Bid for Damages From Iran
Alarums and Excursion: An Amusement Record of Mt. Desert Island
Alden Yawls Nirvana and Valhalla
Alumna in Community leadership: Esther Hodgkins Collier `44 Owner-Manager of `Sonogee`
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
An Island In Time: Three Thousand Years of Cultural Exchange on Mount Desert Island
Annabelle's: Untying the Apron Strings at a "Backside" Institution
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 from "The Day" about the Schooner Pendleton Sisters
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
Automobiles The Mount Desert Town Meeting.
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Baker's Island Settled by William Gilley 150 Years Ago Still a Beacon for Sailors
Bangor Daily news article about possible reopening of West Tremont post office.
Bar Harbor: 40 Years Later (2)
Bar Harbor An Island in the Sea
Bar Harbor -From Eden to Tourism
Bar Harbor Man Recalls Construction and Use of Coaling Station
Bar Harbor Observes 150th Birthday
Bar Harbor-A Wild Weird Tale of Love and Adventure
Bar Harbor's Vanished Temple to the Arts
Baymeath and the Bar Harbor That Was
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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Cape Plans Royal Salute on M-Day
Capt. Thurston's Death Recalls Old Shipwreck
Captain Hammond's Little Miscue
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
Century-Old Geological Survey of Mt. Desert Island Recalled
"Childhood Memories" -- Emma Reed Richards
Chris's Pond: A Town's Memories are Etched in Ice
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(Chute, Carolyn) Poor people richly portrayed
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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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(Cooney, Barbara) Barbara Cooney's Captivating World
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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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Dale Rex Coman: His Books Art and Accomplishments Paint Living as an Endless Adventure
David Rockefeller, Interview, September 9, 2010
Description of the history of Postal service at Mount Desert Ferry.
Destroyed (partial article) / Fire of '47
Difficulty Rating For Some of Acadia National Park's Common Hikes
Dinner Dance at 'Chatwold' etc.
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 and Personal Recollections of Northeast Harbor
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
Enthusiasm Good Will Economic Progress Are Theme of Bluenose Day
Equestrian Extravaganza (Robin Hood Park)
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
Famous Artists who Have Visited Mt. Desert Island
Fannie and Donald Mayo Obituary
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(Field, Rachel) Rachel Field of the Cranberry Isles
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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
Fresh-Water Fishing in and Near Acadia National Park
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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Gotts Island, Maine by Jane M. Holmes
Green Reynolds Building / Old Schoolhouse / Mt. Desert Inn
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
Heart of Its Campus Gone, COA Upbeat Despite Loss
Henry L. Rand: Photographer & Visual Diarist
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
Homesick For That Place: Ruth Moore Writes About Maine
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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I Remember Breaking Bread with a Rusticator
I Remember the Green Mountain Fire
I Try to Make It Simple': Rigging a Friendship Sloop
"In Memorium", by Elmenia T. Preble
Inauguration 2008 oral history interviews: Rick Savage, Sydney Roberts Rockefeller, McFarlands
Information About Acadia National Park
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
Jordan Pond House: Nineteenth Century Dowager Moves Gracefully Into Today
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Karban, Otmar Franz - Biography
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(Kotzwinkle, William) A Reclusive Writing Star Drops in Briefly on Portland
(Kotzwinkle, William) The Mysterious Side of Life
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Ladies Benevolent Society speech
Lake Wood Monument Foot Bridge Echo a Forgotten Past
Le Parc National Acadia, Ou Les Montagnes Rencontrent La Mer
Lessons in Design: Learning From Lost Gardens
Lighthouses Symbolize the Reach and Hazards of Blue Water Around MDI
Livin' Where You Want to Live (Draper Liscomb)
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"Maine - A Literary Chronicle" by W. Storrs Lee
Maine Court Records: Ancient Sources, Modern Access.
Maine's Rockbound Classic - The Anchorage
Mammals, Reptiles, and Amphibians Checklist - Acadia National Park
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 Old Bar Harbor Mt. Desert Island
Memories of St. Agnes School 1878 - 1891
Memories of the Cranberry Club 1985
Minerals of Mount Desert Island Maine
Minerals on Mount Desert Island
Minuet in G. L. Van Beethoven.
Modern Deer Management Methods Needed in Maine
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(Moore, Ruth) MDI Loses Respected Writer Poet
(Moore, Ruth) Ruth Moore vs. Hollywood
(Moore, Ruth) Services Set for Ruth Moore
(Moore, Ruth) The Ruth Moore Revival
(Morison, B.J.) An A.M. With the Author at Her Club
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Morris Somes Arrrival in Gloucester
Mount Desert Island 200 Years: the Beginning
Mount Desert Island Cultural History Project
Mount Desert Island Was a Breathless Discovery
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 Affair With the "J.T. Morse"
My Grandmother Lived for the Factory Whistle
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Naming Places the Penobscot Way: How the Penobscots Named the Lands and Waters Around Us
National Park Service News Release 4/1/87
Neck Broken by Fall: Esteemed Southwest Harbor Woman Victim of Sad Accident
Nelson Herrick:Oral History recorded at Southwest Harbor Public Library, 1990's
New Mistress of the Breakwater
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
"No Seat Without a Sweeping View of the Ocean"
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
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(Ogilvie, Elizabeth) Author Elizabeth Ogilvie Dies at 89
(Oglivie, Elizabeth) Island Authors
(Oglivie, Elizabeth) Sweep of Nature Fills Novelist Ogilvie's Life and Books
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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
Orange and the Black (Princeton)
Otter Creek Congregational Church
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Park Service Capitulates Isle Au Haut Giveaway
Patent and/or Grant from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts to Sir John Bernard
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"
Piper Prince of the Cranberry Isles
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
Prologue: The Great Fire Memoir
Provincetown Profiles And Others On Cape Cod - Chapter IX Manny Zora
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
Regilding a Cottage-Breakwater
Relics of Red Paint People Discovered on Indian Island
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
Reminiscences of Life in Northeast Harbor
RFC Declares Bar Harbor Area Disaster Area
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(Rinehart, Mary Roberts) Mistress of the Mystery
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(Roberts, Kenneth) The Irascible Mr. Roberts
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Rudolf Condon Scuptor and Rug Maker
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S. Weir Mitchell Novelist and Physician
Safe Haven (Kronprinzessin Cecilie)
Safe With A Few Belongings/It could Have Been Worse
Sailing a Business Enterprise Not An Adventure to Sailors of Eden
Salvaging Cargo from the Wreck of the Emilu F. Norton
Salvaging Cargo from the Wreck of the Emily F . Northman
Salvaging Cargo from the Wreck of the Emily F. Northam
Sammy Sanford and Peter Richardson article
Samuel Atkins Eliot on improvements needed to Northeast Harbor
Saved by A Great White Elephant (Turrets)
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
Section of Geology and Mineralogy
Shaping Our Future-MDI Tomorrow: A Progress Report to Our Communities
She Once Owned Half of Mount Desert Island
Shipbuilding on Mount Desert Island
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 Public Library - The Original Fireplace Screen
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
St. Saviours Church/ St. Mary's-by-the-Sea
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 Ancient Remains at Pemaquid, Maine: Some Observations
The Boating Industry of Mount Desert Island
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 Courtship and Wedding of Madeline Talmage and Colonel John Jacob Astor
The DeGregoire Family of Hulls Cove
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 Enchanted Isle: LaFayette National Park
The Forgotten Millions - John Gilley
"The Handicrafts of the Modern Indians of Maine" by Fannie Hardy Eckstrom
The Harpswell Laboratory 1898-1920: A Marine Biological Station
The Indian Shell Heaps in Maine
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 Maine Work of Beatrix Jones Farrand
The Man Who Built Northeast Harbor (Fred Savage)
The Mayflower and Mount Desert Island
The Original Native Mainers: A Synopsis of the Lives and Times of Maine's Pre-European Inhabitants
The Physiography of Mount Desert
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 Shore Path by Rev. E.A. Garret
The Steamer J. T. Morse Her History and Adventures
The Stotesbury's Bar Harbor Folly
The Theater in Bar Harbor's Changing World
The Town of the Five Islands: A Thumbnail Sketch of Cranberry Isles, Maine
"The Town of the Five Islands" by Ted Spurling Sr.
Tight-Lipped Fire Evacuees Worried About Homes and Kin
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)
Tribute Upon the Death of George Ripley Fuller
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Union Church of Northeast Harbor
Using Surveying Records for Genealogical Research
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Variety of Indian Relics Unearthed at Gouldsboro
Victory Road: the Proposed New Approach to Bar Harbor
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Washington State Normal School Commencement Class Ode written by Bernice Gardner
Welcome to Acadia National Park
Well-Known Women Novelists Build Own Home Of CCC Camp Lumber
"What Islesford Meant to Me an Open Letter from Philip Bowditch"
When Hollywood Came to Bar Harbor
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